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Grace Xisthrith -> Recent UI Teaser (Spoilers perhaps?) (3/5/2024 16:11:01)
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This may be spoilers, idk when the local AQ team was planning to publicize this future update, but since it was publicized:
Exciting News via Artix for anyone who didn't see https://twitter.com/ArtixKrieger/status/1765006889325117544
Most here to open a thread for discussion
I stared at the image on my 4k 2200 Megapixel monitor for several hours to glean every bit of information possible from the image, and I have to say I'm excited about the prospect.
Starting from the bottom up, it seems like there's the bottom of an orange present peeking out from behind the scroll, not sure what that is but cool, snazzy, maybe Frostval related idk. Curious to what ideas people have about this.
Next, there seems to be a game time clock, and in fact there seem to be two, one digital, one analogue. Both read slightly different numbers, and the analog clock doesn't seem to show the time displayed, but I'm just analyzing deeply what may be a prototype, not really a concern, I just like details.
There's also a daily cap notifier, which seems to show a total cap of 1.1 Mil (which would be rather low level I presume) with a stopping hand, perhaps encouraging the player to stop grinding after they've hit their cap.
Next up you can see gold and XP modifiers, which seem to suggest that it would show bonuses to gold and or XP caps. I hope this feature works to calculate stuff like X Guardian, GGB Scrolls, and Package Miscs, that would be cool to see visually.
Going to the right here, you can see there are four tabs. Seemingly a present, a chest, a sword and shield, and a scroll. I'm not going to guess too hard at what these menus might contain, although notably we're seeing the scroll tab.
Finally up top, the medals. I've got no clue what 1, 3, and 4, represent, but 2 seems to be crossed out potions. This leads me to believe these medals are awarded for completing fights with restrictions, or other achievements. If I'm correct in this (very large) guess, I'd love for other medals to include: 0 Stats, 0 Healing (of any resource outside base SP regen :P), 0 Damage Taken, Hitting the damage cap, Winning on the First turn, Taking monster damage below 10% HP, and a medal for not using items on the Avian Trio Banlist (doesn't have to look like the Avian Trio, just because that's the only place with a ban list of super strong items). That's a lot of medals, but I think adding prestige medals like this could really revitalize late game bossing content. It's also entirely possible I'm misreading the purpose of the medals, in which case... teehee!
One concern: The only thing I want to say that's remotely negative about this update is that the old scroll... is kinda dope. When I first came back to the game and killed my first monster, I immediately got a nostalgia hit. I'd love to be able to toggle back to the old scroll in case I want to view the older, simply, reward screen. Perhaps this could be a menu option, like use old sound effects. Another idea I had was maybe a 5th tab option? Give the old scroll (current scroll that I'd be manually swapping to post update, in theory) a small modern tab at the bottom corner or something to switch back. Another idea is making one of the swords on the top new, like it is, and one of them retro, and by clicking the retro sword you go back to the retro scroll. That's probably extra, but just a little idea I had. Regardless of the method, I'd be really grateful to have a way to choose the old scroll.
Very cool to see we're getting updates like this, and I really hope the medal system is what I think it is that would be so wicked. I wonder what other people think though :)
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