
The unforgiving soundtrack that never lets go and pushes you to and beyond the limit. The motion tracker going crazy, making one fear that an enemy hears you. The stomping and hissing Alien wandering around the map, actively searching for you. Looking closer into the game I was astonished by the little details that helped to create a dense and threatening atmosphere. I have been coming a long way up to this point, starting with rather rough compilations in the Need For Speed series a decade ago, to action-packed shots in shooters like Star Wars Battlefront and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), and lately coming to Alien: Isolation with atmospheric cinematics and photos.īack when I played Alien: Isolation for the first time in March 2019, I was stunned by the smooth experience and the ever-present feeling of a lurking Alien nearby.


That is the access point for individuals like me, who are interested in putting the fine details in the spotlight. Huge technological steps have allowed the developers to put an emphasis on stunning graphics which shake on the border to reality. The game loads fine, loads the challenge maps just fine too, and in conjunction with all the rest of the UI being removed by the tweaks from the initial mod, it completely removes all hud from the challenge mode maps! One minor downside is that there's now no prompts for what you need to do in the level, and UI once you complete the map, but that's basically no issue considering anyone who wants this change likely wants it to record footage and that's it completing the level is unneccesary.Gaming photography is a fledgling field in modern art that has been growing in the past few years with the development of almost photo-realistically looking games. Use the "Game Asset Editor" -> "UI Import/Export" (to directly access UI.PAK without having to extract and recompile it) -> drill down into the file tree and delete CHALLENGELEADERBOARDCOMPONENT.GFX and CHALLENGEMAPOVERLAY.GFX files. Then, download and use OpenCAGE (The Open Source Alien Isolation Modding tool there are other things with the same name that come up first if you google search just the name). I have managed to figure out how to do that, and on the off chance you or someone else might find this information useful, I'll share it here.įirstly, download and install the No Hud mod linked by Fosley.

Hey there! This is really long after the fact, I know, but I've spent a couple hours today trying to figure this out, and yours was one of the few threads I found discussing removing specifically the survival mode HUD.
