Originally Posted by RagnarokCzD
Dragon Age series ... both pause, and hotbar ... no conflict detected:
You could ofcourse say that this is actualy real time game, and not turn based ... not sure how much it matters, if you can pause every second.

And ofcourse there is divinity ... yet another turn based game with hotbar.
Both games work very differently then BG3 (see my post above) so that's not very relevant. You design UI for the game you are making now, not for the game you made or someone else made.


Originally Posted by RagnarokCzD
Even Pathfinder have something quite simmilar to hotbar
[Linked Image from pcinvasion.com]
Yes i know, its actualy closer to popup window in matter of game mechanics, since you need to open it manualy ... but still, in the end you get what? Bar with spells.
That's much better, as while Pathfinder does offer a generous selection of hotbars, it also has a functional UI. I would prefer to have the balance scewed another direction (like in BG1&2 and Pillars of Eterniry) and I thihnk there are some major design issues with it (I should have to click and hide/unhide UI to access "proper" UI, some important buttons are far to small, while useless things you will never use take a big portion of the screen. Pathfinder overall like to propritise presentation over usibility IMO) but at least I can get straight to playing without a need to waste organise the hotbar. I have to mention that I did find overall Pathfinders hotbar to be rather useless for casters - the required management after every rest/change of spells was too much. But it was an optional tedium that I could ignore, not mandatory, as it is in BG3.

Last edited by Wormerine; 16/10/21 11:36 AM.