EPTREPORT: StarCraft 2: Remastered In Development - Page 2
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zalem95
Peru189 Posts
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StarcraftHistorian
United States244 Posts
On October 23 2026 00:00 ZombieGrub wrote: What is almost certainly a typo really shouldn't be what's influencing an apparently more credible source saying there's something "big" on the horizon. No one would've thought of a remaster if it wasn't for that e-mail that again, was almost certainly a typo. Another very credible source has reached out to me and said that based off of their information that a remaster "does not sound far fetched" | ||
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ProTech
United States526 Posts
On October 23 2026 00:58 StarcraftHistorian wrote: Another very credible source has reached out to me and said that based off of their information that a remaster "does not sound far fetched" I'd guess they're going to revamp the UI to prevent a lot of the hacking that goes on in SC2. I don't see any reason to remaster the graphics it's still far ahead of it's time. Virtually all hacking that goes on within the client derives from replay functionality. IP-Range server blocking can only be prevented by putting bans/cooldowns on people who are fucking with the match making queues. Best advice I can give to whoever you're talking to, is to take notes from league of legends playerhub and Shield Battery in SC1's player hub. This is how other games have solved a lot of the cheating that goes on. | ||
ZeromuS
Canada13430 Posts
On October 23 2026 01:42 ProTech wrote: I'd guess they're going to revamp the UI to prevent a lot of the hacking that goes on in SC2. I don't see any reason to remaster the graphics it's still far ahead of it's time. Virtually all hacking that goes on within the client derives from replay functionality. IP-Range server blocking can only be prevented by putting bans/cooldowns on people who are fucking with the match making queues. Best advice I can give to whoever you're talking to, is to take notes from league of legends playerhub and Shield Battery in SC1's player hub. This is how other games have solved a lot of the cheating that goes on. The graphics are fine overall yeah, but the engine is still a performance issue given the way it still doesn't seem to multithread and use modern CPUs to their full potential. If the remaster lets the game run more stuff on different physical processors it would be so much better. And what better way to move into a new StarCraft title (in general) than to remaster/re-release SC2 to get fresh sales and maybe see if there's still a market for a new RTS in the future? If it sells really well, they might do more in the RTS space. Especially if the WC3 expansion sold well, maybe they see a future for this genre. One could hope. | ||
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Comedy
484 Posts
On October 23 2026 00:18 zalem95 wrote: I feel like this is the only plausible way forward for RTS, SC2 is way too perfect RTS to be topped by any other RTS, I guess, unless they don´t screw us over with shitty graphics and clown balance patches, the game and the community will benefit over this BW is moving forward incredibly well in Korea atm. Even big strides being made outside of korea to finally adress the lag issues the peer to peer connection has given throughout the history of SC:R etc. | ||
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ZombieGrub
United States722 Posts
On October 23 2026 00:58 StarcraftHistorian wrote: Another very credible source has reached out to me and said that based off of their information that a remaster "does not sound far fetched" I'll wait for more before I start getting hopeful, as you yourself have stated "Hard to say if the info is 100% good". What I imagine they'll fix with a remaster sounds like a huge undertaking to my limited knowledge. People have already mentioned the cores issues, but I'm thinking of how they spent years trying to fix up battle.net to get things like an in-game watch tab or ability to jump into games to observe a la dota, deadlock, etc. Maybe the recent influx of AI-solved problems helps them here, idk. Having a team only recently assigned and shooting for 2027 seems awfully fast, unless the "remaster" is kinda lame. It could be some level of remaster and stuff like new co-op commanders and that would help reboot SC2. Should it be a remaster or new content I actually have some faith in the execution, considering their work on Classic games (not SC2 ofc lol) in the recent years has been positive. | ||
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ProTech
United States526 Posts
On October 23 2026 03:29 ZeromuS wrote: The graphics are fine overall yeah, but the engine is still a performance issue given the way it still doesn't seem to multithread and use modern CPUs to their full potential. If the remaster lets the game run more stuff on different physical processors it would be so much better. And what better way to move into a new StarCraft title (in general) than to remaster/re-release SC2 to get fresh sales and maybe see if there's still a market for a new RTS in the future? If it sells really well, they might do more in the RTS space. Especially if the WC3 expansion sold well, maybe they see a future for this genre. One could hope. All very true! | ||
digmouse
China6333 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany7435 Posts
On October 22 2026 23:54 Balnazza wrote: Understandably, but to be fair: Blizzard nailed it two times with Diablo and Starcraft. Both times the key was to only polish the graphics, put in some QoL and be done with it. Minimal effort and maximal customer satisfaction. For Reforged, they wanted to really make it something new, in its original conception it was closer to a remake than a remastered, atleast in terms of the campaign. Aaaaand then they panicked, scratched most of it and ran out of time. And immediately after the disaster dropped onto people, they fired the entire team and restructured the whole thing for two years or whatever. Long story short: Pretty sure they learned from that. Why invest more and increase the odds of failure or do it very casual and close-nitted, when that seems to work pretty well. But SC2 is fine in pretty much all those aspects. No need for polish or QoL. Why even do it then. EDIT: Okay hacking and multithread support. Can barely call this a "Remaster" though imo. It's a patch | ||
BisuDagger
Bisutopia19397 Posts
On October 23 2026 19:52 Harris1st wrote: But SC2 is fine in pretty much all those aspects. No need for polish or QoL. Why even do it then. EDIT: Okay hacking and multithread support. Can barely call this a "Remaster" thoug imo. It's a patch That's how I feel. Wouldn't mind the support fixes, but I'm extremely happy with how the game looks and feels visually. My wallet is on reserve for SC3 as an instant buy. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17988 Posts
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purakushi
United States3307 Posts
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Captain Peabody
United States3139 Posts
There's so much doom and gloom in the SC2 community but the truth is SC2 still has an astounding playerbase for an RTS period, let alone a ten-year-old one. Further support could easily make more money for Blizz AND boost those numbers even further given there's no major RTSes anywhere these days and there's an announced Starcraft shooter game and Starcraft BW continues to do well in Asia and the franchise is still weirdly in the public eye. Here's to hoping! | ||
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SC-Shield
Bulgaria902 Posts
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Balnazza
Germany1379 Posts
On October 24 2026 06:33 SC-Shield wrote: With the effort Blizzard is putting into SC2 nowadays, I'd not pay them a cent anymore. I find Steam has a lot more games to choose from. That is definetly one of the comparisons of all time | ||
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iPlaY.NettleS
Australia4458 Posts
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ProTech
United States526 Posts
On October 24 2026 08:29 iPlaY.NettleS wrote: Will it just be an AI upscale? I don't really care what it is, I just want them to handle the drop hacking and high MMR queue blocking, i hate being a prisoner to twitch viewers who can prevent me playing around the clock. | ||
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kaby
Russian Federation196 Posts
On October 22 2026 15:58 Blargh wrote: God only knows how much damage they can do with a larger team (3 interns instead of the usual 1) and a shit load of Claude and ChatGPT... I wish they send one of those interns with a load of Claude and ChatGPT to spend as much as 2 or 3 days to deal with 90% of smurfing | ||
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SC-Shield
Bulgaria902 Posts
On October 24 2026 07:21 Balnazza wrote: That is definetly one of the comparisons of all time Yeah, maybe I didn't expand on that I find more quality games to spend money on Steam than Blizzard's own platform. Other than Diablo 2 Remastered, Blizzard hasn't convinced me since then to buy anything new. | ||
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baldgye
United Kingdom1115 Posts
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