Each race should view cloaked units differently.

Terrans should see them faded on top of a red circle with a spinning line, like radars, sort of the fog of war unit display of the radar dome, but cooler.
Protoss should view them like they are seen now. With shiny blue edges.
Zerg should view them in thermal vision.



It is more simple if they all look the same way, but it would be far more cooler if they were seen in different aspects, releated to the race that its currently watching them...

 

Sounds cool. I like it.

 

cool idea

 

the thermal vision idea is great

 

Very good suggestion. I will post your suggestion in the suggestion thread.

 

Wow, Ive never thought it had such approval.

 

Wait, are you saying terrans should view all other races with red circles and cloaks, or are you saying any race would see terran cloaked units as faded circle things, all players would see cloaked protoss units as blue edges and... well zergs don't cloak...

 

Na, he's saying that's how they should see them. Like a DT wanders into your base, how does it show up when detected?

I think it's a way awesome idea.

 

I support this idea completely and solely because I want to see SC2 stuff in Thermal Vision.

As a suggestion, maybe Terran could see them as all Green and Static-y, like a bad hologram. But I like your idea too.

 

I think the idea that each race should view cloaked units differently is one of the best suggestions I have heard for the game so far. It is the kind of thing that Blizzard would actually consider, because we're not dictating to them things that would change the balance.

I don't think Terrans should just see a red circle, though: they would not be able to tell what unit it was. Perhaps their view would be more x-ray-ish: solid metal and bone would be opaque, flesh would be transparent. This would be different from the current/Protoss view in that nothing is actually glowing.

 

I like Bizarro's idea (Yeah).....That sounds very Terran.

 

Great idea.

 

When the Zerg detects a cloaked unit, this is in thermal vision.
When the Protoss detects a cloaked unit, this is in the normal mode (as we know now).
When the Terran detects a cloaked unit, .... no, I don't agree with the red circle with the exclamation mark. There should be something else.

 

This is an excellent idea.

I will remember to bring this up in our Monthly discussion article to Blizzard. owerup:

 

I was thinking for terrans it could show a wireframe of the unit

 

Great idea Lemmy! Kind of reminds me of Alien vs Predator.

And I second Bizzaro's suggestion for Terran. "Green and Static-y" kind of like night vision(infrared) would suit Terran well I think.

 

No no no, let them just finish the game first!. I WANT IT.

 

I´m mostly concerned how you would be able to tell units apart in Heat vision or Wireframe - what about teamcolor? I remember different "Visions" as gimics from UFO: Afterlight (the one on mars). In that context Protoss should have Psi vision instead... Zerg could get smell detectors... And Terrans EMP sensors... just silly ideas... (Heat vision was the only usefull one btw.).

 

Hmm I wasnt suggesting that exactly, I meant to have the unit faded away, like normal SC1, standing on top of a red circle with a spinning line, like a real radar.
However I prefer Bizarros suggestion. A faded hologram would look cool, and it can be team colored.

Well, teamcolor is a problem, but if you look at the zerg wireframes they are thermal, and as the units recive damage the colors change. The same could be used with the units on the battlefield, cloaked units looking thermal but in team colors. Its not perfect, but it works.

Another thing that can be done is to surround each unit with a halo of its team color, or put a circle like the selection one under it with its respective color.

 

I actually like the idea but I´m against it anyway since I just can´t imagine it to look good and informative at the same time... Team colored Heat Vision?