I like the idea of having the hability of using multiple display configurations, was thinking about it as well.

Something like the Predator movies :)

You could indeed have helmet specific slots to plug in personalized filters. They might take up CPU and thus affect what you can equip into your gear.

There could be thermal displays,l normal view, electromagnetic, etc.

These different modes could be disrupted, maybe thru grenades or active modules on the suits or even deployables or dropship modules making the drop ship act like a ECM dropship (or even ECCM).


This would indeed add more flavour to customization.

I noticed the sonar part of your feedback and I thought about it a bit. Has anyone seen a sonar/doppler visual mode in any other games? I think we could achieve a sonar visual effect by comparing the vertex normal to the camera normal (dot product) and then factoring in the reflectivity of the surface (which is the specular power--although not all surfaces would have this). The result is that smooth surfaces in the direction you are facing would have a different visual effect (while the rest likely transparent). Although who is to say that your sonar wave projects in a single line--but we could consider a falloff range perhaps. It would be more interesting to account for the doppler effect, which would be worth prototyping. If you colored each pixel based on depth (distance from camera) and had access to a previous frame there could be a way to derive a visualization of things moving (at least moving relative to your position). I can at least bug CCP Photon about this and see what he thinks (of the technical possibility).