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Cobat Text "Legend"
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Google didn't help, so I thought I would ask, is there a breakdown on what the new text actually means?
Like what each color means, and what () means, for example. I have seen people who say "yellow" is a crit, while others say it is the "!".
It would be nice if they actually told you in the patch notes.
Like what each color means, and what () means, for example. I have seen people who say "yellow" is a crit, while others say it is the "!".
It would be nice if they actually told you in the patch notes.
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✭✭✭✭✭ding..ding ...ding
things that shouldn't have to be asked...but in ZOS' development....always has to be asked and sometimes not answered.
I don't have a legend but
Green - healing
Red - dmg taken
yellow - crit dmg done
not sure about all the others as of yet so I left them off intentionally-PC (PTS)/Xbox One: NewBlacksmurf
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✭✭✭✭✭NewBlacksmurf wrote: »ding..ding ...ding
I don't have a legend but
Green - healing
Red - dmg taken
yellow - crit dmg done
This seems right, but what I can't figure out are the White Numbers. Note, I have not actually turned this on in may game, I am not a fan of the flying numbers myself. I have only seen the effect on a video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWAp9ZXtVqQ
I might have to test this tonight, as I have a combat log that I can reference to tell me what is going on.Edited by Nestor on March 23, 2016 3:17PMEnjoy the game, life is what you really want to be worried about.
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That makes sense. The values in parenthesis must be Critical Damage done then. It seems that way.Edited by Nestor on March 23, 2016 10:34PMEnjoy the game, life is what you really want to be worried about.
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ZOS_BobbyWeir✭✭✭We use color, punctuation, and position to communicate the type of event in combat text. Color tells part of the story but isn’t fully accessible for everyone, so we use contextual positioning and punctuation to reinforce what color is communicating.
Here’s a breakdown:
Color
White: Outgoing damage
Yellow: Outgoing critical damage
Orange: Outgoing damage over time
Red: Incoming damage
Green: Healing
Tan: Crowd Control
Punctuation
* : Blocked damage
! : Critical damage and healing
( ) : Absorbed
Position
Left of player: Incoming damage
Right of player: Incoming healing
Bottom right of player: Incoming crowd control
Inside player: Incoming damage over time
Above target: Outgoing damage
Inside target: Outgoing damage over time
Right of target: Outgoing crowd control
Above friendly target: Outgoing healing
Here’s a visual breakdown of the color and punctuation:
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runagate✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭That is one hell of a nice explanation.
I will now turn this on for the first time. I never even considered that it would be so well thought-out.
The DoT coloration is an especially nice touch.
I think the pet-users could really use a different color for the pet damage output; I have almost never used pets, but if I could suss out what they were up to I might consider it situationally. I know I see a lot more pets at endgame than I used to (well, there were none before) so it would be interesting to be able to understand their contribution in order to assess their utility.Edited by runagate on March 23, 2016 10:08PM1 -
AmakarGranaen✭✭✭ZOS_BobbyWeir wrote: »We use color, punctuation, and position to communicate the type of event in combat text. Color tells part of the story but isn’t fully accessible for everyone, so we use contextual positioning and punctuation to reinforce what color is communicating.
Here’s a breakdown:
Color
White: Outgoing damage
Yellow: Outgoing critical damage
Orange: Outgoing damage over time
Red: Incoming damage
Green: Healing
Tan: Crowd Control
Punctuation
* : Blocked damage
! : Critical damage and healing
( ) : Absorbed
Position
Left of player: Incoming damage
Right of player: Incoming healing
Bottom right of player: Incoming crowd control
Inside player: Incoming damage over time
Above target: Outgoing damage
Inside target: Outgoing damage over time
Right of target: Outgoing crowd control
Above friendly target: Outgoing healing
Here’s a visual breakdown of the color and punctuation:
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Archmage1✭✭✭This should be in a tutorial or stickied so all players have this explanation. Thank you ZOS.4
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✭✭✭✭✭Tagging and saving this. Thanks for the info!"If a person is truly desirous of something, perhaps being set on fire does not seem so bad."0 -
ButtersEP✭✭✭Thanks for this, I feel like sometimes in this game there are a lot of details that aren't documented, this is good to know !ZOS_BobbyWeir wrote: »We use color, punctuation, and position to communicate the type of event in combat text. Color tells part of the story but isn’t fully accessible for everyone, so we use contextual positioning and punctuation to reinforce what color is communicating.
