Let's talk about the visor and lens stuff. In ISC yesterday, players saw a little bit of the 3D minimap in the corner and some other stuff. [Is that coming in] 3.23?
TL;DRThe visor HUD is being restyled with new notifications, a combat stack, widgets, a compass and a minimap, but the minimap only covers marked-up locations, mostly ships in 3.23, with more added patch by patch.
Yeah. So basically the visor HUD is going to be a big restyle. So I think the big task at the moment is restyling it for the Persistent Universe. Just a few features essentially. We have the existing hint system that we've got in game. That's all being tidied away into the new notification system that we've got with high and low priority notifications, where we've got some really nice visuals for those. We've obviously got the newly reworked, I'm going to call it the combat stack. That's what I quite like calling it. No one else calls it that, but basically it shows you where all your ammo is, gives you all your feedback for your weapons, changing items, things like that. Shows you what's in your hands. Then on the left-hand side, we've obviously got all the widgets for things like your health, the environment, all that sort of stuff. We've got the compass that's going in too. It's in the video. You can already see it.
Wait. An actual compass? Like, I can tell what direction I'm going? I can go, that's north?
Yeah. Well, not north in space, but you've got a bearing. And then obviously one of the biggest ones is the minimap, and the minimap is amazing. It really is. And it links into what we're doing, which we can talk about in a little bit, with the star map on the mobiGlas 2, which is basically the area map. I'll make very clear now, we're not doing all locations with the minimap, because obviously there is a lot of space and areas to mark up.
Yes, I was going to say, let's talk about that. The minimap does not just exist in a vacuum. Every single location in the Persistent Universe has to be marked up in order to feed that information into the minimap. I'll go ahead and say, because I talked to John Crewe about this just yesterday, the ship team is working diligently to get as many of the ships as possible marked up for 3.23. You can at least explore your ships with the minimap, and then maybe a couple locations here and there. And then that will just continue. Patch after patch after patch, we'll just continue to mark up more and more locations until eventually all of the PU reaches parity.
Yep, so it's going to be really easy to find your way around everywhere once it's done. So you can basically just get a view of where you are, where you want to go, set a route, all that good stuff.