Needs To Be A Hover Over Explanation For Status Effects

[FoolJuice]

There are so many KEYWORDS in this game, and just like the first, players are sort of 'left to their own devices' to figure out how a lot of them work.

Stuff like Fire/Shock/Acid DMG is obvious and their effects AKA Burning, Overloaded, Corroded a bit less obvious, but how the hell is anyone supposed to know what being 'Contaminated' means when fighting bugs on N'Erud?

Usually, if it's a buff/debuff that has an icon below the health bar, players can hover over it in the pause menu to see what it does, but a lot of these Status Effects don't create an icon like that.

And I just want to say in case this comes off as too aggressive, I adore the first game and I'm having a lot of fun with this one, but I really wish I could just hover over a word like 'Bulwark' in an item description and a popup that says what it does would appear instead of having to find a way to give myself Bulwark to see what it does, you know? For Reference, and I probably missed some, these are all the Keywords I could find, feel free to lemme know what I missed:


Bleed (DMG Type)
Bleeding (Effect)
Fire (DMG Type)
Burning (Effect)
Shock (DMG Type)
Overloaded (Effect)
Acid (DMG Type)
Corroded (Effect)
Alternatively, Toxic (Double Check)
Explosive (DMG Type)
Burning (Result)
Healing (Effect)
Healing Over Time (Additional Effect)
Bulwark (Effect)
Cursed (Effect)
Root Rot/Infected (Effect)
Contaminated (Effect)
Mark/Marked (Effect)
Focused (Effect)
Amubsh (Effect)
Rage (Effect)
Enrage (Effect)
Fragmented (DMG Type)
Malware (Effect)
Glitch (Byproduct)
Madness (DMG Type & Effect)
Slow (Effect)
Brand (Effect) - Unique To Alpha/Omega
Moonlight (Effect) - Maybe Unique To Crescent Moon Long Gun
Soul Brand (Effect) - Unique To Rune Pistol

[Fortuitous]

Seriously. I don't gotta get the exact numbers, but give me vague descriptions please.

[derw4tz]

yeah always nice to have it explained, this was one thing d4 actually did well;

for buffs and debuffs on you, you can press tab and see them on the top left