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Are the Unused Upgrades useful
Aug 12 2013, 4:29 pm
By: SCRuler  

Aug 12 2013, 4:29 pm SCRuler Post #1



For adding a new armor upgrade? I wish to make some Terran-trained zerg from a special structure. I may use a special building for the structure, and i may need help later implementing it's ability to train zerg, but the primary question: Can I use the unused upgrades to make "Reinforced Carapace" and "Reinforced Zerg Weapons"?



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Aug 12 2013, 6:37 pm Pr0nogo Post #2



You can. Set the armour or weapons in DatEdit to the unused upgrade(s) in question and use Firegraft to let players purchase the upgrade.




Aug 13 2013, 8:11 pm Sand Wraith Post #3

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^ Those armour and weapons would be essentially a different "class" though. You would not be mimicking the effect of something like the Ultralisk's +2 armour upgrade. (Just a note.)




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[2026-6-23. : 3:29 am]
DarkenedFantasies -- Probably just didn't care. For example, at some point before release, they've updated the graphics of some of the Protoss buildings (Forge, CyberCore, Citadel, Observatory, Arbiter Tribunal), but instead of properly re-rendering them with edited 3D models, they did crappy copy-paste jobs on the rendered graphics.
[2026-6-22. : 8:35 pm]
Ultraviolet -- :wob:
[2026-6-21. : 11:38 pm]
Symmetry -- :wob:
[2026-6-21. : 4:56 am]
Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically
[2026-6-21. : 4:26 am]
Oh_Man -- so that makes me think maybe the theory they are unfinished is not true and its a deliberate design decision, coz why not finish them wen ur making brood war?
[2026-6-21. : 4:25 am]
Oh_Man -- the thing is thos buildings are from classic. that means they went ahead and made brood war without ever finishing the 'unfinished' buildings
[2026-6-20. : 6:15 pm]
Ultraviolet -- Yeah he's talked about a lot of that stuff in his casts before. It seems plausible. Especially knowing how Blizzard of yesteryear operated.
[2026-6-20. : 3:47 pm]
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
[2026-6-20. : 3:43 pm]
NudeRaider -- Contained nothing new for me. Didn't know all building's behavior, but very much all unit's. Also Terran balance whine - also nothing new :lol:
[2026-6-19. : 9:57 am]
Oh_Man -- makes me wonder if SEN knows anything about the topic
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