Hello, i wanted to suggest some things about the main menu and the server searching. I believe itwould be great for the users to have some changes but first let me point some issues (i’m not sure if i am the only one having them so, please, if you know how to fix them or are having different experience, let us know):
- Each time a player click on Play Online, opens a new screen where they load all the servers for him or she to choose from, there are many options to filter and select the type of server wanted, but i believe some of those options can be set before loading all the servers in the world.
- The player can see servers from from all the world, no matter where they are located, they don’t need to see all those servers as default.
- They throw at the player all server types from the start and i have to filter them later and find the server he or she want
- Before the june patch, the last server you played in was the first one to appear, so you had easy access to it, but as for now, i can’t see that happening anymore.
- It takes a while to load the servers and the player has to find their server, may not look as much but this take a negative experience on the user as he has to struggle a bit in order to play.
- the settings you set are never saved, the game alway load everything, the only options that gets saved are the upper right corner fillable boxes (show invalid servers, full servers, server with mods and server without VAC)
- The level displayed in the server list not always match to the character level.
- The Mods button is a nightmare, at this moment clicking it freezes the game for a minute only to load the mods i’ve downloaded, the management is little intuitive and the information given depends a lot from the author, which are nto always good at it.
- This is not related to the interface and the search filter, but if 'm loading the server, which takes a while, and i alt+tab it’s fore sure that the game will crash.
My Suggestions are the following;
- In the main menu, the Play Online button could send you right to the last server you played in, no need to load more servers or anything else, just click and play. if there is any problem, the game could send you to the server seleccion screen and a message related to the problem (high ping, internet conection, server full, etc.)
- In the main menu could be a new button called Search servers that would be our current server seeking mechanic
- Settings selected in this screen are always saved, and there should be an option to disable this autosave feature
- The Favorite servers are loaded separatly from the rest in another space in the server list, no need to mix them.
- The server settings could be more user friendly for better communication to the player, and also more interactive, players should get to perfectly understand what does it mean to have thrall conversion: 1.0, or idle thrist multiplier, at the moments it’s kind off difficult to understand.
- A bit more of information about the mods from the private servers would be very welcome, also, i’ not sure if ti’s me but they don’t always show all the mods in the server description.
- I’m not really sure if you really need to show the startup movies all the time, but if you don’t you really don’t want them there, show their logos in the main menu and an easy access to play the cinematic intro.
- Some options from the main menu could be located somewhere else, for example, barbarian edition, help and credits are nice to have at hand but not at the same importance as play online or settings, they could be located somewhere else or with a smaller font, this could help a little to improve the user experience
- If there could be an external software or application to manage, install and even download mods that would be amazing, it would be even better if this could help somehow to not open the game twice only to play in a modded server.
I can’t remember anything else other than thanking you guys for removing the pop-up window at the start of the game, i hated it.