[A] Starcraft 2 Brood War - Page 59

On November 27 2010 08:53 Eishi_Ki wrote:
Love the new unit models, amazing stuff!

Also, the Zealot attack sound change is damn awesome, makes the Zealots baller again.

On November 27 2010 10:58 sylace wrote:
I just wanted to give my deepest thanks to MavercK. I know you've put a lot of work into this, and it is truly appreciated. I love the new models too!

On November 28 2010 03:40 axwell wrote:
this is amazing stuff you've done!! and by the way i think i'd have a nerdgasm if the old arbiter recall animation was back! that vortex kind of thing, but i don't know if that's really possible for you to make

On November 28 2010 10:06 CynanMachae wrote:
I've played those maps a few times, and I've noticed something, maybe I'm crazy, but it seems the mineral gathering is faster than it should be. I find myself with much more minerals than I should during the first few minutes when I'm executing builds ive done thousands times in BW

I dont think that SC2 made me becoem that bad ><

Still good stuff, thanks for the work!

Hardcore Mode Additions
- Smart Casting disabled on most spells (example. select 4 High Templars and cast Storm. all 4 Templars cast storm instead of just 1)
- Spells affected are. Psionic Storm, Stasis Field, Maelstrom, Mind Control, Dark Swarm, Plague, Disruption Web, Nuclear Strike, Lockdown, Optical Flare, Restoration, Ensnare, Parasite, Spawn Broodling, Defensive Matrix, EMP, Irradiate.
- Autocast for Repair Disabled
- Camera Distance from the Ground reduced from 34.07 > 30 (Default SC2 Camera shows more area than in BW)

New Unit Models (ported from the Warcraft 3 Mod "Project Revoluion)
Arbiter - increased poly count. touched up texture. added Normal and Emissive maps.
Valkyrie - straight port. already great model and texture. added Normal map.
Corsair - increased poly count. touched up texture. added Normal and Emissive maps. (texture is very low quality. needs to be redone from scratch i feel)

New Button Icons/Wireframes
Arbiter\Valkyrie\Corsair\Reaver\Dragoon


Temporarily removed Specular mapping from the Dragoon model as it was causing the cloaked-flat-teamcolor-bug, this seems to be an issue with the import/export plugin. temp fix for now
Hydralisk Morph to Lurker ability changed so that when pressing the hotkey all selected Hydralisks will morph as opposed to just 1.
"Magic Box" size increased slightly.
Deceleration Values of Units that have them. slightly increased. (units slow down and stop faster. this does not affect the 0.25 second timeframe where units do not decelerate after being told to attack/patrol/hold position)
Reduced the rate at which air units "Spread" when stacked.
Changed the way Explosive/Concussive Damage works against Shielded Units. A Unit will need more than 10 Shields to receive full damage from an Explosive/Concussive Attack (for example Zealots can now survive 4 shots from a Siege Tank instead of 2)
Fixed a bug that allowed you to research the Upgrades at the Physics Lab multiple times
Infested Terran movement speed increased
Infested Terran sight radius reduced from 8 > 5
Infested Terran now costs 1 Supply
"You are being revealed" mechanic has been removed
Broodlings now have a bar to indicate their lifespan
Infested Command Center regenerates life like other zerg buildings/units
Plague effect radius increased from 1.5 > 3.3
Lurker Den replaced by Lurker Aspect. An Upgrade as opposed to a Building.
Valkyrie's attack no longer deals Splash Damage to Ground Units
Undid the change to Mineral Harvest time, reverted back to 4.4575
Reworked the way High Ground Miss Chance is calculated
- Miss chance is now calculated BEFORE damage is inflicted as opposed to AFTER. This simply means an attack can now miss when being fired at a unit that would die 1 more shot
Nuclear Missile reworked. will now deal either 500 Damage or 2/3 of Units HP (Bugged. Validator is broken on Blizzard's End. it mostly works except that it detects Current HP instead of Maximum HP when deciding which Damage to Apply. f.e. a Nexus will survive with 10hp after 2 Nukes. Nothing i can do about this until Blizzard fixes the Validator.)
Eggs and Larva can no longer be assigned to any control group at all.

On November 28 2010 13:24 MavercK wrote:

unfortunately i've hit the size limit in terms of map size. adding anything more means it goes over the 10.5mb limit (the map is actually only about 4.5mb but Blizzard apparently dont care for compression) this is a pretty big issue.

On November 28 2010 17:07 MavercK wrote:
not many maps have hit this limit. i've been wanting to include music from brood war in my mod for awhile but this limit has prevented me.

basically the reason i've hit this limit is the textures for the new models. normally sc2 textures are 1024x1024, 1mb, compresses down to about 250kb
to even be able to publish the map i had to reduce them to 512x512. this wasn't an issue with arbiter/corsair/valkyrie since by default these textures are 128x128 or 256x256. but yea. Dragoon i had to reduce the quality of the texture.

i can still update with data changes. but i wont be able to add anymore models/textures/sounds/etc.