StarCraft: Remastered coming in May? - Page 31

On March 21 2017 20:30 -Archangel- wrote:
If BWHD ends up just being a graphics makeover I will probably just play the campaign again and forget about it.

On March 21 2017 20:37 ZenithM wrote:
I think for it to sell you'd have to provide some QoL features that are just necessary for modern PC games, like different resolutions and rebindable hotkeys. No MBS, automining, good pathfinding and whatever can obviously be attributed to design decisions for the engine. Let BW be BW. But hotkeys? Sure it would make the game slightly easier to play in the sense that people can more easily use their most comfortable layout instead of having to adapt to crazy arbitrary hotkeys, but it doesn't change anything in-game, right? I don't think it would make the game so easy that everybody is suddenly at the same top level (and if hotkeys are the main factor for skill, I'm not sure it's a really interesting game in the first place :D).

I realize I'm being a huge heretic there, but unless I'm missing something, the BW scene could gain a great deal of players for little loss of gameplay quality with these 2 changes. Hotkeys have literally be the only thing that have prevented me from enjoying playing BW right now. I don't care if it stays 4:3 but I could see how that would be an awkward game to sell in 2017.

On March 21 2017 20:37 ZenithM wrote:
I think for it to sell you'd have to provide some QoL features that are just necessary for modern PC games, like different resolutions and rebindable hotkeys. No MBS, automining, good pathfinding and whatever can obviously be attributed to design decisions for the engine. Let BW be BW. But hotkeys? Sure it would make the game slightly easier to play in the sense that people can more easily use their most comfortable layout instead of having to adapt to crazy arbitrary hotkeys, but it doesn't change anything in-game, right? I don't think it would make the game so easy that everybody is suddenly at the same top level (and if hotkeys are the main factor for skill, I'm not sure it's a really interesting game in the first place :D).

I realize I'm being a huge heretic there, but unless I'm missing something, the BW scene could gain a great deal of players for little loss of gameplay quality with these 2 changes. Hotkeys have literally be the only thing that have prevented me from enjoying playing BW right now. I don't care if it stays 4:3 but I could see how that would be an awkward game to sell in 2017.

On March 21 2017 20:43 TheNewEra wrote:

Yes the scene definitely could. But some of the people here who would call you a heretic for this opinion also say they don't care about new players so this argument doesn't count.

On March 21 2017 20:45 Zera wrote:

you are not being heretic. BW community is split on this, ones are currently using custom hotkeys already, some are strictly against and there are others that just don't care (I'm in the third group ).

On March 21 2017 20:49 Essbee wrote:


I'm pretty much a purist when it comes to bw but I do think custom hotkeys could somewhat make sense since the hotkeys are different if you play with a different language anyway. So why not allow it? Also, when I played sc2 when it came out, I didn't even bother learning the new hotkeys or making my own because I just played with the classic layout lol.

The rest of the suggestions make my eyes roll. Changing the aspect ratio would, in fact, affect the balance. So the custom hotkeys are as far as I would go since the feature is almost somewhat already in the game.

On March 21 2017 20:56 Zera wrote:

I am pretty much the same. I remember when in olden days, once a half a year there would be a forum thread about changing your hotkeys and two armies of opinions would clash in a battle of words. And you just sit here with some popcorns and enjoy the drama

Or is it just me who can't live without daily doses of cancer/salt??

On March 21 2017 19:09 Jealous wrote:

Sorry, should have been clearer; units not popping out of eggs that are receiving a greater dps than their health is not a bug.

On March 22 2017 00:03 L_Master wrote:
Still deep in the "no official announcement" zone right?

On March 22 2017 00:16 eviltomahawk wrote:

We're only less than a week away from a possible announcement, and if it doesn't happen at least we still get some sweet TBLS matches.

On March 22 2017 00:19 ZenithM wrote:
Do you think they might actually play on BWHD? It would make sense. Show off the "new" game and prove to fans that the game is exactly the same, all at once.

On March 22 2017 00:27 ZenithM wrote:
I mean it would probably be quite obvious on camera if it feels like the same old BW or if it's different. SC2 was obviously a different game.