Yeah, when watching the video, I had thoughts similar to what Tuco (and possibly others) have expressed.
Wolfheart always sounds as if he is walking on eggs when giving feedback on his YouTube channel. For instance, he tends to phrase feedback videos as questions, like "
Do we need improvements?" or the "
It's Time To Make Some Improvements!? (QOL)" that I linked in the opening post.
But that very careful, very diplomatic approach didn't prevent the party movement scheme from showing up twice in his general (non patch-specific) feedback videos.
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There is actually hot keys to [...] split everyone from party. Its annoying though since when you split everyone and want to regroup, the person you highlight jumps to top of the order of characters on the screen. Kind of minor.
Side note, but that's not as minor to me. I like having my best tank at the front, and my most squishy character at the back. However, by merely selecting characters, Grouping and Ungrouping them (so, by merely playing the game, really), the order of portraits changes. So I have to re-arrange them if I want some control on positioning. Also, if I don't re-order portraits, it means I can't mentally associate the shortcut F1 to Lae'zel and F4 to Gale. Instead, I need to verify constantly where Gale is in the portraits column before clicking F#, by which time the shortcut isn't really saving me time anymore.
Interestingly enough, this issue recently showed up in a
Reddit discussion. (Interestingly, there was a discussion about party controls on Reddit, in which just about everyone was complaining. Yes, Reddit.)
But hey, it's not as if this, or the generally poor usability of the party control system, is any news at that point.
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Overall, I didn't mean to highlights specific feedback points, and I doubt there is much value in us going through the list, and adding our personal +1/0/-1 to each thing
Wolfheart listed. Larian most probably doesn't care about those anyway.
I don't know how Wolfheart assembled his list. Maybe he just went for his top 13 issues with the UI. Maybe he factored in what could be achieved more easily (by Larian before release, by Larian after release, or by some modder watching his videos). Maybe he factored in things that were not too controversial (just like he doesn't want to cross Larian, he doesn't want to cross his audience). I don't know.
Personally, my top 13 doesn't quite look like the 13 points he listed. But whatever. Between nothing and Wolheart's list (100%, can't pick), I'd take that list any day.
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