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crabapple
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States397 Posts
August 15 2008 18:46 GMT
#1
THE ALT BUTTON IS TOO FAR TO THE LEFT! and you hand gets into an awkward retarded position. why couldn't they use "b" to press with the thumb, or use the pinky for caps lock or anything else?

who else hates the position of the health display button?

blabber
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4448 Posts
August 15 2008 18:48 GMT
#2
I don''t mind it. I have no trouble moving my thumb to my alt key.
blabberrrrr
Tropics
Profile Joined August 2007
United Kingdom1132 Posts
August 15 2008 18:49 GMT
#3
Thankfully this is no problem because you now have the option to permanently show health bars in 1.22
crabapple
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States397 Posts
August 15 2008 18:53 GMT
#4
permanant, finally. im guessing its still the alt button?
Tropics
Profile Joined August 2007
United Kingdom1132 Posts
August 15 2008 18:54 GMT
#5
No, it's permanent
zulu_nation8
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
China26351 Posts
August 15 2008 19:02 GMT
#6
I was fine with holding alt with my left thumb but then I started using warkey so it's never been a problem.
crabapple
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States397 Posts
August 15 2008 19:12 GMT
#7
permanant, but it shoudl still be toggle-able. so there would be a key for that still.

and is warkey like a custom button thing? if so, they should have one for starcraft too. allow more hotkeys and change positions. call it "starkey"
Tropics
Profile Joined August 2007
United Kingdom1132 Posts
August 15 2008 19:17 GMT
#8
You toggle it in the menu.

And you can hold alt to turn it off temporarily
Krohm
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada1857 Posts
August 15 2008 19:26 GMT
#9
Or you can get dota client, so the health bars always show. Either way, I have no problem with the alt button.
Not bad for a cat toy.
Kau *
Profile Joined March 2007
Canada3502 Posts
August 15 2008 20:04 GMT
#10
You obviously haven't used emacs enough.
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paper
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
13196 Posts
August 15 2008 20:09 GMT
#11
if i don't hold alt with the perma hp bars, i feel so ... BORED

i gotta switch over soon :\
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MeriaDoKk
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Chile1726 Posts
August 15 2008 20:21 GMT
#12
THUMBBBBBBBBBBBB
Ack1027
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States7873 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-08-15 20:48:50
August 15 2008 20:48 GMT
#13
On August 16 2008 05:09 paper wrote:
if i don't hold alt with the perma hp bars, i feel so ... BORED

i gotta switch over soon :\

This

I just did single player with hp bars enabled for a few minutes and I felt like a retard X_x.
gotwater
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States179 Posts
August 15 2008 21:31 GMT
#14
even after they added the auto-hp show thing, i always find my self going back to the alt button. its like second nature -- next to looking at the minimap.
Everything counts.
BottleAbuser
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Korea (South)1888 Posts
August 15 2008 22:21 GMT
#15
Yes, warkeys.

I believe there's a similar thing for Starcraft. Don't remember what it's called.

I love warkeys for quick item usage - currently have q mapped to keypad8 and space to keypad5, so if anyone looks, you'll notice I have my consumables/activatables on those slots.
Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you.
naventus
Profile Blog Joined February 2004
United States1338 Posts
August 15 2008 23:29 GMT
#16
I just realized that this perma hp bar thing will obviously be in SC2.
hmm.
crabapple
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States397 Posts
August 16 2008 04:22 GMT
#17
On August 16 2008 05:48 Ack1027 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 16 2008 05:09 paper wrote:
if i don't hold alt with the perma hp bars, i feel so ... BORED

i gotta switch over soon :\

This

I just did single player with hp bars enabled for a few minutes and I felt like a retard X_x.



RIIIIGHT? SOMEBODY who felt the same way i felt.
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