this is a start but blizzar must add:
clan support
remove bnet 0.2 ghost town feeling
SHARED REPLAY WATCHING
online tournaments

so blizz, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get your heads out of your asses and make sc2 the best game evuh? kthxbye

Rannasha

Netherlands2398 Posts

March 14 2012 16:04 GMT

#682

On March 15 2012 00:57 Karawasa wrote:

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Really? That would regain a lot of the respect I lost for Blizzard because of SC2.

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If that's true, I concur.

If you look at the Jobs page on the Blizzard website you'll see a ton of openings in the Battle.net team, a lot being urgent. I guess that a large part of this will concern D3 and its integration with Battle.net, but I can imagine that Blizzard in general was not happy with how Battle.net was doing in general.

Conquest101

United States1395 Posts

March 14 2012 16:12 GMT

#683

Where are people getting this LAN stuff from? I've read the OP 10 effing times and see absolutely zilch about LAN. All I see them talking about is a kind of localized custom game search that would let you find people around you easier. Great and all, but it's not LAN.

Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE LAN support, but I'm not seeing it here.

bouhko

193 Posts

March 14 2012 19:02 GMT

#684

On March 14 2012 23:53 -Archangel- wrote:

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On March 14 2012 21:23 bouhko wrote:

On March 14 2012 21:16 -Archangel- wrote:

On March 14 2012 19:44 Grovbolle wrote:

On March 14 2012 19:39 -Archangel- wrote:

On March 14 2012 18:47 figq wrote:
Apparently some people misinterpreted this part as indication for LAN-like support:

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.

But it only means that you would be able to find players that are physically close to your location, and make customs with them - however, the connection would still be through battle.net, not through direct peer-to-peer, so it really has nothing in common with LAN. The latency will be the same as always, and multiplayer won't work if battle.net is down or if there's no Internet.

While it will not be LAN in a classical sense I think it will in all important matters function like that. It will probably only use Bnet to find games and for authorisation but will probably use local connection to exchange data needed for the match to play out. It will for sure reduce lag and increase stability. Only total internet loss might now create problems for tournaments

A big assumption you make

The only logical one. What do you think this feature will be used for that current battlenet does not already provide?

Well, considering Blizzard's post is talking about social & communication, this will be used just for that : Play with people near you. So if you're playing on your university campus, you will be able to play against other students, which is nice for the social part of the game ("hey, I played against him last night, blabla").

Let me quote Blizzard's post :

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

Really, I see 0 clue that they will change anything to their network code with this. I really want LAN support, but I'd be VERY surprised if this was coming with this change.

You can already play against people from your office/dorm/whatever through custom games. And if you think they will change ladder so you can play only against "local" people or even with greater chance to play against local people you are smoking something strong.

No, this feature can only grant improved networking protocols for local people to provide something new.

You're going to be really disappointed when the patch come out. There is no LAN in this whole announcement.

The only thing the announcement says is that "ip proximity" will be a new (optional) metric for matching people. Custom games let you play with people you know, "geographically close game" let you play with people you don't know but who are in the same area as you (and therefore you might get to know them, that's the whole point).

Trackmania (a car racing game) had something similar. They had a tree of "rooms" to find games. The room were subdivided by continent/country/county/city, so you could choose to play with people from your city/region.

Jedclark

United Kingdom903 Posts

March 14 2012 19:21 GMT

#685

Is that... kind of a LAN system they're adding?

Wonder if it will come with any balance changes. Can't wait for the full patch notes now.

Mrvoodoochild1

United States1439 Posts

March 14 2012 19:27 GMT

#686

On March 15 2012 01:01 HyunA wrote:
this is a start but blizzar must add:
clan support
remove bnet 0.2 ghost town feeling
SHARED REPLAY WATCHING
online tournaments

so blizz, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get your heads out of your asses and make sc2 the best game evuh? kthxbye

Are you a 13 year old school girl?

The_Templar

your Country52797 Posts

March 14 2012 22:36 GMT

#687

On March 15 2012 04:27 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:

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Are you a 13 year old school girl?

I take offense to that!

OT: Blizzard is either demonstrating the amount of improvement they have made or are overextending themselves, especially if they will attempt to walk the walk.

MaV_gGSC

Canada1345 Posts

March 14 2012 22:41 GMT

#688

I AGREE with clan support. It will lesson all the rage about name changes

RezChi

Canada2368 Posts

March 14 2012 22:51 GMT

#689

wait wait wait wait, LAN!?!?!?!

zhurai

United States5660 Posts

March 15 2012 01:53 GMT

#690

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.

A step in the right direction but there's more needed

- the 3 message limit is really really really really really really really really annoying
- better clan support
- clan channels so clan leaders can actually moderate the chat instead of have idiots log in and troll, and then have no way to deal with them.

oZe

Sweden492 Posts

March 15 2012 03:42 GMT

#691

It's kinda funny that a game released in 2011. Is lacking features that were taken for granted. On free internet chess server in the 90's. Like why can't you make a tournament? Why can't you search for a game? Meaning I want to play this custom map or 1v1 or 3v3. Whichever gets me a game the fastest. Global ratings? Instead of these who has played the most games of a random 100 people. How about atleast being able to see your own losses without having to hit master league. Why can't you have a short message in your profile like a .sig? Also ppl who have you blocked can still slander away at you. Sometimes I get pretty annoyed at these fukin cowards.

Wish they would bring battlenet into the 90's atleast, with their resources they could easily afford to make it a post y2k experience ^^ Maybe they just want me to ponder how something that was free in the early 1990's clearly outclasses something you pay for in 2011.

SirRobin

United States269 Posts

March 16 2012 00:10 GMT

#692

wow this looks awesome. Gogo Blizzard. We need this!

archonOOid

1983 Posts

March 16 2012 00:21 GMT

#693

i wish you could play against a ai (bot) and determine the apm of the ai. so if i'm a platinum player i can set the apm of the bot to an average of 50 and for a 10s period to 150 apm. that could be interesting and helpful.

Highways

Australia6105 Posts

March 17 2012 00:59 GMT

#694

Any idea when this is coming out?

NPF

Canada1635 Posts

March 17 2012 01:06 GMT

#695

On March 15 2012 04:21 Jedclark wrote:
Is that... kind of a LAN system they're adding?

Wonder if it will come with any balance changes. Can't wait for the full patch notes now.

From what I understand it's basically, play vs people in your area. It isn't lan, but with it you'll have more chance to play someone in the same town/campus as you as to say, me in east Canada playing against people in California.

UniQ.eu

Sweden82 Posts

March 17 2012 10:47 GMT

#696

No matter how much people claim that these changes are not what the game needs, they are still a step in the right direction! They are obviously not making the game better, but we should still keep pressuring Blizzard to make the game even better! For those of you who haven't already read it, there is an amazing thread about Breadth of Gameplay which is also worth reading, and possibly trying out!

Perseverance

Japan2800 Posts

March 17 2012 10:55 GMT

#697

This seems like a great change. Now just give ultras +3 dmg ^^

Perseverance

Japan2800 Posts

March 17 2012 10:56 GMT

#698

On March 17 2012 19:47 UniQ.eu wrote:
No matter how much people claim that these changes are not what the game needs, they are still a step in the right direction! They are obviously not making the game better, but we should still keep pressuring Blizzard to make the game even better! For those of you who haven't already read it, there is an amazing thread about Breadth of Gameplay which is also worth reading, and possibly trying out!

I agree with the sentiment here, SC2 is no where near finished in terms of how good it could potentially be. I'm really looking forward to what we will see 2-3 years from now.