Latest Update: July 2017: V1.2.42
This is the latest VICE Ultrapoint HUD.
Note: before writing any hate reviews, please understand that this hud has taken me 100's of hours to develop yet I am giving it out to the community for just 1L$ for all to enjoy. If there are changes you want made, features added or have found a bug that need's fixing, please feel free to contact me directly and I will do my best to accommodate.
What is VICE Ultrapoint?
The development of the VICE combat system ceased in 2010. Leaving the system to age for several years. The Ultrapoint project started as Frontal assault back in early 2014 and later formed part of VICE Ultrapoint. Although development of VICE is limited as we cannot directly modify the base system and collision, Ultrapoint utilizes everything we have access to, in order to build upon the system and make SL feel like a first person shooter. These modifications / additions can be fitted into 6 category's:
[ 1 ] Destructible and reactive combat environments
[ 2 ] Sim wide game modes such as domination
[ 3 ] An interactive HUD including player statistics
[ 4 ] Increased vehicle integration
[ 5 ] Anti-cheat measures
[ 6 ] Full sim-player connectivity
So what does the HUD do?
The Ultrapoint HUD is central to VICE Ultrapoint as a whole. It aims at transforming your Second Life combat experience into a full first person shooter experience. This is done with:
[Statistics Page]
The stats page gives you information about how you perform in combat. It totals your kills and deaths and displays your overall kill/death ratio. It also gives you a combatant rating similar to an E-sports rank to compare yourself to other Ultrapoint users.
[Supply Drops]
A new addition as of V1.2.42, gain supply cases and open them for a chance to win a variety of items from gear to vehicles with varying rarity. Each case contains 1 item from common rarity to legendary. All players gain 1 supply drop to start and more can be acquired from pick ups on Ultrapoint integrated sims.
[Ranking System]
As well as your combatant rating you also have a rank. Ranks go from level 1 to 13 each with a cool and unique name and insignia. You can check your rank progression in the stats page where a progression bar as well as your current and next rank are displayed.
[Unlocks]
Unlock free cool stuff by increasing your rank. Once you have unlocked an item you can customize it in the unlocks tab, including modifying it's pattern / paint job or adding / detaching attachments. Currently you can unlock a crotch guard but more is due to be added.
[Loadouts]
Selecting a loadouts gives your character certain perks, especially useful on Ultra point enabled combat sims.
[Assignments]
Allot of people like having assignments to work towards such as killing a certain amount of combatants. There are currently 9 assignments to complete.
[Customization Settings]
Don't like the appearance of the HUD? Well there are a hand full of settings for you to play around with. choose if you want an invisible background or choose between 9 different backgrounds for your HUD.
[In Combat Display]
Whilst in combat you can see your kills and deaths as well as getting notifications when you get a kill, score points, rank up or unlock something new.
[Blood Effects]
When you get shot, blood effects will appear around the edge of the screen.
[Collectible Patches]
Collect a variety of cool patches by completing assignments or picking one up in a supply drop. Then use them to spice up your profile.
[Ultrapoint Sim Integration]
Built in team selection for Ultrapoint sims to allow for participation in Ultrapoint game modes such as domination.
[Community]
The HUD has a direct link to join the official VICE Ultrapoint community group. Here you can learn about future updates, gain freebies, here about new combat sims and events as well as talking with other combatants and the developers of Ultrapoint.
Good for VICE
It is very useful and essential to play VICE Combat system, as this will give you the opportunity to feel it as more combat game and you can see scores and deaths you do during your games, and some things that should be updated in the integrated browser, but otherwise it is very good and very useful, I hope it gets better and updated later, thanks! n_n