Blizzard's whole design philosophy of late is a major turnoff. I just can't stand them as a company to continue to support something that I love (starcraft and the competitive gaming community).

snotboogie

Australia3550 Posts

July 25 2012 04:42 GMT

#44

Noooooo I really like my current backgrounds!

ShiroKaisen

United States1082 Posts

July 25 2012 04:45 GMT

#45

It's pretty clear this wasn't the intent behind the patch, it's just an unfortunate side-effect. If enough people tell Blizzard that they want to be able to do this, they might just implement some way to do it for HotS. So keep asking for it, but do it politely without hate!

Merikh

United States918 Posts

July 25 2012 04:47 GMT

#46

On July 25 2012 13:31 Existor wrote:

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Interesting note. That window tries to calculate size of "corrupted" file. Forever. lol

But... you still can't launch game [image loading]

damn lol, worth a shot

Existor

Russian Federation4295 Posts

July 25 2012 04:52 GMT

#47

On July 25 2012 13:47 Merikh wrote:

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damn lol, worth a shot

I'll say more. If you just make any game file "Read only" without modifying it, it will still end with endless calculating size window.

0neder

United States3733 Posts

July 25 2012 05:03 GMT

#48

Well, I'd rather have good sounds/music/mods than be able to watch Orb's casts, so this is quite disappointing.

oOOoOphidian

United States1402 Posts

July 25 2012 05:03 GMT

#49

I'd rather have no modding than hacks. Odds are this won't shut down all hacks, but it'll sure make it harder and give blizzard more ways to track and stop the existing ones.

SuperYo1000

United States880 Posts

July 25 2012 05:05 GMT

#50

you know stronger team color wouldnt be such a necessity if we could just pick a color and an alternate for laddering...so sick of red and blue

Bippzy

United States1466 Posts

July 25 2012 05:06 GMT

#51

Oh well. It had to be done when cloaked banshees could be seen when cloaked easily(read that onthis forum that some people modified for that)

As for STC, wait for blizzard soon, it will be back

ZeromuS

Canada13408 Posts

July 25 2012 05:11 GMT

#52

If this removes stronger colour I am sure they will be working in something for colour blind people.

Amridell

188 Posts

July 25 2012 05:12 GMT

#53

Man, that sucks. I seriously hope that they work on this. My Korean sounds and STC D:

thrawn2112

United States6918 Posts

July 25 2012 05:16 GMT

#54

as the world becomes more secure it also become more boring

Tazerenix

Australia340 Posts

July 25 2012 05:22 GMT

#55

It's my understanding that depending on exactly how blizzard have decided to change the STC implementation this patch as they have done every patch (between adding the SC2Asset file and manually editing the MPQ's), we may still be able to use the STC mod. If they left it as it has been for a while now in that only an SC2Asset file was needed for the STC to work, then we aren't actually editing any existing files at all, but simply adding a file.

Don't lose hope yet.

Snoodles

401 Posts

July 25 2012 05:25 GMT

#56

Existor, any opinion on how this will affect relocalizers? I know that the popular relocalizer edits mpq.

Lemure

189 Posts

July 25 2012 05:25 GMT

#57

That's it, if i can't mod Emma Watson as my background I quit.

Birdie

New Zealand4438 Posts

July 25 2012 05:26 GMT

#58

From what I know of hacking this won't stop very much hacking at all. Maybe if a file was editing to make DTs visible instead of invisible? Other than that I can't think of this as being very good at stopping hacks at all as normally hacks work by injecting code into the starcraft exe rather than editing existing files.

Doodsmack

United States7224 Posts

July 25 2012 05:29 GMT

#59

^Yeah I think he's right that this won't do anything to stop the hacks. My very primitive understanding is that they operate external to SC2. Would be nice to hear someone knowledgeable speak about it, though.

Will this prevent us from using relocalizers?

logikly

United States329 Posts

July 25 2012 05:31 GMT

#60

there is always ways around things. I'm sure someone will figure it out.