Destiny 2 Is Finally Fixing An Issue That Has Plagued Players For Seven Years
For the entirety of Destiny 2’s life, players have had to tough out an annoying but pervasive problem: the HUD, or heads-up display. A limitation on the way Destiny 2 uses its screen real estate meant it could only show you four messages about buffs or debuffs at a time, even if more than four were in effect–and that meant that sometimes, you might get killed because you didn’t realize an important timer was about to run out. It might even cost you a run on a tough activity.
But now, seven years since the release of Destiny 2, that HUD issue is finally getting a fix–in Destiny 2’s next expansion, The Final Shape.
Bungie ran down an update that’s coming to its HUD in its latest This Week in Destiny blog post, explaining how the user experience and user interface team are updating what you see on screen. There are more than 2,000 of these little status messages, ranging from things like boss mechanics in raids to subclass verbs such as “Amplified” or “Radiant,” so new status messages constantly push old status messages off the screen.