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On August 22 2009 12:07 Tsagacity wrote:Show nested quote +On August 22 2009 11:57 Hyde wrote:On August 22 2009 11:52 StorrZerg wrote: any idea when betas gonna fucken come out? No word yet still unfortunately. But with 11K people playing it I'm not sure what they were delaying, looks ready to go imo. Hopefully they will announce something either today or tomorrow. I doubt it really had 11k people on it. Also Browder said no beta this summer.
no beta this summer, fucken promised beta this summer FUCK DAMIT. early September please?
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Sweden33719 Posts
September is part of summer sigh
I think summer officially ends on sep 22nd?
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On August 22 2009 12:04 keV. wrote:Show nested quote +On August 22 2009 12:01 Aegraen wrote:On August 22 2009 11:58 keV. wrote:On August 22 2009 11:34 Husika wrote:On August 22 2009 11:29 keV. wrote: This looks tacky as shit. Couldn't they make it not look like shit.
I prefer minimalist skins, but honestly this is stupid looking. i think it looks great, and i also think doesnt matter what blizzard do you will find something wrong with it. shut up please Good post. That is a bold assumption. My opinion isn't because I genuinely find it tacky and far too colorful and WoW like. Its because: it doesn't matter what blizzard do, you will find something wrong with it. shutup please. Yes, I who frequent a STARCRAFT fansite (thats a blizzard game) am out to get blizzard with my opinions on their generally uninspired interface designs. Thanks for the contribution and your enlightened reasoning. Seems to me that any color other than gray that Blizzard uses the morons en masse scream WoW. Good lord, the castration to the color palette is laughable. The GUI in no way looks cartoonish. Actually, the pallete is irrelevant in the WoW comparison, if you have played WoW, you would notice that the achievement screen is literally an exact copy of its WoW counterpart. I don't think its unreasonable to call teal/blue and orange/gold/yellow tacky. Because it is. Unless you're a Suns fan.
SC is in outer-space and most of the colors inside of space (That is, not the blackness of space) are those colors. Super-Novas, Quasars, Stars like our Sun which make up the majority of solar bodies, nebulas, etc. are all or made up of that color palette. It is no far stretch to use them.
What would you rather have? Dark greens, Blacks, maroon, etc.?
It is not irrelevant because you compared it to the "colorful" aspects of WoW, which is about palettes. There is nothing wrong with vibrant colors especially in a space theme.
I suppose you believe the Earth is tacky and cartoonish? I'm sure you have seen pictures of the Earth from outerspace and it is made up of vibrant bright colors.
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On August 22 2009 12:14 FrozenArbiter wrote: September is part of summer sigh
I think summer officially ends on sep 22nd?
god really? thats fucked up. having it come out middle of the school year. or winter....
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On August 22 2009 12:17 Aegraen wrote:Show nested quote +On August 22 2009 12:04 keV. wrote:On August 22 2009 12:01 Aegraen wrote:On August 22 2009 11:58 keV. wrote:On August 22 2009 11:34 Husika wrote:On August 22 2009 11:29 keV. wrote: This looks tacky as shit. Couldn't they make it not look like shit.
I prefer minimalist skins, but honestly this is stupid looking. i think it looks great, and i also think doesnt matter what blizzard do you will find something wrong with it. shut up please Good post. That is a bold assumption. My opinion isn't because I genuinely find it tacky and far too colorful and WoW like. Its because: it doesn't matter what blizzard do, you will find something wrong with it. shutup please. Yes, I who frequent a STARCRAFT fansite (thats a blizzard game) am out to get blizzard with my opinions on their generally uninspired interface designs. Thanks for the contribution and your enlightened reasoning. Seems to me that any color other than gray that Blizzard uses the morons en masse scream WoW. Good lord, the castration to the color palette is laughable. The GUI in no way looks cartoonish. Actually, the pallete is irrelevant in the WoW comparison, if you have played WoW, you would notice that the achievement screen is literally an exact copy of its WoW counterpart. I don't think its unreasonable to call teal/blue and orange/gold/yellow tacky. Because it is. Unless you're a Suns fan. SC is in outer-space and most of the colors inside of space (That is, not the blackness of space) are those colors. Super-Novas, Quasars, Stars like our Sun which make up the majority of solar bodies, nebulas, etc. are all or made up of that color palette. It is no far stretch to use them. What would you rather have? Dark greens, Blacks, maroon, etc.? It is not irrelevant because you compared it to the "colorful" aspects of WoW, which is about palettes. There is nothing wrong with vibrant colors especially in a space theme. I suppose you believe the Earth is tacky and cartoonish? I'm sure you have seen pictures of the Earth from outerspace and it is made up of vibrant bright colors.
"Far too colorful and WoW like" does not mean I'm comparing it to the color aspects of WoW, hence the "and," indicating a separate idea or entity. I already explained the WoW like was brought up because of the carbon copy achievement screen.
I was hoping it would be easier on the eyes. I prefer a more monochrome pallete, IE not full of contrasting colors.
