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docholiday_tv
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raviy
Australia207 Posts
So you'll find someone to play with no matter what rank you are, although you might be playing the same people over and over. People are friendly and very willing to teach and give feedback. It also helps that TecPac are wizards. | ||
docholiday_tv
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Jackafur
United States116 Posts
On May 19 2017 09:32 docholiday_tv wrote: Just from this thread, SB seems like its gonna be a really positive experience. I can't wait! yea every one on SB is pretty cool and theres enough D level players around including me. | ||
chocoed
United States398 Posts
I have restarted my computer and reinstalled ShieldBattery. Strangely enough, it worked before but I can't get it working now. I can log into ShieldBattery on the web client. | ||
tec27
United States3670 Posts
On May 24 2017 10:10 chocoed wrote: Does anyone have logging issues with the ShieldBattery client? No matter what login I type (even random), it gives error that "Session already active". I have restarted my computer and reinstalled ShieldBattery. Strangely enough, it worked before but I can't get it working now. I can log into ShieldBattery on the web client. I've seen this bug occasionally (and we plan to fix it, but haven't yet). Generally refreshing the client should work (ctrl+r or F5). If that doesn't help, I'd try closing the client, deleting the ShieldBattery data folder (you can hit window+r, type %AppData%\ShieldBattery, and hit enter to get there), and relaunching it. I'll prioritize fixing this issue for our next release, sorry about that! | ||
chocoed
United States398 Posts
On May 24 2017 11:15 tec27 wrote: I've seen this bug occasionally (and we plan to fix it, but haven't yet). Generally refreshing the client should work (ctrl+r or F5). If that doesn't help, I'd try closing the client, deleting the ShieldBattery data folder (you can hit window+r, type %AppData%\ShieldBattery, and hit enter to get there), and relaunching it. I'll prioritize fixing this issue for our next release, sorry about that! I refreshed the client and didn't have a data folder to delete for my ShieldBattery file path but they don't seem to be helping. I'll keep testing to see if I can find a workaround. In the mean time, thanks for your support! I really appreciate the work you do. Curious, any idea when your next release is slated for? | ||
tec27
United States3670 Posts
On May 24 2017 12:46 chocoed wrote: I refreshed the client and didn't have a data folder to delete for my ShieldBattery file path but they don't seem to be helping. I'll keep testing to see if I can find a workaround. In the mean time, thanks for your support! I really appreciate the work you do. Curious, any idea when your next release is slated for? Just to make sure, when I say "data folder" I just meant you can delete the entirety of %AppData%\ShieldBattery (or just everything in there, shouldn't make much of a difference), not specifically a folder called "data" No definite date for the next release yet, soon! And if the above still doesn't help, let me know and I can try to clear your sessions on the server to see if that helps. | ||
chocoed
United States398 Posts
On May 24 2017 12:49 tec27 wrote: Just to make sure, when I say "data folder" I just meant you can delete the entirety of %AppData%\ShieldBattery (or just everything in there, shouldn't make much of a difference), not specifically a folder called "data" No definite date for the next release yet, soon! And if the above still doesn't help, let me know and I can try to clear your sessions on the server to see if that helps. Oops lost in translation for me. I deleted the data folder and now it works! Thanks a bunch! | ||
Drake
Germany6146 Posts
After i once installed 1.18 its basicly not possibel for me to install 1.16 | ||
pheer
5376 Posts
If your question is more generic about having 2 versions, here's a longer answer: + Show Spoiler + To have both versions you need to backup/copy the entire 1.16 folder somewhere else before upgrading to 1.18. So you have 2 options, either uninstall 1.18 and re-install 1.16, then copy the folder somewhere else, and install 1.18 again after you've copied it.... or find a non-official (*COUGH* ... iccup ... *COUGH*) copy of 1.16 online somewhere You can't have an official copy of both installed at once. | ||
Drake
Germany6146 Posts
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Navane
Netherlands2690 Posts
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Psyonic_Reaver
United States4318 Posts
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sc19980331
China1609 Posts
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Ty2
United States1428 Posts
