Excellent job with the new icons!

I think they are really intuitive and easy to read. Even in my first game with them I didn't feel confused at all!

Ehh



no seriously speaking they ARE way better, no more stupid re-sizing animation, no more re-sizing period, no more blur, transfer to pixel perfection, clear cut shapes.

So much that I'm glad for.

however I still have difficulty distinguishing tanks.

I was just about to post in another thread...

I like how sharp they are and I like that Uber dropped that "outline for T2" thing in favor of a little thingy at the bottom, but they still need some work.

Firstly, I'd want to discuss some of the symbols used.
This symbol and it's two-dotted variation are used to indicate longer range, which is ok, but I think it would be nicer to distinguish different types of range: Direct fire (snipers), artillery and rockets.
We can all agree that his symbolizes elevated barrel. However, elevated barrel should stand for artillery, not for anti air.
This should be anti air. It's way more intuitive, because it points up, and looks like a plane-icon triangle.
And, to avoid confusion between radar and AA:
This should be radar. I think this is also a bit more intuitive symbol.
Now, let's get back to the long range units:
For long range direct fire units it would be better instead of dots to use notches pointing up - they will be way easier to see. I would also suggest notches pointing down for short range (flame) units instead of a separate symbol.
For tactical rocket units I suggest simple vertical line. This means we need to come up with better indicator for "anti orbital" which may or may not be ok as just a circle.
And lastly:
This should be fabber and combat fabber. Full sized cross will help to distinguish fabbers in a crowd, leaving smaller symbol for field "medics".

Second thing I would like to talk about is icon shapes and information overload.
Some icons are larger or smaller than others, they have angles pointing up, or wide bottoms, or whatever, in addition to having often more than one symbol inside them. And I'm asking: Do we really need this? Do we really need all possible information about the unit to be jammed in there? It's projectile type and it's health and it's food preferences? And I'm leaning towards "no" here. The job of the icon is to help player to quickly remember what kind of unit he sees, not to explain that. It should be "that icon means inferno, which I remember is T1 high damage, low range, slow, heavy armored tank", not "That icon tells me that this is a tank that shoots flames, has high armor but slow speed and belongs to T1". The connection between unit and it's icon should be as short, simple and intuitive as possible, even if it comes at a cost of losing connection between unit's properties and it's icon.
This is also why I think that even if you have a formula for creating icons, sometimes it's better to deviate from it. Example: laser towers. Their icons may represent their functionality well, but they are not nearly as intuitive as buildings themselves are. Now look:
1, 2, 3, done. It's instantly understandable as one, two and three barrels, like on those towers. And it's better than what we have, even if our "formula" doesn't have place for multiple copies of one symbol in an icon. Same goes for some other stuff. Nukes, for instance - they did come up with a unique symbol for them (despite that symbol not being a direct reference to nuke), sure, but do we really need that "long range" indicator?

https://forums.uberent.com/threads/...-new-icons-suggested.61466/page-2#post-953530

I'm not quite sure what you wanted to say by referring to this post.

I need sometime to get use to them and remember them. Maybe there could be an option in setting to change the style of the ion. So people can choose the one they like.

I think the icons are an improvement, but Teod really nails how they can be made even better. The only one I'd be cautious on is the AA icon, because AA is used on fighters too and a triangle within a triangle can be harder to see.

For direct fire cannon units I'd just drop the symbol altogether. It will make other units stand out better and improve readability of crowds. I'd add Hummingbirds to that list too.

"If you guys finalize your ideas and send them to me i'll make you an icon pack to your liking"

I don't think I can finalize it right now. Those were just a couple of ideas.

It's definitely a good few steps in the right direction.

I like the new Icons, save for a few minor details.

I prefer the "Double ring" of the old T2 icons over the little arrow we have now, and I don't like how there are different shapes for different units (the inferno's icon compared to the ant, for instance). I prefer uniformity among unit types.

They are nice, but i'm finding it hard to differentiate between units quickly.

For example a huge one is tanks vs infernos.

Yeah, they're better, but there so pixelated... They were already before, but they now only have 1 pixel thin outline. I hope they add a small transition between the outline and the color, so they are much prettier. Depth is wanted. A small tint brighter for the top and a small tint darker for the bottom of the main color.

And double resolution retina support heavily wanted

It is difficult to tell the difference between T1 and T2 from a quick glance

T2 aircraft are alright, as the triangle is bigger and has a different bottom to it.

I'd love to see them, but the server was derping last night

I'd like fabbers to be more clearly differentiated from combat units. Perhaps a different colour symbol? Transparent Strategic Icons gives them a different colour outline, which works great.

New icons are a vast improvement though. Played some games and it was so much easier to tell stuff apart.

Well I've been coming up with some of my own icons, how would this look?



+ means fabricator, _ means direct fire, a • dictates range, a ^ means anti-air, ) at the bottom means it shoots in an arch, and finally the ○ means it has an aoe or explodes on contact I suppose.

So.. if anyone has the old icons please send me them

Really nice clean icons, big fan. first uber icons i will use since september