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On May 15 2016 22:30 duke91 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 15 2016 22:25 keit wrote:On May 15 2016 22:05 duke91 wrote:
Fresh blood usually want a reward system in order to get skins. Bring in some points for UMS, UMS ladder and 'avatars' for points bgh ladder can't wait for more people to join, was trying to practice a bit on iccup but finding a game there is frustrating to say the least Don't forget a fastest possible map/mucho ladder back in the days, there were ALOT of people playing mucho maps alone. They all eventually started playing normal maps, but mucho maps were the starting drug for most where people learned to macro mostly.
^^ I really hope they add all the maps and not just 1 category.
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Cool! Really good job all BW people and devs. Thanks! I'll certainly try it out when it launches, a bit of BW nostalgia. 
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Sounds awesome.
It seems this could get me into broodwar!
Thanks for your effort you put into this.
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Australia1191 Posts
On May 15 2016 22:35 duke91 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 15 2016 19:45 feckless wrote:On May 15 2016 01:36 Jaedrik wrote: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 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. Uh, yes, Blizzard can "arbitrarily" decide whether or not you've crossed an "arbitrary" line. Blizzard Nukes Popular HTML5 Version of StarCraft GameRelated TL thread, with obligatory Putin references. On May 15 2016 18:36 Freakling wrote:
I don't get the opposition against key rebinding at all, by the way. What has breaking your fingers due to, for example, awkward hotkey layouts of non-english BW versions have to do with fair competition? At the very least there should be an option to set the game to english "standard" if you wish, because that layout is actually pretty nice, with some exceptions (at least for ledt hand keyboard operation, that is...). I think this sounds like a diplomatic idea. Or option to set to "default" standards (given country variations). Yeah I think you should be able to switch to other languages. Also you can kind of change keyboard bindings by changing your keyboard country settings. Also Blizzard won't dare to ever touch this project. The shitstorm would be too big and we just post on reddit the shit Blizzard pulled in the past.
Blizzard has an internal list they work on all the time, stuff on that list gets moved up and moved down based on priorities and available resources, Something on that list is adding Diablo, Diablo 2, Warcraft 2, Warcraft 3, Starcraft and Broodwar to Battle.net 2.0, They've been hiring people specific to this, but its not a huge priority. When it does happen though, I could see Blizzard having issues with anyone running an unofficial server for one of their games, As of right now they're not too bothered as its and old game with likely no one looking at it right now, but when they decide to incorporate older games into Battle.net 2.0 or even do HD remakes, we can expect Blizzards Marketing department to not look very kindly on this, I hope they've discussed it with Blizzard, but who knows, I'm not really emotionally involved either way, but I figured i'd let you know what Blizzard is up to and what could happen if priorities suddenly shift or they work their way down that list.
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really wanna play this
hopefully it releases soon and smoothly
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Im just in Nal_ras chat, and he signed up for the beta
https://www.twitch.tv/nal_ra0315
edit: he just signed up haha
edit2: yo someone give nal_ra an invite code otherwise he can't join
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Nal_Ra is ready so this should be launched asap :D :D
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can someone link me a good place to dl bw ?
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iccup has a free multiplayer version
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On May 16 2016 00:10 Ty2 wrote:
I don't really think this server is going to revitalize the BW community to tremendous effect. The game is the main part of what makes for the BW experience so I suspect that because it's not changing neither will the community. I think everyone's overhyping how big of a deal the server is and when it finally does come the effect is gonna be underwhelming. I think there will be a short-lived influx of people playing but then they'll stop playing much like history has shown of people who play a variety of video games or people who get burnt out trying to be solely competitive. They just won't stick to Brood War. My comments aren't to undermine the effort put into the server though, and I do appreciate the tremendous work that's been accomplished so far. I'm just saying people will play BW not for any peripheral features, but for the game itself. It's like a restaurant; a restaurant can have horrible decor, lackluster service, and have a bad location, but as long as the food is phenomenal then people will still come.
