Recently my brother upgraded to the ClassicUO client. I told him all the settings to change to get it set up. I believe some better default settings could really benefit new players. I understand that some of these are optional, and I'm not claiming that the below settings will be right for everyone, just that the defaults definitely need some work in my opinion.
The main ones for me are:
- video tab
-------- always use full size game windows = true
-------- enable mousewheel zooming = true
-------- light level 30
-------- filter type = anisotropic clamp (somewhat optional)
- containers (otherwise the inventory is tiny on a modern screen)
-------- Container scale 150
-------- Scale items inside containers = true
- general tab
-------- Use custom healthbars gump = true
-------- Grid loot = Grid loot only or both
- info bar
-------- Show info bar = true
- Counters
-------- Enable counters = true
-------- Rows 2
-------- Columns 8
I also disable the menu bar, but again that is personal preference.
They are my go-to settings, I understand they may not be great for everyone but I think the video and container settings should be default.
I have a little further feedback. Firstly I want to stress what incredible work the ClassicUO team have done, the new client is seriously impressive and I can't imagine wanting to go back to the original client. Thank you so much for giving this to the UO community.
These are a some things that I think could be improved in the new client:
- I miss the Razor health bar that you can have in the application title bar. The custom healthbar gumps do help a lot with making the current health visible, the line under my character or percentage above their head just doesn't do it for me. I would like a large healthbar (preferable resizeable) or status bar (with the 3 bars) that I can place at the top left of my screen. I thought this is what the info bar would do with the setting: Data highlight type: Colored bars, but I think I am misunderstanding this setting (I am not sure what it does).
- I dislike the new macro page in the classic client. I find it very awkward to have to name my macro, something like allnames and then go and find the option for allnames. It is very tedious to add macros this way, however most of what I need is provided by Razor anyway.
- Duplicate settings: there are many settings that are duplicated between ClassicUO and Razor. Probably not the worst problem in the world but it is a little confusing from an end-user point of view. I am not sure if this is something that can be easily remedied because I understand that ClassicUO and Razor both exist outside of Outlands. As far as I can tell all of the options seem to work in both Razor and ClassicUO, so it is just a question of it being a little confusing/overwhelming.
Does anyone else have feelings about the default settings? Do you strongly disagree with my "defaults"? Let me know any cool tricks you have found! Grid loot was life changing for me!
The main ones for me are:
- video tab
-------- always use full size game windows = true
-------- enable mousewheel zooming = true
-------- light level 30
-------- filter type = anisotropic clamp (somewhat optional)
- containers (otherwise the inventory is tiny on a modern screen)
-------- Container scale 150
-------- Scale items inside containers = true
- general tab
-------- Use custom healthbars gump = true
-------- Grid loot = Grid loot only or both
- info bar
-------- Show info bar = true
- Counters
-------- Enable counters = true
-------- Rows 2
-------- Columns 8
I also disable the menu bar, but again that is personal preference.
They are my go-to settings, I understand they may not be great for everyone but I think the video and container settings should be default.
I have a little further feedback. Firstly I want to stress what incredible work the ClassicUO team have done, the new client is seriously impressive and I can't imagine wanting to go back to the original client. Thank you so much for giving this to the UO community.
These are a some things that I think could be improved in the new client:
- I miss the Razor health bar that you can have in the application title bar. The custom healthbar gumps do help a lot with making the current health visible, the line under my character or percentage above their head just doesn't do it for me. I would like a large healthbar (preferable resizeable) or status bar (with the 3 bars) that I can place at the top left of my screen. I thought this is what the info bar would do with the setting: Data highlight type: Colored bars, but I think I am misunderstanding this setting (I am not sure what it does).
- I dislike the new macro page in the classic client. I find it very awkward to have to name my macro, something like allnames and then go and find the option for allnames. It is very tedious to add macros this way, however most of what I need is provided by Razor anyway.
- Duplicate settings: there are many settings that are duplicated between ClassicUO and Razor. Probably not the worst problem in the world but it is a little confusing from an end-user point of view. I am not sure if this is something that can be easily remedied because I understand that ClassicUO and Razor both exist outside of Outlands. As far as I can tell all of the options seem to work in both Razor and ClassicUO, so it is just a question of it being a little confusing/overwhelming.
Does anyone else have feelings about the default settings? Do you strongly disagree with my "defaults"? Let me know any cool tricks you have found! Grid loot was life changing for me!
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