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On August 22 2009 12:14 FrozenArbiter wrote: September is part of summer sigh
I think summer officially ends on sep 22nd? My perception of seasons is pretty strange to most people.
Summer starts and ends in my mind when school ends and starts. Just something embedded into me since school. Fall begins with school and ends once first snow hits (or once it gets too damn cold). Spring starts when I can start opening my window and not freeze my ass off.
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lol I sure hope they didn't delay sc2 developing this crap.
Does anyone actually care about achievements and social networking type features? I really just want there to be a good incentivized frequent tournament system, a perfectly run hack free ladder, and a well developed matchmaking system. All the flashy colors and graphics in the world and special achievement points are pretty trivial and stupid. Maybe I'm alone here, what do you guys think?
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What is "Enoyls.slyone" on some screenshots (Profile View, Public Achievements, Avatar Rewards) ?
On the others it's only "Enoyls"...
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This looks very far along and we already know the state of replays and somewhat on observer mode. I'd say september is looking licely? And I'd like to echo Aegraen's comments, it seems like if you use any colour brighter than the emo clothes you wear its a cause for uproar. It looks great, its nice and fun looking. Its an interface not descriptive of any particular race.
Its like when people were talking about readability of units OMG I can't tell which is which, then it was OMG its too bright and too colourful, same story here. The main background view is a shot of space, what do you want the planet to be grey and the rest of space be black including stars? Come on now. Contrast has appeal and that's exactly what it has in a tasteful manner. Sorry, but I'd trust the art team whom many have taken courses on colour and design over someone who doesn't know any better.
And yes Chuiu I'm the same way, but you figure once you graduate then what do you base it on? The technical start and end of seasons at that point on.
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On August 22 2009 12:45 Nitro68 wrote: What is "Enoyls.slyone" on some screenshots (Profile View, Public Achievements, Avatar Rewards) ?
On the others it's only "Enoyls"... Not sure, but I do notice that "Enoyls" and "slyone" are mirrors of each other. How sly.
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United States7166 Posts
so are they still not planning on adding replay support for Battle.net?
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On August 22 2009 12:45 Nitro68 wrote: What is "Enoyls.slyone" on some screenshots (Profile View, Public Achievements, Avatar Rewards) ?
On the others it's only "Enoyls"... When I saw it looked like name.server. Something like Chuiu@USEast. Just a guess though. It could also be a clan.
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On August 22 2009 12:45 Nitro68 wrote: What is "Enoyls.slyone" on some screenshots (Profile View, Public Achievements, Avatar Rewards) ?
On the others it's only "Enoyls"...
Maybe Bnet account name and SC ID.
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It also seems you can't give a name to your custom game. Watch the "Join Custom Game" and Create Custom game screen.
If you create a private game, it's "invite only". And in the public games there's only one line per map/game type. I think you will clic "Dota" and "Join" and it will make you join one of the dota public game with free slots.
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It looks pretty good.
The pallete could have been a little darker but it's okay. The achievent screen bothers me, it's pretty useless and reminds me of wow.
Oh well, can't wait for it to come out.
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Afaik the replays online thing will come at a later date and at the very least not with launch. As far as game names I don't know I'd be shocked if that was actually how it worked. It makes sense if its a blizz map or something but if its a custom map I don't know maybe its to make it clearer instead of "3v3 BGH FREE BEER AND BOOBS!"
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On August 22 2009 12:56 Alizee- wrote: This looks very far along and we already know the state of replays and somewhat on observer mode. I'd say september is looking licely? And I'd like to echo Aegraen's comments, it seems like if you use any colour brighter than the emo clothes you wear its a cause for uproar. It looks great, its nice and fun looking. Its an interface not descriptive of any particular race.
Its like when people were talking about readability of units OMG I can't tell which is which, then it was OMG its too bright and too colourful, same story here. The main background view is a shot of space, what do you want the planet to be grey and the rest of space be black including stars? Come on now. Contrast has appeal and that's exactly what it has in a tasteful manner. Sorry, but I'd trust the art team whom many have taken courses on colour and design over someone who doesn't know any better.
And yes Chuiu I'm the same way, but you figure once you graduate then what do you base it on? The technical start and end of seasons at that point on.
I didn't catch the battlenet 2.0 panel. Unless someone specifically said "We are very far along" these screen shots are a horrible indicator. An experienced blizzard Dev would be able to whip up this interface in less than a days work, even with functional buttons. That doesn't mean they are far along at all. There is a good chance the chat and the features visible here are faked.
The interface (GUI) is probably about 10% of battlenet 2.0 and the other 90% is how the user features actually network with each other.
People aren't entitled to an opinion about what is annoying for them because they haven't taken classes in color and design? What a retarded thing to say, considering any two art teachers could be complete polar opposites in their style and preferences in design.
Taste is subjective. I personally feel that Blue and Orange together is never tasteful.
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pretty cool
not sure i like having icons in place of race selection
and ya its prob a mockup in some ways (ie the conversations and numbers), but prob how a lot of this will look like
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