Handhelds and revamping UI

So I’m seeing lots of stories coming up with both consoles (because Switch just doesn’t exists in rated M games :joy:)getting a handheld option and was curious if CE and FC were thinking of updating the UI at all since it’s still pretty PC based…not so much the controller functions but the screen displays are still focused on a gaming monitor being 2-3 feet away from your face and haven’t done anything for the 2 to 3 meters that typical console players distance themselves from their screens. Text gets hard to read even if it’s scaled to a 55 inch screen. It gets worse when you go the opposite way and go small handheld screen. So just food for thought thrown out there to get ahead of the issue if a resurgence of the handheld market comes.

We are playing on a 50 inch and 48 inch game play is fine but text is not clear especially in benches. Ps5. @erjoh

Switch has quite a few M rated games. In fact, Nintendo decided to keep a number of games in tact that Sony and Microsoft knowingly censored. That’s a silly argument. The reason for switch not getting ports for many games lies within the tech limitations, not the content. Considering how bad CE runs on consoles, a Switch port would be horrid.

Funny thing about Nintendo, is they took a far more lenient stance on 3rd Party games. They are currently the least censory of all console developers currently. They’re also more likely to be lenient on mods than Sony or Microsoft. Now… I say lenient and not support because they aren’t likely to go ouf of their way to support mods, but games on their systems are easier to mod in general.

Only thing preventing Conan Exiles on Switch is the Switch is too underpowered for it.

On the subject of handhelds specifically. Has anyone tried CE on the Steam Deck? I know Steam states its unsupported, but I believe that is due to BattleEye not working on Steam Deck. But you don’t need BattleEye for most servers nor singleplayer. Kinda interested to know how well it runs there.

I will say I did remote play via a 14 inch Chromebook ony PS and it was…ok. some things were very hard to read

I would like to see some feedback from the PC players on if UI were changed to make things easier to read on the TV and or handheld, how would that affect your experience?

Not much in my experience. I have at least two friends who have used 70"+ as computer monitors in the past. There’s not terribly much to read in this game.