Now before you say anything, I’m not talking about adjusting how far out a player’s radar can see another player when they are moving, as changing that affects the balance of the game in some capacity. What I mean by ‘radar settings’ is more of a UI deal. Things like moving the radar to another point on the screen, or enlarging the size of the radar so its more noticeable. Often times I am constantly looking down to the small corner of the screen where the radar is, and because of how small it is, my attention feels fairly divided between the radar that can determine where my enemy is, vs certain situations where it distracts me enough that I don’t see that one enemy Spartan rushing at me before I can even react. Hopefully this will become a feature further down the road, but I won’t be too bothered if It doesn’t get done. Hey, if it does, at least it means that enough people and 343 think the same way.
Valid request, along with the fact that alot of people actually rather dislike the current HuD.
For one, people would like:
- Weapon and Ammo (as well as reintroduction of visual display of ammo) pushed back to Top Right
- Score moved back to Bottom Right
- Grenades shown as a row instead of squished to a toggle indicator on the Top Left
Along with the option to enlarge the Minimap in the Bottom Right to a certain degree, it would make the game much more enjoyable than having ALL the information suffocated at the bottom half of the screen.
Contrary to popular belief, players don’t need to watch for all information at once. They look at specific area of the HuD for information they need at the moment, and simplifying it the way Infinite has done actually hurts players more than it helps.
This was one of those things that 343 just needed to change because reasons. Nobody wanted it. It wasn’t broken; but they still needed to fix it. There was a lot of feedback about it during the technical preview weekends.
And 343 did nothing…
No surprise, it is taking them over 3 weeks just to revert a change they made that broke the ability to shoot guns in a first person shooter game. So…