lol i will play for sure alot
the problem was that you couldn't create or join games consistenly and it takes a while. Now we can
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Norway28749 Posts
On May 16 2016 00:10 Ty2 wrote:
I don't really think this server is going to revitalize the BW community to tremendous effect. The game is the main part of what makes for the BW experience so I suspect that because it's not changing neither will the community. I think everyone's overhyping how big of a deal the server is and when it finally does come the effect is gonna be underwhelming. I think there will be a short-lived influx of people playing but then they'll stop playing much like history has shown of people who play a variety of video games or people who get burnt out trying to be solely competitive. They just won't stick to Brood War. My comments aren't to undermine the effort put into the server though, and I do appreciate the tremendous work that's been accomplished so far. I'm just saying people will play BW not for any peripheral features, but for the game itself. It's like a restaurant; a restaurant can have horrible decor, lackluster service, and have a bad location, but as long as the food is phenomenal then people will still come.
Few people in the world love this game more than I do, few people have had brood war be as big part of their lives as what the case is for me. Absolutely love the game, always have, I still play it with some frequency.
There was however a 3 year period where I didn't touch the game even once. And it had nothing to do with the game itself, the reason was that I couldn't fix my internet in a way that enabled me to create games. Eventually I purchased software from portforward.net and was able, and then I started playing again.
Then I had another long hiatus after I got windows 7, because I was unable to play the game without it stretching out to the sides of my screen, and I didn't want to play in windowed mode. Eventually that also got fixed, and I started playing again.
Then I got windows 10, and suddenly, whatever I did to fix the windows 7 stretching problem stopped working, so I stopped playing. Then I loved the game so much that I started playing again with windowed mode, but it has always been kinda annoying to me. Once I tried shieldbattery, and noticed that my entire glorious screen from top to bottom was entirely dedicated to brood war, without it being stretched, with perfect black bars on the sides of the monitor, I was so happy with how it looked that I did something I hadn't done for more than a decade - I played 1v7 computer because it just.. felt so good to have the full screen brood war experience again.
Now, obviously activity is not going back to where it was in 2003 or whatever. And Brood War is still an incredibly demanding game, tiresome even, and the people who used to play it religiously are now mostly too old to still do so. But look at the resurgence of cs:go. Perfect competitive gameplay is incredibly hard to design - games that nailed it 15-20 years ago have not necessarily been improved upon since that time. Brood War is still a legendary game, and I can bet you there are thousands of players who, over the past decade, have wanted to play it again, but been discouraged by having to download a launcher and anti-hack software to log on to a private server only to find that they aren't able to create games, maybe their screen got all stretched out and they weren't dedicated enough to try to fix the issue, that they had to wait 5+ minutes to find a game, that they couldn't play their old favorite ums because nobody was around to create it. If a fraction of those players come back every half year for 3 week period of times each, we'll have enough for a server with reasonable activity. I myself know many younger gamers who never really played bw who have never had the chance to really try it out because after they learned of its legendary status as a game, they would need to spend more than an hour trying to make it work properly for their system. That is far too big of a hurdle for most people who want to try a new game - it's even discouraging for people who used to play it and loved it. With this, they can be introduced to it.
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On May 16 2016 03:00 Xeris wrote:
can someone link me a good place to dl bw ?
O shit Xeris is coming back to BW, there is hope
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"a life of lively to live to life of full life thanks to ShieldBattery."
That made laugh out loud, but whose signature is that again? I've seen it around TL a fair few times.
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Canada11439 Posts
On May 16 2016 04:13 DickMcFanny wrote:
"a life of lively to live to life of full life thanks to ShieldBattery."
That made laugh out loud, but whose signature is that again? I've seen it around TL a fair few times.
I believe it comes from this thread initially:
how to become a f33red k0r34n z3rg on wcg/wsl
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On May 16 2016 05:15 Falling wrote:Show nested quote +On May 16 2016 04:13 DickMcFanny wrote:
"a life of lively to live to life of full life thanks to ShieldBattery."
That made laugh out loud, but whose signature is that again? I've seen it around TL a fair few times. I believe it comes from this thread initially: how to become a f33red k0r34n z3rg on wcg/wsl
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