Prelude Dark Pain Combat UI and Battle Flow

Jeder Prelude-Dark-Pain-Fight nutzt dasselbe Combat HUD: Initiative Queue für Turn Order, Battle Point Pools pro Held, Skill Bars mit Costs, Tile Overlays für Movement und Targeting, Status Icons für Bleed, Taunt, Blind, Elevation Bonuses. Diese Elemente trennen smooth Act-1 Clears von accidental Flanking Deaths. Mit Keyboard and mouse controls für Inputs zu jedem Panel.

Initiative Queue

Initiative Strip listet upcoming Turns für Heroes und Enemies, meist top oder side. Portraits tick forward wenn Units fertig. Hover für delayed Actions, Status, Defending.

Team-based: fünf Heroes each full action phase before manche Enemy Waves repeat — einzelne Enemy Types nach Speed und Boss Rules. Assassins twice before Back Line moves = common fail — Taunt Tanks aus Recommended squads nach Queue lesen.

Boss Encounters: Free Actions — extra Skills ohne normal Initiative Slots. Marked auf Boss Portrait oder separate Telegraph Icon. Boss main Turn end ≠ aggression finished — Queue auf Bonus Casts die unsupported Ranged wipe.

Battle Points

Fresh Allocation each Turn — EA commonly two Points, Talents und Status modifizieren. Points pay for:

• Active skills (cost on icons)
• Movement to highlighted tiles
• One basic attack per turn mostly
• Defend — reduces damage, limits flanking vulnerability until next turn

Skills end Turn nicht auto — move, cast, attack, defend in one phase wenn Points erlauben. Combos: Maya knockback into Gala detonation, Soren bleed into flanked basics. Plan spends before click — late cancel wastes time, sollte refund wenn unresolved.

Points low: Defend on units expecting focus fire. Crusade elites aus Factions guide bonus rear damage — Defend closes window temporarily.

Skill Bar and Targeting Overlays

Selected Hero: four Actives plus Basic und Defend. Grey = insufficient Points oder Cooldowns. Tooltips: damage type, range, height, friendly-fire — critical für Fässer und Kreuz-Zonen.

Targeting: Movement blue, attack range red, skill templates yellow/orange. Height icons auf elevated tiles; flanking chevrons für bonus damage. Shift-hover oder alternate keys für exact percentages je nach Settings.

Unit Frames and Status Effects

Hero health near portraits oder above models. Buff/debuff rows mit turn timers. Soren Bleed, Tammais Taunt, Maya Blind tracken before target swap.

Enemies expose frames when selected — armor type oder faction tags für resist guesses before four-point skills.

Environmental and Objective UI

Set-pieces: protect NPCs, destroy bridge supports, survive waves, extraction. Moving vehicle maps scroll grid; direction arrows für drift. Environmental kills von Knockback off carriages/cliffs = instant defeat ohne extra Points — Initiative preview für Position.

Destructibles highlight when interactable. Friendly-fire warnings für Explosions — Gala Ally positions in queue downtime confirm.

Turn Flow Checklist

1. Initiative für next two enemy actions lesen
2. Active hero select
3. Move to flank oder elevated wenn nötig
4. Points on skills die objective advance
5. Basic oder Defend mit remaining budget
6. End turn HUD oder Enter

Repeat bis Victory oder wipe. Loot/XP zurück zu World map unless chained encounter.

Common UI Mistakes

Boss free actions ignorieren wastes revives. Overspend ohne Defend auf Maya-like back liners invites one-shot flanks. Elevation tooltip vergessen = whiffed ranged. Confirm auf friendly-fire ohne warning damages taunt tank.

Slow down learning fights — UI disable nicht. EA limited tutorial für every faction kit; Interface liefert Data wenn du pause to read.

Related References

Input: Keyboard and mouse. Roster: Hero rankings. Enemies: Factions and enemies. Hierher wenn Patch Initiative oder Battle Points erwähnt.