Tesunie, on 10 October 2015 - 08:10 AM, said:
The damage display is positioned like that so that it more accurately reflects how it appears to you.
Example:
If you are looking at the mech from the front, the left damage is shown as being to your left. This makes it so you can quickly attack and disable the mech by shooting your guns to your left.
The back is reverse (as you've noticed) so that, when you are behind them, you would see that you have to shoot at your right (what was once left to you from the front) to disable that component.
It sounds confusing, but it's actually rather simple. It makes better for quick decision making, even if it isn't "Proper" in format. (It's like stage Left may be the actors right when they are facing the audience, but it's the audiences left. Same concept.)
Edit: Looking at what you phrased again... you may be right? We want the mech's right and left to be our target's right and left. But it's showing us the mech as our left and right? Hum. I can see some testing on this...
Edit: I thought you where talking about target damage displays....
So... It appears as though the popup help tab is slightly incorrect. Good eyes. (I mistook what you were saying.) They appeared to have just taken the same image as the target data and copy pasted into the player's damage display popup.
Not even that, you can't find this LR front and RL rear in the actual game itself (targetting or player's)
Void Angel, on 10 October 2015 - 09:37 AM, said:
Friendly suggestion: Capitalize "RL," and "LR" in the title, and put them in quotes - it took me a few seconds to figure out what you were trying to say...
Well, I tried capitalizing RL and LR but it was reformatted into "Rl" and "Lr." Quotes for next time is a good idea, thank you! Unfortunately, I cannot change the title of the thread after it's already been posted...
WonderSparks, on 10 October 2015 - 10:56 AM, said:
Just another thing wrong with that pop-up!
It already doesn't quite look the same as our armor displays (seeing as it shows the damage to the head on the rear view in the pop-up), and this, which I completely overlooked myself ("oh, I don't need to learn about this stuff, I'm already familiar with it all"), is just something else that could possibly merit a slight redo.

Wow, that is a good call too! I did not see that
Edited by Bobman, 10 October 2015 - 11:02 AM.