Agreed.

I havent seen any gaming community more pissed off over cosmetic game changes than this one. I mean did you see the patch note thread for patch 1.5? Blizzard rolls out with all these UI changes and a revamped custom game system and the first comments are "...no queen range nerf?" or "No balance changes?." Proof that its impossible to make the SCII community happy about anything. Everyone whines that the custom game system sucks and the UI is "holding people back." So Blizzard goes and changes a bunch of stuff and now a bunch of people are butthurt because they removed the ability for you to make stronger team colors or put a picture of Jaedong as your welcome screen.

I mean seriously?

Iam a noob and i dont care about balance, but the new UI is only slightly better. We will see how it works out with custom games when it ran for a while.

EnE

417 Posts

July 28 2012 11:06 GMT

#244

Im so so happy about this. I was beggining to stop watching tournaments after STC mod put me off of TSL so maybe now I'll get back to watching and playing sc2.

Existor

Russian Federation4295 Posts

July 28 2012 13:48 GMT

#245

Modding is not only STC mod, it's not stops hacking, and there are a lot good small mods (ovrmind voices, other zerg voices, new skins for standart unit models, Medium Team Color mod (less strong than STC), new battle.net image and animated backgrounds (replaces blue hydralisk to infestor or tychus to nice medic, or ugly battlecruiser to nice char planet or dropship from early sc2 builds), BW sounds (some sc2 sounds are weak), new loading screens, etc etc

So you have no mind what you're talking about if you're supporting modding shutdown

Hds

France200 Posts

July 28 2012 15:41 GMT

#246

I love my korean voices :<

Soma Cruz

United States209 Posts

July 28 2012 15:42 GMT

#247

This is really going to be less enjoyable without STC and BW sounds..

PCs are superior to consoles because of the ability to customize them to how you like it. *sigh*

Lobotomist

United States1541 Posts

July 30 2012 21:10 GMT

#248

Nooooooooooooooo. Stronger team color is the only way I can tell the difference between banelings in ZvZ. I really really hope this isn't the case.

Mrvoodoochild1

United States1439 Posts

July 30 2012 21:14 GMT

#249

On July 31 2012 06:10 Lobotomist wrote:
Nooooooooooooooo. Stronger team color is the only way I can tell the difference between banelings in ZvZ. I really really hope this isn't the case.

? The banelings that you control are yours. The ones you can't control that are head to your mineral lines are the enemy banelings. I hope this helps.

Meldrath

United States620 Posts

July 30 2012 21:25 GMT

#250

People want hacking to stop... and the ability to MOD the game... guess what you can't have both.

Teliko

Ireland1044 Posts

July 30 2012 21:32 GMT

#251

On July 31 2012 06:25 Meldrath wrote:
People want hacking to stop... and the ability to MOD the game... guess what you can't have both.

Implying stopping modding will stop hacking? Sigh..

TCFClemson

United States3 Posts

July 31 2012 13:33 GMT

#252

On July 31 2012 06:25 Meldrath wrote:
People want hacking to stop... and the ability to MOD the game... guess what you can't have both.

You do know that most of the hacks in the game do not mess with the MPQ right?

Arghmyliver

United States1079 Posts

July 31 2012 13:40 GMT

#253

On July 25 2012 12:41 Netsky wrote:
Diablo 3 has the same protection. I tried to swap the MPQ/assets file the same way I would with SC2 (pre-1.5 of course) to play Korean sounds and performs the check on game start up and downloads the correct file.

I remember how that prevented anyone from hacking on Diablo 3. It's a good thing that combined with launch day issues and a terrible story didn't ruin the most anticipated Blizzard game since SC2.

ch33psh33p

7650 Posts

July 31 2012 13:41 GMT

#254

On July 31 2012 06:25 Meldrath wrote:
People want hacking to stop... and the ability to MOD the game... guess what you can't have both.

Lets make this perfectly clear.

There are ZERO public OR private hacks that edit MPQ files in ANY way.

Hacks will NEVER alter game files. In fact, most hacks are now external and only read memory, they don' t even inject anymore.

So no, this has absolutely 100% NOTHING to do with hacking.

Please do your research before you just spew mindless circlejerk.

KrazyTrumpet

United States2520 Posts

July 31 2012 23:50 GMT

#255

So anyone figure out yet if the mods like stronger team color have been stopped by the 1.5 patch?

Windz03

Malaysia10 Posts

August 01 2012 00:14 GMT

#256

Did the patch change anything about the gameplay? Stim and combat shields now cost 150 minerals 150 gas with concussive shells being 100 minerals 100 gas. Is this a bug? or a patch?

Dumbledore

Sweden725 Posts

August 01 2012 00:17 GMT

#257

So can anyone with the NA client confirm if it got removed or not?
T_T

Teliko

Ireland1044 Posts

August 01 2012 00:17 GMT

#258

On August 01 2012 09:14 Windz03 wrote:
Did the patch change anything about the gameplay? Stim and combat shields now cost 150 minerals 150 gas with concussive shells being 100 minerals 100 gas. Is this a bug? or a patch?

It went un-noted in the patch notes, it's just a bug and only for custom games. Ladder is unaffected.

Windz03

Malaysia10 Posts

August 01 2012 00:18 GMT

#259

yup. thanks for response. it is just affected in custom games.

Karawasa

United States58 Posts

August 01 2012 00:19 GMT

#260

On July 25 2012 12:30 Existor wrote:
I've tested some time ago patch 1.5.0 "Arcade Beta", and it's not just an interface patch. It reworks game client with new streaming system, that check EVERY ingame file, including renamed and overlaped files.

This is so fucking annoying. I used to be able to delete the campaigns folder and save 4+ GB...now I can't.