More Customisable Hud?

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  1. BBIAJ

    BBIAJ Well-Known Member

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    Can we please make the HUD more customisable?

    For example, having the option to increase the font size and/or colour of the in-game world destination marker. For those of us not sat at a PC monitor with our noses to the screen, but rather being sat on the sofa several feet from our TV, it can be incredibly hard to read.

    Which brings me on to my second request, the option to toggle off the use of italics almost everywhere! Italics are used to emphasise a point, as I have just done, not as block text, lists of options, and especially not as tiny HUD numbers for signal and destination distance.

    For someone such as myself, with poor eyesight, this is a bizarre design choice.

    Who on the team thought that this was a good idea, and more to the point, why?
     
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  2. Fitz

    Fitz Well-Known Member

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    I second all of the above points.
    I do not like the text font and size in TSW2. I could read everything in TSW1 just fine from the couch. Playing TSW2 last night had me squinting trying to read the screen and I could hardly read the white destination marker and distance as it was over a white building making it almost impossible to read.

    As it is now, I rather playing East Coast Way on TSW than TSW2 because of the interface/HUD and design choices make for TSW2.
     
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  3. stujoy

    stujoy Well-Known Member

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    Very poor choices in the HUD display. The whole UI is full of bad text. The HUD in the lower right isn’t too bad, apart from the bizarre choice of segmented numbers for everything except the speed. When using the ratio for gradient, level ground is usually denoted by 1:[infinity sign]. Guess what, you can’t do the infinity sign with segmented numbers, so on level track the gradient measurement just disappears. That’s the choice they made. What would be better than that? Changing the font to anything other than segmented number display, so you can put in the infinity sign. The speed you are doing isn’t using segmented display and it is the most readable thing on the HUD. Go figure.
     

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