Enemy awareness indicators should be optional/toggleable

11 votes

Please allow players to toggle the enemy awareness indicators and exclamation points that were added in patch 0.143.3. The indicators are useful for learning and troubleshooting enemy detection/behavior and are a necessary accessibility option for players who may not be able to rely on certain audio or visual ques of enemy behavior, but they also kill the tension of exploration, the supension of disbelief, and can outright spoil some of Valheim's best surprises.

For new players the indicators can utterly spoil certain events by giving players advance warning and perfect knowledge of NPC intentions, e.g. wading into leech territory, sailing past a sea serpent, or stumbling upon a dormant golem in the mountains. The lack of indicators on NPCs such as the trader, kraken, and "wizard" tells players that those characters are non-hostile.

This could be fixed by adding an option to revert to pre-0.143.3 enemy HUD, or even a third option to enable them only while sneaking.

Under consideration Suggested by: Adia Upvoted: 14 Dec, '21 Comments: 0

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