On March 14 2017 17:22 Musicus wrote:
If they add custom hotkeys that would be nice. Otherwise playing BW and SC2 at the same time will not be an option for me.

Yeah, same for me, and the reason why I can't really play BW now unless I would never play SC2 again t.t

Jae Zedong

407 Posts

March 14 2017 09:41 GMT

#70

What does 'custom hotkeys' mean?

SlayerS_BunkiE

Canada1717 Posts

March 14 2017 09:47 GMT

#71

Getting better graphics etc is nothing big, but hopefully the hype and attention this generates wld be a positive for the game.

ioncreature

18 Posts

March 14 2017 10:02 GMT

#72

I hope this is true.
It would be really exciting to play SC1 again with Battle.net, Leagues and MMR

JimmyJRaynor

Canada17939 Posts

March 14 2017 10:04 GMT

#73

Blizzard does stealth releases of games where they keep it a secret and then jump up out of nowhere and say "hey SC fans... give us $60!!!!"
doesn't make sense.

what this might be is a trial balloon released to assess demand.... or it might just be pure unadulterated bs.

Musicus

Germany23580 Posts

March 14 2017 10:10 GMT

#74

On March 14 2017 18:41 Jae Zedong wrote:
What does 'custom hotkeys' mean?

If you can adjust your hotkeys in the game and write your own setup. For example I use a modified grid layout (normal grid has T as attack for example, but I changed it to A) and I would like to use the same layout in Broodwar remastered.

If there are no custom hotkeys, it will be very hard to play both games at the same time, because your muscle memory won't work on both games.

iFU.pauline

France1776 Posts

March 14 2017 10:26 GMT

#75

On March 14 2017 18:25 Liquid`Ret wrote:

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Yeah, same for me, and the reason why I can't really play BW now unless I would never play SC2 again t.t

The simple thought of it makes you one step ahead of doing it. never play SC2 again

disciple

9071 Posts

March 14 2017 10:26 GMT

#76

I will be amazed if they go ahead and sell this as a stand alone game, surely it should be bundled somehow with SC2

ihatevideogames

570 Posts

March 14 2017 10:29 GMT

#77

If this is true, it explains why the balance/design team has neglected SC2 so much, they're cashing in elsewhere.

I hope they won't ask 60$ for a 20 year old game, but this is Activision we're talking about.

Musicus

Germany23580 Posts

March 14 2017 10:31 GMT

#78

On March 14 2017 19:26 disciple wrote:
I will be amazed if they go ahead and sell this as a stand alone game, surely it should be bundled somehow with SC2

Honestly if you have StarCraft, BW, WoL, HotS and LotV on your battle net account already, they should give out remastered for free or very cheap.

Not gonna pay 20 or 30 bucks for this and certainly not full price.

Musicus

Germany23580 Posts

March 14 2017 10:35 GMT

#79

On March 14 2017 19:29 ihatevideogames wrote:
If this is true, it explains why the balance/design team has neglected SC2 so much, they're cashing in elsewhere.

I hope they won't ask 60$ for a 20 year old game, but this is Activision we're talking about.

But they won't change the gameplay, balance or design for remastered, so that team has nothing to do with remastered.

Tadah

Sweden120 Posts

March 14 2017 10:37 GMT

#80

Hopefully they'll stick to the old sprites but simply enhancing the resolution with which they are presented in the game. I have heard that Blizzard actually have in their possession high-resolution versions of every sprite (units, buildings etc.) - templates if you will - that was used in the final product. If true, then one can hope that the only point of in-game difference between "BW Classic" and BW 2.0 is that the latter includes these "template" sprites as opposed to the downgraded ones we have now.

Though I am not sure if BW would look as good (or to be more precise, be as aesthetically pleasing) if the resolution was upgraded in this way. Maybe part of the reason why BW units, buildings, terrain and animations look so good are due an impressionism phenomena if you will - the exlusion of details leading ones' mind to fill in the gaps of visual information, thereby stimulating some part of the brain/imagination that is responsible for that "oddly-satisfying" response that I have (and suspect other do to) when watching BW.

Because of the above, it would be good of them to incorporate a toggle feature, allowing you to change - even mid game - between the old-school graphics and the newer, updated graphics.