I like the addition of unit stats in the UI, but I feel like the UI should look more like how it was in CoH1 & CoH2, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. The UI is not ugly, it just feels empty and it is confusing, for example, the resources are right on the bottom and it is a pain to check those because they are so far away from what people are used to (top right corner or the screen, on the CoH1 hood or on the top left corner of the screen). Please, consider placing the resources for example in a more visible place. Maybe trying a more traditional RTS UI as well would be nice, but maybe that's just because people are too used to the old RTS UI.

UI seems a bit cleaner now

the camera perspective is weird, seems you are using coh2 SP closer zoom for that SP experience

the tanks feels overly big, they takes up large view area, BUT the infantry units seems tiny like stick  figures

 As with MP pre-alpha, hard to spot infantry, not feeling the infantry combat unlike coh2. Tank combat is ok.

As user above mentioned, i get a bit motion sick too, the infantry and vehicle scaling feels off to my mind.

I agree 100% and I talked at length about this in the survey offered at the end of the Alpha Mission. The zoom is tight and its nice to let us get good views of the infantry, but it suffers so so badly when you get closer to areas of elevation like hills. The camera needs to be DYNAMIC so that it zooms OUT instead of zooming IN when you get to a hill. Isn't the idea of hilltop supremacy to have better vision? If you have units fighting on a hill (notably the area where the ruined train and tracks are), the action is literally zoomed all the way in and its extremely oppressive. 

I'm not sure if its the jump from COH2 to COH3 or what, but its very hard to keep track of whether units are in combat or in danger at a quick glance. The UI indicators for damage-taken are very subtle and not quickly recognizable at first. These indicators might benefit from being "visually louder" so players can react faster. Contributing to this problem is the zoom because that also makes it much harder to see all the units in the area.

The left-most mini-map area is a little too large as well, taking up a massive chunk of the screen. UI scale is customizable and that helped to change it to 80% but it still felt a little unoptimized. Better than the pre-alpha in terms of style and functionality, but now a bit bloated in terms of design efficiency. 

All else considered, massive improvements from the last pre-alpha for UI/UX but there are still a lot of things to fine tune. Zoom needs to ride that fine line between not making infantry look like ants vs. being TOO zoomed in where you can't see enough of the action (especially since some units have insane range).

TomDRV wrote:

ZOOM LEVEL

I've just paused after being introduced to my base to type this.

The max zoom (out) level in this alpha is oppressively close, It's very hard to get a sense of the relative locations of units because it's so zoomed in and the tilt so shallow.

The max zoom (out) level in the multiplayer alpha was perfect. Close enough to see models and actions with room to zoom in on a specific engagement, yet still far enough to observe and manage a whole 'front/section' at once without frantic panning which I need to do now. 

It's actually producing mild motion sickness, due to both the panning and the difference in perspective from looking down my nose at something in the bottom half of the screen, close enough to see paint scratches, then out on the top half of the screen to barely see something through fog in the distance. It also really screws with figuring out where units are in relation too eachother, unless someone is really familiar with how much smaller units looks with distance, because it's not top-down enough.

Zoom level in the multiplayer alpha was perfect (and a great improvement on COH2), please revert

I like the new UI, but obviously some tooltips are missing. There where symbols over my units or enemies units taht i did not know what they meant. maybe have them shown in the lower right corner so you can hover over them to get a discription of the effect.

I tried playing the mission but i gave up cause of the mini map, i mean the actual useful information of the minimap is just too small and it makes the whole experience frustrating.

The camera seems very zoomed in, just a tiny bit more zoomed out would be really nice.

The portraits of the units are just, too big and i feel they can make me miss important event on the screen, may be they could be somewhere else(?)

It's really sad cause it looks like there is a good game behind this ui, but if the devs read this, understand that i'm just trying to give constructive feedback.

Cheers.

The game is effectively unplayable on an ultrawide monitor.

I can't actually change resolutions to test, but I'm sure the horizontal FOV is clamped in some misguided attempt at balance, thus reducing the vertical FOV on wider monitors and worsening the limited zoom level.

TomDRV wrote:

ZOOM LEVEL

I've just paused after being introduced to my base to type this.

The max zoom (out) level in this alpha is oppressively close, It's very hard to get a sense of the relative locations of units because it's so zoomed in and the tilt so shallow.

The max zoom (out) level in the multiplayer alpha was perfect. Close enough to see models and actions with room to zoom in on a specific engagement, yet still far enough to observe and manage a whole 'front/section' at once without frantic panning which I need to do now. 

It's actually producing mild motion sickness, due to both the panning and the difference in perspective from looking down my nose at something in the bottom half of the screen, close enough to see paint scratches, then out on the top half of the screen to barely see something through fog in the distance. It also really screws with figuring out where units are in relation too eachother, unless someone is really familiar with how much smaller units looks with distance, because it's not top-down enough.

Zoom level in the multiplayer alpha was perfect (and a great improvement on COH2), please revert

The camera zoom needs to be addressed. It is way to close, and the tactical pause mechanic is just not needed. There is no tactical pause in war, and this mechanic has not been in previous COH games, I will never use it.  

The unit portrait is massive and intrusive. I did like the updated portrait even though I liked 2's better. The UI is oddly huge is places like the unit portrait that is unnecessary imo.

PLEASE INCREASE THE ZOOM OUT CAPABILITY. I had a friend try CoH2 and her main complaint was that the camera felt too close in. 

As others said the UI is really big and clutters the screen to much. I think my overall biggest complaint is that the info is spread all over the screen. The mini map is on one side, there is dead space in the middle, and the left side has a ton of info about your squads. I think unlike in coh2 the UI doesn't flow as well and for me I felt like I was much less capable of paying attention to things because the UI was all over the place and took up some fairly important space (notably the right side of the UI takes up to much screen and blocks what could be enemy units).

I would like to bring some UI elements to attention

First is the placement of the unit card. The 1st picture is the in-game unit card UI, and the 2nd one is from my quick adjustment using art software. The unit card and unit control are the two most unimportant pieces of information in the game as most players with more gameplay will generally have a good idea of what their units have and use hotkey. We would like those info to be as unintrusive as possible.

Next is the placement of commander abilities and resources. These are incredibly important information and tool for the players. They should be as close to middle or crucial area like minimap as possible. We see the CoH1 and CoH2 example here, players can very quickly glance slightly down and look back to the battlefield.

In this example of CoH3, the resources and commanders' ability require the players to look at 2 different areas, and also, they are around the area of unit card/commander, which are unimportant when the players use hotkey and are aware of the unit they control. 

On top of that, the commander ability is placed at a very bad spot - the edge of the map. In an intense moment, players tend to swing their mouses quickly to the area that they want to click on. Having the ability at that edge not only risk the player panning the map away from important focus, but also require the players to swing back a far distance to the center of the map as well to click on their target of interest.

In the CoH1 and 2 examples above, the players only need to run their mouses a very short distance to both reach the ability and to move back to their targets.

I really hope the dev pays attention to this detail. The UI placement was there in the previous 2 games for a good reason. We do not need to change for change's sake, and building up the UI should start with the working formula and then improve from there on.