EPTHealthbars on/off in casted games - Page 2
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VirgilSC2
United States6151 Posts
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llKenZyll
United States853 Posts
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iammaru
Canada38 Posts
I like them on when I play but I don't want them on when I'm watching a professional match - they're distracting and clunky and block everything. It's almost always obvious what's going on anyway, unless you're extremely anal or just a casual player you probably don't need them. | ||
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idonthinksobro
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FlamingTurd
United States1059 Posts
Edit: If casters or cameramen could just select the units during the fight that mattered and select those to show everyone that would be the best option IMO, but we all know that actually happens .. well, almost never. | ||
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Rokevo
Finland1033 Posts
Just feels really "naked" when they are off, im just so used to playing with them on | ||
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llKenZyll
United States853 Posts
Obviously im just spit balling here. I'm pretty sure its against the terms of use to even do that in the first place. It makes me wonder why blizzard would restrict such things that would be helpful to the tournament. I know that they support some mods, such as the stronger team color mod. So maybe it wouldn't be against the ToS to create a mod that would make the health bars look smaller based on which unit it is representing. | ||
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MafiaCheese
United States87 Posts
how can u feel the excitement as a race between killing a cc/nexus vs killing off the units targeting it cloaked banshee running away from scan!!!! medivacs picking up and surviving by 1 stalker hit!!!! so many other countless things id like to know when the hp bars are off i feel naked might as well have no production tab while youre at it | ||
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Captain Peabody
United States3126 Posts
Obviously, this is a personal preference. | ||
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Highways
Australia6105 Posts
Mainly because health bars look so ugly, another Blizzard design fail. | ||
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GoldenH
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Befree
695 Posts
Turning on health bars ALL the time is just completely unnecessary, and just makes the stream very aesthetically displeasing. And turning off health bars ALL the time would obviously limit you very much on your understanding of what is going on. Aside from laziness of the caster, I can't see why you'd accept either one of the extremes. I know some of you have no appreciation of how things look, and seem content with viewing health bars, low graphics, stronger team colors on, but that is not very attractive to the more casual viewer. Especially not potential new viewers. If the UI were improved and health bars were less extremely ugly, then maybe you could leave them on all game.. | ||
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Zeon0
Austria2995 Posts
On February 19 2012 10:29 darkscream wrote: ON. WTF. So much happens in the early game, especially in mirror matchups. A lot of decision making by both players revolves around those HP bars. Which zergling took the first hit? That SCV building a bunker there - How much life does it have left? 4 stalkers vs 4 stalkers, which ones are damaged? How do the players choose to micro the damaged ones? there is SO MUCH GOING ON THERE. To have healthbars off would leave us all either clueless, or totally reliant on caster commentary.... And lets face it, even Tastosis misses stuff when they are joking around. I'd rather rely on my eyes. Besides the bars are so fucking tiny. they don't cover up anything at all, or else they wouldn't be useful while playing. ty for expressing my thoughts in a better language than i could :D | ||
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hmunkey
United Kingdom1973 Posts
So basically, only the GSL is allowed to leave them off for the most part. | ||
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Tachion
Canada8573 Posts
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Xapti
Canada2473 Posts
If it's just to be only on or only off, I'd much rather prefer only on. | ||
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GinDo
3327 Posts
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Ballack
Norway821 Posts
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Oboeman
Canada3980 Posts
He leaves health bars off, but because he always selects exactly the right units, you see the important health bars that matter at the specific moment, and the unimportant ones don't clutter. turn health bars off and make all casters learn how to observe like legend! even Tastosis misses stuff when they are joking around. I'd rather rely on my eyes. but Legend misses nothing. You can watch GSL streams muted and he tells you everything with his cursor. | ||
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FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
That being said i like the gsl method, the camera man really knows to show you the crucial infos and give you the whole vision of a battle. I don't want to see stats blocking my vision over a battle seeing the stats before the battle is enough. (its not like they randomly change all of a sudden) Also as bonus show of zoom ins, pointing out that he has total map awareness. So healthbars don't really show me something i don't already know (caster should show the health bars of the army when they are idle not when they are fighting), so healthbars on yes, permanently showing nope. As for the person wanting glow , go on its not hard to mod this. Just have remodel the healthbars a bit, 2d effects can work in a 3d surrounding. (of course you could mod it onto the textures as well, but that would take effort). But i personally wouldn't like this, also don't like the teamcolor mod making lings look like they are made of play-doh. | ||
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