Started playing from Update 3 - Didn't finish yet the second game, but having considerable issues with the GUI, hope these will get ironed out in the last update

• Player, AI, and especially Minor Faction colors are barely visible. Like vaseline is smeared on the objective while taking a picture. Minor Faction logos I can hardy make out, if I even notice they are there with the light brownish colors of theirs display on my stark yellow and blue backdrop of a galaxy. Later overshadows greatly everything else which is ok as it is nice to look at but the main goal of the GUI should be to enable clear oversight.
• Same with Fleet representation. The thin white/blue/color changing grid lines almost vanish in the galaxy.
• Pie-charts for pop are hopefully placeholders. Please check HICHERT or at least Excel for reference on how to do pie-charts. Current form will not be helpful for most and will be ignored. Same goes for the diplomacy "pie-chart" on system view, though still not sure what that supposes to be representing and why. Something with over population?
• Planetary Defense and manpower icons are poorly done. The first seems like a citizen holding a ball, or being targeted but a huge laser sight?
• Marker next to fleets and showing hangar as well as probes seem out of place. Reminds me of Battelzone the arcade game but not in a good way
• Massive amount of GUI elements swirling, floating and pumping around in the galaxy view and when selecting a system. Less is more: rather have a clear and distinct interface then elements just put in there so something can always move around. Even the influence area to be won over enemy territory in the next round is displayed in the form of a flash in white blob instead of overlapping colors with grid lines constantly showing who will win over the territory
• Icons for ships - Reminds me of a dart. Not a star ship. As a reference, please look at Stars in shadow. Besides having a great overall art, it has a symbol for ships in general, yes even a grid form and it looks fantastic.
• Infantry icon - the same as above
• Invade icon - might as well be used for commands: place, build, or go up one stair with the elevator. With such a live lore and art resources something more engaging can be used?

Other art and GUI assets are good, sometime great but the above really detract. Maybe they are not supposed to be ready yet and are placeholders? There are just so many of them.

Resolution is full HD set to full screen and normal brightness and contrast settings (no game or sports mode to enhance the output)

Playing Endless Legend, there are not issues - colors are crisp, contours are clear, icons are acceptable and representative

Edit:

• Support module icon :)
• Planetary bombardment seems to affecft player troops as well during simulation. In fact, it also seems to affect own troops more then that of the neemy but hard to tell withouth statistics on the effect

How about making all colors of empires and minor factions to have more contrast against the background but allow the player to toggle it off (they will never do this :))

If you are afraid to make minor factions presence less stark, how abouth reducing their logo size instead of washing out their colours? If their icon is half the size of an empires, it makes it pritty clear that they are minor, but at least you can represent their logo and their presence clearly

Please no freaking visuall animation only. 

I don t, and many with me i m sure, give a freaking damn to animation after i ve seen it a dozen time (or less) in a game of this magnitude.

IMO it s a waste of ressources and have very very limited interest as people skip them in a game that turns out to be usually dozens of hours long per full campaign.

Visual battle animation shouldn t even come with, they should be sold as DLC...and only if you give some power over battleground (space?) (similar to Total War series.... like arranging ships manually to make specific formations).

Some companies like Paradox understood this long ago....