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Fog of war Board Display Change
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Mar 22, 2021
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#3
Agreed. I really do not like the new animation. The board is too "busy" and it's really more difficult to concentrate on the game.
Mar 22, 2021
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#4
I haven't see animation (did they fixed this?). I see only static fog. I like this design better: now it's much easier to see what squares are in fog. But may be it would be prettier if we could see color of squares under the fog (dark/light).
gjk116 wrote:
I quite enjoy fog of war, but when I opened the game today the greyed out squares that I was not eligible to move to turned into a very distracting cloud animation. Can I change this back?
I had the same question.. Can I change it back?!
Also came to suggest the same. It's super hard to visualise the position when the board constantly changes so dramatically.
Mar 23, 2021
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#7
I agree, having an option to toggle between this image of actual fog and the old "darkened squares" would be very nice. My biggest issue is that we are unable to see the dark and light squares with this fog image.
Mar 23, 2021
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#8
aliceshorse wrote:
and worse, it's making apparent the location of opponents pieces in a way that it was not previously.. it's whole different dynamic. I don't know whose idea this was but it's not thought through as it's affected what the game is.
Making apparent the location of opponents pieces? What do you mean?
Mar 23, 2021
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#9
aliceshorse wrote:
When the opponent moves there no secret about where the move was as the cloud move with it. The frequent early attack on the knight c4 with a bishop move to b4, for example, was screaming at me, where it's part of the game what is not obvious.
The fog is better done like blindfold chess as a suggestion of what is not obvious, than a statement what is not possible.
Do you mean Knight c3?
But even with the old design, it was still obvious. Sure, not "screaming at me" obvious, but it was still apparent that there's something on b4 due to it darkening. You can also scroll through the moves with the arrow keys to "show" the difference more clearly.
Honestly, being able to toggle the image as an option will be best. Probably staff added the image of the actual fog to make it more intuitive for newcomers, but the loss of being able to tell apart dark and light squares is notable.
Mar 23, 2021
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#10
The new fog image makes FOW unplayable in my opinion I am needing to stand down from playing this variant until it is made optional ( it isn't ) wpuld somebody kindly message me as and when it ia fixwd please, such shame for an amazing chess variant I become hooked on recently.
Clouds are such a turn off!!!
Mar 25, 2021
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#12
There is now an option to turn on or off the background image.
The image of actual fog also got an update, it now has slightly darker dark squares.
I quite enjoy fog of war, but when I opened the game today the greyed out squares that I was not eligible to move to turned into a very distracting cloud animation. Can I change this back?