Saturday, July 17, 2010

The Old Combat Arms User Interface

Well, what a controversial topic! Even the executive producer of CA, General G, recognised that the current UI was not exactly the best update Combat Arms could have had.

Supposably the reason for the drastic change in colour scheme and everything else was that the amount of guns were getting too much for the old UI to handle.

“We’ve updated it to have a more modern look and improved functionality.”
“We’ve added so many new items and weapons since we launched the game, it has become difficult for users to sort through items. This will make it easier for users to find stuff in the shop.”

-General G
The old UI contained pictures of the guns without hovering over the weapon, allowing for easy navigation through weapons you don't know the name of. It actually had colour and had a military-feel to it, instead of the black and grey scheme we have now. When the February update was complete, there were many players that could not figure out how to do certain things. The font was hard to read and really, really tiny. Players have now gotten used to the UI and Nexon has fixed it up so that it is now readable.


The original login screens...

The following screenshots have been obtained from IGN:

Sever selection


Choosing and buying weapons

Game Lobby

End of game screen. Notice 234 experience for a game of Quarantine? You'd be lucky to get that in regular elimination nowadays!

Did you know?
The Brazillian Patriot Cap was released a month before Nexon announced that South America is no longer a service area due to latency issues. 

1 comment:

  1. they neeeedd to bring back the old shop interface, i like to see the guns im buying without having to click them, its so much working have to click each gun to see what it is, the titles are never descriptive

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