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Oh well, less bounds = better Battle.net.

Uh... exactly why is the overlap a problem? Or the colors. People's maps are crap compared to Blizzard's maps. Why? Because their maps are based on quality; you just make some stuff and fill in colors to appeal.

I like this patch; it'll force you to make a decent map.

heres the link in case u were wondering:
http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?f...p=1&#post448181

Complainees are retards.

Cheese, you realize how many maps (many of which are actually good) are disabled by the removal of preplaced buildings? I know there are ways around it, but I'm sure soon those are going to be gone too. Not only that, but a whole level of professionalism is being stripped away from map-making.

Updated Patch Notes:

Desperado's Patch Notes - StarCraft 1.14

• Numerous cheats and exploits have been fixed.
• Ladder play has been removed (possibly only for the duration of the WCG) and the Ladder button now links to a WCG page on www.battle.net. Player rankings remain the same, but Ladder games are no longer an option and in a player's profile Ladder games are no longer listed.
• Text colors and overlapping in force names is no longer possible.
• All other text coloring and overlapping remains the same, with the exception of the "Invisible" color, which is now red. It is unlikely that it was removed, but it will need to be refound.
• Player names (the text) while in-game now correspond to their player color. If colors over 12 are used, the default color of light blue is used. This means that the colors of Red, Blue, Teal, Purple, Orange, Brown, White, Yellow, Green, Tan, Light Yellow, and Light Blue will be available for use with the Display Text Message action, at the very least.
• Player colors over 12 are now different. The commonly used "17" is no longer black, though other numbers can be inputted to make the player black. The numbers 29, 33, and 36 will give you the Black color on multiple tilesets.
• Maps with overlaps in the Map Name can be hosted, but others cannot join your game. If this is a glitch, and not an intended effect, it is likely Blizzard will undo this in 1.14b
• The StarCraft game icon has been changed to a new drawing of the Terran Wraith. Using the Change Icon function in the Shortcut properties will allow you to change this back to the old icon, should you prefer that.

This does not mean that stacking is disabled. You can still do so both in game as well as pre-place units stacked on top of eachother. What this is referring to is a hack and/or exploit which allowed players to stack units in Melee games or in UMS games without triggers which disable vision for the player.

"Professionalism"? What the heck is that? What, you're able to add colors and, all of a sudden, the map is somehow better?

Yes people don't pay attention do they

Actually yes it is, becuase it shows that you put the time into your map making that and that your pro enough to do so.

Yes, because it was incredibly difficult to learn how to use ctrl + c and ctrl + v.

I just tried playing Fastest Map, and it ran fine, so I'm confused about this, is stacking not disabled after all or what?

EDIT: Phew

Stacking is fine

People have greatly exagerated the changes in this patch. Rumors, hearsay, and myth have all combined to give people absurd impressions of what has changed, when in actuality what has changed was relatively limited and simple. Blizzard has effectively done the following:

1) Banned the playing of Bound maps
2) Removed ladder hacking
3) Removed numerous hacks
4) Added new colors for display
5) Remove colors in force names

Anyone who is complaining about offsets and modding, you are a fool. You knew this was possible all along. You always knew that any patch, no matter what it changed, would require you to find the new offsets.

STACKING IS PERFECTLY FINE

Fastest? Away with ye.

Anyway, I do think that Blizzard is getting a bit overprotective. This anti-stacking sounds terrible. And it forces me to wait even longer for Firegraft...

Yes, we knew that it was possible all along, but it's still not a good thing when it happens.

Especially not with a patch that changes so much, which will most likely mean a harder time finding new offsets.

Now I must fix my AI again though ><

I need to make a collection of all the posts that say stacking is fine...

Just in case you missed it on the previous pages:

STACKING UNITS WORKS PERFECTLY FINE

This includes pre-placed as well as in-game with the lights off.

The only thing I don't like about this patch is how maps with overlaps in their names are unjoinable. Once blizzard fixes that, then it's all good for me.

Wierdly that makes sense..

I am extremely confident Blizzard will release a patch to change this. I do not believe they had intended for that specific problem to occur in the first place. It is likely an accidently glitch. However, I would not mind if they did not, since almost no maps use overlaps, excluding bounds. I would be very happy to see bounds removed from Battle.net, however no one really plays them anymore anyway.

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This makes no sense at all. The purpose of this patch was to update StarCraft for use in the WCG tournament. If you pay attention to the patch notes, almost all of the fixes are to stop exploits. They have already made it impossible for people trying to compete to use maphacks and other problems, and now they have patched it so that they cannot use in-game cheats (exploits.) They have also given player names a color to go with their player color, this was most likely a much requested feature of Tournament competitors. This patch was designed with the specific purpose of making StarCraft more accomodating to professional gamers.

They probably changed the color and overlap system to stop spoofing.

:/

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I'm on Vanilla SC. Any suggestions?

haha, when i said it made sense i meant it in a maybe its a message saying go die sc2 from god In basic i was kidding..