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What I do like about this screen is that it shows everything in the game that can be unlocked, so you can check it out yourself and see what's available on your weapons to determine if you want to get a battlepass or skin from the store.

What I don't like is everything else. Personally, I'd do away entirely with the side scrolling navigation bar as it's just inefficient and, frankly, rudimentary. I thought this would go away alongside the beta in favor of something more practical, like CSGO's tiled inventory. The other issue with this screen is that the skins that you do have seem to be randomly placed along the bar, with some unlocks at the far left and others on the far right. This is especially an issue with gun buddies as it's the most populated category of customization.

The biggest issue with this navigation bar is that it already feels cluttered and difficult to navigate with only a few skin packages and a single battlepass in the game. Imagine what it will look like after a year if something isn't done soon...

Suppose Riot is dead set on this (imho terrible) sidescrolling selector tool, my proposal allows them to keep that functionality while improving it drastically from a basic UX standpoint:

Add a toggle with the following options:

  • Show all.

  • Show unlocked.

  • Show available.

  • Show new.

1) Show all is the current screen. It shows every skin/buddy/spray in the game and allows you to tab through what's out there.

2) Show unlocked only shows the skins/customization that you currently have access to.

3) Show available is specifically for the gun buddies, as it will only show what you have unlocked and what can be equipped without needing to take it off another gun.

4) Show new only shows items/skins/sprays that you have unlocked and haven't viewed in the loadout page. It would highlight any guns that you have unlocked skins for and border the "buddies" and/or the sprays/title card buttons to illustrate that you have new items in that category available to you.

A "simple" addition that would vastly improve our current experience. Again, I sincerely hope that they reconsider the design of this page top to bottom, but this simple toggle will go a long way toward fixing the inherent issues in this design.

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over 4 years ago - /u/ProgRocktopus - Direct link

Thanks for the write-up! Few notes for your consideration/follow-up:

  • Owned content should be at the front of the list. The buddies view is bugged right now, but that's being fixed in next patch.
  • A filter for "Only Show Owned Stuff" is coming in a patch pretty soon. Should help alleviate some of the issues finding the things you want.
  • There's a whole roadmap of enhancements for that view, and we'll keep incrementally improving it. Much more to come.
  • To address the choice to use the horizontal list: we wanted to maximize space for the 3D model/hi res preview and make it easy to step through all the options. Laying it out horizontally also allows us to use the bigger monitor dimension to show more thumbnails.
over 4 years ago - /u/ProgRocktopus - Direct link

Originally posted by aecro

Idea: Have a small upwards arrow next to the scrollbar that lets us expand the bar into a tiled inventory like OP mentioned while hiding/drastically reducing the size of the weapon preview.

Grid view mode is on the road map!