A StarCraft II extension mod implementing WCS GameHeart with bug fixes, performance improvements and new features. It is recommended to use a compatible Observer UI to use the new features (see below)!
Editor to edit settings/hotkeys:
The extension mod is available on Americas, Europe and Korean servers.
- Game Hot Fixes:
- none
- Changes
- Battle Report:
- added Battle Reports based on nice__username's Observer Plus (powered by Shopify) extension mod
- damage includes damage on all units and structures of the enemy
- resource damage includes all resources lost (death, cancel, salvage)
- current limitations:
- damage does not track friendly fire, yet
- added Battle Reports based on nice__username's Observer Plus (powered by Shopify) extension mod
- Upgrade Notifications:
- icon can now be clicked to select the facility researching it
- now dynamically change to reflect alliance colors
- are now enabled in games with 1-4 players
- labels will resize to make their text fit
- Workers lost Notifications:
- are now enabled when there are 2-4 players
- now dynamically change to reflect alliance colors
- now display the first worker lost when it was within range 50 of a main building to only ignore scouts
- Graphs:
- added Resources Lost differential graph on Hotkey Numpad3
- added Resources Gathered comparative graph on Hotkey Numpad4
- Army, Resources Lost and Gathered graphs are now using the most recent value instead of averaging the last 6 seconds
- Minimap:
- player camera positions are now shown on minimap in 1vs1
- World:
- neutral units are selectable through the fog
- Leaderpanel:
- new Production Tab implementation:
- observer UIs need to opt-in to display it
- new information in the icons:
- Chrono Boost
- Contaminated
- the order of slots is now deterministic instead of random
- clicking the slot selects only one unit. Which one is changed every few milliseconds as the engine does not support more than one unit
- removed Reaper's KD8 Charges from the structures and production tab
- combined Reactors, Tech Labs and rich Refineries/Assimilators/Extractors into single buttons instead of creating duplicates
- new Production Tab implementation:
- Labels in 3D world:
- added label to unpowered Protoss structures
- added label to contaminated structures where Contaminate can have an effect
- General:
- moved default observed player from 14 to 15 (Hostile). This allows 14 player FFAs
- disabled skin sets as esports does not want this feature
- Features for Observer Interfaces:
- saves the player slot number of each player to the PlayerId score
- this assists observer interfaces in figuring out which Player Id is the left/right player in 1vs1 matches
- saves the player status in the PlayerStatus score
- this assists observer interfaces in figuring out if a player is still playing, left in victory/defeat/tie
- animation event "TextUpdated" is fired when worker killed counter's text is updated => Observer UIs can animate
- added player score that provides a player's starting position belonging to the initial 1=left or 2=right team for observer interfaces
- saves the player slot number of each player to the PlayerId score
- Battle Report:
- Bug Fixes
- SC2:
- Units Lost Resources:
- Overlords with Ventral Sacs and Overseers made from them will report its actual resource worth on death
- this was 25/25 too low
- Archons will report their actual resource worth on death instead of assuming the Archon was created by one HT and one DT
- Overlords with Ventral Sacs and Overseers made from them will report its actual resource worth on death
- Units Lost Resources:
- WCS GameHeart:
- fixed Dark Shrine not showing upgrades in research on a tag
- fixed potential bug when worker is killed at the same time as that player's notification timer expires resulting in a hidden notification and subsequently resulting in a wrong displayed count when the next one is killed
- fixed not respecting facility slot limit which breaks the entire upgrade notification system, if upgrades in research exceed 100
- fixed a bug when UI upgrade notification slots are exceeded (> 50) and the upgrade is cancelled/finished in that slot
- fixed a Reactor being destroyed causing a blue unit icon when the player is supply blocked
- fixed white production labels being able to appear briefly on screen at the map start
- Worker Killed Notification counts larger than 99 will now shrink to fit instead of showing an ellipsis
- fixed the last upgrade notification slot never being used
- fixed having more than 50 upgrades causing further upgrades to not be displayed. Now the limit is 100 as previously intended
- graph shortcuts are now disabled when not playing a 1vs1 instead of showing an empty graph dialog
- fixed Workers Killed Notification ignoring SCVs killed by shooting down a flying Command Center
- SC2:
- Performance Optimizations of SC2/GameHeart
- fixed performance issues of Battlecruiser script triggers created by Blizzard
- the game will now use less CPU when issuing commands and when units execute abilities (global improvement for all units)
- the BC's behavior did not change
- production label check filters missiles faster (trigger runs 30% faster on average)
- optimized production label's UI code to use less resources and not save unused entries into the data table
- this will make the script slow down less over time
- improved upgrade notification update thread to not scan used slots multiple times
- re-ordered unit type checks based on likelihood
- reduced minimum loop iterations when updating upgrade notifications
- trigger events are now only registered, if the feature is enabled and can function
- remove some upgrade notification text styles from trigger script as it was set in UI already
- production tags do not contain more slots than the unit require (e.g. Nexus has at most 1 production slot)
- minor trigger action de-duplication
- eliminated duplicated calculations
- eliminated unnecessary variable allocations
- eliminated duplicated function calls with additional variables
- less code is executed for disabled features
- removed superfluous upgrade name overrides
- more general trigger optimizations based on the trigger debugger's execution duration
- all failed conditions will now appear in failed executions instead of only the initial checks (triggers return 0)
- fixed performance issues of Battlecruiser script triggers created by Blizzard
Author:
- Christoph "Ahli" Ahlers ( https://twitter.com/AhliSC2 )
This mod is based on the work from:
- WCS GameHeart (official extension Mod published by Blizzard Entertainment):
- Ryan Schutter, Christoph Ahlers, Philip Tan, Nick Mohr, The MIT Game Lab, Milov Vasya and Pedro Zea for their amazing work on the original GameHeart Mod. Portions contributed by the MIT Game Lab
- Observer Plus (powered by Shopify)
- Joseph "nice__username" Haygood ( https://www.twitter.com/nice__username )