If you could patch Brood War... - Page 8

On January 22 2014 23:09 ICanFlyLow wrote:


The keys should remain the same, just as everyone should play with the same fotball in a fotball match .

On January 22 2014 23:28 IntoTheWow wrote:


protip: if you play the spanish, german or english version of Brood War, they have different settings. omg, op.

On January 22 2014 23:09 ICanFlyLow wrote:


The keys should remain the same, just as everyone should play with the same fotball in a fotball match .

On January 22 2014 23:32 thezanursic wrote:

Which version has the hardest to use hotkeys?

On January 22 2014 23:57 endy wrote:
I've always played BW with a French keyboard layout. "A" and "Q" keys are switched, so it becomes much much easier to 1A2A3A4A.

On January 22 2014 05:54 ZenithM wrote:
Yeah, actually, hotkey bindings are the only thing keeping me from playing BW more intensively. I don't want to learn 2 sets of hotkeys switching back from SC2 to BW and vice versa, it would have been nice to just be able to set the hotkeys.

On January 22 2014 23:32 thezanursic wrote:

Which version has the hardest to use hotkeys?

On January 23 2014 04:12 hp.Shell wrote:
I would add forcefields to protoss dts so Bisu would never lose.

On January 22 2014 01:49 vOdToasT wrote:
1. Units getting stuck

You know when you tell a unit to attack, and then you tell it to move, as it's shooting, and the target moved out of range? Sometimes the unit will get stuck, and you'll have to press "S" to release it. I know this can be avoided if you know what you're doing, but it's annoying and doesn't make the game any better. I'd take it out of the game completely.

2. Clicking on an icon to center the view on that unit / structure

If you have something selected that is not assigned to a hotkey, the only way to center your view on it is to click on its icon. But whenever a unit is produced, that unit's icon takes up the spot for a really really long time (instead of whatever you have selected). I would either shorten this time, or remove it completely, so that you can always center your view on what you have selected. It's pretty annoying when I'm trying to center my view on a barracks, so I can F4 that shit, and units keep finishing so that I can't.

3. Units always popping out below the building

This is a pretty serious flaw, because it either creates map imbalances, or forces map creators to limit themselves too much. If you could simply set a spawn point (like you can set a rally point) this would be solved. Protoss users could make a high templar from their gateway that is being shot at by hydralisks, no matter what start location they got. Terrans could wall of at all locations and not die to 4 pools, and so on.

Do you agree with my changes?

On January 23 2014 06:39 Gamegene wrote:
all i want is changes to the battlenet UI to make it more modern with even more functionality.

reading about remapped hotkeys scares me and arbitrary stat changes scares me.

On January 23 2014 06:49 2Pacalypse- wrote:

Why do remapped hotkeys scare you? Various countries already have different hotkeys than an English version.

On January 22 2014 12:26 xAdra wrote:
Never got into pro BW scene much, but I am aware of the infamous Dragoon problems. I just wanna ask: what would happen if your strategy hinged on using 1 Dragoon for harassment/scouting, and he got stuck? In a pro game did they allow you a rematch?

On January 23 2014 07:01 Gamegene wrote:


I like the current hotkeys, even though I do misclick a lot on pressing O for Siege Mode and clicking P for patrol kiting just because they force your hand to move across the keyboard and makes you consider how you want to have the most efficient hotkey set up.

Pressing 4M5M6M7M is just such a powerfully cool feeling that could never be satisified with the A key. Similarly I like using F2 F3 for building my SCVs instead of using 6+7 or 9+0 just beacuse it also feels awesome to move my hand up to the function row and hit S!

Even though it's small, being forced to spend the extra half second to move your fingers and reach for that P key or L key is just something I love about the game and wouldn't want to go away

If I was given the choice, I would probably change to a easier hotkey set up just so I could have more of an advantage in my games because I want to win as much as I can despite everything that I just said, which is why I'm scared that one day in the distant future Blizzard releases a remake with all the SC2 UI functionality and I become sad.

On January 23 2014 05:24 Dazed_Spy wrote:
Well, I'll combine this with my power of retroactivity and use it to delete replays from existence. Fuck replays.

On January 23 2014 18:39 RageCommodore wrote:
On a scale of one to ten, how imba would Ghosts become if the had snipe as an ability (they have that in sc2)?
I'm probably not the only one that has trouble making them usable in any strat.

Other change would be to either incease the projectile speed or cast range of emp.


On a completely unrelated note: can somebody tell me if there's gonna be another Gambit Cup at all? The rebirth of Korean BW seems to have killed the foreign efforts to an extent (sorry if some other Teamleague has been announced but I probably didn't notice since I was away from TL for a year or so).