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When the HUD is disabled using the default binding of long press ` (tilde key) the item in the survivors hand is still displayed in the bottom left. When in a vehicle, disabling the HUD with the tilde key still shows the car's HUD controls as well as car interactions (start engine, open/closer door). This breaks immersion for players who are filming cinematics or players and/or streamers who want a clean HUD. The **partial** workaround (see as to why below) is to disable the HUD in the game options menu. However, this has certain very undesirable side effect **because the game's menu has changed how it behaves when disabling both the HUD as well as the Quickbar (QB)**. I'm not sure if these game options changes are planned or themselves a bug. Read for more details on that specifically below in the **//"Issues with Game options HUD/QB"//** Getting back to this workaround. It still has its own issues. Even if you disable the HUD in the game options, when you enter a vehicle, the lower lefthand area still shows the car's HUD. Furthermore, once you exit the vehicle you then start to see the stamina bar and noise indicators and there is no way (i.e. long press tilde does not work) to disable them without going into the game options again. To fix that display issue you have to effectively force the game to "refresh" the UI settings by changing any game options setting (i.e. change and apply any UI element such as the crosshair, server messages, QB, or even the HUD itself. Though I should note that toggling the HUD requires you toggle and apply 2x if you want to keep the HUD disabled). In the end it will be most helpful to watch my linked unlisted YT video. [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1u4PrZOFTY | Unlisted YT Video Illustrating these Multiple Issues]] **Issues with Game options HUD/QB** Previously, disabling either the HUD or QB in the game options still allowed the player to bring those UI elements up, albeit for a few seconds. They would auto-hide after a few seconds (like the Windows autohiding task bar). This was much preferred UX to what they do now where the tilde key does nothing. That makes it impossible to bring up those status indicators without going back into the game options and enabling them directly. While a player may be disabling those for immersion, they are still the only way to check on vitals like hunger, temperature, etc. In short, the pervious functionality was much preferred as it gave a quick way to check on those vital stats. I will log a separate issue for that and reference it here: [[ https://feedback.bistudio.com/T170698| T170698]] In short, if this change in behavior of the HUD/QB game options was an **intentional design change** it is not desirable. To tie that back to this bug though, at a minimum the issue of disabling the HUD when those UI elements are enabled in the game options needs to be addressed so that this workaround is not required. And I again stress that this workaround doesn't work for vehicles.

When the HUD is disabled **using the default key binding** (long press ` - tilde key) the item in the survivor's hand is still displayed in the bottom left corner. When in a vehicle, disabling the HUD in this way, still shows the car's HUD controls as well as car interactions (start engine, open/closer door). This breaks immersion for players who are filming cinematics or players and/or streamers who want a clean HUD. A **partial** workaround exists. That workaround is to disable the HUD in the game options menu. It's a partial fix because it has some undesirable effects. **First and foremost, because the game's behavior has changed when disabling the HUD/Quickbar (QB) from the menu as opposed to the key bindings**. This change in behavior may have been planned or itself is a bug but I'd not seen anything relatable in the patch notes. For more on that change in behavior see **//"Issues With Game options HUD/QB Settings"//** in additional information. Getting back to this bug and the associated workaround though: - **Even if you disable the HUD in the game options**, when you enter a vehicle, the lower lefthand area still shows the car's HUD. - If you do disable the HUD in the game options and then enter/exit the vehicle you start to see the stamina and noise indicators and there is no way to hide them (i.e. long press tilde does nothing). The only solution at that point is to force the game to "refresh" those options by **toggling any game options setting** (i.e. change **and** apply any UI element such as the crosshair, server messages, QB, or even the HUD itself. Though I should note that toggling the HUD requires you toggle and apply 2x if you want to keep the HUD disabled). In the end it will be most helpful to watch my linked unlisted YT video. Bear in mind I made it while sick with the flu... ;) [[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1u4PrZOFTY | Unlisted YT Video Illustrating these Multiple Issues]]

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