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Amazing news! Though I didn't play it competitively, StarCraft was a big part of my life -- my friends and I made custom scenarios to be played in 'Use Map Sett

by niftich 10y ago

Amazing news! Though I didn't play it competitively, StarCraft was a big part of my life -- my friends and I made custom scenarios to be played in 'Use Map Settings' mode, like dozens of iterations of tower defense and the like. Given the impressive list of tune-ups, I'm hoping that some improvements will be made to mapmaking -- or perchance, even "modding", which was never really supported aside from third-party hacks. On the low end, support for mp3, Vorbis, or some other compressed audio format for custom sounds would be nice instead of .wav, but if they aimed higher they could rejuvenate a player-generated content community for years to come.

Tossrock 10y ago
The Starcraft 2 modding is incredibly in-depth* and that scene is slowly dying. * I am pretty sure that Blizzard actually made an entire other game, Heroes of the Storm, using those same tools
- dogma1138 10y ago
  HoTS uses a different engine and completely new netcode to SC2.
  - ferdbold 10y ago
    It does use the same engine as StarCraft II. It originally started as Blizzard All-Stars and was supposed to be a custom map for the SC2 arcade, but the team ran into technical roadblocks that pushed them into making HotS a separate game.
    - fuckthis 10y ago
      >the team ran into technical roadblocks The "technical roadblocks" were no easy way to monetize it as a map.
    - NTripleOne 10y ago
      Just to take you back even further, it originally started as "Blizzard DOTA".
  - niftich 10y ago
    Do you have sources on this? The conventional wisdom in the community is that it's the SC2 engine -- a view backed up by the game's origins as an SC2 map, similarities in internal file formats, folder structure, the nature and availability of video settings, and this 2014 article by Polygon that confirms it outright [1]. Other articles from 2014 [2][3] talk about how the same team handled the development-until-release of SC2 and Heroes of the Storm. [1] http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/21/5735230/heroes-of-the-storm-casual-dota-league-of-legends-complex http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/21/5735230/heroes-of-the-storm... [2] https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/6778-heroes-of-the-storm-interview-with-kaeo-milker/ https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/6778-heroes-of-the-st... [3] http://heroes.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/heroes-of-the-storm-developer-qa-part-2-jan-22-2014-transcript http://heroes.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/heroes-of-the-st...
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- 2600 10y ago
  And all of those mods are available to play for free! There are a lot of fun multiplayer mods. http://us.battle.net/arcade/en/ http://us.battle.net/arcade/en/ The paid product is for competitive multiplayer and the single-player campaigns.
  - fuckthis 10y ago
    Those are NOT mods. Those are custom maps. >MedianXL is a mod. Desert Strike is a map.
theandrewbailey 10y ago
Around 2005, I converted about 3 AOE2 playing friends into StarCraft players. I had created some melee and team based maps over the years prior if I had an idea, but it wasn't long before everyone was making their own maps. For a while, there was a new one about every other week. We would call each other about every night asking if we could get on B.net, then wait 20 minutes if there was a new patch.

by niftich 10y ago

Tossrock 10y ago

The Starcraft 2 modding is incredibly in-depth* and that scene is slowly dying. * I am pretty sure that Blizzard actually made an entire other game, Heroes of the Storm, using those same tools

dogma1138 10y ago
HoTS uses a different engine and completely new netcode to SC2.
- ferdbold 10y ago
  It does use the same engine as StarCraft II. It originally started as Blizzard All-Stars and was supposed to be a custom map for the SC2 arcade, but the team ran into technical roadblocks that pushed them into making HotS a separate game.
  - fuckthis 10y ago
    >the team ran into technical roadblocks The "technical roadblocks" were no easy way to monetize it as a map.
  - NTripleOne 10y ago
    Just to take you back even further, it originally started as "Blizzard DOTA".
- niftich 10y ago
  Do you have sources on this? The conventional wisdom in the community is that it's the SC2 engine -- a view backed up by the game's origins as an SC2 map, similarities in internal file formats, folder structure, the nature and availability of video settings, and this 2014 article by Polygon that confirms it outright [1]. Other articles from 2014 [2][3] talk about how the same team handled the development-until-release of SC2 and Heroes of the Storm. [1] http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/21/5735230/heroes-of-the-storm-casual-dota-league-of-legends-complex http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/21/5735230/heroes-of-the-storm... [2] https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/6778-heroes-of-the-storm-interview-with-kaeo-milker/ https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/6778-heroes-of-the-st... [3] http://heroes.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/heroes-of-the-storm-developer-qa-part-2-jan-22-2014-transcript http://heroes.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/heroes-of-the-st...
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2600 10y ago
And all of those mods are available to play for free! There are a lot of fun multiplayer mods. http://us.battle.net/arcade/en/ http://us.battle.net/arcade/en/ The paid product is for competitive multiplayer and the single-player campaigns.
- fuckthis 10y ago
  Those are NOT mods. Those are custom maps. >MedianXL is a mod. Desert Strike is a map.

theandrewbailey 10y ago

Around 2005, I converted about 3 AOE2 playing friends into StarCraft players. I had created some melee and team based maps over the years prior if I had an idea, but it wasn't long before everyone was making their own maps. For a while, there was a new one about every other week. We would call each other about every night asking if we could get on B.net, then wait 20 minutes if there was a new patch.