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| 3s | Incoming transmission. |
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| 6s | Hey guys, Grant here from Classic Games. |
| 9s | We recently rolled out Patch 1.21 of StarCraft Remastered |
| 13s | and it seems that everyone in the community |
| 15s | is really liking it, so that's awesome to see. |
| 18s | Patch 1.21 had EUD support. |
| 21s | We finally rolled out our EUD emulator, |
| 23s | so that was really good to get that in your hands. |
| 27s | We rolled out CCMU changes, that's the unit limits. |
| 30s | This is something you guys have been asking for, for many years. |
| 33s | So again it was really exciting to be able to finally release that |
| 36s | and get your guys playing around with the raised unit limits. |
| 41s | We made some social changes, social improvements. |
| 44s | We also made some tweaks to the latency on the global ladder. |
| 49s | And I think that's had a good effect |
| 51s | on your ladder experience as well. |
| 53s | So we are really happy with how 1.21 has gone so far. |
| 58s | So since the last video, one of the things we've been doing |
| 61s | is reaching out directly to the StarCraft community. |
| 64s | And some of the ways we have been doing that |
| 66s | is to email people directly, |
| 70s | we've been engaging a lot more on forums, not just the Blizzard forums |
| 74s | but we've been reaching out further a field than that. |
| 76s | We've been watching a lot of Twitch streams, |
| 79s | various people from different countries, |
| 81s | to get an idea of what the experience is like. |
| 83s | And we've also attending live events, |
| 85s | so that we can speak to people in person |
| 87s | and get their experience directly. |
| 91s | And with all of that in mind, we were able to get a good idea |
| 96s | of what you guys are looking for and we can target a lot more |
| 99s | on the issues that matter most to you. |
| 102s | With all that in mind, some of the things we are looking to work on |
| 106s | and potentially roll out in 2018, are the new ramps. |
| 110s | This is something we are really close to rolling out in 1.21 |
| 112s | but we felt that it wasn't quite ready, |
| 114s | so we wanted to make a few more touch ups on it, |
| 118s | and that's something which will be coming very soon. |
| 120s | The group matchmaking, this is something I know you guys |
| 123s | have been excited about for a very long time, |
| 125s | and we are certainly excited about it. |
| 127s | And this is something that you can look forward to in 2018. |
| 132s | The season roll, the new ladder system. |
| 134s | You guys have been talking a lot about a new ladder system. |
| 138s | A new way of ranking players. |
| 139s | So this is something again that we'll be working on |
| 142s | and we'll be rolling that out in 2018 as well. |
| 146s | We'll also investigating a new matchmaking system, |
| 149s | that will avoid the need for ports to be forwarded. |
| 154s | So when we rolled out 1.21, one of the things that we saw, |
| 157s | once we started showing, |
| 159s | where the people were routing through a proxy or not |
| 162s | and whether they had the ports forwarded, |
| 163s | was that a lot of people did not have |
| 165s | their ports forwarded correctly. |
| 167s | And we know that this is a technical difficult thing to do. |
| 170s | So, we try to investigate solutions, |
| 173s | so this will no longer be required, |
| 175s | so this is something we will be looking into next year. |
| 179s | We're also looking into BW-API, for AI research and design. |
| 183s | It will be cool to bring that back and get some AI playing |
| 187s | against us or against each other. |
| 189s | Some social improvements |
| 191s | such as a revamp to the default channels. |
| 195s | And this so we can try and get more people together |
| 198s | in a more relevant way. |
| 199s | So for example, if you are engaging in match making, |
| 203s | if you are playing ranked games |
| 204s | maybe you want to be on a channel that's specific |
| 206s | to people who are ranked or specific to the ranking you are at, |
| 210s | and so you can chat to the people that you're playing against |
| 213s | at the same time. |
| 215s | So, this is something we're investigating. |
| 216s | We're also investigating a broader support |
| 218s | of international characters on chat channels. |
| 222s | Also, possibly supporting more than one chat channel at once. |
| 225s | And, we're also investigating |
| 227s | collapsing all the gateways down, |
| 230s | so that we no longer have |
| 231s | this fractured experience, |
| 233s | this split of US East and US West, for example. |
| 236s | Everyone can be on the same gateway |
| 238s | and they can chat together, they can find games together. |
| 241s | And I think that will bring the community closer together. |
| 245s | So with all that in mind, |
| 246s | I'm very excited for what's coming in 2018, |
| 249s | and I hope that you guys are too. |
| 251s | I want to thank you all for the support that you've given us |
| 254s | this year. |
| 255s | It's been fantastic. It's been a great journey. |
| 258s | And we're all looking forward to |
| 260s | an even better year |
| 262s | in 2018. |
| 265s | Happy Holidays, |
| 266s | and I'll see you next year. |