What i find troubling is the Hud \ Cockpit of the ship taking up a good 50% of the screen real estate with no meaningful purpose.
A Smaller issue
The colors are "Flat" which essentially you would see in a sticker you get in a toy.
Get used to it, there is no 3rd person view...
The "meaningful purpose" is to provide immersion and differentiation between crafts.
There is also a very practical meaningful purpose: You *need* a stationary cockpit in VR to avoid getting nauseous. Because you're physically stationary, the virtual world also needs a good stationary portion that agrees with your senses.
To cater to 0.01% of the player base that may use VR is not a "meaningful" purpose. to have such massive obstructive huds.
A great example of Non-Obstructive HuD
Well this is how Star Wars ships really are, they don't have fancy holographic displays or anything, this is the way they really are and they all have a use.
Ya just to give you a nice comparison.
This is the Old Original MS DoS Tie Fighter Game. Notice the Hud while still showing the entire Design takes as little space as possible in order to maintain the Hexagon Window.
Now look the Modern Version.
Notice that 1/3 of the Screen is just the Rim. and another 1/5th of the remaining screen is the WIndow Bracing and 1/6th of the Screen is the Central Control Panel.
I think the easiest solution for them is to decrease the thickness of the glass bars by 50% and and the move the camera up closer with the hud lower.near the bottom.
You’re comparing bomber cockpit to fighter cockpit. This is the fighter cockpit.
