Tech view descriptions should have fixed positions on the screen

I have used the tech view during combat only very few times. I gave up on it quickly. The reason is that enemies, even tanks, are usually moving all the time and so quickly, that everything in the tech view is constantly shifting around, appearing and disappearing, making it very hard to find out which components are where and damaged to what extent. The general blurriness of the highlighted components does not help either.

Having at least the descriptions in fixed positions on the two sides of the screen would make it much easier to find out which robot has what kind of components and weak points and at which health state they are.

The lines going to the robot body could still move and appear/disappear dynamically depending on occlusion or view focus.

With both components and descriptors moving around, you need to focus at two aspects of the view at the same time. Then you see a weakened component and want to see where it sits, but often it already has disappeared by then due to rotation/occlusion.

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Additionally the labels point to random components. I’ve seen e.g. face armour labelled as “legs”.

Yeah, it is not a very stable experience. Some of it might be due to super-position. But other times it might be due to update lag or something else.

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