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Lots of people played without it for years and dont feel the need to have it, also it eats a bit of fps so people with potato pc's might prefer not to have it.

Cant think of any other reasons you wouldn't use it.

It takes a major hit on frames for some reason.

I think someone did a test a while ago and found it decreased the average frame rate by nearly 20

pros: shows teammates HP + respawn timer + whos dead

cons: eats fps, everyone who has played this game prior to that update already religiously mashes the tab key, which gives you a lot of information, and is also (usually) in the center of your screen, rather than at the top

also its a fucking eye sore

i literally have it center screen it shows so much info
also it stops me from tilting at my scoreboard

Screenshot?

https://www.twitch.tv/aiera/video/510872614

https://i.imgur.com/nsD5CF1.png

for people who dont wanna have to scrub through the VOD

dont like that that area of the screen is taken up by the scoreboard + im used to pressing tab

i take it off for sunshine and viaduct because fps

give hud i want this

this thread has multiple versions which can be put into any HUD. Aiera probably used this

It's really good and everyone should use it. The only downside is if you see one scout/solly spawned it doesn't tell you which one.

There's custom versions like aiera's posted above that do have names. Though idk why that's not part of the default version

would it be theoretically possible to make it display a number of players instead of portraits?

You could theoretically mess around with custom fonts and colored elements though I've never messed around with HUDs myself in such ways

The HUD element is probably quite limited so I doubt there's a way to make it say something like "5 alive".
A very quick concept of something that is (probably) possible:

https://i.imgur.com/pEk6tvN.png

Remove the portraits, turn the names into a custom font that turns every symbol into an "I" and limit the names' width so every name is represented by a single line
(edit: maybe you don't even need a custom made font. You might be able to just put a text value inside the HUD element like capital i that always shows and remove names+portraits)

Maybe if you know how to work with HudAnimations you can toggle colored elements/text on or off depending on if the player is alive or not allowing for other possibilities?
Someone smarter than me who knows how HUDs work can probably figure something out

anyone know if its possible to make only the medic icon on screen and bigger so uber tracking is mega easy?

Sprite you are a top 3 prem medic you should be ashame of yourself

my tiny brain scout main self uses it to see if pressing w is a good idea.

Spedic.

i only use it for spawn timers and sometimes health if i want to see if my team is healthy before a push or something, which has been pretty useful for me
i'm a tab spammer aswell even if i have this on so i don't really use it to check who's alive or dead

honestly i don't think i've ever needed to know which one of my soldiers or scouts spawned, just needed to know if a scout or a soldier respawned
that's why i generally dislike the huds that make the match hud really big and wide so that they can fit in the name of the player right next to the healthbar/player icon

nubby be like: wait i can make my game look more cancer? sign me up

I have an idea for how to make this look way better but I don't actually know if it's even possible or how you'd do it.

Replace class portraits with the class emblems, that way you don't have to have a background.
If dead the emblems are greyed out with spawn timer in the center. If alive the emblems are team coloured and have some animation scaling with health (could be something like the 'filling up' that the health cross does or alpha scaling with health).
Also remove player names.
I think this would look nice and be a lot cleaner in general.

ey fucc u bich i have 4 stars u cant talk to me this way

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/957482642227997630/3B6D0EDC4B05B916C634B6661B5EE95DCF2FC7D4/

this is ur tf2

still not as ugly as my tf2, and I'm not even using a weird hud or xhair