Killing Blow announcer Addon?

Dharnagon

Hey!
Is there a Killing Blow announcer for ESO?
Im not saying the ones that show the Killing Blow on ur Chatbox, but like a cloud pop up animation.
Does anyone know of any?

Thx!

Enslaved

You mean like KILL NOW text message or something?

nnargun

I think he's talking about something that tells you who killed the boss.

VaranisArano

For PVP, there is the Kill Counter addon: http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info337-KillCounter.html
It will tell you in the chat box who you killed and if you landed the killing blow, with what ability. I realize that's not what you were looking for, but that's the only way I know of to do this, unless the scrolling combat text has a feature I haven't noticed.

EvilAutoTech

From the title I was thinking something like Howard Cosell or Michael Buffer voice announcement. "Down goes Snapjaw, a devastating wrecking blow by (insert gamertag here)".

Dharnagon

VaranisArano wrote: »

For PVP, there is the Kill Counter addon: http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info337-KillCounter.html
It will tell you in the chat box who you killed and if you landed the killing blow, with what ability. I realize that's not what you were looking for, but that's the only way I know of to do this, unless the scrolling combat text has a feature I haven't noticed.

Yeag, ty, I HV killcounter. As I said, I want something out of the chat, specially if there could be with some animation, something cool, just like a ^1st blood^ in some mobas.

Feanor

@Dharnagon

The highly discussed (and heatedly debated) Miat's PvP Alerts features a KillFeed which you can set up in a specific window outside the chat box.

Drummerx04

Dharnagon wrote: »

VaranisArano wrote: »

For PVP, there is the Kill Counter addon: http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info337-KillCounter.html
It will tell you in the chat box who you killed and if you landed the killing blow, with what ability. I realize that's not what you were looking for, but that's the only way I know of to do this, unless the scrolling combat text has a feature I haven't noticed.

Yeag, ty, I HV killcounter. As I said, I want something out of the chat, specially if there could be with some animation, something cool, just like a ^1st blood^ in some mobas.

Hey, so I'm the guy who is currently taking care of Kill Counter, when you say you want something "out of the chat" do you simply mean you want the information in another window like Miat's, or do you mean some sort of floating text/image like the damage text from FTC/LUI etc?

Either way I'm in an overhaul phase of how Kill Counter functions under the hood so it can support multiple locales and be easier to update in the future, so I can look into adding floating text in the future.

But as far as I know, there isn't really an addon that does EXACTLY what you describe, and the Addon API doesn't allow 3rd party sound files to be played (So no halo "Killing Spree!" audio callouts for instance)

Feanor

@Drummerx04

Ah, cool that you posted. Got a question about KillCounter. I have the feeling that it actually counts more kills than it should. I run solo mostly and sometimes get kills even long after I have died. Now it could absolutely be that I damaged a player 3 minutes ago with a LA and then he died long after I died and that is counted then, but it strikes me as unlikely. Could you tell me what gets registered as kill? I have been running Pointificator by @Olivierko for a long time and the counted kills are vastly different.

Drummerx04

Feanor wrote: »

@Drummerx04

Ah, cool that you posted. Got a question about KillCounter. I have the feeling that it actually counts more kills than it should. I run solo mostly and sometimes get kills even long after I have died. Now it could absolutely be that I damaged a player 3 minutes ago with a LA and then he died long after I died and that is counted then, but it strikes me as unlikely. Could you tell me what gets registered as kill? I have been running Pointificator by @Olivierko for a long time and the counted kills are vastly different.

Kill Counter has always and currently just reacts off the Combat Events (Killing_Blow subcategory) that are reported by the game itself. These Killing Blow events are triggered by three observable situations in game.

1. Your character gets what we generally consider the actual Killing Blow. This is finicky in the sense that ESO can't seem to figure out who actually got the killing blow or if - multiple attacks hit simultaneously (like on a sorc with fury) - which ability actually got the kill... So the game just dumps all the information in separate events, sends them to everyone involved and then goes about its day. These events are reported instantly.
2. The enemy that you damaged (or even KB'd) dies and then releases to a camp or keep. This is reported almost immediately upon release. If an enemy doesn't release for 3 minutes, this could be where the long delayed reports are coming from.
3. Similar to #2, but triggers when YOU leave the area. This will usually result in the huge wall of killed text at once.

So atm you do get extra KB ticks (and credit) if you see a double+ report of killing blows, and it's also been running like that for years (I started poking at it maybe two weeks ago). I know how to get it to report and count only 1, but I'm not really sure which KB I want to report, so I've sort of back burnered it for now.

KC does correctly handle the distinction that you KB'd a player and then that player released. You should not be seeing a regular "Playerx killed" if you first killed him yourself.

A lot of people I've talked to over the years share the same opinion i do on this particular point: The "person killed" on release serves as an "I know when the enemy has released and I don't have to look for rezzers any more." So I'm not really sure if changing it benefits anyone, lol.

I could probably reverse engineer Miat's Kill Feed (which is some black magic sorcery amalgamation of data parsing), but if you want the kill feed to work like his, then you might as well just use his and use Kill Counter more for the long term stats and to get a general summary of your play session.

There are also quite a few other more subtle bugs/features that hasn't worked right since before my last update (such as resource/keep capture records, and non-english clients apparently have never had their statistics display properly in the summary window, etc). It's a process lol.

Hopefully, that cleared things up for you

Dharnagon

Drummerx04 wrote: »

Dharnagon wrote: »

VaranisArano wrote: »

For PVP, there is the Kill Counter addon: http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info337-KillCounter.html
It will tell you in the chat box who you killed and if you landed the killing blow, with what ability. I realize that's not what you were looking for, but that's the only way I know of to do this, unless the scrolling combat text has a feature I haven't noticed.

Yeag, ty, I HV killcounter. As I said, I want something out of the chat, specially if there could be with some animation, something cool, just like a ^1st blood^ in some mobas.

Hey, so I'm the guy who is currently taking care of Kill Counter, when you say you want something "out of the chat" do you simply mean you want the information in another window like Miat's, or do you mean some sort of floating text/image like the damage text from FTC/LUI etc?

Either way I'm in an overhaul phase of how Kill Counter functions under the hood so it can support multiple locales and be easier to update in the future, so I can look into adding floating text in the future.

But as far as I know, there isn't really an addon that does EXACTLY what you describe, and the Addon API doesn't allow 3rd party sound files to be played (So no halo "Killing Spree!" audio callouts for instance)

Like combat cloud xD
I loved the recent update on kc, it seems far more accurate, tyvm!

THWIP71

As a huge Seinfeld fan, I would prefer the term "Death Blow".

Banana

Feanor

@Drummerx04

Thx, very much appreciated. One insightful for you.

Drummerx04

Dharnagon wrote: »

Like combat cloud xD
I loved the recent update on kc, it seems far more accurate, tyvm!

Feanor wrote: »

@Drummerx04

Thx, very much appreciated. One insightful for you.

No prob, it felt good to update one of my first Addons ever installed (like 2 years ago lol).

On a side note, if anyone has Non-English client Kill Counter data they can send me for testing purposes for the next update, I would very much appreciate it.

Send me a PM, thanks!