I believe part of this change includes the player’s health bar being moved to the bottom of the top bar?
If so, this change is going to be awful for my game, as it’s a PvP game, where players need to see their health. If players can not see their health (because this change makes the health bar hardly noticeable), they will be confused when damage is dealt to them.
I understand that I can create my own UI to solve this issue but… really? I think that this change is quite bad for PvP experiences.
I’d like to re-iterate my position here. As a developer, I’d ideally be able to reduce all core UI into the Roblox menu. This would allow me to have full visual/aesthetic control and allow me to provide the best functional experience for my place. All platform functionality should remain easily accessible to users through the Roblox menu, such as hard control over mic/camera, reporting, server playerlist, … etc.
The screenshots provided in this post (Berry Ave) already show signs of discontinuous visual design forced by the game trying to conform to the Roblox Controls Bar. The game clearly has it’s own identity that is being strong-armed to match the unblockable core UI.
and we still can’t hide all of the gui like the legacy topbar. i appreciate the transparency but you keep missing all of our feedback about the latter; the report button is so utterly stupid and useless to exist in the first place
Exactly this, I still stand by the fact that by trying to conform every game to use a single non-customisable topbar we are actually going to get a more boring UI scheme in general; not all of us want our games to use the UIBlox theme, yet we are practically forced to ‘embrace’ it because of stuff like this.
For anyone who wants a #feature-requests which covers this topic, my post from just under a year ago exists and is (unfortunately) still quite relevant in certain sections.
is there or will there be a way to disable this more menu?
im using this photo as an example, as it kind of just ruins the user experience because you have to carefully click the hamburger icon
The best way to improve experience controls: Allow us to completely disable it or automatically disable it once a developer disables every core UI element. I do not want to see the box button reserving an unnecessary amount of space with only the useless report button inside it. (Why is there a report button on the control menu anyway? It takes two clicks to access the menu normally.)
Allow us to collapse everything into a signle (Roblox Menu) button, once again. (And make all this smaller)
While I like the changes that were made from the initial Experience Controls preview, this is still a huge mess in my opinion.
Don’t get me wrong, I like the design of the Experience Controls, this design would be great if Roblox only had its CoreUI and developers were not able to create their own UI. However, reality is different, and that makes this UI pretty intrusive and hard to work with in certain, if not most, cases.
Games have different styles and identities, some games attempt to follow Roblox’s style, while some games attempt to incorporate their own unique styles. With the new forced toolbar, you can far more easily see the design inconsistencies in the screenshots that you provided.
I’ve already asked this, but please, listen to the developer and their feedback. Experience Controls isn’t something that I think we hate because its “Experience Controls”, we don’t like it because it is imposing an even bigger limit to our creativity and our games’ identities.
Also, here is a comparison of Theme Park Tycoon’s UI in 2016 and 2024, with one UI being far more easily incorporated alongside the required topbar “hamburger” icon and the new topbar (Experience Controls).
The only thing I would suggest is the ability for players to toggle between the new ui and the old ui. I can see other people struggling with the new ui, as I have been.
I don’t know if there’s a way to do so right now, but I think it’d be great for immersion if we could take out the controls entirely and only keep the Escape menu button/only show the Chat button. Some games aren’t made with a free mouse in mind. I really like this design though.
Glad to see this issue finally being addressed. Constantly activating my microphone on accident due to its positioning above my avatar was such an annoyance.
please make the topbar customizable for devs, make us be able to toggle features, make the inset smaller, remove the circle around the roblox logo and so on
