Effects Feedback Thread (Spells ,Waterfalls ,Falling leaves ect.)

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janimauk wrote:

New ice nova effect is really obnoxius, its nice that it shows which mobs are hit by it but the light is too bright and flashy. please tune it down

Theres a new ice nova effect?

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Russell wrote:

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janimauk wrote:

New ice nova effect is really obnoxius, its nice that it shows which mobs are hit by it but the light is too bright and flashy. please tune it down

Theres a new ice nova effect?

Around the time bloom was added. With regards to lighting MTX's, wouldn't the lighting issues be mostly resolved if you made the MTX only function for the person that owns it/has it applied? No one else is affected by it.

Already posted in Heavy Strike thread, but I guess it should be here as well...

That bubble that pops up every time you hit something with Heavy Strike is something that makes me very uncomfomfortable with playing a toon who uses that skill.

Bubble hides blood (can't see if I hit or miss), stun animation, and, due to its huge size it also covers death animation (because you are hitting next monster right after first one is done, so you see only first few frames of first monster's death animation).

Now, combine Heavy Strike with Multistrike and Melee Splash and you'll get a flashing field of eye-hearting effects that covers almost everything halfscreen around your toon. Now imagine 2-3 Heavystrikers in a party...

Once again: swing effect, special sound, blood, (possible) stun animation, and knockback are more than enough effects to feel the skill. Please remove the gameplay-affecting eye-hurting bubble.

Here's a screenshot (I specially shoose low profile monsters since they are fully covered)


I also noticed a huge hit effect from wand attacks (Frenzy + GMP + Chain, but effect is not related to skill you use, checked that with wand default attack):


And Cold Damage hits (white claw, default attack)


Aand Dominating Blow hits


Aaand Viper Strike


If that is not bug, please consider real gameplay situations (5-10 attacks/spells per second, each hitting multiple mobs) when designing effects. The ones shown on screenshots make my eyes tire much faster and heavily reduce any fun I could have in this game.

Dual Strike
Multi Strike
Melee Splash
Life on Hit
Attack Speed = sub 0.5 (For me, 0.25 or less)

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=237031454
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=237031260

This effect flashes very briefly and at high attack speeds very frequently which is very unnerving to watch. Imagine a pack of enemies, you stand against them and attack, suddenly there are bright flashing lights all around you.

I understand the mechanics behind what makes it behave like this, so I know it will be hard but could you please look in to somehow softening the flashing of the effect under these conditions?

Edit: I can get you a 60fps video if you'd like. (Not tonight)

Don't know if that's me living under a rock for too long, but man, Ground Slam and Sweep are fucked too, this time it is skill effect, not on-hit one.

There should be an option to turn off ALL the new effects.

I want to see monsters and their animations and blood and ground and stuff... Not huge popping bubbles or constant fog.
Seriously, 95% of end game toons have 5+ attacks/spells per second which leaves no place on screen for beauties mentioned above.

Oh, and did I mentioned that it affects gameplay?

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Russell wrote:

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janimauk wrote:

New ice nova effect is really obnoxius, its nice that it shows which mobs are hit by it but the light is too bright and flashy. please tune it down

Theres a new ice nova effect?

it definitely looks different when you cast it and it hits enemies. or then its effect thats caused by chilling the enemies.

Firestorm probably needs a graphic overhaul. The current best use of the skill is to amplify its duration and rate of fireballs (with gem quality and Enhance) and stack a ton of storms in the same spot.

With the current version of the skill this creates a huge red column of lag and destroys my chances of partying with anyone. You can imagine what that'd be like for a Cast on Critical Strike build... Which is of course what I'm running.

I recommend making the fireballs smaller with shorter and thinner trails with more obvious area of effect blasts when they land. Thanks for the consideration.

Firestorm graphic is broken. Casting firestorm in any mid level mapping group is an auto-kick. And can you blame them? At best it creates a giant red stripe on the screen blocking all vision, at worst (read: used as designed, as above poster pointed out) you overload graphics and audio processing, with a completely opaque area surrounding the mob.

Lack of Graphics options is absolutely mystifying, and firestorm is the poster child of a disconnect with the priorities of the player base. Speaking of childrens, if you wanted to save them, you could sell microtransactions that completely remove a spell effect. In my estimation this would be one of the top selling items.

I hope that Act 1 will receive a graphics overhaul. First impressions really count.

Freezing pulse animation hurts my eyes :| Its sooo bright, almost pure white pixels on usually very dark background. Any chance this could be tweaked? Turned darker blue/more gray/more transparent?
Transparent would be best IMO, like, setting transparency to 80-70% and turning it blue-ish instead of white - it would adjust to any background. Plus, it would look cooler.