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I was working on a port of advance wars, but lol if I'm bothering finishing it now. Also it's hilarious that small indie developer blizzard is becoming closer to truth than joke as they circle the drain. Wonder how much of the remains of the company will be left after this bomb.
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A friend of mine convinced me that I should make a map with him, so I'm doing that against my better judgement. It honestly feels good building stuff in the World Editor again. It's incredibly limiting and hacky and I miss the Galaxy Editor in a lot of ways, but it's really nice knowing exactly how to do everything.
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Feb 10, 2020 12:48
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Now that 1.30.1 is essentially the best official version of the original client, I actually have to use it because I was in the middle of a custom campaign I now can't continue thanks to custom campaigns being broken. If only Blizzard had just stopped at adding widescreen support and some monetization.... I assume it would be against forum rules to post a link to a 1.30.1 full game download? If ever an exception should be made to that, I'd think the official game being broken should qualify. Anyways, it's not hard to find. As far as I know you can't simply install the old way and patch to 1.30.1, because they replaced the update system which now connects to Blizzard's servers and installs the latest broken version, the only way it works is with an actual full copy of 1.30.1.
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Feb 10, 2020 12:59
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Zaphod42 posted:Even if they don't, the fact that they could at any moment without notice has a strong chilling effect on creators investing their time in making maps. This is not new. They could have banned your custom game for any reason or no reason before as well. Now if Disney finds Toy Story Xtreme RPG on battle.net blizzard can remove it and point to the rules that they don’t allow that when the mouse lawyer sends his nasty letter. Its “please don’t sue us look we’re trying” language.
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Yeah since they made that announcement it feels like they kinda have to do it due to the first paragraph of it being their property now as well, so they don't get sued all over the place for massively stealing everything and instead have a rule that they can point out and raise some finger about not doing it please. It really comes down on whether or not they enforce that by massively swinging the ban hammer everywhere or if they just have to de facto hardly enforceable rule and try to stay under the radar with it.
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Feb 10, 2020 15:23
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Eregos posted:Now that 1.30.1 is essentially the best official version of the original client, I actually have to use it because I was in the middle of a custom campaign I now can't continue thanks to custom campaigns being broken. If only Blizzard had just stopped at adding widescreen support and some monetization.... I think it probably would be (and its not too hard to google for) but somebody posted a link a few pages ago anyways, read the thread lol Comrayn posted:This is not new. They could have banned your custom game for any reason or no reason before as well. Now if Disney finds Toy Story Xtreme RPG on battle.net blizzard can remove it and point to the rules that they don’t allow that when the mouse lawyer sends his nasty letter. Its “please don’t sue us look we’re trying” language. When custom games were hosted by players then not really Goons Are Great posted:Yeah since they made that announcement it feels like they kinda have to do it due to the first paragraph of it being their property now as well, so they don't get sued all over the place for massively stealing everything and instead have a rule that they can point out and raise some finger about not doing it please. It really comes down on whether or not they enforce that by massively swinging the ban hammer everywhere or if they just have to de facto hardly enforceable rule and try to stay under the radar with it. Yeah but they choose to make it their property. One results from the other. Both are bad. They shouldn't have done that either. This is some weird logic. "Welp, we just HAD to own all player created content, we had no choice, and now that we're doing that we HAVE to take down copyright infringement, so ... our hands are tied!" Or you could just not gently caress it up in the first place
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Feb 10, 2020 17:47
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All the extra work they will have to do curating and maintaining the custom game catalogue will all be worth it when Mike Dota unwittingly creates the next big custom game on their platform, allowing them to swoop in and snatch it for themselves
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Feb 10, 2020 17:54
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Can't wait for that to actually happen but they bungle the release and someone else ends up dominating the genre
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Feb 10, 2020 18:44
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah but they choose to make it their property. One results from the other. Both are bad. They shouldn't have done that either.
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A nice fix would be a chime or something when the match actually starts. Right now there is just a horn fanfare for when the lobby is ready. It often takes 1-2 minutes of silent and static load screen as the last player's pentium pc chugs along. When the game actually starts you might get some low ambient sounds but at least with the night elf soundtrack it's starts so silent you won't know if you're alt tabbed out. Even a loading bar for each player would be nice so we can see when we're getting close.
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Feb 10, 2020 19:35
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:Even a loading bar for each player would be nice so we can see when we're getting close. Its really hilarious that war3 in 2002 had this but remake in 2020 does not
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Zaphod42 posted:Its really hilarious that war3 in 2002 had this but remake in 2020 does not Yeah it's been over 10 years since I played TFT but I thought I remembered that and also displayed ranks on the load screen.
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Feb 10, 2020 20:02
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Eregos posted:Now that 1.30.1 is essentially the best official version of the original client Unless you want LAN (used for playing over the Internet without going through bnet), then it's 1.27b.
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Feb 10, 2020 20:49
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Zaphod42 posted:Its really hilarious that war3 in 2002 had this but remake in 2020 does not There was a big deal about this a few years ago with LoL where people were berating the people with the slow computers for making the game take so long to load so they removed the loading bar. Feels like the same thing here. Also, I tried to play some last night with a friend. Basically all of the Battle.net 2.0 features are broken. My friends list was empty and all that showed up were a bunch of empty black boxes with no functionality. My friend and I had to join a custom channel to see each other and join a party. It's unbelievable how garbage this is from every angle.
