Most recent update has busted the center gap slider for (at the very least) the crosshairs option and it no longer can be modified below 8.0
Video: https://youtu.be/w3A8BekRMYQ?si=ylM6SSBrzNzmP4Dz
This is fairly rough given the center gap is double the size of my usual setting (4.0) so would be cool if this could be fixed as it’s relatively game breaking when you’ve been accustomed to the same crosshair since 2017
Yeah, they broke something with the new dot size/opacity changes. Now the dot isn’t on a different “layer” than the crosshair. Basically if you try to make your current dot bigger or smaller, you’ll notice the “center gap” will be molded by its size. You can’t make the gap smaller than 8.0 only because of your current dot size. If you lower your dot size to zero (making its presence null), then you’ll notice the center gap will go as low as 3.0 and then remain unchanged until you reach 0.0 (where it will suddenly collapse into itself).
So in other words, even if we make the dot value 0, the center gap technically doesn’t work between the values of 0.1 and 3.0.
They really need to fix or revert this. In several heroes I have very small center gaps to create tiny + signs as a crosshair instead of dots and it’s either broken and/or impossible to replicate with the new settings.
Quick note on this, it seems that the Dot Size option is directly impacting the Center Gap option even when the Dot Opacity slider is set to 0%. This is either a new option or didn’t happen prior to this patch. Regardless, would be cool if the dot size option didn’t impact center gap styling when the dot opacity is at 0%.
Video: youtu. be/2Axo6jAXSvA?si=Sm6HCkBgpsvgf73o
As well, it would seem that the Center Gap scaling is significantly different than it was pre-patch:
i.ibb .co/h9T7q7L/scalingissue.png
(Had to space out the URL stuffs on the links there to get the post through filters, blizz pls, I just posted a link above lol…)
The left cursor is from Season 7 and the right cursor is from Season 8. The scaling seems significantly different, setting the center gap to 2.0 seems to be the closest I can get to what 4.0 was in Season 7 and before. Not sure if this is intentional or not but it’s definitely a result of whatever cursor changes were made in the Season 8 patch.
Would be nice to see these issues resolved in some form as it seems like there’s no real consistency between this system and the system that’s been in play since 2017-ish.
Throwing in my +1, most of my crosshairs have been changed significantly by this update and I can’t get them back to how they previously were due to new limitations and/or bugged implementation.
Blizzard, it is critical that whenever you make a change to something as important as crosshairs, that you make sure existing/previous settings are not affected in any way. Add new options, but never presume to change or remove existing ones. It should go without saying that more thorough testing is clearly required, too.
So I’ve figured out how to retain my old crosshair from Season 7 and before.
Essentially, you have to set ALL of the outline & dot sliders to 0. It seems like every single one of these is directly impacting the crosshair’s scaling in some way:
i.ibb .co/HBKr4Wd/image.png
With that, I have my old crosshair back. Now to change it for every single hero who uses it, oh joy
Yeah the problem with this is that my normal crosshair is just literally impossible, I always have the dot because I used to have a dot before adding the crosshair lines so I just can’t get 0 gap with the dot
are they just not going to fix it lmao what, it’s been so long and I just cannot play with the way my crosshair is now
Haven’t tested it yet, but in the patch notes today there’s this:
i.ibb .co/09Vm5NC/reticlechange.png (remove space between ibb & .co)
Which, if as described, should resolve the issue originally posted here. Again, haven’t tested it but the issue was originally caused by the center dot still impacting crosshair line positioning regardless of if the opacity was 0 or not so I’d assume this would fix the issue.
The center gap behaves differently with a 0 outline opacity compared to an outline opacity of 1 or higher.
Additionally, if the dot opacity is set to 0, the dot’s outline still remains visible. I am a bit concerned about the current situation; it seems like they are releasing updates without proper testing for even such a small feature…
I hope that this is a bug and not intentional, as I cannot understand why it would be designed this way.
also we’ve been requesting to increase the outline opacity’s max value to make the outline completely opaque from season 1, hope they will release the update for this soon…
unfortunately its still not fixed yet.
I don’t think they’ll fix it. It’s not the shop so they don’t care.
At least it’s still in the “Known Issues” sticky that updated yesterday.
I miss my tight and contrasting crosshairs.
they have actually removed it from the “Known Issues” lol…
after all these seasons, still not fixed…