FEEDBACK: the new bg UI sucks, change it back please

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I don’t understand why the following needed to be removed?

  • “time elapsed” tracker (this one really came in handy)
  • amount of honor gained

Also, the new UI has too much empty space imo.

The old bg scoreboard UI was simple and just better overall, change it back please… or at least add back in “time elapsed” tracker.

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can you post a screenshot of it? I’m at work and want to show a coworker how “improved” it is

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The removal of time is to prevent people who zone in, look at how long has elapsed and then leave.

Honor gained is displayed at the end and is now personal, probably to stop the ‘Why did that person get more honor than me?’ when it was their first win of the day.

I like the new scoreboard.

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I rarely looked at the scoreboard. Usually just click leave battleground as fast as possible so I can re-queue. Anyone have what it used to look like for reference? Because I can’t remember to save my life.

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Who knows what is the reasoning for this UI pruning, it doesn’t make sense tbh :-1:

As for your theory about people leaving lost bgs due to the “time elapsed” tracker, people are still leaving bgs even without it.

I mean, it doesn’t take a genius to tell when the match is lost… don’t need to see a timer to see you got backfilled into a loss :rofl:

I’ve been playing lots of SS vs TM games Alliance side and gotten dropped into plenty of backfill/losing games… it’s pretty easy to tell a loss just from killing blows count and the score at the top.

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This is the weakest argument because you could say the same thing for anything “we don’t need gun laws, people are still going to shoot people if they exist”??

How did you find the timer useful?

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It tells you how much time you have left so you can prioritize your actions.

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It gives a good idea where the match is at, also tells you if a game is dragging on longer than usual (indicates a turtle).

If you have a really “epic” match, it’s also nice to see how long the game went (ex. “omg guys I was in the most epic AV ever, and it went for 1 hour and 10 minutes…”). It’s just a nice piece of information to have. It didn’t need to be removed. This “new” scoreboard is just :poop: like Inemia said.

First portals pruned, now something as simple as this :roll_eyes: What’s weird is I don’t recall any players asking for any of these changes (portals, scoreboard, etc)?

As for the honor gained, you’re wrong actually, it used to display the “total honor” you earned in a bg right there conveniently off to the right… now it doesn’t, instead it shows some different number.

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I feel like this is more down to awareness and all the maps with timers have tells as to what your next step should be. Third party addons, such as Reflex, still track duration so if you really want it for that “omg what an epic 54 minute Isle of Conquest match that was” you still have that.

Honestly it sounds like this thread is just complaining for the sake of it. Wanting to see time to gauge if the game is “dragging” is not a good reason for it displaying. Wanting it to see how ‘epic a game is’ is still available.

Honor gained is interesting - I assumed the number displayed at the end of the match was what was actually awarded. If it’s not, that’s my mistake, and if it’s a random number that is stupid and should be changed.

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Nothing like hiding info from players so they can’t avoid wasting their time or confronting devs about imbalance

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Yo, Gd, you are absolutely right.

The new scoreboard is trash.

Also, since this unneeded change my game stalls momentarily, like it does when I’m going to disconnect, right before the scoreboard pops up. Freaks me out every time… :sweat:

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It is super buggy.
Issues here – Flag Captures and Flag Return values seem backwards, stating Defeat when we won (and got victory rewards), plus, it’s just so unnecessarily bloated.

imgurDOTcom/a/AzoGYv4 (replace DOT with .)

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Give us the old UI or we riot a little more than usual.

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Ummm no it doesn’t. You can tell how much time is left without the timer on the scoreboard.

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Honor gained is displayed at the end and is now personal,

Where is this displayed? I don’t see it anywhere.

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If your team crushed it, it’s nice to see how fast you won.

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using Bynir’s logic, we might as well remove gas guages from cars or battery level indicators from phones. He makes no sense, there is literally zero “downside” to either time elapsed tracker or the total honor gained tally.

Being able to see “time elapsed” is just a nice piece of information to have, and comes in handy. It’s standard in like 99% of multiplayer games, I don’t understand the reasoning behind removing it.

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Reminds me of some stupid joke I heard a long time ago.

(paraphrased)

If Microsoft made a car - we would see the low gas light, the check engine light, low tire pressure light, time for oil change light, brake failure light, alternator/batterywarning light, door open light, seat belt unfastened light, and the hood open light all removed and replaced with a general car fault light.

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Fixing what ain’t broke.

Removing the timer isn’t going to change bailing out, at least not on its own.

Why not fix broken things like in BfG where the icons show the Horde owning all the bases when they don’t actually have all 3? People quit thinking it’s game over, even though that’s not the case.

Yeah, I didn’t see it either.

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Where you see all the other rewards.