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Feb 10, 2020 20:58
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Frustrated posted:There was a big deal about this a few years ago with LoL where people were berating the people with the slow computers for making the game take so long to load so they removed the loading bar. Feels like the same thing here. IDK at a certain point you need to defrag your drive or buy a new HDD if you're gonna play online Making 3 people wait 5 minutes because your hard drive is dying but can't afford a new one seems lame, if that's really how it is maybe play single player games until you can save up to buy a new drive
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Feb 10, 2020 21:13
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Frustrated posted:There was a big deal about this a few years ago with LoL where people were berating the people with the slow computers for making the game take so long to load so they removed the loading bar. Feels like the same thing here. Well they could always show the slowest bar without telling whose it is
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Minorkos posted:Well they could always show the slowest bar without telling whose it is
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Feb 10, 2020 22:15
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Frustrated posted:Also, I tried to play some last night with a friend. Basically all of the Battle.net 2.0 features are broken. My friends list was empty and all that showed up were a bunch of empty black boxes with no functionality. My friend and I had to join a custom channel to see each other and join a party. It's unbelievable how garbage this is from every angle. How about automatically dumping you in General Chat window takes up an uncollapsable quarter of the screen when navigating menus. It overlaps and obscures much of the campaign menu. I also received a few hard r nwords in game which I was surprised about (the lack of filter, not the lack of bigots)
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Feb 10, 2020 23:03
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:How about automatically dumping you in General Chat window takes up an uncollapsable quarter of the screen when navigating menus. It overlaps and obscures much of the campaign menu. They had to focus on the most important words like Booty Bay. Can't have any customs with such vulgar terms. The rest is still WIP.
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Feb 10, 2020 23:42
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Gildiss posted:They had to focus on the most important words like Booty Bay. Can't have any customs with such vulgar terms. The rest is still WIP. It's not because it's vulgar, they're just protecting their IP.
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Feb 11, 2020 09:08
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Zaphod42 posted:if that's really how it is maybe play single player games until you can save up to buy a new drive I cannot possibly stress enough how THIS GAME RAN FINE UNTIL MAY OF LAST loving YEAR.
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Feb 11, 2020 13:25
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Just a quick question here, is it in general possible to play custom games right now? I keep trying to play with a friend and we keep getting auto-kicked from each other's lobby. Do you still need ports open and poo poo like that, does the invite feature simply not work properly or do I have to sacrifice a goat to actually play with a friend?
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Feb 11, 2020 14:10
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Tubgoat posted:I cannot possibly stress enough how THIS GAME RAN FINE UNTIL MAY OF LAST loving YEAR. Man fix your computer this is getting sad
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Feb 11, 2020 18:16
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Don't you people have SSDs?
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Feb 11, 2020 18:27
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Tubgoat posted:I cannot possibly stress enough how THIS GAME RAN FINE UNTIL MAY OF LAST loving YEAR. Yeah on the flipside they hosed over people who just wanna run classic graphics
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Feb 11, 2020 20:18
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Can I refund my gf also
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FoolyCharged posted:Don't you people have SSDs? I do. Is that better or worse for trying to run a 17-year-old computer game?
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Tubgoat posted:I do. Is that better or worse for trying to run a 17-year-old computer game? Better. Everything is better on an SSD.
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oh mang. freaking epic discussion here. ssd or go home! pc master race ftw!
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Feb 12, 2020 10:56
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CyberPingu posted:Better. Everything is better on an SSD. Okay.
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Feb 12, 2020 12:29
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You know, I figured that reference wouldn't fly over anyone's head here. I was jokingly imitating how blizzard bombed handling the poor reception to the diablo immortal announcement.
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FoolyCharged posted:You know, I figured that reference wouldn't fly over anyone's head here. I was jokingly imitating how blizzard bombed handling the poor reception to the diablo immortal announcement. Blizzard is beyond humor though.
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FoolyCharged posted:You know, I figured that reference wouldn't fly over anyone's head here. I was jokingly imitating how blizzard bombed handling the poor reception to the diablo immortal announcement. I got it, im just sick of that joke so I sandbag it at every opportunity.
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CyberPingu posted:I got it, im just sick of that joke so I sandbag it at every opportunity. Don't you guys have humor?
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loving around in the world editor has been fun because i've done some pretty wacky poo poo but i also have been re-discovering how much you have to fight it to get anything done did you know that many abilities have fields that do nothing? like literally nothing. i was like "I'm gonna make an Evasion that has a 100% proc rate but only goes off every 5 seconds" and i thought it'd be as simple as putting a 5 in the "Stats - Cooldown" field for the Evasion ability nope pranked by the big blue B
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They remastered the secret tower defence level in the human TFT campaign for some reason, how the gently caress did that get done when so much other stuff was completely unchanged?
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Zaphod42 posted:Direct comparisons: What are these goofy giant collar guards called? I vaguely recall someone mentioning them somewhere but I can't remember where
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Reforged: When Mountain Giant picks up a tree, it retains the same "default" tree texture on all of them regardless of tree type, unlike Classic where each tree type's texture is preserved (Reddit) Nope, no cutting corners here, no sir.
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I simply want to stop in for a moment to thank you all for your posts so I can better understand exactly how bad Blizzard managed to screw this up in every possible way.
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