Omnimaga
General Discussion => Technology and Development => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Hot_Dog on January 13, 2010, 09:50:15 pm
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http://www.winnieinternet.com/games/starcraft/abwar.htm
This campaign is not an official Blizzard campaign, but I decided to give it a shot. It was a great campaign for the most part (I definitely recommend playing it if you're a die-hard Starcraft fan), but even the slightest knowledge on Starcraft II shows that this is not what really happened after the Brood War.
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Interesting, I should give this a shot one day but first I really need to attempt finishing the original campaing XD
Btw do you play Multiplayer Battle.Net? I don't really remember if I asked. I still play from time to time. I know Jsj795 and Cooliojazz sometimes do, too, and Geekboy1011, but Geekboy1011 can't get on battle.net due to pirate key.
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I don't because most players are experts and I also have a pirate key; of course, I played the campaign with cheat codes because I don't have time to do elsewise. As it is, I decided to try the very last mission of brood war without cheats, and it took about 7 or 8 attempts
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Aaah ok, because I personally don't mind just playing games vs computers, it can still be fun when my team isn't that great. Not that I'm really that good either.
As for pirate key, sometimes, you might be lucky and it may work. The best case scenario is that you won't be able to use any chatroom nor send private messages to people. You will only be able to receive messages and join games. When I play with jsj795, I invite him to a private game, telling him the name/password (usually "omni") then he can join. He can chat in game lobby and inside the game, just not outside. In the worst case scenario, you will just not be able to connect to Battle.Net at all
Of course there could have been Hamachi as option, to play in LAN mode over a virtual network, but LAN was not designed to play over such distances. Back in 2008 I played against Arglactable once and despite us having a pretty solid internet connection, the game ran at 10x slower speed because I lived too far away.
Another option is Iccup. You need to install an hack to add this network to the list, but I don't remember if we're allowed to play private games on this server of if it's just against pros...
EDIT: apparently they don't have rules regarding non-tournament games and games played for fun:
http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/sc_start.html
However, maybe I could be wrong.
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Some days ago I wondered of the Starcraft users' Campaigns...
I haven't finished the Brood War Campaign but I wanted to know about the history... It continues on Starcraft 2, well..
I don't need more than 2 tries to finish some missions on campaigns... Most I do in 1 try.
I am not a bad player when I get hang of the game, sometimes even 'good'. But I never play enough one game to reach the mastery of it...
I really like map making for good games. The best map making community I know is Stronghold Heaven. It has excellent quality maps! And they push the game engine and tricks to the limits. Even with a somewhat stupid and orcish AI they make some challenging and fun maps...
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The first time I tried the Terran Campaing I failed the last mission because I had a poor building strategy. If I remember I tried to tech up too early and only kept building the same kind of unit. I was not prepared to every kind of attack.
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I knew the whole history of Starcraft, from the beginning to end (I had a strategy guide book with the storyline and everything) but I lost the book, and I forgot most part of it... :P
And for me, I usually didn't play the campaign. I went for playing melee in as many different maps as I can find.
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I myself am more a fan of multiplayer when it comes to first-person shooters and strategy games, for some reasons. I think it's because of the whole freedom it procures.
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I myself am more a fan of multiplayer when it comes to first-person shooters and strategy games, for some reasons. I think it's because of the whole freedom it procures.
If it is a decent AI, and I play outnumbered has its kind of fun.
Also, what is melee multiplayer game mode? I don't get some of them.
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In multiplayer, the modes I usually play is 3v3 or 4v4 (top vs bottom team), melee (when teams are based on your map position, requiring everyone to tell their position at the game start then manually ally with everyone of the same position) and free for all. Free for all is no team allowed. Most people play Top vs bottom.
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In multiplayer, the modes I usually play is 3v3 or 4v4 (top vs bottom team), melee (when teams are based on your map position, requiring everyone to tell their position at the game start then manually ally with everyone of the same position) and free for all. Free for all is no team allowed. Most people play Top vs bottom.
Thanks I am playing multi with friends. :P
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LAN or Battle.net?
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LAN or Battle.net?
LAN by Hamachi and guess why...
But I own some good other RTS. (although I crack to play with friends)
Rise of Nations, is the best I own.
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Aaah ok, cracked key I guess :P
I really wonder if we can actually play games for fun on ICCup, tho, or if they really have to be tournament/ladder games. ICCup doesn't require a valid key because it's not owned by Blizzard. You need to install a patch, tho.
And yeah Hamachi would be no luck for me since it would be too slow :(
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I would do it if they allowed fun games rather than just tournaments
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hopefully maybe there's another server online somewhere
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Ok, I can do battle.net now! I'm interested in doing some games if we can arrange them...except I won't play against jsj795 because he'll lick the tar out of me
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Oh, don't worry, if we ever play against him I could always try for example having me with you and him with cooliojazz or me and cooliojazz and him with you or we play Free for all (no teams). In free for all if the best people gets raped early in the game (for example if they get attacked twice in a row by two different person) you stand more chance :P
But we usually played vs computers anyway.
To equal skills of each people more if we played together, what I usually do is choose the race i suck the most at and choose an official map.
It would be cool to have some games together and maybe with others, though. I doubt we will be on at once all the time but hopefully some of us can be.
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yeah... I haven't played starcraft for a while... I don't seem to have any time now. Gotta concentrate on TLM!!! :P
But I'll try to play whenever there's a gathering within omnimaga
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usually when we play it would be good before starting any game that we /join omnimaga upon entering US East battle net, then I start a game (I can't join most of them, latency being too high), PMing jsj795 the game name (and password) in the process so he can join (since he cannot use chatrooms)
adding each others as friends might be a good idea too. I don't remember the command for it, though.
In 2006, we started a SC tournament over here but it wasn't legit since we played on Fastest Possible Map ever, which no one else played besides me, and most people didn't have time to participate, and only the DJ vs Rivereye game was done, then I lost internet access for 5 months so the tournament never really picked up :(
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Friends:
/f a "Friend"; adds Friend
/f r "Friend"; removes Friend
SC tournament!! Sounds awesome! *CoolioJazz votes we start them again. Err, retry to start them, whatever. Though it would be nice if we did it with fastest...