HUD UI Color Change!!!
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That's false. There are several different HUD colors that work just fine on PC. Those also keep the portraits their original color. You can test with the Arku Elite Dangerous HUD Colour Theme Editor. Also it should be for the PLAYER to decide to change the cluttered bright orange HUD, not Frontier.
The least they can do is add 1 more HUD color options in the in-game menu for every platform.
The truth is a lot of people don't like an orange HUD... weird huh Frontier? Just like how many people don't like an orange car or orange painted house. That's why HUD customization is very important.
Yes that makes it less obvious and the game feels more immersive.
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This has already been discussed several times and unfortunately no matter how much we would like it it will never happen. The game is designed in such a way that it's said to be impossible for Frontier to change the HUD color without messing up a lot of other UI elements. Also the last we've heard from them in this regard is that they have "no plans" to do anything about it. Sadly PC users are fine with this because they have utilities to change colors with, and there are very few Xbox players right now who are affected.
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We'll keep complaining until it does happen and thousands of people already did during the last two and half years. Even a slight customization is better than nothing.
Which is a lie, because some custom colors look fine without "messing up the UI".
We don't know the exact amount of people who dislike, detest the orange HUD. It's a significant amount, because it gets a lot of upvotes on the subreddit.
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Not all HUD colours are equally affecting other elements
If you choose certain settings then the mission portraits can turn sickly blue for example.
Anyway.. FD already stated that they would like to implement an in-game HUD colour customization option at some point, but it takes some work. The way HUD colours are currently setup is too limiting for that to work properly.
I would love an in-game option and would certainly make use of it myself, but I do not think it should be a priority.
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The fact is some custom HUD colors have perfectly fine portrait colors too. It's not much work to implement 1 additional or 10 carefully selected HUD colours in the graphics menu. Frontier could simply copy good HUD settings from Arku Elite Dangerous HUD Colour Theme Editor.
They say it's on "The List" no ETA, no guarantees. Well, it's been 2 and half years since release. It's a poor excuse.
It's currently not a massive issue, because PC users can customize it. Console players don't have that though.
I think it should. A lot of people don't buy a car when it has a color they dislike or detest. I think a lot of people who dislike the orange HUD detest it later after having stared at it for hundreds of hours without any option to change it. There's a thread about this in the Xbox subforum.
The HUD also appears too cluttered imo. I really hate the thick square lines in the top and wish we could customize it.
If we can get a comment by Frontier that this is being worked on then I'll stop complaining.
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The fact is some custom HUD colors have perfectly fine portrait colors too. It's not much work to implement 1 additional or 10 carefully selected HUD colours in the graphics menu. Frontier could simply copy good HUD settings from Arku Elite Dangerous HUD Colour Theme Editor.
They say it's on "The List" no ETA, no guarantees. Well, it's been 2 and half years since release. It's a poor excuse.
It's currently not a massive issue, because PC users can customize it. Console players don't have that though.
I think it should. A lot of people don't buy a car when it has a color they dislike or detest. I think a lot of people who dislike the orange HUD detest it later after having stared at it for hundreds of hours without any option to change it. There's a thread about this in the Xbox subforum.
The HUD also appears too cluttered imo. I really hate the thick square lines in the top and wish we could customize it.
If we can get a comment by Frontier that this is being worked on then I'll stop complaining.
Wow! strongly/passionately worded! I completely agree. At first I was like, a bit strong, but then realised myself when you said "staring at this for hundreds of hours" and I'm like, erm yeah, that's gona be me aswelll!!!!
I really do hope the implement this, although I don't mind the orange, I really would like the option to change it as I would do this periodically or when I get a new ship for example. I also read that it would cause major problems if they changed it or its really tricky to change it, I'm not sure that's true, if it is, then its a major design flaw if changing the hud colour creates game breaking bugs etc etc