FOV increase+++ FIX/REMOVE ALL Bottom Banners for ALL pop-ups - they block your health and prompts for interactables!

Or atleast make it so you can disable it in settings. that would be good to add as well; so youd loose the ability to see what island you get too or quests but most long term players dont need to know what island they were at. Or at the very least, make the banner smaller/make the black background of it clear so you can see through it.

@wp-avenger said in FOV increase+++ FIX/REMOVE ALL Bottom Banners for ALL pop-ups - they block your health and prompts for interactables!:

Or atleast make it so you can disable it in settings. that would be good to add as well; so youd loose the ability to see what island you get too or quests but most long term players dont need to know what island they were at. Or at the very least, make the banner smaller/make the black background of it clear so you can see through it.

AGREED! They could (hopefully) add an additional setting for "DISABLE VOYAGE BANNERS" "DISABLE #XYZ# BANNERS" etc. but I will say I do like the island/outpost, and some ofthe banners... I just cant stand the bottom ones specifically... all depends on what I'm doing.

Got to the point the health bar is useless.

Your one shot or your eating anyways regardless of health lvl

@burnbacon specifics do matter because you judge what you need to eat in order to stay above one shot threshold (for sniper)

I think there is an option to have trimmed banners and I know I've turned off guild notifications from when I was in an active one it was too spammy

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Personally I wouldn't remove but I think there needs to be a limit on queued notifications. If I sell at sovereigns then dive for hourglass I'm getting told what I've sold mid battle and get a major delay for knowing their ship name etc

All banners should be slimline as an option.

No FoV increase, this won’t happen.

@tesiccl said in FOV increase+++ FIX/REMOVE ALL Bottom Banners for ALL pop-ups - they block your health and prompts for interactables!:

All banners should be slimline as an option.

No FoV increase, this won’t happen.

Thanks for the comment! Yeah I know about FOV. I was not suggesting an increase in the game/settings, but merely by removing the "bottom" of the Banner, you can approx. ~15%-20% of the screen back.

Might not sound like much, but when your health in the bottom left corner and interactable prompts in the center are completely covered for those 3-5 secongs unnecessarily - causes a headache - especially if you have multiple banners popping up one after another, after another.

@hiradc said in FOV increase+++ FIX/REMOVE ALL Bottom Banners for ALL pop-ups - they block your health and prompts for interactables!:

@burnbacon specifics do matter because you judge what you need to eat in order to stay above one shot threshold (for sniper)

exactly!

@hiradc

Like I said. It pointless, you’re gonna shove whatever food in your mouth as you take damage during a fight. Or you’re already dead.

Second you take damage, players heal themselves regardless. No need to think just do or your gonna die second shot

You might want to remove the "FOV increase" from the title as it appears that is not what you are actually talking about and it may get your thread inadvertently locked.

I can get behind what you are suggesting though and I have stated as much in the past. All letterbox banners should have a slimline option similar to the island banners, in my opinion. This is another one of those things that makes sense and has been requested countless times over the years.

It would also be great if sold item notifications could be turned off entirely or minimised to the notification feed top left. Other important notifications could have the option to be placed at the top rather than the bottom of the screen.

@burnbacon no, you'll find top tier players will rotate through to other food if it means they will live rather than risking dying. It takes willpower to do it but if you're playing against decent players you can't afford to rely on luck.

I'm not claiming to be this good, but I watch a lot of top level players. They honestly do this

I don't know about anyone else but I only tend to carry pineapples/meg meat on my person sea forts keep you well stocked and there are so many megs out there as most ppl just ignore them it's worth killing them for the foid as it's the best food in the game you only ever need 1 bite to fully heal with this strat I don't even look at my health bar if I take damage I eat once try turning hud off and not relying on visual representations 👍

@ravenclaw214 said in FOV increase+++ FIX/REMOVE ALL Bottom Banners for ALL pop-ups - they block your health and prompts for interactables!:

@grantsby
You can turn off certain banners.

I'm aware, already done, and still too annoying.

I've been playing a lot of HG with several people and they all agree that the banners have a negative impact their gameplay during action.

Getting close to an island mid fight is not the problem because for that we have slimline banners. Good thing. But why on earth are only island banners slimlined and not everything?

during the fight when a big banner pops up and you get knockback from a cannonball which happens a lot. You have two options: wait and hope for the best aka risk it OR eat / potentially waste a pineapple because there is no way to know if you have 10% or 90% health after receiving any kind of damage within the 5 seconds of that banner time.

The big banner, especially the bottom part of it does not serve any useful purpose. If you want to know how many crewmates you have, you can go into the main menu - my crew. No need to show it for each voyage etc.

At least it is never important enough to hide the crucial health bar that is necessary during fights at any time. Believe me or not but play enough HG matches and you will encounter more and more situations where a big banner hiding your health bar results in a match deciding death.

I think making "slimline banners" work for all kind of banners would only benefit the whole game / playerbase with no disadvantages. Don't like slimline banners? turn them off.

@burnbacon Respectfully, that's the way you play, not the way everyone plays. I specifically sort out my food, and monitor my health bar, with regards to whether I'm "one shot to a sniper". I know many others who do the same thing. The health bar is crucial at all times.

I'd love to see a DnD option to mute all in-game notifications.

@sammyr0cks said in FOV increase+++ FIX/REMOVE ALL Bottom Banners for ALL pop-ups - they block your health and prompts for interactables!:

@burnbacon Respectfully, that's the way you play, not the way everyone plays. I specifically sort out my food, and monitor my health bar, with regards to whether I'm "one shot to a sniper". I know many others who do the same thing. The health bar is crucial at all times.

I'd love to see a DnD option to mute all in-game notifications.

That would be so nice! If they can have settings to enable/diasble as much as they have already, it shouldn't be a big issue disabling Voyage Banners, Selling Banners, etc.

@tesiccl they said the same about pve servers..

@capndeath and I’ll remain saying it until I’m proven otherwise.

@capndeath said in FOV increase+++ FIX/REMOVE ALL Bottom Banners for ALL pop-ups - they block your health and prompts for interactables!:

@tesiccl they said the same about pve servers..

And we still don't have them, we have single crew PRIVATE servers that are capped and have reduced payouts to reflect the minimal risk involved. Not a true PVE server as many requested.

I agree! HUD customization (and custom keybinds!) would make it a lot more accessable for a lot of us.

Personally, I hate it when you're selling with your hourglass up, and the "item sold" notification takes up a quarter of the screen. There have been multiple threads on this topic, yet no recognition from game design.