I'm only suggesting some possible reasons why some people "see" a difference.

If we can get back on topic, I think I have a fairly interesting solution to the "Too colorful/hard to see anything" problem. What if there was a hotkey that caused all units to be rendered as a neon green (if friendly), bright yellow (if allied/neutral), or hot pink (if enemy) wireframe until the hotkey was pressed again? (Those colors were picked because they should stand out from the terrain pretty well. Except maybe an enemy air unit flying over Ash terrain on Ashworld.) I would find it a lot easier to tell how many zerglings there were (or whatever) if they were pink wireframes.

waddauthink?

starcraft alpha/beta had out lines over every unit.

I just had to.


I opened up the picture in Photoshop, stretched the colors across, increased image size to get a closer look, and added arrows to show where the two colors meet.

The right one is lighter. You may need to stare at the colors and allow them to soak in, or adjust your monitor.

It's not actually lighter, it's a different hue. The luminosity is the same.

That actually wouldn't be very hard to accomplish. Seems viable and interesting.

Here's the solution: Modding.

The right one seems more "washed out", it looks more white. On the boundary there is a very distinct change in color. When I see them separate I can still tell they are different; as I said, I noticed that before I even read the words.
I'm not bullshitting at all.

I do think they changed the unit texture right now. I do not remember where, just google it, but I saw pictures before/after and they now look more zerg-ish and less blocky, and will make my 768 meg RAM computer fwuck up.