We're almost a week and a half into our contest and already have almost 50 amazing submissions. Great job everyone who's already entered! Remember, you still have around two and a half weeks to get your submissions in, don't wait until it's too late!
The first week in September we will open up a public review page allowing any member to give their feedback and vote on each submission. This will count for up to 50% of the maps final score. Finally on, September 10th we'll announce the winne...
Cheat Codes
Enter these in the chat window (hit ) within single player:
EyeOfSauron
Lets you view any cinematic
IAmIronman
Upgrades Weapons, Armor (and Shields) by 1. Reference to Ironman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man
JaynesTown
Grants more Terrazine. Reference to the TV Show, FireFly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaynestown
MoreDotsMoreDots
Disable Cost checking. Reference to WoW player, Dives from
Our contest for August is being sponsored by NVIDIA, and they're going to give one lucky winner a brand new graphics card to make sure your game is the best it can be. This also marks our first true mapping contest, so get those editors running.
For more details, and to enter the contest, head on over to the StarCraft 2 melee map making details page.
I've been given the opportunity to review one of the new mid class cards from NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 460. These typically run around $200, which in the past would get you mediocre results at best. I can't quite say what has changed in the last few years, but I can say that the game is changing. To give some background for this, I've ...
Starcraft II was patched today moments ago:
Bug Fixes
Campaign saves have been optimized.
Fixed an issue with sound not playing on some 7.1 systems.
You will need to logout of the client and log back in to trigger the update.
We will be moving the Nibbits.com infrastructure to a new server at 12AM PST (about 2 hours from this post) tonight.
The site may be down momentarily during the switch, but it should last no longer than 30 minutes.
Update: There's been a delay in the transfer. We'll update this post before beginning the maintenance. If it's not ready within the next hour it will be moved to Wednesday the 28th.
Update 2: Moving media is taking much longer than expected. The switch will be delayed unti...
The long awaited day has arrived, and the GameStops have been conquered. After 10 years, today marks the release of StarCraft 2. If you ordered your copy digitally, or were one of the lucky to show up at a midnight release, then you're already experiencing what everyone else is waiting for.
For everyone else, we anxiously await your overnight shipment tomorrow morning, and look forward to seeing you in game!
Oh, and while I've got you here. Make sure you check back Monday when we launc...
With a prize pool in excess of $500 dollars and a line-up of pro gamers straight from an e-sport fan's wet dream, this is going to be one epic tournament. It only gets better too, to top it off there are 96 open slots for everyday Starcraft 2 gamer's to sign-up and test their mettle against the pros. Get 'em quick though, the slots won't last long! For those that don't get in, you can expect to be able to watch the final rounds via live stream and later all the rounds through the release of r...
Enjoy your extra free time to play online everyone!This was a good choice for Blizzard after Patch 13 and it's terrible (read: community feedback)additions that it added which resulted in unstable gameplay, map publishing that was later removed, and the secret addition to censoring custom made maps.
Full Blizzard announcement below.
We previously announced that the first phase of the StarCraft II beta test would be coming to a close in all regions on Monday, May 31. In order to prepar...
As of Today Patch 13 went live to servers! The most notable (exciting) addition is the map publishing and social networking features being included.
Other changes that they don't go into detail can be found with things like Starcraft II's beta being connected to the rest of battle.net, showing total number of players being played as well as "remaining game time." Unfortunately there is no integration beyond that from what can be seen.
There are also GUI options for the inevitable s...
If you're still one of the unlucky few to not have a beta account, here's your chance to win a beta key. How do you enter? Well, we'll keep this one simple. Reply to this article and tell us what you love, and what you hate about Nibbits. We're not looking for the best answers, but definitely will not be giving keys to the worst (and I dont mean worst, by you hurt our feelings). Just interested in general feedback and things you'd like to see over here.
Right now we have no keys to give aw...
This is a huge milestone in the development of Andromeda because v0.0.11 is the first version that can actually be used productively. Not only is it now able to read Andromeda code from map files and write back the compiled galaxy code into them, but it also comes with a small, yet very simple GUI to run Andromeda onto your maps. The GUI however is not finished yet, so expect updates for it soon.
Also classes work again now (without using pointers anymore ) and static initializers and de...
Hey guys, over at Staredit.net, a contest is being held to show off your knowledge of the galaxy editor.
First map making contest out of many: Starcraft II Mapping Contest #1
Within the SC II editor are the following options for displaying text to players:
-Chat
-Cinematic
-Debug
-Directive
-Error
-Objective
-Subtitle
-Warning
Here is a sample trigger I made in 1 minute, that is designed to show a message to only the player when he presses any key:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/nibbits/gallery%2Fimages%2F20100422194755%2FTrigger_for_Text_Display.1024x768.jpg
With this trigger, you can test where text displays.
