AfterWorld Survival Forum

We have a gui showing various things, I think it would be handy for the gui to show our current weight and weight limit, could be handy when hunting, mining and picking rocks.
Not crucial but would be convenient

Zen

Or just press "I" for a split second and you can see your weight.

on the hud, the very left red line going from bottom to top.  I don't think that means anything.  could be weight

that is the extra Stamina bar, when u charge that whit Red Bear / Stamina Booster u have an extra advantage for sprinting

oh yeah, true is the second vertical one, whit red color, that one I missed, indeed if graphical can be complete not half, can be, and is a good idea

personally i prefer numbers over bar lengths, if it would be possible to have a (for example) [100/100] smack dab in the middle of the stamina bar and easily readable, (and same for all your bars) and it would change as it changes, this would be very useful for me and the health bar especially so i woudlnt have to guess what my health it (since it is more than 100) by the length of the bar

I'd like to weigh in (pun intended  ) with a somewhat "wider" argument/viewpoint.
I'd like my game to try to deliver a realistic experience.

I'm not wearing the Google glasses in RL? Why would i want to wear em in a game?

OK, there's some (non-visual) signals we are experiencing in reality - i.e you feel the increasing weight of your backpack in RL, but there's (currently) no way to reproduce these signals directly while experiencing the virtual world.

Looks like there's indeed no other way than replacing this perception of increasing weight with a some kind of visual indicator, so we become aware of the approaching potential problem and can pay attention to it in time.
In my book the best way would be a decrease in movement speed, and if that's not clear enough signal (for several reasons, it prolly isn't) - put a small bar in the HUD, or just a dot changing color.


The numbers, however, belong to the world of excel tables, action logs and specific tools/interfaces. We're out here in post-apocalyptic wasteland, tryng to survive and suddenly all this scientific stuff tries to crawl out and right onto our game screens! No way, i say, we hafta fight n push em back to where they belong!


 

Yes, i was suggesting it's a "necessary evil" so to say. I know we all used to it, and the games today can't work without HUD's.
I belong to this ultra radical Minimal-HUD-Fighters-faction, u know. This thing spoils my immersion so it should be kept to minimal.


Example: remaining rounds until reload - number is worst solution, in the heat of the fight u don't have time to read what's the exact number anyway, progress bar with changing color would be more useful.
But all this is still just beggar's rags n crutches. It should be possible to see the actual tray. Suppose it's one of those modern translucent trays, you hold down the trigger, the empty sleeves are falling to the ground and u can see your tray is getting empty.


I know our software (in general) is too primitive still, our games won't let us interact with the virtual objects directly. No doubt, making a HUD and putting stuff there is so much easier, but... i still want this!