Hello !
A friend and myself are working on a mod to add extra playable characters to the Arena mode, with balanced-out kits (still a WIP, but we're currently at 43 extra characters kitted, added and tested). Problem is, if we add too many characters at once (think more than 20 + the base Arena characters), some of them get out of the screen in character select and thus become impossible to select, as you can see (warning : the image might be a bit of a story spoiler) :
https://i.imgur.com/hBykf8B.jpg
In the Classic version, Arena mode had fewer characters but the way you would select characters was better suited for a large number of them, as you just cycled through the list, and said list's length was thus pretty irrelevant.
We've tried using the old UI bit in the DefEd but as the character select screen is packed with the pre-game server lobby and also since so much has changed in the Arena options compared to back then, it just isn't a solution without heavy modification, if those are even possible.
So the ideal option would be that Larian either a) updates the character select to use the cycling method it used in the Classic version or b) implements a scrollbar or whatever would deal with a larger amount of characters or c) add keyboard support to navigate through the characters but it's a way worse solution since you still don't see them and have to keyboard navigate blindly.
In short, I am requesting an UI change so that the character select screen in arena can handle more characters to give better modding flexibility.
Thanks to LaughingLeader for his time and explanations during the ordeal of trying to fix that issue ourselves, youdabes.
Last edited by MrAzacampcar; 14/02/19 12:23 AM.
