Customize your Experience

Mouse and Cursor Adjustments

Adjust you mouse and cursor for comfort. If you have a high DPS mouse, you might want to adjust your turning speed.You can also invert your mouse and change the size and color of your cursor.

Once in the city or in a map, ESC brings up the game menu. ESC > General Settings > Mouse

General Settings - Mouse

Organize your UI

  • To scale UI: ESC > General Settings > General
  • Drag and drop widgets to preferred locations
  • Resize individual widgets by dragging corner.
General Settings - General Tab

Control What is Displayed

Whether you want to take a screen shot without UI or see fewer names and health bars, you have options:

 

  •  ALT + U – Hides / displays all UI
  • CTRL + V – Toggles all health bars
  • N – Toggles all name tags

Check out more options for finer control:   More commands

 

Camera Angle – Angle of View

  • Left click to change camera view angle
  • Pitch and yaw offset: ESC > General Settings > Camera.
  • 1st person / 3rd person view: roll mouse wheel.

Uncheck Flight auto-centering on the general tab and fly for different up-and-down angles of view (Click FLY power in bottom action bar).

General Settings - Camera Tab

Sound Settings

Music, game sounds, and footsteps can be individually controlled or muted.

ESC > System Settings > Sounds

 

Mouse and UI Scale settings

Adjust your Difficulty Level

Challenge yourself or take it easy. You can change the level before taking on a mission. This setting will apply to any mission you play solo or lead until you change it. Difficulty and rewards adjust to the level.

ESC > General Settings > General

 

General Settings - General Tab

 

Mouse over dots to learn about each display – Toggle to view more

Basic Game UI

Game UI in Battle

Health Bar

Healthbar

The green bar indicates health while the blue bar indicates energy.

Icons are all status effect currently affecting your character: buffs, debuffs, infusions. The number on the icon indicates remaining time of effect.

The number under the portrait indicates your character's level.

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Compass

A yellow marker on the compass helps you find the location of the mission giver.

A red marker indicates the direction of the mission objective.

Turn until the marker is in the middle of the compass to head in the right direction.

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Mission Tracker

The active mission is highlighted in green.

Clicking on the blue arrow brings up the next goals. The numbers (o/2) indicates progress towards your goal.

To abandon a mission, click on "Click for Additional Details".

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Dust Counter

Dust is the in-game currency. This counter updates when your earn, find, or spend dust.

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Inventory

Click on the chest or press I to open your inventory.

Your inventory stores purchases, drops, temp powers, and crafted items, until they are used.

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Minimap

Markers

Blue arrow marks your character

Red dots for enemies

Blue dots for friendlies

Yellow icons for objectives

Yellow arrows point towards the next goal

Seeing more

Zoom in and out with the mouse wheel while cursor is on the minimap

Press M to open a bigger map

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Infusion Tray

Infusions are short duration enhancements. The number of Infusion slots grows when leveling from 3 at level 1, to 15 at level 8, to more at higher levels.

Infusions can be purchased from Infusion Vendors or Vending Machines, received in drops, found in treasure chests, crafted, or earned through game play.

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Power Tray

Move powers from Power Window to your Power Tray to use them.

Using Powers

Click on the icon or press the number key under the power icon ("1" for the power to the left, "=" for the power in the last slot on the right).

Adding More Power Slots

Press the "+" sign on the left of the tray to add a tray. You can use more than one tray to organize your powers. Your first tray does not need to be full before adding another tray.

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Chat

Chat with teammates, invite others, or type commands here.

Typing /commands in the chat brings up a list of chat commands.

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Health Bar

Healthbar

The green bar indicates health while the blue bar indicates energy.

Icons are all status effect currently affecting your character: buffs, debuffs, infusions. The number on the icon indicates remaining time of effect.

The number under the portrait indicates your character's level.

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Compass

A yellow marker on the compass helps you find the location of the mission giver.

A red marker indicates the direction of the mission objective.

Turn until the marker is in the middle of the compass to head in the right direction.

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Mission Tracker

Clicking on the blue arrow brings up the next goals. The numbers (o/2) indicates progress towards your goal.

To abandon a mission, click on "Click for Additional Details".

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Drops

Drops such as dust, crafting items, augments, and infusions are shown here.

Infusions go straight into empty slots of your infusion tray.

Dust drops update your dust counter.

Other drops can be found in your Inventory.

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Level Gained

Reaching a new level is shown here. Visit Power Trainer to choose additional powers and equip your augment slots.

Your speed of travel increases with your level.

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Enemy

Text color indicates rank and difficulty. Number indicates level.

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Dust Counter

Dust is the in-game currency. This counter updates when your earn, find, or spend dust.

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Inventory

Click on the chest or press I to open your inventory.

Your inventory stores purchases, drops, temp powers, and crafted items, until they are used.

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Minimap

Markers

Blue arrow marks your character

Red dots for enemies

Blue dots for friendlies

Yellow icons for objectives

Yellow arrows point towards your next objective

Seeing more

Zoom in and out with the mouse wheel while cursor is on the minimap

Press M to open a bigger map

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Infusion Tray

Infusions are short duration enhancements. The number of Infusion slots grows when leveling from 3 at level 1, to 15 at level 8, to more at higher levels.

Infusions can be purchased from Infusion Vendors or Vending Machines, received in drops, found in treasure chests, crafted, or earned through game play.

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Power Tray

Move powers from Power Window to your Power Tray to use them.

Using Powers

Click on the icon or press the number key under the power icon ("1" for the power to the left, "=" for the power in the last slot on the right).

Adding More Power Slots

Press the "+" sign on the left of the tray to add a tray. You can use more than one tray to organize your powers. Your first tray does not need to be full before adding another tray.

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Chat

Chat with teammates, invite others, or type commands here.

Typing /commands in the chat brings up a list of chat commands.

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Suggestions for Selecting your First Archetype

 

Any choice can be fun, so don’t stress over it. Just choose something that sounds fun and roll with it.

 

If you want a

melee damage dealer

try a

Brawler

to run in and stab or slash enemies to death

If you prefer to

blast enemies at range

choose a

Devastator

who can also do a bit of healing or buffing

If you want to

heal and buff your team

we recommend the

Support

archetype. But to play solo, a Devastator might work better.

If you want to

taunt enemies

choose

Tanker

But to play solo, choose Brawler. You’ll do more damage and still be pretty tough.

If you have

transferable skills from other games

consider a

Controller

This skill class has low damage, high buff, or high debuff and optional fighting pets

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