My mother could make a better map

Please, if you are going to give us a clutter up thing like that map, give us a way to at least SEARCH to find things. If nothing else, since you say World Boss Spawing in Dry Steppes, add the **D%^ area too. Your map is a cluttered up mess.

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what do you mean by cluttered? i mean if the worldboss is spawning in dry steppes its litterally always the same spot.

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There are filter options for the map. Turn off stuff you don’t want to see.

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The map is low-effort, yes. Of the remaining UI ‘problems’ the map probably has the most work ahead of it. The studio’s hired/hiring several UI people… hopefully Rod allows them to improve user interactions outside of shop. This includes intelligent zoom (still not intelligent), search functionality, and yes, clutter. Clutter is experienced in part because of unintelligent zoom, and in part because of icon design. Both can be improved dramatically, if Rod lets the UI people work on it.

As for search specifically - remember, every player interaction is designed with controller in mind. I’m convinced that’s how the devs are hardwired, and also that’s how most of them play the game. This contributes to ‘lack of awareness’ of things that can be improved.

Optional overlay is another popular suggestion. Things I’ve suggested include making alert icons for special events on the side of the map interactable, meaning you click on the WB alert (e.g.) and it centers the map (& zooms if it makes sense) on the event. This could’ve included active NMD’s, but they’ve made those work different & less relevant now. But as an obvious functionality feature, it’ll elude devs who aren’t really aware of M+KB play style.

They can go a long way by enhancing the color palette, esp icons.

Not much else there to enhance.

Ah yes, another low ball reason to complain when more then likely the user can fix the issue themselves. :thinking:

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Not “low ball” since there are studio positions devoted to improving those Very interactions, among other things. The complaint, in turn, is specific - and a solution, though put emotionally, is offered alongside it in the OP.

Your post offers neither a coherent complaint nor a real, thoughtful solution. Just noise.

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The only thing that truly bothers me about the map is lack of text search.

If I’m looking for a specific city or dungeon, why can’t I search by text?

It’s minor, but still an annoyance.

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Who? What Studio? If that’s true then perhaps the OP she interact with them?

I say it’s a complaint because it Was “Emotional” as you would put it.

Noise? Well I hope my posts aren’t to loud for you, perhaps you should turn your volume down.

Well what’s stopping her?….chop chop!!

Damned hippies!

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Please mum, make a better Diablo map than Blizzard.

Alright lets see mum, Well I’ll be a monkey’s bare aced uncle…

Ok it just gets so frustrating sometimes when you are in a hurry and can’t find something. My bad. I really like the game and just maybe next time just take a breather before writing a post. :slight_smile: thanks for the help

Please have your mom make Diablo 5. I would really love to see her handywork.

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I’d like to know which Whisper dungeons are part of the NMD rotation, and then an easier way to see if I already have sigils for those.

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Certain objectives could flash on the map.

Ok I am back. Tell me why I see a the world boss notifications 2 times in 2 different regions then nothing on the map. I get
World Boss Spawning soon in Nahantu
World Boss Spawning soon in Fractured Peaks.
So where the Fortification under Consent of the King is it?

its a known bug. The message basically means nothing. If you open the map and there is no timer on the upper left side there is not going to be a worldboss.

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thank you, good to know.

This is a known bug as Ny said and an *OLD" bug dating back to … Yea far back. Like the beginning or when they added the notification.
Took forever to add the on-screen Timer.
That was something I asked for like Week 1 of the game and time and time again for months - even made a handy MSPaint graphic for them.
We even had a Helltide notification bug for a little while. That mostly got fixed. Happens infrequently.

But the WB notification is quite annoying and so long overdue for being fixed.

Ezpz and day 1 map Qol functionality.
Nearly 2 years, 7 Seasons and an Xpac and still no simple search tool.
Still hunt and peck open map, check Whispers, open inventory - keys, cross reference…

Imo part of the map QOL would be a wee tiny NMD :imp: symbol top left corner of EVERY dungeon in the NMD rotation for X Season.(Lower right is the gold bar/dot of rewards for completing or not complete so top left or lower left works).

Now you see a whisper and lo and behold you know immediately it’s ALSO a NMD.

Not trying to break the Internet here but this is abc123 for a map this size, number of activities, crossovers and alleged “mmo-ish” touted design via advertising.

If the world boss notification is incorrect, how many other notifications are bugged?? The worst thing a piece of software can do is give you false information.

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Has to do with PC time sync, daylight savings in the US, and Blizzard’s inability to figure it out or care. It’s an old bug that first surfaced when the daylight savings day moved.

There used to be a bug (or maybe it still exists) where a Helltide zone wouldn’t show on the map if you weren’t using PC time sync on your PC.

For whatever silly design reason, D4 relies on your PC local time for some functions, but if it doesn’t match World Time it throws things off.

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