Game/Player Interface is disapointing and frustrating

[bben46]

Looks like some people love it and others hate it. Of course, if you are using a gamepad and not a keyboard, the experience will be completely different. And if you have been using a gamepad for a lot of games and have gotten used to the console style interface that will make a difference also.

 

Personally, as a player who has never bothered with a gamepad, and have never cared for the console type interface - I find it clunky, inefficient, and completely non intuitive. As for the inventory, I can only assume you are impressed with pretty pictures over usefulness. :tongue:

 

Yes, you can bind keys - sometimes it even works - sometimes you have to click the number key twice before it takes.

 

As for actually binding 1. open menu, 2. open weapons menu, 3, select weapon, 4, press F to make it a favorite. 5, close weapons menu. (main menu closes automatically) 6, open favorites menu "press Q'. 7. hold down select while pressing hot key. 8. close favorites menu - now you have ONE item on a hot key. I have had to do step 7 several times for some things to take effect. - repeat these 8 steps for each item you want on a hot key - you can combine a couple of steps as long as you remembered to make each item you want as a favorite but to make up for that you will have to ( repeat steps 3 & 4 for each one. - You want a spell on a hotkey - then you have to go through it all again with the magic menu instead of the weapons menu

 

For Oblivion: 1. open inventory (tab) 2. while holding down the hotkey click on the weapon you want there. repeat step 2 for each weapon. Open Magic menu -[you don't have to close the weapons to do this. repeat step 2 for as many as you want.

 

Oblivion 2 steps to bind a single weapon or spell to a hotkey - Skyrim 8 steps to do the same thing.

[saldu]

The only thing I don't like about the interface is that you can't sort inventory by weight/price.

And minor since it happens very rarely to me, that the mouse sometimes jumps to a dialogue action you didnt want while clicking.

[o0Wizzard0o]

I may be a bit off topic here but my PC killed the system requirements printed on the disk cover. But it doesn't come close to recommended ones. I can get graphics running at medium settings with max fade on all sliders but I get almost 1 second of input lag using either gamepad or mouse. After trying various low settings and still getting input lag I found that lowering the screen resolution in the .ini file while maintaining medium settings lowers (Or in my case, Eliminates) input lag. (Ok. so I play in 640x480. it works great)

[Michlo]

Nice one! Thanks for telling us how we can still setup hotkeys, DZ302. It is definitely far more cumbersome to setup but I'm glad we can still do it. :)

 

Cheers.