Star Citizen: New MFD screens & how they work

[@AviatorFox]

On one hand, I love the new MFDs. On the other hand, I've been around long enough to see every version of the MFDs publicly available and I have so much old information about previous versions stuck in my head that I doubt I'll be able to straighten this out for years.

[@c0maWhite00]

Backer since 2016 jumping back into 4.0. Great video and explanation, thanks, I was lost

[@Agrojagg]

As a new player this has been a wealth of info and earned my sub.

[@pi-halves]

I feel like I'm going to be spending a lot more time looking down at MFDs than I am looking at what's in front of me. I hope all of these settings have keybindings, focus-clicking while in combat (or even mining) seems like a pain point.

[@DadeVinci]

I missed the past 3 months and felt completely lost. This was very useful to me. Thanks!

[@hcsvoicepacks]

Great video - Will be featuring this in our newsletter ;)

[@lawofthewestgaming]

Awesome, thank you!

[@skks-fd1oq]

You can also press f and then move the mouse on the middle radar image to zoom in / out w middle mouse button and left click on a target tonselect it

[@LisaSimpsonLiberal]

THANK YOU!

[@anzebb]

[@RahzZalinto]

This is all good but also making me appreciate how Elite Dangerous lets me navigate all my "MFDs" with the joystick pretty easily lol. (or arrow keys/keyboard only) I don't like holding down F that much...hope it goes away xD

[@matthewfechter3317]

Very handy, thank you!

[@lawofthewestgaming]

Glad it helped!

[@klh6729]

KeyBindings --> Flight - Power FYI, You can use F5, F6, F7, & F8 to increase or decrease power to weaps, shields, and engines without needing to use the F-key and mouse to control pips. Which means you can also control them with a joystick hat.

[@ElijahNMitchell]

I love the new MFDs but do with there was an option for a HUD pop up for the ammo counter when in guns mode.

[@JohnVanderbeck]

Honestly I'm very happy we finally get the "standard" power management that every game since X-Wing uses. There is a reason everyone uses it. I'm definitely struggling to adapt to the change, and no one likes change, so I'm trying real hard not to instantly hate the changes, but some oddities I've noticed: 1. Turning off weapon power doesn't appear to actually stow weapons on ships that have that feature, and I can't find anywhere to turn on and off individual weapons 2. At least on Crusader ships, I find the speed/velocity indicator (the thing you change with mouse wheel) to be incredibly busy and hard to understand at a glance compared to the old one. 3. Why don't they make everything clickable? Like why can't I just click on the GSAF icon to toggle it? 4. How do you scan something you can't actually target?

[@CaptRico]

Great information, thank you

[@MrHganem]

I have no issues with the new MFD but the new "HUD" is unacceptable. its not even a HUD any more you have to look down to view it. the idea of a HUD is to overlay critical information directly in your line of sight. Coming from someone who flies a plane with a HUD for a living.

[@Raazik]

HUD is in the process of being finalized. Pilot helmets (I believe in the first alpha iteration - all helmets) will have two screens, top left and top right, on which you can display the same menus as on the ship's MFD.

[@JohnVanderbeck]

Right, it isn't a HUD but have they said it was? They call it a "cast" in game.

[@Raazik]

@@JohnVanderbeck Perhaps they said so because the term HUD has long since become broader than its original meaning. Now it is not only the helmet visor interface, but also what is called in Russian the Indicator of Windshield ("ILS" - "indikator lobovovo stekla") - the cockpit HUD.

[@Aethid]

These "casts" are really just an extension of the MFDs. There is supposed to also be a HUD projected as part of your helmet, which it seems they are still working on.

[@JonCampo91]

Sure you do. You look like you just play video games all day.

[@mattduncan3304]

While we have to hold F and use the mouse, this is a lot more hard work. In the future if we can use hand tracking in VR to reach out and touch these things, or set up our phones or tablets to link to the PC and present the MFDs on a secondary screen this will be amazing. I see us moving toward a vision...

[@logicblock8783]

While these look a lot cleaner, they also seem quite a bit fiddlier. I'm certainly not a fan of your FUEL being hidden away to only be in certain sub-modes, as well as critical things like your speed/altimeter not being front and center. It also looks like they did away with the thrust vector indicator (the little circular display next to your g-force that visually shows what direction you're thrusting in). One question I have: The power management is for managing power "blocks", with the numbers shown in the 15-20 range. How does this work with all the various thrusters a ship can have? Currently, you can power down each maneuvering thruster individually, which helps if you take damage and need to stabilize yourself by selectively shutting down thrusters that are causing you to spin out. This new system looks like it's all-or-nothing on "engines" which means we'd be losing the fine control we've already got.

[@Spelljammer1]

those are to the letter my concerns too.

[@GorBane]

I didn't think about the individual thrusters, but you're right. Hopefully that's something you can do with the engineering screen where you can see a map of your ship and see the individual components, hopefully including the thrusters, engines, etc.

