+1

But where did that giant dropsuit come from?

I like these HUDs, except the pattern on the background is too much invasive, imo.
Also, a different font for each race, for the written part would be cool.

Do you have an alt?

This is a fantastic idea.

I love the thought of being able to track my squad members health.

+1, I hope CCP sees this.

Keep up the good work this is amazing!

I do not think it should be a fade away. Rather, I propose that it be a white out. Where the screen glows increasingly white, then the battle starts fading in and then the image un blurs and becomes clear.

Very Nice Certainly deservant of a +1

A few things however your current prototypes for the HUDs are very nice, but personally the shapes only really suit the gallante. The caldari I would expect to be a lot more sharp if you know what I mesn.

Also the act of entering a new clone is supposed to be quite painful, I would prefer the bootup to begin as you fall to the ground (use inertia dampner landing) for just a LITTLE more immersion.

Other than very very very Cool.

Outstanding stuff, really. I'm impressed and totally loving this since I'm very hardcore about immersion and visual details. It's true that these little things, although seemingly insignificant at first glance, can actually bring a game alive with culture and personality.

I am absolutely in love with this concept.

Holy Mary Mother of a 2000-year-old Carpenter!

I always thought that adding a unique color to the HUD would help, but I never realized how much of an impact it can have visually to the gameplay experience. Here are what I like about the HUDs you posted...

1. The unique color, of course. It makes it feel like you're wearing a particular RACE of a suit rather than just having to look at your own hands to get that feeling. It also gives you a sense of the overall design philosophy behind each race.

2. I would very much like to see the squad commands displayed more visually. Seeing them on the top right corner of the screen in a bland color that can easily be overlooked is not something to experience when you want to know if you have an orbital available.

3. The transition via the HUD is an excellent idea. Although I would recommend throwing in some static flickering of the entire HUD to signify that your consciousness is in transit to a battle clone body. Alternatively, one could add in a cut scene of a merc getting shipped to a nearby district in the meantime.

The HUD is something I have wanted to see improved for a long time
Everthing you have detailed is spot on ... my favourites are the

- Squad intel
- Racial differences
- Hacks contributing to kill feed

I'm lost for words on how epic this is , Good stuff Aker

I created a post in CPM chambers....
I linked this, so hopefully they get on here and see this marvel !

-Flails, and stops.- B-B-But...omg. -Flails and carresses face insanely. Twitches slightly upon shock of awesomeness.- Dude...just...dude, wow. -Grabs Akers' shoulders and shakes him.- I want your brain...you make me feel like my IQ has increased a few points, and sees a small flicker of light for the race of humanity! -Clenches fist, lowering head while crying tears of joy.- You must continue on, sir. May no man pull you down on your quest for awesomeness. I have trained you well, grasshopper. You...you have made your sensei so proud! T^T Ahhhh, screw it, lmfao. Amazing job, man. Now if only CCP would recognize it, and look at it. Who the hell knows, they just might want to hire you for aesthetics. xD

+1!

Make it happen CCP!

I really like this thread, especially this^ part. Dust seriously needs better comms.

No problem, man. It's just nice to see ideas like this every now and then. Up to this point, most of the threads have been about "buff this", "nerf that", "QQ@Jihad Jeeps", etc. It got tiring. But then this original idea of yours came up and I was like "finally, something different".

Definitely better than what we have now, and hopefully CCP takes note.


But I will add that the design of each racial HUD feel too similar. Namely the circular Tacnet, health&ammo counters. Ideally, each race would have those HUD elements match their racial design philosophy.

Gallente are about curves, smooth surfaces. The circular HUD elements are fitting.

Caldari are angular, and are more minimalistic.

Minmatar are... more scraps and junk Macgyver-ed together.

Amarr are about form over function.

More work to take such things into consideration, but I believe that it would be well worth it.

First off, great work and effort invested here! I like the idea of custom HUDs.... but there are some elements I'd want to function differently.

For starters: transparency. You can already toggle this to some degree, but ideally you can turn the HUD anywhere from full brightness to completely off. The reason is two-fold: you can turn off the HUD to avoid screen burn-in on plasma type sets, and you can turn off the HUD to record gameplay in a more cinematic fashion. For the latter, being able to have no weapon/hands up would also be a large thing.

Next: color differentiation. Thematically, the colors are fine, but Dust already suffers somewhat with respect to restricted or ambiguous color differentiation in matches. The color difference between the "team blue" and "squad green" is not particularly large, for example. Color in general is not utilized to a great extent in the interface, with most of the tacnet and messages to the player being either red or blue. Though not always a large factor in design, making provisions/options shade-wise or shape-wise to accommodate color-blind gamers is usually a nice move as well.

For racial HUD differences, I think it would be best to offer an option of toggling racial HUDs regardless of the suit you're wearing (or the race you chose). Perhaps the default could be to tie the racial HUD to the current suit, but you could switch a toggle in the options to always force "blank" race's HUD when in dropsuits and "blank" race's when in vehicles. This would ostensibly be to remove racial HUDs as being a major factor in suit selection, but it would also allow players that identify more with a given faction (say Amarr) to vary their suit/vehicle use without having a jarring HUD-shift or without feeling like they're betraying their faction mid-match. Lore-wise, we can say the HUD is just an operating system.

