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Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12246 Posts
May 13 2015 22:43 GMT
#1
This hasn't really been brought up in other threads and it's not as important as stuff like unit design and balance, but i personally find the new minimap design to be completely awful.

The semi transparent look means that it's much harder to spot things, especially small dots like drops. It is also very inconsistent, as clear backgrounds like the center of Coda are much worse than, say, the air space around Echo.

Is there anyone that actually prefers it this way, and if so, why?
ModeratorProtoss all-ins are like a wok. You can throw whatever you want in there and it will turn out alright.
rafaliusz
Profile Joined December 2009
Poland482 Posts
May 13 2015 22:53 GMT
#2
I do not give a shit to be honest.

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JacobShock
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Denmark2485 Posts
May 13 2015 22:58 GMT
#3
it is horrible, yes.
"Right on" - Morrow
Jonsoload
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany62 Posts
May 13 2015 23:05 GMT
#4
You wanna know what's fucked up? Having a red-green colour blindness such as myself. Ohhh my effin lord the minimap is giving me such a headache, because I need to concentrate my eyes in an extremely heavy manner to be able to see shit through this transparent minimap. And to top things off, the colour blind mode actually makes it worse for me.

The new minimap needs to go, or at least give us the option to turn it back to old form. Roughly 10% of males in our species suffer from some sort of colour blindness. I would take a stretch here and say this also translates to ~10% of the SC II player-base.
I want a TC icon,not a race icon of scII :(
Biolunar
Profile Joined February 2012
Germany224 Posts
May 13 2015 23:08 GMT
#5
iirc Blizzard stated in the official forums that the ‘new minimap’ is indeed a bug not a feature. Cannot find the source though…
What is best? To crush the Zerg, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the Protoss.
Split.
Profile Joined September 2011
Switzerland234 Posts
May 13 2015 23:12 GMT
#6
It's a bug: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/17261136212#5
linuxguru1
Profile Joined February 2012
110 Posts
May 14 2015 01:00 GMT
#7
Iirc, there was an issue with the minimap like this one in the HotS beta aswell...
BronzeKnee
Profile Joined March 2011
United States5217 Posts
May 14 2015 01:58 GMT
#8
On May 14 2015 08:08 Biolunar wrote:
iirc Blizzard stated in the official forums that the ‘new minimap’ is indeed a bug not a feature. Cannot find the source though…


I noticed that some of the mineral patches seem to be at half capacity... there sure are a lot of bugs.

I'm sure all of this will get sorted out.
-Kyo-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Japan1926 Posts
May 14 2015 02:11 GMT
#9
It's a bug, and they do not know when they will fix it. It's kind of sad. They're supposed to be adverting this thing and don't even have motivation to fix such a fundamental problem @_@;;
Anime is cuter than you. Legacy of the Void GM Protoss Gameplay: twitch.tv/kyo7763 youtube.com/user/KyoStarcraft/
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brickrd
Profile Blog Joined March 2014
United States4894 Posts
May 14 2015 04:41 GMT
#10
yea i'm definitely on the side of considering this a very major problem with the game. minimap awareness is hard enough as it is and this definitely makes a noticeable negative difference.
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zerge
Profile Joined December 2012
Germany162 Posts
May 14 2015 06:36 GMT
#11
I agree this is a big deal and they should fix it as soon as possible. I play on a laptop and the minimap is pretty much only usefull for seeing the terrain, because i can't even see my own units on the minimap without concentrating really hard.
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
May 14 2015 09:11 GMT
#12
On May 14 2015 11:11 -Kyo- wrote:
It's a bug, and they do not know when they will fix it. It's kind of sad. They're supposed to be adverting this thing and don't even have motivation to fix such a fundamental problem @_@;;

They should ofc fix it, but I think the beta is mainly to iron out bugs (such as this one) and balance game play, rather than advertisement. So while we should highlight this kind of things, I don't see the reason to be all up in arms and sad/angry/etc.
IMR
Profile Joined May 2013
70 Posts
May 14 2015 09:27 GMT
#13
I got the beta but won't be participating until they fix it.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
May 14 2015 09:34 GMT
#14
Yeah i thought it was not "complete" due to how transparent it is, like you say you can barely see it.
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NasusAndDraven
Profile Joined April 2015
359 Posts
May 14 2015 09:35 GMT
#15
On May 14 2015 07:43 Teoita wrote:i personally find the new minimap design to be completely awful.
On May 14 2015 07:43 Teoita wrote:minimap design
Pretty sure that its a glitch, not desing.
Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12246 Posts
May 14 2015 13:19 GMT
#16
I wasn't aware it was a bug, my bad Good thing they are working on fixing it at least
ModeratorProtoss all-ins are like a wok. You can throw whatever you want in there and it will turn out alright.
DinoMight
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States3725 Posts
May 14 2015 14:34 GMT
#17
Yeah the new minimap is awful. Things are different colors but without any rhyme or reason.

While we're on the topic of the minimap... does anyone else think that a Warp Prism and Medivac should be the same size? Currently the Warp Prism is 4x larger....
"Wtf I come back and find myself in camp DinoMight all of a sudden, feels weird man." -Wombat_NI
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