Preview of patch 1.5 - Page 10

On March 13 2012 04:14 MajorityofOne wrote:


Don't pretend like you wouldn't join that game

On March 13 2012 04:01 FuzzyJAM wrote:
I don't get the big deal with this update at all.

Nothing I'm interested in, to be honest.

On March 13 2012 04:13 Avril_Lavigne wrote:


what about "4v4 BGH XpertZ n0 n0obZ"

On March 13 2012 04:14 Na_Dann_Ma_GoGo wrote:


Yeah guess my life sucks then. Thanks stranger from the internet.
The patch is gonna change much and if you missed it, it's all mentioned in the first post.

Also I'd appreciate it if you'd put some slight effort into your post. "Cos" it makes for a better reading experience and "English isn't my first language" shouldn't be a valid excuse for you, unless your just on vacation or something.

Just to clarify, the streaming support refers to the technology of having the client already usable before all of the content of the game is downloaded. Basically you download core content and are ready to play while the rest of the content is being downloaded in the background. This is mainly interesting for players that use the Starter Edition to test the game. They won't have to wait for a long time before diving in.

On March 13 2012 04:15 Roxor9999 wrote:

It will not be 60 bucks, that's just so retailers can lower the price later. Since this is the absolute maximum they can ask for.

On March 13 2012 04:15 thesideshow wrote:
streaming support! awesome!

"Just to clarify, the streaming support refers to the technology of having the client already usable before all of the content of the game is downloaded. Basically you download core content and are ready to play while the rest of the content is being downloaded in the background. This is mainly interesting for players that use the Starter Edition to test the game. They won't have to wait for a long time before diving in."

We often use special press events to pass along information about what we’re working on and what’s coming in future patches and products. These announcements are useful to the community and us alike because they allow us to reach a very wide audience. In many cases however, the message is not as deep or as detailed as we’d like, so we thought we would try some developer updates (like this one) to see if we can do a better job of communicating our intent for the various features we are working on. We have a number of updates and changes coming SoonTM to StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty and we wanted to share some of them with you.

Patch 1.5 Is Coming

The upcoming 1.5 patch will be our most feature-laden patch to date. This patch represents the first steps towards the release of our first expansion for StarCraft II, Heart of the Swarm, and will include numerous upgrades and fixes throughout the game. One of the most significant additions will be the all new Arcade feature which includes improved custom game visibility, ratings, reviews, game instructions, screenshot support, and more. Patch 1.5 will also include significant improvements throughout the overall user interface, streaming support, antialiasing, editor and modding upgrades, new art tools, and more. We’ll go into further details about these features in future developer updates. In this update, I would like to provide some insight into the thinking and motivation behind a few of the upcoming changes.

Arcade & Custom Game Selection

We discussed the new Arcade and Custom Game creation tools that would be available at BlizzCon 2011 and while things have changed since then, we are looking forward to getting it out to players for testing. Overall, the biggest complaint we’ve heard is about the popularity system and how games are listed. The challenge we face with the interface is how much to orient the space towards the player, versus how much we focus the interface on the needs of the mod maker. Mod makers want a very egalitarian society where no single map has any type of “advantage” in the interface. On the other hand, most players just want to see the best maps and they don’t want to have to sort through hundreds of maps to find the ones that are good. We think what we have now doesn’t do enough to surface new maps that are good. While we tried to make things better with “Fun or Not,” the system alone isn’t doing enough for many of our mod developers so we wanted to try something different.

To help players find games more easily in patch 1.5, we intend to include an “open games list.” To be clear, this will not be every open game that is on the service. Instead, the open games list will deliver to you a selection of games from the many hundreds or thousands that are currently open. We are currently working on different ways to determine how the list you’ll see is generated.

First, we’ll allow players to resize their chat windows to fill a larger portion of the screen. We’ll also remember the chat channel you were in as well as the position of that chat channel on your screen for when you next return to the game. This will allow players who want to recreate something that feels a lot more like Warcraft III or the original StarCraft to build their own interface that looks a lot like those older games.

We’re also working on a feature that will help players connect with other players and games that are near their location (connecting through the same IP). We believe this will primarily be used by people in internet gaming rooms, offices, dorm rooms, and local tournaments where you just want to find the guy sitting in the desk next to you. Although this may not be ready in time for the release of patch 1.5, we do intend to have this available by the time Heart of the Swarm ships.

On March 13 2012 04:17 JackDT wrote:
Don't get too excited about the 'streaming' feature:



http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/3846689/

On March 13 2012 04:16 DwmC_Foefen wrote:



Don't you guys miss that?

On March 13 2012 04:15 battyone wrote:


Those were great to troll, some people took BGH/Fastest way too seriously. (Hell they kinda do to this day)