shannong
08-27-2011, 07:06 AM
Really, the joystick button is too damn high on the iPad. Seriously, it's the worst part of your entire UI and no, you don't ever really adapt well to it. It's a terrible spot for it on the iPad. Why not swap it with the largely useless (and needlessly huge) emote panel?
The problems with the currently placement are twofold, and they're HUGE problems:
1. You have to set the iPad down on a desk or your lap to play and brace your left hand on some surface outside the iPad itself so that you can reach and control the button with your index finger. There is no way to comfortably hold the iPad at an angle or in the air with both hands to play. I know the placement is no problem in this regard for a smartphone form factor, but for the iPad it's just terrible that it forces only two such playing positions.
2. It sits too close to players 4 and/or 5 in a team. I'm constantly hitting one of the player status bars and opening the player's detail window in the middle of fights. It certainly sucks as an Engineer to have teammates die because of a fumble like this in the UI.
This is the number one "ick" factor about the game. Please change this in Pocket Legends too.
The problems with the currently placement are twofold, and they're HUGE problems:
1. You have to set the iPad down on a desk or your lap to play and brace your left hand on some surface outside the iPad itself so that you can reach and control the button with your index finger. There is no way to comfortably hold the iPad at an angle or in the air with both hands to play. I know the placement is no problem in this regard for a smartphone form factor, but for the iPad it's just terrible that it forces only two such playing positions.
2. It sits too close to players 4 and/or 5 in a team. I'm constantly hitting one of the player status bars and opening the player's detail window in the middle of fights. It certainly sucks as an Engineer to have teammates die because of a fumble like this in the UI.
This is the number one "ick" factor about the game. Please change this in Pocket Legends too.