⚔ 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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Dygz

LMAO

Alacrite

For floating combat text, I like having cumulative numbers sometimes (per mob of course). It can be a nice way to clear up extra text while keeping the information current

I like customizing the placement/existence of all UI during the normal game mode. Remove a mini-map. Place a health bar around my char. Stuff like that. I plan on enjoying this game with a 4k so I'm gonna need all the space I can get ykwim

WoW had some really great chat functions. Idk what it's like now. But I just like grouping specific chats with little restrictions. also, creating multiple chat boxes was sometimes nice.

Bag organization is a massive deal to me. So many modern games still get it wrong. You can't overdo bag organization so def go hard. I want built in filters and customizable filters. That means adding items to an item type that I name myself. I want my bags to feel like a file system, straight up. NEW WORLD DID SUCH AN AWFUL JOB I LITERALLY CANT GET MYSELF TO PLAY IT BECAUSE OF THIS. If we are getting crafting/gathering gear, please let us create easy access "folders" to finding/using that gear. If I'm planning on making a trip to a city for whatever reason and I need to keep track of items through the whole process, a in-depth organizer will make it so much better. I. can't. express. this. enough.

consultant

Well when I played WoW one of the things that they did is in some cases color code damage bleeding efects are red and poison is purple sometimes with graphic effect. But there are other dmg ove time effects like fire damage. Any ways if let say you do 10k damge over 20 seconds at 2k dmg every 2 seconds and the ticks are color coded then as soon when you stop seeing the ticks then it is time to reapply the damage over time.

Really good for knowing what type of dmg you are taking too so have to show what type of dmg you are taking.
The WoW UI is decent combined with graphic effects. Black arrow actually has a particle effect and that ability is a damage over time so when particle effect ends reapply ability.

As far as taking dmg if your are taking poison dmg and that color is purple if you have an antidote (potion) that would be indicator to take it.

As for healers when they target an ally maybe they could see color of dmg they are taking to see what ability to use talking about damage over time that is. Or some other visual indicator. However the amount of dmg of the damage over time is helpful cause it helps you gestimate if you are going to be able to survive it.

So lets say you have like 3 stacks of poison on you from 3 different rogues then pretty cool to see what the combined ticks are. Lets say normally rogues can put a 1k per second dmg over time well if you have three rogues on you that would be 3k every second so you would see 3k ticks in purple. But if you are poison by some very minor efect that is useful to know also cause it might not be enough to use a potion or have healer us an ability one you.

Plus in combat text would like to have ability to color code energy gains and mitigated dmg and item effects that have a numercal value not necessarily dmg like shields and heals and energy gains.

Plus roling combat text as option would be pretty cool plus there should standard options for how you wnat the combat text to appear. In LOL the more dmge you do the bigger the combat text is. That would be a cool option.

Alacrite

UI Profiles that you can download and share would be very cool imo

Dolyem

Action bar placement
Optional additional action bars
Cooldown Timer customizations
Optional Sounds/alerts for cooldowns
Target options for timers on debuffs/buffs
Minimap customization for anything from aesthetics to placement and even options to show/hide things on the map. Also having shareable map markers for party/raid/guilds

Honestly I want a weakauras level of customization but I understand that it may be a bit much.

Liniker

I also hope you don't allow people to see nameplates in the UI or target mobs that are supposed to be hidden, such as the rock golems in the last livestream before they agro and start moving, this would ruin the purpose of those mobs blending with the environment - same for players when they crouch in a bush

George_Black

Eso is an example to avoid. The game is unplayable without UI addons.
Without going into specifics, ff14 and bdo have the best UI settings that I have seen.

Craiken

I'm all for customizable UI, but sometimes I screw things up. I would appreciate the ability to set my UI back to default or set it back to how it was yesterday.

Also, please start everyone with a clean user interface. If it's overwhelming, the game is immediately off-putting.

