Suggestions for painful visuals
Prime gives me migraines after about 10 minutes. I have requests for improvements to the visuals on Prime:
- When scrolling through keys or comms, as you scroll, the words go slightly out of focus which causes (at least on me) painful eye strain.
- On the main action screen, everything moves so fast. As I'm trying to focus on one piece of the screen, the fire animation is moving quickly, my action circle is moving quickly, and fields over me move quickly, often in multiple directions, and my own arrow flashes. If they could be turned back into the slow, low contrast movements of redacted it would hurt a lot less. (Or turn them off, which is what I'd really want.)
- When you're under a field it is nearly impossible to see what color portals are when you're zoomed out. I took a screen shot of a dense area and asked some teammates to tell me how many portals in the area were blue and got lots of guesses but no one got the right answer. Additionally, low level portals of the same color as the field are almost impossible to tell from a white portal.
- This black and blue color palette is very hard to see and very hard on my eyes, even inside in perfect lighting. Outside in the sun it's completely impossible. With recent updates I can tell white portals from xm, which is great, but only inside. Outside they disappear again. All the weapons and resos are blue with a slight tint or border of another color, and those are hard to tell apart visually. At least on that issue there are words to help.
NIA, hear our prayers.
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"all the weapons and resos are blue" -- we have been complaining about this since the beginning of the Beta.
Here's a suggestion: revise the colors for levels 1 through 8 (6/7/8 are really difficult for many people to tell apart, and it is important to be able to quickly find the level 7 resos that need to be upgraded to 8) and then use those colors in inventory display for resos, bursters, ultrastrikes, cubes, and other levelled items.