Aimed shot: HEAD targeting ring on a giant frog

About this game

Developer: inXile Entertainment · Publisher: inXile Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

Wasteland 3's aimed shot turns one attack into a small decision ceremony: the battlefield disappears, the target fills a graduated red reticle, and the only question left is which part of the animal to gamble on. Each tab prices its own risk in the open, HEAD pays +25% damage with a coin-flip at +75% more, so the player is choosing a bet, not reading a percentage. Seconds later the same ring shows LEGS (55-67 damage, reduces Combat Speed by 0.8, 30% chance of Bleeding): three tabs, three genuinely different tactical ideas, one screen. The scanlines and dial markings keep it diegetic, a scope, not a spreadsheet. Frame at about 0:44 in the Wasteland 3 Gameplay trailer (Steam; manual extraction, the ring cycles BODY, HEAD and LEGS inside two seconds and the scene-change pass missed the beat entirely). The scanline texture is the game's in-game scope effect, disclosed here; it is not a capture artifact.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

targeting-reticle body-part-select full-screen-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Tabs Menu Gauge

Screen inventory

• an aimed shot takes over the whole screen: the camera pushes in on the target, here a giant yellow-spotted frog, inside a red scope ring graduated like a dial, degree numbers and tick marks running around the rim with a segmented red arc tracking at the left
• body parts are three tabs arranged around the animal: BODY at left, HEAD selected in a filled red bar at right, LEGS below it, picking a part is picking a trade, not just a hit chance
• the selected part's card floats over the target: HEAD, 69-84 DAMAGE, 'Deals +25% bonus damage' and '50% Chance: Deals +75% bonus damage', the gamble stated as two stacked bonuses, while a CANCEL button in matching red brackets waits at lower right
• a fine scanline texture runs across the whole overlay, the game's own scope styling: the shot is presented as something seen through a lens, not a menu, and the UI never breaks that fiction with a panel border

Top 3 colors

#141b33 23%#0c0f23 22%#03091f 20%

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

Source and credit

© inXile Entertainment, Wasteland 3 screenshot: Steam trailers (Wasteland 3 Gameplay / Wasteland 3 Accolades Trailer), inXile Entertainment, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by inXile Entertainment.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-26. verified 2026-10-26: manual extraction manual-target-44.png @ 44.0s in the Wasteland 3 Gameplay trailer, MD5 8f0129d1fd5b7261cd66f9db739d7822, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (57,175,206 B, MD5 c0112c16425039d828dba7cd2ca712e8; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines, decode-steam-719040-Wasteland-3-Gameplay.mp4.err), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the HEAD tab, its damage card and the CANCEL button legible; the scanline texture is the game's own scope styling, not a trailer overlay; no marketing text in frame

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