Worse case of a game pad UI Bug I've ever experienced

Styxius

https://youtu.be/if5_tI9sTiY
The video is unlisted but I wanted to share this because the group role selection UI bug on the gamepad is getting out of hand at times. Do we know why this occurring? Sincerely I do believe you guys are trying to do as much as you can with restraints given by otehrs. I just was curious if we know what a limitation has been towards addressing this bug's return?

katanagirl1

Wow, I thought it was bad enough to have your health, magicka, and stamina bars right in the middle of the screen (instead of near the bottom where I am used to seeing them, but that intermittent UI overlay is just horrible.

virtus753

I’ve suspected for a long time that this is related to the gamepad UI bug where housing permissions can be changed by accident thanks to the horizontal selection window.

For some reason it seems that the group menu/housing editor menu window doesn’t close properly sometimes even when it disappears from view. As the left axis stick is moved horizontally, the group role panel/group members panel pops up even when the left-hand pane doesn’t. (Or for housing, the permissions are unexpectedly changed as the game thinks the permissions box is highlighted and we’re using the left stick to go through it even when we can’t see it.)

A potential workaround is to make sure you leave the group menu while on a part of the menu that doesn’t have a tooltip panel/selection box.

As for why it keeps coming back and takes a long time to be fixed, that’s something only ZOS can confirm for sure (but almost certainly won’t). Version control has seemed to be an issue across the board for a long time on all platforms. Many bugs recur, even widespread and impactful ones. And while this bug in particular is potentially widespread and will interfere in combat sometimes, it’s a bug that 1) is fundamentally UI in nature, 2) is restricted to gamepad mode, and 3) has a potential workaround. Those are all likely to deprioritize the fix.

katanagirl1

That sounds like a very likely situation. I also agree about the configuration management issues that the game seems to be exhibiting, again and again.

For the most part, your interface looks much like mine on PS4, except for those squares behind the skill bar. Are those the skills on your other bar? That’s very distracting. Again, having your resource bars in the middle of the screen really blocks the view. It’s not like that on regular PC mode, is it? If so, it doesn’t make sense for it to differ for gamepad.

We had the same problem on console as PC gamepad for the banker for deposits, you know the one where there were no categories and it was just a long list of items. Interesting that we share essentially the same interface but some things are different. As far as I know, I have never heard of things like this popping up in combat on console, though.