[Beta 6] Tooltips

[Guest Sancdar]

Tooltips for tower upgrades, the tower info button, and the list of towers in the quests menu all give no useful information as to the capabilities of most towers. Unless you already knew what Spring Forward was, for example, knowing that the Well tower has it does nothing for you. You also get no info in the upgrade tooltip as to how much the abilities improve. I noticed with Lightning in particular that as the tower itself does no damage, the tooltip gives ZERO indication of the tower's strength.

[Karawasa]

All three places tell you what type of tower it is (Slow, Damage Amplification, Buff, Armor Reduction, Damage Spell, Special Ability). You're right, they don't give specific values. I tried this previously, and I felt it made everything much too messy. It was too much information to absorb. Keep in mind, this is nothing new. You never got specific numbers, only a description of what it did.

[Guest Sancdar]

You get specific numbers for purely damaging towers. Also, looking at Beta 5, you got specific numbers and descriptions ALL THE TIME in tooltips at the very least. In 3.0, the quest menu and tower query gave basic descriptions of each tower's abilities. Knowing that I can get 250 damage in an AoE from upgrading my Amplified Water to a Poison tower rather than 100 damage from upgrading to Steam is pretty nice. It's a hell of a lot more useful than knowing that i can upgrade to a damaging tower with an ability called Roast that apparently does 0 damage in 0 AoE, or one with an ability called Contamination that does 0 damage at 250 AoE and 900 range.

Additionally, the color codes on abilities are only explained if you click the Tower Query button, and scroll by pretty quickly. They are also very limited. For example, Ice is listed as a slowing effect, but does a significant amount of damage over time as well. Buff types are pretty important too; the difference between attack speed and attack damage matters quite a lot for the Tsunami tower.

A compromise would be to return the information previously given, but use the color codes in tower names. Knowing the name of the tower's actual spell is probably the least useful bit of information you could get. I don't see why that needs a place anywhere. It would be far better to have the codes as a quick-reference while glancing at the tower query looking for slows or something, and actual descriptions for people who haven't memorized the effects of every tower yet, since many of the spell names are ambiguous.

[Guest GkJ-mo]

let me rephrase it

from beta 5 --> beta 6 you lost the description to every single tower ability.

the tooltip now only tells you, a tower has ability X and the description of the ability got lost, it was definitly there in b5, just checked

[Karawasa]

Alright, I will add descriptive information back to the build tower tooltips.