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Are We Ever Going to See an Improved/More Responsive UI?
freedumb4eva
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For years I have been having to press an action multiple times for it to activate... will this ever be improved?
Space/ground UI is very unresponsive and doesn't feel polished.
A skill will go grey as if it had begun to activate and then return to normal without any effect. I must then press it again in the hope that it will work this time. This causes a buff cycle that should take maybe three seconds to take up to twice that amount of time.
Trying to activate an ability in a pinch is almost futile given this delay.
Will the UI be improved?
Space/ground UI is very unresponsive and doesn't feel polished.
A skill will go grey as if it had begun to activate and then return to normal without any effect. I must then press it again in the hope that it will work this time. This causes a buff cycle that should take maybe three seconds to take up to twice that amount of time.
Trying to activate an ability in a pinch is almost futile given this delay.
Will the UI be improved?
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Then there's the funny error when you activate a skill, and the cool down timer doesn't show up. Skill stays lit as if you can use it again. Click it = timer shows up all of a sudden.
Keybinds suffer the same problems.
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This. I remember a dev stating a while ago that this is intended to stop people from nonstop hammering buttons, especially in regard to those players who use keybinds and have everything on their spacebar. I don't like it either but Cryptic apparently thinks that this delay supports 'balance' :rolleyes:
That would imply that they know what they are doing. I think we know by now that this isn't the case....
Limit Key Binds then... I just got tired of hitting those buttons many times to activate one ability... some times I die because some EPtS don't activate.
But... you know... Dinosaurs with Lasers! That's what they care about... not gameplay experience.
The way this game is going, in two years, more than 70% of the playerbase will not be Trek fans... and... the game it self will become common MMO, with no true Star Trek content at all... Not even talking about the bugs and etc.
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What you need to know is that each power has an activation time. This is the time from when you click the button to when the power activates. The activation time is very different from power to power, some engage almost instantly while some takes longer. This applies to both space and ground.
What you also need to understand is that you can queue up to two different powers. If I activate boarding party I can click emergency power to shields and as soon as the activation timer is done on BP the EPtS will activate. However, if you hit another power in the meantime, it will replace EPtS in the queue.
Learning how this system works is especially important in ground combat!
Activate skill, activate skill, activate skill, oh wait, skill 2 did not activated, activate it again, and again. now it works...
Not good.
Especially not with the high spike damage, you can be dead because the skill you needed to save your hide toke 3 tries to activate and 2 checks to see it did not worked...
No, the activation timers are very different depending on the ability and most people don't click the abilities, they use the keyboard to activate them. Sometimes they are worked into the game mechanic so you really won't notice them and they even have their own animations. One of the most extreme timers is the Thalaron pulse that the Scimitar can fire. It takes six seconds to activate. On the ground one example is the sniper rifle secondary attack. Doesn't fire immediataly, but takes a second before it does. Yes, the activation is hidden in an aiming animation, but it's still there. Those seconds, especially in ground pvp can be the different between life and death.
But that's how games work in general means that there are and should be safeguards in place. Imagine the potential abuse should all weapons and abilities fire at once and without delay. Now it takes some skill to figure out when you want to activate certain abilities and how you want to queue them, otherwise you could just mash the keyboard.
I believe that the PVP-bootcamp covered these basics, or maybe it was a podcast - can't remember but it's a useful skill to learn!
But enough complain about it, and we have the autofiring.
Sorry, I probably misunderstood you! I think we're all talking about different things in the thread perceived as lag!
But yes, what you describe seems weird and imho it shouldn't be that way!
Regardless, the UI is currently messed up, has always been messed up and will continue to be messed up, because they really don't care to fix it. Why fix it when you can just tell your customer that it is working as intended. Clearly, there are enough idiots out there who believe this.
in a twist of irony, the very thing that people are complaining about is the very thing that makes it possible to do that very thing. you could have two heals bound to one key and never have to worry about them firing at the same time.
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If this is how it's going to be, then they should merge abilities into these super abilities. Furthermore, they seem to be playing more with the toggle on/off abilities and this might be the way to go for space and ground. Toggle 1: gives set of buffs A, Toggle 2: gives set of buffs B. Example, targeting optics, I never understood why this is something I have to hit every minute or so? Why is it not on/off?
Just get rid of the click every few seconds B/S, if it's by design, we should just go with it? No, it sucks, do something else with it.
And for the record, I keybind everything. That's not the issue, the issue is that this combat system is TRIBBLE.
Not only did they reskin the UI for the LOR update, the update also broke certain areas of the UI. Like the Department Heads (greyed out or randomized no matter what you do) and Stations tab (open the tab, your boff setup is empty. Press the pulldown, then a few seconds later, they come back up).
Who needs quality assurance?
Certainly not STO.