As you can see from the followin...
Until we have time to build a real patch directory, here's a quick fix for you all. This mirror is provided via Nibbits, so don't forget to give thanks.
To use these, you will need to do the following:
Download each file.
Place them all within ~\StarCraft II Beta\Updates (a subfolder within your installation path). You may have to create this folder yourself.
Launch StarCraft II and it should detect the files automatically.
Now that we've given you the rundown, here's your p...
Within patch 9 we have seen quite a jump in the number of maps available. Here is the complete list of upcoming maps:
(2) Advent
(2) Advent Novice
(2) Blistering Sands
(2) Blistering Sands Novice
(2) Desert Oasis
(2) Desert Oasis Novice
(2) Incineration Zone
(2) Novice Blistering Sands
(2) Novice Desert Oasis
(2) Novice Steppes Of War
(2) Scrap Station
(2) Steppes Of War
(2) Steppes Of War Novice
(2) Twisted Peak
(4) Arid Wastes
(4) Coalition
(4) Decena
...
Tonight was one of those amazing, work til your eyes bleed kind of nights. Not only have we all been pumped about the galaxy editor, but more so the fact that it's supposed to be released this week. Well, it turned out the patch 9 was already ready for public consumption, as long as you knew how to get to the dinner table :)
So, after a few hours struggling to figure out what others had already done weeks before us, we got a hold of the patch, and applied it successfully. For the curious:
...
Several larger sites have been posting somewhat of a rumor about the mac client and galaxy editor coming out within the next week, but it seems to be much larger than that. While this isn't confirmed officially, you can assume it's legit.
StarCraft II lead Chris Sigaty says that the developer is planning to release the game's map and mod editor for those already enjoying the PC version of the game's beta sometime this week, letting players add their own creations and game mode customizatio...
Gamestop is taking pre-orders for StarCraft 2. Sure, this isn't anything new, but the fact that you will obtain a beta key for every copy you order is :)
For more details see GameStop's product page.
Also, if you're looking for a good deal, there's a $25 off 100 coupon floating around.
Note: All pre-orders for contests will be delivered through a company which will allow you to obtain a beta key for the product.
How to create a quick and easy custom unit
first copy and paste into a mod new folder the Base.SC2Data you use with your beta launcher with mpq editor
from inside the GameData folder you will need
abilData.xml (unit abilities/summons)
actorData.xml (unit acting)
buttonData.xml (unless use existing button)
modelData.xml (size and model)
unitData.xml
#1 (open buttonData.xml)
first make a button, copy a button entry like
CButton id Stalker and change it to Dragoon
ex...
Many people have been getting Blizzard Error Reports when trying to load SC2 with Allin1 as well as the screen flashing while loading a game in all launchers, the possible fix to this if you have an nVidia video card would be installing the beta drivers;
For most GeForce series, you can access Beta and Archived Drivers here:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
Select your video card, search and a list of driver versions should show up. The one you want is 197.25, a beta...
Kazibi has released version 1.1 Beta of his MilkyWAI galaxy script editor.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/nibbits/tools%2Fimages%2F20100409190929%2FMWAIE1.256x256.jpg
For the curious, here's a quick overview of the features:
Galaxy syntax highlighting/ code completition / code folding
Galaxy validator (usgin LAPIN validator tool)
Creation of AI's in a project-like way
One-click export to MPQ, directly to SC directory
XML syntax highlighting
User friendly
Today, April 8th, marks Nibbits' two year anniversary. It's been a fun journey, and boy has the site changed. Today I took the opportunity to dig up some images I had taken before I converted the old Nibbits (had nothing to do with maps), to the new version, which is what you see now.
Originally, I had started the domain off as a file search site. We didn't host any file, but rather we let people submit links to find files. It worked decently for WoW patches, and we had a big directory of ...
We're getting reports that a new wave of betas hit today. We're not sure how many went out, but it sounds like it was a pretty large wave. Congratulations to everyone that will be joining us in the beta test. If you're not sure if you got one, skip your email, and hop on over to battle.net to see if SC2 beta is active on your account.
(Reply with a comment with your gamename.othername if you'd like to group up with people on here to 2v2, 3v3, etc.)
Update: We've confirmed that keys have...
General
Korea
Added support to display the game rating information on the login screen.
Balance Changes
TERRAN
Thor
Build time decreased from 75 seconds to 60 seconds.
Siege Tank
Build time decreased from 50 seconds to 45 seconds.
Marauder
Concussive Shells now require an upgrade.
Barracks Tech Lab
Concussive Shells upgrade added.
Concussive Shells upgrade costs 100/100 and takes 80 seconds to complete.
PROTOSS
Void Ray
Changed to only ha...
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