EPTThe pseudo-LAN is not what we all want, but I think it's a step in the right direction.
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FrostFire626
United States79 Posts
The pseudo-LAN is not what we all want, but I think it's a step in the right direction. | ||
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bonifaceviii
Canada2890 Posts
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. I don't understand. Is this LAN or is it not? | ||
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windzor
Denmark1013 Posts
Not LAN. LAN is that a computer locally on the network can acts as a server so wirelength will be as small as possible and no internet is required. This just means you can search for other people with SC2 installed on your lan, but you will still be playing on bnet.. Hence it is easier to set up the game. It could also be semi-LAN where bnet is used to setup the game. But after the game is started everything is transfered via LAN. But that's looking on a real positive side of thing. And I think if this was the case, Blizzard would put a lot more effort into saying they fixed the lag/internet problems which happens in every lan tournament, giving them bad PR. | ||
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ceaRshaf
Romania4926 Posts
But they disable the comments of the blog entry lol. | ||
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m3rciless
United States1476 Posts
Good time to be a starcraft fan. ALTHOUGH WHEN IS IT NOT? | ||
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zezamer
Finland5701 Posts
On March 13 2012 03:48 robih wrote: i dont see anything to great about this?? except you can resize chatwindows to make it look like old wc3 chat It's great that they are adding things that players would like. I don't really care about chat etc | ||
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
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XiGua
Sweden3085 Posts
YES YES YES. Blizzard listened to some of us! :D | ||
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Zyte
Netherlands564 Posts
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Childplay
Canada263 Posts
no bliz dota though =/ | ||
Jibba
United States22883 Posts
On March 13 2012 03:40 InFaMOUs331 wrote: Wait so they are adding in a ''form'' of LAN? I don't get it, and it seems we won't get this feature til another good number of years (hots launch). I don't think it's a LAN replacement feature. It sounds like it's just another Find Game interface that does it locally. You'll still probably have to play on Blizzard's servers. The rest of this is just hilarious. I hope the balance notes at least have something substantial. 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. | ||
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papaz
Sweden4149 Posts
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Mrvoodoochild1
United States1439 Posts
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Paperplane
Netherlands1823 Posts
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LovE-
United States1963 Posts
On March 13 2012 03:49 Diamond wrote: What is with Blizz in the past couple months, their SC2 decisions have made sense. Very odd. Like it though. Right? Something fishy must be going on... Hmm... | ||
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sperY
Serbia444 Posts
On March 13 2012 03:48 Weson wrote: "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)" What can this possibly mean? I think it will be just a simple recommended friends addon. It will find people who are located near you. Dont think it will be the solution for "lan" problem. | ||
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LaxCraft
United States11 Posts
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battyone
United States180 Posts
On March 13 2012 03:50 Jibba wrote: I don't think it's a LAN replacement feature. It sounds like it's just another Find Game interface that does it locally. You'll still probably have to play on Blizzard's servers. I'm thinking it comes down to what they mean by connect. It can be taken as a matchmaking (connecting the players) or the game itself (connecting the clients to play with each other.) :/ I guess time will tell but I read it as a sorta b.net sees you're from the same ip and allows traffic to route between the two machines, with only results being sent back to b.net. Dare to dream anyway. It's not like it's hard to get a game with someone you know either way. | ||
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-JoKeR-
Canada387 Posts
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Kira__
Sweden2672 Posts
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