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Blizzard announces HoTS Feature List - Page 17

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Bijan
Profile Joined October 2010
United States286 Posts
May 07 2012 17:13 GMT
#321
On May 08 2012 01:23 StrafeJD wrote:
Where is LAN???


Never coming, blame KeSPA. Stop whining, we don't need it anymore.
Resistentialism
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada688 Posts
May 07 2012 17:14 GMT
#322
Because people have loved to smurf RTS games for 15 years. I don't see why they should stop now.
gulshngill
Profile Joined December 2010
Malaysia140 Posts
May 07 2012 17:15 GMT
#323
This makes me 100x more pumped for HoTS. The only this that I'm afraid of is if most or some of the features won't be available after release.

Global play is nice and all but im a little sad since i bought extra copies for different regions
MysteryTerran
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States178 Posts
May 07 2012 17:15 GMT
#324
I wonder if Blizzard contacted the guy who created the hack for resuming games from a replay.. Seems like he should be getting some credit for that imo
Playing Protoss is like playing Guitar Hero on Very Easy
tsuxiit
Profile Joined July 2010
1305 Posts
May 07 2012 17:15 GMT
#325
Oh sweet! All the features that should have been in the game for 2 years! I'm so excited to finally be getting a complete product!
ThePowerHour
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States834 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-07 17:17:01
May 07 2012 17:15 GMT
#326
OH, I just remembered a feature that's not in there - case sensitive password detection. Did you know you can still enter your Bnet password in all lowercase in the game client and it works? Completely ridiculous.
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
May 07 2012 17:15 GMT
#327
Hell, it's about time.
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
Veldril
Profile Joined August 2010
Thailand1817 Posts
May 07 2012 17:15 GMT
#328
On May 08 2012 02:13 Bijan wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 08 2012 01:23 StrafeJD wrote:
Where is LAN???


Never coming, blame KeSPA. Stop whining, we don't need it anymore.


I would say blame piracy in SE Asia countries and China
Without love, we can't see anything. Without love, the truth can't be seen. - Umineko no Naku Koro Ni
Snoodles
Profile Joined March 2012
401 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-07 17:16:28
May 07 2012 17:16 GMT
#329
Blizzard isn't responding to the community itself, but to the monetary pressure. I imagine lots of high-ups have gotten chewed out for SC2s lackluster performance. Blizzard was relying on its former glory in order to cut corners. Because of BW, diablo, and WoW SC2 could do no wrong, or so they thought. Instead, it lags behind Dota and LoL and the number of players has dwindled enormously. This is basically blizzard's all-in final push to get its players back, which is great. The free market wins again.
Integra
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Sweden5626 Posts
May 07 2012 17:16 GMT
#330
On May 08 2012 02:15 ThePowerHour wrote:
OH, I just remembered a feature that's not in there - case sensitive password detection. Did you know you can still enter your Bnet password in all lowercase in the game client and it works?

They will fix that as well.... in a year or two.
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n.DieJokes
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States3443 Posts
May 07 2012 17:17 GMT
#331
yay things we had in bw! Oh well, better late than never (and the resuming replays thing will be cool)
MyLove + Your Love= Supa Love
ImGonnaRideYou
Profile Joined July 2010
53 Posts
May 07 2012 17:18 GMT
#332
Unranked matchmaking will split the community into two factions. On the unranked matchmaking, pseudo rules of how to play (ie. no rush, no "cheese", etc.) will develop and we will reach a point where ladder players will completely avoid unranked because he/she can crush the average unranked player and the unranked players will completely avoid ranked ladder because he/she simply cannot keep up with the ranked style of play.

Might as well include matchmaking for fastest, monobattles, and desert strike.
Josh_rakoons
Profile Joined December 2011
United Kingdom1158 Posts
May 07 2012 17:19 GMT
#333
On May 08 2012 02:18 ImGonnaRideYou wrote:
Unranked matchmaking will split the community into two factions. On the unranked matchmaking, pseudo rules of how to play (ie. no rush, no "cheese", etc.) will develop and we will reach a point where ladder players will completely avoid unranked because he/she can crush the average unranked player and the unranked players will completely avoid ranked ladder because he/she simply cannot keep up with the ranked style of play.

