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Really cool ideas!


You mean the damage model inside the hud right? Where you can see where and how much damage you took. Good idea but I would always go back the to armor bar model. Old school I know but I can see fast and easy where my armor is the weakest and start turning my mech to the stronger parts.


Already been thought of and going to be in the game.


Neat idea but not sure if you really need to see that kind of stuff. Usually the target window for me was enough to know where to hit my enemy. Also depends on how many different target areas you will have on a mech, e.g. can you hit the joints themself or is the damage model more like arms and legs and torsoe. Yet it would make a nice feature and some cool eye candy


I am pretty sure it's taken care of But I agree on the locking sound: They gotta be awesome! Especially even for regular laser weapon lock - I do remember those had to lock in the CBT novels but that was never implemented in the games. Just point and click mostly ...

Overall cool stuff. Let's wait and see what they will implement in the huds.

One thing I want to add: Will each mech have it's own HUD? Will you know you are sitting in another mech just by looking at the hud or will they all be the same? I don't mean big changes but more the smaller ones like a screen moving from the bottom right to the top left corner, that kind of thing.

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Seraph

I agree that is a nice thing. Would make PPCs even more useful. Just have to see how something like that would impact on balance .. I don't want to see everyone running around with PPCs since they screw up the hud so much.


From what I have heard so far there is supposed to be a global radar. Destroy the stations and your enemy is blind - maybe even drones are going to be implemented that you can destroy. If buildings can be used against radar I am not sure about but it would truly be a nice addition (and would make sense too). You could always see those units with IR view though.


Doubt they will all do that since it would be very time consuming to add this feature for each single unit in the game. Not to mention that an arm that becomes useless will most likely be blown off and therefor removed as an active target


Even though I would to see more distortion on the HUD I would assume it would be a huge impact on the gameplay when you overdo it. The MW3 kind of fuzziness will do just fine for me

Thanks for pointing the open things out, hope I could help even though I am not a dev

Seraph

would it be possible to have  part of the hud be overlay and the other half be actual displays within the cockpit?  Like lets say  crosshairs, weapons selected and sensors are overlay, but other stuff like damage display, speed, and maybe heat might be on displays inset into the cockpit?

Christmas is really going to be a treat this year.

I've been digging into the HUD stuff lately (for fun) and I think that the possibilities are endless. The way the Flash HUD's are implemented leaves a lot of room for creating some really cool stuff. Unfortunately, the schedule is not endless!

Personally, I would love to see the HUD affected differently based on the type of weapon the mech is being hit with. Electronics would behave differently between a ballistic strike, a heat strike, and an electrical strike. Not to mention more advanced weapon types like charged particle attacks.

But when everything thinks of futuristic HUD's you have to keep in mind that this does not mean that they will have a lot of cool graphics on them. The avionics industry is constantly trying to simplify display systems and make them less cluttered with information. All of that is just a distraction to the pilot and increases safety concerns. If you look at military HUD's they are quite simple even in the more advanced aircraft. The displays would have more of the fancy damage displays and such but not on the HUD.

Just my .02.

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