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yokohama
United States1116 Posts
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althaz
Australia1001 Posts
On January 22 2014 09:41 juicyjames wrote: + Show Spoiler [Speaking of BW sounds] + GameHeart: Hey everyone! Yesterday I tweeted about GameHeart Keyboards, a new feature coming to GameHeart alongside the GameHeart extension mod. And today I wanted to showoff GameHeart 'Nostalgia Mode'. I was planning to wait an let it be a surprise but I have some bad news and I thought showing this off now might soften the blow. The bad news is that I have decided to wait and release the GameHeart extension mod in a few days once the patch is out in all regions just to make my life a little easier, and to give me a bit more time to polish this feature as well as keyboards and some of the other modules. About 'Nostalgia Mode': It was an idea sent to me by /u/ESPORTS_HotBid and it basically replaces many of the sounds from SC2 with the iconic audio from Brood War. It only does this for observers, players still hear SC2 audio and it is of course optional and off by default. I thought this feature might go nicely with the newly added remasted Brood War music that Blizzard is adding in the patch! Sorry again about the delay on the extension mod, but it is packed with new features and it makes GameHeart easier to use than ever! This is what Blizzard needs to do - but for players. I've been playing more Broodwar than SC2 lately and the sounds are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better in the original game. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45234 Posts
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GizmoPT
Portugal3040 Posts
http://www.blizzposts.com/topic/en/228804/patch-21-free-arcade + Show Spoiler + Hi everyone, With Patch 2.1, all players now have access to any maps that depend on Heart of the Swarm or Wings of Liberty. This includes both the Arcade and Custom Games. This means that everyone, including Starter Edition players who have not purchased StarCraft II, can now play any user created map or mod. Below I will cover some topics that have already come up. Custom Games Not only are all maps in the Arcade freely accessible, but all games under the Custom Games section are now free as well. Note that Custom Games are still filtered by your Expansion Level, so if a map directly depends on Liberty or Swarm Multi it will only appear in the list if you are set to that same expansion level in your gameplay options. Publishing In order to publish a map or mod that depends on Wings of Liberty or Heart of the Swarm, you must still have the appropriate license(s) for those dependencies. This has not changed in 2.1. I hope this clarifies how dependencies and licenses work in Patch 2.1. If you have any related questions, feel free to ask and I will try to update this post with more details. Thanks! | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
"Void rays are overpowered by design (Dustins son plays toss). Build them whenever you get the chance." "As zerg, try mind controlling a probe to build a nexus, then tech to void rays and build as many as you can." | ||
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tshi
United States2495 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16117 Posts
On January 22 2014 08:27 OopsOopsBaby wrote: Not really. Due to the player base drainage, more GM and master are now occupying diamonds and platinum because the ladder rank distribution no longer allow enough slots for upper levels. It is only natural for other leagues to get bumped down. Bumped down a little sure. But to the point where 86% of the playerbase is in the bottom 3 leagues? That's not indicative of natural trickle down, that's indicative of shit being broken. | ||
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RiZu
Singapore5715 Posts
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Survivor61316
United States470 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16117 Posts
On January 22 2014 11:33 RiZu wrote: Hmm if I had WoL already, do I need to download the starter edition to access 2.1 Patch? I don't think so, I think you'll be good just with WoL by itself. Worth checking though. | ||
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AKnopf
Germany259 Posts
On January 22 2014 11:35 Vindicare605 wrote: I don't think so, I think you'll be good just with WoL by itself. Worth checking though. No, its a regular patch that will be downloaded as usual. @Topic: What a great patch. I'm looking forward to it! Cant wait to play BGH on a normal map  Edit: What has happened here? Originally I quoted a post that asked whether you need to download the starter edition to have the patch. No this post is gone. | ||
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RiZu
Singapore5715 Posts
On January 22 2014 11:36 AKnopf wrote: No, its a regular patch that will be downloaded as usual. @Topic: What a great patch. I'm looking forward to it! Cant wait to play BGH on a normal map On January 22 2014 11:35 Vindicare605 wrote: I don't think so, I think you'll be good just with WoL by itself. Worth checking though. Thank, that helped alot. | ||
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Fuchsteufelswild
Australia2028 Posts
Here, Blizzard wrote: Wednesday, Jan 22 – Korea and Taiwan, China Is that Jan 22 KST or either Pacific or Eastern US time? It should be happening soon if it is KST as it is now after noon there, but it could be many hours away if it is PST or EST, because it's only around Jan 21, 7-10PM in the USA at present. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
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ETisME
12676 Posts
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Tivu
United States244 Posts
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Ikidomari
Australia485 Posts
tried using the link, after it started downloading it caused my google chrome to crash, and crash immediately upon launch until I nuked the download, anyone else got this problem or is it just me? | ||
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Nerevar
547 Posts
On January 22 2014 11:35 Survivor61316 wrote: So instead of actually fixing the balance of the game they plan on just arbitrarily promoting enough players from the under-performing "races" (i.e. Terran) to make it seem like there is an equal spread in every league? How does that help things at all? It's just a cosmetic change to an actual problem, designed only to boost the egos of a few players who can say they were "good enough" to get promoted..I guess I shouldn't have expected much from Blizzard :/ They're not doing that at all. You're completely misunderstanding how they're readjusting the ladder. And balance changes have come separate from feature additions for a while now. | ||
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dcemuser
United States3248 Posts
On January 22 2014 11:35 Survivor61316 wrote: So instead of actually fixing the balance of the game they plan on just arbitrarily promoting enough players from the under-performing "races" (i.e. Terran) to make it seem like there is an equal spread in every league? How does that help things at all? It's just a cosmetic change to an actual problem, designed only to boost the egos of a few players who can say they were "good enough" to get promoted..I guess I shouldn't have expected much from Blizzard :/ I could link you to many different threads proving the game is statistically balanced, but you could find them yourself just as easy. There is one on the front page of SC2 General right now translated from Korean and originally created by a Korean netizen pegging all matchups at 54-46 win rates or lower (lower being closer to 50/50 I mean). It even shows how the last patch improved balance slightly. "My race isn't represented enough in X league" is an interesting form of balance whining, but it isn't particularly justified because you cannot filter out enough variables - maybe more skilled players play X race. Maybe more people in general play Y race. Maybe more people in KR are better at Z race. Maybe, maybe, maybe using league representation as an indicator of balance is a horrible idea. SC2 is statistically more balanced at professional level right now than Chess (in games that aren't a draw, White wins 55-45 against Black on average). TL;DR: If you're havin' balance problems, I feel bad you son. SC2 got 99 problems, but balance ain't one. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26225 Posts
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