Previews on my Collections?

barney2525 · March 22

It's not a bug, per se, it's something that was recently Intentionally added, and it serves Literally No Purpose Whatsoever, except to irritate players.
Collections are something we have obtained, and therefore we KNOW what they look like. We then Dye them to suit our tastes. Then we want to compare outfits and see which one to currently use.
This Was ALL working perfectly Fine. Double click one, it appears on character as the dyed final outfit. Double click another, it pops in, again, as the dyed final, etc etc etc.
Suddenly this has recently changed.
Double click item appears on character, NOT dyed. And a ' Preview ' tag appears at the bottom. Now you have to turn Off the preview to see the dyed version. Next outfit, double click, .. ' PREVIEW ', turn off Preview, Oh, is that what it looks like?

Why was this added? We Know what it looked like before we obtained it. We don't WANT to see it un-dyed. And we don't Want to take extra steps just to look at the items.
It's a small thing. But when you start adding up ALL the small things that simply do Not have to be in this game, it gets to be a nuisance.

When enough things are a nuisance, people start looking at other games.

IMHO

LunaFlora · March 22

so you don't have to go back to find your currently equipped costume in your possibly enormous list of costumes?

there's no search function in collections y'know so i find it pretty useful

Necrotech_Master · March 22

LunaFlora wrote: »

so you don't have to go back to find your currently equipped costume in your possibly enormous list of costumes?

there's no search function in collections y'know so i find it pretty useful

there is a search function for collections on the PC (at least when not using gamepad/accessibility mode)

for the OP i did notice that you could no longer left click to just preview items from the collection menu or the outfit station, you had to press E to "activate" the preview, i agree its kind of annoying

LunaFlora · March 22

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

LunaFlora wrote: »

so you don't have to go back to find your currently equipped costume in your possibly enormous list of costumes?

there's no search function in collections y'know so i find it pretty useful

there is a search function for collections on the PC (at least when not using gamepad/accessibility mode)

for the OP i did notice that you could no longer left click to just preview items from the collection menu or the outfit station, you had to press E to "activate" the preview, i agree its kind of annoying

ah weird that the search function is only there for the default PC ui, i guess i never noticed it due to that

Soarora · March 22

So, I noticed that the costume changing animation is back when you double click. I think this addition (though it should’ve been in the patch notes…) is in response to a thread around here somewhere where people were upset the animation was removed while others found it better without the animation to faster see costumes. I think this way (one click preview, 2 click apply) is a perfect way of making everyone happy but the previews should show with dyes. Previews not showing with dyes I assume is a bug or oversight.

barney2525 · March 25

LunaFlora wrote: »

so you don't have to go back to find your currently equipped costume in your possibly enormous list of costumes?

there's no search function in collections y'know so i find it pretty useful

You can easily designate specific items as preferred. Just right click on the item and select the option. It moves that item to the top, above the rest of those collectables. This way you keep all the stuff you like, at the top, in one small area.

colossalvoids · March 25

I love the ability to check it without equipping or obtaining it at all, a preview was a long overdue. Sure could have been implemented better, like a separate key same way as login rewards as an example.