I have recently began TW2 after finishing TW1. Still on Alsorna.

I find the inventory & UI very poorly designed and presented.
In daylight I cannot make out clearly what equipment & objects I have due to the awful transparent background...
And I can find no option to make it opaque.

and the skills pane is also almost washed out and very difficult to see and use.

Also in TW1 I could see at a glance what I was wearing and what effect it had on my defense...
I could see what difference a weapon or shield etc made to my stats
But in TW2 I cannot easily see what I am wearing or using; and I cannot see any general stats at all.

Am I missing something...or is that the way the UI was designed...to give the player minimal or no information.

Skyrim was the same on release.
The vanilla UI was a terrible....completely incompetently designed...but modders have fixed it.

Has anyone fixed the TW2 UI?

I'm a bit ****** off and disapointed by my initial impressions of the game.
I really liked TW1.

Check out inventory transparency overhaul. I don't have the game installed at the moment to test it but I'm guessing it still works as intended.

Thank you Arkose

There is a version of that mod which does improve the inventory somewhat.

Ideally I want a flat, uniform, opaque background.....
I dont want or need to see anything through the UI or any pattern in the UI.
I want to see the items...period.

I am amazed the developers shipped the game with such a poorly designed & presented UI.

Skyrim was the same. The Bethesda UI is awful. But modders have given it a really excellent UI.
Hopefully someone will give TW2 the UI it needs and deserves.