Option for a minimalist HUD

[Old Ranger]

Just tested the Game without HUD like Vaecrius did. Game looked very good, suits well. In multiplayerd there was not those health bars etc. Good athmosphere. Clear and natural if those are right words. Liked very much. Too bad you dont see chat.

For me might be enough for KF1, if there was Toggle HUD on/off key.

KF2, it might be best (imo) if there wasnt HUD at all, as an good option. But someway there must be a way to see own and others ammo-healt-armor and things like that. Chat also must be included.

I'm going to disagree about anything that would require me to bind a new key. This sounds very, very, very fiddly and awkward and cumbersome and [thesaurus for the previous words] in a way that might add to the feel of some other survival horror game, but one where combat is not a primary focus and the protagonist is unfamiliar with how guns work.

Agreed. New key might would be unhandy for KF. But some other way, which suits to KF (if using no HUD).

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In mid of the wave, i usually always check how many bullets (ammo) left and how many specimens left. And how many players left(anyone died?). So you can plan, if things gettin nasty, are ammo enough for you(?). This maybe unrealistic, but i like to see it.

 

[Vaecrius]

For me might be enough for KF1, if there was Toggle HUD on/off key.

I think it should be possible to go to user.ini and bind a key to "showhud".

 

[nath2009uk]

I liek.

Ever play the Wii version of Alone In The Dark?

You have to check the ammo in your gun by removing the magazine and counting the rounds shown by the indicator hole thingies.

Or Condemned : Criminal Origins.

 

[C_Gibby]

Or Condemned : Criminal Origins.

Oh yeah, that was much awesomer.

 

[Compass]

Behold, a SLIM HUD.

Red Bar - Health
Light Blue - Armor
Black and clear - Encumbrance
Green - Ammo Supply
Vertical Blue - Your gun's capacity
Grenade Icons - Duh

Compass - Gets bigger depending on how close you are to the trader, goes above the red line to indicate the trader is above you, below to indicate below you, does not appear at all if you are facing away from it.

Skulls - Opaque = level you are on, transparent = levels you haven't completed, finished waves are made black.

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Now tell me that doesn't make the game feel 100% more immersive?

 

[nath2009uk]

It does actually.
But KF-Doom ruined any atmosphere and immersion.

 

[Compass]

I would have picked a better map but that map was the default one set because of a certain "ahem" that I found a few weeks back.

 

[Old Ranger]

I like this idea of minimal hud. Minimal HUD is in my top 10 list what i like to KF to have.

Good minimal HUD Compass.

I wonder, if top right and top left could be free of info also and all info would then be in bottom left corner where health and armor etc. are now. Also it would be optional, what corner you like to be "info corner".