The third line in the items recovered screen is the manufacturer. Essentially this is a second form of teiring items because for some reason leveling them 1-10 wasn’t enough. If you spend the time looking for and reading the licences or have played the game way to much you’ll get an idea of which “brands” have higher damage, accuracy, and shots. Long story short, you get an idea of its stats even though the item recovery screen doesn’t show you them. All this is for naught though because the spectre gear is better than everything.

Also in regards to the party, not everyone can use every weapon. Liara for one can only really use a pistol. This saves time when equiping them and also relieves worrying some that you just discarded a gun that might help someone else. Now the downside to this is you ofcourse need to put that person in your party to see what guns they are trained with.

Finally, this one is just a matter of opinion and doesn’t have much todo with the interface. I don’t think you should completely dismiss the shots fired and accuracy stat. Once again these are for naught when you get the better than everything else spectre gear but till you get there, on higher difficulties, these stats are invaluable. I can’t stand a sniper rifle with less than 70 accuracy. It just has too much sway for me. I know this is more a gameplay thing than anything else though so feel free to ignore this last part.

I’m really enjoying your series so far! As a game developer, I’m actually learning quite a bit from you in terms of UI design philosophies.

One thing I thought I’d weigh in on is your point regarding the store screen, and how the item descriptions take up two lines, rather than one (ie. the “Heavy Armor – Human” and “Assassin VI”).

I actually think the designers were just in their decision here in that localization of the game might cause issues when it comes to fitting all that information on a single line. Translating those terms accurately to any given language might result in overflow, causing the words to run together. Having to do case-by-case language programming just makes zero sense, so while I’m sure they could have found a more efficient way to display this information, I’m not sure a single line would have made things better for everyone.

Just my two-cents! Keep up the great work!

Cheers,

Ryan

And I didn’t expect to need fourth items for characters to swap. Then again, another symptom of the console-itis plague, plus lazy.

(On PC it’s become standard to download the Fans Own Laboriously Created UI Mod for X game. well, even if Bioware didn’t make the UI, some doofy license protection issue makes it difficult to mod. Anyway, fortunately some things can be “fixed” even if it breaks immersion.)

Personally I won’t complain about cost though, some simple console games in the 80’s cost $50. A lot with inflation.

Awesome game so far!

This is the worst video game experience I’ve ever encountered. Unfortunately I quick-saved after the items were put into my inventory. I’m considering throwing the game away at this point.

Great game design.