Observing the Observer: An Interview with inFeZa - Page 2

On September 04 2014 02:49 Grumbels wrote:
I'd rather watch a game with no commentary but with a good observer than one with casting and mediocre observing.

Does wcs eu use a dedicated observer?

On September 03 2014 21:40 Meru wrote:


Transcribed text incoming! :D
But yea, really not much we could've done with audio. I sat right there and I couldn't hear half of his answers ._<
Live and learn!

On September 03 2014 18:29 Meru wrote:


Downside of being at a huge convention, not really possible to get clear audio with all that crowd noise. Also there's no quiet room or place to go.

Sorry ^^ will try with better mic next time!

On September 03 2014 17:35 Meru wrote:
Meru: For the last question now I have to ask… Tell me how you really feel about damage health bars?

inFeZa: Ah this is a widely debated topic within the Starcraft community. Obviously I think that damaged health bars are good for playing, and kinda good for solo casters who don’t have an observer. But if you do have a dedicated observer there’s no reason for you to use damage health bars, simply because it doesn’t really highlight the units that you want to highlight on the screen. So you might have some high energy ghosts and high energy templars, and they try to get key EMPs and snipes off. With damage health bars you might have a few marines that are damaged and they clutter the screen, and you can’t really see anything. That being said, it takes a lot of practice and good control for the observer to select the health bars that need to be selected. There are some key moments that can happen really fast in Starcraft that something might die super quickly and you may miss it. Having the health bar is pretty key for the observer.