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creamyturtle
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States487 Posts
August 16 2011 02:52 GMT
#1
Dear Blizzard,

We all know the best way to play SC2 is with the health bars "always on", but this is rather annoying with deathball armies, or during passive play. Trying to hold ALT during a battle is also next to impossible.

Can you guys please provide a happy medium in the next Patch?? Make it so the ALT button toggles health bars ON/OFF ??! That way we can have them off until a micro battle ensues, and then enable them quickly and be able to micro like a pro. Genius, right?

Please make my check out to creamyturtle....

-creamy
Terran it up.
The Stapler
Profile Joined August 2010
United States326 Posts
August 16 2011 02:53 GMT
#2
i'll do my best
Geniuszerg
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada454 Posts
August 16 2011 02:53 GMT
#3
... why write this here? go to the bnet forums
oblong9
Profile Joined July 2011
United States14 Posts
August 16 2011 02:54 GMT
#4
writing a letter to blizzard in someone else's forum

what
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
August 16 2011 02:54 GMT
#5
So, what am I supposed to say as a reply to this?
TheWarbler
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1659 Posts
August 16 2011 02:54 GMT
#6
You just cant cure stupid.
if you can believe you can concieve
[N3O]r3d33m3r
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany673 Posts
August 16 2011 02:55 GMT
#7
love this topic, i've been pleading for this since the game came out.
the reasons the OP gave are also my concern =)
blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-16 02:56:06
August 16 2011 02:55 GMT
#8
pffft I think its best to play sc2 without health bars (or I do anyway), and use alt when I want to know. But why you are writing it here is weird as this is not blizzard
When I think of something else, something will go here
Highways
Profile Joined July 2005
Australia6105 Posts
August 16 2011 02:56 GMT
#9
Completely agree.
#1 Terran hater
[N3O]r3d33m3r
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany673 Posts
August 16 2011 02:57 GMT
#10
On August 16 2011 11:55 blade55555 wrote:
pffft I think its best to play sc2 without health bars (or I do anyway), and use alt when I want to know. But why you are writing it here is weird as this is not blizzard


well as a zerg player this is totally understandable.. but i bet the percentage of terran and toss players who crave for a feature like this are way higher than their zerg counterparts

maybe it's your aoe background, beause that game also had no permanent health bars
Herculix
Profile Joined May 2010
United States946 Posts
August 16 2011 02:57 GMT
#11
bend your thumb. keep your finger nail on alt.

now you can hold alt while doing things. you're welcome.
SpoR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1542 Posts
August 16 2011 02:58 GMT
#12
i was saying this since the alpha build, hell even in wc3.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
creamyturtle
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States487 Posts
August 16 2011 02:59 GMT
#13
i did post this in the Bnet forum btw... along with like 10 other ppl. they don't seem to notice/ care
Terran it up.
LaLuSh
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden2358 Posts
August 16 2011 02:59 GMT
#14
Dear Blizzard,

I want to be able to shift queue the morphing of banelings following a move command. Make it so. Engaged.
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
August 16 2011 03:01 GMT
#15
On August 16 2011 11:59 creamyturtle wrote:
i did post this in the Bnet forum btw... along with like 10 other ppl. they don't seem to notice/ care


So they would notice/care more if you posted it somewhere outside bnet forums?
Agh
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1036 Posts
August 16 2011 03:01 GMT
#16
On August 16 2011 11:52 creamyturtle wrote:
Trying to hold ALT during a battle is also next to impossible.


hate to rain some cold hard facts on you but the first handful of years of war3, that is what you had to do for pretty much the entire game, it's perfectly possible.
I may appear to be an emotionless sarcastic pos, but just like an onion when you pull off more and more layers you find the exact same thing everytime and you start crying
Termit
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden3466 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-16 03:03:55
August 16 2011 03:03 GMT
#17
I would like to have the health bars under your units instead of on top.
( ̄。 ̄)~zzz ◕ ◡ ◕
creamyturtle
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States487 Posts
August 16 2011 03:05 GMT
#18
On August 16 2011 12:01 Chairman Ray wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 16 2011 11:59 creamyturtle wrote:
i did post this in the Bnet forum btw... along with like 10 other ppl. they don't seem to notice/ care


So they would notice/care more if you posted it somewhere outside bnet forums?


Yes. Strength in numbers.
Terran it up.
FeyFey
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany10114 Posts
August 16 2011 03:06 GMT
#19
selecting opponents units in the midst of battle to check health and energy just like in the good old days. Would be nice to see people do that that are always pleading for the good old bw features :3 , since sc2 has no skill.
IPA
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3206 Posts
August 16 2011 03:11 GMT
#20
Holding ALT during a battle was standard for years in WC3 (many pros kept this method even after "all health bar" shenanigans were allowed). Just takes practice, like everything else.
Time held me green and dying though I sang in my chains like the sea.
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