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ShieldBattery - BW Revitalized for Modern Mortals

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tec27
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States3582 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-08 21:27:13
May 12 2016 22:20 GMT
#1

Since Brood War's very early days, the community has banded together to ensure a great competitive experience. When the tools and services that came with the game fell short, new ones sprung up to replace them; with ladders and servers that gave people a place to interact and compete; with launchers and plugins that refined the experience with features like lower latency and in-game displays. But today, even these community efforts have started to become inadequate to support the aging core of Brood War. As the sheer number of support threads and posts on TeamLiquid indicates, simply starting a game of Brood War is very difficult these days. With Battle.net servers being hacked and failing, new Windows versions introducing countless new hurdles, and network conditions continually making it tougher to host and join games, how can we hope to attract new blood to the game we love, or even retain the players we do have?

About three-and-a-half years ago, I was considering these issues and I came upon a realization: the core aspect of the Brood War experience that we love and care about is the gameplay; the rest—all of those interfaces and menus and the experience of joining a server, hosting a game, or watching a replay—none of that really matters so long as we keep the same gameplay that we hold dear. Through this, I suddenly understood that we could step back from the legacy of all the previous community efforts and, instead of simply following in their footsteps, build a completely new, modernized experience suitable for this amazing game.

I'm happy to announce ShieldBattery, a brand new server that can finally give Brood War a smooth, seamless multiplayer experience replete with all the features you'd expect from any modern game. Free from the shackles of its 90s interfaces and options, we can finally see what Brood War is like if things just work, if the system is designed around how people actually want to chat and play.

This has been a long time coming, but I, along with the many others who have devoted their time and energy to the project, am excited to see the influx of players, ideas, and contributions this announcement will bring. This is not some pie-in-the-sky idea; our platform is under active development, but a large parts of it are already done and ready to use. Starting today, we're opening closed beta signups, and will be sending out invites periodically over the coming weeks while we continue developing and improving the server.

As a wise (and f33red) Korean zerg once said, "life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery". We hope ShieldBattery revitalizes and restores Brood War to its former glory, and lets it thrive well into its twenties and thirties.


Features

Listed below are the major features which make ShieldBattery a server unlike any other in all of the Brood War's history. Besides these major features, there are tons of minor ones, all made with an ultimate goal of making the experience of playing Brood War as seamless as possible. It's also important to note that some of these features are under active development, so even though they might not be 100% ready now, they will be soon™ enough.


Modern operating system support
Since the release of Windows Vista, Brood War players have struggled with a myriad of compatibility problems that have only gotten worse with each new Windows version. Struggle no longer—ShieldBattery offers full support for all Windows versions Vista and above: no batch files, registry tweaks, or command line arguments required.


Brand new windowed mode
Brood War's forced 640x480, full screen graphics mode might have made sense in 1998, but who wants to play like that today? ShieldBattery offers a completely new graphics backend supporting both DirectX and OpenGL, borderless and bordered windows, and fast, smooth scaling to tons of different resolutions. Smart mouse sensitivity is included, too, so you can get things just right for your muta micro. Should you want to broadcast your matches to all of your adoring fans, ShieldBattery's windowed mode also works great with streaming programs out of the box.


Improved networking
Tired of doing battle with your router before you can play with your friends online? We were too, which is why ShieldBattery includes a brand new network stack that removes the need for port forwarding completely, and brings LAN latency settings by default, no plugin needed. Support for forthcoming network technologies like IPv6 is included too, so Brood War is ready for the next decade of internet changes.


Auto-matchmaking and ladder
No modern multiplayer experience would be complete without a streamlined ladder system that doesn't require you to spam a chat channel to find opponents. ShieldBattery provides a fast, easy laddering experience and can automatically match you to similarly skilled opponents on a fresh, rotating map pool. Searching for matches is just a click away, and continues in the background so you can focus on more important things, like learning that awesome 10/15 build from Liquipedia.


Completely revamped multiplayer experience
Chat channels? You wanted those, right? ShieldBattery has 'em, front and center. Join tons of channels simultaneously, chat with your friends and enemies, all from our simple web interface that you can connect to from anywhere. And when you're ready for a game, you can do that there, too, all without leaving chat.



Beta Signup

As mentioned in the introduction, we're opening closed beta signups starting today, so feel free to request your invite in the link below. Invites to the closed beta will be sent periodically to various members of our community, to help us with testing of various features and finding bugs in general. We'll try to keep the closed beta period as short as possible, so we can open our server to everyone who wishes to play this beautiful game, hassle-free.