And speaking of the racial HUDs, while the color differences are nice, I think more dramatic differences in information placement, borders, style, and color presentation would be preferable.

I realize these are initial mock-ups, but I think the difference in battle HUD would likely be much more stark between races than just a color difference. I'd like the differences to be so large as to appear that they were each the creation of a different designer (as lore-wise, you would expect them to have developed separately). Obviously, they all have to present the same information in some way, but much in the way that Deus Ex, Killzone, Halo, or Borderlands would have different visual aesthetics and placement of information, I'd expect different civilizations to vary their approach to a very large degree.

You might also expect a different racial HUD for vehicles, as mentioned earlier, and slight HUD variations dependings on suit type (e.g. - slight cosmetic differences in a light suit vs. a heavy suit). Some minor differences between a militia/standard suit and prototype suit in terms of HUD would also be interesting, though I wouldn't want dev hours invested in that early on.

Something like that anyway.

I love the idea of HUD`s to be of racial variant. If this also affected the loading screens that would add to the immersion. +1 to the idea.

Would the design be based of the starting race you picked or the suit you were wearing? I would assume it would be based on your starting race.
I have ideas though about the two mixing. Say if you are a high-tech Caldari mercenary in a low-tech Minmatar Suit. You might see advanced Caldari interfaces with low-tech Matari wiring in the back ground, so there is a mix of the suit and your race. That would be cool I think.

CCP have a bad habit of producing a skeletal game/expansions and then filling them out and polishing them afterwards.

One perfect example is the transitions. The only recently added a transition animation to pod death in EVE. How about we have this level of polish from the get go?

I like the idea, and have a few comments of my own to add in:

First off, I like the current Hud as is, and think that most of the elements in it work well. Perhaps changing the current HUD to racial variants would help, but keep that as the core look.

Second, I feel that the transitions themselves could vary racially.

The Amarr can have a fade to white (as to give a divine / religious feel to the transfers of immortal servants)

The Caldari who are pragmatic can just fade to static, it's bare bones, simple, and get's the job done.

The minmatar can have -every- little thing displayed (i.e having it show all the code running, loading bars, Processing messages, etc etc) this would give it a very busy, rough, and somewhat unfinished look to the load in, which often compliments their own jury-rigged basic design.

The Gallente can be the one that has the nice rounded design, some nice image to look at, and a more visually appealing transition, as to showcase their own desire of beautification.

Other things that should be considered are:

1) Ability to toggle squad view on / off in options. Not everyone wants the extra tidbits of info, especially if it's going to potentially crowd out other useful battle-field intel. (Like a guy 50 m away who would be where an icon was.)

2) Ability to load in other UIs / OS systems (AKA different HUDs). Some people just prefer the old HUD. Let them keep it.
This would also give the potential to add Aurum HUD options for players to buy. (They give no different information, but can come in different colors, or in Pirate-themed HUDs / Loading animations. Allowing for some purely cosmetic micro transactions.

Click my SIG, I've been asking for better comma for months now.

I love it!
Great idea! I love the idea for hiding loading screens. Hiding them being a HUD boot up sequence? Genius!
Racial HUDs has been something I've wanted since someone brought up the idea about a year ago...

Now to the constructive criticism part.
Im not a fan of the font. It could be a bit more readable. Perhaps each race could have their own?
The different HUDs could honestly be more different. The Amarr one could have some whispy floral designs here and there and the sixth sign of faith could be incorporated in there somewhere, the Caldari onwould look more fitting if it were more angular, I think. The Minmatar one could look more barebones maybe. The Gallente one looks fitting though.

Proxy chat doesn't necessarily need to be implemented to where enemies can hear what you are saying. I mainly want proxy chat so non-squad members could talk to each other.

Sure it would be cool if I could talk to the enemy, but we don't need it. We do need to talk to non-squad members however.

I would like to have HUD in future that have meaning.. everything that is unnecessary need to be remove(like scoop frame on SniperRifle).

Moved to Feedback/Requests

I won't ask you for your thoughts on this, as that would be asking the wrong DEV team, but can you at least refer this thread to the correct department?

Thanks.

did you read my racial hud post per chance? (i know i didnt think of it first im just curios :3 )

1+ I like the Gallente HUD :D

I'll share your post. :)

damn nice work man... hoping that this gets forwarded to the right devs

Good stuff here. Just curious, would the bud change depending on the suit, or the race you picked for your character?

Favorite part about this is the squad indicators. They would be a great addition to the game

I love all of it for the HUD the different flavors for the races look great! a little to distracting but other than that I hope it comes true.

This is some great work here can't wait to see the Caldari as I'm Amar and Caldari :D.

Now..... If only the Devs commented back on the feedback and request that we give them...

You should place this here as well.

Come on Dev's this is a great idea at least say "we'll think about it" come on I want this to happen!!!!

+1 MUST HAVE GALLENTE HUD!!!