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  1. #1

    Better Interface design for humans

    Whilst I am aware of the complexities of designing machine-to-human interfaces, I think Ubisoft have missed a trick with some core principles that have degraded the Arcade experience. Using the model of human behaviour first, "theoretical designed logic" second seems to have been missed in the Arcade lobby.. And this is by no means an Ubisoft phenomenon. It's all over the games industry in other games.

    For example in this game, by just adding in one more button after a multiplayer game ends: "dislike map", "skip rating", "like map" and "favourite map" would be in sync or expectation with human behaviour. Currently it's awkward to favourite a map. Either a player has to do it mid game or go off to a website at a later time.

    I believe this simple inclusion would mean that players would easily end up with a list of favourites, easily accessible to them when being a map picker, or hosting a lobby. This would greatly expand the maps playable to all others as well. This would make Arcade better.

    I commend Ubisoft on the way they have managed to create a map editor for consoles using only about 12 buttons. But that is a logic problem solved. More attention to real life human behaviour is needed to make the multiplayer elements work better in Farcry and other multiplayer games.
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  2. #2
    This is a brilliant and simple fix that would be welcomed in the Arcade Community.

    Sadly, Ubisoft does not seem to deliver on their responsibility to those who have purchased their game, as other All platform, Day-1, game-breaking bugs such as this:

    https://forums.ubi.com/showthread.ph...tiplayer-match

    Have not yet been resolved.

    Hopefully they understand how disappointing this is.
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  3. #3
    Yes, that in game menu bug is not only annoying and frustrating, it also means players can't even favourite a map in game. This leaves only awkwardly going elsewhere on the lobby or website to try and re-find a map you probably can't remember the name of, to favourite it.
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    or you can grab a paper and pencil like back in the day, write down your favorite - Ubisoft probably


    I do like how the website gets comfortable as your menu list, I wish we could see the star ratings on the arcade site main list page like we do on console arcade screen. takes awhile to load screens finding out it's getting bad ratings and probably not to your liking just leads to burn out.

    Though I saw some nice 2 star maps last week and maps with flat terrain got 3 stars.
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