Hide the HUD! If you want.
ven, 03/27/2015 - 19:11
I'd like the option to completely hide the HUD - mapped to a key command of course. This key should be able to be changed by players in "options." I mean it - this would completely hide everything (big portrait, squad info, map, hp, shield bar, chat box, everything!) and allow us to take better comprehensive screenshots and challenge ourselves - relying on the color of our shield bubbles as they get hit and that red haze around the screen (which I normally have toggled off, but might turn on if I play HUDless) to determine whether to fight or flee. I normally collapse all the menus I can with those awesome little arrows (bottom corners and the one on the right side of screen). More of these arrows for personalized HUD would be good (for the other things that don't have hidey arrows, like the chat), in addition to absolute "no HUD." Please give us complete control over this <3. I can make a pic if people are interested.
I'd also like to have the option to hotkey the large minimap transparency, and if the gate map is ever done, that too. EDIT: you can totally hotkey the large minimap transparency, its default is "B." Thanks for that Fangel. Tbh I did scan for it, but it's easy to miss these things when the darn options list isn't alphabetical.
I've seen similar suggestions before (especially right after the UI update years back disliking the giant portrait), but not many have come up for a while (one did recently that I saw regarding the portrait, haha), and fewer still mention mapping the stuff to keyboard commands - which should always stay optional, I love SK partially because it is NOT a complicated spreadsheet game, but the option would be nice. This post has too many parenthesis.
sam, 04/11/2015 - 12:32
#2
Err
I'd also like to have the option to hotkey the large minimap transparency
Are you talking about the floor map? Like, the big one? We already do have a hotkey to that - it defaults to "B". Unless you mean something completely different in which I apologize.
Gate map keybind would be wonderful. A complete HUD hidey thing would be nice too, but having the chat show up when you start typing (that will hide itself automatically after say, 15 seconds, or when you press pagedown/pageup) would be good way to not kill communication while HUDless.
sam, 04/11/2015 - 17:22
#3
Errrrrrrrrrr
@Fangel Well then, one tiny wish was granted before it was made. I often make sure what I suggest doesn't exist (or is an improvement/change to something that exists), but this one slipped my peepers.
I'd still want to have the option to completely cut off the chat box - ignoring everyone won't do it (which I don't wanna do), the game will still tell me about all the stuff I've picked up. A delay option would be fine, but I want total control. A tabbed chat box would be neat - one for guild, trade, pms, and the floor. I've seen that suggested somewhere...sigh. There's a lot of suggestions for the chat box around, but I don't want it around at all! Sometimes :P
@Blandaxt There's so many things that could be better about forums (auto-quoting a previous post, how many posts per person, how many warnings, how many edits and when, and temp bans actually being a thing, and on and on), and many threads about these things, but it suffices, so it stays ;n;
I like your post but i had nothing much to add besides i agree. I think every post should have a viewing counter showing how many people viewed the post that way even if there is not a reply, the viewing counter will show if it is getting attention like YouTube videos. Anyway, back to your post, yeah, i would love this feature for photo shooting some good screenshots.