Noaani

Craiken wrote: »

I'm all for customizable UI, but sometimes I screw things up. I would appreciate the ability to set my UI back to default or set it back to how it was yesterday.

Also, please start everyone with a clean user interface. If it's overwhelming, the game is immediately off-putting.

The ability to save UI settings to either the server or client is a good thing.

In terms of floating combat feedback, I expect every aspect of it to be able to be customized. I'm not a huge fan of it as it is in the OP - there is no inherent way to see exactly what mob each hit is against, let alone which mob is dealing what damage to the player. This is information that should be a part of how this feedback is set up as standard.

So, the point of origin dof the floating test should be able to be adjusted to any point using the damage dealer and target as reference points.

Additionally, both vertical and horizontal movement should be able to be customized, as well as size of text, color and fade out (which could be color based, size based, or both).

There should also be the option to set text color based on damage type, both for damage taken and damage received.

There should also be an option to set the size if the text based in the total percentage of your HP the hit is for, or the percentage of your targets HP that it dealt - and also allow for larger hits to remain longer, if desired.

Lastly, while this may be difficult in action combat, a player should be able to right click on any number in the floating combat feedback and be given information on who the attack was from or against, which attack it was specifically, and any buffs or debuffs that affected the damage amount.

That is about all the customization I can think of off the top of my head for floating combat feedback. I'd post about other UI customization that I think the game should have, but I doubt I have the time to write it all out - and I am fairly sure I would come up against the forum character limit.

Nerror

On top of simply saving UI settings, I would like to see some exporting and importing of settings in a more granular way. It would be cool to be able to import/export sub-sections of the UI. Like all settings pertaining to the minimap for example, so people can share that with each other, but still keep other settings the way they like. And for the really granular-minded folks, let us edit those settings further in Notepad++ or a similar program, so we can export/import very specific parts of those sub-sections.

Speaking of the minimap (and the general map too really), the one we had in A1 was understandably a bit lacking. I would like to see controls for background map opacity and many filters and options for the stuff that appears on the minimap. Navigating just by minimap was hard because it was often very hard to recognize the background features.

The picture below was taken near a goblin camp in A1. Every red arrowhead on the minimap shows a goblin and (presumably) the direction it's facing. It's a little much and it looks messy. Especially if you zoomed out on the minimap.

I would like to be able to change size, color, icon-type, and whether or not any mob, or just certain types of mobs, should even be shown. The same goes for any custom map markers of course. Being able to control the opacity of those icons would be awesome too, as well as layer priority if they are on top of each other.

A more egregious example was during a siege, when Steven spawned a thousand bears on top of us all. Ignore how I and all the bears are walking in the sky. That was a bug.

Focus on the mass of red arrowheads just covering the minimap. It's a little much.

daveywavey

I think it looks good as it is. I'll probably shrink the numbers a little from what was shown, but I'm guessing that will already be one of the customisation options, so I'm all good.

Schmuky

One thing that i didnt see in the showcase was the ability for the damage to get added into a big number. This is more important for the damage the player takes i feel.

For example, if I take 18 damage every tick and I also get hit with a sword and I also have an arrow hit me, it will just be a cascade of damage and I wont instantly tell that i lost 80% of my health in the heat of combat.

But if I see a big 3000 damage taken, it will make me go "oh damn, need to fall back now!"

So, as long as the dmg number is still on screen and you get tapped again, add the new damage to it and reset how long it stays there.

Beyond this, it looks good. Maybe have an option to BOLD the damage more so it is clearly visible against any background.

daveywavey

Schmuky wrote: »

One thing that i didnt see in the showcase was the ability for the damage to get added into a big number. This is more important for the damage the player takes i feel.

For example, if I take 18 damage every tick and I also get hit with a sword and I also have an arrow hit me, it will just be a cascade of damage and I wont instantly tell that i lost 80% of my health in the heat of combat.

