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[CateranEnforcer]

So with the somewhat recent addition of the computer voice, I've started more and more to wish for some changes to the overall cockpit interface. Don't get me wrong, it sounds great. I just think now is good time to chime in on some suggestions I have while it's stil incomplete.

I played a lot of Mechwarrior 2, so it's cockpit sounds are by an large the most familiar to me. I really miss having additional audio cues from my mech giving me tons of information almost subconsiously in a heated battle. Some examples include:

-A sharp warning alarm when your heat was high, followed by a verbal waring. The verbal warning alone is not urgent enough to always alert me when I am in the heat of battle. Sometimes I can't hear it over the sounds of shells bouncing off my mech or somethimes I am tunnel visioning. I know I should manage it myself and I do, it would just be better at getting my attention.

-A missile lock alarm. The voice I find is not very useful in this case. Sometimes, by the time it is finished speaking the missiles are about to hit me. Again, the voice is not urgent enough to always grab my attention.

-A tone when a component was damaged followed by a verbal damage report. Now the voice is pretty good at this, actually. The only reason I would prefer a tone is for overall quicker recognition of the problem so I know to listen for the damage report or check my readouts.

Also, some things the computer says, I find are not useful at all. I would like to toggle some of them off, like the "New target aquired" one. I know the target is aquired, I hit the button to do that and there is already a beep accompanying it!

I hope those giant warning messages at the top of the screen are placeholders because they take up a large portion of the HUD and it gets crowded up there with more than one. I only really use the incoming missile one simplying because its quicker than the voice is, but if I also have critical damage or something else, it's really easy to miss it.

I do like the ammo warnings and I listen for the very light beeps that inform me that a weapon group is ready to fire. More stuff like that would make me a very happy mechwarior!