Warcraft 3 coming to Starcraft 2 - Page 3

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03-13-2015, 11:58 AM

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Nice trailer, Egrem.

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Originally Posted by Triceron

There's more people who have heard about Legacy of the Void being standalone than know about the arcade being free. It could have been one of the many bullet points in the presentation, reminding the fanbase that this game is playable by anyone. They're even holding monetary prized mapping contests, but few people actually even know this stuff is even happening.

But I'm just bitter whenever I see people who still don't realize the arcade is free. Don't mind a grumpy old man.

I didn't know that LotV was a stand-alone... :<

But I guess I'm more just foncused overall; what's all this about "arcade"? I get that they have the game broken into 3 "installments" (WoL, HotS, LotV), and I know I can get a "starter edition" for free through Battle.net, but I don't know all that that entails.

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#52 03-13-2015, 11:54 PM
GenyaArikado Banished Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 13,294	wawawawait. So you can play stuff like the SC1 remakes and stuff like that for free?

#53

03-14-2015, 01:57 PM

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SC2 arcade is already F2P. The fact that so many people still believe you need to buy SC2 to play the custom arcade is an absolute failure on Blizzard's marketting.

My point is that the arcade is inside SC2, and it should be the other way around.

They could advertise it better then. With the so many F2P players they have it wouldn't be hard to slap a banner in the client or some shit.

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wawawawait. So you can play stuff like the SC1 remakes and stuff like that for free?

Since months ago.

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#54 03-14-2015, 02:44 PM
Xarthat Eternal Join Date: May 2008 Location: Second World Shithole Posts: 3,864 BattleTag: Kalontas#2949	What about assets or other stuff from expansions? I remember in SC1 when you put in a unit or a map tileset from Brood War, you wouldn't load it in a game without Brood War. Can you, in SC2 Arcade, just load stuff with parts from Swarm (and in the future, from Legacy) for free? __________________

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03-15-2015, 04:56 PM

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The only pay aspect of SC2 is the campaigns and access to campaign assets for map making. Otherwise, multiplayer and custom map play is all free. You don't need Heart of the Swarm to access Heart of the Swarm assets when playing, only if you're a map maker.

So when you buy LOTV, you're buying the campaign only. The standalone thing only means you don't need SC2/Heart of the Swarm to play Legacy of the Void. You can jump into that campaign straight up from buying it.

So if you don't care anything about the campaigns (Which you can watch on youtube/twitch anyways), SC2 in all its multiplayer glory is F2P.

#56 03-16-2015, 07:08 AM
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03-16-2015, 08:12 AM

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Dang. Well it's a shame all I care about is the campaign. :<

But thanks for the info.

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#58 03-16-2015, 10:08 AM
GenyaArikado Banished Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 13,294	i wouldnt be surprised if there are illegal bypasses. There werent went i downloaded it but that was before the arcade i think. Is there any maps out there like the map with Niadra infesting the protoss? i love that thing.

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03-16-2015, 05:01 PM

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The map making is exactly what I was thinking of. I want to know if I decided to try the WC3-inside-SC2 mapmaking, if I won't run into roadblocks in the shape of "can't use that trigger because it's HotS only". Because I can't really afford to shell out cash for games right now.

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03-21-2015, 10:21 AM

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Triggers won't get affected, they're part of the editor. You will simply not have access to Heart of the Swarm campaign assets if you don't have the expansion.

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#62 03-28-2015, 05:28 PM
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03-28-2015, 05:33 PM

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Is Starcraft good game? Do I own Stracraft 2 to play warcraft hd or get free

Starcraft is good game. Stracraft 2 is abomination.

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03-28-2015, 05:36 PM

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Starcraft is good game. Stracraft 2 is abomination.

So Starcraft can do warcraft hd models? Stracraft is a abomination= Stiches strong abomination? i confuse help me does blizzart accept leu or just american dolla?

I will talk later, got to go.

