EPTUI Changes in Alpha of Patch 1.5 - Page 4
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Lyter
United Kingdom2145 Posts
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Siretu
151 Posts
As a Starcraft 2 map maker, this is AMAZING. Sure, it's not perfect. There is no trace of an open lobby system, but frankly, I'm not too upset. The fact that we get a personal "page" for our maps with information, patch notes, reviews, etc, is great. Combined with all the new fancy editor stuff, this is my most anticipated starcraft patch ever. Also, to the people complaining about lack of chat rooms and the feeling of loneliness, I feel like that is going to improve at hots launch around the same time as the clan support and multiplayer replay viewing and such. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On May 13 2012 08:01 coolcor wrote: There is also the league of legends spectator mode that they recently added with lots of cool features. Blizzard is really falling behind by not having this. dota 2 hon and lol all have spectator modes, dota 2 delays spectators although it doesn't prevent ghosting, hon only allows you to see your friends perspective, ionno about lol. I think in part spectator modes are available because unlike sc2 those games are server hosted games also makes map hacking impossible although exploits have been well exploited at times to get things like detect invised units etc. | ||
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korona
1098 Posts
Currently to play a ladder match you 1) press 'multiplayer' and then 2) 'find match'. To play a ladder match in the future system you 1) press 'starcraft', 2) find and press 'Versus' (I presume) from multiplayer section and then from third screen 3) press 'find match' (based on the alpha pictures). | ||
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Bidj
France98 Posts
On May 13 2012 08:09 Thylacine wrote: Exactly. Blizzard is spitting in our face. ''Hahaha, look what we do after all the constructive criticism you have given us for 2 years!'' On May 13 2012 08:09 thezanursic wrote: Nothing on lobbies and the UI is still horrible soo much wasted space just put something there. On May 13 2012 08:10 Lyter wrote: Yea looks awful, same old same old crap really So much constructive criticism. "That's just fucking terrible, crappy, horrible". Nope. That's just way better than the current UI, and will probably be a lot more user friendly. And I suppose that the main page will have something new like community contente/news or maybe even stream in the future, not just Tychus face. Don't just criticise for the sake of it (I maybe expect to much from the internet). | ||
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lightsentry
413 Posts
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EienShinwa
United States655 Posts
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Bidj
France98 Posts
On May 13 2012 08:18 lightsentry wrote: This looks pretty neat, especially since this is still alpha so they still have lots of time to shift things around. As far as a spectator mode goes, iunno if that's the greatest idea in a 1v1 game, esp. one like sc2 where information can give you a huge advantage. Because of the fact that the data needed by the client to "play"/"view" the game is so small compared to a video/stream, you could imagine a build-in 2 or 3 minutes delay without problem. | ||
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Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
On May 13 2012 07:09 MorroW wrote: "StarCraft II is now a streaming game. o It will only be necessary to download a fraction of game data to get into the action. We expect to bring even more players into StarCraft II worldwide by making access to the game both easy and fast. " could someone explain to me what this is? is it what i think it is? It's a new technology that Blizzard has been using with WOW for quite a while. Basically you don't need to download the entire game before you can play it. Once you reached a certain % of download you will be able to play the game and while you are playing it keeps downloading the game in the background. It's yet on of those features that no one really wants or gives a damn about really. EDIT: And yes, these so called features or improvements are bullshit compared to what other games, like Dota 2 has. Freaking terrible Blizzard. | ||
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VGhost
United States3613 Posts
All the features are nifty, but that is literally the only one I want (now that channels exist more or less). Am I the only one and that's why Blizzard just doesn't realize this? That seems like it would be a major convenience to the "casual gamer" who just wants to play with friends, doesn't care about ladder, etc., which makes it even more unbelieveable. TL;DR: Blizzard is putting a bunch of work into SC2, but a lot of it just doesn't seem very thought out, at all. | ||
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Scribble
2077 Posts
tl;dr Just throw everyone into a chat lobby at login. (= | ||
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EienShinwa
United States655 Posts
