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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!
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/07/who-needs-a-hud-metro-last-light-and-the-return-to-realism/
In Metro, you know when the filters on your gas mask need changing because water starts collecting on the visor or the goggles start fogging up. Your breathing gets shallower and faster as the surrounding poison clogs the only thing between your lungs and the long nuclear winter. The ever-ticking watch on your left wrist counts down the seconds to your expiration, too, but you have to actively push a button to look at it; it isn’t constantly displayed in a corner of the screen, just as a watch isn’t constantly in the corner of your vision.
With the recent trend toward more realism in games, you’d think more designers would be opting for this kind of minimal-HUD approach. But according to Prokhorov, developers often simply don’t have the time to integrate all this information in a natural way.Quote
So, the HUD concept is there, and is in pretty much every MMO, but AWS does allow those that don't want to see it to turn off components, or the whole enchilada.Zen
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