Why so Blue?
As of 2.25.x this is still the case. There's a LOT of blue on the interface. As an enlightened player, it stands out. For example, when viewing a portal from the keys list, the portal has blue braces around it. Why? Why not white, or yellow, or some other neutral color? I'd post a pic, but it seems I can just yet.
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I second this. It's an issue that needs to be fixed, and it seems like such a simple fix too. Having the choice to change the scanner color based on what team you're on was something Redacted had, but is now missing in Prime.
Even though I'm a Resistance player, I feel like the Enlightened have enough struggles against blue as it is.
Yes, that was a joking jab at how the ENL are never going to completely win. Totally joking though. No honest meanness intended.The scanner was made by the resistance. It's lore accurate it being blue.
It is also lore accurate that Jarvis hacked it to green.
As it stands, the blue scanner just reinforces the view that NIA is biased towards RES, just like that tutorial being always blue. Surely not a coincidence that the launch of Prime resulted in a bunch of new agents appearing, 90% of them RES.
Lore wise, the scanner was created by Niantic to help control portals, and then it was advertised as a 'game' by them. Eventually things got out of hand and eventually both ADA and Jarvis influenced the scanner in their own ways. (That last bit is my own understanding and translation of the lore.)
But I think maybe @bridgerdier has the truth of it. Though I'm certainly not opposed to the Resistance having more agents and winning more, it is a little discouraging to see the makers of the thing (Game, reality, w/e) favor one side over the other.
Hopefully in the future we'll see more Enlightened agents.
I've had this on my list of issues, really. Even the XM bar is blue. Some people claimed it's purple, but doesn't really matter now does it ;D
And why glyphs became blue 😅
There seems to be a design freeze as no apparences have been changed since beta.
Blue on black is hardly a good choice for visibility. I can't see anything in Prime in sunlight (on iPhone 7.0), whereas Redacted is perfectly visible. I'd go as far as call Prime completely unplayable: can't even **** if the portals have resonators.
Blue on black is a questionable design choice.
iPhone 7.0 user here. I can't see much in Prime when playing in sunlight: can't even tell if the portals already have resonators. I'd go as far as to say that it's completely unplayable during day. Whereas Redacted is perfectly visible.
Jarvis only play at redacted that's why he didn't bother to hack prime yet.
lol
I hear the NIA is looking at this, though...
Here's a screen shot of the remote portal view. I think the braces should be white or some other color than blue.
I know it is a picky thing, but faction color is an i
XM on the ground is blueish, too.
Hard to see it against the black background. The old white XM color was more visible.
I think that was the result of operation Ko Lan where the resistance won the challenge.
Thats fixed for now...
I would prefer a black-white UI color scheme.
*victory of the Osiris Sequence
The rainbow colors are brilliant :)
I don't know what it is about the colors they're using, but I can't stand to look at the game for more than a few minutes. They need to at least make some tweaks to the palette being used. This faint blue is headache inducing.
XM (even though the rainbow colors are beautiful) is still barely visible compared to Redacted. I've created a post describing in detail what I feel needs to be done on the UI, but I want to give NIA some time to get the planned UI changes through.
This first one doesn't change anything for me. All previous annoyances and issues are still there, so I'm very curious as to what the second UI update will bring.
Brighten up the XM dots, and make them round instead of flat. JMO.
I'm a huge fan of the rainbow colors. Really easy to see.
Actually, according to the lore, the Ingress scanner was made by Oliver Lynton Wolfe, who was Enlightened
i can't quote from the AMA's answer but :
That's sad.. purple is still too blue... so the everything's blue impression will last.
Rainbow xm proves it as everything's so blue we see it the most when not blue.
As suggested by @RedSoloCup , here is more feedback from a strong deutan color blind player
Shifting the colors from blue to purple will not resolve my issues. For deutan color blind people there is no difference between blue and purple. I would suggest add more green or mint colours. This could improve the contrast and make it more enjoyable for color blind players.
Glad to see they listen our demands.
Also, It never rains to everyone's taste
Well, except they didn't. There will not be a scanner with green accents. Purple is just a shade of Blue imho (one could argue that most blue now is more purple). Sad. One of the main reasons I don't use prime is because of all the blue/purple screens and accents.