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Enigmedic · April 2017

There was a message on the website that said to run it as admin the first time because of some issue, maybe try that?

Caedwyr · April 2017

Turns out I needed to delete my Battlenet folder in ProgramData. Old Agent files in there were causing problems with the downloader.

Uselesswarrior · April 2017

WingedWeasel wrote: »

Dhalphir wrote: »

WingedWeasel wrote: »

Undead Scottsman wrote: »

Surprised they didn't add this to their game
launcher.

the old starcraft isn't compatible since it runs on b.net 1.0

i don't think they mentioned any integration with 2.0 for remastered. have they?

They haven't, but they are having a lot of other non gameplay quality of life changes to the game, so it's not impossible

i certainly hope they do

I am curious where the line is.

Personally I'd love grid keys, but is that going too far?

I'd also like a non-black min map at the start, so people who don't know the map could at least see where the expansions are.

Would this break the game or is this quality of life stuff for people wanting to get into the game?

kime · April 2017

Uselesswarrior wrote: »

WingedWeasel wrote: »

Dhalphir wrote: »

WingedWeasel wrote: »

Undead Scottsman wrote: »

Surprised they didn't add this to their game
launcher.

the old starcraft isn't compatible since it runs on b.net 1.0

i don't think they mentioned any integration with 2.0 for remastered. have they?

They haven't, but they are having a lot of other non gameplay quality of life changes to the game, so it's not impossible

i certainly hope they do

I am curious where the line is.

Personally I'd love grid keys, but is that going too far?

I'd also like a non-black min map at the start, so people who don't know the map could at least see where the expansions are.

Would this break the game or is this quality of life stuff for people wanting to get into the game?

Any change will have people arguing both. I suspect they'll make the bare minimum of changes personally.

MechMantis · April 2017

Team Liquid seems to be 110% negative on the new patch. Me? Seems to be just like old Starcraft but without palette problems.

Dhalphir · April 2017

I think they will change the hotkeys, but there's no way they change the black map. Those two things aren't even on the same level.

MechMantis · April 2017

Y'know, now that I think about it, they're setting themselves up nicely for a vanilla/chocolate split. Want Old Brood War? We got dat. You want Brood War with some QoL changes like fog of war instead of entirely black maps etc? We got that too.

Might split the playerbase, but I don't think they're overly concerned about that.

Uselesswarrior · April 2017

I just don't think I can hang.

Uselesswarrior · April 2017

You know what would be great for the remaster, archon mode.

There is so much to balance in the game that it help to have two people managing everything.

Caedwyr · April 2017

Uselesswarrior wrote: »

You know what would be great for the remaster, archon mode.

There is so much to balance in the game that it help to have two people managing everything.

Is this what you are looking for?

Starcraft & Broodwar Co-op campaign

Invictus · April 2017

Uselesswarrior wrote: »

You know what would be great for the remaster, archon mode.

There is so much to balance in the game that it help to have two people managing everything.

They called it 'team melee' in BW.

Cauld · April 2017

Invictus wrote: »

Uselesswarrior wrote: »

You know what would be great for the remaster, archon mode.

There is so much to balance in the game that it help to have two people managing everything.

They called it 'team melee' in BW.

I used to play a lot of team melee, its fun! My micro is pretty bad, but I can generally macro somewhat passably

Uselesswarrior · April 2017

My memory is hazy at best but I remember team melee as being slight different then archon mode.

Couldn't you play as different races on the same base or something weird like that?

Invictus · April 2017

Uselesswarrior wrote: »

My memory is hazy at best but I remember team melee as being slight different then archon mode.

Couldn't you play as different races on the same base or something weird like that?

Yeah, it's slightly different; if you chose different races then you got workers from all the races you chose. But I played a lot of TM in Brood War in ways that were functionally identical to archon mode.

WingedWeasel · April 2017

Honestly I think I prefer regular 2v2 to archon. The issue is bring completely unfamiliar with your partner's race. Micro is micro but I know how roaches work, or mutas, I don't know how to correctly use adepts or do medical drops. I would assume similar problems exist for the brood war equivalents.

Uselesswarrior · April 2017

I think the game is balanced around 1on1 though, 2v2 often feels like a second class citizen.

WingedWeasel · April 2017

Uselesswarrior wrote: »

I think the game is balanced around 1on1 though, 2v2 often feels like a second class citizen.

oh it definitely is. 2v2 being anything resembling balanced is just a happy side effect. which is unfortunate because i tend to find it more interesting than the way archon handles things.

Uselesswarrior · April 2017

I just want someone to rally those workers for me.

Uselesswarrior · April 2017

Oh there is a bar code on the terran's head on starcraft.com,

Anyone want to translate that?

EDIT:

It just says http://www.starcraft.com.

Pretty lame Blizzard.

Figgy · April 2017

Ew, QR codes died years ago. What whacko timeline is this???

Roe · May 2017

This happened a few days ago. I wonder what it must feel like to hold the disc in your hand.

Uselesswarrior · May 2017

Roe wrote: »

This happened a few days ago. I wonder what it must feel like to hold the disc in your hand.

