Let’s talk about some UI/quality of life stuff. I was about to open issue, but since it touches a bunch of different topics, I guess a discussion is better. It’s a bunch of things that were annoying to me over the last months. It doesn’t mean that something has to change, could just be that I overlooked some features somewhere.
- Special floor explanations on mobile
- The desktop version of ShPD allows to hover the floor indicator, but I can’t find an equivalent for touch on mobile
- Ignore invisible mobs and allies for automatic movement
- To some degree automatic movement reveals positions of mobs
- If you have 10 wraiths active on the floor or something like that, the character runs aimlessly back and forth without even reaching his destination
- It’s better to get stuck than wasting satiation
- Optional auto aiming button for touch input that works like tab with keyboard input
Fat finger syndrome stuff:
- Targeting yourself by clicking on your portrait or hitting the shortcut for hero info
- I had it happen a bunch of times that I accidentally shot my wand in some direction instead of shielding myself, which can be a serious problem with wand of blast/fire/disintegration
- Also relevant for ghost guiding
- Optional “Are you sure?” popups for automatic movement
- It happens that you accidentally run somewhere when input for zooming/panning failed
- Optional visual aid for aiming and maybe optional confirmation if you really wanna shoot/throw to tile without mob
- Did I touch the right tile and not a neighboring one?
- A classic is to shoot a tile adjacent to a mob
- Can I even hit that mob/trap?
- Would I hit my allies?
- It’s sometimes hard to tell if it would hit a wall edge or not
- It should only respect revealed stationary environments and visible mobs, but not 100% show where it actually hits since that would reveal invisible entities
- Did I touch the right tile and not a neighboring one?
Those are especially related to taking a longer break and picking up a save game after months:
- Notes for floors
- Did I find hidden doors on that floor with extra secrets?
- Did I use scroll of mapping?
- What did the quest say? Did I already finish that quest?
- Did I use all blacksmith options already?
- Did I solve all puzzles or were some potions missing for them?
- Such notes should probably be accessible via “Landmarks” interface
- Currently I use Steam overlay notes for that, but that’s a dissatisfying solution since it’s completely closed source
- Notes for unidentified potions/scrolls/items (extends the previous point)
- On what floor did I find this potion/scroll?
- Who dropped it?
- Was it in a chest/grave?
- Maybe should be automatically deleted when identified
- Ability to ⭐ items
- If I remember correctly, Borderlands 2 and Victor Vran allowed to mark items that you wanna continue to use to simplify selling not needed stuff
- It’s hard to remember your setup if you didn’t play for some time
- More save game infos like “last played at XXX” and “save game of game version XXX”
- Though savegame should probably not be overwritten if you didn’t do any significant actions since opening the save game, dunno how that’s currently handled
Optional auto aiming button for touch input that works like tab with keyboard input
Guessing this jumps to target another enemy? You can just tap the enemy indicator to do that, even without bringing up the auto aim
In terms of fancy aiming especially beyond what auto-target will do for you, to me that very much seems like part of player skill, that said a more visible grid especially in black regions (i.e. areas around rooms and corridors) would help a lot
Yes, keyboard and gamepad inputs allow to jump between all enemies with a clear line of sight. It was introduced because aiming with a gamepad is hard otherwise.