Meter Accessories

Meter Accessories are a sub-category of Accessory Blocks which provide augments and enhancements to the user's HUD.

Radars
By default, all control blocks feature a basic navigational system which has less range, with the exception of Hawkeye's Non-AI Control Blocks. Radars expand that into a much larger circle, while adding the coordinate numbers, a compass, and several rings to indicate distance between objects displayed on it. The map, however, will not actually cover terrain with accuracy, due to the latter being randomly generated by the game.

The radar minimap represents an area on the ground of radius 300 meters / ~1000 feet. This is divided by multiple rings into 6 sections, with 50m between each ring. These rings are very important because they show the player how enemies nearby them will behave. Enemies within 200m (4th ring) can be targeted with weapons' lock-on and enemies within 150m (3rd ring) will become aggressive. Although both of these distances are calculated from your camera, so the accuracy may vary. Another important consideration is that most techs, dropped blocks and resources will despawn after ~500 meters. These will respawn in their original condition most of the time when the player returns aside from the random spawn enemy techs.

Radar Accessories include:


 * GSO Kraven Radar Module
 * Venture Radar
 * Hawkeye Pointer Radar
 * Better Future Radar
 * Reticule Research Resource Radar

Additionally, Radar Accessories display these icons on the map:


 * Allied techs (Cyan dot surrounded by cyan ring)
 * Anchored techs (Cyan/Brown/Red (Allied/Neutral/Hostile) ring wrapping a dot with a horizontal line below.)
 * Trading stations (Block Bucks symbol)
 * Enemy techs (Red Crosshairs)
 * Invaders appear instead as an inverted white triangle with an exclamation mark, while surrounded by a red aura.
 * Missions & Objectives (A white ring encasing either a circle or an exclamation mark)
 * Neutral techs (such as NPCs. They have the usual marker but in yellow)
 * Allied SCUs (White vortex. Overrides any other icon the allied tech may have)
 * Crates (gray question marks)

Speedometers
By default, the speedometer is absent from all control blocks save for the Venture Cruz Cab. These add a readout to the HUD declaring the tech's current speed, which includes lateral movement, ignoring the Z-axis. By default, the unit is Miles Per Hour.

Speedometer Accessories include:


 * Venture Speedometer
 * Better Future Speedometer

Altimeters
Altimeters add readouts to the HUD indicating the tech's distance relevant to sea level. This distance is measured in feet, unlike mission distance which is measured in meters.

Altimeter Accessories include:


 * GSO Altimeter
 * Venture Altimeter

Fuel and Power Gauges
The GSO Fuel Gauge/GSO Power Gauge will add their respective augments to the HUD, with displayed stats matching the amount displayed by the tech's fuel tanks/batteries. The faster a section flashes, the closer it is to depletion.

Trivia

 * After to around V 1.3, the Hawkeye Control Blocks now feature an integrated radar. At around the same period, most other HUDs (save for the radar) were updated also.
 * It is unknown why do they continue to manufacture their own brand of radars, which is considered obsolete with their own control blocks.
 * The same applies to Venture's speedometer.
 * Altimeters and Speedometers are redundant in RnD Labs, as they are already provided regardless if a tech has the relevant accessories or not.