Your link is broken, fixed it in the quote above.

As a software developer and supporter of free software, I'm a bit disappointed that Blizzard hasn't open sourced their classic games and turned it over to the community. Don't get me wrong, I love how long they support things, but there was something magical about the source port scene for Doom and I'm sad we will never get that for Blizzard games.

MMMig · June 2017

Quoting from our SC2 thread:

MMMig wrote: »

Welp, got my answer just 2 days afterwards.

8-14!
Pre-purchase available now.
https://us.battle.net/shop/en/product/starcraft-remastered

Undead Scottsman · June 2017

Only $15? I'd be stupid not to buy it!

WingedWeasel · June 2017

Saw that trailer on rotterdam's stream yesterday and it looked awesome. I'll be honest I'll probably buy it, play a handful of times and then just go back to SC2. I'm hoping that I enjoy I more but I'm not expecting to going in.

Lord_Asmodeus · June 2017

MMMig wrote: »

Quoting from our SC2 thread:

MMMig wrote: »

Welp, got my answer just 2 days afterwards.

8-14!
Pre-purchase available now.
https://us.battle.net/shop/en/product/starcraft-remastered

Am I crazy, or does that thumbnail not have anything to do with the trailer?

Also like a sucker I pre-ordered for the skins...

MMMig · June 2017

WingedWeasel wrote: »

Saw that trailer on rotterdam's stream yesterday and it looked awesome. I'll be honest I'll probably buy it, play a handful of times and then just go back to SC2. I'm hoping that I enjoy I more but I'm not expecting to going in.

I frankly think the SC1/BW storyline is miles, MILES better than the ridiculous SC2 teenage love drama.

I've been listening to the whole plot-line while working and it's been a lot of fun.

I had forgotten just how much of a bad-ass Tassadar and Zeratul were. Like, way way more bad-ass than what SC2 has (the only exception being General Warfield).

Even Raynor has actual cojones in this one.
"Shut the hell up Mengsk. No one asked you."

WingedWeasel · June 2017

I want to play through sc1 (base and be) again at some point because when I see people describe the story vs SC2 it isn't anything like what I remember. It's been so long I am chalking to up to faulty memory

Roe · July 2017

I can't wait to play through Brood War single-player. If memory serves me correctly, I didn't touch the brood war campaign at all.

Also, should be fun playing the revamped original, just for the sake of it.

BRIAN BLESSED · July 2017

The Brood War intro is probably one of my favorite cutscenes out of Blizzard's entire repertoire. Dark, moody, tense and dripping with plot.

MMMig · July 2017

BRIAN BLESSED wrote: »

The Brood War intro is probably one of my favorite cutscenes out of Blizzard's entire repertoire. Dark, moody, tense and dripping with plot.

For the time it was released, the fire from Stukov's lighter was some insanely next level animation. I would lose my shit every time I saw it.

Uselesswarrior · July 2017

It is really a shame they couldn't rerender the CG cutscenes for the remaster. So many of them were iconic.

I am not convienced their replacement is a good thing.

Undead Scottsman · July 2017

Uselesswarrior wrote: »

It is really a shame they couldn't rerender the CG cutscenes for the remaster. So many of them were iconic.

I am not convienced their replacement is a good thing.

Are they being replaced? I thought the motion comic stuff was on top of that. (Speculation was that they're replacing the "talking heads" briefings.)

Uselesswarrior · July 2017

Oh, perhaps I misunderstood.

Either way, the original files for those cutscenes are apparently lost to the ages.

Enigmedic · July 2017

didnt someone just return a CD with all the source stuff like 3 months ago?

BRIAN BLESSED · July 2017

Well it was the gold master, which would still be the original release files

Not exactly the same as uncompressed video, I would think

TelMarine · July 2017

Uselesswarrior wrote: »

I just don't think I can hang.

How to get a RSI in 21 Days: A Practical Guide.

I wonder if any analytics have been done in terms of an "ideal" APM. Some of the really high ones are meaningless because of the high volume of pointless clicking in Starcraft 1.

DarkMecha · July 2017

I've recently watched one of Day9's videos about why SCBW was so cool and it got me thinking about how fun SCBW was back in the day, and why I found SC2 so much less fun even though I really wanted to have fun with it.

In a word for me: deathballs. Two words? Anyways... Stuff was so spread out in SCBW and like Day9 was saying, it's just damned hard to get anything to do anything, and that itself makes weird, fun stuff happen. It influences strategies and gives the game depth.

I didn't get LotV because I just didn't think I'd actually have fun with it, but I wonder if SCBW HD would actually be a good buy for me. Then again I remember crying in a corner of my room at one point (I was a kid) because no matter how much I practiced I couldn't get good at SCBW, haha. Oh the "fun"!

MMMig · July 2017

Deathballs definitely sucked a ton of fun out of the game.

Enigmedic · July 2017

Imagine what sc2 would be like if there were a 12-20 unit selection limit. I feel like that right there would change the game in some very drastic ways.

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