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docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
April 23 2012 01:39 GMT
#81
You did a good job, and maybe in the future people will find more of a need for a darker game, but as of now, other than aesthetics, its pretty difficult to really know what happens in a battle with all the TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DAMAGE, going on already .
User was warned for too many mimes.
MoonfireSpam
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom1153 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-23 02:30:51
April 23 2012 02:17 GMT
#82
In the grimdark future there is only brown.

Good for people that hate colours i guess. The sharpness is actually nice. The desaturation is not, as someone posted, real life is actually really colourful.
lindn
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden833 Posts
April 23 2012 02:24 GMT
#83
On April 23 2012 09:50 windsupernova wrote:
Yeah just what gaming needs more brown fake grimdark games

The effect doesn't even make it brown nor fake, it sharpens it up and desaturates it very slightly and on the more extreme settings darkens things a bit. There's no brown added, just less vibrancy in the colours. the colours are still the same. Please at least take a look at the pictures before judging
Rainier206
Profile Joined September 2011
United States59 Posts
April 23 2012 02:44 GMT
#84
Don't like it for SC2 but I love it for D3

will be using it
FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9859 Posts
April 23 2012 02:56 GMT
#85
Makes the game feel more manly to me, but like others have said, more difficult to see things that are happening.
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GinDo
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
3327 Posts
April 23 2012 03:04 GMT
#86
On April 22 2012 13:55 fearus wrote:
I just play with sunglasses on

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I used to do it for lolz. But it actually helps alot. When its late I always play with shades on.
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AdelSC123
Profile Joined March 2010
France362 Posts
April 23 2012 03:47 GMT
#87
as time goes by, it looks more and more like games are made for skill-less emos...wonder why i still play mega man in 2012...
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
April 23 2012 03:58 GMT
#88
On April 23 2012 11:56 FiWiFaKi wrote:
Makes the game feel more manly to me, but like others have said, more difficult to see things that are happening.

Increase ingame brightness with this mod installed?
DoubleReed
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States4130 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-23 14:19:24
April 23 2012 12:50 GMT
#89
On April 23 2012 11:24 lindn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 23 2012 09:50 windsupernova wrote:
Yeah just what gaming needs more brown fake grimdark games

The effect doesn't even make it brown nor fake, it sharpens it up and desaturates it very slightly and on the more extreme settings darkens things a bit. There's no brown added, just less vibrancy in the colours. the colours are still the same. Please at least take a look at the pictures before judging


Color desaturation essentially mutes colors into brownish shades. Look at the grassland picture. The grass clearly becomes more brownish. The last picture in the series is basically just different shades of dirt.
Garmer
Profile Joined October 2010
1286 Posts
April 23 2012 13:10 GMT
#90
i think lesser with sharp on is the best for SC2
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-23 14:22:41
April 23 2012 14:21 GMT
#91
On April 23 2012 22:10 Garmer wrote:
i think lesser with sharp on is the best for SC2

With sharpeness turned ON half of ingame text becomes unreadable

it sharpens it up and desaturates it very slightly and on the more extreme settings darkens things a bit

As I said about sharpeness above, it's not that good for SC2. Here we are talking about color desaturation
speknek
Profile Joined February 2012
758 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-30 10:25:19
April 30 2012 10:11 GMT
#92
I installed it and it worked fine, but when I tried starting sc2 the next day, it crashed on startup and did that error reporting thing. Any suggestions?

edit:
Okay, more info: I ran the repair.exe, it said everything's fine. Then I rebooted and started SC2 before anything else, and it worked. I tested it a couple of times now, if I reboot and start SC2 before anything else, it works, but if I open some progs and stuff first, then SC2 can't run anymore. I guess this is kinda vague, but do you know what's up, by any chance?

edit2: Never mind, I found the problem, it crashes when xfire is running. This didn't happen before so kinda strange, but whatever I'll just play sc2 without it on.
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
April 30 2012 10:34 GMT
#93
It uses modified Direct-X options. Any program, that can use Direct-X, can cause crash in sc2, maybe. It's only my ideas about why here can be crash.

Also don't forget to copy d3.dll file to latest patch builds.
SEA KarMa
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia452 Posts
April 30 2012 10:45 GMT
#94
looks good
"terrible, terrible damage". terrible, terrible design.
speknek
Profile Joined February 2012
758 Posts
April 30 2012 15:12 GMT
#95
Hey, 1 more thing I just noticed. After pausing and unpausing the game, the dark filter just went off, lol.
Altercate
Profile Joined December 2011
Sweden75 Posts
April 30 2012 20:37 GMT
#96
On April 23 2012 11:17 MoonfireSpam wrote:
In the grimdark future there is only brown.


Just gotta say this made me laugh my ass off!
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GameR[GG]
Profile Joined April 2012
United States10 Posts
April 30 2012 23:35 GMT
#97
I think SC2 is dark enough as it is, but that's just my opinion. Nice mod though; I'm sure some people will enjoy it.
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-30 23:37:26
April 30 2012 23:36 GMT
#98
On May 01 2012 08:35 GameR[GG] wrote:
I think SC2 is dark enough as it is, but that's just my opinion. Nice mod though; I'm sure some people will enjoy it.

There are not only darker, but also desaturation. You can revert brightness by changing it ingame options

Hey, 1 more thing I just noticed. After pausing and unpausing the game, the dark filter just went off, lol.

Had same issue too. You can rebind ingame pause to other hotkey
speknek
Profile Joined February 2012
758 Posts
April 30 2012 23:39 GMT
#99
On May 01 2012 08:36 Existor wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2012 08:35 GameR[GG] wrote:
I think SC2 is dark enough as it is, but that's just my opinion. Nice mod though; I'm sure some people will enjoy it.

There are not only darker, but also desaturation. You can revert brightness by changing it ingame options

Show nested quote +
Hey, 1 more thing I just noticed. After pausing and unpausing the game, the dark filter just went off, lol.

Had same issue too. You can rebind ingame pause to other hotkey

Ahhh never mind, that was just retarded by me. Totally forgot the Pause button toggles the filter.
Pantythief
Profile Joined February 2012
Denmark657 Posts
May 11 2012 20:14 GMT
#100
I'm getting an error. Apparently, if I put the .dll into the patch folder, StarCraft tells me that it has encountered an error and won't start.

watdo?
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