Announce all (branded) weapons on enemies

[Category]

Some time ago, I believe a change was made so that all branded weapons wielded by enemies would have their brands visible to you. I would also see messages such as "A kobold comes into view. It is wielding a short sword of distortion", which are very helpful. Unfortunately, it seems that sometimes when multiple enemies come into view simultaneously, their weapons (and brands) are not announced in this manner. Would it be possible to have such announcements in all situations? The information is available in any case, as you can examine the enemies individually, but it gets annoying to have to examine every group of orcs this way. If this causes too much message clutter, perhaps the game could only announce branded weapons.

[onget]

put effect on enemy branded weapons tile.

[Berder]

If you're using tiles, branded weapons held by enemies look different, kind of glowy.

[duvessa]

I really wish that the game would say, e.g. "a trident and a mace come into view" instead of "a gnoll and an orc come into view". I already know it's a damn gnoll, it has a unique glyph and it's even on the monster list on the side of the screen. I don't already know what it's wielding. The situation is less silly in tiles but you still always know the specific monster since it has a unique tile, and you still don't know the specific brand since that doesn't have a unique tile.

[Siegurt]

A trident wielding a gnoll comes into view

[kroki]

put effect on enemy branded weapons tile.

pretty please

[Pollen_Golem]

put effect on enemy branded weapons tile.

Something like this?

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Monster-wielded weapons could also be color-coded for convenience, not just blue as it always is with blades. For example, red for distortion and chaos, yellow for antimagic and elements you don't resist and holy wrath if you're undead, blue for elements you resist fully or partially, green for generic or defensive brands like vorpal and vampiricism.