Small Ass Inventory Menus?

[DeclanFrost]

Holidays for most main/major contributing devs, I’d expect. So my advice is simply lay off the game awhile and let there be another stable before playing. Either that or just debug the shit outta everything and lay waste to things with mininuke launchers til you’re bored, as I’m doing.

[Random_dragon]

Holidays for most main/major contributing devs, I’d expect. So my advice is simply lay off the game awhile and let there be another stable before playing. Either that or just debug the shit outta everything and lay waste to things with mininuke launchers til you’re bored, as I’m doing.

That too, though skewed development priorities have been plaguing the project for a while. It’s gotten to the point where they want to shirk the responsibility of ensuring their JSON changes don’t break mods, because just preventing changes from breaking mainline is hard enough.

Which causes more things to break, in both mainline and mods. Which means more work for them. And thus, more things they neglect due to lack of manpower. And thus, the cycle of liiife.

[BtDslayer]

I see the “stop complaining and just wait for the next stable” argument a lot. That feels a little disrespectful to valid complaints and/or hopes because:
1.) It has been more then a year since the last stable.
2.) there is no indication of a forth coming stable.
3.) going from the experimental builds back to the old stable is, from a content standpoint, like going from GTA 4 (I haven’t played 5 so I can’t comment that far) back to the original GTA.

[DeclanFrost]

There’s a thing on Github where you can see the progress til next stable release.

[ZoneWizard]

Just tried latest version.

This needs to die. Kill it with fire and give us the old piece of crap back in a hurry.

This does NOT expand based upon how much crap you have in your inventory. It just made a small full screen that was reasonable to use literally half of my screen and pure crap for now having to scroll twice what I had, wtf?!

This is suppose to be a public game. No voting should not mean a respect of the community to even ask if this forced change would be a mod or acceptable default.

Making the game for 5 devs is never what the project was about. It was and should still be a community effort.

[DeclanFrost]

And it is, man. Chill! They’ll probably remove it in some future release given a big enough reaction (and enough constructive arguments to support that reaction).

[ZoneWizard]

Had a craptastic day when I posted that. Was still how I and others felt…but still. Sorry =/

[Weyrling]

I do appreciate the effort and time that goes into coding things, but seriously any game in which I can be wandering around with a duffel bag full of a hundred different things needs to have a full screen inventory.

I’m genuinely baffled as to why anybody would think differently, much less implement a change to that effect.

[Coolthulhu]

Looks like the dev who implemented them doesn’t browse forums (enough).

If you have suggestions on how to improve it that are more than just personal preference, try:

Issue: Allow forcing inventory menus to be fullscreen

If the menu doesn’t expand vertically when it could, that sounds like a bug.

[Shopkeeper]

I’m alright with it, looks and feels cleaner then the old one actually. I dunno about the rest of you, but on the experimental I just downloaded it does expand as more items are picked up.

[Charlesilv4]

Well i had no technical problem with it, but there is no freaking reason for this thing to be in there. I had to relearn how to navigate the inventory.

[Weyrling]

I don’t generally complain about stuff, but in this case I have literally seven things on two pages in a window that’s 4 items tall and takes up about 20% of the screen.

Doesn’t really happen in the generic inventory screen, mostly things like disassembling or activating, I’m guessing there’s an issue with when it parses lists that get culled of invalid options, or something.

It could be considered an improvement if it was optional and/or resized properly, but as-is it’s just super frustrating to flip through several pages when my entire inventory list wouldn’t even cover half the screen.

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

I don’t endorse the opinion; I thought it was eerie:

UI Change

[Voqar]

Just adding my two cents.

I care for this change either and see it as random unnecessary development. I’ve yet to see a single reason or positive to this listed - some don’t mind putting up with it is about all.

1. The old screen was fine - there was no need for a change.
2. Even if the “small” screen does resize that just means almost every time you look at your inventory the screen will be a different size so you lose the familiarity and consistency.
3. Why would any interface element be changed to ADD extra scrolling? Apparently somebody is way too in love with their phone and likes to view tiny assed displays or something.

Even though this is a minor thing compared to other things that break the game entirely for me right now, it’s still plenty annoying because WHY?!

I’d agree this is another thing that would’ve been better done as a mod.

I don’t think community developed means random devs do wtf-ever they want to the code? Hope not.

I’d also echo the sentiment that there hasn’t been a stable for ages and most serious players play experimental - which involves SOME risk but in the past, when things were broke they usually didn’t stay broke for long - you could grab a new build a few hours or a day later and shit would be back to ok. No longer. Now broken shit is there for days/weeks. Holidays shouldn’t be an excuse because any responsible developer doesn’t push new/untested/barely tested stuff before they plan to be gone for days. Seems like “back then” we didn’t get as many off the wall changes like this either.

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

I don’t object to the new menu.

[kevin.granade]

Just a psa to people giving feedback about the menu changes. As far as I can tell the only intelligible criticism is, “the menu should show as many items as possible”. If that’s the only problem, great, that seems to be a bug and we’re looking into fixing it. If that’s NOT the only problem, we need you to be more descriptive about what’s wrong with the new menu, because, “I like there old one better” doesn’t really tell us anything.

[Wyzack]

I think the biggest issue is that it reduces usability (which is apparently a bug) while allowing you to see the game still (neat, but not really useful) I am sure if it goes back to showing as many of your items as it can people will be less mad

[Charlesilv4]

I like there old one better doesn't really tell us anything.

I think it actually tells a lot.

[Weyrling]

Having a full-screen inventory had several benefits, an important one would be predictability.
Since it was full-screen and aligned to the same place it was very consistent.

Having the inventory centered isn’t necessarily positive, but that’s more like a preference.
It resizing itself on a whim is inherently inconsistent on top of not being perfectly implemented last I checked, causing things like multiple pages on a tiny inventory display.

Having a windowed or fullscreen inventory is one of those things that should definitely be an option and not an unchangeable default.

[Random_dragon]

Just a psa to people giving feedback about the menu changes. As far as I can tell the only intelligible criticism is, “the menu should show as many items as possible”. If that’s the only problem, great, that seems to be a bug and we’re looking into fixing it. If that’s NOT the only problem, we need you to be more descriptive about what’s wrong with the new menu, because, “I like there old one better” doesn’t really tell us anything.

There’s also the fact that, well…what did we GAIN from the menu change?

You’re saying we need to justify changing it back via listing benefits caused by the old system, but it’s clear no such question was presented when the feature was added.