Landmark Improves Building UI With Build Mode And Mega Palette

Jason Winter
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It's not as sexy as adding content, but for a game in development, cleaning up a cluttered UI can be just as important to long-term sustainability. That's how Daybreak feels about Landmark, and Chris Stuart went into great detail on the Landmark forums regarding a new Build Mode that would be coming to the game later this year.

The primary focus of Build Mode is to separate your "building hotbar" from your "adventuring hotbar" so combat and building commands wouldn't be competing for space. You can switch between the two with a click of a button, and bringing up Build Mode also gives you access to the Mega Palette, a huge prop and material palette that replaces the game's tiny palette picker. There's also a new Building Modal Bar to indicate all the building hotkeys. New camera options, including Free Cam and Orbit Cam, which will give you a point-based view of your claim, are also in the works. You can even set the time of day for your claim to be viewed while building, so you can perfect that spooky night-time haunted house look.

Don't expect it to all be implemented in time for Halloween, though; Stuart says that Build Mode and the Mega Palette should be in place by the end of the year, though, as usual, things are subject to change. And, if you want to feel really optimistic, usability changes like this are usually a herald to opening a game up to a wider audience. Open beta in early 2016, perhaps? We can hope.

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Jason Winter
Jason Winter, News Editor

Jason Winter is a veteran gaming journalist, he brings a wide range of experience to MMOBomb, including two years with Beckett Media where he served as the editor of the leading gaming magazine Massive Online Gamer. He has also written professionally for several gaming websites.

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Discussion (8)

Zimnel 8 years ago
Lol Tenma said it first XD

Zimnel 8 years ago
The author of the post was Elemental Fiend, not Terry Michaels : )

Tenma 8 years ago
UMM... It it was ElementalFiend who made the post.... geez

snaping turtle 8 years ago
mhm they should release it right away i dont know what the hell they're waiting for, it's taking forever

rickshaw 8 years ago
This game is so long and drawn out its not funny, I have no idea why anyone would of wanted to spend so much time in it, .as just waiting to get something is far too long.

Minecrap on steroids 8 years ago
Game sucks get AIDS

Gahen 8 years ago
With the one week trial wersion of closed beta and zero FPS at the lowest settings, Landmark completely lost me.

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