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Suggestion: Make a health bar on/off switch

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siNdreAd
Profile Joined February 2010
United States40 Posts
March 12 2010 15:38 GMT
#1
I posted this on blizz forums also-

Rather than force the player to hold down ALT to display health bars or change the settings to have them on all the time, I think they should make ALT an on/off switch i.e. pressing turns health bars on or off.

There are a lot of times health bars are useful but sometimes they're just downright disruptive (not to mention they're aesthetically very displeasing).

Holding down alt when you need to micro just makes your job more difficult and I don't really see any point to it. There's no downside to making it an on/off switch.
TArujo
Profile Joined September 2009
Portugal1687 Posts
March 12 2010 15:41 GMT
#2
there is an option like taht already in game, go to options -> game play options -> always show health bars ( i think its like that)

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lynx.oblige
Profile Joined August 2009
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-12 15:43:29
March 12 2010 15:42 GMT
#3
That's not what he means, TArujo. He wants it to be a switch instead of a hold. The option you're referring to he already referred to where it keeps health bars on indefinitely (unless you hold alt?).

I completely agree with this change. Hitting ALT for example would be a lot easier than holding it down while microing.
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HCastorp
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States388 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-12 15:44:19
March 12 2010 15:43 GMT
#4
(edit) what lynx said.
BladeRunner
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States407 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-12 15:44:37
March 12 2010 15:44 GMT
#5
caution.slip
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States775 Posts
March 12 2010 15:44 GMT
#6
Either make it an option (check box) where you can set alt to be what it is now, or have it toggle health bars

or have it be a completely separate button. In HoN, alt is the same as SC2, but <'> toggles health bars
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Antimage
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada1293 Posts
March 12 2010 15:44 GMT
#7
Agreed.

Since I can't even see buildings burning, I'd like the HP bars in the first 5 minutes of the game (before they get cluttered, etc.) - going through settings takes too long in a fast paced RTS =(
da_head
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3350 Posts
March 12 2010 15:46 GMT
#8
they really need to make the hp bars smaller and remove the grids. i would love to have them on for microing purposes, but they're so ugly :S
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Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17238 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-12 15:47:33
March 12 2010 15:47 GMT
#9
Hmm... I've never really needed anything like that in WC3.
Could someone please also check if [ and ] buttons, for your/enemy health bars only, are present in SC2?
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onmach
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1241 Posts
March 12 2010 16:01 GMT
#10
I really want this idea. The health bars are extremely useful to use roaches properly with burrow, but for the most of the rest of the game, they are extremely disruptive. Having 50 zerglings with health bars is utterly pointless. Having marine blobs covered with health bars just makes it harder to see their unit makeup.
MorroW
Profile Joined August 2008
Sweden3522 Posts
March 12 2010 16:03 GMT
#11
i have health bar on the units i select only, i totally recomend that cause its like sc1 and when i wanna see enemy army hp i hold in alt
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Coulthard
Profile Joined September 2005
Greece3359 Posts
March 12 2010 16:04 GMT
#12
On March 13 2010 01:03 MorroW wrote:
i have health bar on the units i select only, i totally recomend that cause its like sc1 and when i wanna see enemy army hp i hold in alt

onmach
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1241 Posts
March 12 2010 16:07 GMT
#13
Having units selected is not always useful. For example with roaches, if you have them all selected, you can't just burrow one. You'd have to select them all, wait, select one, burrow, select them all again. With bars on all the time, you just select burrow, select burrow. But I don't want them on all the time.
Defrag
Profile Joined February 2010
Poland414 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-03-12 19:08:00
March 12 2010 19:07 GMT
#14
It would be awesome to have an option to

a) show HP bars for units only ( all time )
b) shows HP bars for units all time and buildings on press ;o



crate
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States2474 Posts
March 12 2010 19:24 GMT
#15
On March 13 2010 04:07 Defrag wrote:
It would be awesome to have an option to

a) show HP bars for units only ( all time )
b) shows HP bars for units all time and buildings on press ;o

Personally I find the HP bars on buildings more useful than on units, since it shows the production progress of the building, and that's useful all the time. The only time you need HP bars on units is in-battle.
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Tdelamay
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada548 Posts
March 12 2010 19:29 GMT
#16
That would be a nice feature. It would be more convenient than either switching it on/off in the options are holding down alt.
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-orb-
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5770 Posts
March 12 2010 20:07 GMT
#17
It would be awesome if you could customize which units show health bars.

For example: there is absolutely no reason to need to see health bars on your interceptors... they're just distracting.
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Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
March 12 2010 21:20 GMT
#18
Health bars should only show for units that are damaged. No point in showing the health bar of a unit at 100%. It is just unnecessary clutter.
OverShield
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada41 Posts
March 12 2010 22:16 GMT
#19
Would be very logical to add this feature.
Assault_1
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada1950 Posts
March 12 2010 22:18 GMT
#20
What about removing health bars from the game? just like in bw o_o
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