StarCraft Patch 1.15

[Spht]

If no one reads www.battle.net ...

We will be releasing Patch 1.15 for StarCraft within the next few weeks. This patch introduces new functionality to Battle.net that allows players to organize and join custom StarCraft leagues. These leagues support stat-tracking, custom icons, and replay uploading, among other features. Check out the StarCraft LDK page for more information.

This should be interesting ...

[l2k-Shadow]

Yeah, I've seen that as well, but I doubt it will be efficient.. Too many noobs will try to run their own leagues and lack of anti-hack system will make players pissed off.

[Denial]

Spht i've been looking for you on msn but you weren't on was intresting if you wanna run a website that does that sort of thing? I'm pretty well known in the gaming realm of battle.net.

[Mystical]

Oh wow, That's pretty instresting..
I wonder how much its gunna affect the bot development if at all.
Looks like alot more things are going to be added to bnetdocs =)




Meh like it matters, I can't even get on BNET with BNLS being down n all, someone needs to get Lockdown rolling. =)

[Denial]

I doubt this patch will effect bots that much maybe a version change maybe hopefully blizzard programmers wont take this time to release a major bot change as well along with this patch

[Mystical]

well even if so.. I hope skywing updates war3 since he might be updating starcraft. =)

I'm not quite getting the whole channel tag thing, Does everyone see the tag that your registerd to, or just your members? I think they should do somthing like warcraft 3 clan tag in a way, that'd be cool.

[Denial]

well even if so.. I hope skywing updates war3 since he might be updating starcraft. =)

I'm not quite getting the whole channel tag thing, Does everyone see the tag that your registerd to, or just your members? I think they should do somthing like warcraft 3 clan tag in a way, that'd be cool.

From what i read only people in leagues will be able to see the icon tag besides your name.

But knowing battle.net i bet there will be exploits in this we can find.

[Hell-Lord]

Its good to see them working on the best game ever
Now all we need is Starcraft 2

[l2k-Shadow]

I doubt this patch will effect bots that much maybe a version change maybe hopefully blizzard programmers wont take this time to release a major bot change as well along with this patch

They can't affect login too much since that would require a patch for w2/d2 and maybe even w3.. so i think they're just gonna add onto or create a new packet.

[MysT_DooM]

What is meant by replay uploading...isnt that the samething as it is now where you create game and picka  replay to host. Or do they mean that specific league will have a specific area on a site where users can upload replays?

[Mystical]

they can upload there replys to the site, probley easyier method from like doing it from client though since 99% of people on battle.net barley even know how to get on battle.net lol

[UserLoser]

I like how they call it "mopaq" instead of MPQ files.  Seems like you just replace patch_rt.mpq or something with the league's MPQ file and it changes some interface stuff

Just a guess

[Barabajagal]

I'm sorry, but this really sounds like a bad idea. It doesn't look user-friendly; it looks like a giant annoyance and a hassle. It also looks pretty damn exploitable.

[warz]

I'm sorry, but this really sounds like a bad idea. It doesn't look user-friendly; it looks like a giant annoyance and a hassle. It also looks pretty damn exploitable.

You're right about the user-friendly aspect - it looks clunky, and like it's thrown together. Can't comment on the 'exploitable' factor, yet, though.

[brew]

So with this new patch I bet we're gonna get many more new packets added to bnetdocs...
While you're adding stuff (when it gets back up ofcourse), be sure to add the 0x4E... I don't know too much about it, except it's only S > C. I think it's a WCG reply of some kind.

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S > C 0x4E - SID_WCGNOTIFY
(WORD) Unknown
(STRING) Tournament Name
(STRING) Tournament Website

Does anyone know anything more about this packet?

Also about the channel flags....

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0x01: Public Channel
0x02: Moderated
0x04: Restricted
0x08: Silent
0x10: System
0x20: Product-Specific
0x1000: Globally Accessible

0x10 should be the flags for Silent channel, and 0x08 for System.
How do I know this?

On asia server....

[9:08:08 PM]  -- Joined Channel: Brood War USA-1 -- Flags: 0x43 --
[9:08:08 PM] In effort to reduce message spam, we have disabled chat in the default StarCraft channels. Full chat functionality is still available in all other Battle.net channels.

On useast server....

[9:08:28 PM]  -- Joined Channel: Brood War USA-16 -- Flags: 0x33 --

There is a clear increase of 0x10 flags.
And before you say it's an increase of (0x08 | 0x02), it would have to already have 0x02 flags because it's obviously (something | 0x01 | 0x02), hence the 0x33.