The Flyout Menu segment is absolutely brilliant. Perfect example of solving a difficult problem, and solving it so well that I never even noticed it. If feels perfectly natural and intuitive in action.

I actually went and tried it out, because it never clicked in my mind that it did that. I think for the most part I would do the 90° turn anyway, but not realize if I didn't... Neat stuff. I would have assumed that folks would just adapt to the angle-based access.

The flyout bit was fascinating. The velocity and trajectory triangles were a smart solution to that problem.

This has bugged me since my first pvp match. The roster for your room of 12 players is two pages long because it only shows 11 on one page. Very annoying.

Because very few people have a 1920 x 1200 TV. :-p

Even showing only 6 per page would make more sense. You could give each team its own page.

This has bugged me since my first pvp match. The roster for your room of 12 players is two pages long because it only shows 11 on one page. Very annoying.

Because very few people have a 1920 x 1200 TV. :-p

That would make so much more sense if there were only 10 players in a game.

I'd be more OK with that if it was at least done to keep fire teams on the same page, but sometimes it's not even that.

More important to me, though, is why i need to click in to see their activity in Destiny. There is literally no more common or important use for that menu. Why not put it in the hover pop-up text?

Yeah, that would be really nice. "2 friends here". I should be able to see who they are, and join right up just by hovering over that.

Fingers crossed that this makes it into Destiny 2. It's nearly useless to see that a number of people you know are at a location, but not know who they are or have any other options.

Thanks everyone! I still lurk here on occasion :)

Loved the talk (confused by the tough crowd). I have a couple of lingering questions, if you don't mind.

Was there a specific reason that you guys initially opted to go with exclusively button-based menu options rather than sliders?

And I was curious as to why some settings (such as audio mix) have sliders, and others that would normally have sliders (such as the new HUD opacity option) are buttons.

With regards to avoiding too much clutter on the screen/menus, were there certain functions and settings that were sacrificed from the UI that you worked on, or would have liked to see, for the sake of neatness? I noticed that Density Destiny has a very simplified UI (especially when compared to other games, such as Battlefield), and many features seemed deliberately missing (such as audio and accessibility options, which were added in later).

Always happy to see Bungie folks popping in.

I'd be more OK with that if it was at least done to keep fire teams on the same page, but sometimes it's not even that.

More important to me, though, is why i need to click in to see their activity in Destiny. There is literally no more common or important use for that menu. Why not put it in the hover pop-up text?

Yeah, that would be really nice. "2 friends here". I should be able to see who they are, and join right up just by hovering over that.

More important to me, though, is why i need to click in to see their activity in Destiny. There is literally no more common or important use for that menu. Why not put it in the hover pop-up text?

There's a lot of good information here about the details of Destiny that were obviously a real pain to make, took a lot of time, but are nearly transparent to the user because of how mind bogglingly well they work, especially compared to similar systems in other games and even productivity applications.

Of special interest to me, though, is the segment later in the presentation on The Director. For one thing, it directly refutes one of the tentpoles of the Reddit rumors about Destiny development hell, by suggesting that the Director was designed to be the central focus of the game from the start of serious development in 2010.

Hard to believe that it was an 11th hour fix to what we have now, considering how wildly different all of the iterations were. The Tower itself looks like it wasn't going to be a very big focus until the end, judging from the linear Director with all bounties available...

Pretty neat.

Of special interest to me, though, is the segment later in the presentation on The Director. For one thing, it directly refutes one of the tentpoles of the Reddit rumors about Destiny development hell, by suggesting that the Director was designed to be the central focus of the game from the start of serious development in 2010.