[PS4] Touchpad Swipe Gestures

KYNG · August 2015

When will we see a more effective use of the PS4 Touchpad?

Other games utilize the Touchpad with swipes AND presses, eso has Tap for a map and Hold for your mount.
No swipe gestures to bring up anything which is such a waste. So much potential for the PS4 Touchpad considering how congested the whole menu system is.

An even better idea is to let us PS4 players CHOOSE what swipe gestures bring up which menu we want to allocate.

TortUred_mAlice · August 2015

Hey, this is a pretty good idea!

Yeah, I do think we should be able to choose what we have on there as well... Maybe armour swap (my preference!)

jorgeh401b14_ESO · August 2015

this type of this is never patched into a game if they will not give us kepbinds for the controller we will not have this.

KYNG · August 2015

jorgeh401b14_ESO wrote: »

this type of this is never patched into a game if they will not give us kepbinds for the controller we will not have this.

Well its a huge waste of the PS4 Touchpad, so much potential right there.

Having ONE button for EVERY single game menu is extremely lazy for developers and cumbersome for players.

Wanting to swipe left for inventory or swipe right for skills menu shouldnt be unreasonable.

Pyro117 · August 2015

I would like the swipes to be different. Swipe in teh corresponding direction of the D-PAD. Thereby freeing up the D-Pad to be 4 dedicated buttons for potions and the like.

I seriously only ever have the health regen potion hotkeyed. All others, i just use before battle or after and never in the middle because it is too darn cumbersome for me to try and pull up that menu, switch to a differnt potion then push up on the up button to actually use it.

Gidorick · August 2015

I don't think they'll ever put any effort into taking advantage of either the DS4 touchpad, sixaxis, or light bar move controls. Just as the likeliness of them taking advantage of Kinect controls is skim to none.

KYNG · August 2015

Gidorick wrote: »

I don't think they'll ever put any effort into taking advantage of either the DS4 touchpad, sixaxis, or light bar move controls. Just as the likeliness of them taking advantage of Kinect controls is skim to none.

It cant be too hard, they already use the Touchpad to minimal effect. Surely programming the Touchpad would be simple, its part of the controller, whilst kinect is a separate device with a complex input set up, such as voice commands.

I'd love to see some feedback from the devs ...

Gidorick · August 2015

KYNG wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

I don't think they'll ever put any effort into taking advantage of either the DS4 touchpad, sixaxis, or light bar move controls. Just as the likeliness of them taking advantage of Kinect controls is skim to none.

It cant be too hard, they already use the Touchpad to minimal effect. Surely programming the Touchpad would be simple, its part of the controller, whilst kinect is a separate device with a complex input set up, such as voice commands.

I'd love to see some feedback from the devs ...

Why would they put much effort into controls that only apply to one of the three systems they're supporting? And I think you're trivializing how simple swipe recognition is... especially if there isn't middleware from Sony.

Mighty_oakk · August 2015

I was surprised its not used. In warframe all your main abilities are done with swipe pad. So it can work well.

delushin · August 2015

Bloody good idea and so simple it would have been overlooked, ZOS please add this in!

I love playing dead to newbie guildies and stressing them out asking for a rez during boss fights, hahahaha some of them get it really fast others are like "I can't target you, I can't GET YOU UP MAN!!!!"

KYNG · August 2015

Mighty_oakk wrote: »

I was surprised its not used. In warframe all your main abilities are done with swipe pad. So it can work well.

Yea, and warframe is free ...

By not using the PS4 Touchpad youre wasting 5 useable buttons.

Left Swipe
Right Swipe
Up Swipe
Down Swipe
Left Click
Right Click
Hold Touchpad Down

Not sure if diagonally swiping works.

GreenSoup2HoT · August 2015

I would love to have CC break when you Swipe Up.

Gidorick · August 2015

KYNG wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

I don't think they'll ever put any effort into taking advantage of either the DS4 touchpad, sixaxis, or light bar move controls. Just as the likeliness of them taking advantage of Kinect controls is skim to none.

It cant be too hard, they already use the Touchpad to minimal effect. Surely programming the Touchpad would be simple, its part of the controller, whilst kinect is a separate device with a complex input set up, such as voice commands.

I'd love to see some feedback from the devs ...

Sure, it could be simple... and first person mount riding was implemented on PC with about 30 lines of code by someone who had never made any addons before.

Simple doesn't seem to be enough justification to give the players features they desire.