Here’s a breakdown:
Color
White: Outgoing damage
Yellow: Outgoing critical damage
Orange: Outgoing damage over time
Red: Incoming damage
Green: Healing
Tan: Crowd Control
Punctuation
* : Blocked damage
! : Critical damage and healing
( ) : Absorbed
Position
Left of player: Incoming damage
Right of player: Incoming healing
Bottom right of player: Incoming crowd control
Inside player: Incoming damage over time
Above target: Outgoing damage
Inside target: Outgoing damage over time
Right of target: Outgoing crowd control
Above friendly target: Outgoing healing
Here’s a visual breakdown of the color and punctuation:
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Lightninvash✭✭✭✭✭ZOS_BobbyWeir wrote: »We use color, punctuation, and position to communicate the type of event in combat text. Color tells part of the story but isn’t fully accessible for everyone, so we use contextual positioning and punctuation to reinforce what color is communicating.
Here’s a breakdown:
Color
White: Outgoing damage
Yellow: Outgoing critical damage
Orange: Outgoing damage over time
Red: Incoming damage
Green: Healing
Tan: Crowd Control
Punctuation
* : Blocked damage
! : Critical damage and healing
( ) : Absorbed
Position
Left of player: Incoming damage
Right of player: Incoming healing
Bottom right of player: Incoming crowd control
Inside player: Incoming damage over time
Above target: Outgoing damage
Inside target: Outgoing damage over time
Right of target: Outgoing crowd control
Above friendly target: Outgoing healing
Here’s a visual breakdown of the color and punctuation:
thank you @ZOS_BobbyWeir for the elaborate breakdown of the combat text
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✭Pick something that doesn't resemble a 1 to show critical status.
12481
1248!
With the camera moving, the target(s) moving, us moving, and action happening, all of which demands eye tracking, there must be a better option.
If it's ascii you need, maybe # or = or <Xbox NA2 -
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Lightninvash✭✭✭✭✭Pick something that doesn't resemble a 1 to show critical status.
12481
1248!
With the camera moving, the target(s) moving, us moving, and action happening, all of which demands eye tracking, there must be a better option.
If it's ascii you need, maybe # or = or <
could also look at the yellow being crit. idk how it effects color blind people however. but either see ! or yellow text and know it is a crit are 2 viable ways imo0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Since they can add an exclamation point next to Crits, I would like to suggest an option to show what the incoming damage source elemental property is on the left side of the number. Like a Snowflake represents the damage is Cold, Campfire is Fire damage, Thunderbolt the damage is Shock, Bubbles shows its Poison, Sword is Physical damage, and a Crystal is non-elemental magic damage.8 -
Lightninvash✭✭✭✭✭phaneub17_ESO wrote: »Since they can add an exclamation point next to Crits, I would like to suggest an option to show what the incoming damage source elemental property is on the left side of the number. Like a Snowflake represents the damage is Cold, Campfire is Fire damage, Thunderbolt the damage is Shock, Bubbles shows its Poison, Sword is Physical damage, and a Crystal is non-elemental magic damage.
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Archmage1✭✭✭Lightninvash wrote: »phaneub17_ESO wrote: »Since they can add an exclamation point next to Crits, I would like to suggest an option to show what the incoming damage source elemental property is on the left side of the number. Like a Snowflake represents the damage is Cold, Campfire is Fire damage, Thunderbolt the damage is Shock, Bubbles shows its Poison, Sword is Physical damage, and a Crystal is non-elemental magic damage.
very awesome idea would be good to know this as well!
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✭✭✭Then you'd get all confused the one time someone used Daedric damage from the Mage's necklace set!0 -
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✭ZOS_BobbyWeir wrote: »We use color, punctuation, and position to communicate the type of event in combat text. Color tells part of the story but isn’t fully accessible for everyone, so we use contextual positioning and punctuation to reinforce what color is communicating.
Here’s a breakdown:
Color
White: Outgoing damage
Yellow: Outgoing critical damage
Orange: Outgoing damage over time
Red: Incoming damage
Green: Healing
Tan: Crowd Control
Punctuation
* : Blocked damage
! : Critical damage and healing
( ) : Absorbed
Position
Left of player: Incoming damage
Right of player: Incoming healing
Bottom right of player: Incoming crowd control
Inside player: Incoming damage over time
Above target: Outgoing damage
Inside target: Outgoing damage over time
Right of target: Outgoing crowd control
Above friendly target: Outgoing healing
Here’s a visual breakdown of the color and punctuation:
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This is Flashing text in game not scrolling. Please make it actuall scroll like the populer PC add ons. Better than nothing but sad games been on console almost a year b4 we a small bone.ZOS_BobbyWeir wrote: »We use color, punctuation, and position to communicate the type of event in combat text. Color tells part of the story but isn’t fully accessible for everyone, so we use contextual positioning and punctuation to reinforce what color is communicating.
