Health bar behind other buildings

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Health bar behind other buildings

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I would call it a bug: The health bar is behind other buildings: You can't see, that a turret is damaged, if it is over a wall.
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The problem, it looks bad when it is in higher layer.

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Especially for walls and turrets, you could consider having one or multiple “damaged” graphics for partially destroyed buildings.

Alternatively, health bars could be forced to the foreground by pressing the alt key (because that mode is already designed to look “bad” compared to normal mode).

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The alt idea is a good solution.

The problem is just: A much damaged turret finally getting destroyed, because you didn't know it was nealy destroyed, looks much worse. ^^
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i know this must have been suggested manny times but it might fix this problem :

auto repair over time ?

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Math3vv wrote:auto repair over time ?
We have logistic robots and following destroyer robots, repair/building robots are probably just behind the corner :)

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kovarex wrote:
Math3vv wrote:auto repair over time ?
We have logistic robots and following destroyer robots, repair/building robots are probably just behind the corner :)
i can't wait :D i have read allot about the new robots and im realy exsited !

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Setting the health bar above the building in alt mode should be sufficent.
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Post by cube »

Repair robots are here and this is not a bug :)
I have no idea what I'm talking about.

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