New Options Menu Settings

Tuesday, Artix Entertainment rolled out a new update for the new options menu settings. This options menu has been around in PTR for some time, but now it's Live for everybody.

Spoiler: New Options Menu Settings

Source: Twitter

What do you think of it? Do you think it offers too many options? Do you think it offers a good variety? Do you think it has more limitations? Are the words too wordy? Could it be improved more?

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I think it offers a pretty good amount of options, but my only problem is the lack of resolution options, which is very dependent on the monitor you use (i.e. the monitor resolution determines what resolution options you have). And because of that, it's harder to get larger resolutions for better screenshots, smaller resolutions to ease multitasking, and sometimes 'standard' resolutions like 1152x648 used for video content or used by communities like the AQ3D Wiki without going into Steam every time to change the properties.

Spoiler: Options

 

It's actually very dependent on monitor resolution currently, and it isn't even capable of detecting if you have a dual-monitor setup which is unfortunate. I think they made it so that the game offers screen resolutions perfect for your monitor (like a large resolution perfect for a 4k monitor, but then all of the lower resolutions aren't available) rather than a list of several resolution options previously, but I think they just overlooked the screen resolution thing since they can't test the game resolution for every monitor size. Heard Rabblefroth may be addressing the issue by making screen bounds draggable, and I'm surprised after almost 3 years of AQ3D being playing through an application window, they haven't done that yet.

 

Having played AQ3D on mobile with the new options a couple of times, I have noticed some improvements, particularly for users using smaller devices. When clicking on checkboxes, you no longer have to focus on clicking the checkboxes to toggle. You can just click on the text beside the box and it'll toggle the checkbox for you, which is a really great improvement. I no longer have to spend about 5 minutes trying to toggle off a bunch of checkboxes I don't want active.

 

I don't even remember that being an option. Maybe when AQ3D ran on the Unity Web Player back in Tech Demo and Alpha (since you could manipulate your browser's zoom and resize the browser's window), but I don't recall the Steam version ever having more freedom with scaling the game's resolution however you'd want it.

 

They did update the trees in Battleon a couple of months ago (not in the settings, but in the actual overworld itself). Personally, I prefer the old trees more because they fit everything else around the map, but it's not really a big deal.