Welcome to it.
you forgot rule #34d, if it exists, someone hates it.
The new UI simply doesn't mesh with the feel spiral knights started with, however, seeing the overall trajectory of this coconut-laiden swallow I do believe that people have shouted a dastardly power word at it. Likely involving "ni" or "cadavre" somewhere within the context of game setting.

Basically veterans haven't moved on and we despise the superficial change of content, that trades in a luster for processability on most computers.
It wasn't honestly believed to be a requirement and we truly simply want the availability of an alternative to it at this point.

it's not user-friendly

I would even go so far as to say that it's counter-intuitive

and the aesthetics aren't much of an improvement

Health bar on Haven.

That's the weird thing about Change.......
They hate, they get used to it, change again and repeat (Like Roger Smith voicing Sonic in 2010, people want Jason Griffith back even though they hated his voice and wanted Ryan Drummond back). I prefer my ME/CE/CR being visible at all times and i really wish that if someone's out of energy there was something to indicate so that on the elevator we wouldnt be told about tabbing so we would be prepared from the start, but aside from that, The new UI isn't bad....
The enemy "Damage deal, Weak To..., and Health bar" is helpful to New players. (Though one could argue that was the only thing they should add, but that "MIGHT" be you not me.)

All of those "petty complaints" were made right after the update, when everyone was (justifiably!) angry. Even so, the core of the complaints and general dislike of the new UI can be boiled down to:

- Breaks the art style and theme that the game had built over the course of two years.

- The shiny graphics don't match and even clashes with a lot of the in-game items, menus, characters, etc.

- Virtually all on-screen information, especially those on the battle HUD, were moved around to less effective places.

- Useless shield bars (gains a use with the Shield Bash, but they never said anything about that for nearly a month)

- Plus useless shield and health bars being shown in Haven

- Redundant features. Walking up to an armory or NPC shows THREE visual indicators that you can interact with them: the original "interact" bubble, a new yellow crosshair, and a name popping up at the top of the screen (which is also redundant as NPCs have their names over their head). We don't need to be spoon-fed like this OOO.

- Crowns and Energy being hidden so we don't "focus" on them... really?

- The old UI was generally less intrusive both visually and technically.
I had a General Discussion thread showing OOO that they really could have implemented everything the new UI adds without getting rid of the old one. Apparently they thought it was a "Suggestion" and moved it and all traces of it off into the land of ignored threads faster than most other threads get locked. You can see it here.

And most importantly:
- It came with no warning whatsoever and no explanation, help, or even hints as to why the change was implemented.

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Oh, and also VERY broken party displays.
Names getting cut off, Elevator Tab system having NO visual indicators, ridiculous overlap in low resolutions, party leader being unidentifiable until a later patch (and even then still being hard to identify), and possibly worst of all, not being able to tell if your party is downed or in "Sonic" mode.

This is why.

Seeing teammates' hp is important to support players (like myself), and to a lesser extent to striker swordies too. Seeing a teeammate's health go down means that there are people in that area, and if you know which dot they are on the minimap, you know which direction to head for action. It also tells guardians who to heal, and it's harder to tell who's one hit away from death with the new display.

...not to mention the fact that LD portraits cover up the chat at low resolutions.

I don't do much LD either, but I think the benefit of seeing your teammates' health in LD is similar to seeing your party's health in the Clockworks. It lets you know when to be careful such as when your team is completely wiped out or if your partner needs to go get some health.

That reminds me. Another gripe is how the new health percentages aren't as helpful as seeing actual pips though. Percentage doesn't tell you how much actual health your party/team has left. A person in full Plate armor would look like they have the same health as someone in full Proto. :/

It's not the fact that any one of these problems aren't game-breaking, it's kind of the fact that they're ALL there. It's even worse in my opinion since most of these problems never existed with the old UI and only came with the implementation of the new UI. Plus the old one just looks so much better and so much more unique. It was one of the factors that really made the look of Spiral Knights. It was simple, easy to understand (for older players. Apparently the newer generation needs to be spoonfed a lot of the basics), and fit the style and look of the game so well.
This new UI? It looks like it's trying to be Phantasy Star or some other shiny new "hip" MMO to be honest. Shiny, futuristic, nonsense in a game based around old style knighthood. It just doesn't fit.

And this is me personally, but I can't get used to the new UI. I've tried, but I keep looking in the old spots that just feel more natural to me. And they actually are more natural, going by basic composition and where a player eyes tend to settle on a game of this nature.

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And we don't hate you. :P
Most of us understand that different people like different things and have different opinions. Most of us......
You can tend to ignore the ones that don't understand that basic concept.

Just dropping by to explain some changes.
1: The crown/ce bar is was removed since there are a lot of players who upload vids/pics. A lot of those players don.t want to show their loot to other players. They had to eraise it in paint/photoshop.

2: The shield bar is registraded due the shield-bash/dash update. I aggree with other people that they didn't explain annything before hand but their interaction with us wasn't so good.
The healt in haven is shown for a reason. I don't think OOO is so stupid to implant it for no reason.
There probably will be an update in the future, not telling what since I would break the rule: not
containing spoilers.
The point is that the healt bar will be usefull at some point wich we now don't know.

