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Blizzard announces HoTS Feature List - Page 16

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kabar
Profile Joined November 2010
United States616 Posts
May 07 2012 17:05 GMT
#301
my faith in blizzard has been slightly restored.
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
May 07 2012 17:05 GMT
#302
Nice! I will wait until they are actually on my computer and working before I give too much praise, but here is my list of what I like most!

1) Multiplayer replay! Great! Finally I can not only watch my 1on1 matches and think about what to do better, I can also watch my team games with my team mates and discuss what to do better! Not to mention that I can watch 1on1 together with other people and discuss stuff!
2) Global. Will be fun to play with some old BW friends (you still there lemonwalrus? :D ) and have a try at KR to see just exactly how much lower I wil get ranked.
3) Clan support. While not sure exactly what that includes, I hope there will be some fun stuff I can do with my IRL sc2 friends.
4) Unranked laddering. Not sure if this will cure my ladder fear or not. Very interesting to see how this will work out. Does the games still affect my MMR btw? And if not, and I start off-racing, does that mean that I will get beaten to pieces until my off-race is to the level of my main race MMR?
5) Resume from replays. I dont play tourneys myself, and teh few times games are dropped in big tourneys I watch, it hasn't bothered me that much tbh. A bit embarrassing maybe, but not really so bothering for me.
6) Multi language support. Meh.
Roggay
Profile Joined April 2010
Switzerland6320 Posts
May 07 2012 17:05 GMT
#303
Good stuff!!!
I might actually play more seriously again if they implement all this stuff. Well, i will play HoTS anyway, but I might play more with the unranked matchmaking and clan support.
InoyouS2
Profile Joined December 2011
1005 Posts
May 07 2012 17:05 GMT
#304
All the ideas are superb, and exactly what people have been asking for for ages.

Great job.
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TwilightRain
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany351 Posts
May 07 2012 17:06 GMT
#305
Great stuff, but I feel bad for all the players who had to wastea ton of money on all the accounts on different servers.
GizmoPT
Profile Joined May 2010
Portugal3040 Posts
May 07 2012 17:06 GMT
#306
finally sc2 will be released!
Snipers Promod & Micro Arena Creator in SC2 Arcade - Portuguese Community Admin for SC2, HotS and Overwatch - Ex-Portugal SC2 Team Manager, Ex- Copenhagen Wolves and Grow uP Gaming Manager in SC2. Just Playing games now!
stickyhands
Profile Joined May 2011
187 Posts
May 07 2012 17:06 GMT
#307
MA NIGGA WAAAATTTTT

IM SO PUMPED,
THIS
IS
AMAZING
| (• ◡•)|╯ ╰(❍ᴥ❍ʋ)
Noobity
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States871 Posts
May 07 2012 17:07 GMT
#308
Ah well, I'll have an extra 2 WoL smurfs I guess

This is great, very excited. My only hope now is that we get HotS before xmas.
My name is Mike, and statistically, yours is not.
Resistentialism
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada688 Posts
May 07 2012 17:07 GMT
#309
So 3 options and 2 problems for unranked play:

1 Will you be able change your MMR with unranked games? - and be able to tank your MMR on purpose without changing your ranking?.

2 MMR doesn't change for unranked? can you buy a second account and smurf unranked games?

3 Maybe you'll have an unranked MMR and a ranked MMR that are both tracked but completely seperate.
MagmaPunch
Profile Joined November 2011
Bulgaria536 Posts
May 07 2012 17:08 GMT
#310
Wow, this is sick ! : )) Thank you Blizzard, you are the best !!! : )))
Aut viam inveniam, aut faciam.
nkr
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Sweden5451 Posts
May 07 2012 17:08 GMT
#311
On May 08 2012 02:07 Resistentialism wrote:
So 3 options and 2 problems for unranked play:

1 Will you be able change your MMR with unranked games? - and be able to tank your MMR on purpose without changing your ranking?.

