Make (passive) abilities visible to enemies

[pr114]

I am currently making a hero arena map.
To make the game more transparent for players, to help their strategies to be able to deal with a wide variety of possible opposing heroes, I would like to have passive abilities be visible to enemies on their command card.

I know that this is possible, because I have seen this in other maps. I just don't know how to enable it like this.

 

[Warseeker]

You could give the enemy unit the "Select Hero" ability, it will let the player see what abilities the unit has, however, this may not be a good idea if the unit has any active abilities, because it will also let the player cast them unless you disable them or make them invisible for the player.

 

[pr114]

I'm afraid that was not entirely what I was looking for. I was hoping it was possible to make it so that you can directly see passive abilities on a unit's command card when you simply select/left click a hero.

The workaround I'm using now is by using buffs to display this information, but it is not as nice and less clear than looking on the command card.

 

[pOke]

Another less elegant solution could be when a player selects an enemy hero you redirect their selection to a dummy with the abilities/info you want to display to them.

You can prevent casting via order cancelling or just simply give them not enough mana etc.

 

[pr114]

That's also a good idea. Thanks.

 

[The_Silent]

The new ui options would be able to do this i think.

 

[pr114]

That would be sweet. I will check it out.