TL;DW:
- Complete overhaul of mobiGlas, moved to “Building Blocks” & “Cards” system
- New home panel displays:
- Tracked missions
- Notifications
- Reputation & crime stat
- Status of connected ship (ammo, fuel)
- Environment data (gravity, atmo, pressure, temperature, radiation)
- Health data (overall %, temperature, heart rate, suit fuel & oxygen)
- Some app updates won’t make it to 3.23 (chat, vehicle customization)
- Health app displays everything home screen does as well as:
- Conditions effects (injury status)
- Active drugs
- Hunger & thirst
- Blood drug level
- Contract manager changes:
- Toggle between legal/illegal missions instead of separate tabs
- “Mark all as read” button
- Star map changes:
- Now responsible for everything (space and locations)
- Local map has a clickable list of available points of interest (shops, transit, hospitals etc)
- GPS routing
- Custom markers
- Mission markers
- Will be able to navigate between zones (ex. needing to travel via trams) but there are some issues that require fixing first
- Space part contains all the info available until now, plus
- Clicking on a space location (like space station) displays info about available POIs (stores, landing options etc)
- Improved feedback when routing between space locations
- Search bar
- Marker list
- HUD shows level of injuries to each body part
CIG asked for feedback on HUD readability, drop by on Spectrum if you have something to add.
I understand the reason but the omission of something as basic as text outline is really hard to excuse (unless their argument for it is “artistic vision”). I checked the Scaleform documentation and, unless I found an incorrect document, adding such effect is extremely easy.
But OK, let’s say they didn’t want to do it in the old system. Well, they had a perfect occasion to fix it with this re implementation! It should be even easier since I’m pretty sure, the building blocks system uses HTML + CSS combo (this was mentioned a few years ago but I don’t think we heard about that changing).
Good news is they acknowledged the issue on Spectrum and are asking for further feedback. There’s a chance we’ll get some improvements before 3.23 release.