Ability wheel: Meteor selected, Out of Range warning

About this game

Developer: BioWare · Publisher: Electronic Arts · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

The wheel's validation state: Meteor is selected (orange ring, green check) and its tooltip promises area damage plus Burning that detonates Sundered, but the game refuses the fantasy in plain language, stamping OUT OF RANGE under the wheel and greying ACTIVATE and CHANGE to UNAVAILABLE, while the prompt list itself rewrites (SELECT becomes DESELECT, CLEAR ABILITIES appears). Range, cost and combo logic are all judged inside the wheel, before anything is committed. Frame at about 2:20 (140s) in the Blighted Dragon Trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

radial-menu mechanic-wheel skill-tooltip party-portraits target-selection hud-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Portrait Action bar Button prompts Tooltip Banner

Screen inventory

• large radial ability wheel centred on the player, selected icon ringed in orange with a green check at left
• tooltip card at centre left: "METEOR", "Damage: 788", "Cost:", "Deals damage in an area around your target and applies Burning.", "Detonates Sundered"
• "OUT OF RANGE" warning in red capitals below the wheel centre, and ACTIVATE/CHANGE greyed out as "UNAVAILABLE" at bottom right
• target card at right: "Corius the Icetalon" with "Vulnerable" (flame) and "Resistant" (frost) lines; top-centre boss bar with stagger bar over red health bar
• right-side controller prompts changed for the selected state: L NAVIGATE, R CHANGE TARGET, X DESELECT, R1 CLOSE, square CLEAR ABILITIES, O CANCEL

Top 3 colors

#11141a 28%#251c1f 20%#4d4745 16%

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

Source and credit

© BioWare / Electronic Arts, Dragon Age: The Veilguard screenshot: Steam trailer (Blighted Dragon Trailer), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Electronic Arts.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-04. verified 2026-11-04: dense-scan frame f_071 (2s interval scan of the Blighted Dragon Trailer), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); Meteor tooltip, OUT OF RANGE warning, UNAVAILABLE prompts, rewritten right-side prompt list, target card and boss bar all settled and legible; no trailer caption in frame. Timestamp is the scan frame's nominal time, cross-checked within a few seconds against the spot-verified 105s boss frame from the same trailer

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