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r/NoMansSkyTheGame•
Instaloper

HG Can we have some more HUD options please?

Discussion

It's a very minor gripe considering how much love I have for this game BUT it would be great to be able to turn off the very annoying pop-ups in the bottom right hand corner that tell you how to fly your ship or how long is left on the CE.. I know all that, thanks. The fact it constantly pops up continually really dulls my enjoyment sometimes.

The only option currently is to turn the HUD completely off and not be able to see stuff you really NEED like suit stats etc.

Along the same lines: it would be cool to be able to NOT have any mission selected - sometimes I just want to explore, the location prompts and aforementioned pop ups get in the way a bit.

Not a huge issue in the grand scheme of things but thought I'd shout my two penneth out to the void :)

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TL;DR? Don't bother, here's a lovely picture

Love you guys and gals

Posted Jan 11, 2019, 4:29 PM UTC

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trevizore•

I wish we could map the HUD toggle to a shortcut

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ShastHacol•

I think there is a mod for that

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/782

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_lmonk•

That one is 4 months out of date ... This one does the same and is updated to 1.77

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Gatekeeper-Andy•

I definitely agree! And maybe remove some of those “scanner recharging” type notifications as well.

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flashmedallion•

I'm anyways really grateful when games give you heavy control over HUD - which elements to display and where (and when), what size you want them, sometimes even color and transparency options. With such an experiential design I think NMS would gain a lot more, proportionately to effort, from implementing something like this.

The game is so much about the view, and also so much about resource management, that having control over what you see and how you see it is very synergistic to the whole experience, and a one size fits all scheme is a little lacking.

It might seem less important than content and balance but a truly superb HUD UI will make all existing and future content much more valuable. I very much appreciated the recent change to smaller info bubbles when in space.

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CoconutDust•
  • Definitely need toggle for each piece of HUD
  • Definitely need better art design and visuals on particular elements like the Jet Pack gauge and Scanner Refill Gauge. They’re are plain black and white icons with a single white line for the meter... what? How are these so bland and artless when the rest of the game has such great art design? There are many games in the 1990’s that had better visual design of HUD widgets, meters, gauges, fonts, colors.
  • Definitely need the option to turn off the most intrusive ugly disruptive parts of the HUD, like the mission objective pop-up.

And the mission objective pop-up, it doesn’t integrate with the art of the game or the ship. It looks like a Windows text box or something, it doesn’t look like a sci-fi display in a spaceship HUD. This annoys me.

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Qaztab•

I wish we could toggle everything that show up on our hud: poi's, comm ball locations, beacons, etc.

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