Official Dark Legends Feedback Thread - User Interface

[Samhayne]

After playing Dark Legends, what do you think about the user interface (UI)? What do you like about it? What suggestions do you have to improve it?

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Thanks!

[DerSchuetze]

I love the skill tree the most. Pl and sl rly need this. Beisdes that its familiar to sl and pl.

[rkp71]

Is there not a join game button(like in PL & SL) that will give a list of all games in progress and let me choose one to join? The energy thing is bad enough, (very bad) I dont want to join a game thats puts me at the end of a map and lose energy for 30 seconds of playtime. Need join game button with the progress bar and filters like in PL & SL.

[octavos]

On my phone Xperia play, areas are to dark, i believe a brightness slider is needed. but if i turn up brightness on my phone my batterie dies 10x faster.

[chappy]

Hi, I didn't want the skill tree to automatically assign skillls automatically as I might want to assign them myself. But I had no idea that every map I know have to respec and map. Very annoying. Please help. I just bought some platinum too. This is very annoying. Please advise.

Chappy.

[Samhayne]

Hi, I didn't want the skill tree to automatically assign skillls automatically as I might want to assign them myself. But I had no idea that every map I know have to respec and map. Very annoying. Please help. I just bought some platinum too. This is very annoying. Please advise.

Chappy.

If you go to the Lair and to your Powers tab, you can disable auto power point assignment.

[chappy]

Most excellent...it really is a new game... I like it so far.

I also notice the angle of view is almost 90 degrees. Any way to make this more angular like PL? Since it is so dark would like to view ahead more?

Thanks.

[chappy]

Can I enable the auto skill since I have it already disabled?

[rkp71]

Once you disabled the auto skill you can not re-enable it. Remember to click map skills to display after you select them.

[Imacoolbirdd]

Its out for iOS? I dont see in app store

[chappy]

Every time I start a new map, I have to reselect and remap them for each run. Ugh

[trixie]

I like the UI except for the chat box. Since it was different from the other games, it did take me a little while to figure out where it was on this game. Once I found it, I noticed that it is very hard to read on my phone (Droid X) because the words are so little. It is also very ackward to use during gameplay because of the location. I would like to see the energy and other notifications moved to another part of the UI and the chat box put at the top.

One of the things that I always liked about STS games compared to other games of the same type was how user friendly your chat system has always been. It would be so great if yall could update it on this game to make it more user friendly.

[rkp71]

Most excellent...it really is a new game... I like it so far.

I also notice the angle of view is almost 90 degrees. Any way to make this more angular like PL? Since it is so dark would like to view ahead more?

Thanks.

You can go into options and unchecked the box that fixes the camera angle then it will be user controlled.

[yaleps]

I absolutely do not like the new keyboard controls. In PL the camera angle could be controlled by the q and e keys now they do something different forcing the use of the mouse to move the camera... this just seems clumsy to me. It was so much faster to just use the mouse for targeting and skills, now it is used for targeting, skills and looking around, i find this to be a hindrance during heavy game play.

[StompArtist]

Good UI but the message saying 1 friend is online is truly annoying and not very useful...

[Claxtin]

I didn't expect the same per say as PL or SL but I did kind of expect the same phonetics. I have to say that I miss the old interface. I like the idea and the graphics A LOT but I feel the top bars and corner controls takes too much room on the screen compared to the other two and it takes away from the feel as I (as well as many) play by phone. I find myself hittng the general area of the previous game abilities. Plus, i think the abilities are too crammed in the corner. I don't like, at all, the energy bar (will hold tongue on this subject for this thread lol) or the map design. For example, on the first map you only physically play maybe four or five times and the inbetweens are you summoning, breaking in, investigating etc. I, personally would rather do this on my own rather then see a mini clip and find it boring as you use up the energy for three second clips. The chat I miss seeing at the top also. As mentioned above its way to small and I like talking with people I play with. So far I'm ok with the game for now but I already know ill be giving it up eventually and unfortunately *cough cough energy bar *cough lol thank you for your hard work spacetime, but I guess im just a pocket legend :-)

[octavos]

Good UI but the message saying 1 friend is online is truly annoying and not very useful...

i have added so many friends on DL (60+ easy), its really not necessary, but in my alts i pick and choose so having that in the options to turn it off would be cool.

[FluffNStuff]

Is there an auto attack option or is this disabled by design.

[drewcapu]

Fluff, I don't think there's an auto-attack mainly due to charge-up attacks.

On my Motorola Blur (MB520) the game does not rotate 180 degrees when the phone is flipped to the other landscape view.

The area around the joystick shouldn't have the ability to rotate the screen. If you don't quite grab the joystick accurately you end up rotating instead of advancing your character in the desired direction.

There are times when I fully charge my weapon and it seems like no attack is performed when I release.

On the map, when doing cut-scene actions, there are times when it gets stuck, requiring a force close. It's as if both the completed arrow and a popup box are on top of each other.

I haven't tried the chrome version too much, but I think it would still be nice (for all the games) if you could customize the control keys. Not sure what the difficulty in doing that is.

It would be nice if the full set of options (and Lair, etc.) are available to be tweaked even if you are still doing the tutorial. What if someone doesn't want the tutorial to auto-assign things?

Can we have the option to disable xp gain please?

I'd like to be able to enable/disable UI hints either at the global level, or the current screen.

There's probably more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

[bronislav84]

If you go to the Lair and to your Powers tab, you can disable auto power point assignment.

But mister Sam this is AFTER the tutorial, when the player has already leveled up twice and has a skill they might not want. Oh, and octavos told me respecs are broken and do nothing, so everybody is stuck with their skills until it gets fixed, which adds even more problems. I understand the first skill is required to unlock further skills, but being forced into a second is just not good.

Ok my main feedback about the UI. The game seems to be designed for iOS with two many taps being needed. Android Menu key doesn't open the character menu, and back won't let you exit dialogs. Back key opens the menu, but to exit it or any dialog you need to tap X. Please can Android users be allowed to open the menu with Menu key and exit dialogs with Back key? On a phone screen it's small and wastes time trying to hit the X just right.

Can Menu and Back keys on Android be made to function like PL and SL?