Here’s a breakdown:
Color
White: Outgoing damage
Yellow: Outgoing critical damage
Orange: Outgoing damage over time
Red: Incoming damage
Green: Healing
Tan: Crowd Control
Punctuation
* : Blocked damage
! : Critical damage and healing
( ) : Absorbed
Position
Left of player: Incoming damage
Right of player: Incoming healing
Bottom right of player: Incoming crowd control
Inside player: Incoming damage over time
Above target: Outgoing damage
Inside target: Outgoing damage over time
Right of target: Outgoing crowd control
Above friendly target: Outgoing healing
Here’s a visual breakdown of the color and punctuation:
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✭✭✭✭✭ZOS_BobbyWeir wrote: »We use color, punctuation, and position to communicate the type of event in combat text. Color tells part of the story but isn’t fully accessible for everyone, so we use contextual positioning and punctuation to reinforce what color is communicating.
Here’s a breakdown:
Color
White: Outgoing damage
Yellow: Outgoing critical damage
Orange: Outgoing damage over time
Red: Incoming damage
Green: Healing
Tan: Crowd Control
Punctuation
* : Blocked damage
! : Critical damage and healing
( ) : Absorbed
Position
Left of player: Incoming damage
Right of player: Incoming healing
Bottom right of player: Incoming crowd control
Inside player: Incoming damage over time
Above target: Outgoing damage
Inside target: Outgoing damage over time
Right of target: Outgoing crowd control
Above friendly target: Outgoing healing
Here’s a visual breakdown of the color and punctuation:
One heck of a first post @ZOS_BobbyWeir !
I agree with what others have said about a crit being a " damage! ". Perhaps a " *damage* " ? That exclamation point is awfully "1" like.0 -
Cazic✭✭✭✭✭@ZOS_BobbyWeir,
Thanks for the detailed explanation, that was awesome of you and really helpful.
Some feedback about the combat text:
The length of time that the text stays on screen is a bit short. It would be nice to have a slider the settings to adjust the amount of time it stays on screen for.
Cheers
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I really like new scrolling text, it's way more readable than the addons. Though there's one thing I'd still really love from FTC: a text combat notification. There's no other visual indicators without going into a menu :[
I also think the SCT could use custom symbols/icons (a little shield for block?) and maybe to help differentiate personal damage vs healing, a + or a -.
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This is great stuff! This really needs to go in the in-game Tutorial Help under Combat.ZOS_BobbyWeir wrote: »UESP: The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages - A collaborative source for all knowledge on the Elder Scrolls series since 1995
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This is perfect, exactly what I was looking for.
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sirrmattus✭✭✭✭✭ZOS_BobbyWeir wrote: »We use color, punctuation, and position to communicate the type of event in combat text. Color tells part of the story but isn’t fully accessible for everyone, so we use contextual positioning and punctuation to reinforce what color is communicating.
Here’s a breakdown:
Color
White: Outgoing damage
Yellow: Outgoing critical damage
Orange: Outgoing damage over time
Red: Incoming damage
Green: Healing
Tan: Crowd Control
Punctuation
* : Blocked damage
! : Critical damage and healing
( ) : Absorbed
Position
Left of player: Incoming damage
Right of player: Incoming healing
Bottom right of player: Incoming crowd control
Inside player: Incoming damage over time
Above target: Outgoing damage
Inside target: Outgoing damage over time
Right of target: Outgoing crowd control
Above friendly target: Outgoing healing
Here’s a visual breakdown of the color and punctuation:
any possibility yall can change the orange to blue or purple. Its very tough for the color blind.Ebonheart Pact - North American Server
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Zaldan✭✭✭✭✭ZOS_BobbyWeir wrote: »We use color, punctuation, and position to communicate the type of event in combat text. Color tells part of the story but isn’t fully accessible for everyone, so we use contextual positioning and punctuation to reinforce what color is communicating.
Here’s a breakdown:
Color
White: Outgoing damage
Yellow: Outgoing critical damage
Orange: Outgoing damage over time
Red: Incoming damage
Green: Healing
Tan: Crowd Control
Punctuation
* : Blocked damage
! : Critical damage and healing
( ) : Absorbed
Position
Left of player: Incoming damage
Right of player: Incoming healing
Bottom right of player: Incoming crowd control
Inside player: Incoming damage over time
Above target: Outgoing damage
Inside target: Outgoing damage over time
Right of target: Outgoing crowd control
Above friendly target: Outgoing healing
Here’s a visual breakdown of the color and punctuation:
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