it's pretty counter-intuitive and anew player is not going to discover it except by random frustrated clicking; you have buttons down the bottom that sort your hot bar tabs, and these are clearly marked. Your resource bar up the top shows your action, bonus action, and class resources available - these do not look like buttons, are in a different place and have a different visual appearance to the other buttons, and give no indication that they are also clickable things - they look more simply like a resource tracker..
Just to be fair ... this idea was born here on forum ...
People wanted this ... people get it ...
Not exactly what we asked for. No. Closer to what we asked for, but definitely not. I am more of a fan of the new UI than the old, but it's not like what I was hoping.
I wanted something more like Solasta. Clear. Clean. Organized. Maybe smaller buttons and hotkeys because DANG Solasta's is huge buttons and no hotkeys. Definitely a flaw on their part.
But it was much more user friendly. If Larian took Solasta's basic concept and tweaked it by adding a hot bar set for people who want to add custom options, that would have been what I was wanting.
Want to pull up a list of spells you can do as an Action? Click Spells. Popup appears. Prepared Action spells pop up for you grouped by level in a nice clean list. Hover over for spell details.
Want to perform an Action? UI provides your Action options in one section and Bonus in another, side-by-side. Playing a barbarian, want to Rage? It's right there under Bonus options. Wild Shape? Clearly labeled right there. Cast Flaming Sword as Bonus? There's a Cast button for Bonus actions also, pulls up your list of spells that can be cast as Bonus actions. Flaming Sword is in that list.
Fighter. Want to Action Surge? Powers button. List of powers like Action Surge and Second Wind appears. Paladin. Wanna lay on hands? Same. Turn undead? Same. All under Powers. All well organized.
Want everyone to sneak? One button. Caution. Click it. Everyone sneaks. Click again. They stop. Want one person to sneak? Click on portrait. Click Caution. Simple. Easy. Well organized.
Want to Shove? Button under Action section. Just click Shove. Popup appears. Want to Knock Prone or Push Away 5 ft?
That's more like what we were hoping for, and that is not exactly what we got.
