Arena Battleboard Visuals

[hollow sonnet]

Just looking for get a consensus on how the community feels about the battle board in Arena. I'm sure the lore and a need to clearly see the available grid for strategic placement has something to do with the contrast, but I think it would look more appealing if the battleboard was more blended in with the surrounding environment. I looked at TFT as a reference, and the grid looks to be more natural, and less like a stadium.

What if the battle board was made up of the environment? Keep the grid to highlight with your mouse and keep a barrier, but make it consist of the surrounding environment materials to not cause the visual clash? Lore could be easily adapted with some sort of cloaking tech from the drone.

Anyways, thoughts? Are you happy with it as-is? Are there any major changes you would make?

[chrome mountain]

I like the Idea of the actual battleboard sometimes being made out of gras, or sand, etc. I'm sure the tennis lovers in Illuvium would also approve! 😄

That being said I didn't even notice it until you brought it up even tho I played thousands of hours of TFT. I think the current ones are great, but might be good to mix it up in the future.

[glacial vault]

My biggest problem with arena visuals is the unclarity. First the camera angles suck and second at higher levels and especially vs corner comps all the units just clump together and the way to tell what's happening is to look at the damage graph instead of the board.