I have had the new tabbed layout for two days now, giving me time to adjust.
I like it.
Given that Scopely has gone all in on Go passes, it makes sense to separate them out from research tasks. I'm also finding it convenient to have them in their own tab, and am leaving my pass open to keep an eye on tasks to be completed. Fewer berries wasted, for example.
Likewise, separating timed out on its own means I don't have to go digging for it, nor does it get in the way of the pass.
Pulling active events up to the top rather than burying them under today is maybe the best part.
It isn't perfect. The top tabs, even on my screen, are gratuitously vertical. Overall, however, I'm finding it a significant upgrade.
by cant_make_it_think
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If the vertical tabs and speed are adjusted, it’s fine.
I would have rather they pushed the Go Pass to the button on the map that is the Events button. Then keep the other part the same with Timed/Event, Field, and Special research.
The event button you circled is horrendous, I’ve already fat-fingered it multiple times AND it’s laggy bringing up the events screen. Really hope they revert it
The vertical space the tabs take up is so big that I don’t see my third research quest anymore. Awesome.
The Events calendar button needs to go away. When am I ever in such a hurry to know the events I need it clogging up my main screen?
So two nested menues under each other? Why not just have 4 tabs beside each other?
How does swiping left and right work? I assume only works for bottom menue? Before one could reach all by just swiping left and right, now in addition, one need to click on top switching between two main tabs and then swipe? Just not easy and unnecessary complicated.
To me this new UI have 3 flaws:
1. The new UI layout is too optimally sized to my phone and the 3rd field research panel is scrolled half way off my screen and is hard to tap. I need to scroll it up to tap.
2. The new animation effects slowed everything to me. I don’t like this slowness.
3. Sometimes when I completed one field research task and with 2 non-completed field research tasks, I proceed to spin a pokestop to get a new field research task as the 3rd one. Sometimes it just doesn’t show up there. It may only appear again when I spin another pokestop or restart the game.
Just look like another untested feature rolled out to users to me.