I say keep calm, there are a lot of players who are claiming that the game is dying, if you ask me, it's far away from dying.
An example is that the GM's now actually talk with us. Like Autofire made a thread where he asked a couple of quetions regarding to the GM's and they actually responded. 1 year ago they wouldn't even think about replying.
~Deme

>1)The screen that shakes like Hiroshima's Earthquake when you are hit is an enough reason for me to hate the new UI.

lolwat? That has absolutely nothing to do with the UI.

-That's not the reason for the currency hiding.

-The existence of the shield bar isn't the main problem anymore, though it was when it was released because they hadn't told us about Dash and Bash yet. The problem is that it's quite bland in comparison to the rest of the UI, and has does that annoying change-size-and-make-hp-bar-smaller thing when you use the shield.

The main problem with the UI update was the lack of communication; I think a lot more people would have been satisfied if they said "all these things changed because of upcoming content updates we can't tell you about".

@Shid: Anything on-screen that gives the player information is part of the User Interface. Hit markers and screen shake give the player information.

UGLY.

Why i feel that the reason we cant drop ours vitapods its related to the "Health %" ?

i mean before we have a % in our health bar we can drop our vitapods without troubles, because the Health just swicht from your extended life (of course depending of the vitapod you picked up) to your base life, so nothing hard for them i guess.

but now the life bar have % which i guess they have trouble trying to get work it right when a player drop a vitapod. so they decided remove the feature of "drop your vitapod" so the % life can work without troubles. at least thats the feeling i have...

as for reason why everyone hate the new UI/HUD... everyone already said it on previous thread. but also have useless feature which we dont need. (im talking about you BIG KNIGHT PORTRAIT!!!!) or well it dont tell you who need energy for the next floor or if you can tab them from before. now if they need energy the game tell you "This player need energy" and some players use this as excuse so others can paid their fee... (well at least happened once before).

what i mean you can "raise" the base percent but for some reason you cant decrease it (which i find the reason why you cant drop vitapod) not matter if you have full life or 1% of life. the base percent can be raised but not decreased it (like you have 1% of health pick up another vitapod you have still 1% but the base percent have been raised. or well you have have 55% of life but you pick up another vitapod: you have now 65% but the base percent have been raised) but then i still feel the trouble comes when you want to decreased it by dropping your vitapod thing i guess Nick and Co have troubles to get this work so they decided better lock the vitapod instead putting away like was before.

sorry :/ kinda hard to said what i mean.

or well They just ask themselves "why the would want to drop their vitapod? better they cant since we dont find a reason why a player would drop their vitapod" and then :P they locked it.

I'm a vet and im still here.

I neither love nor hate the new UI/HUD, in fact if you have played the most recent test server they have tweaked more of the icons so that everything now flows together more smoothly.

Also i would like to point you towards rule #19 of the internet: The more you hate it the stronger it gets.

Also rule #20; Nothing is to be taken seriously.

Could someone explain the the field-of-vision and the healthbar placement thing to me? Last time I checked, humans have a vision span going more or less 180 degrees in front of their face, and my peripheral vision tends to give me a pretty good indication as to how much health I have.

@Zeddy Humans do have a 180 degree field of vision- when they aren't moving or focusing on one thing. I'm pretty focused on the very center of my screen, where my character is, which used to be almost on top of the health bar. The extra time it takes to look at it now could kill you.

Also, because of the way it used to be positioned, it was always there. You didn't have to really think about it. Now you do.

There is no option to always show your energy and crowns.
It often takes a short while to load up my inventory when I press 'I', especially the first time and I am really just too lazy to keep pressing it each time I want to glance at what I have. I know it's not a big deal but it's actually caused me to stop being active in the game. Now all I do is craft and wait.

I wish people would stop saying "they don't like the change because they don't like any kind of change". It gets in the way of the actual reasons.

@Zeddy: my monitor is approx. 20x12.5 inches (16:10, 1920x1200) and I sit with my head about 15 inches away from the screen. If I look at the bottom left corner of my screen, I can see movement but I can't tell what. If I look at the middle of the screen it's a little more focused but not super sharp. I could tell the HP bar is there, but not exactly what it says. And anyway, the point is that they made it harder to see. Not necessarily that it's too hard now, but they made it less accessible for no good, apparent reason.

This thing's still here.

I wish people would stop saying "they don't like the change because they don't like any kind of change". It gets in the way of the actual reasons.

Ignoring Tv Tropes' take on change and the hate it brings , I can imagine people despising the change simply for being unnecessary. Personally, I didn't like the change to the pill icons (I can't tell which ones which at a glance now, and telling freeze and sleep apart requires a closer look), the portrait, and the Energy/monies bar being hidden. The health bar being moved was a bad idea (I only find out how much health I got AFTER a fight), and the shield bar and monster health bars was a nice addition, but not exactly needed. The fact that the Havens are a colourless mess is... depressing.

Not sure if anyone noticed, but they didn't update the loading screen for the training hall: it's still got the old Vial icons in the background.

I think it's taunting us.