EPTI can imagine that looking completely horrible during battles, it'd only be massively distracting.
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Mord
Norway171 Posts
I can imagine that looking completely horrible during battles, it'd only be massively distracting. | ||
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Uncultured
United States1340 Posts
On February 20 2012 02:55 nvrs wrote: A bit OT but does anyone also think that healthbars should be smaller? They are way too fat IMHO Yes. This is the msot important thing! MAKE THEM SMALLER. | ||
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operwolf
United States324 Posts
On February 23 2012 18:39 Uncultured wrote: Yes. This is the msot important thing! MAKE THEM SMALLER. Smaller, and the option to make them transparent PLEASE!! | ||
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Gott2
14 Posts
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TheSubtleArt
Canada2527 Posts
On February 19 2012 10:30 L3g3nd_ wrote: I cant stand healthbars being off. One of the most frustrating things as a player, but i can see why casual viewers might prefer them off. High masters Zerg here (so not really casual player)...I actually prefer them off most of the time, and then to have to observer turn them on when the situation calls for it (drop, something being sniped, battle, etc). Visually the game looks so much better without HP bars | ||
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BeHave
Germany121 Posts
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akalarry
United States1978 Posts
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Chunhyang
Bangladesh1389 Posts
On March 25 2012 22:14 akalarry wrote: just turn on health bars (holding alt) whenever there is any action going on. it's that simple. Whenever there's action that would turn on a unit/structure's health. [Storms. Baserace. Zergling vs Zealot earlygame. Not sure kills or one sided battles] | ||
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Joseph123
Bulgaria1144 Posts
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winthrop
Hong Kong956 Posts
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BurgerAce
30 Posts
Presumably the same people who say "don't pan too fast or our audience won't know where we are on the map," or "don't leave the production tab up all the time, the newbie viewers don't like it." I wanna know, who are these newbie viewers? Who are these people who don't know enough about the game to appreciate micro, let alone build orders and timings, who bother to tune in to watch this game? It's as absurd as ESPN casting chess for the Friday Night Football fans. | ||
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idonthinksobro
3138 Posts
The poll means OFF = selected no caster ever turns them off completly and it should be obvious to anyone that read some posts that OFF means healthbars are off but highlighted units have a healthbar. But yeah all these "dumb" posts made me think that always on but turned off in huge battles is probably the best solution, the only time i don't like healthbars is when there are 200supply armys crushing into another. But yeah that is like 10 seconds that probably can be turned off by pressing alt. Other than this there is no reason to turn healthbars off really, i recently noticed that casters miss a lot more stuff when healthbars are off. A banshee that has 5 hp will probably never be indentified as a low hp banshee because a caster doesn't click on it, then it dies and the opportunity to "hype" the low hp banshee is gone and the cast is less exciting. Same happens to a lot of stuff, a emp hits but if there are no healthbars you can't really tell how much units it hit and even if you turn on healthbars after a big emp hit you can't really tell if it hit 10 templars with max energy or if they had low energy anyways.So the caster can only say "good emp" but he can't really tell if it was a crucial emp and a possible game winning move or just some medicore emp. | ||
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Greenei
Germany1754 Posts
On March 25 2012 23:04 BurgerAce wrote: Typically the game is casted on Ultra, which just makes everything distractingly shiny, at the default gama which is way too dark. I guess the same pinheads who decided that looked good are the ones who thought "health bars are just clutter". Presumably the same people who say "don't pan too fast or our audience won't know where we are on the map," or "don't leave the production tab up all the time, the newbie viewers don't like it." I wanna know, who are these newbie viewers? Who are these people who don't know enough about the game to appreciate micro, let alone build orders and timings, who bother to tune in to watch this game? It's as absurd as ESPN casting chess for the Friday Night Football fans. agree. most of the people that watch the game play the game themselves. is it ignorance or arrogance that leads some to believe, that everyone else is too stupid too understand, that ceteris paribus red=bad? | ||
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mishimaBeef
Canada2259 Posts
and Please more people use the feature to remove the minimap and control panel and show the battles in full screen | ||
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Sandtrout
243 Posts
Most observers miss a ton of stuff, so in that case healthbars should be always on. It happened so often that I almost got angry because I caught something the casters/observer missed but I couldn't even see the healthbar of whatever that was. | ||
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Sinedd
Poland7052 Posts
and just make them on when some battle begins | ||
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xsnac
Barbados1365 Posts
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Ukraine39 Posts
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Tryxtira
Sweden572 Posts
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DeadBull
421 Posts
because i think viewers get too much information when watching a game, which makes it less exciting | ||
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