ShieldBattery - BW Revitalized for Modern Mortals - Page 15

On May 14 2016 22:12 King_of_Blades wrote:
Awesome news! Just a quick question though, I can see that you're advertising a lot of new window-mode options, however, since launchers like mc64 already offer wide range of fullscreen resolutions, why not implement regular HD fullscreen? Atm, they are considered "hacks" since you can have better overview, however, if you implement them as a norm, I believe that would work perfect. Window-mode is part of that era you're trying to replace and tbh, it should just die already :>

On May 13 2016 15:24 tec27 wrote:


Our windowed mode does scaling, it doesn't change how much of the map is visible. It's akin to W-Mode's 2x mode, but unlike that, we can scale to any resolution and do it fully GPU-accelerated (which both makes it much more performant *and* allows for doing a higher quality scale).

On May 14 2016 22:12 King_of_Blades wrote:
Awesome news! Just a quick question though, I can see that you're advertising a lot of new window-mode options, however, since launchers like mc64 already offer wide range of fullscreen resolutions, why not implement regular HD fullscreen? Atm, they are considered "hacks" since you can have better overview, however, if you implement them as a norm, I believe that would work perfect. Window-mode is part of that era you're trying to replace and tbh, it should just die already :>

You can't login or create an account until you receive a closed beta invitation. That is the whole point of a closed beta
And you're right, there's no password retrieval method yet, but there will be before go into the open beta.

On May 15 2016 01:33 BLinD-RawR wrote:
The problem with doing a proper HD scaling is that the sprites would have to be messed around with, and that's going to be a big no-no from blizz

On May 15 2016 01:36 Jaedrik wrote:

Given what they're doing already I think that step is nothing, unless Blizzard arbitrarily decides "okay, now you're crossing the arbitrary line."
Either way, I doubt the problem you present. There are... resolution expander hacks for BW out there already that don't mess with the sprites, at least to my knowledge.

On May 15 2016 01:51 Probemicro wrote:


the game has been played competitively in the current way for >15 years, there are purists that want to play the game as it is.

if you introduce things like hotkey changers and scaled HD resolution, nobody hardcore about the game (especially koreans where they form the vast majority of current BW playerbase) will treat this server seriously. you think the current korean pros who have trained immensely under the default setup will like it when they see newbies playing with changed hotkeys and expanded res? they will laugh it off as a joke server for casuals

On May 15 2016 01:52 B-royal wrote:
I don't want anyone to have a larger view while in game, that's obviously cheating and changing the game.

These features have their place when observing, but not when playing.

What would you call this by the way? Is a resolution change always concomitant with a bigger overview? Or is it because we don't change the sprites that this would be a necessary consequence? In other words, if we were to update sprites and thus create more pixels we could have a higher resolution without having a bigger view in game?

On May 15 2016 01:58 Jaedrik wrote:

Precedent is no good excuse. And... for some reason, I doubt the honest existence of such so-called 'purists.'
I think there'd be considerable demand, among everyone, for these changes. I highly doubt your hypotheticals.

On May 14 2016 23:05 Hadoken! wrote:
The only reason I stopped playing BW was because I couldn't find any matches online. This is a dream coming true!

Can Blizzard sue you guys though?

they only ones asking for these changes are new players/casuals, like you.
unlike you i follow the scene closely and i know by instinct and heart that the hardcore fanatic koreans who love this game to bits will certainly not appreciate such changes.

someone who never follow the scene or even play the game anyway have no right to tell me what hypothetical and whats not. koreans have many bad impressions of foerigners in the past, when they see such 'cheaty" features in this server what do you think they will say??

if you like your GRAPHICS so much, you know theres a pretty rts game called sc2 out there right?

On May 15 2016 02:30 Piste wrote:
At first glance this seemed great, something that could gather koreans, foreigners and newcomers all together in pne place. But yeah custom hotkeys and resolution hacks is something that won't attract the current player pool, there's a reason why they're frowned upon at the current ladders.