- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Dictator Bob
I like how the HUD is in Halo 2 for the most part. However, I've always been a proponent of the health meter, so I would like the health bar to be placed at the bottom left corner of the screen where the sheild is now, maybe in a circular shape underneath the motion sensor.
I also would like to have more info on your teammates (no, I am not trying to make this into a squad based shooter). I want to have your teammates' icons on the right side of your screen, surrounded by a small box that would show their health (i.e. blue, yellow, red, or gray [for dead]) and when your teammate died his icon would fade or become grayish. Next to their icon and your icon (where it already is in the game [lower right hand side next to the score]) Bungie should put small X's to show kills that you or your teammates scored. When the enemy respawns, the X's would dissappear, so you could use them as a means of telling how many enemies are still alive at one time.
This all would help streamline the HUD, since it would remove some of the text that shows up on your screen.
Also, I want Bungie to change the triangle icon for assault games. I think that it is stupid that the icon turns yellow when the bomb is armed and red when it is planted, since that does not help out the defense at all. It should be more like the CTF indicator. It should be red when the bomb is arming, and yellow when the bomb is in the arming area.
Oh yeah, forgot. You should be able to play with no HUD so you can make movies more easily.
Perfect, now I can't see who I'm killing.