STK 1.2 RC1 arm - small bugs/hints
Posted: 22 Jul 2020, 06:45
Hello,
I hope it is ok that I list here several bugs that I observed.
All skins except for the modern one now have a black background. The light that indicates the currently selected item on the main screen is pulsing. And there is some text (part of it) seen, the rest is hidden in the black background. Or is this intended.
The modern skin shows visible text under the items on the main screen. The selected items is indicated by a pulsing light. When going to "About" and back again, the word "About" is still shown over that icon, but a pulsing light appears on another item (e.g. "Story Mode"), which was selected before going to "About". At this point in time, where would we expect the cursor (well, which item should be selected now)? At least, "About" should not appear as text above the "About" icon anymore, when another item is selected, right?
A word about sizes of item text boxes or text size in general:
Whereas in English most of it is ok, text in other languages is wrapped unnaturally, e.g. only the letter "s" in "Graphismes" and "Commandes" on the settings menu in French, or some words appear on top of other text in the background, e.g. in German on the main screen: "Einstellungen" partly covers "Splitscreen-Mehrspieler" (modern skin). Even when the text size is reduced, it still does not look so nice. Do we really need text for the items at the bottom on the main screen (settings, help, etc.)? Aren't they self-explanatory? Hmm, maybe not for younger kids. What do you think?
If you would like to consider making the text boxes on the settings page a little bit wider, maybe this could already resolve some of these issues?
My very personal flavour: Text should not appear centralised in the text boxes on the settings page, but left-aligned, with the exception of generally right-aligned languages, of course, which should also appear right-aligned on the text boxes (e.g. Arabic).
Writing about the language settings menu: I would expect that the cursor is not going back to another seeing after I switched the language, but this happens: When I switch from German back to English, the cursor is not anymore in the list of languages but on an item of the other settings. At least for me, this is a little bit confusing or does not appear natural. Do you agree?
I have similar feelings about moving through menus in general: Sometimes at the end of a larger list (e.g. languages or the key settings for gamepads), when moving (sometimes by accident) one more below, the cursor pops up on another menu. Wouldn't it be better to place it at the beginning of that same list again (vice versa when moving one more up when already at the top)?
When loading complete game graphics, the text explaining this and mentioning that mobile data might be used, at least in German is cut off at the end with "...". Shouldn't all text be shown in any language also with the largest text setting? By the way: On Amazon's Fire TV and (I assume) on Android TV, a note about using mobile data for this does not seem to make much sense, as they use Wifi or LAN, correct?
Please do not see this in any way as criticism. You developers and contributors are doing a really great job on your free time, so others like me can enjoy such a great game as STK. I truly appreciated this. And maybe many of my comments are not shared by others, e g. about how text should appear etc. No problem at all - simply some ideas/hints (and maybe one or two bugs)
A little bit of-topic:
Writing all this on a mobile device with a forum software that does not offer a mobile device skin is really a pain in the back. S there really no possibility to add a mobile skin to this forum?
I hope it is ok that I list here several bugs that I observed.
All skins except for the modern one now have a black background. The light that indicates the currently selected item on the main screen is pulsing. And there is some text (part of it) seen, the rest is hidden in the black background. Or is this intended.
The modern skin shows visible text under the items on the main screen. The selected items is indicated by a pulsing light. When going to "About" and back again, the word "About" is still shown over that icon, but a pulsing light appears on another item (e.g. "Story Mode"), which was selected before going to "About". At this point in time, where would we expect the cursor (well, which item should be selected now)? At least, "About" should not appear as text above the "About" icon anymore, when another item is selected, right?
A word about sizes of item text boxes or text size in general:
Whereas in English most of it is ok, text in other languages is wrapped unnaturally, e.g. only the letter "s" in "Graphismes" and "Commandes" on the settings menu in French, or some words appear on top of other text in the background, e.g. in German on the main screen: "Einstellungen" partly covers "Splitscreen-Mehrspieler" (modern skin). Even when the text size is reduced, it still does not look so nice. Do we really need text for the items at the bottom on the main screen (settings, help, etc.)? Aren't they self-explanatory? Hmm, maybe not for younger kids. What do you think?
If you would like to consider making the text boxes on the settings page a little bit wider, maybe this could already resolve some of these issues?
My very personal flavour: Text should not appear centralised in the text boxes on the settings page, but left-aligned, with the exception of generally right-aligned languages, of course, which should also appear right-aligned on the text boxes (e.g. Arabic).
Writing about the language settings menu: I would expect that the cursor is not going back to another seeing after I switched the language, but this happens: When I switch from German back to English, the cursor is not anymore in the list of languages but on an item of the other settings. At least for me, this is a little bit confusing or does not appear natural. Do you agree?
I have similar feelings about moving through menus in general: Sometimes at the end of a larger list (e.g. languages or the key settings for gamepads), when moving (sometimes by accident) one more below, the cursor pops up on another menu. Wouldn't it be better to place it at the beginning of that same list again (vice versa when moving one more up when already at the top)?
When loading complete game graphics, the text explaining this and mentioning that mobile data might be used, at least in German is cut off at the end with "...". Shouldn't all text be shown in any language also with the largest text setting? By the way: On Amazon's Fire TV and (I assume) on Android TV, a note about using mobile data for this does not seem to make much sense, as they use Wifi or LAN, correct?
Please do not see this in any way as criticism. You developers and contributors are doing a really great job on your free time, so others like me can enjoy such a great game as STK. I truly appreciated this. And maybe many of my comments are not shared by others, e g. about how text should appear etc. No problem at all - simply some ideas/hints (and maybe one or two bugs)
A little bit of-topic:
Writing all this on a mobile device with a forum software that does not offer a mobile device skin is really a pain in the back. S there really no possibility to add a mobile skin to this forum?