not yet "officially" it will be since 1.18 patch will be out, but now u can download the PTR which is almost identical to SC:BW and play for free (no need to have the original game)

alone

Poland410 Posts

March 30 2017 15:54 GMT

#324

On March 31 2017 00:46 Xeln4g4 wrote:
Unable to connect error 6:3 anyone? PTR down?

Checked just now, connected fine.

Xeln4g4

Italy1209 Posts

March 30 2017 15:56 GMT

#325

On March 31 2017 00:54 alone wrote:

Show nested quote +

Checked just now, connected fine.

Yes, thx, my router crushed

trutaCz

Poland686 Posts

March 30 2017 16:09 GMT

#326

I doubt they can release the patch if it's not even working on some OS such as win7 64 and vista;

franzji

United States583 Posts

March 30 2017 16:15 GMT

#327

I had a blast playing last night and will today too. Nice to play people my level and not ICCUP or FISH people who destroy me.

I'm surprised all the people in here are so mad about the iu.. yeah there are small missing features, but can't you overlook your nostalgia of the old iu and move on?

For anyone who has not used the old ui for years and can navigate it quickly, the old ui was dated and dogshit, be honest. New players will enjoy it so much.

Some people have really think skin... Blizzard makes the game possible for new players to play without going through ghetto launchers and plugins, they make the game possible to play without the network issues, OS issues, color issues, ect. and all act like it's the end of brood war. This is great! I'm sure they will patch out problems, they aren't leaving the game how it is now.

Lorch

Germany3683 Posts

March 30 2017 16:21 GMT

#328

Is there any way to adjust the scaling? The menus look fine but ingame is just a pixelated mess, it looked way better before.
Also does the apm count actually work? I have way more than usual.

biryusky

70 Posts

March 30 2017 16:23 GMT

#329

I think its just growing pains for Broodwar, people need to embrace the new designs and try to give positive feedback if they dont like the new ui. Its not like Blizzard never listens to community feedback, they have in the past and always will. Its just a matter of leaving feedbacks on the forums for a better Broodwar and not some useless advice like "Holy shit fix your new ui".

In the end they're people, too. They just want to create a better environment for Broodwar old-timers and new-comers.

CrownRoyal

Vatican City State1872 Posts

March 30 2017 16:24 GMT

#330

Youngjiddle,

It's just that the broodwar battle.net chat experience was an experience in itself. It was something sorely missing from sc2. People would login just to talk trash, just to hang out. I would play broodwar every day after school but I wasn't gaming for the majority of that, I was hanging out in chat channels with my clan and watching 1v1s. It was a very social thing given that we were all sitting behind computer screens. Most modern games have really went away from this but it's genuinely the best part I can remember from playing broodwar.

edit - I will add in, this is something that is probably only important to those of us that are 25+ years old. You young folk didn't grow up in the era of the chat room so it probably makes little to no sense that so many people are upset about the UI being changed. Without /f m and hangout channels broodwar would feel very lonely.

NewbOnTheFloor

Poland160 Posts

March 30 2017 16:25 GMT

#331

On March 31 2017 01:15 youngjiddle wrote:
I had a blast playing last night and will today too. Nice to play people my level and not ICCUP or FISH people who destroy me.

I'm surprised all the people in here are so mad about the iu.. yeah there are small missing features, but can't you overlook your nostalgia of the old iu and move on?

For anyone who has not used the old ui for years and can navigate it quickly, the old ui was dated and dogshit, be honest. New players will enjoy it so much.

Some people have really think skin... Blizzard makes the game possible for new players to play without going through ghetto launchers and plugins, they make the game possible to play without the network issues, OS issues, color issues, ect. and all act like it's the end of brood war. This is great! I'm sure they will patch out problems, they aren't leaving the game how it is now.

New UI is simply missing a lot of features.I dont care about the graphics as long as it is useful as previous one i.e
You cant sort games by type.That's a MUST when there's more lobbies or choosing a slot in a lobby(UMS players MUST have)
There's a lot more of it , somebody posted it before but I'm too lazy to look(sorry

)

biryusky

70 Posts

March 30 2017 16:32 GMT

#332

On that note, im surprised why we didnt have /f for friends feature

WinterStarcraft

United States109 Posts

March 30 2017 16:35 GMT

#333

Adding my thoughts mostly to those already detailed in my several hours of experience (never played SC1/Brood War before recently as well).

Chat channels are absolutely not finished. Leaving a private channel every time going into a lobby, next to no functionality even while IN the channel itself. No real invite functions, lobby links. I'm all for maintaining the feel and gameplay of Brood War, but maintaining the feel and functionality of a UI designed in 2000 is just frustrating.

The custom hotkeys are very convenient to be able to set, but the menu is just a block that doesn't even distinguish between the races when it comes to defining hotkeys. It is one big list with every hotkey in the game (including those not in multiplayer). It also is limited in options (like ctrl/alt/shift modifiers) but that is a deeper conversation.

As for connection issues/graphics, it all seems relatively functional (especially considering many people are not in shouting range of california). The in game has some weird feels on the mouse/mouse acceleration especially in windowed fullscreen but nothing game breaking.

If it was intentional to make a UI with not only the look of a 19 year old game but also the functionality of one then I guess that is something I'll have to accept, but if the intention was to modernize the out of game UI then it is quite lacking.

lantern77

Canada60 Posts

March 30 2017 16:38 GMT

#334

Wait I know the PTR Servers are out but isn't the official patch also supposed to be release today??

KameZerg

Sweden1767 Posts

March 30 2017 16:41 GMT

#335

gwsdasaaaaaaaaaa hur if MVo v odneed_

User was warned for this post

TelecoM

United States10673 Posts

March 30 2017 16:59 GMT

#336

Fucking awesome!!

Xeln4g4

Italy1209 Posts

March 30 2017 17:28 GMT

#337

On March 31 2017 01:38 lantern77 wrote:
Wait I know the PTR Servers are out but isn't the official patch also supposed to be release today??

yes it is, but as many said ... there seems to be some additional basic problems to fix before the patch is out, and one Private Server Test day seems too short .... to make it short, nobody expect it to be out today

franzji

United States583 Posts

March 30 2017 18:14 GMT

#338

On March 31 2017 01:24 CrownRoyal wrote:
Youngjiddle,

It's just that the broodwar battle.net chat experience was an experience in itself. It was something sorely missing from sc2. People would login just to talk trash, just to hang out. I would play broodwar every day after school but I wasn't gaming for the majority of that, I was hanging out in chat channels with my clan and watching 1v1s. It was a very social thing given that we were all sitting behind computer screens. Most modern games have really went away from this but it's genuinely the best part I can remember from playing broodwar.

edit - I will add in, this is something that is probably only important to those of us that are 25+ years old. You young folk didn't grow up in the era of the chat room so it probably makes little to no sense that so many people are upset about the UI being changed. Without /f m and hangout channels broodwar would feel very lonely.

so like I said, maybe you should drop some of your nostalgic feelings and realize everyone these days uses discords or whatever to communicate, not an in game chatroom or irc chat clients. And yes I remember people complaining about sc2 having no chatrooms, we have them now in sc2 no? but they are dead as fuck because who cares.

aaezil

1 Post

March 30 2017 18:15 GMT

#339

Halp