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Subject: Do you want an Interactive HUD?

Poll: Do you want an Interactive HUD?  [closed]
Yes! :  50%
(10 Votes)
No:  15%
(3 Votes)
Meh:  20%
(4 Votes)
Sure but not the way OP describes it:  15%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 20

Okay my idea is to make the HUD much more like it seems in the book. I loved the map in-helmet idea in ODST and how you can still get attacked while looking at it or listening to audios. I say we, the community, ask bungie to take this further. In case Reach is a free-roam or big mapped you should have to use it to see
-Bungie Favs
-Screen shots
-Settings
-Mjolnir Controls
THE ABOVE HAS SEEN TO BE DISLIKED SO DISREGARD IT

and more if they are available during gameplay. Updates like those popups that told you that Srg. Johnson is a preorder bonus can be HUD popups. You should have Maps of every MP map at a certain button and MAYBE have like an optional long-raged radar probably turned off in MP but usable in customs for some matches.

It should also have the damage effects like when you have the VISR on and at times it gets static and can get stunned by hammer and maybe even be locked by PP (probably not) Melees can have a small effect on your view, maybe a little static or double vision. Drainers can create lots of distortion in HUD as well.

Some sort of new lighting system would be nice as well and things like the score and pause screen should actually FEEL like they are coming from your helmet, like maybe a animation of them forming or anything like that to give you the illusion that you are seeing everything from that Spartan's helmet.

Sword/Knives should make a slash across your screen, bullets can make things get blurry and plasma can make things fluctuate. If there is a health system, once your health is low your HUD can begin malfunctioning and fluctuating/blurring on it's own.

The blurring is in comparison of Fallout 3's vision when you get your head crippled. Explosions/rockets should keep you in first-person for a second and just make it crazy, like all white and static then go to third of you swimming in the air!

Hopefully some of these ideas are popular enough to make it in!
Vote and Remember to post your own!
I'll edit in your idea if it's good


"maybe for when you pick up a weapon (example, battle rifle) it could be like;
...<interfacing>...
...<BR55HB SR Battle Rifle>...
...<Done>...

but like almost all at once, so it's pretty much the same."

A great idea! Everytime you pick up a weapon it does a small sort of quick scan on any area of the screen.




This gave me a new idea too. This is a seperate idea and doesn't seem very tangible but I like it:
When you go in your HUD you cycle through it like RB and LB, there are areas to see your recent games and scores. PERHAPS a small theater mode (far-fetched).

Plus it can be home to loads of tutorials, for each thing. Serves as a little manual, you can read up on character profiles which you unlock in campaign (maybe). Such as
Sam (Thumbnail Image)
Insert paragraph here

Unlocked by meeting him or playing until his death or anything. It can have small info on vehicles and AI as well! It can open up loads of Achievment ideas too!)


"Also, maybe another idea could be when you put your cross hair on a weapon or vechical you get the stats and maybe some back round info. For example, maybe you look at the SMG, on the corrners of your hud, you would see SMG, Attack Power say 50 Speed 200,Accuracy 20. Or somthing like that. Same would apply with vechical; Speed and weapon damage."
Another great idea




[Edited on 11.03.2009 9:14 PM PST]

  • 11.03.2009 8:16 PM PDT

anybody? comments? opinions? suggestions? flame?

  • 11.03.2009 8:21 PM PDT
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I would like to see a power drain disrupt you HUD.

any way and a lot of these ideas would make the game a little more immersive. like double vision upon melees and concussions.

I disagree with swords slashing across you screen because the sword is an Insta-kill and bullets already block you vision when you take a head shot on your shield.

  • 11.03.2009 8:25 PM PDT

Posted by: Czar_CJ_Elm
I would like to see a power drain disrupt you HUD.

any way and a lot of these ideas would make the game a little more immersive. like double vision upon melees and concussions.

I disagree with swords slashing across you screen because the sword is an Insta-kill and bullets already block you vision when you take a head shot on your shield.


haha thats y i put knife.. just in case.. plus later on i said after death id like to stay first person for a second then go 3rd..
but drained idea is good

  • 11.03.2009 8:26 PM PDT
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I'm stubborn as long as I'm not wrong. Prove me wrong and you'll get an apology.

I like it.

But for the Bungie Favs. and stuff, those aren't accessible from in-game. So they wouldn't really be a part of your HUD. Also, when you do press 'start' and go to adjust your controller/game settings it would be slightly transparent, so you'd still know some of what's going on.

Oh, and unrelated: I'd like an option to adjust the audio in-game like Gow 2s audio settings can be edited.

  • 11.03.2009 8:37 PM PDT
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right up there with the helmet camera idea.

maybe for when you pick up a weapon (example, battle rifle) it could be like;
...<interfacing>...
...<BR55HB SR Battle Rifle>...
...<Done>...

but like almost all at once, so it's pretty much the same.

  • 11.03.2009 8:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: masterchef1
right up there with the helmet camera idea.

maybe for when you pick up a weapon (example, battle rifle) it could be like;
...<interfacing>...
...<BR55HB SR Battle Rifle>...
...<Done>...

but like almost all at once, so it's pretty much the same.


I agree.

  • 11.03.2009 8:58 PM PDT

"They let me pick... did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted. You know me. I did my research. Watched as you became the soldier we needed you to be. Like the others you were strong and swift and brave, a natural leader. But you had something they didn't. Something no one saw but me. Can you guess? Luck."
—Cortana to John-117

Yes and no.

I love the interactive hud idea. But some stuff you suggested for it I don't really like. Everything like being able to veiw Bungie Favs and other updates like that should not be on there.

But other stuff would be cool. Health, the game map, etc.

Also, maybe another idea could be when you put your cross hair on a weapon or vechical you get the stats and maybe some back round info. For example, maybe you look at the SMG, on the corrners of your hud, you would see SMG, Attack Power say 50 Speed 200,Accuracy 20. Or somthing like that. Same would apply with vechical; Speed and weapon damage.

  • 11.03.2009 9:05 PM PDT

great ideas! ive already added loads to the OP! keep it up

  • 11.03.2009 9:15 PM PDT
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One day... I am gonna grow wings... A chemical reaction... Hysterical and useless... hystecial and let down and hanging around... crushed like a bug in the ground.

Maybe you could use the COMM this way like issue simple commands.


AKA.

Left on Dpad opens a real time menu. Up or Down Change the chracters stance from Offence/Defence.

That is probaly too..sqaud based though. To much like Ghost Recon...

  • 11.03.2009 11:27 PM PDT

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I would like a Dead Space/Borderlands HUD style, were instead of seeing

HOLD X to _____

It would be prompted with a hologram.

  • 11.03.2009 11:35 PM PDT

Posted by: AngasBoy
Maybe you could use the COMM this way like issue simple commands.


AKA.

Left on Dpad opens a real time menu. Up or Down Change the chracters stance from Offence/Defence.

That is probaly too..sqaud based though. To much like Ghost Recon...


ya prolly wont happen :(

  • 11.04.2009 3:42 PM PDT

Posted by: Chunky_Lover
I would like a Dead Space/Borderlands HUD style, were instead of seeing

HOLD X to _____

It would be prompted with a hologram.


a hologram? plz explain how this culd work because it sounds interesting

  • 11.04.2009 3:43 PM PDT