Today, we’re going to give you guys a special treat with our Spotlight Preview. As you know, we’re working on a lot of enhancements to our gameplay and the player experience. The first and most important change has already been implemented: the battle screen is gone. While we know some people enjoyed it, most feedback toward it was negative, and it ended up being noisy more often than not – so we replaced it with the signature map images we use as backgrounds through most of our game.
But this is a placeholder, because we plan to redo a lot of the UI in a more elegant fashion. That’s what our preview is. These are the WIP screens for the main menu and the store, which are being restructured to be more organized and just generally more polished.
As with our current version, the folders will pull out. Headlines will be news posts, changelogs, things of that nature and will open in your browser, while the quests (which are not changing from live – this is just a placeholder) will display on the left side.
Some elements of these may change before the final release, but we thought you guys would appreciate having an update. We’ll also be updating some major elements of the 3D game to improve clarity, and you should be seeing a patch on that soon.
Hope everyone likes the new design!