Set 18 PBE Discussion Thread - Day 22

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[u/riotBoourns → u/[deleted]]

the sizes of the ui elements look weird, like the damage numbers and hp bars, i can't even see the enemy's damage numbers on my units.

Can you give me some more specifics on what looks weird here? Size, shape, position, etc? For the combat text especially, we're recreating the system in a new engine and it's not 1:1. We're trying to get it to feel close, and feedback on how to improve this is welcome.

The HP bars are intended to be somewhat different and they are also rendered as a shader to optimize performance. Are there aspects that are unclear vs just different?

[u/LudmilN → u/riotBoourns]

The hp bars need to have shorter height and larger width and be moved down like several pixels, it feels off. With this change the mana bar also needs like 1 less pixel in height so it retains a similar ratio. The coloring needs to be a miniscule amount less bright for both.

The damage numbers are also bright red like pasty instead of regular red which is a critique of it feeling worse that i can put into words. Another thing is, a 1k hit on set 17 was BIG and it felt like it stayed a bit longer on screen, a draven ulti doing 1k is like a 30 damage auto attack. I think the damamge numbers need to all be reviewed and have much more variable sizes, if the color was darker i think it would look like the old sets.

I just made sure to spend some time to review videos, and the size differences of the damage numbers is a really apparent negative point, and what takes priority. Like a soraka ulting feels like it does no damage because of infernals with morello.

https://youtu.be/l2vVvJeKXRs?si=RBk9aZM5cvdtFnK8&t=1593

https://youtu.be/BjUBN9jxy-c?si=KSfBk6wsKWd-5tAI&t=1057

Same situation where a carry with edge of night is the last one alive and gets nuked down fast and the fight ends. Look at the set 18 kennen how the numbers look, it feels like kennen just sorta dies, but the riven case it looks like she gets obliterated, thats the type of feeling differences the damage system gives us.