So the game doesnt work? "Unable to join game"

On October 23 2020 20:08 MeSaber wrote:
@Lurtzer they created/released the patch. If they dont test their own sh*t then it would be very Blizzard*.

However as it seems they did NOT test it as there is problems everywhere not just ladder.

On October 23 2020 08:15 Jealous wrote:
Try a different Gateway. Did this really deserve its own thread?

On October 23 2020 22:43 SirGlinG wrote:
I've had a lot of these issues off and on for the last half year.
Join game Lobby screen stuck in the past with 3 month old games, 20 clicks to join a friends game. Now the plague is everywhere it seems.

They'll move back to an older patch unless their one employee has the rona but I like what Bluestar said.

Blizzard leaving SC:R alone can be a blessing in disguise if the community joins forces, moves back to the abyss or something new. Third party programmers unite!

Imagine the things we could do if we didn't spend our time complaining about Activision, instead took action. We need admins, shitlords and coders. ICCUP still has a infrastructure to build it from.

Anyone reading Ygosu or such? Is there talk about saving broodwar? Getting Fish back up?

On October 23 2020 23:00 Comedy wrote:


If you have these issues frequently try opening port 6112 udp/tcp. It'll help most likely.

On October 23 2020 23:08 BlueStar wrote:

Is this troll or for real? :D

On October 24 2020 03:00 Piste wrote:

Port forwarding is normal for peer-to-peer games like broodwar.

On October 24 2020 04:50 Garrl wrote:


as far as I know, part of the problem is that remastered isn't direct p2p anymore, it's routed through their servers to solve the port forwarding issues that plagued 1.16.

Existing private server solutions (iccup, shield battery, fish, brain) won't work and will require more resources to work with RM. Reason we had a few servers working simultaneously was because hosting a private server took almost no traffic.

On October 24 2020 04:50 Garrl wrote:


as far as I know, part of the problem is that remastered isn't direct p2p anymore, it's routed through their servers to solve the port forwarding issues that plagued 1.16.

Existing private server solutions (iccup, shield battery, fish, brain) won't work and will require more resources to work with RM. Reason we had a few servers working simultaneously was because hosting a private server took almost no traffic.

On October 27 2020 15:21 AttackZerg wrote:
What I will never understand.

I played games with koreans for years, dozens and dozens of lag-free games with iloveoov, lag-free games with Nada, I used to play with the polish player Tomson with decent pings. I played with a decent ping with Android.
The only players that always had latency problems with me, were Chinese players.

Yet now, I can't ever get a perfect ping with a korean and when I played kogeT the lag at tr 16 was turn-based.

Is this a result of global internet traffic increase or something? Chaoslauncher used to be good enough to do micro tricks.
I just don't get why it feels like latency has gotten worse over time.

On October 27 2020 10:31 TelecoM wrote:
Really, how much could it cost to get Shield Battery / Fish / iCCup back going? I would personally HELP fund this, I don't imagine it would be anymore than 500-1K a month, although I assume it is against the TOS to use Remastered, I wouldn't mind personally... I prefer the full screen SD graphics.

On October 27 2020 20:06 tec27 wrote:

So we were holding off on talking about this a lot until we were ready to launch, but since Blizzard has apparently decided to just let SC:R rot, I'll try and stem the tide of doom and gloom a bit.

The ShieldBattery team has been working for a while (slowly) on a version of our service that is compatible with SC:R clients. We have this working today with most of the things that worked back before Blizzard made our continued development a lot more challenging, plus a lot of nice new things.

However, we are not quite ready to show this to you all. We are very close, but our development speed is still a bit unpredictable, so I can't give you any firm dates. Once we finish things up, though, the service will be open to anyone who wants to sign up for it, and work with any installed SC:R client (whether you have the free version or have purchased HD graphics). We plan to deliver on the things Blizzard promised and never did (team matchmaking chief among them), as well as a lot more.

We don't currently have anything set up to accept donations to support development/maintenance, but that's on my todo list.

On October 27 2020 20:06 tec27 wrote:

So we were holding off on talking about this a lot until we were ready to launch, but since Blizzard has apparently decided to just let SC:R rot, I'll try and stem the tide of doom and gloom a bit.

The ShieldBattery team has been working for a while (slowly) on a version of our service that is compatible with SC:R clients. We have this working today with most of the things that worked back before Blizzard made our continued development a lot more challenging, plus a lot of nice new things.

However, we are not quite ready to show this to you all. We are very close, but our development speed is still a bit unpredictable, so I can't give you any firm dates. Once we finish things up, though, the service will be open to anyone who wants to sign up for it, and work with any installed SC:R client (whether you have the free version or have purchased HD graphics). We plan to deliver on the things Blizzard promised and never did (team matchmaking chief among them), as well as a lot more.

We don't currently have anything set up to accept donations to support development/maintenance, but that's on my todo list.

On October 27 2020 20:06 tec27 wrote:

So we were holding off on talking about this a lot until we were ready to launch, but since Blizzard has apparently decided to just let SC:R rot, I'll try and stem the tide of doom and gloom a bit.

The ShieldBattery team has been working for a while (slowly) on a version of our service that is compatible with SC:R clients. We have this working today with most of the things that worked back before Blizzard made our continued development a lot more challenging, plus a lot of nice new things.

However, we are not quite ready to show this to you all. We are very close, but our development speed is still a bit unpredictable, so I can't give you any firm dates. Once we finish things up, though, the service will be open to anyone who wants to sign up for it, and work with any installed SC:R client (whether you have the free version or have purchased HD graphics). We plan to deliver on the things Blizzard promised and never did (team matchmaking chief among them), as well as a lot more.

