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United Kingdom1381 Posts
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"Patch 2.1 is coming soon, and with it we're adding new features and making a number of improvements to StarCraft II. Whether you're a mapmaker, an eSports enthusiast, an Arcade hero, or just love playing StarCraft II, Patch 2.1 will have something that's right up your alley. To help ensure everything goes smoothly on patch day, we're requesting your help in testing each of these improvements using the Public Test Realm.
The PTR will become accessible soon after BlizzCon and we want to make sure you’ve got plenty of time to be ready. Anyone with the Battle.net Desktop App and a StarCraft II account will be able participate in PTR testing. If you don’t already have the Battle.net App, you can download and install it by clicking the button below.
Sit tight, because we'll have more information on how to access the Public Test Realm after BlizzCon. We’ll also reveal plenty of details on the exciting new features coming to StarCraft II in the weeks leading up to the release of Patch 2.1. If you’d like more information on the Battle.net App, you can go here to check out the FAQ and be sure to send us your feedback using the Open Beta forum."
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Oooo, sounds good. I can't wait to be underwhelmed with the lack of changes when I get the PTR!
OR possibly even be extremely content with the changes made~
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United Kingdom1381 Posts
My hope for the next patch is that they improve low popularity Arcade games.
The way I'd implement it is to allow a player to check a number of games that they would like to play (e.g. I really want to play StarBow, maybe SC2BW, or possibly Monobattles). The current system means that you either have to sit in a lobby for an hour until another person shows up or you give up out of frustration and go play a more popular game.
If you could wait in a lobby for multiple games, the chance of meeting another player dramatically increases and would make these games viable.
Further features could include a confirmation popup (to prevent populating a game when you're AFK), game priority (e.g. attempt to find a player for Starbow before expanding the search to include Monobattles) and possibly other filtering mechanisms (e.g. don't populate a 1v1 Obs map with less than 10 players) .
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Fucking fuck yeah. Thank you. I missed having a ptr, and imho balance test maps don't really do it. Thanks blizz :D
Also huge props for actually waiting for blizzcon to finish to do all this. Imo it's gonna feel great to go into a new version of sc2 after this years wcs has ended. Plus the balance changes will create the "lets see how the pro meta really adapted to this" hype for wcs when it starts again for next year. Yea we'll have some weekend competitions, but imho the game truly shows when using the preparation format of wcs regions.
If I would even dare to ask for anything (given that I just care about 1 v 1 ladder) I'd say please add some ranks above masters. On iccup masters would be something like b-, maybe even c, and I'd much rather have a few ranks above it so once you hit masters you can continue to work towards something besides getting into gm before it's full. However as they even copied their league system into hearthstone I'd say this is somewhat unrealistic. Realistically I would love to get some ingame tournaments into the game. Imo a lot more people would compete, which would then allow them to connect better to progamers, if you could just launch the game, hit tournaments and immediately start playing.
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tournament ladder game please. let me play a bo3 with my opponent or something similar
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Any ideas what will this bring? Do we actually know something?
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Sounds promising, I can't wait until the Blizzcon Panel to reveal the new stuff 
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On October 31 2013 18:05 ETisME wrote:
tournament ladder game please. let me play a bo3 with my opponent or something similar
LOL wait for starcraft 4 for that.
Expect some UI/Menu and Arcade related changes.
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"plenty of details on the exciting new features"
Bad changes confirmed
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Russian Federation262 Posts
Finally!
I would be on a holidays, but i hope Tailand internet connection is good enough for watching blizzcon!
Cant wait for it!
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On October 31 2013 17:57 iHirO wrote:
My hope for the next patch is that they improve low popularity Arcade games.
The way I'd implement it is to allow a player to check a number of games that they would like to play (e.g. I really want to play StarBow, maybe SC2BW, or possibly Monobattles). The current system means that you either have to sit in a lobby for an hour until another person shows up or you give up out of frustration and go play a more popular game.
If you could wait in a lobby for multiple games, the chance of meeting another player dramatically increases and would makes these games viable.
Further features could include a confirmation popup (to prevent populating a game when you're AFK), game priority (e.g. attempt to find a player for Starbow before expanding the search to include Monobattles) and possibly other filtering mechanisms (e.g. don't populate a 1v1 Obs map with less than 10 players) .
Ok, that all sounds awesome. I like the idea of being able to cue for a bunch of arcade games at once.
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My guess/wishlist
- SC2 multiplayer becomes a free to play game entirely.
- SC2 shop has been added and allows mapmakers to sell their maps or simply have a "donate" button if the mapmaker feels like having the map free is the best choice but still allow people to reward the mapmaker with the effort. A % of the money goes to Blizzard
- Team Portraits. In the same shop people could buy portraits of their favourite team (if they uploaded it) which directly supports the team. % goes to Blizzard.
- LAN mode for SC2, after other games like Dota 2 implemented it Blizzard finally decided to implement a way of LAN'ning. Only works after logging in to Battle.net however. But during the game a drop of connection doesn't stop the game anymore.
- Tournament mode for up to 256 players which requires a 2 dollar fee to enter (like Hearthstone Arena) for every participant. The tournament has several options, you can set a map pool which can be anything as long as it's on Battle.net in the region. (Best of 7 mono battles?).
The tournament mode has options for various tournament formats including extended series.
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Brazil485 Posts
"making a number of improvements to StarCraft II. [...] Whether you're [..], an eSports enthusiast"
ability to create tournaments in game? I believe! If they also add an API so we could get players and tournaments information that would be perfect
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Russian Federation262 Posts
On October 31 2013 22:41 ivancype wrote:
"making a number of improvements to StarCraft II. [...] Whether you're [..], an eSports enthusiast"
ability to create tournaments in game? I believe! If they also add an API so we could get players and tournaments information that would be perfect
If they do it i would NEVER install LoL and Dota2 to my new PC
Blizzard, we hope and support u! <3
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Man, in-game online tournament system would be very, VERY cool and something. It would draw many players and viewers in I think..
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The Battle Net Application is quite nice - i have it for weeks on my PC and it really is a comfortable piece of software!
Im really looking forward to blizzcon this year.... if they use an entire PTR for SC2 there should be a decent amount of changes coming up!
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Blizzard you had my curiosity..but now you have my attention
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By a multiple Blizzard game owner The new launcher is awesome been using it for a while now and recommend it for sure... fingers crossed for automated tolurnaments (one of the features I miss the most from WC3) 
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Solve maphacking plz or make protoss harder to play
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Have to say that a tournament system would make me come back for reals. I have kinda stoped playing sc2 becus i had no reason to. But i sometimes get the itch to even logg on to wc3 and play a 2v2 or 1v1 tournament. Ofc i will get smashed first round but i still enjoy it, simply becus its'a tournament and the one time you made it the first game vs a lvl 20+ humen player it feelt awesome and you came back for more. So dear Blizzard, find it in your heart to atleast think about this.
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