StarCraft II - HotS: new Features announced
Post #1
Ahli
May 7 2012, 5:58 pm
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STARCRAFT II Heart of the Swarm - --- Developer Update ---  Blizzard's StarCraft II Heart of the Swarm Production Director Chris Sigaty revealed the features that will come around the time when Heart of the Swarm will hit the shelves. They announced the Multiplayer game resuming was one of their goals some time ago, but now we receive even greater news. It will be possible to continue the match from replay. Someone in the community showed with his hack that it was already technically possible, but now such a feature will be integrated officially. Just like Diablo 3 will have no more closed servers, Starcraft II will open the gateways for global play to enjoy the games with your friends all over the world and allowing professionals from different continents to play against each other without the necessity of account sharing or acquiring 6 battle.net accounts with one copy of the game per gateway. In addition to that the language changing option will be fully implemented again after we saw its last trace in SC2's beta. Furthermore clans, unranked matches like ladder games and replays watchable with friends will be made possible. You can read the whole article here.   |
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Post #3
UnholyUrine
May 7 2012, 7:45 pm
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Very legit question:
Do people of WoL get these "Features" Wow, global play and multiplayer replay vieweing and clan/guild systems are now "features".... that's sad |
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Post #4
Ahli
May 7 2012, 9:14 pm
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Nothing yet! Almost done. Very powerful, very strong.
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Why shouldn't you get HotS? Campaign, assets, multiplayer units, most custom maps will migrate to HotS because of assets and new functionalities. I would guess that it will be a battle.net update and not optional stuff bound to HotS. But I could be mistaken. |
Post #5
Jack[RCDF
May 7 2012, 9:45 pm
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Excellent news. I wonder if unranked matchmaking will include custom maps, I'm guessing not but it'd be great if it did.
Red classic. I have mostly left SEN except for the Temple Siege 2 forum (hidden to most of you). I am available via PM still, and Skype as JackRCDF. If it is important to you, you will find a way. Otherwise, you will find an excuse. -Unknown Magnificent! Perhaps you shouldn't be on SEN as much, too... Better than the iPad! |
Post #6
IskatuMesk
May 7 2012, 9:57 pm
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Multiplayer replay viewing would have been nice if I was still casting. You know, wc3 never got that at all. They were probably feeling the pressure from Valve just dancing around them laughing in this nasally voice. "Tee hee hee!"
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Post #7
NudeRaider
May 7 2012, 10:12 pm
![[Avatar]](/uploads/avatar/918.png) You're not old until the past seems more fun than the future.
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Wow I didn't think I'd see the day. A while back I made that it official requirement that I want to be able to play with EVERYONE I know, not just people from my region. Now that they're gonna implement it I'll stand by my word and buy HotS.
And I must say with this I'm slowly regaining my faith in Blizzard. It seems they are going to put the impressive support into sc2 that they put into sc1. Terrible decisions for the launch of the game, but they're slowly getting it fixed.  Devilesk: "AND OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF MY HEART [...]" - wait what?? |
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Post #9
NudeRaider
May 8 2012, 7:09 am
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You're not old until the past seems more fun than the future.
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Sure, we can play a few matches but don't expect much from me. I was never big in sc1 melee and nor will I be in sc2. I'm more of an UMS guy.
Devilesk: "AND OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF MY HEART [...]" - wait what?? |
Post #10
UnholyUrine
May 8 2012, 4:25 pm
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;)
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Is there any news on the Price of HotS?
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Post #12
ClansAreForGays
May 9 2012, 3:14 am
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HotS looks so good now that I'm not even getting D3.
Starting to learn the editor now, just sucks that there aren't any starter guides in plain sight (seriously?) So what's gonna be new in HotS editor wise? HotS multiplayer has already been mimicked perfectly in a public custom map. |
Post #13
Jack[RCDF
May 9 2012, 6:24 am
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Skin to bone, steel to rust, ash to ashes, dust to dust.
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HotS is supposed to include blizz's art tools, which would theoretically mean more custom models. Unfortunately their "art tools" are probably just scripts for 3Ds max, like in WCIII. We'll see though.
Blizzard is actually listening to the community better with patch 1.5 and HotS, although who knows if it'll last. They could also add a lot of stuff and make it not as good as we're thinking, their execution is important. Red classic. I have mostly left SEN except for the Temple Siege 2 forum (hidden to most of you). I am available via PM still, and Skype as JackRCDF. If it is important to you, you will find a way. Otherwise, you will find an excuse. -Unknown Magnificent! Perhaps you shouldn't be on SEN as much, too... Better than the iPad! |
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Post #15
UnholyUrine
May 9 2012, 7:06 pm
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;)
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@Oh_Man
Because not everyone here is incredibly rich? @Jack Same feelings here. I'd rather sit and wait to see how this "community focus" plays out. I still feel that a lot of these new "features" are things that should've been here in the first place. |
Post #16
IskatuMesk
May 9 2012, 8:34 pm
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D3 isn't going to suck. It already sucks.
HoTS to me seems to be a deeper investment in a product that wasn't finished to begin with. I'll wait and see if they actually fix anything I care about. |
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