New Geoscape UI preview!

The new UI is presented as though you are looking at it from the command room displayed on the wall with terminals in front. In the ground assault that map is on a table. My suggestion is to change the graphs on the wall to a world map. Then when players are doing a base invasion mission, it adds a level of realism. Hopefully a quick and cheap change!

That would only be a problem if you cannot look at anything but maps on the main monitor in the command centre.

If there is a graph screen planned for funding, nation relations, alien activity or whatever then that could be what is displayed.

A large map displaying the locations of all your bases and troop movements in one easy location is probably a bad idea in any base that has been penetrated by the enemy.

think its much better... hoping the events on geoscape will be clearer and displayed longer..hearing about fishermen being kiled etc motivates da troops...

For crying out loud !! you post the second pic where the Canary Islands are supposed to be and there's only sea !! hahahaha come on admit it, you did on purpose to upset me hahahah

Oh dear! I had been wondering about the missing islands, but hadn't got round to checking. Poor FranTorres, slave at an alien underwater base once again

I'm pretty sure the British islands outside south Americas southern point (Falkland islands) is missing too

Isle of man seems to be back though...

I'm pretty sure the British islands outside south Americas southern point (Falkland islands) is missing too

Isle of man seems to be back though...

Sinking islands to stop political conflicts is not a good solution. Bad Xenonauts! We should never have put them in charge after the alien invasion.

Missing islands aside, it looks really good. And fits very well with the overall art direction of the game.

Great preview look!

this is very nice looking.

I thought that this thread was going to be like a poll or something, if we have half of the people saying they like, and the other that they don't like, aren't guys supposed to be changing something? Cause there's no point in opening a thread and asking "what do you think? Suggestions??" And when people say they don't like or it needs to change this and that, than you say "ah you guys are gonna get used to it", so, it's more like shoving down our throats, right?

(i'm not being a douche, I love you Chris)

This post is in the updates, not the suggestions or community involvement forums.

Chris also asks for comments and feedback in his first post, not suggestions.

Incidentally I just did a quick count and I make the numbers around 22 likes and 7 dislikes.

The dislikes are also split between the theme being less dark and some of the colours not looking right.

Not all that close to the 50/50 split you were expecting

*edit* I didn't include complaints about missing islands, I don't know if the map corrections Chris has mentioned have been used to generate the preview image or not.

Would prefer to have "Launch Interceptors" in the middle, below the speed selector and above the base management selector.

Hmmm I like that the style is consistent with the other new UIs and the functionality better, but I do think it could do with being darkened a bit (the ocean in particular, even if the old black ocean was a bit severe).

Any there any plans for it to change over time as the tech level improves, as I think was being planned for some of the other UIs?

Any there any plans for it to change over time as the tech level improves, as I think was being planned for some of the other UIs?

This made me imagine playing space invaders on the geoscape map

I didn't know you had got a sneak peak of v17.5 Gorlom?

Is that the new air combat UI?

At least that. If the Battlescape proves to be fiddly, it could be the whole game.

I understand that the new Geoscape will stay but I would like to voice my preference of the old one. It was dark and pretty gritty. I felt more immersed with that map. But I am sure that there were a lot of people that hated the old Geoscape.

I didn't know you had got a sneak peak of v17.5 Gorlom?

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No, I'm just unintentionally prophetic like that (sometimes)

Dafort: are you talking about the map or the UI surrounding the map?

I'm less concerned with the pretty pictures, and more concerned that it's easy to conduct geoscape operations. I want to be able to direct multiple aircraft without having to zoom in to the max and make fiddly 1-pixel-perfect clicks. I want adequate, if reasonably vague, information about aircraft, UFOs, ground mission sites, bases and other what have you when I do zoom in.

I also prefer clarity of game functions over aesthetics.

If it is possible to have both though then even better.

Very very cool.

Add me to the pile of people thinking the water is too light. Somewhere between the new and old would be perfect.

I understand what people are saying, but you can't please everyone. these are just pictures of what could be, There might be a day-night cycle, (which would make it even more scary for the night missions.) What would you rather have? something slightly more realistic with light and dark elements? or just darkness all the time?

hmmm can we get city lights at night from space?

For further reading on Nightscaped Geoscape:-

Here

Also here

And further reading here

any excuse to put an ELO song in a post title, really...