Shield cell bank # of charges on HUD

[jacozilla]

May be missing something obvious but don't see shield cell # of charges on our HUD.

If so, would sure like that added.

No big deal on usual short, quick burst fights. But for longer duration sustained fights always nice to know at a glance if you're down to last charge

 

[HeavyGroovez]

They are visible if you add them to a firegroup.

 

[Spanksh]

+1 I would definitely like to be able to see the charges on my hud when they are added to a hotkey and not a firegroup.

 

[woodhouse]

I always wondered why an interdictor is shown in the HUD, but shield cells are not.
Doesn't seem very consistent.

 

[W4rSkuLL]

Yes, the same can be said about chaff and heat sinks to. I use VA for my shield cells. This overrides the need to swap fire groups and frees up buttons on the X52 Pro. But it could always be handy to have an ammo count on your HUD at all times or even as a popup for a keybind. Press a button and a display comes up with your ammo count for all weapons and modules which vanishes again when you release it.

Though, as you have the ammo count for the fire group of your hard points, which is always on display, when you use your guns, its always useful to have "all info" together in a big package.
Make it so that you can bind a key for an "ammo pop up" on the HUD, which again can be assigned to VA by saying "Ammocount" and a pop up flashes on the HUD displaying the info you need. This can even be done with cargo and missions to. A quick voice command and a flash on the HUD displaying the info. This sort of input will be extremely useful in hasty situations like combat or tight situations like trying to escape being killed. Where often panic sets in. And people press wrong buttons

 

[Jesse Blue]

I think something more visual (somehow hinting the SCB strenght) would also help, something like this:

 

[GunnerBill]

Agreed

Still annoying that fire groups only work for two buttons.

 

[Entz]

+1 . Would nice if they showed on the left most ring along with Chaff and heatsinks .

 

[geoffrey.hdt]

Easy solution: implement a 3rd fire group...this has been asked for AGES! And still nothing... :-/

And if no fire group, yes please, display in HUD the active shield cell banks. Somthing like:

SCB D2: 1/2
SCB 1B: 1/3

 

[ZATZAi]

Yah been wanting this for a while. Same way Chaff shows up even when it's not on a firegroup. Maybe we could toggle what modules show up on the HUD, would be nice to be able to have our thruster and power plant status always visible if we choose to.