First off, hats off to 343 for the strides they’ve made in making the game look really gorgeous. With that being said I feel like the HUD is very cluttered and subtracts from the beauty of the game and also isn’t effective at conveying info on grenades and equipment. 343 has made it clear that they want a large degree of customization in this game so I strongly encourage them to include a bunch of options for customizing our HUD or at the very least I think they need to clean up the current HUD a bit more.
As someone who likes my HUD as clean/simple as possible here is a rough idea of how I would like my HUD to look. Ideally all of these things would be optional:
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grenades are in the the top left corner and show grenade count of both grenades - Shield hides itself when at full health to declutter the HUD - equipment is in the top right - Outline system replaced with service tags similar to how Destiny 2 does it - Magazine ammo and ammo reserves both displayed on the in-game gun rather than the HUD. imo having ammo count on both the gun and the HUD seemed rather redundant and displaying info on in-game objects rather than on HUD is a cleaner and more immersive approach. Ideally all weapons would have ammo counters of some kind on them similar to how Prey (2017) has them: https://imgur.com/B6jBC9f****Photoshop mockup:
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when grenades and/or equipment are depleted the icons completely disappear so you can use your peripheral vision to know when you are out - shields appear when damage is taken - when magazine is low the ammo indicator on the gun flashes red instead of the “reload” messageThose are my ideas for a minimal HUD. Please let me know your ideas on how you think the HUD should look or ways in which we could customize our HUD!