Yeah, blackish, but not really. It’s greenish-brown. Not black, though!
You can toggle the old style healthbars in the options.
While I hated it at first, in multiplayer games it does make it a little easier to see whose units are whose.
yes thank you for answering civily, I ended up finding the toggle setting. Only was able to connect to Reforged for the first time 2 days ago due to bugs so I feel it was justified for me to think the had just changed it without any way of letting the player decide.
As I said above, if you prefer the ally color bars that’s your deal but at least they gave the option to switch back and forth.
Yeah, there are tradeoffs. It gets a little less helpful in some of the reforged custom games with more than 12 player slots, as a few of the colors are way too similar to each other. The two shades of yellow are almost identical, in particular, and the dark blue is almost invisible against the health bar backdrop.
As a side note, this only affects the in-world health bars. The ones on the HUD will always be the green-to-red color changing style.