'Resume from replay' coming to beta tomorrow

General 1/24/13, 10:26 AM Radoslav “Nydra” Kolev

One of the most eagerly awaited Heart of the Swarm features is launching on the test realms. The beta will be taken down for maintenance today and should be live again on Jan 25th (CET time).

5cfe43a9b402acd54a9f48e84994e43cb694d255abd8bcbe670d09c7be.png

5cfe43a9b402acd54a9f48e84994e43cb694d255abd8bcbe670d09c7be.png

"Resume from replay" has been designed to combat unfortunate disconnects that happen in the middle of the game, something that has always been a problem of the SC2 competitive scene. With this new feature coming up, players will be able to jump to a certain part of the game via the replay and resume from there, essentially nullifying the danger of a possible remake.

Additionally, SC2 players will now also be able to watch replays in groups and take control of the game themselves at any point of time.

Balance updates are not mentioned to come with Patch 2.0.3.

Source: Battle.net

Radoslav “Nydra” Kolev

Discussion

Emanuel "speedle" Eirich , January 24, 2013 10:37
Fuck yeah. Nice one. Watch replays collective and being able to jump into some progames for some reasons(?:)) Curious whether there are more features or only this one.

You have to be logged in to comment. Log in
Timmy "Fagerlund" Fagerlund , January 24, 2013 12:00
Awesome!

You have to be logged in to comment. Log in
John "savior" Papaioannou , January 24, 2013 12:10
Awsome, at last!

You have to be logged in to comment. Log in
Javier "IeZaeL" Parra , January 24, 2013 13:37
Now ill be able to play the SPL,MLG,DH...etc Finals LOL!~

You have to be logged in to comment. Log in
Former "Guyix" Crew , January 24, 2013 14:05
Sounds awesome!

You have to be logged in to comment. Log in
Chris "chrisec" , January 24, 2013 14:59
took them 3 years gj blizzard

You have to be logged in to comment. Log in
Wade "craftmatic2" Smith , January 24, 2013 15:44
Wow. I assume you need a second player to take control of the opponent if you take control of the replay? Still, that would be an amazing feature, because players can try to replay a game from before a blunder was committed, perhaps producing a different outcome entirely.

You have to be logged in to comment. Log in
Radoslav "Nydra" Kolev , January 24, 2013 16:53
#7 Mmmm, my memory might be misleading but I remember Browder saying that AI will be able to take control of the other player... I will have to dig around to find the actual interview, not sure if this was at BWC or not...

You have to be logged in to comment. Log in
Wade "craftmatic2" Smith , January 24, 2013 18:14
#8 Well, funny thing is the Terran VH AI actually plays better than most players in the late game, at least in terms of macro and spell micro, not position or tactics. But I don't know if the AI will play properly, because the melee AI's are designed to start from nothing. They will probably think they need to build everything and just run their script as usual, which will most likely cause them to build therir normal "first wave" script when they should be massing late game units or something. The computer doesn't actually "Read" the battlefield and change it's unit composition accordingly. It's just very good at multi-tasking, which allows it to overwhelm players over a long time.

You have to be logged in to comment. Log in
Jonas "elka-the-feared" Everettson , January 24, 2013 22:52
nice, Blizzard really enjoy avoiding LAN settings though

You have to be logged in to comment. Log in

'Resume from replay' coming to beta tomorrow

Discussion

Matchticker