The original StarCraft is making a comeback, but this time around, it's going to look, sound and perform a heck of a lot better. Blizzard just announced StarCraft: Remastered, a collection of the. The one-week PTR testing period for 2.6.7 begins October 17 and we need your help to make Season 19 better than ever! StarCraft®: Remastered. Blizzard is bringing a Public Test Realm (PTR) to StarCraft Remastered, so you can test all the game's new features to your heart's desire. A new Developer Update clip where lead engineer Grant.
English subtitles for the video taken as-is for those who prefer to read or otherwise can't watch the video (highlighted sections related to mapmaking/UMS):
Starcraft Remastered Ptr Build
We are excited to announce that a Public Test Realm is on the way. PTR will allow us to work with you to test out new features and server updates before they go live. For example, StarCraft currently ignores keyboard input if the mouse is held down we've talked a lot about this on the forum with you. We know that feedback from the community is asking us to change this, so one of the first updates we're going to try on PTR is our proposed answer to this problem. And we're excited for you, our community, to help us test this out.
We'll also be testing changes to our matchmaking algorithm. We are hoping this will allow players with a good connection to Korea, to be able to match more often with Korean players.
Last year we created a thread on the forum listing many of the issues we intend to prioritize and address in 2019. Your feedback on this thread has been invaluable and has helped us to prioritize our goals for the year. We've already released several items from this list, and many more are currently in the works.
I'm also happy to announce that '64-BIT' is ahead of schedule, and we're moving ever closer to being able to release an 'OPT-IN' version. Later this year, 64-bit will be the only option for Mac users as I talked about at BlizzCon and at some point, in the future, that will be true for Windows as well.
We will soon be transitioning our community forums to the same forums that other Blizzard games are already using. We're excited about this change, because it offers more features and better tools to help us track and understand your feedback.
Lastly, we are all looking to an amazing year of back to back pro StarCraft competition, and we are already off to such a great start with LAST becoming the first ever KSL and ASL champion.
To wrap this up, let me say we have some very exciting things in the pipeline for the year. Some of you already know about like group matchmaking and some we're not quite ready to announce yet. But stay tuned! That's all for now. We love hearing from you, so please keep talking with us on the forums. From the whole team, thanks for watching. We're all very excited for a great year ahead for StarCraft Remastered!
Helpful links and references:
- Official SC Forums: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/
- Public Test Realm (PTR): https://us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/topic/20771316973
- 2019 Priorities: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/starcraft/topic/20770517068
- 64-Bit Computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing
- Korea StarCraft League (KSL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_StarCraft_League
- AfreecaTV StarCraft League (ASL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfreecaTV_StarCraft_League
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The original StarCraft is making a comeback, but this time around, it's going to look, sound and perform a heck of a lot better.
Blizzard just announced StarCraft: Remastered, a collection of the original StarCraft and its expansion, Brood War, for PC and Mac. Blizzard hasn't announced a price or a release date yet, but there is a pretty sweet new trailer that shows off what it'll look like.
Starcraft Remastered Ptr 2
In celebration of the remaster, the original StarCraft — pixels and all — will be free to download from Blizzard's site sometime later in the week.
StarCraft Remastered announcement trailer
Here's the full announcement trailer that illustrates what StarCraft Remastered looks like with the jump to 4K resolution and support for widescreen displays. It looks like Blizzard is trying to preserve the original colors and art direction, but just clean everything up a bit and bring it up to snuff.
StarCraft: Remastered: Comparing the old and new versions
The trailer whips past those comparison shots of the old and new versions of StarCraft pretty quickly, so we've broken everything down into some screenshots that you can use to really get a feel for how it's been updated.
Here's a screenshot of some Zerg in the original.
And here's a similar shot in the update.
Here's a shot of a Terran base in the original.
And here's what it looks like now.
And, finally, here's a pixelated-looking Protoss base from StarCraft.
Here's what that same base will look like when StarCraft: Remastered comes out later this year.
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