There are noob tourneys often on Mondays, check out the threads over on Starbowmod.com

Also, the line-up for tonights Eurobow:

http://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/qBm1ZffuxR

I hope at least half of them show up

buwalu20

United Arab Emirates3 Posts

January 30 2015 10:15 GMT

#6544

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Grumbels

Netherlands7031 Posts

January 30 2015 16:46 GMT

#6545

On January 30 2015 19:08 Xiphias wrote:
There are noob tourneys often on Mondays, check out the threads over on Starbowmod.com

Also, the line-up for tonights Eurobow:

http://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/qBm1ZffuxR

I hope at least half of them show up

That's a lot of good players actually, I'm halfway excited for this tournament.

Xiphias

Norway2223 Posts

February 17 2015 21:53 GMT

#6546

Big thanks to Ahli who made the Viking weapon. It took a LOT of work. And thanks to SoaH for this epic banner.

+ Show Spoiler [How it looks in the editor] +

Here is the Marine Rifle for comparison:

General

Many unit sizes reduced.
Some hotkey bugs fixed (I know banelings still don't work)
Lot's of other bugs fixed, won't list them all here.

Terran

Wraith added. Cost: 150/100, 120 life, speed 4 and 2x10 explosive damage vs air and 8 normal damage vs ground. Only needs Starport but has cloak upgrade on tech-lab.
Spider mines now have a less overkill.
SC2 nuke added
Viking hp and cost increased, missiles follow but "miss" (think BW valk). Can still land. They now cost 3 supply and require both armory and tech-lab to make.
Merc's now slow down their non-massive enemy target WHILE they grapple on to it (not after). The whole slow only lasts for 0.5 seconds. This helps them get the shot off when they land.
New dropship model added.
Reapers now require fusion core to be made. Their stats has been tweaked and are the same as the old upgraded reaper. The upgrade has been removed. Reaper G-4 charges now only take 2 seconds before detonation.

Protoss

Split observer upgrades.
Pylon energy field now crosses cliffs.
Dark Archon mind control now works on workers.

Zerg

Infestor removed
Viper on lair tech with Ensnare, Infested terrans, Spawn broodlings and contaminate/infest.
Contaminate/Infest costs 50 energy, and contaminates an energy structure if it has more than 33% life left (not shields). If it has less than 33% life, then it will become under permanent zerg control where the zerg player will be able to build whatever unit the building can make with the tech tree available for the zerg player. There are currently some bugs with this ability that we will fix later.
Overlords can pick up spines/spores and they can also move into nydus worms.
Ensnare missiles speed increased (from earlier small patch)
Guardians +2 range.
Ultralisk cargo size reduced to 4.
Queens no longer move slowly off creep.
Banelings now benefit from upgrades. +2 attack per melee upgrade level. It was reported that it did not worked, but I tested it on the testmap and it works there, so it will work on this patch as well. Baneling weapon display is still not working

Maps

Widened chokes on many maps (from an earlier change).
Garden doodad fixed.
Longinus 10 patches fixed. (Thanks Teddy!)
Two 2v2 maps added. Katherine Square and Avalanche
Fastest possible map uploaded.
Archon 2v2 or 3v3 version of Fighting Spirit is up thanks to RedRookLord! Search for "Starbow (Archon mode) - Fighting Spirit" on the arcade.

Won't have too many explanations yet as I don't have that much time right now.

But I want to reassure any infestor fans out there that we will test different versions of the infestor for next test-map and if we find something we like, it will return.

Unit sizes is another thing that might change later. Right now units ACT very small but look bigger (although they still look quite small). This MAY give the unintended effect of "blobs" and may also lead to instances of players having a hard time seeing exactly how many units are attacking etc. We will try these size for now as it is very good in other aspects such as getting the desired effect from splash weapons and spells. We will keep an eye on this so let us know how the unit sizes feel after some games playing with them. It probably takes a while to get used to them, so please, play more than one game before posting about how it feels.

And as usual. Some of these changes are better tested than others, but with our limited player pool I feel we can get the feedback we need to make quick adjustment if needed without messing up too much. Hopefully...

purakushi

United States3300 Posts

February 18 2015 01:21 GMT

#6547

Probably not worth fixing until unit sizes are finalised, but UI size needs to be reduced to keep it consistent. Maybe reduce the bar height size at the same time?

Unit priorities in groups seem too be off. Depending on what is selected last, i.e. marine + vulture or vulture + marine.

Capresis

United States518 Posts

February 18 2015 19:00 GMT

#6548

Argh, I want to play this again but I don't have internet and my laptop can't handle it ): Your dedication is amazing. When is Starbow's anniversary btw?

404AlphaSquad

839 Posts

February 18 2015 20:30 GMT

#6549

The official thread started in 20th January 2012

Xiphias

Norway2223 Posts

March 05 2015 08:22 GMT

#6550

Some updates on tournaments.

VOD's playlist from Monday Night Starbow #21 is here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyCGb0pwEr_Qg3QI_69XuS7NOVBUCILlN

VOD's playlist from EurBow #5 is here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyCGb0pwEr_QKB7M2xw4C7JnJEMP6AgMX

celeste

England45 Posts

March 13 2015 15:35 GMT

#6551

what happened to Starbow? is it dead?

Espers

United Kingdom606 Posts

March 13 2015 15:42 GMT

#6552

hype died down, people moved on.

I played it recently and it and they've changed it so much that it plays almost exactly like SC2BW along with BW's flaws, literally every stat identical. tot very interested in it anymore, initially it seemed a much more "daring" mod that tried to improve on things.

TaShadan

Germany1976 Posts

March 13 2015 16:22 GMT

#6553

BW has no flaws :p
Mods are having a hard time the last years in general. It does not matter how good they are which is a shame because nowadays most popular games would have never existed without mod communities (CSGO and Dota 2/LoL)

Espers

United Kingdom606 Posts

March 13 2015 16:27 GMT

#6554

starbow has its moment, Battle Royale for Arma/H1Z1 got huge.. mods are still doing okay, ofc it's always been rare for one to blow up

TMG26

Portugal2017 Posts

March 15 2015 20:29 GMT

#6555

This new zombie survival fad also started from a mod.

SB just wasn't good enough to blow up.

TelecoM

United States10674 Posts

March 15 2015 20:49 GMT

#6556

On March 14 2015 01:22 TaShadan wrote:
BW has no flaws :p
Mods are having a hard time the last years in general. It does not matter how good they are which is a shame because nowadays most popular games would have never existed without mod communities (CSGO and Dota 2/LoL)

BW has some flaws, but they aren't with with the game , its more with the UI and updates to the server so people can host games easier