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My only gripes with HoTS
9 Months ago I posted this quality-of-life wishlist: link. It hurts me in my feelings that 9 months of development has seen none of my wishes granted.
I'm posting today to appeal to our new emperor, Alan Dabiri, slayer of the once mighty Dustin Browder, to grant this humble servant his meagre request for some QoL changes to HoTS. Praise be to his excellency, and may his UI changes give us all hope for the future.
My top 6 QoL requests (left a couple less important ones out):
1) Toggle option: make right-click a move-only action.
This prevents stealth heroes from accidentally attacking enemies, and makes it easier to move behind attack-able entities like siege giants.
2) Don't recenter camera on hearth.
We can press spacebar whenever we like. This is especially annoying for global heroes (bw, aba, daba, falsedad).
3) Don't recenter camera automatically when holding space (clarified below).
When holding space to center the camera on the player hero, you can move the camera to an offset position within x distance (x = approx half screen size). After roughly 7 seconds without adjusting the camera position, it will interpolate back to being centered on the player hero. This can be annoying or screw up important skill shots. Given that we can re-center the camera at will (repress space key), I see no good reason for this behaviour.
4) Toggle option: make attack-move (A) target enemy closest to cursor.
LoL/DotA have it. It makes sense. Do it.
5) Toggle option: Draft-start should seize window focus or play sound.
Currently when a HL/UR/TL draft begins, there's no sound or seizing of window focus (QM plays a sound on finding a match, and seizes focus on load). Obvious. Do it. (I use full screen windowed if relevant).
6) Add a MISSING ping.
It would be useful to have a missing ping. Perhaps via ping-wheel, UI portraits, or key binding. LoL/DotA have it and I want it too.
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Centaurik
Hello!
Let me see if I can help here!!
1) I will re-ping some people about getting this in. It's been on our want list for over 2 years now.
2) This was actually ninja-fixed (non-patch noted) a few patches ago! Well for respawn at least. Will discuss internally on hearthstone.
3) I can talk with someone about this. Sounds like Spacebar is executing our logic that's on Camera Lock. I'll see if we can split that out.
4) I believe this is in the works for a soon coming patch! We have some passionate people who similarly really want this internally.
5) This one I know nothing about! But I can ask! (I think we flash the icon in Windows10 though?)
6) I believe we're discussing having pinging an enemy in the party frame that's not seen (in Fog of War) do a Missing ping!