Blizzard likes to use the purchase box price as a deterrent to hackers. but if they promised free matchmaking and now they are changing that... that is bad.

Yeah thinking about it a bit more, it's basically dividing the community as well. I hope this is an error in the checkbox and not actually true :/

Moonsalt

267 Posts

June 30 2017 02:08 GMT

#43

So this is the ugliest UI I've ever seen in a video game... I'm so sad.
http://imgur.com/a/3fut8

Dazh598

3 Posts

June 30 2017 02:08 GMT

#44

Skins?!?!?! WOW! O_o

TT1

Canada10011 Posts

June 30 2017 02:08 GMT

#45

i'll be pretty salty if we cant turn the unit/building skins off

supernovamaniac

United States3047 Posts

June 30 2017 02:10 GMT

#46

On June 30 2017 11:08 TT1 wrote:
i'll be pretty salty if we cant turn the unit/building skins off

its toggelable according to blizzard (and stated throughout the articles back when SC:R was first announced).

P sure someone who was at the secret event can confirm.

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

June 30 2017 02:11 GMT

#47

On June 30 2017 11:06 The_Red_Viper wrote:

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Yeah thinking about it a bit more, it's basically dividing the community as well. I hope this is an error in the checkbox and not actually true :/

Hopefully an error in the checkbox.

Here they confirm matchmaking for everyone.

SCC-Faust

United States3736 Posts

June 30 2017 02:12 GMT

#48

I was a bit misled into thinking that matchmaking would have been for 1.18 as well, as they said the games would be completely cross-compatible sans graphic/audio, but to be honest I kind of expected this. The price tag is a lot lower than I assumed it would be, and overall it doesn't look too bad. I like a lot of the Protoss units, and the Terran buildings hit me in a warm soft spot that makes me giggle like a little girl. Not real happy with Lurkers, but whatever. I can't wait for Day9 to come back to Brood War as a caster / analyst and one day cast one of my games. It is probably something I would one day tell my children and write on my resume if I ever get a job. Also the custom skins were something I highly expected to be in SC:R. And to be honest, they look kinda nice. I welcome more skins because they don't really detract anything from the game and are purely aesthetic. And I'm sure there will be an option to turn them off.

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES50587 Posts

June 30 2017 02:17 GMT

#49

considering the issues with 1.18....does this not feel rushed?

I prefer if everything works well rather than quickly, even if that might delay tournaments and the like.

Waxangel

United States33492 Posts

June 30 2017 02:18 GMT

#50

I really do hope they reconsider the matchmaking thing. I feel there's a bit of an aura of complacency with revival BW right now that's obscuring the fact that the game absolutely needs new players at some point (hopefully the current bunch can carry it for a long time). A free game with good matchmaking hardly guarantees that kids will start playing BW, but it's really the best shot BW has for generation change, and in the best case, growth.

MrMischelito

347 Posts

June 30 2017 02:18 GMT

#51

I actually see an issue with death animations here. before, it was easy to spot and tell what dies or had died. they took that away for some of the units (e.g. very noticeably for marines and zerglings). it's almost impossible to count that now.

SHODAN

United Kingdom1144 Posts

June 30 2017 02:21 GMT

#52

friendship ended with sc2. now sc:r is my best friend

F1rstAssau1t

1341 Posts

June 30 2017 02:25 GMT

#53

Whos the guy at the end of the video? the one smiling.

heluq

Spain119 Posts

June 30 2017 02:28 GMT

#54

On June 30 2017 10:42 L_Master wrote:

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I watched it, then as soon as I did it was deleted o.O

here you are

HerbMon

United States465 Posts

June 30 2017 02:29 GMT

#55

HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE !!!!!!

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES50587 Posts

June 30 2017 02:29 GMT

#56

actually you can see in the thumbnail of the video that the UI alignment is so poor.

shakigami

220 Posts

June 30 2017 02:36 GMT

#57

lol, instantly purchared

)

-NegativeZero-

United States2142 Posts

June 30 2017 02:37 GMT

#58

i thought this part was interesting:

What Blizzard hadn't made clear until this week's event is that there's another on-the-fly visual toggle, currently mapped to F7: a combination of real-time lighting and environmental effects.

Turning this on adds seven graphical passes on top of the engine, based on whichever sprites are currently live: a depth map, a brightness map, an emissive map (solely for "glowing" objects), a normal map, a specular map, and an ambient occlusion bake. Toggling these adds a little bit of GPU overhead, as do optional lighting maps on pools and "heat waves" on lava. The result won't make you believe you've gotten a truly realistic coat of paint, but it does help the older-engine medicine go down a little smoother. "It gives this 2.5-D feel," Sousa says.

the lighting's looked a little weird and flat in all the screenshots i've seen, so i'm curious to see whether this will improve it.

Dazh598

3 Posts

June 30 2017 02:37 GMT

#59

On June 30 2017 11:36 shakigami wrote:
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lol, instantly purchared

)

I see... you are a man of culture as well!

LaStScan

Korea (South)1289 Posts

June 30 2017 02:38 GMT

#60

On June 30 2017 10:53 Essbee wrote:
Skins? Seriously?

And no matchmaking if you don't buy the remaster?

Im sure that since around 2006, people already played on cracked version. I also believe that there are plenty of users who never bought sc and enjoyed the game.

15$ isnt too much to ask to be honest...
Just change your mind like you treated a person a nice meal for dinner and made a strong bond.
Blizzard did a lot of work to get this sc hyped again. Clap clap