Hey Dungeoneers, I’m still releasing patches for v3.2, and as a rare surprise, this one’s big enough to get a little blog post!
In this blog post I’m going to go over what I’ve been doing in v3.2’s patches, and what’s coming in v3.2.4 in particular!
Hey Dungeoneers, I’m still releasing patches for v3.2, and as a rare surprise, this one’s big enough to get a little blog post!
In this blog post I’m going to go over what I’ve been doing in v3.2’s patches, and what’s coming in v3.2.4 in particular!
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For me, the only difference between Fullscreen on/off seems to be that when off, the Android navigation bar appears at the bottom. On top nothing changes. Which is a pity, I preferred the black bar, so the game elements are fully visible. My phone has rounded display edges and a camera on top center which now obscures part of the health bar. (Fairphone 4, Android 13, SPD v3.2.4)
It’s similar on my phone (Motorola moto g42) in the way that fullscreen off affects only the bottom part of the display. No issues with cutouts though. (only that I have shattered the most upper part of my display, and I am unable to decipher my HP with the current fullscreen on or off. But that’s on me I guess 😆)
As your device has a hole punch cutout, could you explain to me how it’s blocking your HP bar? This is a genuine question, I am trying to gather info about usability issues with the new UI. The HP bar might be getting partly obscured, but no part of the bar should be fully hidden (at least some of it should be above the cutout), and there is also the HP text to the left.
As I was saying, the part with the HP obscured is a me problem - with shattered glass at the top of my screen. My point was that it would be nice to add the black rectangle on top, when the fullscreen is turned off.
I’ve actually just released a new version of v2.3.4 to beta that tries to more intelligently handle cutouts when it comes to the HP bar. I’m afraid there’s not much I can do about your display being physically cracked, but cutouts should no longer block parts of the HP bar.
At the moment the fullscreen setting only controls the navigation bar (I’ll likely rename it for phone users). I am actively considering usability issues caused by this change though, and devices with teardrop notches like yours are the biggest culprits so far.
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@00_Evan
With the teardrop camera it is ok as only the high health part is a bit obscured.
It’s probably just me being old-fashioned that I don’t like cramming everything in the edges when today’s displays are more than twice high as wide. I think there’s plenty of room on top and sacrificing a few dozen pixels for a neat rectangular display is completely ok. Or even leaving the phone status bar visible.
Sorry to hear the change isn’t working completely for you. It also looks like your device is slightly under-reporting the size of its cutout. This is tricky for the game to handle as other devices (Pixels are a big culprit) over-report the size of their cutout, so making the game give adequate space for one will mean it gives a huge amount of space for others.
I’m afraid I don’t intend to put the black bar back. I agree modern mobile screens are quite tall but I think it’s reasonable that the game should use the entire screen.
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