On January 15 2014 01:58 purakushi wrote:
The Likely Blizzard's Q/A Response to Starbow:
1. Have you seen/heard about Starbow? What do you think about it?
A. Yes. <insert generic response about being happy that the Arcade is being used, development is being made, and communities are being formed>

2. Would you consider implementing things from Starbow or just consider as a whole what the devs have done?
A. <insert generic response about how stuff from Starbow is too different from SC2 and how the general changes are way too drastic for SC2. Also how SC2 is just a different game from BW/Starbow and they like the direction SC2 is going. Possibly throw in that they have tested stuff like this before but did not feel like it was good for SC2>

EDIT: also stuff about "visibility of skill" and not feeling that Starbow would not be good for the casual scene.

Vote purakushi for official StarBow PR manager.
I want this as the format all StarBow relations are handled.

CutTheEnemy

Canada373 Posts

January 14 2014 21:59 GMT

#708

Avilo playing sbow, live

Nerevar

547 Posts

January 14 2014 22:05 GMT

#709

My main worry for this mod is the possibility that matchups will end up playing out like carbon copies of their BW counterparts. While this isn't necessarily too bad a thing considering the BW matchups were very entertaining, I think it would still be a shame since it misses out on a lot of potential, such as exploring other tactics and unit compositions that simply weren't viable in BW. I want to see stuff like more bio usage in TvP and TvT as well as more Protoss air usage in all matchups. Fortunately, much is still in flux and development for Starbow, unlike BW itself which has had its balance and design more or less locked since its last balance patch over a decade ago. It's expected that most players will initially be relying on strategies based on what they're familiar and comfortable with from BW.

I haven't seen enough games to form a completely solid opinion on the mod otherwise, though I expect a lot to change as more players of increasing skill put more hours into the mod and develop its meta, not to mention all the possible big design or balance changes that might happen in the future. Obviously, there are still some minor polish elements that still need tweaking, such as graphics and bugs.

GizmoPT

Portugal3040 Posts

January 14 2014 22:17 GMT

#710

On January 15 2014 06:31 rift wrote:

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SC2BW has em, dunno tho

you can use Blizzard stuff in Sc2 maps.. since maps you create in editor belong to blizzard :p

they only had problem with HotS units used in WoL maps

Existor

Russian Federation4295 Posts

January 14 2014 22:22 GMT

#711

You can also use different voices for Zerg advisor.

Long time ago, before patch 1.5, when SC2 client-modding worked, I did many different voices for Zergs representing Overmind and his Cerebrates.

I think, if you'll like some of them, you can implement one of them into your mod.

Also I have skills on editing voice, and I can turn any good-english-speaking voice into an Overmind or similar. I'm from Russia, so I'm not a good and native english talker. If anyone can record voices with all the SC2 quotes and send me, I can remix them into an Overmind voice.

But for now, you can try these voices, created by me (I've used Queen voice as basis). You will not hear anything female here, all the voices are male now. But they are different, and I've called them with different Cerebrates. In the pack below you can also find SC1BW Overmind, and all the missing quotes are replaced with ingame sounds. You can check them also with any media-player, which supports OGG. OGG is just another music/sound type of file.

My choice is Zasz - probably best version. The difference from SC1 Overmind is voice and... ALL THE QUOTES, like Mineral field depleted or Our drones are under atack, which not exists in SC1BW.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/pbw77bcipex9kjx/Custom voices pack (by Existor).rar

iHirO

United Kingdom1381 Posts

January 14 2014 22:23 GMT

#712

They said they were trying to keep the mods file size by not including custom sounds.

Existor

Russian Federation4295 Posts

January 14 2014 22:25 GMT

#713

On January 15 2014 07:23 iHirO wrote:
They said they were trying to keep the mods file size by not including custom sounds.

Voices for zerg advisor have size around 650 kb. Not so much

plgElwood

Germany518 Posts

January 14 2014 22:26 GMT

#714

Is Blizz´s announcement that Mods can be created to work with any Map already working?

Slardar

Canada7595 Posts

January 14 2014 22:40 GMT

#715

Has been a long time since I'm this excited to play SC2.

*Is there some sort of internal ladder system added to Starbow? Or you just join the channel and keep playing?

tili

United States1332 Posts

January 14 2014 22:41 GMT

#716

You should Add pro-level feedback to OP.

Exciting

Nerevar

547 Posts

January 14 2014 22:46 GMT

#717

On January 15 2014 07:26 plgElwood wrote:
Is Blizz´s announcement that Mods can be created to work with any Map already working?

It's working in the PTR, but patch 2.1 hasn't been released into the full game yet.

superpanda27

111 Posts

January 14 2014 22:50 GMT

#718

On January 15 2014 07:40 Slardar wrote:
Has been a long time since I'm this excited to play SC2.

*Is there some sort of internal ladder system added to Starbow? Or you just join the channel and keep playing?

No not yet, I think they are trying to get some sort of ladder system. Right now you just join the channel, join a game, or create a game to get matches.

Tngabor

Serbia60 Posts

January 14 2014 22:51 GMT

#719

I'm going to rephrase a famous quote here: "from today, HoTS is dead"