Late-game HUD under attack: landmark alerts, team voice

About this game

Developer: World's Edge / Relic Entertainment · Publisher: Xbox Game Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

The HUD's alarm state, from the same match as the calm late-game frame: a centre-screen landmark warning, a stacked alert feed on the right (two landmark warnings, two under-attack warnings), a transcribed team-voice line from a teammate, flame markers on burning buildings, and red attack markers on the minimap. Together the layers show how the game escalates from quiet economy to triage without adding a new screen — the same chrome, reprioritised. Frame at about 0:45 in the Season 5 - Launch Trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

objective-tracker resource-readout map-hud alert-banner text-log

Components

Parts on screen.

Resource bar Minimap Quest tracker Toast Log

Screen inventory

• top-left objective stack: DESTROY ALL ENEMY LANDMARKS (0/9), OR BUILD A WONDER, OR CONTROL ALL SACRED SITES (0/1), Site 1
• centre alert 'Enemy attacking Landmark' with red warning diamond; right alert stack: Enemy attacking Landmark (x2), Under attack! (x2)
• team voice line '[Team Voice] 1 - Zak: You holding out over there?'
• right-side player tags Zak | Age IV, Eric | Age IV; burning buildings with flame markers; landmark castle under assault
• bottom-left resource panel: 72/170 population, food 5085, wood 1890, gold 1596, stone 1600
• bottom-right diamond minimap with red attack markers; left-edge selection portraits

Top 3 colors

#8c8b5e 19%#443f3b 18%#62684a 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© World's Edge / Relic Entertainment / Xbox Game Studios, Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition screenshot: Steam trailers (Season 3 - Launch Trailer, Season 5 - Launch Trailer) — Xbox Game Studios, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Xbox Game Studios.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-04. verified 2026-11-04: scene-change candidate s5_0004.png at 44.6s in the refetched Season 5 - Launch Trailer (clean full decode, 109.2s), inspected visually at full resolution; objective stack, centre alert, alert stack, voice line, resources and minimap all settled and legible; no trailer caption in frame

Microsoft/Xbox Game Content Usage Rules (https://www.xbox.com/en-gb/developers/rules, re-verified published 2026-11-04; last updated January 2015); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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