On March 27 2017 15:12 tec27 wrote: Brood War has never needed Blizzard to provide these things, and I think it's dangerous for us to rely on them too heavily. They've never proven a benevolent force for BW in the past, and as nice as it would seem for them to wholly change on that overnight and keep that new vision for perpetuity, it's not likely. If we want this game to survive it's 20th, 30th, 40th year, if we want to be teaching our children and grandchildren how to Forge FE, to be watching Korean pros pushing the metagame even in our old age, we need to be building and maintaining infrastructure for it that will outlive a corporation's fleeting interest. ShieldBattery is that infrastructure. It is by the community, for the community, free of Blizzard's oversight or interference, and can easily live on as long as there are people interested in playing the game. We can, and have, for many of them, already provide the features Blizzard is providing with 1.18, and for a lot of these things, ShieldBattery has better solutions than what Blizzard is giving you. Our windowed mode can scale to different resolutions and provides full-screen windowed mode, and is also easy to stream, all things theirs cannot provide. Our hosting solution fixes hosting for *everyone* and does so without exposing your IP, they only provide UPnP. We had a brand new obs mode ready for our next release, but I guess they scooped us on that one In the very near future, we'll be releasing things that they've only as-of-yet promised with no details, and we'll be doing so with actual community input into them. Our matchmaking system will be in testing very shortly (not "summer"!), and we're moving forward on a better map selection and hosting system than exists in BW or SC2. From there we have a number of ideas on how our service can provide the best-in-class experience for our users, which includes a number of integrated features that surpass anything you'd find even in more modern games. These features are what will set ShieldBattery apart from Blizzard's experience, and make it worthwhile to use, and we can deliver a lot of them while they're still just getting things started. I welcome Blizzard's injection of marketing dollars into this, and their legitimization of this game as something people that didn't pick it up 10+ years ago can actually play. These are things that are very hard for us to do, as a community project. It will be great to have an installer that is actually patched to the latest version, and even better that it's free. But let's not rely on them to follow through for this game to survive: Brood War has always been incredibly self-sufficient. The reason it is still alive today is not because Blizzard cared for it, or treated it nicely, or helped it at all. It's alive because we cared for it, the people that played on WGTour and PGTour and ICCup and Brain and Fish, that made creative and well-balanced maps, that developed programs to fix and improve the gameplay experience. So let's take that attention they've given us, and redirect it into something that will stand the test of time. Edit: Looking back at this post in retrospect, ShieldBattery has lost some of its advantage over Blizzard. Blizzard's 1.19 has an easily resizable window that you simply click and drag to its desired size. ShieldBattery you can pick a good handful of resolution sizes. Matchmaking is already out in the closed beta and ShieldBattery for the most part has most of its matchmaking done, but hasn't been released. The networking or connectivity I don't have any idea about. I think the biggest strengths are the community based development and flexibility. I'm not sure what "integrated features" entails, but ShieldBattery as far as I know will continue. | ||
SCC-Faust
United States3736 Posts
On August 10 2017 13:36 Ty2 wrote: Edit: Looking back at this post in retrospect, ShieldBattery has lost some of its advantage over Blizzard. StarCraft has went from a shoddy 1.18 release with so many bugs it was barely unplayable to the working state it is in now. Blizzard has done a lot of things right, and they do actively listen to player feedback. However, I feel the biggest disadvantage of playing on Blizzard over Shieldbattery (assuming Shieldbattery continues and releases matchmaking/ladder features) is that Blizz seems to need their hand held all the way to know what the players want. I am positive Shieldbattery is way more in touch with the Brood War scene - and that, to me, is extremely important. I never really imagined Blizzard would release a map pool that included Arcadia II and Nostalgia, but here we are. I trust Blizzard's ability to make SC:R a success and a delight to play, but I don't trust their judgment. It is really too early to say anything else though, but I just feel like (and this is not to anyone specific, but in general) people should not count Shieldbattery out. | ||
lodle
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BossPurple
Sweden65 Posts
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pheer
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