Fortnite Chapter 5 has been fairly nice to date within the ways in which matter most–the battle royale gameplay feels totally different in a great way, and the battle move is one in all Fortnite’s greatest ever. However it’s additionally managed to introduce a very revamped locker UI that provides help for brand spanking new cosmetics associated to the brand new Lego, Rocket League and Competition modes–and which makes the customization expertise so much worse than it was, inspiring a ton of backlash from fans–this has been a good larger matter on reddit than the modifications to motion have been.
After 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” kind of method. Practically 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 capabilities from the previous locker that in some way obtained overlooked of this revamp all collectively. Since most Fortnite gamers use controllers, it’s kind of of a problem, 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 an inventory of the way by which Fortnite’s locker expertise now capabilities worse with the brand new UI.
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1. Deciding on the button to enter an merchandise’s element menu in your locker equips the merchandise, and each time you study any fashion within the element menu it equips that fashion mechanically as properly.
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. Because of this with a purpose to unequip an merchandise or randomize a class, it’s a must to manually scroll to the highest, which might take some time if in case you have lots of stuff.
5. All locker presets have been damaged, conserving 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 attainable 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 various kinds 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 high of that, there is not any longer an choice to shuffle your locker presets. Beforehand, you can put your presets on random and they’d change every match. Now, you may 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, all of sudden 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 phase’s notifications individually, and each 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 not randomize your total locker without delay. When you don’t love what the randomizer gave you, it requires six button presses each time you wish to strive 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, but it surely was exacerbated by a brand new quirk in Chapter 5: When you shut the “type & filter” menu by hitting the cancel button, it doesn’t matter what, it can at all times return to the default sorting. So should you’ve already sorted by latest, after which open and shut the “type & filter” menu with out altering something, it can put you again on the default sorting.
10. Rarity colours have been faraway from the locker, despite the fact that every little thing continues to be sorted by rarity by default. That makes navigating the locker an throughout tougher experience—the colour coding was very useful for serving to hold observe of the place you had been in your locker whilst 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 colour coding was a fantastic 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 all the way down to the subsequent row, however now scrolling to the sting does nothing in any respect.
This listing is not exhaustive, and mouse-and-keyboard schemes have a complete different host of points distinctive to that interface. What’s attention-grabbing about all that is the UI is not notably buggy–for probably the most half it is constructed to be this manner. That does not imply they wished to prove like this, with key lacking features–it’s extra doubtless simply an unfinished rush job filled with oversights, probably affected by all these layoffs Epic did in September. Hopefully it will be up to date sooner slightly 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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