What makes the new HUD bad, and how to fix it

Cynicatt·7/23/2015, 12:21:53 AM·2 votes·300 views

So, the new HUD is pretty bad, but there are a few simple things that could be done to make it slightly better. Myself and others have already tried to make points about it being right-heavy, ugly, and frustratingly uncustomizable, but Riot doesn't want to hear about that stuff. Riot doesn't want us to be able to move various elements of the HUD around, so I won't talk too much about that. Instead, I want to talk about what Riot can do to make this new HUD less awful.

First, I want to talk about the stats panel. Put the green text for stats you're building into back. Why? Because it's extremely hard to pick out what stats you want to look at at a glance. I have my skills panel scaled down, which scales everything around it down as well, so the little icons you've put in to signify different stats are just sort of little blobs to me and don't help me pick out the stat I'm looking for at all. This seems like an easy fix to something many of my friends have been complaining about already.

Second, I want to talk about the shop. I have a small screen currently, so the shop takes up the entire thing. When I scroll my cursor over the bottom corner of the shop, it has a deceptive little diagonal arrow that gives the impression that I can make it smaller, and I can, sort of. I can make it have less width, but I can't change the height of the shop at all. The icons are pretty large on it, and I don't need it to be this big. This seems like a scaling issue, so can we get an option to scale the shop like we have for the other HUD elements?

Third, chat. Pretty simple here. I just want to make the box less wide, as far as I can tell, there's no way to do that, so all I can do is shrink it until the text is teensy but readable.

Fourth, scaling as a whole. There are a lot of complaints about the HUD elements being larger at scale 0 now than they were at scale 17(or similar small numbers) on the old HUD. Scaling seems to be a pretty big issue at the moment, because there are features like the shop that cannot be scaled, and all of the other features are stuck at a larger size than we were allowed to shrink them down to before.

Just some simple stuff to think about, feel free to add to the list, summoners.

2 Comments

AtheosisX7/23/2015, 12:29:34 AM1 votes

One thing I don't get is why the scoreboard is so freaking tiny. I play on a laptop so it's actually bothersome how small it is.

Banshee7/23/2015, 12:32:01 AM1 votes

They also made the portrait and abilities of the champion you're playing obnoxiously large. Also the flashing animation when an ability goes off cd is misleading because it flashes 1 second before it goes off cd so you can't use it when it flashes and have to wait 1 second which is a huge problem