Fortnite Chapter 5 has been fairly nice to this point within the ways in which matter most–the battle royale gameplay feels totally different in a great way, and the battle move is considered one of Fortnite’s finest ever. Nevertheless it’s additionally managed to introduce a very revamped locker UI that provides assist for brand new cosmetics associated to the brand new Lego, Rocket League and Competition modes–and which makes the customization expertise quite a bit worse than it was, inspiring a ton of backlash from fans–this has been an excellent greater matter on reddit than the modifications to motion have been.
Once I say the locker expertise has gotten worse, I do not imply that in a “this seems new and totally different and I do not like that” type of method. Almost each side of coping with your locker whereas utilizing a controller–such as equipping skins and different cosmetics–now takes considerably longer, and there are key features from the previous locker that one way or the other bought not noted of this revamp all collectively. Since most Fortnite gamers use controllers, it is a bit of a difficulty, as all these fixed wasted seconds add up.
The “why” of all that is past my paygrade, so let’s lower to the chase and try a listing of the way by which Fortnite’s locker expertise now features worse with the brand new UI.
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1. Choosing the button to enter an merchandise’s element menu in your locker equips the merchandise, and each time you study any model within the element menu it equips that model routinely as effectively.
2. Archiving used to contain switching to a mass-select menu. Now, there is not any mass-select choice, and archiving an merchandise requires navigating a dropdown menu for every particular person merchandise.
3. Favoriting an merchandise in your locker used to require one button press, and now you navigate a dropdown menu for every particular person factor you wish to fave.
4. You’ll be able to not return to the highest of your locker menu by urgent Triangle/Y. Which means so as to unequip an merchandise or randomize a class, it’s a must to manually scroll to the highest, which may take some time when you have lots of stuff.
5. All locker presets have been damaged, retaining the assigned pores and skin, again bling, pickaxe, glider and contrail, however separating out emotes, wraps, banner, loading display and foyer music. Now it is not doable to assign particular emotes or wraps to a pores and skin preset at all–the new UI features a separate group of emote presets, in addition to wrap presets, however these several types of presets cannot work together. It’s a must to manually select your pores and skin preset and your emote preset and your wrap preset individually.
6. On prime of that, there is not any longer an choice to shuffle your locker presets. Beforehand, you could possibly put your presets on random and they might swap every match. Now, you’ll be able to solely select presets manually.
7. You used to have the ability to clear all of your locker notifications, which come up each time you unlock one thing new, abruptly with a single press of a button. Now, the locker has been damaged up into seven distinct segments, and it’s a must to clear every section’s notifications individually, and every one now requires navigating a dropdown menu as a substitute of getting a devoted button that does this.
8. It is likewise with the brand new “randomize loadout” function. You’ll be able to randomize sections individually, however you can’t randomize your complete locker directly. For those who do not like what the randomizer gave you, it requires six button presses each time you wish to attempt once more.
9. Sorting a locker part by your most up-to-date gadgets beforehand required two button presses, and now it requires eight. This variation really occurred throughout OG season, however it was exacerbated by a brand new quirk in Chapter 5: For those who shut the “kind & filter” menu by hitting the cancel button, it doesn’t matter what, it would at all times return to the default sorting. So in case you’ve already sorted by current, after which open and shut the “kind & filter” menu with out altering something, it would put you again on the default sorting.
10. Rarity colours have been faraway from the locker, although every little thing continues to be sorted by rarity by default. That makes navigating the locker an throughout harder experience—the coloration coding was very useful for serving to preserve monitor of the place you had been in your locker when you rapidly scroll up and down, and so now, for these of us with stacked lockers, it takes longer to search out issues. Sorting alphabetically helps, however the coloration coding was an incredible visible shorthand that was straightforward to course of.
11. Scrolling proper or left to the sting of your locker used to both take you as much as the earlier row of things or right down to the subsequent row, however now scrolling to the sting does nothing in any respect.
This checklist is not exhaustive, and mouse-and-keyboard schemes have a complete different host of points distinctive to that interface. What’s fascinating about all that is the UI is not significantly buggy–for probably the most half it is constructed to be this fashion. That does not imply they needed to prove like this, with key lacking features–it’s extra seemingly simply an unfinished rush job stuffed with oversights, probably affected by all these layoffs Epic did in September. Hopefully it will be up to date sooner relatively than later, however with the vacations in full swing I would not get my hopes up for any main fixes till January.
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