Please Please Please Please Add a mini map to the consoles

OmenRIP

This is ridiculous! The PCs had mini maps for years! Please give us the option to have a minimap display in one of the corners.

Or else. Transfer our characters to the PC. Which is easier?

Omen

Danikat

I don't understand why they don't offer a mini map to everyone. They already made one - one of the PC addons works just by reactivating the mini map which is already in the game. And like almost all parts of the game's UI it could be added with an option to turn it on or off (and be off by default) so those who don't want it don't have to have it.

I don't see the logic in making a functional feature for your game, later getting evidence that a significant chunk of players would like it (via the popularity of mini map addons) and continuing to keep it disabled anyway.

JARTHEGREY

I would love to see a Mini map for consoles but I'd settle for having a decent map where I can actually make out the different contours etc.

Fennwitty

OmenRIP wrote: »

This is ridiculous! The PCs had mini maps for years! Please give us the option to have a minimap display in one of the corners.

Or else. Transfer our characters to the PC. Which is easier?

Omen

Technically PC doesn't have a minimap without addons to enable it.

But yes it should be a standard option for all platforms.

OmenRIP

At the very least, let us zoom into the map as far as possible. Half the time I can’t even see the lakes or roads 🤬

SilverBride

I agree that this is a much needed feature. It is very disruptive to have to stop and open the map multiple times when trying to get from point a to point b.

Please consider this.

Dark_Lord_Kuro

Why? We dont need that...or art the very least i dont

I personnaly dont want useless ui all over my screen

I think the compass does the job perffecly

As far as i know other tes titles didnt have one either so...

OmenRIP

Ok. Make it a toggle. Just like other options. If you don’t like it, turn it off.

Odovacar

I'm still in shock a mini-map was never part of the base game. We've been asking for this QoL add for years...lets hope sometime in 2022 it finally happens!

Sealish

I get the desire for it from a gameplay perspective But I kinda like not having one. The compass is enough I think.
That being said, if they added one and had it off by default with the option to enable it, fine. No skin off my back.

Wolfpaw

OmenRIP wrote: »

Ok. Make it a toggle. Just like other options. If you don’t like it, turn it off.

Exactly, this QoL is long overdue.

OmenRIP

There’s so many times that I miss turns and roundabouts because the regular map is so small that you can’t even see the roads in some zones. The mini map is needed at least to zoom in to the area you’re going too.

Like I said, default it to off. Turn it on if you want it. ZOS added a little info to skyshards so this change shouldn’t be such a pita.

UntilValhalla13

It would be super helpful to have for calling out mechanics on trial bosses, because...y'know, the compass doesn't work in these instances.

blktauna

I don't even play console and I want you guys to have a minimap. I just reset up PTS and was going mental w/o the minimap. First thing I put back in. I don't know how you guys do it.

FluffWit

I'd probably play without it at this point because I have so much of the map (including delves, dungeons etc) memorized but it'd be great to add it with a toggle off option.

Grandchamp1989

I would love a mini map aswell!

katanagirl1

Mini-map could help in some cases but in general the 2D maps in game for multilevel areas have always got me confused until I visit them multiple times.

I guess I still vote for a toggle anyway.

Leftover_Pizza

That minimap is essential for many, such as myself. Always going in the wrong way gets pretty frustrating after a while. A minimap would help a lot. Preferably one with a zoom option.
For people like me, who have no sense of navigation and get lost in their own homes, a minimap is more than a QoL feature. Especially for new players who have no clue on whatever zones there are and what they behold, like invisible walls.
If the game has the option and console hardware these days can handle it perfectly fine, why is this not in a game with its large open world?

drsalvation

I'd rather have PC go without minimaps than to add one to consoles.
I just dislike minimaps in general.
It's just somewhat tedious where I'd spend most of my time looking at a square or circle in a corner and not at the actual game.

But that said, I do wish maps were more detailed about what parts are walkable and what parts aren't (at least in the open areas)

SilverBride

drsalvation wrote: »

I'd rather have PC go without minimaps than to add one to consoles.
I just dislike minimaps in general.
It's just somewhat tedious where I'd spend most of my time looking at a square or circle in a corner and not at the actual game.

But that said, I do wish maps were more detailed about what parts are walkable and what parts aren't (at least in the open areas)

I understand that some may not like the feature, but I don't understand denying everyone who may like it from having it. If they were to add a minimap they could have it toggle so players can choose whether to use it or not. I personally would never play without one.

LalMirchi

I for one would very much like an optional mini-map on console OS. Pretty please with sweet-rolls on top === Much Love

Donari

Leftover_Pizza wrote: »

That minimap is essential for many, such as myself. Always going in the wrong way gets pretty frustrating after a while. A minimap would help a lot. Preferably one with a zoom option.
For people like me, who have no sense of navigation and get lost in their own homes, a minimap is more than a QoL feature. Especially for new players who have no clue on whatever zones there are and what they behold, like invisible walls.
If the game has the option and console hardware these days can handle it perfectly fine, why is this not in a game with its large open world?

Agreed. It's one of my tiny number of absolute must have add-ons (I use a whole heap of addons, but only a few are utterly essential). The downside is I do in fact find myself staring at the mini map a lot more than the world while navigating. However, the main map completely obscures the world and blocks movement plus it spins you around to look at it so I will inevitably fix my intended direction in mind based on my map facing and then hare off in exactly the opposite way. The mini map lets me go the right way and spot my upcoming turns without stopping every 20 feet to check.

It'd be great for the console players to have this major qol item.

M0ntie

100% agree.
To make matters worse, on console to look at your map you have to stop moving, which makes more complex navigation extremely tedious.
Please give consoles a mini map!

Simpso1984

Id love it if we had the choice of the PC ui menus also on console. They look so much more interesting than the console neverend list of text style.

pecheckler

I see no reason not to add it as an optional choice.

OmenRIP

Well, if it’s impossible to add a minimap, then at least let us zoom in farther in all zones. Some zones you can’t even see the roads.

Hawco10

Years ago, we could zoom right in on the map. That went bye bye and so what would be the point of this mini map ? Fix the zoom on the main map first please.
Thx

orgin_stadia

And to ESO Stadia as well!

BronzeCaiman

Minimap takes up extra resources that cannot be spared on older consoles like PS4. Implementation of a minimap on PC would raise the minimum system requirements which I don't think is ideal for ZoS.

Edit - also using a map is a basic cognitive skill, I follow X road until the next left turn or etc.

OmenRIP

How much would the minimum PC requirements be raised?

Make the minimap only available on the PS5 Enhanced version. Make the zone maps more zoomable on both versions.

UntilValhalla13

BlackArgonian wrote: »

Minimap takes up extra resources that cannot be spared on older consoles like PS4. Implementation of a minimap on PC would raise the minimum system requirements which I don't think is ideal for ZoS.

Edit - also using a map is a basic cognitive skill, I follow X road until the next left turn or etc.

That didn't seem to stop them from railroading antiquities, companions, and now a card game into the game.