I've been playing Starcraft 1 and Diablo 2 recently, and while the resolution is low, they both reminded me how cool they looked. I've started to crave that 2d style, but it's obviously been quite shelved away in favor of 3D games. There's a bit of resurgence of it on mobile right now, but contrarily, many mobile games are just ugly/blocky 3D. Kind of a shame, because I think on lower-powered hardware, it's much cooler to use isometric 2D.
I wish them luck and success... pretty good lines in their FAQ like: "The game will cost less, be more creatively pure, and, most importantly, be built for the real “core” audience – not some corporate suit worried about including all the casual gamers."
Let's hope their vision pans out... many times big ideas like this end up turning into simple games with short gameplay or a lack of depth.
I'm waiting on the reviews for this one. Well, it doesn't help that I'm not playing WoL anymore, but I really don't care for another "let's kick this revolution into overdrive!" story lol.
Just wanted to chime in ShadowDancer... I had tons of these issues with banks with my map Death Haven. When it was popular, I was restoring bank files for pages of people every day lol... and Death Haven saves kills to bank fairly often.
I put in a safety where I had another bank that would save every 5s and if the main bank came back blank, I would then pull from the 5s one.
I think the issue is if the file is being written and someone disconnects, it wipes it. I believe it's a Blizz issue :/
Wow this is a long thread lol. Time to make one post after disappearing for 6 months.
I'm not really religious at all because that's how I was raised (and well, Vancouver is a pretty non-religious area)... but also it seems too easy of a solution for our creation. To me it's like astrological-signs, psychics, "the secret", etc... all stuff made by us because it feeds into our brain's needs to want to have a reason for things, or find patterns and whatever else... but in reality there's nothing. I have no problem with the good messages that many religions preach though, especially Buddhism.
Also, practicing religion is just a time/money sink I couldn't deal with. But I guess if you thought your afterlife depended on it, you'd make time :O
I haven't tried it since the alpha... do we have named custom lobbies yet? If not, cya guys for another year lol.
Edit: to the post down below me... it allows you to do things like for an RPG map, people could host "level 35+ only" etc. It also makes it feel a lot more personal/social and alive...
I don't know if crap has changed since my tutorialing-days, but have you found any other videos or tutorials involving unit duplication? Try PMing me some screenshots or video of your issue.
Yeah this is what makes it so confusing. One person says there is, the other says there isn't. If there was an NDA, Blizz needs to be clearer and say it in the email. I'm grateful to be a part of the test, but this is confusing lol.
Quote from Lucavious:
Nothing in the email indicated to me that they would have any live lobbies, once again proving they still don't have a clue why players don't like it. Looks more like they want it to be like an app market. Which would be fine if the games didn't rely on a lobby full of players in real time.
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I've been playing Starcraft 1 and Diablo 2 recently, and while the resolution is low, they both reminded me how cool they looked. I've started to crave that 2d style, but it's obviously been quite shelved away in favor of 3D games. There's a bit of resurgence of it on mobile right now, but contrarily, many mobile games are just ugly/blocky 3D. Kind of a shame, because I think on lower-powered hardware, it's much cooler to use isometric 2D.
What kind of styles do you guys like?
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P.S. thanks for many great videos guys. Been fun watching them.
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I wish them luck and success... pretty good lines in their FAQ like: "The game will cost less, be more creatively pure, and, most importantly, be built for the real “core” audience – not some corporate suit worried about including all the casual gamers."
Let's hope their vision pans out... many times big ideas like this end up turning into simple games with short gameplay or a lack of depth.
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I'm waiting on the reviews for this one. Well, it doesn't help that I'm not playing WoL anymore, but I really don't care for another "let's kick this revolution into overdrive!" story lol.
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@ShadowDancer93: Go
That sounds right to me if my memory is correct.
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Just wanted to chime in ShadowDancer... I had tons of these issues with banks with my map Death Haven. When it was popular, I was restoring bank files for pages of people every day lol... and Death Haven saves kills to bank fairly often.
I put in a safety where I had another bank that would save every 5s and if the main bank came back blank, I would then pull from the 5s one.
I think the issue is if the file is being written and someone disconnects, it wipes it. I believe it's a Blizz issue :/
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Wow this is a long thread lol. Time to make one post after disappearing for 6 months.
I'm not really religious at all because that's how I was raised (and well, Vancouver is a pretty non-religious area)... but also it seems too easy of a solution for our creation. To me it's like astrological-signs, psychics, "the secret", etc... all stuff made by us because it feeds into our brain's needs to want to have a reason for things, or find patterns and whatever else... but in reality there's nothing. I have no problem with the good messages that many religions preach though, especially Buddhism.
Also, practicing religion is just a time/money sink I couldn't deal with. But I guess if you thought your afterlife depended on it, you'd make time :O
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I haven't tried it since the alpha... do we have named custom lobbies yet? If not, cya guys for another year lol.
Edit: to the post down below me... it allows you to do things like for an RPG map, people could host "level 35+ only" etc. It also makes it feel a lot more personal/social and alive...
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@JakeCake26: Go
Go on...
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@capnflummox: Go
I don't know if crap has changed since my tutorialing-days, but have you found any other videos or tutorials involving unit duplication? Try PMing me some screenshots or video of your issue.
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So just like regular Battle.net!?!?
ZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/me grabs comedy award
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@AlexO6: Go
Yeah this is what makes it so confusing. One person says there is, the other says there isn't. If there was an NDA, Blizz needs to be clearer and say it in the email. I'm grateful to be a part of the test, but this is confusing lol.
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Okay guys here's an unlisted video, since this NDA thing is not clear. If they ever ask me to take it down, I will.
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@ZarafFaraz:
Not yet.
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Quote from Lucavious:
Nothing in the email indicated to me that they would have any live lobbies, once again proving they still don't have a clue why players don't like it. Looks more like they want it to be like an app market. Which would be fine if the games didn't rely on a lobby full of players in real time.
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Exactly my sentiments for the last 2 years.