I Think Strategists Need An Extra Hud Showing All Teammate Health

[Borko]

Game is very chaotic and it's hard to keep track of how everyone is doing.

Far far far too many instances of Strategists not doing any healing on people that need it because they have no idea that 3 people on their team are near death, so instead they're doing damage to the enemy team and then said players die.
Or they have no idea that the Hela right behind them is getting bodied by an Iron Fist so said Hela dies, and then Iron Fist goes on to body them.

And this isn't really a dig at Strategist players.
I won't lie, when I play Strategist this also happens with me. I'll have no idea that the Moon Knight and Squirrel Girl behind me are about to die and infront it looks like everyone is full up so I start blasting, and then they die and it's like "oh...".
Sound system really doesn't help, especially with so many sounds happening. I won't know that an enemy is behind me until they're doing damage to me and then I have to look where said damage is coming from.

I think it would benefit from this.

[BlunderingFool]

In the meantime you could try setting team healthbars to an obnoxious colour. :P

[Rahk]

There's a setting in game to turn this on

[Borko]

Originally posted by Rahk:

There's a setting in game to turn this on

Clearly nobody knows this exists. It should be on by default with an option to turn it off.

[Kyo Tanaka]

Originally posted by Rahk:

There's a setting in game to turn this on

Design choices like this baffles me. Why is this not the default?

[Mochan]

I mean, they did it in the Kingmaker mode in Overwatch to test that kid of experimental HUB, I largely don't need it. I'm a Support Main, I already pay attention to my team's condition at all times, a HUD like that is just distracting when I can get all the info I need in game.

You can see your team's health through walls in this game from the color of their aura. That's pretty much all you need, though it would be nice to have Overwatch's red cross alert on dying teammates.

[Rahk]

Originally posted by Takzuke:

Originally posted by Rahk:

There's a setting in game to turn this on

plz tell me how mans i am play mantis and very very hard to heal if everyone stand on each other too its hard

I'm sorry I'm mistaken, there is an option in the UI settings related to teammates health that had a "default" tag but when I went to check it consists of "on", "off" and "default. I genuinely believed it would enable a constant team hud but it did not and totally forgot to correct myself in this thread. There should be some kind of hud element for tracking your teams health. I play a lot of Medic in TF2 and I use the player status hud to determine the general health of my team and who I can deliver crit heals to for overhealing faster; i use it for threat assessment, for engagements and as a notifier to find hurt teammates; there is no reason a game like this should not offer something so useful for support players.
I will be more mindful in the future not to be so hasty in spreading information I have yet to confirm.