las3r 3 Report post Posted February 12, 2016 To me, a big appeal of Qonqr has been its ties to reality. The idea that “There is a war all around us...”. Physically navigating the real world to progress in the game. The key ingredient that made that work so well … the glue between the real world and the virtual world … has been the map. Before blue, that map looked like a real map and it was fun scrolling around and exploring neighborhoods near and far and seeing what zones there in the areas. I could see a beacon that represented the position of my scope, and it moved as I moved I literally used the qonqr map as a navigation tool to get around, all while following my position relative to surrounding zones All that is now gone. After blue What I see on the “map” is a sea of neon colored icons. The map itself has faded into the background and I can barely orient myself on it Where am I?? No more beacon to place me onto the map AND into the game. The interface between reality and game disappeared. As a result, the game has become something that feels more like an arcade game than an augmented reality game. What I had hoped is for blue to go in the opposite direction, where its ties with reality are becoming stronger. Silver, I think you even spoke to that same idea at a conference recently, musing what something like HoloLens might be able to do for the game. But for now, qonqr has moved away from that vision, instead of closer. And that is a big disappointment. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Soupist 39 Report post Posted February 12, 2016 FYI....You can switch the Qonqr Map theme back to normal map in settings. 2 las3r and lordkikuta reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tetra 115 Report post Posted February 12, 2016 You can use the unthemed maps if you change it in settings & restart the app, the icon to indicate position is kind of a white circle 2 las3r and lordkikuta reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
las3r 3 Report post Posted February 12, 2016 Ah - thank you for pointing that out. I hadn't discovered that option. That looks sooo much better. The downside is that the font color doesn't change, so with the 'old' map activated, it's not possible to read zone names, etc. on the bottom left part of the screen. BTW, I also noticed the beacon again. It must have been a bug that it wasn't there earlier. I'll pay more attention to that and file a separate report if it happens again 1 lordkikuta reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Soupist 39 Report post Posted February 12, 2016 I saw that as well. I commented about the zone info on the left being unreadable with the white font on the Plain map a couple days ago, so the dev know about that. 2 lordkikuta and las3r reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites