Health Status Indicator Overlay thing

(CCP115) #1

I have to be honest, this thing needs a total rework.

If I get hit for 10 damage, the amount of blood and screen shake leads me to believe I am about to die.

If I get hit for 90 damage, I can’t tell the difference from ten, leading me to, a lot of times, falsely believing I am still in a good enough condition to fight.

Now this is just the red blood borders on the edges of the screen. If I actually want to know my current health, I have to look at my health bar, which is:

A) Terribly placed, and very hard to look at without getting shot or even dying
B) Incredibly small, it’s actually just a damn bar, why can’t it be a large thing that is easy to look at and instantly get an idea of current HP, and example being TF2’s very large health cross, that changes to red if you’re low health. In DIrty Bomb, it is a small bar, that doesn’t flash until you’re pretty critical.

What I’m trying to say is that this game doesn’t have very good visual communication when it comes to current health status. If the devs added in HUD customizing or maybe even community custom HUDs, then it wouldn’t be an issue.
Does anybody else feel this way, or am I alone on this?

(Dirmagnos) #2

HUD customization option would be really nice.
And i dont mean manually going thru config file. Imo all of those should be locked with all relevant options brought into game(like advanced section for fine tuning).
Every one of those avaialble for modding is a potential exploit waiting to happen. Theres been plenty of that.
All wannabepro losers will exploit the shit out of the game, if given a chance.

(Nail) #3

likely to be a configurator (by a member) by release

(Yes) #4

B)

(CCP115) #5

sigh R.I.P. B )

(Mr.Dubstab) #6

I feel like this is just question of time.

Nonetheless, I do feel like it’s decent right now. Surely it is not perfect, but losing 10 hp, gives you an indication that you’re being shot at/lost a small amount of hp. 0-50% gives me a great indication of how much HP I have. I do have to agree that 50%-90% hp loss, looks all the same.