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bioboyAT
Profile Joined July 2004
Austria1758 Posts
May 12 2016 22:24 GMT
#2
What is happening, is this the real life?
Milchmann | DeadVessel: Milchmann pwns. I fail.
Clubfan
Profile Blog Joined May 2013
Germany887 Posts
May 12 2016 22:27 GMT
#3
Holy shit, that sounds interesting!
LiquipediaLickyPiddy manager
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES47080 Posts
May 12 2016 22:30 GMT
#4
We're finally free to talk about it!
Brood War EICWoo Jung Ho, never forget.| Twitter: @BLinDRawR
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Whiplash
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States2801 Posts
May 12 2016 22:33 GMT
#5
This sounds so sick, signed up for the beta can't wait to try it out!
Former professional broadcaster. Back in college to get a degree, then back to e-Sports!
intrigue
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Washington, D.C9916 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-12 22:36:16
May 12 2016 22:34 GMT
#6
woohoo!!
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julius33
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Estonia76 Posts
May 12 2016 22:34 GMT
#7
I am sorry for swearing, but what the actual fuck? Is this for real?
Rahulikult!
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8932 Posts
May 12 2016 22:36 GMT
#8
On May 13 2016 07:34 julius33 wrote:
I am sorry for swearing, but what the actual fuck? Is this for real?


Yup it's real.
ॐ
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24867 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-12 22:36:51
May 12 2016 22:36 GMT
#9
Glad to see this finally being announced. Good stuff!

On May 13 2016 07:34 julius33 wrote:
I am sorry for swearing, but what the actual fuck? Is this for real?

Yes it is, I can attest to that fact lol.
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
FO-nTTaX
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
Johto3920 Posts
May 12 2016 22:36 GMT
#10
Hell yeah this is real (sorry for swearing )
Administrator@FO_nTTaX | FO-nTTaX.de | liquipedia.space | Senior Lead Liquipedia Developer
"Nimm es. Es ist nicht viel, aber es kommt von Herzen. Vergiss mich nicht!"
Zilver
Profile Joined December 2008
Finland282 Posts
May 12 2016 22:39 GMT
#11
I'm having all kinds of boners

ALL KINDZ
1a2a3a iWin
Lightrush
Profile Joined July 2015
Bulgaria164 Posts
May 12 2016 22:42 GMT
#12
Auto-matchmaking and ladder ? YES, PLEASE! I'm in!
User was warned for this post
B-royal
Profile Joined May 2015
Belgium1330 Posts
May 12 2016 22:55 GMT
#13
omg is this real life? Lmao.

There's no words that can express our gratitude, absolutely SICK.
new BW-player (~E rank fish) twitch.tv/crispydrone || What plays 500 games a season but can't get better? => http://imgur.com/a/pLzf9 <= ||
-NegativeZero-
Profile Joined August 2011
United States2119 Posts
May 12 2016 22:55 GMT
#14
wow this might actually make me start playing bw again
vibeo gane,
xboi209
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1173 Posts
May 12 2016 23:00 GMT
#15
Signed up. I think I have a rough idea of how this is implemented.
http://www.reddit.com/r/broodwar/
FYRE
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
New Zealand312 Posts
May 12 2016 23:01 GMT
#16
Looks pretty cool. 2016 a good time as any to start playing SC1 I guess =D
Ritha
Profile Joined October 2009
United States18 Posts
May 12 2016 23:05 GMT
#17
Signed up. I haven't been active in Broodwar since like, 2009? I'm excited. I've been wanting that RTS fix and my IRL friends refuse to play them with me any more. D:
coolprogrammingstuff
Profile Joined December 2015
906 Posts
May 12 2016 23:07 GMT
#18
i want an artificial womb so you can give me children.
Coypirus
Profile Joined February 2015
119 Posts
May 12 2016 23:07 GMT
#19
Everybody who plays this, please play SC2 as well. WE NEED YOU!
Maks
Profile Joined December 2010
Ukraine165 Posts
May 12 2016 23:07 GMT
#20
So happy right now, hopefully I'm not dreaming
Kim "ZerO" Myung Woon: I think that there is no way to beat a good Terran as Zerg. This is mainly because good mutalisk micro just cannot beat good marine-medic micro.
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