But if I see a big 3000 damage taken, it will make me go "oh damn, need to fall back now!"

So, as long as the dmg number is still on screen and you get tapped again, add the new damage to it and reset how long it stays there.

Beyond this, it looks good. Maybe have an option to BOLD the damage more so it is clearly visible against any background.

Make it an option, sure. But I think I'd rather have the individual damage numbers.

If I'm taking 800 dmg per second, I want to know which enemy is doing 700 to me and which is doing 100, so I know which to focus first.

Schmuky

Def make it an option!

Kawarau

I'd like to see free floating buttons that can snap to each other, top, bottom, sides so you can group/nest them in a lot of different ways. Aswell as different sizes, go full tetris on the ui

BaSkA_9x2

I want to be able to move everything around, resize everything, change the colors of some elements, change hotkeys for most if not all things, hide/show elements and, last but not least, be able to setup hotkeys which change my "UI profile" from a list of 3 or 4 options: when I press Alt+F1 I turn on my minimalistic UI, Alt+F2 changes to my raid UI with loads of information everywhere and Alt+F3 changes to my tryhard UI showing PvP related information only.

It's hard to list (or remember) everything I'd like to be able to customize, change and adjust, but the quick answer is "as much as possible". Maybe not so much for Alpha 2, but definitely for Beta.

Wolfseele

Firstly all the usual customizations such as size, placement, color, opacity, border, rotation & font options for all UI elements to be able to position and style however you want.

For each UI element there will also be additional things you could customize, for instance for the minimap:
Shape of the minimap (square/round)
If the minimap rotates with the direction you are facing or if it always faces north and your icon rotates instead (people have different preferences)
Add customisation options for whatever icons will be on the minimap, like colour, size and toggle options. This could apply to places of interest, players, resources, mobs or whatever icons will show on the map. Being able to customize what you see and what they look like is very nice.

For Chatbox:
Being able to change the type, size, colour and style of the font for each type of text or chat would be nice.
Opacity and colour options for the chatbox so you can have a slight background or remove it, same with border of chatbox etc.

For healthbars or icons in particular, I know some people like a really simplistic and informational focused style and other people (especially for their own healthbar/icon) like to have it looking all fancy or fitting a certain theme. So could maybe include customisation options that can add a bit of flare to things like your healthbar or icon, or for the enemy healthbars or icons for elite/legendary mobs etc.

Being able to hide or show FPS or Ping is a given but on top of that, being able to customise more things like where it shows or the size of it is nice too, as well as being able to toggle additional parameter info like packet loss etc.

Having profiles that are exportable and importable will be nice, but also having sub profiles for individual UI elements that you can share with others without having to alter the entire UI at once would be great. On top of this, if you could swap between different UI profiles with a hotkey that could be great so you could use different UI setups for different occasions.

All in all, the more options you add for anything, the better!

ykk

Resize and move every individual UI element. The more options the better. Including capability to change the colors of elements is good too, but some genuinely well implemented colorblind options (that are not simply a filter) would be like, a minimum in that department.

Two of the most popular addons for FFXIV are ways to change what UI elements look like (Material UI/DelvUI); its highly valued. DelvUI is just recreating elvui from WoW - another incredibly popular UI addon. People found a UI setup they like in one game and can basically just copy paste it wholesale into another and be very satisfied.

Morg7x7

Customizable name plates and health bars and some kind of range indicator for party members.
As a healer I want clean easy to read name plates I want to physically locate all my party members on screen and know who's in or out of range.

I don't want to be clicking on a stack of health bars at the side of my screen.

I quit playing wow during Legion when they banned tidy plates, the default name plates are obnoxious for healing.

Asgerr

I would like the ability to add the skill's name to some of the floating text so at to keep track of that specific skill's damage.
In the midst of a ton of damage numbers, sometimes keeping an eye out on a few specific skills can indicate how much a certain "rotation" or buffs, gear, level, etc is working towards that skill's damage

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