Always show health bars is annoying as hell. - Page 4

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United States43 Posts

July 20 2010 02:27 GMT

#61

On July 20 2010 05:52 Slayer91 wrote:
I used to not have this on but its actually a must have for micro and even telling how much energy your OCs/Nexuses have. I'd like the alt button to PERMANENTLY turn it on. Who the hell wants it to turn on for a second? Toggle function ftw.

excellent point, I agree

comabreaded

United States2166 Posts

July 20 2010 02:29 GMT

#62

I totally agree with the OP and I'm surprised at the amount of people who did not fully read his post.

Vimsey

United Kingdom2235 Posts

July 20 2010 03:37 GMT

#63

I prefer to see the health bars in a commentary game because it gives us more information and I have got used to it. So often when I am watching someone will say something like why didnt he FF there or why no guardian shield but I can see he doesnt have the energy with bars on. I have them on when I play so it doesnt feel cluttered to me.

That said Day9 manages to have them turned off and yet still select the right units at the right time to show us what we need to know.

roachy

Canada9 Posts

July 20 2010 03:48 GMT

#64

Most of you people are completely missing the point about commentated replays....

EnderCN

United States499 Posts

July 21 2010 05:03 GMT

#65

What I'd like to see is full health units have no bar, lower health units have a bar. However I do agree that in commentated replays there isn't a huge reason to have the health bars always on.

Reason.SC2

Canada1047 Posts

July 21 2010 05:13 GMT

#66

This is a fantastic idea. If a unit is at full health --> nothing to worry about --> don't need a series of green rectangles all over your screen to let u know all is A-Ok when ur army is just chilling, or that your creep tumors are in tip-top shape lol.

Also, an interesting option would be for smaller health bars (more of a small dot over each unit), that isn't actually a bar but just changes colour as the unit loses health. This is not ideal for intense early game micro where a couple of HP can make a big difference, but in large mid-late game confrontations i wouldn't mind just seeing a less visually obstructive general picture of the health of units.

Abraxas514

Canada475 Posts

July 22 2010 02:42 GMT

#67

On July 21 2010 14:13 Reason.SC2 wrote:
that isn't actually a bar but just changes colour as the unit loses health.

So, this already happens, and for example when playing DOTA since the size of the healthbar had nothing to do with the amount of health on the hero (leshrac had a huge bar, tiny for example had a tiny one) the color was all that mattered. There are just the throwback "boxes" in the healthbar that are pretty annoying, just to give SC2 a more oldschool feel.

TedJustice

Canada1324 Posts

July 22 2010 03:06 GMT

#68

On July 20 2010 05:53 VirtualAlex wrote:
When dealing with 7 roaches vs 5 stalker fights, always-on health bars is very helpful.

Also when you are harassing workers.

Also when you have a 200 food army, why do you even care if they are there or not, it's not like you are going to micro the weak ones to the back or anything.

You realize you just said "in these specific situations, having health bars ALWAYS is very helpful." Wouldn't it make more sense to just hold alt in those situations?

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