All great, 1 more suggestion, include a small see-through text box on the bottom of the screen to allow players who don't have mics to communicate effectively, any messages from your squad appear here and have the option to send messages that your entire team can see.

The minimap already has an indicator for N, adding E, S, W would just make it harder to read at a glance.

Fantastic post but I am curious, howcome they removed the repair tool effect? At one point we did have golden sparkly awesomeness. What happened to it?

The great and mighty CCP Saberwing flew to me from the heavens with his saber-sharp wings, and he has beseeched me, the glorious emperor god-king KAGEHOSHI, with a scroll with five-hundred-fourteen golden seals (Twitter message) asking me to compile a list of important HUD stuff. In the past I have made this thread (Improving the HUD) full of ways to improve the HUD, but here I shall extract only the most important functional stuff only, as well as some new ones I have come across on the forums.


[Map/minimap]

[Team/squad]


[Equipment]

[Weapon]

[Other]

I noticed right now that messages about whether you are scanned, hacking taking place, and others occupy the same place, and only one can be displayed; if an enemy starts hacking a CRU, I will no longer get information about whether or not I have been scanned. It might be good idea to just stack these messages, and even the squad order, RDV, and strike messages to the right where the kill-tracker currently is, and move the kill-tracker thing lower on the screen to make room (inspired by this).

-Upper right corner may be able to display squad orders, if you have been scanned, pending RDV requests, what is being hacked, etc.
-Lower right corner will show who kills who.



Without doing any radical shift in layout, or getting into immersion stuff like HUD-wobble (which should have never been removed), this is what I believe is important for improving the HUD. Behold the mighty list! marvel at how I typed things!
Seriously wish I could have just typed all this directly on twitter with one big direct message, I hate character limits.

I would argue this. I find the current mini map difficult to orient myself with because of the size and colour of the "N". Even without the addition of "E" and "W" I would greatly appreciate adjustments to the size or colour of the "N". Adding a small "S" in a different colour would also bring a bit more awareness to the table.

We also need better grenade indicators. About half of the grenades that end up by my feet never show an indicator.

In the squad status HUD element incapacitated mercs should have a bleedout timer indicator, prolly a semi-transparent indicator bar overlaying over that merc's Squad List entry.

I disagree with notifications to when equipment is destroyed. That's a powerful intel tool that's unnecessary. Someone should be able to sneak into an objective, take out the uplinks, hives and remotes and get out without letting the other team be "notified"