⚔ Let's chat about floating damage text 💯

📊 Players will have the option to adjust a wide variety of UI elements, including floating text!

🤔 What other elements would you like to change and adjust?

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GethOverlord

I always like the idea of having different facades and styles of UI borders to toggle between. This is obviously more work for the art team but can improve the immersion for people that like to see their UI elements and not just have it gamified by floating your rotation right in the middle of the screen.

If there's going to be a minimap in the UI being able to adjust its size shape and transparency would also be nice.

On top of that the existing customization already mentioned with the floating combat text font size and color is amazing and I can't wait to dig into it.

I would also like, if it doesn't already exist, for status effects to be displayed in the floating combat text.

Leukael

I really like clean interfaces, so controlling things like;

Opacity of the bars
Removing and bar/UI art
Size and spacing between buttons
Positioning (moving bars, buttons, etc.)

I would love an option to have an alert pop up of the button really large when a cd comes up that we can control opacity of as well. That way we can keep our eyes on the game and not constantly looking at CDs on a bar. Procs/key cds would be great to alert in the HUD as well but not really required in my mind.

Vaknar

Personally, I look forward to adjusting my action bars and minimap to fit my style ^_^

Vaknar

GethOverlord wrote: »

On top of that the existing customization already mentioned with the floating combat text font size and color is amazing and I can't wait to dig into it.
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Neither can I! Although, I'm not sure how I would even change it. Do you have any thoughts as to what you'd do?

Vaknar

Leukael wrote: »

I really like clean interfaces, so controlling things like;

Opacity of the bars
Removing and bar/UI art
Size and spacing between buttons
Positioning (moving bars, buttons, etc.)

I love a clean-looking screen! I use an ultrawide so being able to move UI elements around so I can see more of the world around me gives me joy ^_^

Vaknar

Here's what others have been saying on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/AshesofCreation/status/1551553154889785345?cxt=HHwWgoC99fbXnIgrAAAA

Azherae

I'm mostly thinking about all the crazy things that heavy UI customization lets me do with a touchscreen laptop.

Being able to change hotbars to vertical orientation for example, would be amazing for this, but I'm mostly considering how much the various UIs for crafting can be changed, and looking forward to giving lots of feedback on UI customization for those.

Liniker

I'd like to edit everything in my UI, I think there shouldn't be any element that I can't move around and resize or change the Opacity - this includes all the icons for buffs, bars, minimap, quest logs tooltips etc - It would be nice to have a few different options for the text font specially for damage numbers.

Don't try to make a good-looking and clean UI, just make it fully customizable so no one can complain about it

Vaknar

Azherae wrote: »

I'm mostly thinking about all the crazy things that heavy UI customization lets me do with a touchscreen laptop.

Being able to change hotbars to vertical orientation for example, would be amazing for this, but I'm mostly considering how much the various UIs for crafting can be changed, and looking forward to giving lots of feedback on UI customization for those.

Woah! I've never thought about doing this. Have you adjusted UI elements on a touchscreen laptop before? I'd love to see what an end result would look like!

I also haven't personally considered changing UI specifically for crafting. I've never been an excellent crafter before, though. Mostly a PvP junkie 😈

Azherae

Vaknar wrote: »

Azherae wrote: »

I'm mostly thinking about all the crazy things that heavy UI customization lets me do with a touchscreen laptop.

Being able to change hotbars to vertical orientation for example, would be amazing for this, but I'm mostly considering how much the various UIs for crafting can be changed, and looking forward to giving lots of feedback on UI customization for those.

Woah! I've never thought about doing this. Have you adjusted UI elements on a touchscreen laptop before? I'd love to see what an end result would look like!

I also haven't personally considered changing UI specifically for crafting. I've never been an excellent crafter before, though. Mostly a PvP junkie 😈

Particularly for those times where you don't have your full setup (whatever special mouse or other peripherals) in slower games.

Horizontal hotbars across the bottom are a little awkward for touchscreen play, but any vertical modification option is great.

I'm looking forward to putting Party Member health and 'selection' icons in lower right under a vertical hotbar for maximum effect. Tap target with thumb, tap spell with index. Instant healing everywhere with no worries about laptop keyboard layout issues.

GethOverlord

Vaknar wrote: »

GethOverlord wrote: »

On top of that the existing customization already mentioned with the floating combat text font size and color is amazing and I can't wait to dig into it.
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Neither can I! Although, I'm not sure how I would even change it. Do you have any thoughts as to what you'd do?

Coming from my custom UIs in WoW I've always liked knowing when my damage was effective. Having text have a "critical effect" if I'm using an effective damage type and equally when it's being resisted being able to modify it so those numbers are stylized differently is important to me. WoW moved away from caring about damage type awhile ago and I still miss it.

