Battlefield 3 User Interface.....

[Caddys83]

So, apparently this has made a issue with some gamers over at the uk ea forums. Even leading to some topics lock lol. From my understanding, this is not uncommon but it is intresting how it is turning out to be. A company called River was sourced to make the the BF3 UI It had cause such a issue, River "private" the video cause it had so many negative comments and dislike lol

bf3blog.com - Battlefield 3 User Interface was outsourced

Battlefield 3 User Interface was outsourced
On March 28th, 2012 in News, Videos


If you had problems with the Battlefield 3 user interface, well, you’re not alone. The massive waste of space on the PC version indicates that the UI is primarily designed for consoles. Not to mention the odd design choices and complete lack of intuitive controls. We wondered many times how DICE could make such a bad UI for a game, and now we know how: they didn’t. They outsourced the UI design to a company that doesn’t make games — they make flashy animations and such.

If you want someone to blame for the horrendous UI, blame the guys from “River”, a digital agency that specializes in user interface design, Flash, and stuff like that. Watch the video above and hear them brag on about Battlefield 3′s user interface.

UPDATE: Apparently the backlash over the video was so great and it received so many downvotes on YouTube (90% thumbs down), that River has removed it. The video was meant to showcase their work and process, but turned out to embarrass them more than anything else.

I cant find a youtube copy of the video in question since they private the original youtube video. But I think this is it.

http://area.autodesk.com/gdc2012/fea...=525&width=650


UK EA topic
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/b...utsourced.html

[BadHabitz]

Does the thread say why I should care? Cuz, I can't really figure out on my own why I should. Doesn't matter who created it, since DICE/EA approved it.

[Caddys83]

Thanks for your input.

[BadHabitz]

Thanks for your input.

You're welcome?

I was asking a serious question. Sometimes it seems people get bent out of shape for all of the wrong reasons.

[Caddys83]

You really ask a serious question? Opps Well, i look it over my post and i dont see anything to "care" about. But i do find it to be a intresting issue so i made a topic. Ok maybe i do care. But really, my post was just trying to see if I can get a converstion going about the outsource here. You know, just to see what others here think since DICE been fumbling with the patches lately so i figured lets poke some more fun at DICE since some of us still play this game. You gave a solid post that you dont care.

But no need to pick your brains out on the topic. My post is simple. Nothing really to figured out here. Let that brain rest. Relax for a few hours. Go take a dump. Its friday, almost the weekend for some of us.

[BadHabitz]

Studios outsource things all of the time. For all we know the UI is better than what DICE would have done. From what I understand the BF3 and BC2 UI's were both made by this outsourced operation.
People are going nuts thinking the reason the UI sucks is because it was outsourced. I contend that in the end it doesn't matter, which is why I'm wondering why I should care (or anyone for that matter). This company delivered what DICE wanted and DICE purposely put it into the game. If DICE thought that company made something sub-standard then they wouldn't have added it.
It's like getting mad at the workers at KFC once you learn the chickens were butchered somewhere else.

[Schultzy]

The problem I have with the UI, is the new patch ahs given me a new issue.

Every time I die, I get a black screen, or when I get revived I get a black screen, or when I repsawn, I get a black screen.

It also goes black if I expand my map/resize my map.

Turns out anytime a change to the AI happens, my screen goes black.

I found that turning on vsync fixes it.