On May 13 2012 08:27 VGhost wrote: My biggest problem is that there still doesn't seem to be any games list - the "join game" button from BW battle.net, or w/e WC3 had (never played much, don't remember). The simplicity of that for playing games (join nr1/1 now guys) for arranged games simply has nothing to match it in b.net 2.0 - and it can't be that hard to put in the new one, can it? All the features are nifty, but that is literally the only one I want (now that channels exist more or less). Am I the only one and that's why Blizzard just doesn't realize this? That seems like it would be a major convenience to the "casual gamer" who just wants to play with friends, doesn't care about ladder, etc., which makes it even more unbelieveable. TL;DR: Blizzard is putting a bunch of work into SC2, but a lot of it just doesn't seem very thought out, at all. I'm pretty sure Blizzard knows all these issues we have, but they don't want to fix it because of the supposed "bots" and "spam" that took over the previous Battle.nets in their games. It's complete bullshit, but what can we do when all Blizzard does is sidestep the actual issue to satisfy us until HotS? | ||
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Dingobloo
Australia1903 Posts
On May 13 2012 08:23 Integra wrote: It's a new technology that Blizzard has been using with WOW for quite a while. Basically you don't need to download the entire game before you can play it. Once you reached a certain % of download you will be able to play the game and while you are playing it keeps downloading the game in the background. It's yet on of those features that no one really wants or gives a damn about really. EDIT: And yes, these so called features or improvements are bullshit compared to what other games, like Dota 2 has. Freaking terrible Blizzard. Yes these pale in comparison to Dota 2's custom game features..... Which are non existant. Hell you can't even take your party into a custom lobby in dota 2 they have to join manually  Back on topic: these are the custom game UI changes, not the HotS feature changes, calm down, And I care a whole lot about the streaming client, because it's currently something like 6 gigs just to get people to try the Starter edition which features 3 maps, and 2 single player missions. | ||
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nkr
Sweden5451 Posts
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KrazyTrumpet
United States2520 Posts
On May 13 2012 08:27 VGhost wrote: My biggest problem is that there still doesn't seem to be any games list - the "join game" button from BW battle.net, or w/e WC3 had (never played much, don't remember). The simplicity of that for playing games (join nr1/1 now guys) for arranged games simply has nothing to match it in b.net 2.0 - and it can't be that hard to put in the new one, can it? All the features are nifty, but that is literally the only one I want (now that channels exist more or less). Am I the only one and that's why Blizzard just doesn't realize this? That seems like it would be a major convenience to the "casual gamer" who just wants to play with friends, doesn't care about ladder, etc., which makes it even more unbelieveable. TL;DR: Blizzard is putting a bunch of work into SC2, but a lot of it just doesn't seem very thought out, at all. Playing with friends is already super easy. Make a game on whatever map you want, open your friends list, right click people and hit "Invite to game" I really don't know what more people want in that regard. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by some of the vitriolic replies in this thread, but it's still disappointing. Would you rather Blizz not even TRY to fix and improve stuff? Keep giving real feedback instead of "Wow, this sucks, you are fucking terrible, Blizzard." Stop being such entitled assholes all the time, Christ. | ||
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yoshi_yoshi
United States440 Posts
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speknek
758 Posts
On May 13 2012 07:25 MorroW wrote: oh because i thought they implemented some integrated huge streaming tool inside sc2 where you could stream data into a sc2 player rather than streaming the screen with xsplit into a website like twitch. if they made something like this (if its possible, id imagine it would kinda be like live replays) youd be able to watch actual quality in some kind of sc2 player (or inside sc2 whatever) so it would lag less for everyone (because im assuming uploading sc2 data to sc2 thing takes less information than actual screen pixel frames uploading 25 times per second or whatever into a player like twich). to paint a picture compare the size of a 20min video to a replay thats 20minutes. the difference is ridiculous im dissapointed because this would been huge in so many ways, why doesnt this exist? does it exist in any game? Yes, LoL cum suis have spectator modes. You can just watch a "clan war" and spectate anyone/anything you want. There's also hltv in cs, although a little bit buggy. And it was possible in quake3. | ||
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windsupernova
Mexico5280 Posts
too bad people only care about the ¨X unit got buffed/nerfed¨ changes.Hopefully the arcade changes make the system more user friendly. | ||
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fros7
Canada32 Posts
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Nokshalees
United States120 Posts
On May 13 2012 08:01 coolcor wrote: There is also the league of legends spectator mode that they recently added with lots of cool features. Blizzard is really falling behind by not having this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqT14k6BsC0 Why the fuck do you want a spectator mode in sc2?Just because dota2 and LoL has it automatically means sc2 should also have it. It's unnecessary and very exploitable | ||
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