How to hide the big "change difficulty" window on character screen?

KapiteinBoterham · June 9

I get you are proud of this new change but shoving it in everyone's face is kinda obnoxious.

ADDON FIX HERE

KapiteinBoterham · June 9

Let me rephrase; Why does 1/3rd of my character screen need to be covered up with this?

KapiteinBoterham · June 9

Just give us a little minimize button or something, it's too annoying!

SilverBride · June 9

On the character selection screen or where? I'm not seeing this anywhere.

KapiteinBoterham · June 9

On the character screen.

The screen you regularly check for active passives/food buffs/how badass your character looks.

KapiteinBoterham · June 9

AScarlato · June 9

For me it was a box on the upper left of the screen.

This would be low priority for me. Its Not that oppressive since you are already in a menu, but maybe it should be its own menu field in settings instead.

SilverBride · June 9

KapiteinBoterham wrote: »

On the character screen.

The screen you regularly check for active passives/food buffs/how badass your character looks.

Oh, yes I have that but mine is over to the left side of the screen and not in the way of anything. I will take a screenshot of what I see tomorrow.

I wonder if the screen resolution has something to do with how much of the screen it takes up.

KapiteinBoterham · June 9

The character screen used to be a nice screen for viewing your.. character.

Why 1/3rd of the screen is now devoted to selecting a difficulty is beyong me..

Also is this tooltip really neccessary for every single loading screen? Even player homes?

It's annoying clutter, please remove it and implement something more tasteful.

SkaiFaith · June 9

I have to preface that I am on console, not PC, but I like how everything has been implemented.
The one thing I don't get is that I am not seeing the indicators next to other players' names for which difficulty they are on...

lillybit · June 9

SkaiFaith wrote: »

I have to preface that I am on console, not PC, but I like how everything has been implemented.
The one thing I don't get is that I am not seeing the indicators next to other players' names for which difficulty they are on...

From what I can tell it's not an indicator but a fancy health bar like you'd see on bosses

Gabriel_H · June 9

Eh?

Even on the lowest resolution The character is still fully visible:

Maybe post a screenshot so as to highlight your complaint?!

As for the little indicator the loadscreens ... I mean, really?!

Danikat · June 9

@Gabriel_H's screeshot is how it looks for me too. It's the same size as the equipped items section in the inventory menu and doesn't cover my character at all.

BretonMage · June 9

While the challenge difficulty window isn't that visually obstructive, I do think the OP has a point in that it is disproportionately big for essentially just one feature. It could be a bit more compact, especially since it's not of interest to everyone.

smallhammer · June 9

How can a word in the left lower corner of a loading screen, be an issue??

SilverBride · June 9

I had to Google where to find the options because it wasn't intuitive to me that it would be in the character screen. I expected it to be in the settings under combat or something.

KapiteinBoterham · June 9

It should have been implemented more tastefully. Not some huge banner that takes up so much space in the character screen.

As for the loading screens; why do I need to be reminded what difficulty I'm on when entering a player house, trial or dungeon? It's bloat and it's annoying to me.

zaria · June 9

SilverBride wrote: »

I had to Google where to find the options because it wasn't intuitive to me that it would be in the character screen. I expected it to be in the settings under combat or something.

Same, I tried to find it and gave up, thought they might pulled it as they put all on challenge mode as default and would add it again on next update

KapiteinBoterham · June 9

It's like the devs are more proud of this silly little update (more xp and gold whoopdeedoo) than of you getting to view your character/the beautiful loading screens in all it's glory.

LunaFlora · June 9

zaria wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

I had to Google where to find the options because it wasn't intuitive to me that it would be in the character screen. I expected it to be in the settings under combat or something.

Same, I tried to find it and gave up, thought they might pulled it as they put all on challenge mode as default and would add it again on next update

for the future, new features usually get explained in the patch notes which we can all read right here on the forums.

example from the update 50 patch notes from live june 8 and pts April 13:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/693682/update-50-live-patch-notes-all-platforms
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/691059/pts-patch-notes-v12-0-0#latest
"Challenge Difficulty (Season Zero Content)
Challenge Difficulty will be released as part of Season Zero on June 8.
A new opt-in system for you to tailor your difficulty experience is available. From the Character Sheet, you can choose between three additional difficulties which will be applied in overland encounters, story instances, delves, and public dungeons (Dungeons, Trials, Arenas, Infinite Archive, and Night Market are exempt). Once selected, monsters will do increased damage to you and you will do reduced damage to them but you will gain more experience and gold for your effort."

SilverBride · June 9

LunaFlora wrote: »

for the future, new features usually get explained in the patch notes which we can all read right here on the forums.

Patch notes are like the ToS, or the fine print. Few people read every word thoroughly.

LunaFlora · June 9

SilverBride wrote: »

LunaFlora wrote: »

for the future, new features usually get explained in the patch notes which we can all read right here on the forums.

Patch notes are like the ToS, or the fine print. Few people read every word thoroughly.

i use my browser's "Find in page" feature to search for specific things in patch notes, Control + F if you are on PC.
in this case i searched for "challenge difficulty".

i am simply making people aware of what is in the patch notes, it is entirely your choice whether or not you do anything with it.
your choice to not know about things in the notes

SilverBride · June 9

LunaFlora wrote: »

SilverBride wrote: »

LunaFlora wrote: »

for the future, new features usually get explained in the patch notes which we can all read right here on the forums.

Patch notes are like the ToS, or the fine print. Few people read every word thoroughly.

i use my browser's "Find in page" feature to search for specific things in patch notes, Control + F if you are on PC.
in this case i searched for "challenge difficulty".

i am simply making people aware of what is in the patch notes, it is entirely your choice whether or not you do anything with it.
your choice to not know about things in the notes

I know and I do scan over them. I just don't read every word. But I still think it was confusing to put it in the character screen instead of in the settings.

Gabriel_H · June 9

KapiteinBoterham wrote: »

It should have been implemented more tastefully. Not some huge banner that takes up so much space in the character screen.

As for the loading screens; why do I need to be reminded what difficulty I'm on when entering a player house, trial or dungeon? It's bloat and it's annoying to me.

It was blank space before

vs now

KapiteinBoterham · June 9

Anyway, some guy I met in a dungeon yesterday coded an addon after seeing me complain in group chat. Thank you voidbiscuit.

KapiteinBoterham · June 9

AND it hides the little difficulty watermark on the loading screens!! Damn I could kiss this guy

SilverBride · June 10

That is awesome!

katanagirl1 · June 11

KapiteinBoterham wrote: »

The character screen used to be a nice screen for viewing your.. character.

Why 1/3rd of the screen is now devoted to selecting a difficulty is beyong me..

Also is this tooltip really neccessary for every single loading screen? Even player homes?

It's annoying clutter, please remove it and implement something more tasteful.

I only saw this when it automatically set itself to Master difficulty when first logging in after the update, but once I changed it to Adventurer I have not seen it again.