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Gameheart is the first one, Pro 2020 the 2nd and WCS 3.0 the last!
Which observer interface do we like best?
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AlphaXSushi
838 Posts
Gameheart is the first one, Pro 2020 the 2nd and WCS 3.0 the last! | ||
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phodacbiet
United States1740 Posts
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AlphaXSushi
838 Posts
On September 16 2020 09:15 phodacbiet wrote: Anything but the Pro 2020 one in my opinion. The swap between minerals/gas and the supply is just weird to me. I also don't like how we use a wrench and sword for workers and the army. I guess switching up and having icons is nice stylistically, but nothing in this game uses a wrench or a sword. SCV uses a drill and zealots use psi blade. I am not sure if we can even switch between apm tab/resource lost in the Pro 2020 display, so I think that's some feature loss there. I'm finding a lot of people are actually confused by the new Pro 2020 version too! | ||
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Goliath1333
United States15 Posts
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
On September 16 2020 10:08 Goliath1333 wrote: The advantage of the icons in Pro 2020 is that this interface can be used for any language. Also allows for the fonts to be much bigger and more legible. In practice being language independent is not that big of an advantage. And Gameheart's icons are less confusing, and can more easily be distinguished since they're not all the same muted colour. One thing Pro 2020 does have going for it is that it shows the upgrades, which is much more useful than the APM on WCS 3.0. | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10372 Posts
Also even as a SC2 player, seeing icons like sword, wrench, etc. is awkward and doesn't feel clear or intuitive enough to me. Those icons don't appear anywhere in the game like someone else said. The coloring of the numbers is also a little too weak for me to instantly associate a number with something. Like the blue and green in WCS 3.0 are strong and are clearly for minerals and gas to me, but with Pro2020 it's too light for me to instantly think it's the blue of minerals and green of gas. | ||
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SamirDuran
Philippines895 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33627 Posts
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[Phantom]
Mexico2170 Posts
The "stock" observer UI is much better lucking. Though admittedly it wastes a lot of space and cannot show some things concurrently like these can. I just wish they would improve the look of those UI themselves. | ||
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5533 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany7226 Posts
On September 16 2020 09:15 phodacbiet wrote: Anything but the Pro 2020 one in my opinion. The swap between minerals/gas and the supply is just weird to me. I also don't like how we use a wrench and sword for workers and the army. I guess switching up and having icons is nice stylistically, but nothing in this game uses a wrench or a sword. SCV uses a drill and zealots use psi blade. I am not sure if we can even switch between apm tab/resource lost in the Pro 2020 display, so I think that's some feature loss there. They should just swap it back and Pro 2020 would be fine IMO. If it really can't show additional stuff like ressource lost etc that would be another downside. Is that so? I have no idea? | ||
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CicadaSC
United States1926 Posts
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followZeRoX
Serbia1451 Posts
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RPR_Tempest
Australia7799 Posts
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rayl991
Afghanistan80 Posts
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Wardi
England898 Posts
I always found 3.0 clunky and never liked the style of it Edit : also the backstory of Pro 2020 is that everything was made bigger to be friendlier for mobile / tv users which make up 30-50% of viewership. Thats why the production tab on Pro 2020 is a chonky boy | ||
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Waxangel
United States33627 Posts
On September 16 2020 20:33 Wardi wrote: Honestly I use gameheart because I like the size of it way more and the upgrades being always visible. But I would love to have income in it as well so people can stop whining that Im not showing it, because they seem to think its super importsnt even though they can see worker and base count anyway /minirant I always found 3.0 clunky and never liked the style of it Edit : also the backstory of Pro 2020 is that everything was made bigger to be friendlier for mobile / tv users which make up 30-50% of viewership. Thats why the production tab on Pro 2020 is a chonky boy It's really nice because you get an EXACT number at ONE GLANCE. You also see how having to pull workers or stop mining affects things, it's faster than counting gas geysers on a minimap (some of which may be mined out), it's faster than staring at a minimap and trying to figure out which minerals are half-mined or full-mined, etc. It's just a lot of information at a single glance, and probably the 2nd best "who is winning?" number you can check after total supply  | ||
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ArtyK
France3144 Posts
And I disagree that income is that important. The income graph is more telling, the number by itself at x moment is often misleading depending on mules being dropped, worker transfers, etc... Also gameheart actually shows income too bottom right as long as you don't have anything selected like the minerals in that pic so it's a non-issue. And observers rarely select stuff unless they're checking kills on a unit for example | ||
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virpi
Germany3599 Posts
GameHeart looks slick, too, but it's not my favourite. APM display is useless imho, especially since the discovery of rapid fire tricks. Show upgrades all the time, maybe even with some kind of progress bar. | ||
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sneakyfox
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