First of all I would like to say that the game is amazing and I love playing it.
However, coming from Surviving Mars, which is pretty much on point in terms of UI navigation on consoles, I have some minor gripes with Stellaris.
So I made a list of potential quality of life improvements.
Solution: There are time-windows when nothing is selected and I’m not scrolling through menus so pop-ups could appear at such moments.
Also there is the notification bar below, which could have these pop-ups listed as bigger items, so I could differentiate them as more important than others and open them when I’m ready.
Solution: Please allow left stick navigation when big menus are open and when camera position is not being controlled anyway - similar to Surviving Mars’ mechanics.
Solution: Together with allowing left stick navigation in full screen menus, allowing to move freely with a highlight selection from left to right (regardless of its vertical position) would make navigation way smoother.
Solution: Please allow for Back button press to collapse a drop-down list instead of immediately closing the screen.
Solution: Please turn down the volume of this specific SFX by 50% at least.
Hope this makes sense, if not, I will try to provide more info and screenshots if needed. Thanks for your consideration.
PS. I've copy pasted it from Reddit as I don't know if there are any devs following.
However, coming from Surviving Mars, which is pretty much on point in terms of UI navigation on consoles, I have some minor gripes with Stellaris.
So I made a list of potential quality of life improvements.
- Aggressive pop-ups
Solution: There are time-windows when nothing is selected and I’m not scrolling through menus so pop-ups could appear at such moments.
Also there is the notification bar below, which could have these pop-ups listed as bigger items, so I could differentiate them as more important than others and open them when I’m ready.
- Full screen menus - navigation with left stick
Solution: Please allow left stick navigation when big menus are open and when camera position is not being controlled anyway - similar to Surviving Mars’ mechanics.
- Full screen menus - transitioning between columns
Solution: Together with allowing left stick navigation in full screen menus, allowing to move freely with a highlight selection from left to right (regardless of its vertical position) would make navigation way smoother.
- Collapsing drop-down lists is confusing
Solution: Please allow for Back button press to collapse a drop-down list instead of immediately closing the screen.
- Stars' ambient SFX
Solution: Please turn down the volume of this specific SFX by 50% at least.
Hope this makes sense, if not, I will try to provide more info and screenshots if needed. Thanks for your consideration.
PS. I've copy pasted it from Reddit as I don't know if there are any devs following.
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