UI on Stun damage and other Battle UI things.

[Zekram Bogg]

So here's something I was considering while playing the new v19 steam build today:

Where's the stun damage indicator in the UI?

I mean, the original X-Com1994 has this, when you take stun damage, your HP bar fills up with a blue color, and when it reaches the max of your current total health for a unit, your trooper passes out.

So, I'm just suggesting that this UI feature be implemented, as it's something that would

A) be useful to have

and

B) was in the original game this one is based off of, so not having it seems a step back.

If it's going to need a color on the bar, might I suggest Purple?

Considering Suppression works against TUs, it would also be pretty boss to have a similar effect on your TU bar too

Also, while on the UI, can we maybe get a better indicator or art to let us know where borders are when we view transparent objects? Something so we know where the borders of the object are on the ground when we try to move characters around an object? Especially with objects that have funny shapes, like alien ships.

In general, can we also get transparent objects to go transparent when the cursor, not the just the character, goes behind them? Right now it's really difficult to tell where exactly you're moving your characters when it's in a location "Behind" an object that goes transparent, but only once the character gets to the location.

Also, if there is a blindness effect for when you use flashbangs, the player has no way of knowing it right now. I understand that flashbangs cause high suppression, but if there is also a blindness/lowered accuracy effect (which I would expect there to be), there is no indication of this effect taking place. Some kind of color overlay on a character that is blinded (black or grey over the head is common here) would be especially useful.

[GizmoGomez]

I like the idea of having a purple bar. Perhaps it could cover up the bottom third of the HP bar with a nice stun-grenade-purple color.

However, the stun damage numbers are blue. Perhaps they should be purple instead?

Alternately, the morale bar could change color from blue to some other color. I'd go for this, actually, and make the stun bar blue.