>Heads Up Display<

Understand the Heads Up Display (HUD) in Left 4 Dead 2, including survivor and infected views, health indicators, and more.

The Heads Up Display (HUD) is visible throughout your escape in Left 4 Dead 2, providing essential information.

Besides your current weapon and crosshairs, the HUD displays the direction of any damage taken via red lines appearing in the middle of the screen, occasional blood splatters, and tutorial notes.

Survivor HUD elements include:

• Player's Current & Temporary Health (bottom-right)
• Teammates' Current & Temporary Health (bottom-left to bottom)
• Player's Inventory & Ammunition (right)
• Teammates' Inventory (next to Teammates' Current & Temporary Health)
• Who protected/saved who recently (left)
• What Special Infected was killed recently (left)
• Time endured (top, Survival only)
• Record Time/Goal Time (top, Survival only)
• Special Notes (will appear from time to time)

Infected HUD elements include:

• Player's Current Health (bottom-right)
• Teammates' Current Health (bottom-left to bottom)
• Ability status meter (bottom-left)
• Type of Infected currently playing as (bottom-left)
• Teammates' status meter (bottom-left to bottom)
• Recent attacks made by Infected players (left)

All Survivors begin with 100 Health points. If you run out of Health points, permanent or temporary, you will become Incapacitated and need help to get back on your feet. A Survivor brought back up starts with 30 temporary HP. If Incapacitated a second time, you will die the next time you run out of Health without a Health Kit applied. It is impossible to get back to 100 HP after being hit once. When a Survivor's Health drops below 40 HP, your speed decreases. A Survivor clinging onto 1 HP will be VERY slow.

If a Survivor is killed, they can be brought back usually by being rescued from a Closet (a small room where incapacitated players can be held), or at the end of a round. They will start with 50 HP, a random Tier 1 Weapon, and a Pistol.

Survivors can be seen through walls as blue silhouettes. A Survivor under attack by a Special Infected (being pounced on, puked on by a Boomer, incapacitated, etc.) will have an orange outline or silhouette. This also applies to Survivors trapped in Rescue Closets. Enemies covered in vomit will have a purple outline.

Infected can see how heavily damaged each Survivor is by their outline color (Green, Yellow, or Red). They can also see Survivors' silhouettes and fellow special Infected, even when in spawning mode. Player-controlled Infected have blue auras, while the Witch has a white or red aura depending on her anger levels.

Before engaging, Infected can move freely and quickly all over the map without being seen by Survivors, in a state called spawning mode. They can also teleport to Survivors' positions with E if they get lost. When ready, they can click to spawn.