Dying Light 2 – Proper HUD Customization Guide

Are you disappointed by the “Let’s talk about UX” video? Do you want more HUD customization like they promised? Well I found a simple solution. You can either disable all the HUD or just some of the elements by tweaking 1 of the game’s files. Here are the steps.

Guide to HUD Customization

Please note: all credit goes to Raulikien!

Steps

  1. First of all you should close the game and install 7zip to open compressed files and a text editor like notepad++.
  2. Navigate to your game folder by right clicking your game in the library and selecting Manage->Browse local files. You can also go to:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dying Light 2
  3. Go inside the ph folder, then inside the source folder. You will be in:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dying Light 2\ph\source
    and there’s a file called “data0.pak” there.
  4. Open the file with 7zip, winrar or whatever you use. And then go inside the “gui” folder. Extract the “hud_config.scr” file (Backup the original file before!).
  5. Open the extracted file with notepadd++. And then you just need to edit some lines to disable stuff. I will show you an example below on how to disable the radar/compass.
  6. After making the changes, delete the “hud_config.scr” file inside the guide folder in “data0.pak” and move your own inside. You could also move and replace. (Backup the original file before!)

How to disable compass (example):

Scroll to the “DisplayList(“hud_screen_layer_radar”)” line:

Remove the lines inside the brackets:

Test in game with radar ON vs OFF:

Many thanks to CrayfishTheArrowed and his video on youtube for the idea! You can find his video tutorial here to disable all the hud here (he has a file already tweaked):

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Egor Opleuha, also known as Juzzzie, is the Editor-in-Chief of Gameplay Tips. He is a writer with more than 12 years of experience in writing and editing online content. His favorite game was and still is the third part of the legendary Heroes of Might and Magic saga. He prefers to spend all his free time playing retro games and new indie games.

5 Comments

  1. The first method for removing the radar didnt work for me, but I removed radar_pc using the 2nd method and it worked.

  2. Just reporting back, the ‘skip_dialog_symbol_pc.gui’ file will as the name suggests get rid of the skip prompt, sorry for any inconvenience but feel free to add that to the list in method 2 :>

  3. Found out that 3d_location_base_imgui_pc.gui gets rid of the howlers indicators but also gets rid of markers like for your stash and objective markers on your screen which I def prefer was looking for that too

  4. With Location3DScale at 0.0 it’s perfect for me in fact for the moment, when I want to see the objective marker, i use the map. So thx a lot dude !

  5. Is there anyway to remove the grappling hook crosshair? I assume there is, but I couldnt figure out what it would be called in the gui.

    thanks for the guide, makes the game much more fun to play.

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