So in 1.5.0 they introduced the new feature that makes the health bars match the color of the player, I'm not absolutely sure why they made this but I'd really like to know if anyone uses this and why, because I sometime have problems differentiating my own units from my enemy's in big ling+bling fights, so I've been tempted to try and use the this new feature. Maybe it makes it harder to micro because your own health bars doesn't turn yellow/red when your units are low, but maybe thats just something you could get used to.

Basically I'd just want to hear what you guys think of it and if it really is worth giving a try.

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Mortal

2943 Posts

August 26 2012 23:57 GMT

I think it's absolutely awful tbh. It's much better to see how much health your units have than different colored bars, at least in my opinion for most P engagements (Colo and such).

Champloo

Germany1850 Posts

August 27 2012 00:04 GMT

I'm using it. I don't need my hp bars to turn yellow/red to see how much health my units have left and it helps in mirrors when the opponents units have red bars.

Lysergic

United States355 Posts

August 27 2012 00:08 GMT

Use green/red player color mode (Alt+F), not team colored status bars. Regular status bars much easier to read. The team colored status bars are always red, so you can't use the color to indicate a units health. Makes it harder to tell what to target fire, when a unit is about to die, etc.

Only time I see this being useful is for someone playing a 4v4 and doesn't like using green/red player colors.

Warzilla

Czech Republic311 Posts

August 27 2012 00:15 GMT

One just gotta love how they add in useless things like this and overlook much more important stuff which is requested by the community... Whats next ? A button that will select all units that arent clumped up ?(same nonsense like this feature) :D

Praetorial

United States4241 Posts

August 27 2012 00:17 GMT

So...they take out nice modding like stronger team color and replace it with this useless feature?

BlueEagle

United Kingdom75 Posts

August 27 2012 00:25 GMT

On August 27 2012 09:08 lysergic wrote:
Use green/red player color mode (Alt+F), not team colored status bars.

This doesn't help me differentiate between my and my opponents lings in ling wars. I have bad eyes

WarrickHunt

United Kingdom393 Posts

August 27 2012 00:32 GMT

coloured* don't worry I got your back

Also guess this helps with ling bling micro battles but thats about it

kochanfe

Micronesia1338 Posts

August 27 2012 00:36 GMT

don't like it much

Cascade

Australia5405 Posts

August 27 2012 00:49 GMT

#10

Hmm, would be better if they could have kept at least two colours for each team, so that you can still quickly see injured units from the colour. I guess they want to keep blue for progress/mana bars, black for empty part of bars, and white for loaded units, but maybe they can have the bad guys go orange --> red when injured, and you own guys go green --> yellow.

I definitely see the point in this option, so I don't want to bash blizzard for adding this.

martianbuddy

United States3 Posts

August 27 2012 00:50 GMT

#11

I've honestly found myself using it, mostly since I've not bothered to switch it back. I dunno, it just doesn't seem like a huge issue to be worried about.

Probe1

United States17920 Posts

August 27 2012 01:07 GMT

#12

Quickly gauging dozens of units health with gradient colors is a lot more useful than having health bars be your color. I don't know if Blizzard thought that was the solution to stronger team color mod but it is rather useless.

ulfryc

Germany115 Posts

August 27 2012 01:10 GMT

#13

I'm using it. Felt very weird at first, for example when you build structures and they don't start red but rather green. But I got used to it pretty quickly. Helps alot in gauging how many units are fighting for either side (zvz ling vs ling, muta vs muta).

Phayze

Canada2029 Posts

August 27 2012 01:13 GMT

#14

On August 27 2012 09:32 WarrickHunt wrote:
coloured* don't worry I got your back

Also guess this helps with ling bling micro battles but thats about it

Colour with a 'u' is the British spelling, not American. Here in Canada we use both indescriminantly. You didnt correct anyone as the OP's initial use of Colored is correct.

Scurvy

United States117 Posts

August 27 2012 03:42 GMT

#15

I do not use them. I tried them, but I guess I am easily confused. I found it more frustrating to micro, perhaps that is just me though...

xeqwist

55 Posts

August 27 2012 05:37 GMT

#16

Seems my initial suspicion that its up to one self to find out whether or not to use it is confirmed, but thanks a lot for your replies! I'm probably going to try and see if I can get used to it, since I often find myself miss judging engagements because I get the health bars mixed up.

also

On August 27 2012 09:32 WarrickHunt wrote:
coloured* don't worry I got your back

Also guess this helps with ling bling micro battles but thats about it

depends on whether I choose to write in american english or british english... or I just stop caring since everybody understands my point regardless.

xHadoken

United States171 Posts

August 27 2012 06:23 GMT

#17

I don't understand in what aspect does this appeal to a competitive player. I am pretty sure they added this in for casuals that don't really micro or they just like adding features that are not really necessary.

oZe

Sweden492 Posts

August 27 2012 06:33 GMT

#18

On August 27 2012 09:08 lysergic wrote:
Use green/red player color mode (Alt+F), not team colored status bars. Regular status bars much easier to read. The team colored status bars are always red, so you can't use the color to indicate a units health. Makes it harder to tell what to target fire, when a unit is about to die, etc.

Only time I see this being useful is for someone playing a 4v4 and doesn't like using green/red player colors.

Atleast they fixed green/red in team games. So your own units have a different color from your allies. I just couldn't use it before since I didn't know which units were mine on the minimap.

On topic. My units have a color on them why would I need it again on the health bar?!?!? I am getting old I guess, liking things the way they were before blizzard fuked em up ^^ Like the new race portraits when you click find game are just awful...

bokchoi

Korea (South)9498 Posts

August 27 2012 06:39 GMT

#19

I actually tried it but was having problems adjusting because regardless of the remaining health it always shows your units/buildings as green and enemy units as red. Threw me off and made me lose the few games I tried with it, haha

Lunchador

United States776 Posts

August 27 2012 06:47 GMT

#20

Wait, seriously? This is in? I've been waiting for a feature like this for a LOOOOOOOOONG long time. One, because I'm tired of being "green" all the time and having to toggle team colors whenever I want to play custom games with my preferred color.

League of Legends has it where green health bars = you and red health bars = enemy. After seeing that, I was thinking "StarCraft needs this SO badly!" And hooray, it's in!

You know what other game needs this direly? Warcraft 3. Those game's battles are full of clusterfucks of allied and enemy units that microing is quite difficult when you're seeing tons of HP bars drop all over and not instantly realizing if it's your unit or theirs that's hurt.