Elemental surfaces on a ship deck: poison, blood and fire

About this game

Developer: Larian Studios · Publisher: Larian Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

The other half of Original Sin 2's tactical design is not on the HUD at all, it is painted on the floor. This deck fight is legible only if you read its surfaces: poison has spread in two yellow-green pools (one burst from the barrel at centre), blood pools where bodies fell, and a fire surface still burns in the shape of the creature it consumed. Every surface is both information and a weapon, poison heals the undead and poisons the living, blood can be electrified or blessed, fire detonates oil and poison alike, so the battlefield itself is a status readout the player scans before spending a single action point. The HUD chrome stays identical to the land fight (turn strip on top, pips and END TURN below), but the hotbar at the bottom is a different character's: potions and a 3-point skill sit in different slots, because each party member's bar is their own freeform arrangement. Frame at about 0:42 in the Trailer video (Steam), pipeline candidate v0_0013 at 42.0s.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

portrait-row action-bar

Components

Parts on screen.

Banner Portrait Minimap Vitals bar Pips Slots Action bar

Screen inventory

• ship's deck covered in elemental surfaces: a large yellow-green poison pool spreading from a barrel at centre-left and a second pool at right
• dark red blood pools under the fallen and beside the white-robed caster at centre
• a burning fire surface / fire creature at the deck's right side, flames still shaped like a figure
• turn-order portrait strip across the top (8 combatants), The Red Prince named as the active character
• party portraits down the left edge with armour/health bars
• YOUR TURN banner and the action-point pip row (first pip green) above the bottom armour/health bar, END TURN at right
• a different character's freeform hotbar along the bottom: potions in slots 9 and 0, a '3'-cost skill, fire and shadow skills, arranged differently from the previous frame's bar
• circular minimap at top right showing the harbour, with X:356 Y:73 coordinates

Top 3 colors

#516362 24%#242c33 20%#7d7569 18%

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

Source and credit

© Larian Studios, Divinity: Original Sin 2 screenshot: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Trailer and The Four Relics of Rivellon videos (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Larian Studios.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: pipeline candidate v0_0013 (42.0s, Trailer video, Steam) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); genuine in-game combat frame confirmed settled (poison and blood surfaces, burning figure, turn strip, AP pips and hotbar all legible; the fight is between actions, not mid-effect); disclosed honestly: small red 'ALPHA VERSION v3.0.124.355 Explorer mode' dev-build text at the top-right, partly behind the minimap; no trailer typography overlays the frame

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