Might as well include matchmaking for fastest, monobattles, and desert strike.

Nope, completely wrong. Literally everything you said was wrong.
Cenja
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden498 Posts
May 07 2012 17:19 GMT
#334
Blizzard has cut features before, so we shouldn't get our hopes up.
If we get all this and it's done right however is obviously great.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
JiYan
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3668 Posts
May 07 2012 17:19 GMT
#335
hope they actually deliver this time on what they say theyre going to do. Theyve been working on clan support for like 2 years now.
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
May 07 2012 17:20 GMT
#336
On May 08 2012 02:15 ThePowerHour wrote:
OH, I just remembered a feature that's not in there - case sensitive password detection. Did you know you can still enter your Bnet password in all lowercase in the game client and it works? Completely ridiculous.

When this is your main issue with sc2, then the game is damn polished.
+ Show Spoiler +
even though I agree that from a security/programming point of view it is seems crazy sloppy. But tbh, does anyone crack passwords through brute force guessing these days?
Nuclease
Profile Joined August 2011
United States1049 Posts
May 07 2012 17:20 GMT
#337
Oh my God. This is so epic.

I cannot believe that they are finally giving us all of these things. They are really stepping forward for esports initiative. Blizzard has really fixed things in a way that is good for their visions of the game and for the player. That is what they always say they want to do, and I've had my doubts, but they always follow through.

Really excited for unranked matchmaking.

LOVE IT!!! <3 Blizz.
Zealots, not zee-lots. | Never forget, KTViolet, Go)Space. | You will never be as good as By.Flash, and your drops will never be as sick as MMA.
EneMecH
Profile Joined March 2012
United Kingdom218 Posts
May 07 2012 17:20 GMT
#338
Multiplayer resume from replay - Okay. Doesn't really affect general play at all.
Global Play - This is actually pretty cool.
Multilanguage support - Doesn't affect gaemplay
Clan/group system - Okay
Unranked matchmaking - Longer waiting times? Why would anyone want this. We already have melees hosted on join game. This will be the same as "ranked" matchmaking, except you'll either only get pushover games or always get crushed. So pointless. Original ladder is for improvement anyway.
Multiplayer replay viewing - People just watch together on skype anyway, this isn't a big deal either.


Very unexcited. Overall, feeling negative about HoTS because there will be unranked matchmaking on top of having community split with WoL.
Tears soaks each hand the dealer's dealt. But time taught me how to see every second as heaven even when they're perfectly disguised as hell.
Serek
Profile Joined May 2011
United Kingdom459 Posts
May 07 2012 17:21 GMT
#339
On May 08 2012 01:58 Sufinsil wrote:
Seems a lot of people missed "Here's a list of some of the features we are planning to release at or around the launch of Heart of the Swarm:".

You will not need HotS to access the features. HotS will be for the new campaign, new multiplayer units, HotS ladder.

Now if they forced people to buy HotS for these B.Net 2.5 features...Does around mean after HotS? Good questions to ask Blizzard...off to the forums!


Yeah, this will probably be like they do for the expansions for WoW, where many features get released for everyone and things like level cap and such are only for the people with the expansion.

Judging for the list of features it seems that most of this stuff can/should be implemented for everyone.
mikejer
Profile Joined April 2010
United States34 Posts
May 07 2012 17:21 GMT
#340
This is pretty much a dream list of items. I couldn't be any more thrilled. Thank you, Blizzard! It's taken awhile, but knowing these features will be coming, likely this year, is of much excitement to me.

Now, to all you people saying that your multiple Wings of Liberty accounts will become obsolete after global play comes out... think about it: If it comes out with HotS, then it's irrelevant anyway as you would have had to buy multiple copies of HotS if it wasn't the case. If it comes out in WoL around the same time as HotS, then you'll likely be playing HotS anyway so it won't matter either. Point being: you're still getting value out of having multiple WoL accounts for the time being.

To summaize: YAY!
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