[@rsvpilot72]

Thank you for walking us through this! Excellent indeed. Quick question for anyone smart on this new system: A given powerplant generates a set amount of pips or segments. It appears to be 20 generated from a size two PP of the best grade. If my ship has two powerplants installed do the segments or pips stack? Like is there now 40 assignable power segments? Thanks.

[@xVoidCypher]

Can you make the hud bigger? I can barely read it

[@wesleyg007]

Can anyone help me? I'm trying to figure out if there is a Shortcut or keymapping which toggles between 2 MDFs. Like the c1 has 2 displays... how do I toggle between them? Thank you

[@Reurbo]

I'm hoping for NAV and SCM sub-modes to have dedicated keybinds which don't require manually switching to SCM/NAV before switching to the desired sub-mode. I want to keybind to my throttle SCM\Missiles or NAV\Flight so regardless of which MM I'm in, I'll transition to the appropriate one directly in the sub-mode I want. The MFD reworks themselves though, persistence is going to be the most welcome part of it and being able to save/load custom presents are going to be welcomed additions to the ship setups.

[@HoloPurp]

Ive seen a few streamers that when they scan they have everything pop up ab their hud without looking at the tiny screen any way to do this on a titan? and how

[@karmabad6287]

I'm having trouble getting the casts to work in AC.

[@l-wook]

Does my Cutlas have those HUDs? It didn’t seem like it when I tried it.. lost lol

[@RavingNut]

I'm getting used to and sort of enjoying the new MFDs. But since scanning info has changed, it has made it a game of chance to find panels for salvage.

[@ZimCrusher]

Thank you for going over this, but I still think they are garbage. 1) they are solid. They took away the transparent ones, so now they all block your view. 2) The hallo on the left and right, overlap with certain MFDs and block your view (Connie, cutlass, Corsair) 3) The hallow on the left is half covered by the GLOBAL chat. 4) Corsair has no boost meter, that is easy to see. they took out all the HUDs that were helpful. 5) EVERY MFD setup is different, even on the same manufacturer, making it a pain to switch ships and know where things are. 6) When you hit SCAN V, several of the MFDs automatically switch. 7) The MFD controls at the bottom of each MFD are right next to Physical Switches, and SUPER easy to Shut your power off, when you want to just change screens. 8) The Power, Engine, Shields, should have an indicator that there is at least SOME power going to them, in a HUD. 9) in most ships the bottom MFDs are push so close to the pilot, you only see 2/3 of the screen, unless you press Z to look down. Not easy in a fight. Replacing HUDs with iPads is a dumb idea. At least give us the option to display things in our HUD, if we want.

[@MikePhilbin1966]

This is so much cleaner than the previous setup! I love it... but don't tell Chris, "He thinks I hate his game."

[@WookieeRage]

Omg did things just get a lot more complicated or was I missing a lot before this? Thanks for the video! It does help, but it all feels less user friendly to me. Steeper learning curve with a lot to manage.

[@garrycopeland6149]

Thanks, useful vid. Things just got way more complicated. Think I prefer the old MFDs! Perhaps CIG have partnered with that Game Glass thing, create a problem then take a cut of the sales ... I'm such an old cynic lol!

[@Kurzschlusskanal]

I thoght the Same. Sitting in my Avenger i had to look down and immideatly thought of the Tobii Eyetracker.

[@AZUL1001]

Power triangle was way more intuitive and easy to use, dont understand why the need to change something that worked well. I feel like now, half of the time we have to be with the F key pressed and looking for things...

[@bobhenny5443]

because with engineering coming in there will be way more than 3 options to assign power to

[@mhk9131]

I had the same comments, now that i have been using them vigorously, i like the minute configuration, they are faster, make more sense, easier when you set everything up, and with engineering it will make more sense

[@RiseUpFightForRight]

I still cant believe we cant fire guns and missiles at the same time.

[@yulfine1688]

You can't in most scifi either unless its a turret or something speical or a unqiue area to which larger ships will have such functions if they have zones for that, in real life as well you have to switch modes to fire missiles or guns, I do believe the 35 allows you to do both, the same goes for the f22, for something like the f16s and f15s and f18s I do not think they can without switching. The same seems to go for the ex models, however those are two seaters the c and d model are single seat and the ex is also single seat if i recall.

[@yulfine1688]

but that's because irl you have different loadouts for air to ground or air to air so having set modes for such functions is likely the better alternative or due to restrictions of systems etc.. the 35 is mostly air to ground but does fine in air to air so I guess it doesn't matter there. The 22 is almost entirely air to air with minimal air to ground sorties. Even then there's still some restrictions and little is known about how that actually works since well its mostly classified information.

[@Aethid]

​@yulfine1688 The vast majority of modern aircraft still require you switch active weapons to use either guns or missiles. They don't usually have dedicated triggers.

[@RiseUpFightForRight]

In AA mode, you still have access to guns. I’ll have you know, I’m proficient with the F-14, F-16, F-18 and graduated top of my DCS class. My K/D is higher than all of yours.

[@COMMANDERHAWK22]

we used to be able to do that but that feature was removed because of ........... balancing ttk. it was awesome because during that time you could launch all 48 of the connies missiles at 1 target it was awesome.