Best HUD Settings to Reduce Clutter in Battlefield 6

In the single-player campaign, moments that require specific actions become completely opaque without the HUD:

• Action Prompts: Missions often rely on visual cues to progress, such as standing in a specific spot or pressing an interaction button. Without the HUD, players are left clueless about mandatory mission triggers. A classic example is the first mission, where the HUD prompt tells you to interact with a squad member to proceed up the stairs.
• Vehicle and Drone Control: Flying planes, operating tanks, or piloting drones requires key interface elements for navigation, status, and weapon feedback. Without the HUD, controlling these assets becomes a confusing and inefficient endeavor.

Multiplayer Disadvantages

In the competitive environment of Multiplayer, playing without the HUD makes you a direct liability to your team:

• Objective Awareness: You lose immediate awareness of objective locations and their contested status, which is central to the game mode.
• Enemy Spotting: You cannot benefit from spotted enemy markers, removing a crucial tactical advantage in identifying enemy positions.
• Identification Confusion: Telling the difference between allies and enemies becomes a challenging exercise in color recognition at a distance, leading to hesitation or friendly fire.
• Weapon Status: You lose track of vital information like ammunition count, grenade status, and specialist ability cooldowns.

To maintain effectiveness, a selective approach to the HUD is necessary.

The Optimized Settings: A Minimalist HUD Build

The goal of this customized setup is simple: make friendly and squad markers invisible while keeping necessary enemy markers clear and reducing non-essential UI elements. This creates a much cleaner screen that favors visual detection over icon clutter.

Note that only settings that need to be changed from their default value are listed below.

Accessibility Settings

These initial adjustments remove non-essential text and guidance elements:

• Subtitles: Off
• Peak Hint: Off (Removes hints related to peeking mechanics)
• Ping Hints: Off (Removes repetitive instructional text about pinging)
• Color Profiles: While you can’t disable certain elements, playing around with custom colors for enemies, friendlies, and your squad can help them stand out naturally without relying on opacities.

Interface & HUD (Found Under Graphics)

These settings directly address the constant motion and visibility of friendlies:

• Infantry HUD Motion: Off (Reduces screen wobble on the HUD elements)
• Vehicle HUD Motion: Off
• Show Soldier Overlays: Off (Removes non-essential overlays on friendly soldiers)
• Show Vehicle Overlays: Off
• Show Outlines on Targeted Friendly Soldiers: Off (Removes the confusing outline that appears when aiming at friendlies)

Advanced HUD Settings

These tweaks streamline communication, the kill feed, and the minimap:

• Show Kills Made By: None (Drastically cleans up the kill feed)
• Kill Feed Icons: Off
• Ping Notifications: Off
• Minimap Background Opacity: 0 (Makes the minimap frame invisible—a must-have for immersion)
• Show Loot: Off (Removes on-screen clutter from loot)
• Simplified Squad List: On
• Show Compass Multiplayer: Off
• Compass Opacity: 0 (Effectively removes the compass)
• Show HUD Prompts: Off (Hides button prompts for interaction)

A Note on the Minimap: Despite being hideable in the beta, the full minimap window cannot be entirely disabled in the final game; however, setting its background opacity to zero greatly minimizes its visual impact.

The Most Critical Tweaks: Icon Management

This section is paramount. By adjusting the opacity of friendly and squad markers, you can effectively make them invisible, ensuring that only enemies show up as distracting markers.

Crosshairs & Indicators

If you prefer to rely on your natural weapon alignment rather than digital crosshairs:

• Crosshair Opacity: 0
• Hit Indicator Opacity: 0
• Hit Indicator Number Enabled: Off

Chat Visibility

• Chat Visibility: Hide

By applying this minimalist configuration, you strip away the constant graphical noise of friendly markers, redundant text, and unnecessary indicators. This allows you to focus on the raw battlefield action, dramatically increasing immersion while retaining the essential enemy and objective data that separates a good player from a liability.