A quieter HUD: the same moments, before and after

· M8 · The realm under siege

Every feature this week brought its own message: goals, missions, contracts, raids, starfalls, the Matriarch. They all landed in the middle of the screen, on top of the Prospector and on top of each other. Now each kind of message has one place to go.

A raid on the Citadel: the banner BROOD SWARM under the compass, two small toasts at the upper left, the Prospector's view clear
A raid now: one banner under the compass, the rest at the upper left, the middle clear.

Where things go now

Toasts go in one lane at the upper left, three at most; the rest wait their turn. The same news arriving twice is merged into one, and unloads add up, so a run of deliveries reads "+72 ORE · 9 TO THE REALM" instead of a stack of small ones.

The big moments get one banner slot under the compass: a level-up, a raid warning, the Matriarch down, a region's name when you arrive. They come one at a time, and they wait while a screen like the Journal or the map is open, so you don't miss one behind it.

The contract panel is one line of titles plus the NEXT line, 52 points tall where it was 158. It opens in full only when there's news about a contract. The Matriarch's boss bar is a compact plate under the compass. The Q, C and G slots moved to the left of the Prospector and the supplies to its right. And a finished job no longer says "CONTRACT DONE: CONTRACT".

Before and after

  • Before: a goal, a mission and a contract done all at once, stacked in the middle of the screen over the ProspectorBefore: a goal, a mission and a contract finishing at once, stacked on the Prospector.
  • After: the same moment, the three messages small at the upper left, the contract panel one lineAfter: the same moment, at the upper left. The panel is one line.
  • Before: a raid, with the BROOD SWARM banner, a starfall warning, ore and a survey chip all overlapping mid-screenBefore: a raid, a starfall and a delivery on top of each other.
  • After: BROOD SWARM alone under the compass, the starfall warning and the ore in the laneAfter: the raid gets the banner, the rest go in the lane.
  • Before: the Matriarch's boss bar wide across the top of the viewBefore: the boss bar across the top.
  • After: the boss bar a compact plate under the compass, the banner KSTR: BROOD SWARM under itAfter: a compact plate, with the raid banner under it.
  • Before: the level-up banner with the contract panel open beside itBefore: a level-up.
  • After: the level-up banner under the compass, the panel one lineAfter: the same level-up.
  • Before: the contract panel at its old heightBefore: the contract panel, 158 points tall.
  • After: the contract panel as one line of titles and the NEXT lineAfter: 52 points.

The XP that wasn't missing

The same pass looked into a 200 XP gap in the level bar. It turned out to be a 6 that looked like an 8 at 12 points. The digits are 13 points now.

Every test suite passes: 494 core, 241 server and 85 network.