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Starcraft Remastered confirmed [Summer 2017]. Original SC/BW to be free!
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People are just seeing the missile turret guys?
This seriously just blew me fucking mine. Almost 20 years in ignorance.
New article about the sound enhancements coming to Remastered.
https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/20722027
Some awesome stuff in there.
https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/20722027
Some awesome stuff in there.
AlexFlame116
Member
All the new portraits look great! It's so good seeing my man Tassadar again!
Plus the audio sounds a lot better too!
Orochinagis
Member
Well, you got my money Blizzard. devs should take notes to not be lazy and add proper voices or at least subs for all regions. I am looking at you Bioware and Bungie
AlexFlame116
Member
All I need now is a physical release that looks like the original box art but remastered. After that I'm all set.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
I knew they were going to fuck it up but what the hell is this? This is a dude whose default phrases are "This is Jimmy" and "Sounds fun". How in the fuck is this dude supposed to be happy go lucky.
SpiceMelange
Member
I knew they were going to fuck it up but what the hell is this? This is a dude whose default phrases are "This is Jimmy" and "Sounds fun". How in the fuck is this dude supposed to be happy go lucky.
He's everything but happy go lucky past the original terran campaign. Especially in Brood War were he's pretty much a depressed AF dude.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
He's fairly happy go lucky for the majority of it till the near end. He's certainly isn't brooding as it takes until near the end of zerg campaign to brake him and he's barely in the terran and protoss campaigns of broodwar.
I'm litterally playing through the game again right now so I have a pretty decent grasp.
Vital Tundra
Member
Wait are the portraits not animated?
Principate
Saint Titanfall
They don't seem to be no probably too much work.
MarmiteBadger
Member
Will the update for the original SC have widescreen support or no? I'd rather play with my original copies instead of buying a remastered version.
Stevey
Member
Wow, that's awful
AlexFlame116
Member
Was that announced? Maybe cause it's a website that's why it's not showing it.
Orochinagis
Member
I knew they were going to fuck it up but what the hell is this? This is a dude whose default phrases are "This is Jimmy" and "Sounds fun". How in the fuck is this dude supposed to be happy go lucky.
Well, lorewise in SC1 most of the marine are bald, criminal guys.
Vital Tundra
Member
On second thought they don't seem to be portraits based on the size of the image and the backgrounds. I don't know I hope they didn't pass on animating them. still portraits look terrible.
StrategyFan
Member
this is an example of why i don't always consider starcraft a strategy game
it's community has always seemed idiotic
the game might have actually had a chance to be fun outside of korea if they improved the UI/AI and people could actually find games on a slower speed, but the "don't nerf mah skillzz!!!11!!1" crowd was always too vocal
I hear you - praying we get a physical release
KLoWn
Member
I don't see how that's a fuck up. Looks good.
I knew they were going to fuck it up but what the hell is this? This is a dude whose default phrases are "This is Jimmy" and "Sounds fun". How in the fuck is this dude supposed to be happy go lucky.
https://soundcloud.com/starcraft-ii-official/starcraft-remastered-terran-01/s-WeHPk was this posted? redo of terran 1 theme. I much prefer the original.
Wonder if that's a consequence of their opengl renderer.
There is no way the portraits aren't animated, come on people.
...wait a minute
...this is literally the version from Heroes of the Storm
Ah well who knows how much effort is really going into this thing.
...wait a minute
...this is literally the version from Heroes of the Storm
Ah well who knows how much effort is really going into this thing.
SirNinja
Member
A portrait that doesn't reek of late-'90s CG?
Happy-go-lucky? lol...maybe on paper, sure. In practice, the line's spoken with a fair amount of acerbic sarcasm, as are virtually all the Terran units' lines.
Reek is a tad harsh, don't you think? It's the charms of a bygone decade.
Lol
AlexFlame116
Member
LOL!!!
Is the way better looking shadow in 1.18 a side effect of the compression?With the 1.18 patch, Blizzard has "de-mastered" the original sprites by introducing texture compression:
1.16
1.18
This impacts almost all in-game sprites and textures - possible exceptions are basic terrain tiles and static UI elements (buttons and resource icons are affected).
Sprites don't appear to be compressed in StarEdit - if the program uses the same data files, I guess the compression is applied at runtime in the game itself.
The intention might have been to reduce memory usage of the new textures in StarCraft Remastered, but it's unfortunate that it affects the original graphics.
AlexFlame116
Member
If you look at the trailer for the Remastered version, the new Battlecruiser portrait is animated.
Go to the 37 second mark.
Go to the 37 second mark.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Hahaha, ok that was good.
kontonChaos
Member
The new terran one theme sounds like shit compared to the original one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiqGTojmd2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4oXOpWiFEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiqGTojmd2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4oXOpWiFEg
SpiceMelange
Member
Your second link is not the original one either
TyrantGuardian
Member
Man the new music sounds like complete dry ass. I don't even see the point in re-making the music at all - it sounds perfectly fine in the original. Whatever, I just hope they have an option to switch graphics/sfx/music separately and don't tie everything to one switch.
Dreadmoth
Member
No - 1.18 seems to use alpha blending for shadows (and transparent sections on briefing screens), which looks nicer than the original method.
One consequence of that improvement was that overlapping shadows merged realistically instead of becoming darker, which made spotting stacked units more difficult. Players complained and Blizzard tweaked the rendering in one of the following patches so that shadows stack again (but still have improved colours, reduced banding, etc.).
Huh. It's kind of crazy how many seemingly random little things they decided to tweak for 1.18. Hopefully they don't consider it "done" at this point.
SpiceMelange
Member
I don't think it's manual tweaks. They probably ripped off old libs and put in modern ones to fix compatibility with modern OS and the infamous color palette corruption bug. I know they did it for sound with FMOD.
Well, they had to basically reverse-engineer the original game using cobbled-together source assets/code and stuff ripped from the retail disc. They also had to build an entirely new OpenGL renderer to replace the old DirectDraw one. So much had to be done under the hood to even get 1.18 running, so it's impressive to think that they will be able to squash all of these little issues by the time Remastered releases this summer.
AlexFlame116
Member
This isn't from Starcraft 2 is it? Maybe its from Starcraft Remastered? It's an animated Archon portrait.
Can't seem to link it from my phone.
Can't seem to link it from my phone.
Yes, it is from Remastered. Pete Stilwell uses that animated GIF as his avatar on the Blizz forums.
AlexFlame116
Member
So they ARE animated! Sweet!
Yeah they're animated. The static pictures you've seen are seemingly just concept art for the new portraits. The brief glimpses at the final animated portraits in Remastered that we've seen so far look great IMO.
AlexFlame116
Member
Oh I believed that they were but there were some posters that feared it wasn't cause of the static portraits we got through the sound update.
We can all rest easy as I wait for Fenix, Tassadar, and the Dark Archon portraits to appear!
Here's a preview of the profiles, looks nice!
https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/20814255
It seems like they're just morphing the 2D art in that trailer.
https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/20814255
It seems like they're just morphing the 2D art in that trailer.