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It pretty much overwhelms the paladin and characters around him when he uses it, making them quite hard to make out.

I have no idea why the Paladin's flames of devotion is so bright and overbearing for a single hit ability.

Some spells have multiple visual effects that are completely obtrusive and unecessary. I think toning down the spell effects in general is the solution, though may require more work. Yes, either turning them off or making them vastly less opaque on pause would help.Īny time a char has any effect that makes them unable to act, this effect should be VERY clearly displayed on top the character portrait along with a timer, not hidden among the ****loads of other effects. They should also have stolen the custom char ring colors idea from BG:EE to help you find specific chars more easily. It's especially disappointing after Obsidian had the right idea with NWN2's vast amount of hotbars. It's a (crappy and stupid) modern trend to make the UI as small as possible, which is why we have those tiny char portraits and the super tiny status effect icons.

You'd really notice that, I think, and there would be an incentive to 'clean up' the portrait. Buffs on the outside, debuffs over the portrait edge, probably with a black background so they could be clearly seen. Separating icons on each side might work, but it would require spacing out the portraits horizontally to make more room.Īnother way to do it, would be to have debuffs appear lined up inside the portraits, along that same edge. I agree about debuffs being hard to see next to the portraits. Or add a key binding to modify the mouse click, like Alt-click to highlight, or something. That should probably be an optional setting, since some players might prefer not to see that. Either an outline around the edge, or just a brighter glow so it would stand out from the group. Is that mod-able?Īnother idea would be to just highlight the 3D model of a character when you click on their portrait in the UI. Edited Apby RedSocialKnightĬloser zoom would certainly help, and it sounds like the easiest way to improve things. These are just ideas that popped into my head as a way to make combat easier to navigate - other solutions would be fine, but I think it is a problem in search of solutions. I know this would be very easy to change: someone on Steam already posted a way to increase the range with console commands, and it's a really nice quality of life boost. The environments are beautiful, and having the ability to get in close would sometimes help to clarify the tangle of combat.

I'm not sure why the limit on the zoom range is so narrow. That way the icons could be bigger, and it would be immediately obvious when something pops up in the 'bad' column. This means I don't really notice the debuff icons when they appear - again, I have to pause and squint (and often click the little arrow to expand the list when there are too many icons to fit on the portrait).Ī really simple solution: put positive status effect icons on one side of the portrait, and negative status icons on the other. Pallegina always has her accuracy modal going, and then there's Kana and Durance - so I always have a string of icons running most of the way down the right side of the portraits. My characters have buffs up all the time. This could be something that toggles on and off with pause as well. It would be great to have a character's whole model clearly show status effects with a color change - a stunned character could be blue from head to toe.

Time and time again I've wondered why it's been five seconds and my guy hasn't cast a spell yet, only to check and see the tiny icon - in a column of other tiny icons, so many of them that some are pushed out of sight at the bottom of the column - showing that he's stunned.

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Still more helpful would be a function that toggled between the effects and AoE markers - the same as you see when targetting a spell.Īnother nice upgrade would be visual effects signalling combat states, especially status effects. I spend a lot of time with the screen on pause squinting through the haze of a spell effect trying to see who is standing where - clicking on circles to see whose portrait flashes, etc.ĭo spell effects and assorted sparklies function as a single visual layer that could be set to toggle off when combat is paused? That would help a lot. A few ideas that might help clear things up a bit: One legitimate criticism of the combat in this game is that you often can't tell what the **** is going on.

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