I don't love the Tome UI

Marto · April 3

The whole UI and UX looks extremely low quality and cheap.

The assets are bad, the inconsistency is bad, the position of buttons and info is downright dreadful.

The presentation doesn't match what is ostensibly a paid feature. Compare this to the menus and animations of Antiquities and Tales of Tribute, two other paid features with brand new UI elements. Both of them animated, with custom effects, sounds, particles, and high-quality textures.

The Tome should've matched that level of production quality. We should be seeing a 3D model of a book open in front of us. Flipping through the pages should have some sort of animation. If it needs to be 2D for one reason or another, fine. But at least give it some animations and unique sounds.

This is a feature players are expected to pay $15-60 per year for. And some players may spend as much as $120/year on it. It should look like it.

Frayton · April 3

How do you see that? I saw it when I first logged in, but now I just get the black popup box that lists tasks when I click Tomes.

I don't have paid Tomes just ESO+.

BretonMage · April 3

Frayton wrote: »

How do you see that? I saw it when I first logged in, but now I just get the black popup box that lists tasks when I click Tomes.

I don't have paid Tomes just ESO+.

You have to press the "back" button on the tasks page, that will take you back to the Tome.

SneaK · April 3

PUBG has a more interactive and cleaner UI than this and that’s saying a lot tbh.

emilyhyoyeon · April 3

I wouldn't have expected the Tomes UI even to go with an ''old'' look at all considering the modernizing of the rest of the menu UI, which was like less than a year ago IIRC.

I actually like the old style looks-like-paper kind of UIs in the genre that TES is. I hate the modern look (and of course it always has to be black because that's sleek and classy or whatever), like the one Skyrim has and the one ESO has now.

But, since ESO has already committed to the sleek look, I'm surprised the Tomes page doesn't follow it, book theme or not.

Marto · April 3

SneaK wrote: »

PUBG has a more interactive and cleaner UI than this and that’s saying a lot tbh.

ESO has a more interactive and clean UI, and that is what's the most frustrating about this. Tomes don't even live up to their previous standards.

For another comparison, let's look at crown crates. Crown crates have:

A 3D model that tilts when you mouse over it, and plays an opening animation when you click
Different textures for every crate.
An NPC with some funny dialogue and an animation when they deal each item as a card.
An animation and sound for flipping each of the cards.

Tamriel Tomes have:

A low resolution jpeg of a book. Even lower quality than existing book textures.
No unique assets to fit the theme of the Tome. No moon or sun icons or anything like that. If you go to the main ESO website you see a "logo" for "Season Zero: Dawn and Dusk". In page 0 of the tome, it's only plain text.
No unique sound effects or animations of any kind.

Masteroshi430 · April 4

I did modifications to the brown textures and I think it is now slighly better, I can release it as an addon if anyone interested.

DrMedBorn · April 4

pretty disappointing. Just like the gold bazaar not beeing in game. Maybe its just me but I really like that eso is otherwise so immersive

imPDA · April 6

This is first version of an addon I told before. I made it because I would like to make it more practical and also see all rewards on one screen. I am planning to add some more features so it will become a bit more useful in the future, any suggests and critic are welcomed.

https://www.esoui.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=4496

P.S. I was thinking if I can add some fancy animations and effects, but I can't decide what I want in particular, so I just decided to make it practical for now.

KapiteinBoterham · April 15

Got my endeavors and going back to pretending the system doesn't exists.

Faltasë · April 16

Agree, Tome UI is ugly.

Alastrine · April 16

Wow, a lot of dislike here, but I get it.

Well, I'll be the odd person out and say that though I agree it could definitely be improved upon that I personally had no issue understanding it or navigating it.
Thought it was pretty clear I couldn't get the higher rewards unless I paid for the upgrade.
I could always read my 'quests' or assignments, whatever you want to call them, and I could always tell what rewards were accessible to me and how many more points I needed to get to the next page.

All in all it was quite workable, kind of baffles me how some find it as difficult to decipher as is said here.

Improvements could definitely be made though, but only because its just a little vanilla. But it's a big change so I for one am willing to give it time.

whitecrow · April 16

The thing I got stuck on was how to bring up the "store" screen after I viewed the challenges. I didn't notice the "back" at the bottom and even when I did I thought "back to what?" It needs to be more clear. Or maybe just have F4 toggle between the two, which is what I tried first.

AllenaNightWood · April 16

i have 2 issues with it and there not huge really maybe some increase in parchment textures and the highlights on items and choices could be brighter

Taarente · April 16

The Tome UI doesn't seem to follow the design language of ESO, in fact neither does the Vengeance and Veterancy UI. The Crown Store design would have worked perfectly well for both.

Masteroshi430 · April 16

https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info4523-DarkerTamrielTomes.html