UI & HUD

They list quantum travel and star map bugs they are looking into, including route resets, no plotting around obstacles, and tunnel exits landing in the same system, and say the old routing code has changes coming in the future.

Pilot and gunner coordination should improve through planned social work, voice chat and marker and target sharing, which are known issues not yet prioritized: "not today, maybe tomorrow."

Gamepad improvements made for Squadron 42 will come back to Star Citizen, though they need fine tuning because flight model and quantum differ, and the team says it wants to support all peripherals.

Montreal is reworking inventory, with concept UI showing nearby inventories, search, filters, renaming and better tooltips, but it's only in concept phase, not in active development, with no delivery date.

The item bank moved from the personal inventory UI to the freight elevator kiosk UI after internal discussion and mixed feedback, and it will probably stay that way, with kiosk features like search brought over.

The search bar already searches the localized item name, but it doesn't search other item fields, and different UIs show different strings, so more work remains.

The contract details show the delivery itinerary, commodities and cargo amounts, but box sizes can't be displayed at the moment, which they want to add in the future.

Single-seat pilots will be told through the new MFDs' ship picture with components turning red and through the existing misfire messages, but they can do little beyond adjusting power or switching items off.

Complex touch-screen interactions on ships aren't planned for now, since they're hard to balance and a hand would obscure the UI, though hand poses at terminals and kiosks are still being discussed.

Maltby mentions tentative extras not yet ready to discuss, another Siege island takeover mission, and a change so Platinum Bays only list ships that can actually spawn there.

Persistence of these states is driven by game code, not the persistence team; gimbal modes might persist via a serialized variable, while MFDs and scanning angles are unconfirmed pending the combat team.

Floating text wasn't meant to be permanent; they want to add a personal interaction system with a player-configurable default action for each item and a right-click wheel of other interactions, down the line.

A move-all option has been discussed but isn't promised; the answer mostly lists planned inventory improvements such as a search filter, visual tweaks and showing attachments on tooltips.

Building Blocks now lets game designers and artists across the company build UI themselves, has gained 3D model support, first seen in inventory, and now has reusable, restylable pieces such as buttons.

No fix is in 3.12 for party nameplates because the team was busy elsewhere, but they've been converted to a new UI system that will more than likely fix the bug in a future patch.

The AR door finder is aimed at new players, who can find ship doors confusing, and veterans can turn it off; the speakers see making the game more accessible as a long-term benefit.

The concept team does consider physical interactions such as button placement on tall vehicles, but it's a quality-of-life detail often missed under deadline pressure and they acknowledge they still need to discuss signposting.

The underlying systems for persisting settings locally or in the player account already exist, but it's up to each feature team to prioritise it, so it's not committed, though Jared Huckaby thinks the chances are good.

Kirk Tome says seat height adjustment is hard because the HUD, the IK on the controls and shared entry animations would all need changes, with the dynamic HUD the biggest tech challenge, though all of it is solvable with time.

Graham Philipson says the team plans a fully integrated in-game voice command system that needs no key bindings, but it is only in the internal backlog, not an immediate plan, and would reach the public roadmap once scheduled.

External device connectivity isn't a focus now because in-game core features like ship MFDs come first, but it isn't ruled out; a web-based Spectrum overlay might later make tablet-style controls easier.

Yes, the former star map becomes a single map that zooms from space to planetside, built into the mobiGlas, and it only shows known locations so exploration is preserved.

Spectrum's technology stack supports bots and chatbots and they are interested in the idea, but it would not be in the first release and they want compelling real-world examples and community feedback.

Color variations are definitely coming and already visible in the RSI flight suit; CryEngine supports layer color changes, so the remaining work is an in-game interface and persistence.

Roberts says the roadmap includes in-game streaming players can toggle on and off, spectator cams around the universe, news-van streaming and in-fiction races, and viewing another player's viewpoint is possible, depending on equipment.

Roberts says the helmet is mostly a display, and what shows on the HUD depends on the equipment you carry and ship systems you plug in, so it will be very customisable, with different ship HUDs coming around 1.0 or shortly after.

If the Oculus Rift works correctly they don't expect to redesign cockpits or assets for one peripheral, and are confident the current setup will work well with it.