WG: The Work of the WoWs Art Department is outstanding - but what happened with country flags in WoWs v0.11.11 in port UI - they are absolutely ugly and almost unrecognizable ?!?!

[Leo_Apollo11]

Hi all,

 

WG: The Work of the WoWs Art Department is outstanding - but what happened with country flags in WoWs v0.11.11 in port UI - they are absolutely ugly and almost unrecognizable ?!?!

 

@Seraphice

@YabbaCoe

 

 

WoWs v0.11.11:

 

 

 

 

Old WoWs (from WG Wiki):

 

 

https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/File:Port_Display_Screen_settings_panel_4.png

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

[_You_Shell_Not_Pass_]

I think it's made to fit the new general "flat" design.

[Viridem]

Yeah I always mod the flags, but I saw that before modding, and they did look even uglier than usual.

I should check things, mine look squished horizontally...

[MoveZig]

This is the first time I've not minded an icon being simplified (which is an unfortunate trend these days). I feel in this case it increases "readability" slightly, which for a UI component makes sense. Although I would bring the EU flag back to the darker blue it had before to help distinguish from Commonwealth.

[Karkong_the_Impaler]

This must be the real issue with wows currently. Not CVs, not Supershits, not even Kronstadt.... flags

[Seraphice]

10 hours ago, Leo_Apollo11 said:

Hi all,

 

WG: The Work of the WoWs Art Department is outstanding - but what happened with country flags in WoWs v0.11.11 in port UI - they are absolutely ugly and almost unrecognizable ?!?!

 

@Seraphice

@YabbaCoe

 

 

WoWs v0.11.11:

 

 

 

 

Old WoWs (from WG Wiki):

 

 

https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/File:Port_Display_Screen_settings_panel_4.png

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

To be fair Leo, I'm not really sure what your question is.
They were updated to fit some of the UI changes that we've made in recent times and we are generally reworking more UI elements in the coming updates.
 

Whether they look better or worse - as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Now to find this mysterious "Mr. Beholder"
 

Happy holidays Captain!
~Sera

[Vasya_Nyasha]

Yeah, idk why you find them unrecognisable._.
Personally love new design more than the old one, since its compact and you can easily spot required flag. Personal opinion obviously:)

[Karasu_Browarszky]

They look worse.

 

Kind regards,

the Beholder

[Leo_Apollo11]

Hi all,

 

2 hours ago, Seraphice said:

To be fair Leo, I'm not really sure what your question is.
They were updated to fit some of the UI changes that we've made in recent times and we are generally reworking more UI elements in the coming updates.
 

Whether they look better or worse - as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Now to find this mysterious "Mr. Beholder"
 

Happy holidays Captain!
~Sera

 

I must say that I am surprised that some/many players like the new flat country flag icons... but as you say... "The beauty is in the eye of the beholder"...

 

In any case I sincerely hope that our active MODing community would come to the rescue for those who think that new flat country flag icons are looking worse than before...  ( @Aslain ) !!!

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

[Montrala]

They look much worse. Actually don't look like flags anymore.

[ReDiR20]

The purpose of these flags is to quickly filter the ship in port. Now they look more simplistic and easier to distinguish from each over, so an improvement I would say

[Hugh_Ruka]

44 minutes ago, ReDiR20 said:

The purpose of these flags is to quickly filter the ship in port. Now they look more simplistic and easier to distinguish from each over, so an improvement I would say

Pardon me, WHAT ? Less contrast, more muted colors, actually SMALLER than before and they are easier to distinguish ? Now I have to look twice on the EU / Commonwealth flags ti pick the correct one as the shade of blue is not almost identical ...

[Hugh_Ruka]

3 hours ago, Seraphice said:

To be fair Leo, I'm not really sure what your question is.
They were updated to fit some of the UI changes that we've made in recent times and we are generally reworking more UI elements in the coming updates.
 

Whether they look better or worse - as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Now to find this mysterious "Mr. Beholder"
 

Happy holidays Captain!
~Sera

unfortunatelly WoWs is moving from a distinct look to a Metro UI style flat rectangular smudge ... but hey ... why should the customer have any say in the product ...

[Cammo1962]

4 hours ago, Seraphice said:

To be fair Leo, I'm not really sure what your question is.
They were updated to fit some of the UI changes that we've made in recent times and we are generally reworking more UI elements in the coming updates.
 

Whether they look better or worse - as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Now to find this mysterious "Mr. Beholder"
 

Happy holidays Captain!
~Sera

Dear @Seraphice look at the pictures and you can see the question because i saw it right away 

And to fair they are becoming doll right now with the new look.

[LukkaiCH]

Vor 40 Minuten, Hugh_Ruka sagte:

Pardon me, WHAT ? Less contrast, more muted colors, actually SMALLER than before and they are easier to distinguish ? Now I have to look twice on the EU / Commonwealth flags ti pick the correct one as the shade of blue is not almost identical ...

I do concur on the Europe/Commonwealth issue. But otherwise feel the new ones actually work better for what they're supposed to do there. Not look better, work better.

[domo42]

I think the people in the art department and the ones doing the port UI have to be different teams. The port rarely changes for the better.

Art department does a wonderful job with maps and ships, while the port UI is full of dark patterns. For me, the most upsetting one was back in the day of premium consumables. Defaulting to use doubloons instead of credits to restock was just outrageous. To WG's credit, they removed this.

The UI is still full of this stuff. For example, in the battle pass UI the "Enhance" button asking for doubloons is bright and shiny, while the one to collect earned rewards might be mistaken of being disabled.
Just another day in a F2P game, I guess.

[Captain_82]

They look much worse imho.

Bland, oversimplified, boring.

 

Someone created a reddit post about this too.

[BM_SAMET_PT]

For those of you who like old flags there must be something about switching to the old look in settings.

[Karkong_the_Impaler]

6 hours ago, Montrala said:

They look much worse. Actually don't look like flags anymore.

Unrecognizable, even. I was filtering to find english DDs and accidentally ended up with Grozovoi! Only the russian accent of the captain gave it away.

 

 

Srsly, come on...

[DiceTea]

Yes, most people I think liked the older ones better. Personally, I think the new ones look extremely ugly. But to each his own. The Japanese flag is ruined though. I get why they do it, probably to appease someone somewhere, but the fact is the Rising Sun flag is still used by the Japanese Maritime SDF and an eight ray verison by other brances. It has been in the Navy since 1889, and I dont get why it had to be ruined and we are intentionally given a wrong one. Someone had an idea I guess.

However, in the grand scheme of things, just try to ignore it. Once something is changed in this game, it isnt changed back. Additionally, there are a lot of other things (island bug, visual AA bug, autopilot bug, a ton of gun bugs/railgun fix, ... the list is very long) that are more impactful than this.

[Karasu_Browarszky]

1 hour ago, DiceTea said:

Yes, most people I think liked the older ones better. Personally, I think the new ones look extremely ugly. But to each his own. The Japanese flag is ruined though. I get why they do it, probably to appease someone somewhere, but the fact is the Rising Sun flag is still used by the Japanese Maritime SDF and an eight ray verison by other brances. It has been in the Navy since 1889, and I dont get why it had to be ruined and we are intentionally given a wrong one. Someone had an idea I guess.

However, in the grand scheme of things, just try to ignore it. Once something is changed in this game, it isnt changed back. Additionally, there are a lot of other things (island bug, visual AA bug, autopilot bug, a ton of gun bugs/railgun fix, ... the list is very long) that are more impactful than this.

 

The flag of Japan they show seems to have the sun a little too small by the looks of it.