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Are there plans to make the UI/UX of the cockpit view as good as the external starship view?

TL;DRThere is no plan to match the external view, which has no UI, but the ship HUD is being worked on to be cleaner with more options to turn elements off.

Gabriel HectorSystems Designer, Manchester

So this is someone being a bit funny, I think. The external starship view has no UI at all. That's it. But I don't think there's a plan to do that. We won't go that far. But we are working on the HUD experience for ships, for sure. That's a big one. And it's going to be cleaner. And we're going to add more options for people to turn off things that they don't want to bother them when they're flying around. Also, just looking at the new flight mode that we're getting in 3.23, it's a very clean experience. It's very nice to just fly around in flight mode and enjoy that. So that's not quantum, because then you get the markers still, less markers than before, but then you can go into flight and just do the thing.

David "Bone" GillTechnical Director, UI

So I was thinking the other way around, which is, can you see the UI from outside the ships? As in, you can see through the cockpit, and if someone's flying a ship and you're EVAing behind them, you can see their UI. Because that's like being on the bridge of a ship, right? You can walk around and see what people are doing on their various consoles and stuff. So you could EVA, take a sneak peek, check out what you're doing.

Gabriel HectorSystems Designer, Manchester

What you're doing there on your mobiGlas.

Star Citizen Live›Q&A: UI Features 3.23·
Published on this date.26 Apr 2024
EpisodeUI & HUDShips