2 MMR doesn't change for unranked? can you buy a second account and smurf unranked games?

3 Maybe you'll have an unranked MMR and a ranked MMR that are both tracked but completely seperate.


1. No

2. Yes

3. No
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shostakovich
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Brazil1429 Posts
May 07 2012 17:08 GMT
#312
Better late than never. Good job, Blizzard. But still, I think on the price for the expansion... Doesn't feel good.
soon.Cloak
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States983 Posts
May 07 2012 17:08 GMT
#313
Sounds like everyone is happy, some are just annoyed it wasn't in WoL
Whatever, I'll take what I can get...well done blizzard, well done...
your passionate requests for

:D
ethil
Profile Joined December 2010
Italy58 Posts
May 07 2012 17:09 GMT
#314
GG Blizzard
with `global play`, are they gonna give everyone an account on every server region, practically?
~Every man dies, not every man really lives.~
Belha
Profile Joined December 2010
Italy2850 Posts
May 07 2012 17:10 GMT
#315
It took long time. But i'm so happy for these news. Props to Blizz to improving what they did wrong.

Chicken gank op
InoyouS2
Profile Joined December 2011
1005 Posts
May 07 2012 17:10 GMT
#316
On May 08 2012 02:07 Resistentialism wrote:
So 3 options and 2 problems for unranked play:

1 Will you be able change your MMR with unranked games? - and be able to tank your MMR on purpose without changing your ranking?.

2 MMR doesn't change for unranked? can you buy a second account and smurf unranked games?

3 Maybe you'll have an unranked MMR and a ranked MMR that are both tracked but completely seperate.


Obviously there will have to be some way to track MMR for unranked, but I expect it to be hidden from the player, so that if they lose they don't drop leagues or anything.

Hopefully it just encourages people to play macro-games, and not like ladder cheese matches :/.
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Dagobert
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Netherlands1858 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-07 17:10:45
May 07 2012 17:10 GMT
#317
Now I know why Blizzard shipped WoL without all these features. Of course.
Resistentialism
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada688 Posts
May 07 2012 17:10 GMT
#318
On May 08 2012 02:08 nkr wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 08 2012 02:07 Resistentialism wrote:
So 3 options and 2 problems for unranked play:

1 Will you be able change your MMR with unranked games? - and be able to tank your MMR on purpose without changing your ranking?.

2 MMR doesn't change for unranked? can you buy a second account and smurf unranked games?

3 Maybe you'll have an unranked MMR and a ranked MMR that are both tracked but completely seperate.


1. No

2. Yes

3. No


If that's true then unranked games are quickly going to be a place where it's all masters players shitting on the casual players coming in with their ladder anxiety. Once the word gets out, it will be abandoned, too. Doesn't seem like a good solution.
KristofferAG
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Norway25712 Posts
May 07 2012 17:11 GMT
#319
I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with the clan system. Kinda sucks knowing that I've wasted money on an NA account when it'll be void at release of HoTS, except for a smurf. But with an unranked league I don't even need a smurf.
@KristofferAG | http://vestkyststoy.bandcamp.com | last.fm/user/KristofferAG
nkr
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Sweden5451 Posts
May 07 2012 17:13 GMT
#320
On May 08 2012 02:10 Resistentialism wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 08 2012 02:08 nkr wrote:
On May 08 2012 02:07 Resistentialism wrote:
So 3 options and 2 problems for unranked play:

1 Will you be able change your MMR with unranked games? - and be able to tank your MMR on purpose without changing your ranking?.

2 MMR doesn't change for unranked? can you buy a second account and smurf unranked games?

3 Maybe you'll have an unranked MMR and a ranked MMR that are both tracked but completely seperate.


1. No

2. Yes

3. No


If that's true then unranked games are quickly going to be a place where it's all masters players shitting on the casual players coming in with their ladder anxiety. Once the word gets out, it will be abandoned, too. Doesn't seem like a good solution.


Why would a masters player buy a new account to play unranked matches vs bronze people? That's the same as joining a custom game right now, except you dont need to buy a whole new game for it.
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