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cncbmb
238 Posts
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=age of empires 2 How come AoE2 was able to make a big comeback? Will this ever happen for BW in terms of UMS? It's what I really miss the most- I could never get into melee, takes too much skill, doesn't have that silliness of UMS like a shotty LOTR sc UMS. I can't really get into SC2 somehow it doesn't have that magic for me | ||
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duke91
Germany1458 Posts
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chrisolo
Germany2609 Posts
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Caihead
Canada8550 Posts
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Probemicro
3708 Posts
On February 21 2016 18:10 chrisolo wrote: I dont know if AoE2 still has a eSport scene like BW does, but I am 99% sure it ain't as big as the eSport scene from BW is. competitive AoE2 players don't play AoE2 HD | ||
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Nazara
United Kingdom235 Posts
Anti-hack/Warden for ladder games. Win 7-10 color bug fixes. And watch BW coming back. | ||
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Kurbz
Australia88 Posts
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Probemicro
3708 Posts
On February 21 2016 18:23 Nazara wrote: BW HD, support for higher resolutions, better looking sprites etc. yes it is nice but its not gonna be some major graphical revamp, it will still be more or less the same graphical engine, the sprites will a little "nicer" and touched up ie. AoE2 HD thats all. it will still be 2d. change too much and it will no longer be the same game. people too used to modern 3d graphics will still vomit and puke at it. On February 21 2016 18:23 Nazara wrote: Anti-hack/Warden for ladder games. over the years warden is proven to be useless, as long as there is a dedicated hacker selling hacks it will just be a cat and mouse game. sc2 masters and above still has plentyyy of hackers. current BW does not have much of a hacking problem because there is no financial incentive/demand to update hacks. | ||
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sabas123
Netherlands3122 Posts
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HaN-
France1920 Posts
http://blizzardwatch.com/2015/11/04/blizzard-updating-warcraft-iii-diablo-ii-and-starcraft-in-hd/ | ||
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Endymion
United States3701 Posts
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ProMeTheus112
France2027 Posts
On February 21 2016 18:21 Probemicro wrote: competitive AoE2 players don't play AoE2 HD really why? curious! On February 21 2016 18:41 sabas123 wrote: I don't see a reason why people would want to go back to bw just for the UMS, Its fun but aren't there better alternatives for that? I think that aside from having a great editor (though WC3 or SC2 editor allow for more possibilities), BW has these two great qualities that are very important to people who like to play UMS : 1] great art (graphics, music, atmosphere) 2] great mechanics, this is super important because all the gameplay is based on that, it's hard to find a game that has better mechanics! | ||
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Garmer
1286 Posts
On February 21 2016 18:10 chrisolo wrote: I dont know if AoE2 still has a eSport scene like BW does, but I am 99% sure it ain't as big as the eSport scene from BW is. that's not the point, the point is that now aoe is very big for a game that was basically dead and only because microsoft released an hd version ths mean that if blizzard will release a sort of enhanced version of bw, it may be big again, maybe they can do BW without the limit of 12 unit as an option, for newbie | ||
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iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4388 Posts
On February 21 2016 18:43 HaN- wrote: Blizzard is supposedly working on a revamp of BW and its other classics games. http://blizzardwatch.com/2015/11/04/blizzard-updating-warcraft-iii-diablo-ii-and-starcraft-in-hd/ I wonder if they will use this remake opportunity to shunt these games onto BNet 2.0 and close down the original Bnet? Not that it bothers me anymore, bring on the HD remake! | ||
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_Animus_
Bulgaria1064 Posts
I know bw cant make such comeback in one area, the playerpool. On Garena AOE server i saw 10 000 players online and it was not in peak time, dont remember if its AOE 1 or 2 but that was really shoking. If you go in Gameranger server u see a similar picture, no idea about other servers. And Having to see 300+/400 players on iccup peak time makes me ask myself why is that? Probably because game is too complicated and deep to just play without puting too much effort. But that depth is what makes it interesting for me at least. If the game can become more user friendly, or have separate section of server for casual low level players and gets enough advertising it can grow significantly i think. Because if you are not from these who followed esports scene and just go back to the game for fun and get raped 5 times in a row u probably just quit forever. One more thing, CnCnet servers (Cncnet is provider of online play for the classic CnC games CnC1 ,2, RA 1, 2, Dune 2000) have more RA1 players than Bw almost all the time, which is weird in my oppinion, because all games are just tank spam arena fights and i get bored after playing just a few games. | ||
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Fighter
Korea (South)1531 Posts
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ProMeTheus112
France2027 Posts
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Gullis
Sweden740 Posts
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Me_ToKa
Bulgaria309 Posts
On February 21 2016 18:43 HaN- wrote: Blizzard is supposedly working on a revamp of BW and its other classics games. http://blizzardwatch.com/2015/11/04/blizzard-updating-warcraft-iii-diablo-ii-and-starcraft-in-hd/ If I see these games in HD on my computer I can die in peace! HoMM3 has HD too, but no random map generator.. HD versions will bring many young peoples to the older then them games xD | ||
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Jealous
10286 Posts
On February 21 2016 23:13 Fighter wrote: I was thinking it might have more in common with the Melee scene. A superior game gets pushed out by a sequel, until eventually everyone realizes it and starts to go back, with stragglers hanging on and following new installments while the original great stays strong. This. This is the path BW should/could take. Brood War's popularity comes from its 1v1 scene, not UMS. It's a highly competitive game and if that's not something you're interested in, then you can find UMS on GameRanger/East/whatever. The revival of the game is dependent on its competitive scene, just like Melee. No one cares about players who do story mode or minigames or something, in the sense that those players don't really contribute much to the scene. Same with BW/UMS. Project Melee, although nixed now, was what could be a parallel to BW HD in some ways, and probably did bring some players to regular BW. Like said above about AoE2 vs. HD, HD brought in new players and the classic is still where the true competition lies. If something like that happens for BW, I'd be happy to see people enter the scene because they were given a more aesthetically pleasing game to get hooked with, and then decided to become competitive and came to the original. But, purists and people who already value competition will probably just stick to the classic. Not to say that I won't try the HD just out of curiosity, | ||
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