The first thing is to realize that unlike other places, Shooter was being used here to kill animals. And in a large part, a certain way. The old Shooter was preferred because of its simple, clean layout, and a good table view. All other apps try to be fancy and cute with all the options that do not matter, and in the end become convoluted, complicated, and useless.
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Let’s start with elevation and windage output:
Why do you have an output that can’t be dialed out? 7.67 mils can’t be dialed out or held- it is either 7.6 or 7.7 mils. Adding the second decimal is utterly useless, complicates the view, and creates a thing where someone has to read all the way across, decide to round up or down, and then apply it. Windage of course is the same.
Atmosphere. Why does it bottom out at -1,000 DA? I was shooting in -3,000ft DA two days ago while trying to kill animals.
Coriolis
If I don’t have coriolis selected, why is it in the solution page? How many people actually need to account for coriolis?
Wind Angle:
Now it is very easy to accidentally slide your finger over it and change the angle accidentally. Again, field shooting, not PRS here (happened on an animal).
Speed (lead):
One it’s not labeled what it is, so confusion follows. Second, why is there a decimal place? No one can judge a target moving to a decimal mph. The speed slider bar may seem neat on the surface, but in the cold, under time/mental stress it is finicky and hard to stop exactly where you want it. It is fluff, with no real use or reason.
Wind speed adjustment:
Like the lead speed- wind speed slider bar may seem neat on the surface, but in the cold, under time/mental stress it is finicky and hard to stop exactly where you want it. Beyond that, why is there a decimal place? No one, no where can call wind to a decimal. 7.4 mph versus 7.6 mph is not a thing. So again- complicated, fussy, slow, rife for a mistake (happened on an animal).
Azimuth and look angle:
These are on the main page- why do I need them on the solution page?
Range slider bar:
Like the speed and wind speed bars- fussy, finicky, hard to get the range to be what you want, and is easily accidentally adjusted (happened on an animal).
Table view:
Why is the table view where you can slide left and right? All this does is add a chance for a finger, glove, or anything else to accidentally slide the table over, and then when you look for drop data next to range, you are actually reading drift in inches say (happened on an animal).
You also cannot now pinch the screen to shrink the table down, so you can use it as a Lock Screen like so-
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Overall, 2.0 took a very clean and simple user interface, that was the best on the market in actual use, and made it complicated, gadgety, finicky; just like every other app on the available.
Saturday morning I opened my app up with three other shooters preparing to start culling deer. When this updated version opened, I couldn’t believe it. The whole day trying to kill as many see as possible me for those three shooters, the app itself cost 4-5 deer with the issues above, and overall because of the complicated and poor user interface, cost between 8-10 deer in one day. Just the general complicated layout is a disaster.
None of this may matter for a person sitting at a bench untimed, or for PRS shooters with all day to set their range cards up, but it is awful for killing living, moving, dynamic targets, rife with a whole bunch of traps that can accidentally be done that are not easy to catch.
In short- at a minimum, offer back version 1.0. Alternatively, I’m willing to buy version 1 from you.
) and doing that would make the app feel 100% different instead of 40-50% different. This new update keeps the overall nav/structure familiar.