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03-29-2015, 09:13 PM

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So Starcraft can do warcraft hd models? Stracraft is a abomination= Stiches strong abomination? i confuse help me does blizzart accept leu or just american dolla?

I will talk later, got to go.

In Europe, Blizzard accepts the euro, British pound, and ruble. You will need to use one of those currencies to purchase Starcraft or Starcraft II.

Starcraft cannot do HD models, but Starcraft II can. The most recent patch for Starcraft II contains all of the regular assets for Warcraft III, as well as some assets that have been updated to HD.

Hope that helps.

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#66 04-05-2015, 07:03 PM
MisterCrow Eternal Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Tucson, AZ Posts: 4,421	sorry for the bump Dudes like Triceron and Ujimasa Hojo might be able to answer this more effectively, but is there any other solution to how trees work in SC2 that doesn't require Blizzard to basically do custom coding to support them? __________________ Lore Observation, Systems Design, and other science dropped at Power Word: Remix *Expect nothing and anything will surprise you.*

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04-11-2015, 06:55 AM

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Dudes like Triceron and Ujimasa Hojo might be able to answer this more effectively, but is there any other solution to how trees work in SC2 that doesn't require Blizzard to basically do custom coding to support them?

What's the issue with how trees work in SC2?

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04-11-2015, 07:23 AM

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Sorry but I don't have, play, or mod in SC2.

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04-11-2015, 03:37 PM

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What's the issue with how trees work in SC2?

They're pretty lame, at least last time I used them, and I don't think they could have changed.

You're required to make instances of each effect, each model, and each everything involved in something. And duplicating ruins everything. Whereas in Warcraft III the object editor was super easy to use.

It's too complicated, and for no real use. It needs a "dumb mode" urgently, so that you don't have to lose so much time doing a simple change.

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04-12-2015, 02:58 AM

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What's the issue with how trees work in SC2?

Essentially this:

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@tok: The performance issue is because SC2's engine lack the support for WC3 style trees.

In SC2, mineral nodes are not standalone type, and they are actually units, just like a marine. Normally, sc2 map has less than 100 mineral nodes, so that's not a big problem.

And if you get 500 mineral nodes in the same place, your fps would become 0.

While it comes to War3, each maps would have 5,000-10,000 harvestable trees. That means you have a melee map with 10000 units on the map every single time.

I have did many optimization to make the game to be able to reach 50 fps. Any future optimization would require blizzard engine support. (If I cut down the number of trees, and increase the resource amount of each tree, it would break balance, which war3 fans may get angry XD). Hope there can be some official engine support in the future.

Source: http://us.battle.net/arcade/en/blog/...-mod-3-27-2015

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04-12-2015, 08:45 AM

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And here I thought you were talking about technology trees, and not actual trees.

And yeah, looks like a huge fuck up.

Also, don't forget about the cliff limitations. Cliffs were pretty important in W3 for damage reduction and whatever, here they don't have anything like that, and also, W3 had 11+ cliff levels, while SC2 has only 3, and one of them is aesthetic and useless, like W3 water before TFT.

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#72 08-21-2015, 08:57 PM
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08-22-2015, 10:18 PM

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Also, don't forget about the cliff limitations. Cliffs were pretty important in W3 for damage reduction and whatever, here they don't have anything like that, and also, W3 had 11+ cliff levels, while SC2 has only 3, and one of them is aesthetic and useless, like W3 water before TFT.

You can't see up cliffs, though. Which you can in WC3.

Honestly, WC3/SC1's mechanic of '% chance to miss when shooting up a cliff' was a little too arbitrary for my tastes.

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08-23-2015, 05:44 AM

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when was the dark ranger model added?

You mean in SC2?

It came out with the other WC3HD models. It was even in my overview screenshots.

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08-23-2015, 01:29 PM

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You mean in SC2?

It came out with the other WC3HD models. It was even in my overview screenshots.

Are there any custom games out there that use the WC3 models?

Or anything that I can download that has the heroes pre assembled so I can tinker with them? putting everything together is too complex for me.

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