What do these icons mean?

[Hijin25]

Greetings.

 

Can someone tell me what these two icons mean? The Exclamation and interrogation that appear on some enemies.

 

I did not notice that they appeared before and now appear almost every time I kill an enemy.

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1593017068

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1593017102

[Boeroer]

Never paid attention to those as I have my eyes on the enemies' tooltips and the combat log most of the time - but I'll make an educated guess and say that they mean:

 

\!/ - you don't have enough penetration against the armor of that fellow

\?/ - the armor rating against the type of damage you are dealing is yet unknown - you have to hit that guy first in order to find out. 

Edited December 17, 2018 by Boeroer

[Hijin25]

Thank you very much, they were driving me crazy.

[Ælfwine]

I interpreted them differently. I thought they had something to do with the enemy's awareness of you. I still don't know what the blue shield with an eye icon is.

[Boeroer]

<irony>That's because the game explains all those things totally fine...</irony>

[draego]

I have seen the ? icon when enemy becomes aware of you. Not sure what it means in combat

Edited December 17, 2018 by draego

[fortuntek]

The "?" is when they notice a stealthed character and move to investigate (yellow circle turns to red)

 

The "!" is when the red circle completed and stealth ends.

 

At least, that's what is supposed to happen. I have on more than a few occasions noticed these when battle begins but no one was stealthed. Especially when using abilities, I think it's a bug triggered by the "noise" stat of some abilities, particularly at the start of a battle.