This isn't so much "cannot unsee" but "things once seen will provide interesting trivia for my other starcraft friends".

That being said, it's a really interesting topic :D
you've got a very good eye for these things.

Roblin

Sweden948 Posts

April 27 2011 22:02 GMT

#222

one you haven't mentioned is the mutalisks portrait in the wireframe is, with a little imagination, similar to a T-rex, the wing in the upper right of the wireframe is the Trex's head!

edit: especially when the wireframe is small (such as in-game)

JustPassingBy

10776 Posts

April 27 2011 22:09 GMT

#223

very nice, didn't know there were so many inconsistancies in the game.
Hope that all of them will be fixed sooner or later. ^^

ePLocust

United States587 Posts

April 27 2011 23:24 GMT

#224

someone should put up the NASL owl

StrinterN

Denmark531 Posts

April 28 2011 00:11 GMT

#225

On March 30 2011 13:47 FinestHour wrote:
what did i just read

This o.O

G_Wen

Canada525 Posts

April 28 2011 00:50 GMT

#226

The hatchery is the only production structure that when highlighted shows a portrait of a producible unit.

The hatchery (zerg buildings) shows the overlord.

A CC (terran buildings) will show an adjutant.
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A Nexus (protoss buildingss) will show an executor.
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A probably reason for this is that the overmind is "dead", and it would probably be strange to show Kerrigan's portrait since she's be cured.

Edit: Just remembered in the alpha stages of SC2 the protoss buildings used the Mothership portrait.

Sickafant

Canada19 Posts

April 28 2011 01:46 GMT

#227

So the OP made me look back at Battle Report 3 and I was surprised to notice there was specific body area damage shown in the unit wireframes. That was a small detail I really missed from BW. Interesting to know that they removed it intentionally.. I guess it doesn't work well with the higher definition graphics.

[F_]aths

Germany3947 Posts

June 01 2011 19:18 GMT

#228

On April 28 2011 10:46 Sickafant wrote:
So the OP made me look back at Battle Report 3 and I was surprised to notice there was specific body area damage shown in the unit wireframes. That was a small detail I really missed from BW. Interesting to know that they removed it intentionally.. I guess it doesn't work well with the higher definition graphics.

I guess there removed it for another reason. Seeing which section took damage is great for immersion in single player. In multiplayer you need to see at the first glance what is up. You don't have the time to count the yellow or red sections. Even a look at the hitpoints display takes some time. Now with the solid colored model you immediately see the degree of damage.

SirJolt

the Dagon Knight4010 Posts

June 01 2011 20:36 GMT

#229

On April 07 2011 14:58 KillerSOS wrote:
You are either OCD or a genius.

Normally I would make some complaint about the way this has been phrased, but in this case I'm willing to accept that the OP is genuinely some kind of twisted, esport-centric manifestation of obsessive compulsive disorder.

Birthed when a progamer inexplicably just had to use absolutely every four hundredth click to build an overlord.