SC:R Launch Detected - Page 3

On July 01 2017 02:05 PntBttr wrote:

Oi vey somebody got told their opinion was important and really took it to heart.

On July 01 2017 03:28 Freezard wrote:
Super excited that they're not copying SC2 observer mode. Keeping things hidden makes the games so much more exciting, to see at some points that even the casters are not sure who's ahead and analyze it in real-time, makes for some more interesting thinking as well. Whenever I tune in to SC2 and I see someone being ahead with 50-100 supply and the casters just say "look at the supply" all the time makes it super uninteresting.

On July 01 2017 04:24 Waxangel wrote:
the thing you will hate most about SC:R observing for the first three months is the observers abusing the infinite zoom in/out, because like the rest of us, they can't be disciplined with their great new toys.

On July 01 2017 00:11 Tadah wrote:
A MESSAGE TO THE BLIZZARD SC:R TEAM

So, to me - and I think a lot of others - the bad aspects of SC:R in terms of the graphics/artwork are:

- Archons: Too uniformly spherical with far too smooth edges. First off, it deviates fundamentally from the core design, which we were lead to believe that Blizzard would adhere to "Switching from SC:BW to SC:R should feel like having watched the former without glasses, and then putting them on".
Secondly, it makes them look fat and quite honestly, goofy.

- Dragoon attacks: Seems as though the way the 'Phase disruptor" projectiles travel across the screen has been altered by having the speed be nearly constant as opposed to constantly accelerating. This is one of the many examples regarding elements of this game's design that you don't realize you care about until someone tampers with it.

A Dragoon attack should be akin to the cracking of a whip or the firing of a catapult. It just isn't visually satisfying otherwise. The impact of the projectiles as is (in SC:R currently) simply doesn't pack any punch.

- Death animations: The death animations all suffer from a serious and seemingly systematic flaw - they take too long. This is a problem for a number of reasons.

1) It clutters up the screen. This is mostly, if not exclusively, a consequence of this flaw as it relates to unit explosions (not so much other death animations). This problem leads to decreased visibility for the player and creates a lot of distracting "white noise" on screen for spectators.

2) Having prolonged death-animations - almost 'slow motion'-like when compared to SC:BW - lessens the positive audio/visual experience for players and viewers alike. In SC:BW unit deaths are "short and sweet", giving an immediate and high-intensity punch to the viewer's/player's senses - just the way it should be.

Also, please stick to your own stated design philosophy and simply focus on improving the graphics instead of reinventing the artwork. I'm specifically thinking of how the deaths of Zealots, Marines, Zerglings and Ultralisks have all been changed dramatically for the worse.

Not only is there less blood in the case of Zerglings and Ultralisks, but there is also a non-aestethic problem stemming from the way in which Marines perish, or more specifically the immediate aftereffects of them having died. Previously (in SC:BW) when a Marine had just died a ring of blood was created centered on the spot where it had stood which enabled viewers/players to visually estimate how many had been killed in a particular engagement.

In short, please refrain from being hijacked by your impulses to put your own stamp on the game's artwork and animations and simply stick to your initial goal of making SC:R a more high resolution version of SC:BW

THANKS.

On July 01 2017 06:04 MamiyaOtaru wrote:

pretty much in full agreement with this. When we first saw those gifs there were complaints (some from me) about how much they had changed from BW and earlier videos of SC:R. A lot of responses to that were along the lines of "why complain about a compressed gif? Who knows what it actually looks like!!!" Well now we see it loks pretty much like the gifs. I'm not a fan of how so many of the sprites are changed. The buildings and units themselves are looking pretty good, but the marine and zergling death splats, the tank explosions, the mutas popping all look different, have different silhouettes if you like. A unit dying is just as important to understanding what's happening as a live one is. Wish they weren't making all these changes