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renkin
France249 Posts
They keep improving the starter edition to "reach out" but you still need a friend that owns SC2 to enjoy what the game really have to offer : the multiplayer. That kind of suck for new people. I would rather see something like the free week-ends we see sometimes in steam. Free multiplayer for a few days within the starter edition, that sounds way better. | ||
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Nerevar
547 Posts
On November 19 2013 14:04 Sprouter wrote: A day late and a dollar short. It feels really gross to be happy about features that were present in their previous games. Gameheart sounds neat at least. Which of these features were present in Brood War or Warcraft 3? Event calendars, in-game logos, extension mods, or f2p features? | ||
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elmerpogs
Philippines441 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33330 Posts
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HeavenResign
United States702 Posts
On November 19 2013 14:11 tshi wrote: Wait what is the Brood War conversion thing? IIRC, I read something about having music in it, but what do they mean? Like the audio effects and stuff? I think (could totally be wrong) he's referencing the "mod extension" capability, in which something like the mod SC2:BW could be applicable to any map much more easily than in the current implementation. | ||
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Hiro45
Canada13 Posts
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Tobblish
Sweden6404 Posts
but what we're running in to is a tradeoff between our ability to support a minimum spec – literally in terms of memory – on a computer. I gotta love how stubborn the devs are on some points of SC2.. why can't there just be a selection in options or maybe only have it in 1v1/2v2. 4v4 is laggy as it is since the engine can't handle it. Seriously I don't get why they come up with lazy answers like they care for minimum spec PCs, how about if you try to solve the problem then for those minimum PCs and give the players something? edit: But I guess this is the main problem with SC2, lot of focus on SP then the team slowly shrinks and gets moved on to other games. (Heroes of the Storm) | ||
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Vindicare605
United States16056 Posts
On November 19 2013 14:22 Waxangel wrote: my personal wish is for footmen frenzy to make a return as a worldwide phenomenon The Starcraft versions of that custom are trash though. Don't even come close to comparing to The Warcraft 3 versions. | ||
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Strivers
United States358 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States44158 Posts
B. G. H. | ||
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tshi
United States2495 Posts
Oh, I see. I thought they were going to move over sound effects and stuff, but there weren't any infestors/ravens etc in BW so I dont know how that would work. So it's only SC1 music reworked into SC2 and then the mod to be able to play BW stuff in SC2? | ||
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Ansinjunger
United States2451 Posts
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Nuclease
United States1049 Posts
I heartily approve of these changes, thanks Blizz. | ||
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Nuclease
United States1049 Posts
On November 19 2013 14:22 Waxangel wrote: my personal wish is for footmen frenzy to make a return as a worldwide phenomenon Oh gawd. I never understood that game, got pwnt too hard in the first few times as a wee lad that I played it, and never played again. | ||
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
On November 19 2013 14:18 renkin wrote: I don't understand why they don't release a proper demo instead of having spawn here, starter edition there, etc... ? They keep improving the starter edition to "reach out" but you still need a friend that owns SC2 to enjoy what the game really have to offer : the multiplayer. That kind of suck for new people. I would rather see something like the free week-ends we see sometimes in steam. Free multiplayer for a few days within the starter edition, that sounds way better. The problem is once they make the ladder free for everybody, people are afraid of the numerous troll accounts that might be incoming, including past players that were banned for cheating. Not sure whether that is true or not, but I from a casual gamer pov this is basically as close to F2P multiplayer as you can get without compromising the ladder. | ||
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poboxy
Canada48 Posts
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EightyEight
United States12 Posts
Really like that they are reaching out with the starter edition! I agree with the "keep them out of the ladder" opinion, I enjoy the ladder as it is for the most part and would like to keep the non paying public out. I mean... if they give them the game for free, why the fuck did I pay? Where's my refund. So I really like the way they are playing it out. The clan ingame logo sounds SO COOL! I'll be honest I really enjoy the new skins and new visual stuff, I play this game a lot and little things like that really matter at a certain point haha glhfgg | ||
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Gfire
United States1699 Posts
On November 19 2013 13:35 Plansix wrote: It doesn't work that way. The game has to be designed to do that from the ground up. Dota 2 and LoL do it by only loading the skins/models they are using into the game. SC2 can't do that because every game has to option to use every model. They would need to rebuild the engine from the ground up to change it so only specific models could be used on a map. Well, there is a system in place to load different models based on your settings. Archons have a special model for when running on lower settings. This sort of thing can be managed by your client settings. I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to have this sort of functionality. Not being redesigned from the ground up at least. | ||
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Darksoldierr
Hungary2012 Posts
On November 19 2013 15:57 Gfire wrote: Well, there is a system in place to load different models based on your settings. Archons have a special model for when running on lower settings. This sort of thing can be managed by your client settings. I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to have this sort of functionality. Not being redesigned from the ground up at least. Probably its the same problem with automated tournaments, clan wars, etc, it not that hard, they just do not have the manpower. Compared to WoW or the currently being produced D3 expansion, SC2 dosen't generate that much revenue, thus you cannot really allocate that many devs to new features for it | ||
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
On November 19 2013 16:33 Darksoldierr wrote: Probably its the same problem with automated tournaments, clan wars, etc, it not that hard, they just do not have the manpower. Compared to WoW or the currently being produced D3 expansion, SC2 dosen't generate that much revenue, thus you cannot really allocate that many devs to new features for it Really sucks for peope who were disappointed with the features of vanilla sc2 but were calmed down with the reason that they will continue working on it and improve it as time progresses, huh? D: | ||
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