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eincrou's avatar
6 years ago

Feature Request: Hide Health Bar in HUD

Fallen Order almost achieves a HUD-less experience that allows me to enjoy the flawless beauty of these game worlds without any interface elements on screen, but not quite.

The force and stamina power bars near the center of the screen, in addition to the experience bar at the top, automatically hide and show based on whether they're needed, but the stim canister count and health bar are permanently affixed to the bottom left corner of the screen.

I've never cared much about whether video games had HUD elements being visible on screen, but with Fallen Order, it comes so close to being HUD-less that I find myself wishing it would dynamically show the health bar, just like every other part of the HUD.  Yesterday, I watched some gorgeous gameplay of Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC with its HUD disabled, and I think an option to disable Fallen Order's HUD entirely would also be great.

For 75% of my time playing Fallen Order, I'm exploring and platforming on these beautiful worlds.  There's no need to have the health bar permanently visible in these situations, especially since there's no falling damage, and rarely any environmental damage, to take into account.  Automatically showing the health bar when low on health can alert me to the potential of dying from the damage taken from falling off the world.

I'd like to see the health bar show only in combat, or when low on health out of combat.  If I want to see my health while healthy and out of combat, display it when I use an attack with the lightsaber (but not when using it as a flashlight).

I've played about 18 hours so far, and this is the only quality-of-life issue that has consistently stayed on my mind.  I'd love for this health bar / stim canister count to dynamically show and hide!

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  • @eincrou 

    U can just go to a file "C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\SwGame\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\GameUserSettings.ini" and disable HUD there by the line:

    CustomSettingsBool=(Data=True,SettingName="HideHUD",bIsCodeType=False)

    then set file properties to read-only.

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