HUD Feedback

Dolfanatic··4 votes·805 views

I see a lot of feedback taking place on the forums, and I actually came to post my feedback on it. Currently, I actually have to come forth and state that I do not like the HUD. Here's my opinion on what should be fixed or tweaked to make it more likeable and user-friendly.

  1. Game crashes. My game is always crashing as of this update, and it's only crashing on maps which have the new HUD. That being said, it's thankfully not crashing in ranked. Please fix this before pushing anything to live in ranked modes.

  2. The arrows and plus signs of leveling up spells is very confusing now. It used to be small and distinct, instead it now takes up more space on my screen and lets me see less of the map. This is really annoying, and in addition to this, my spell cooldowns with the numeric timer AS WELL AS the hourglass countdown just makes it too much. Make it optional to turn off these animations please. I'd really just prefer it to be small, numeric and plain.

  3. If possible, allow us to customize it. No, I don't mean add special characteristics that aren't already there. I'm only asking for what's already there to be 'moved around.' If I wanted my chat in the center of the game, (who would want this?) I feel it should be possible to move it up down, let right, etc. Same with the ally champion icons, minimap, etc. Let it arrangeable.

  4. In coalition to #3, the chat was placed much too high without being moveable to my knowledge.

  5. Purchasing items in the shop color transparency (may be a bug - but my screen is completely red with transparency in the background. Extremely annoying to read text of a red color hue.) Should be obvious but remove it or allow us to remove it and allow us to also change the color of transparency.

  6. When pulling up the stats page. (Hotkeyed C) It used to pull up in the center of the screen. Instead, I now have a tiny box of information pull up next to my champion icon which is not only hard to read, but in a quick glace it's hard to find what I'm actually looking for. I find myself spending more time staring at it trying to decipher than I did before. tldr; Instead of pressing C and reading "Magic Penetration: 12.25" I now have to search for it for longer because it's much tinier. This takes away from gameplay because it takes away from the convenience.

  7. When displaying your Ping/FPS, it's in grey which makes it kind of an eye-sore to glace at. Not sure if it's going to change color based on issues of high or low FPS because I haven't had this problem to experiment yet, but if it doesn't change color to indicate it, it defeats the purpose of having it display in the first place.

What I like about the new HUD

  1. Ally teammates ult timers. A small feature that's been well overdue.
  2. Rearranging champions in the Tab section.

Just my rough opinion on it. Anyone else?

5 Comments

MisterPsycho1 votes

I agree with you here. I think the new update is pretty awful, and feel it begs the question as to why Riot is pushing the game in such a radical direction so quickly with no real warrant. They really should let players, at the very least, revert to the old HUD at their choosing. The best they could do is polish the old HUD. That is to say, make it a bit prettier with the few good features you mentioned introduced into it. But that might be asking a lot from a company that seems to be going through a mid life crisis at the moment.

NICOLAS781 votes

My wife and I stop playing for now

WHAT I LIKE OF NEW HUD : mothing really

WHAT I DO NOT LIKE OF NEW HUD (A LOT OF STUFF) :

  • i click more and scroll more on -bottom_mid- than on - bottom_left... and that actually expose me more now to not see or not click, whereas the bottom left is empty ...why not to put the top right stuff in top left then - if it s to clear the diagonal ... to me all corners can be filled with data that go together because of one bulk is too much to process. old HUD was smartER - allies left - map bottom right - time, ping, fps ... top right ... and so on. the important area to be free of panels is a CIRCLE around the center ...
  • missing ping buttons (to welcome new players...) i actually used it to avoid misclicking F...
  • spells current levels hard to see (gold box changed into a small dot ...)
  • can not see your own stats correctly they are not even displayed by default and NO BUTTON VISIBLE !? (need to know the keys ... values colors disappeared... keep going that kind of "improvements" guys !)
  • why to spotlight the range ??? i never ever cared before - you find out by shooting or being shot anyway...
  • i know to read but i do not know to read icons... and tiny font over the top... geniuses ! restore colors too.
  • useful values meaningful TOGETHER are not located at the same place (time / minions / kills / ...)
  • can not see the ping color - i don t have time to READ the small grey text ...- i used to see green or not ... (and of course no button ...)
  • one single area where too much is stacked making me have to dig in a bulk of values to find what i need (NOT SIMPLER NO), if you misclick ... too bad you clicked the map
  • old map was easier to read (my personal preference)
  • some fonts/colors are hard to read (ping, map area ...)
  • too many animations for things that you do not need vs no spotlight on what you actually need
  • announcer is irritating - i would like it as before instead - looks like a 5 y old game voice and comments
  • blue is not for mana anymore, it s for every single thing that happens in the game now to warn you of things you know or do not care, i thought i was out of mana a few times

ALLIES

  • portraits too small (cant see WHO IS IT if something is over it...)
  • can not click allies easily
  • can not really see allies health bars (soraka play ... too bad) neither click it easily
  • can not mute, or chat to all (actually unless you found the trick for it again...)

TAB section

  • why is there a sound for tab ??? i ncase i dont know i hit tab and i dont see it neither ???
  • can not read players names anymore (we can but after some tricks ... welcome again)
  • old tab window was easier to read for me before ... all one column - important being MY CHAMP being easy to SEE vs others - i could also see in one sight all kills for example (BOTH SIDE)
  • when i play with friends ... CAN NOT SEE THE NAMES !

UNFORTUNATELY it seems all this was DEVELOPED and pushed WITHOUT / AGAINST feedback for something that was not a problem to begin with... so if they are as proud as deaf ... they will not roll back... correct ? the one that made it first place wont roll it back if it means to admit an error he was warned about... and no BS : it is not hard to offer the old HUD as a choice nor it is too hard to have a customizable UI but what do i know ... i m software engineer so THANKS guys for forcing me your improvements it might actually motivate me to change of game That also give a taste of the philosophy of the company in regards to the players feedback

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