XBOX UI Questions

bmcd73

I've been playing on the PC since beta but switched to the XB1 a few months ago. The UI was never intended to work with a console and they did a pretty good job porting it. Even with all its shortcomings, I still prefer the XB1. That said, I have a few questions about the UI that either a) don't exist or b) I am missing.

1) BOff trait details - On the PC you can easily see what the details are around the BOff traits. I can see the traits for my BOffs on the XB but I have yet to figure out how to see their exact details. For instance, the new JH Superior JH Vitality. Normally I could go on to a wiki and just look it up but this one isn't there yet. Would be nice to just see the details.

2) Extra power pools - I know I have a few CXP and Fleet power pools running but have no idea how much. Is there a way to see this somewhere in the UI?

3) Sending Mail w/ Attachments - Type and shifting through inventory is crazy tedious on the XB. Is there a way to a) multi select sending attachments b) starting where you left off when do have multiple attachments c) paging down

4) Exchange - is there a way to scroll a page at a time

5) Power levels - I have a warp core that gives me bonuses for power levels above 75. On the PC I can tweak each level perfectly to get 3 or possibly all 4 above 75. On the XB I think this is impossible. At most it looks like 2 can be above 75. Am I missing something here or is it just impossible to manually balance your power levels?

Anyone know of any good tips or are there any other UI tricks on the XB1 that I maybe don't know about? Anything that isn't obvious?

fvesel

I've only played on the Xbox, and I'm fairly certain that none of what you're asking is there. Some Boff info is on their page under ship/bridge officers, and some is only visible when assigned to ship or away team. I'd love to be able to train them with manuals from the ship/bridge officer page rather than, say, switching to a science ship, putting the new officer in a slot, and then training them.
You cannot manually set power levels more than using the d-pad to focus on weapons, shields, engines or auxillary. And while you can set boff abilities to auto trigger, I haven't seen a way to set the weapons to auto fire like on the PC.
But if you do find cool tricks or controller set-ups, please share. It was an embarrassingly long time before I found that you could go to the top of the skill tree screen and unlock handy traits.

postagepaid

Assuming the xbone version is as barebones as the PS4 the answer to all is nope.

Likewise you can't see any buffs or debuff icons.

Fvesel, autofiring weapons themselves isnt a thing on console but all you have to do it hold the trigger. It'll work for primary fire on ground and beams/cannons in space. Secondary fire, mines and torps just need to to tap the button and pray that the ability autofiring doesn't block it from happening. Only time this doesn't happen is ground phases on the renegades regret and quarks lucky 7 missions.

bmcd73

Thanks for the replies. There were a couple in there that I forgot to mention as well. I think I will make a feedback post about all this stuff. Some of these are fairly large holes in the usability.

mrphister

on ps4 here, would love see some improvement to the doffing system. it's way too cumbersome to get to specific tasks, check needed components/ingredients then get back to the task. also i'd like to see more ways to sort/group different types\careers of officers. Please let us select chained tasks directly from the chain screen.

Also would like to see more work on the player\social stuff. like who is in a zone, how to find people again. for example someone somehow joined a patrol with me & we worked together well with no communication. Later i was thinking i should ask them if they are interested in teaming up again but i had no way to know who they were to email or msg.

postagepaid

The doffing on console is slightly better than PC because you don't need to open the replicator to get the commodities, the game will ask and you can buy whats needed.

Likewise you can choose to target specific tasks like those that reward dil or skillpoints instead of wading through the list.