Also just having cartoonishly large critical effects is fun, I'd do that in pretty much every UI lol

GethOverlord

Also, do we know if they are letting us change the UI inside "vehicles" where our UI changes entirely? I would like to be able to customize this outside of a vehicle. Perhaps through simulating it in the settings. I like to be able to change things before I'm in the heat of the moment controlling a massive summon in PvP or a timed/turret quest or something.

Ludullu

Let me move all the dmg numbers into chat (ideally a separate chat window) and let me move any and all UI windows, and I'll be satisfied.

Leiloni

Adding to my comment from Twitter -

Reticule location in action UI mode. TERA let us do that but most games have it super low to the ground, over your shoulder - horrible view, hard to see and aim. Let me adjust it way above my head, centrally located.

I also want to point out that many other quality action or hybrid combat games have reticules centrally located on screen, way above the character's head. Black Desert, Neverwinter, and GW2 off the top of my head all have this and they tend to have more widely appreciated combat systems - to compare to ESO and New World who have the low to the ground, over the shoulder view and both have widely criticized combat.

So I'd love either for the game to have 2 or more options for reticule location on screen we can switch between, or let us manually move it. I still feel like I may have to play in tab target view as a healer, but in the off-chance that action reticule mode is at all viable, I really need for the reticule to be centrally located on screen way above my character's head.

Ideally it would allow me to zoom out to see the battlefield better and the location of my teammates, and while zoomed out, still having the reticule high above my head centrally also allows me to aim at my teammates more easily than if I have to deal with obstacles and other players low to the ground blocking my view of them.

This is also a balance concern as well because I will be able to easily zoom out while in tab target view and it won't affect my ability to target anything, so if I can't also do the same thing in reticule view that'd be a huge hindrance.

Dygz

I'm looking forward to customizing the damage text so that it's easier for me to recognize the damage types of my group mates so that I can more easily synergize my Active Skills and augments with members of my group.

Definitely looking forward to what they might do for map updates and mini-maps.
And...I'm very curious to see how nameplates will indicate gear type, class and levels.

I don't know what else I don't even know I'd want.

George_Black

As long as there is a turnoff option Ill be happy.

mcstackerson

If possible, might be nice if you can set it up so the damage number increases for an attack with multiple steps instead of a new number showing up for each hit. For example, that whirlwind attack shows a separate number for each hit and my recommendation would change it so hits after the initial hit would add to the first number instead of creating their own. I believe Guild wars 2 does this with their numbers.

Holtium

As much as I like floating dmg text, I'd also like to have the option to turn it off and have a more visceral experience where I can see dmg I'm doing to monsters by their models changing respectively. Like a 100%, 75%, 50%, and 25% visual change. Nothing too fancy, just extra blood and gashes on the body or something. Maybe that's too much extra work though. Would be interesting to have a whole server without dmg numbers and this instead xD

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Sengarden

NiKr wrote: »

Let me move all the dmg numbers into chat (ideally a separate chat window) and let me move any and all UI windows, and I'll be satisfied.

This is something I never thought about before but think I would love. During periods where I'm not trying to min-max, just enjoying interacting with the world, watching health bars go up and down is good enough for me. Seeing my damage quantified unavoidably sucks me out of the world. Especially with how many numbers Steven is putting off in that GIF in the header post. I'd even go as far as to say I'd like to be able to remove numbers from health bars, since the only use for them is when I can see how much damage I'm doing.

Something I think would be great is the option for a fade in / fade out for each UI piece when interacting (or not interacting) with certain parts of the world so I don't have to toggle it every time. I imagine logging in with no UI and a key-bind to toggle just my mini-map. Key-bind to access only my bag. Upon clicking an enemy, their health bar and status effects pop up. Key-bind to access combat mode that triggers my health bar, status effects, and ability UI to pop up. Click away from them and their info goes away, and I can either choose to have my info go away a certain amount of time after combat ends, or a certain amount of time after my health bar is refilled. Maybe when I eat or drink, my resource bars pop up and fade away a certain amount of time after I'm done. Choose to have my bags open or not when I interact with a merchant's shop. That sort of thing.

I guess I just want to really feel like I'm in my character's shoes. If I'm not in combat, I'm probably not thinking about all my abilities, or my health unless I'm injured. If I know where I am and don't need a map to navigate the immediate area, I'm probably not thinking about a map. If I'm not using my inventory, I probably don't need to see a bag icon. Etc. Making the system customizable so that we can choose to only be shown what is relevant to us at any given moment, on a player-by-player basis, would be incredible.

Night Wings

NiKr wrote: »

Let me move all the dmg numbers into chat (ideally a separate chat window) and let me move any and all UI windows, and I'll be satisfied.

I agree if we can get something like this down below that be cool.

Two mods I loved in World of Warcraft that would love to see something similar in AoC
-OmniCC: was spell cooldown ticker it would let the player know when he can cast that spell again video example here
-Bartender4: Extremely customizable UI interface that pretty much did everything video example here

If AoC can do the chat and something similar to the addons im solid.

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