Can you remove the Dungeon/Duty NPC chat bubbles?

I was wondering if there is a way to remove the NPC chat bubbles? Now I'm not talking about the ones that appear directly above the NPC, rather the chat bubbles that pop up in dungeons and duties, center screen.

I find them terribly distracting and fairly intrusive as they quite often take up a large portion of space directly in the middle of the screen. If you're in a duty or dungeon where there happens to be a very talkative NPC, especially during a boss fight it's extremely frustrating.

Any info/help would be greatly appreciated. Much Thanks in advance.

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I apologize if this is a noob question and been brought up before

But why? i find them talking is sort of immersive in a way.

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Originally Posted by JisKing98

But why? i find them talking is sort of immersive in a way.

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Not only that, but in many cases it offers a visual hint on either how to deal with a mechanic or when something is happening, people ignoring these chat bubbles is why most guildhests go wrong and people don't learn anything, though being fair guildhests are spammed with so many chat bubbles I don't blame people for spacing out.

I don't mind them talking nor the chat bubbles that are directly above their heads. But when I am trying to pay attention to what is happening on screen and a NPC feels the need to be chatty during a boss fight/dungeon/duty, the constant giant bubbles dead center of the screen make it hard to see what is happening. Makes it harder to see dmg numbers, enemy placement, ally placement and is just an overall distraction. That's why I would much more prefer either making them smaller in size or removing them together. Because if I really wanted to know what they were saying I could just as easily look at the chat log.

Just curious but what dungeon has text from an NPC appear in the middle of the screen?

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Originally Posted by Ashelia_Ferron

Just curious but what dungeon has text from an NPC appear in the middle of the screen?

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I don't know any of the names of them by heart yet I am still fairly new. It's mainly like bosses and what not for the dungeons. lol to be honest half the time one pops up I can't tell who's saying what.

Are you sure you're not just confusing the fact that every time you fight a boss it gives the "(Area name) will be sealed off in 15 seconds" notification?

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Originally Posted by Ashelia_Ferron

Are you sure you're not just confusing the fact that every time you fight a boss it gives the "(Area name) will be sealed off in 15 seconds" notification?

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lol no it's not that.

Then I have no idea what you're talking about, I don't know of any dungeon that has an NPC whose dialogue appears in the middle of the screen

Well scratch that, I suppose most Guildhest duties have it, but guildhests are very minor duties anyway

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Originally Posted by Ashelia_Ferron

Then I have no idea what you're talking about, I don't know of any dungeon that has an NPC whose dialogue appears in the middle of the screen

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This is the kind of stuff that I am talking about.

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http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...0518040512.jpg

I'm not crying out saying they are the worst thing since *insert random bad thing*. I just find that stuff really annoying and was wondering if there was a way to turn it off.

If I remember correctly, Halatali HM has quite a few text bubbles that appear as you move from battlefield to battlefield, which is loaded with nothing but banter, no useful info. So that could be one of the dungeons the Op is talking about, I know there are more but can't quite remember them besides others like guildhests and Steps.

The last two I just mentioned is one of fhe reason I wouldn't want a option to turn it off though. Usually, as someone mentioned, these bubbles have a hint or clue to give you on what's needed, or in Steps of Faiths case, flat out tell you what you need to do to proceed, so it's not a really good idea to get rid of them all together.

There could be a option on the HUD menu that may let you shrink them at least? Not on my system at the moment to see myself, but something to look into.

I think Behemoth opens up text box before casting meteor.

Another one is The Steps of Faith where the NPC's tell you what you need to do and at what time to complete the trial (which I suspect everyone ignores)

I think the chat bubbles could be improved - half the time they are so quick, you cannot read what they say anyway, and ironically a lot of the time this is for the best, as the info given in the chat bubble is wrong.

I've been doing a few mentor roulettes recently, and quite often get thrown in the low level guildhests. One of them you go through a few gates then kill a toad at the end, the chat says how you must ignore the toad and focus on the adds, which is nonsense, if you just attack the toad it dies before any adds show up anyway. And same for Under the Armor (?) the chat says about intercepting the skeletons or something, none of which do any significant damage, you just attack the boss and it dies

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Originally Posted by randysquirrel

I think the chat bubbles could be improved - half the time they are so quick, you cannot read what they say anyway, and ironically a lot of the time this is for the best, as the info given in the chat bubble is wrong.

I've been doing a few mentor roulettes recently, and quite often get thrown in the low level guildhests. One of them you go through a few gates then kill a toad at the end, the chat says how you must ignore the toad and focus on the adds, which is nonsense, if you just attack the toad it dies before any adds show up anyway. And same for Under the Armor (?) the chat says about intercepting the skeletons or something, none of which do any significant damage, you just attack the boss and it dies

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Only because of the huge gap in stats between synced characters in blue/green/purple gear and the new players in NQ gear that they were tuned for. Even an increase of 2 levels from minimum is enough break the fights at those levels.

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Originally Posted by randysquirrel

I've been doing a few mentor roulettes recently, and quite often get thrown in the low level guildhests. One of them you go through a few gates then kill a toad at the end, the chat says how you must ignore the toad and focus on the adds, which is nonsense, if you just attack the toad it dies before any adds show up anyway. And same for Under the Armor (?) the chat says about intercepting the skeletons or something, none of which do any significant damage, you just attack the boss and it dies

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Guildhests are designed to teach basic dungeon mechanics without the full length of an actual dungeon. If you exclude the mechanics that it's trying to explain to you, that sort of eliminates the point of the hest. With overleveled overgeared players it's often possible, and even easier, to just burn through the boss ignoring all the mechanics involved, but if there are any new players there it's worth doing the full thing anyway, if only to show what the full thing consists of. It's a particularly significant consideration if you're doing it through mentor roulette, where your whole point in being there is to teach it.

(I sort of wish SE would fix the level-sync so we'd actually be closer to the normal level that duties were designed for, so that mechanics remained relevant rather than every single fight turning into a mindless burn the boss race. But then if they did that, people would probably complain that gear upgrades become useless.)

(ok, more on-topic this time)

The in-duty NPC chat is only one example of a broader problem. There are a lot of notification messages of various sorts that pop up in the center of the screen and which aren't controllable. I think the windows for all types of pop-up messages should be configurable through HUD layout, whether that's this chat, or the messages of items you gather, or notifiations when your retainer sells something, or the huge message when you enter a FATE area, or accept a Levequest, or whatever. We should have the same options for all of these sorts of things that we do for other HUD elements: the ability to show or hide them, move them, and resize them.

lol so I am taking it that "No" I can't remove or decrease the size of the chat bubbles I was describing :p

Appreciate and much thanks for all the info guys

Well those chat bubbles can at times actually be hints for phase changes and such.

And yeah think I know which one you mean - they have a timer next to them showing when they'll disapear.