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Missing UI feedback on Precision control and Docking mode


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KSP1
In KSP 1 the UI clearly gave feedback to the player about precision control or docking mode being enabled.
This is done with colour (blue pointer instead of orange), and an entire new tab for docking that displays information about your craft relative to your target.

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Precision control

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KSP2
KSP 2 has no feedback other than this small pop-up when enabling docking mode: 
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For the rest, the flight UI gives no indication that the flight controls are behaving differently than normal. The UI always looks like this:
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UI for docking mode:

Spoiler

This image shows the UI with docking mode enabled. As you can see, absolutely nothing changed about the UI
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Suggestion
I want to suggest something like the following. Note this is just a suggestion, the devs will be able to do this 100x better.

Precision mode: 
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Docking mode:
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The navball has target mode, use that. And instead of incredibly confusing rectangular thing you suggested, a single marker showing orientation parallel to docking port.

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Once again the Aziz has missed the entire point of the posting in favor of espousing the wonders the game  already has in place.

 

I for one would love a color indicator of some kind to let me known which Piloting mode the game is in.

It is far easier to register a visual que than intuit from wacky control responses as you fail to execute that docking burn / maneuver 

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6 minutes ago, The Aziz said:

The navball has target mode, use that. And instead of incredibly confusing rectangular thing you suggested, a single marker showing orientation parallel to docking port.

This is not about having a target selected and meeting up with that target.
It is about the game not telling you which input mode it is in. There is no visual feedback from the game. That is what my suggestion is about.

How that is done is up to the devs. I have just suggested one way which includes a docking alignment indicator, a useful tool when in docking mode, but that is not a necessity. For all I care they only use colours, as long as I get visual feedback about what control mode I'm in.

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This is highly needed. I had (a few times) that during a mission my controls didn’t work and I couldn’t turn the rocked. Turns out, it was in docking mode and after pressing the delete key it performed normal again. A clear way to show players in which setting the controls are is an absolute must in my opinion. Took me a wile to figure out what was wrong.

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