We don't currently have anything set up to accept donations to support development/maintenance, but that's on my todo list.

On October 27 2020 07:15 QuadroX wrote:
I think they responded on Twitter to Artosis already. Right now they need to approve $ budget by Activision to fix the servers. This is the hardest part.

On October 28 2020 04:41 Jealous wrote:

So that people can spend 24+ hours in queue? Haha

On October 27 2020 20:06 tec27 wrote:

So we were holding off on talking about this a lot until we were ready to launch, but since Blizzard has apparently decided to just let SC:R rot, I'll try and stem the tide of doom and gloom a bit.

The ShieldBattery team has been working for a while (slowly) on a version of our service that is compatible with SC:R clients. We have this working today with most of the things that worked back before Blizzard made our continued development a lot more challenging, plus a lot of nice new things.

However, we are not quite ready to show this to you all. We are very close, but our development speed is still a bit unpredictable, so I can't give you any firm dates. Once we finish things up, though, the service will be open to anyone who wants to sign up for it, and work with any installed SC:R client (whether you have the free version or have purchased HD graphics). We plan to deliver on the things Blizzard promised and never did (team matchmaking chief among them), as well as a lot more.

We don't currently have anything set up to accept donations to support development/maintenance, but that's on my todo list.

On October 28 2020 06:52 onlystar wrote:


so is this going to split the player base remastered / private shield battery ladder? (i am afraid to think this could not be a positive thing than )

On October 28 2020 07:43 2Pacalypse- wrote:

This is of course a scenario that we want to avoid. We're perfectly fine serving as some sort of a backup role for now, to make sure the community always have an alternative to actually play a game if there's something wrong with the official servers (like it has been for the past week). That's why we're not planning on doing some kind of a big campaign to incite mass migration from official servers to ShieldBattery, and instead choose to give you updates in this random thread. Even our matchmaking will most likely be restricted to certain time periods of a week in the beginning, just to ensure the user base is not completely split right away (and to make finding games on ShieldBattery easier).

However, we do plan on continuing our development of features that official servers do not have, e.g. team matchmaking, so over time more and more users might start preferring ShieldBattery, which might mean that at a certain point the userbase might be sort of split. But, unlike Blizzard, we actually do play this game, so we'll do everything we can to make sure the longevity of the scene is preserved and again, unlike Blizzard, we'll be quick to respond to the feedback and change our approach if needed.

On October 27 2020 20:06 tec27 wrote:

So we were holding off on talking about this a lot until we were ready to launch, but since Blizzard has apparently decided to just let SC:R rot, I'll try and stem the tide of doom and gloom a bit.

The ShieldBattery team has been working for a while (slowly) on a version of our service that is compatible with SC:R clients. We have this working today with most of the things that worked back before Blizzard made our continued development a lot more challenging, plus a lot of nice new things.

However, we are not quite ready to show this to you all. We are very close, but our development speed is still a bit unpredictable, so I can't give you any firm dates. Once we finish things up, though, the service will be open to anyone who wants to sign up for it, and work with any installed SC:R client (whether you have the free version or have purchased HD graphics). We plan to deliver on the things Blizzard promised and never did (team matchmaking chief among them), as well as a lot more.

We don't currently have anything set up to accept donations to support development/maintenance, but that's on my todo list.

On October 27 2020 23:02 SirGlinG wrote:


This is amazing news! I've only seen a slow death come creeping from the current state. The regrowth of our unkillable game can continue if this get's up and running. It being worked on can keep people from leaving and giving up.

This cancels my plans on being a full time turd on twitter. I think it's for the best to let actiblizz think they killed the game or left it at an "okay" state.

Questions:

Would anything need to be done/reverted from Activision blizzard for shieldbattery to work? Should we be turds on twitter or let them think they killed their unprofitable game?

Do u know where exactly they stand on third party programs?

Is money needed for keeping servers up?

Do you need more people helping out on it? Any specific areas in that case?

On October 28 2020 06:52 onlystar wrote:


so is this going to split the player base remastered / private shield battery ladder? (i am afraid to think this could not be a positive thing than )

On October 28 2020 09:55 TelecoM wrote:
Shield Battery sounds great, but it seems like people are dodging the biggest question of all here, legality.

On October 28 2020 10:26 AttackZerg wrote:
Tec27,

I have wondered for a while now, without anyone to ask this; could private small servers be set up for tournaments on the fly?
If so, what would the minimum specs be of a computer that could handle 2--5 people, players+ casters?
If this idea is stupid or fundamentally unsound, you can just say that, not trying to brain drain ya.

On October 28 2020 10:30 tec27 wrote:

While this is definitely more possible than it was in the past (our server stuff is now reasonably easy to deploy provided you have a basic understanding of it), the game hosting itself would probably be a bit harder. We use multiple servers to forward traffic between players, and things really only work well if you have servers in good locations for all the players. As such, it's not really as simple as running a single server on your local machine, so I'm not sure our stuff would be a great match for that use case currently.

On October 28 2020 10:37 AttackZerg wrote:

Okay, the main reason I ask.
I have two old media server racks with intel dual core 2's, if they were placed in the right location, would that contribute to a larger network, or does scr require more modern equipment?

On October 28 2020 10:41 dM-White wrote:
ShieldBattery looks promising, im interested in test any beta, how i can signup?

On October 30 2020 03:17 TelecoM wrote:

Well, they still have not responded to any of the threads on their own forums on their own website, so I don't know how much good this will do, unless a big personality like Artosis keeps pushing them forward.

On October 30 2020 03:45 Lorch wrote:
I feel so bad for him. Seems like he really cares, but the suits refuse to give him any budget/personel to do anything meaningful. The fact that he has to "puhs internally" to get a broken ladder working is so sad.