Battle HUD at the dam: action points, TAC-COM, End Turn

About this game

Developer: Splash Damage / The Coalition · Publisher: Xbox Game Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

This is Gears Tactics' player turn at full stretch, and its HUD is organised by question: what must I do (the objective, top-left), who can act (three portraits with ×3 action points and health, left), what can they do (weapon and ability slots, bottom), and when am I done ([END] END TURN, isolated at bottom right). The battlefield keeps the same language, health as red bars over enemies, intent as sight lines, selection as rings, so the eye never has to change dialect between chrome and world. The TAC-COM toggle at top right is the tell that this density is a choice: one key raises the camera to a planning view, and the same information survives the move. Disclosure: the trailer's caption “THIS GAME'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT” is burned across the lower centre of this frame, over the battlefield and part of Sid's nameplate; every HUD element described above sits at the edges and is complete and legible, and this battle is only ever shown under that caption. Frame at about 1:23 in the Gears Tactics Launch Trailer - ENESRB (Steam; manual extraction, no scene-change survivor isolates this HUD; the survivors either side are the pre-battle backdrop at 81.61s and a cinematic quote card at 83.83s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

hud-overlay action-bar quest-tracker

Components

Parts on screen.

Portrait Marker Vitals bar Slots Button prompts Toggle Quest tracker

Screen inventory

• the mission is pinned top-left as a two-line objective, “Fight across the dam / Gabe, Sid and Mikayla must not die.”, while the top-right carries the camera keys ([Q] [E] [Z] [C]) and the [SPACE] TAC-COM: OFF toggle for the overhead tactical view
• the squad lives on the left edge as three portrait plates, each with a ×3 action-point marker and a segmented blue health bar with its number (500, 620); the selected soldier's fuller plate names him, LEVEL 1 VANGUARD SID REDBURN, with a [HOME] PASSIVE ABILITIES prompt
• the bottom edge is the verb bar: weapon slots [F1] 4/4, [F2] 4/4, [F3] ∞ and numbered ability icons ([1] [2] and more) centred, with [END] END TURN held apart at bottom right
• on the field itself the state is drawn, not listed: red health bars (500) over each Locust, thin sight lines from the squad's overwatch positions, blue selection rings under the active units and a teal destination marker on the dam road

Top 3 colors

#232118 24%#11120c 21%#4b3f35 21%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Splash Damage / The Coalition / Xbox Game Studios, Gears Tactics screenshot: Steam trailer (Gears Tactics Launch Trailer - ENESRB), Splash Damage / The Coalition, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Xbox Game Studios.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-26. verified 2026-10-26: manual extraction manual-83-0.png @ ~83.0s in the Gears Tactics Launch Trailer - ENESRB, 2,220,677 B, MD5 dd8be971b5fd8b2d3a3f8f572b09a286, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (95,839,944 B, MD5 86f794f211a4ad3e9cc590934246dbdf; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-1184050-Gears-Tactics-Launch-Trailer-ENESRB.mp4.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); objective, squad action-point plates, TAC-COM toggle, weapon/ability bar and END TURN all legible; trailer burn-in “THIS GAME'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT” present across the lower centre and disclosed in the study note, no caption-free frame of this battle exists in the trailer (checked at 2 fps across 82–85s)

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