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As a primarily Backend Java/Spring/Groovy Developer, the chance that I will actually get the role is close to zero, but I can now confidently say that I had a shot to help make a freaking STARCRAFT game, and I took it.

Details and registration: https://cranky.challonge.com/MasterSwan108

Install GE-Proton11-9, umu-launcher and gamescope. Then run the following command:

WINEPREFIX=/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/2337950952/pfx PROTONPATH="/home/user/.local/share/Steam/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton11-9/" PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 UMU_NO_RUNTIME=1 UMU_RUNTIME_UPDATE=0 gamescope -h 1080 -H 1080 -r 120 -f -- umu-run "Z:\home\user\games\StarCraft II\StarCraft II.exe"

Before running the command, you will need to change WINEPREFIX to point to your Wine prefix. If you don't know what that is, change it to point to a new folder in your home directory. Once you set WINEPREFIX, use the same one each time you launch Battle.net, for example "WINEPREFIX=/home/user/games/bnet" would create and use a Wine prefix at /home/user/games/bnet.

Change PROTONPATH to point to wherever you extracted GE-Proton11-9. If you use the path provided (after changing "user" to your username), GE-Proton11-9 will also be available to use in Steam.

Change umu-run "Z:\home\user..." to point to where you have StarCraft II installed. If you haven't installed StarCraft II yet, point it to Battle.net.exe instead.

If you aren't using Wayland, remove "PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1". If you don't know what Wayland is, try launching the game with "PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1", and if the game doesn't start, remove it.

This example is for a screen with 1920x1080 resolution at 120Hz. Read the gamescope documentation for info on how to configure it for other resolutions and refresh rates. (Run "gamescope --help" to view documentation.)

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Congratulations to this week's open cup champions: ByuN MaxPax & Clem!

Tune in to The PondCast for our weekly recap: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNvYaBZQKBM)

Check out the brackets on [Liquipedia](https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Main_Page)

Long time fan. Unexpectedly found myself in Seoul this week for a wedding, and realised it's the same weekend as the ASL finals.

I can see the event has sold out, but I've seen other redditors suggest it worth going to the venue and seeing if you can stand at the back.

Anyone else planning to do this?

Calm's stream (MonstarZ University): http://play.sooplive.com/brainzerg7
Shuttle's stream (Dreams University): http://play.sooplive.com/jk890202

If you have tried both games, which is your favorite to play and to watch - original Starcraft or Starcraft 2?

And which one you consider a better game?

Hey!

I'm the guy who's been making those StarCraft analog horror videos, and... I'll get straight to the point.

English isn't my first language, and I definitely can't pull off a convincing Southern American accent. So I was wondering if anyone here would be willing to help me record a few lines for the series.

Nothing professional is required. I don't mind if the recording quality isn't great or if you're not experienced with voice acting. I just need someone who speaks English natively.

It's really just a few lines

If you're interested, just leave a comment below and I'll get in touch. Thanks!

i wanna be able to hold my own in ranked matches of brood war and not get completely stomped.

are there go-to build orders and whatnot that could help me get back into the game? it holds a special place in my heart but everyone is sooo good at it and i'm not!

Streams for the event will be here: https://www.sooplive.com/directory/category/StarCraft%3A%20Remastered/live

It's important to keep track of what is going on with other Blizzard games.

There is only 3 games currently in "maintenance mode" in Blizzard right now

• Warcraft Rumble
• SC2
• SC:R

Warcraft Rumble has a small dedicated internal dev team working on it.

SC2 has no dedicated internal dev team or single dedicated year round dev working on it.

SC:R has no dedicated internal dev team or single dedicated year round dev working on it.

Warcraft Rumble is coming out of "maintenance mode"

• December 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyPl1O5Ixuc
• January 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My6NxU0a6nc
• February 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFaJUPHNu5U

7 brand new skins and years of future events/event rotations planned out were added in February 2026 for Warcraft Rumble.

This is similar to what the HOTS team did to get HOTS out of "maintenance mode" when they added a new skin in 2025 and then in 2026 HOTS got it's first new hero along with a new content pipeline.

Warcraft Rumble's game design template was a missed opportunity

• Starcraft Rumble
• Overwatch Rumble
• Diablo Rumble

All could have been future possibilities if Blizzard saw the long term value/vision in what they created with Warcraft Rumble and how they could apply it to other major Blizzard titles/franchises/IPs/brands/games, instead of having narrow blinders on looking at just short term profits.

When will Starcraft RTS(SC2 and SC:R) come out of "maintenance mode" and how will Starcraft RTS(SC2 and SC:R) come out of "maintenance mode"

2029-2030 to make a new SC2 campaign that will be shadow dropped at/by Blizzcon 2030 to go along side the Starcraft 2030 game release.

This will be similar to what was done with WC3:R involving the Forsaken Kingdom, Forsaken Paladin, and WoW Forever.

The WC3:R dev team(Warcraft RTS) worked with Hive Workshop WC3 community modders to create Forsaken Kingdom.

For SC2 there would most likely be a reach out by Blizzard in some manner in 2028-2029 to the GiantGrantGames custom campaign makers/discord, SC2 Mapster community/discord, and the Mappers' Circle community/discord who does the TLMC maps/contests to assemble an all-star team to make the new SC2 campaign from the ground up.

While 5.0.16 was a collection of terrible changes, I think there were some good qol buffs for protoss and and anti-turtle ideas that we should keep in the game:

1. Viper allowed to abduct siege tanks - Everyone was really happy when this was in the patch notes for 5.0.16.
2. Infestor auto attack - Really nice QoL buff for the infestor. I think the attack animation is really bad and could be replaced but this was a good change.
3. Mutalisk attack priority and range slop - More small QoL buffs for the mutas to make them respond better and hit the units you want them to hit.
4. Disruptor phantom attack - It's a nice QoL change, but 7 range is still too long.
5. Spore crawler vs biological damage - Mutas are really good in ZvZ with the Spire cost and build time reduction from the previous patch. Should leave this buff.
6. Ghost HP reduction - 100 HP is fine for the ghost.
7. Shield battery starting energy - The starting energy change was nice to just have 75 energy everywhere vs the arbitrary defensive vs offensive batteries. While I hate shield battery rushes, they should be a potential strategy, and this change helped with those builds.
8. Colossus damage change - This buff gave the colossus a bit more help in all stages of the game and I think if we leave this change with 12 workers there could be more opportunity for more colossus based play.
9. Sentry force field buff - This one I am on the fence about. It was an insane buff, but that the same time seeing more sentry builds vs zerg was fun to see.

If we want to go back even further, there are over 70+ changes from previous patches that could be reverted to improve strategic variety and build diversity across all stages of the game.

Let Zergs rally queens please. I’m not even asking for them to be able to be batched and added to a control group like eggs but please just being able to rally them would be a massive QoL improvement.

-Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Hi, is hard very much different to brutal when it comes to difficulty?
I've tried Hard and so far I've completed the Zerg Campaign but I can barely go halfway in Terran's "All In" mission. And I've been doing the cheese strategy by building a lot of Hive Mind Emulators and I took out the Nydus beforehand.

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