Poll: Monster life number display

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Diaval wrote:

It is nice when you see how much damage you deal by hit and how much life you gain by heal etc.
This is very well done in a certain successfull free-to-play game based on dota.

You can already see your own life numbers, this is more about showing an opponents life. I voted for if enabled (weeks ago)

Nothing wrong with options... having a LACK OF OPTIONS on the other hand... well that is where it becomes like EVERY OTHER MMO... BLAND.
The game NEEDS to flow freely, not clustered by a (selfish) view of how everyone "should" be happy, freedom is happiness and more people will at least try your game if you present them with options.

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cybrim wrote:

Nothing wrong with options... having a LACK OF OPTIONS on the other hand... well that is where it becomes like EVERY OTHER MMO... BLAND.
The game NEEDS to flow freely, not clustered by a (selfish) view of how everyone "should" be happy, freedom is happiness and more people will at least try your game if you present them with options.

This game isnt a MMO though o-o its an Online Action RPG o:

Yeah, more options will be better :3

http://www.pathofexile.com/gallery/#/preview/i87 to me this looks good enough but do the monsters have levels?

I prefer numbers shown, but i think option is good compromise.

Its good that gaming experience is adjustable by gamers needs.

i think health numbers should be optional.

what i would like to see:
you can only see the total health amount after actually hitting an opponent.
this way i can see whats happening with my dmg output when i fight bosses, but i can still get suprised by running into some new opponents while i am low on health.

Optional, as most have said thus far, because we don't need to know exactly how many points lvl 1 mobs have left. But it might be useful for comparing skills/builds.

its more exciting for me to guess the health rather than seeing the actual numerical value call me old school but this more interesting to play

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its more exciting for me to guess the health rather than seeing the actual numerical value call me old school but this more interesting to play

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I agree with haveing to guess is way more fun and exciting, at least on new mobs...so maybe make an option to see numerical values but monsters have a ?/? until you have killed a few. or if you really wanted to go crazy you could build it based on YOUR CHARACTER'S knowlege of the monsters' health. say you kill a little squirrel in 1 hit with a 10 damage strike, so the next squirrel you see will show <10 or something, becoming more accurate as you kill more, this could apply to monster weaknesses/resistances as well. but that would probably be way overkill in action RPG =D