Campaign Creations

DrumsofWar wrote: The editor looks very nice but I wonder what they meant by scripting language.  Galaxy editor might take a litlte getting used to.

Scripting language is their C-based scripting language, sc2's equivelent of JASS.

hoping for some better quality of those videos to come out

IskatuMesk wrote:

DrumsofWar wrote: The editor looks very nice but I wonder what they meant by scripting language.  Galaxy editor might take a litlte getting used to.

Scripting language is their C-based scripting language, sc2's equivelent of JASS.

Hopefully, it will be less WTF than other C-based scripting languages like JASS or NWN's.

NWN was C-based as well, I believe. Either that or C++. So you're looking at something somewhat similar to that most likely.

Very noice. However what I said about arrow-key movement in multiplayer still stands unless they seriously reduce the latency.  :P

Yeah I was talking to mesk over vent about it all, its great they are showing this off that you can do it without it looking half-assed but really work unless its singleplayer or the net code actually has support for such

saw the 2nd video, it kinda reminds me of hammer, thats good news.

Terrible, terrible.

That was pretty goddamn terrible.

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The links for the matches died. Not sure why.

Terrible, terrible damage indeed my good fine gentlemen. Terrible, terrible indeed...

Battle.net looks to me to be quite an experience. I play WoW and will play D3 as well as SC2, and this will come in handy big time.

I am impressed by what I have seen and will rethink some of my plans. I was kind of hoping for some more SC2 things and a beta date though. Coverage sites have lists of D3 and WoW and like 3 links of SC2.

FlyingHat wrote: Terrible, terrible.

Zilla- wrote: Terrible, terrible damage indeed my good fine gentlemen. Terrible, terrible indeed...

The starcraft 2 Developers who were wandering the show had a very interesting tshirt. This is the back of the shirt:

I think terrible was only used as a negative modifier once in that whole video but do hope they include it as a cheat code when the game comes out like operation cwal.

IskatuMesk wrote: what the FUCK @ allowing charging for maps. What the hell are they thinking?

I'll have to agree with WarBringer- If a map/mod is extremely unique to the point it's its own game (almost), I believe it should have the opportunity to receive funds from the work. Again, not everyone will bother to purchase a map that you have to pay for anywhere and the quality of free gaming is still as good as premium.

Hunter_Killers wrote: Speaking of which they also mentioned cloud storage so you actually download maps from battle.net.

There's actually a lot more you'll be able to do with cloud storage on Battle.net. More on this later.

IskatuMesk wrote: Lav better ask some good editor questions in the next Q&A or I'll hang him. I'm interested to hear Blizzard actually recognize mods as different than maps for a change.

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Wow, very bad response from the differentiation between maps and mods. Blizzard seriously thinks they're the same thing. Facepalm.

My questions were asked outside the panel.

Guess who asked the map/mod question, though.

IskatuMesk wrote: One has to wonder about mod support, though. Do they still have a mod loader, and how powerful is it? Will they include importers as well as exporters with their 3d package?

Yes, it wont launch with release though, it'll be included at a later time. The modding aspect is absolutely more powerful, again, more on this soon.

Xenon wrote: Very noice. However what I said about arrow-key movement in multiplayer still stands unless they seriously reduce the latency. 

This is all still beta, actually the 3rd person aspect is "retro" now I suppose as they actually have a working version of the mouse-movement version instead over keyboard.

Hunter_Killers wrote: Yeah I was talking to mesk over vent about it all, its great they are showing this off that you can do it without it looking half-assed but really work unless its singleplayer or the net code actually has support for such

Confusing statement If you mean if any of this would work over Battle.net, the.. Extremes it could go to, yeah, it would work on Battle.net, otherwise I'm lost.

Latency is what I was referring to over battle.net, real time movement via the keyboard usually gets mangled by it.