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If you are interested in playing 2D Sandbox games, then you must have heard of Terraria. Released in 2011, the game has sold more than 35 million copies to date.

Last year, PC players celebrated the 9th anniversary of the game with the release of the final major expansion pack known as Journey’ End or Update 1.4. Now, the update has come to the console version of the game.

The latest update brings in a brand new Journey mode featuring new character difficulty levels and a new world. Other new changes include the Master mode, enemies, bosses, weather, and a luck system.

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Having said that, players did experience a new bug with Terraria 1.4 update that is causing them to get stuck on syncing files when they try to play the game. And if it wasn’t enough, the remainder of the players who are able to play the game are reporting a new one.

According to many, Terraria 1.4 update has broken the console UI. Players are demanding that the developers revert the changes since the update has removed a couple of UI features such as the ability to customize buttons.

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Like seriously, this is a mess. I love this game so much, been playing on pc and console for years, Was so excited to play console 1.4 with some friends and i see the worst thing i could of ever seen. Please oh please let this be a joke and we have the option to go back to the original UI
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It was much better before why did they change it not only is it now ugly but hard to use. It didn’t need changing and now it’s been ruined.
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Terraria players are asking the developers to give them the option between the old and new UI since the revamped UI is confusing many.

Moreover, for some, Terraria update 1.4 messed up the UI scaling to the point that the UI seems to be cut off. This is really frustrating since players are unable to see things that are at the very edge of the screen such as the Hotbar and mana.

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I have this Problem now with the 1.4 Version in PS4 where i dont have the edges of the UI in Frame. Is this fixable or do they need to patch that?
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I logged in and I am now unable to see many of the features around the edges of my screen. It is incredibly frustrating as I can no longer see the hotbar, top row of hearts and my mana as well as others. Please enable a feature to fix this
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If your UI scaling is messed after Terraria 1.4 update, you will be glad to know that the issue can be easily fixed. The developers shared a workaround that will allow users to customize their safe region according to their display.

From the main menu (not in game) go to Settings > Interface > Advanced and edit the safe region
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Some players are also complaining that the Hotbar has a bug that drastically slows down the character when navigating. In case you are unaware, the Hotbar is the top most row of the player inventory that can hold 10 items.

First time here but I believe this goes here. Not sure if it is a bug or something new implemented into the game, but when rapidly switching items in the hotbar, your character slows down substantially. If you switch items slow however, no movement change is made. 1.4 is great though 🙂
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So earlier today I was enjoying the new update on my ps4 when I noticed something strange, whenever I selected my hotbar from left to right while either jumping or falling (also flying) my falling/ jumping speed would reset to 0 (at least that’s my guess). Is anyone else getting this bug?
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A potential workaround for the issue involves unbinding the “Navigate Hotbar” option from the Explore Menu.

It seems a lot of console players are having issues with the new control scheme introduced in the Terraria 1.4 update.

That brings us to the question, do you think the developers should let users choose between the new and old UI and control scheme? We would love to hear your opinion on the matter.

Let us know by voting in the poll or join the discussion in the comment section below.

Update 1 (October 23)

06:35 pm (IST): The results are out and 38% of you think that the new game control and UI scheme is not good, while more than 50% of gamers think that this change should be reverted back.

However, the rest 9.9% of gamers are pleased with the new changes made to the game.

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Anurag Chawake
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My fascination with technology and computers goes back to the days of Windows XP. Since then, I have been tinkering with OS, mobile phones, and other things. When I am not working on anything, you will find me enjoying video games on some Discord server.

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