So far, I have finished my patch notes and looked at the new UI. I loved it. It was better, but some of you may complain. Not 1, not 100, but an army of Spiral knights. Yikes. Here are a few suggestions that I want to add in the game.
Improvement 1: Heat bar
How about showing a bar that is mostly invisible, but can be seen? It should be on the heat bar. It could be like the shield bar. Once the heat bar is full, it will say "Maximum heat!". The heat circle will still be there, but with a clear bar linked. I can't make art, but here is how it should look like.
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What if the knight dies? Well, then the heat will be reduced. It should go down. If I didn't provide enough details anyways, then comment on what I should add more.
Improvement 2: Placing the statuses that you are effected in somewhere else.
Instead, we should re-skin the status effects and make a bar. Place it on the side of the health bar. If someone has two, place the second one next to the shield bar. Then a mini bar shows up with the color and the bar reduces when effected. No, it won't be that when someone has 3 pips, then the status bar will be right there while the other one is far to the right. They will all serve to be in the same row going down.
Or instead, we can have them on top of the screen and make a bar of how long it is and possibly a timer
Improvement 3: When turning off the tabs, bring the chat log down
When I closed my tabs with the social, I've noticed that the chat log had space to go down. I think now that when you close your tabs bar, the chat log goes down. If you open the tabs bar, the chat log goes back up. I find it better to do so. If people open and close their tabs, then the chat log would go up and down. But if you want, we can have it where if you keep opening and closing the tabs bar, then the chat log disappears until you stop.
Improvement 4: Get rid of the shaking when being hit
You know what's annoying? When you get hit, your health bar shakes. It's really annoying and should be removed. Instead, when your damaged, make the bars flash. Whatever bars you lose will have a flashing sign. It could be any color. Not sure...
Well, this is all, but if you think this isn't good enough, please provide constructive criticism without saying this:
"Make better suggestions or GTFO you [swearing censored]!"
Get hit, your screen shakes violently, or "explodes." In PvE, not much of a problem, you know when you get hit and your screen shakes a whole ton, maybe tone it down a few hundred notches?
In PvP! Oh mayun. You get hit with a Sentenza bullet and JGASIDFUHOSI;DFB BOOM you're flying all of the place trying to get back into place but oh no they're shooting rapidly UGH AJDLA GKAO ERMAHGERD DURT SCRUN SHERKIN.
>:l