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Dec 25 2016, 3:10 pm
By: Roy  

Dec 25 2016, 3:10 pm Roy Post #1

An artist's depiction of an Extended Unit Death

Merry Christmas!

On behalf of all of the staff members here at SEN, I wish you all a Merry Christmas, and in a week from today, a Happy New Year. I interviewed each of SEN's most prominent staff members to share their experiences of 2016.

Quote from DevliN

Q: Hey Devlin! How was your 2016?

A: [DevliN was not available for comment]
Quote from NudeRaider

Q: Hi Nude! What are your plans for Christmas?

A: Well, I mostly plan on browsing imgur and sharing links in the Shoutbox of the most Facebooky images I can find. Why'd you guys elect Donald Trump, anyway?

Q: Hey, I'm the one asking questions here!

A: What's the next question?

Q: Stop asking questions!
Quote from Devourer

Q: Hey Devourer! Another year under SEN v6: how do you feel?

A: SEN v6 is a disaster. If I had time, I would rewrite it.

Q: Really? Do you remember the days of MySQL deciding to go on vacation?

A: Sure, we've improved since v5, but nobody wants to touch the code base, and there are so many things I'd change if I had the time.

Q: Nobody wants to touch the code base?

A: Well, nobody that you guys want touching the code base.

Q: Uh... erm... well...
Quote from O)FaRTy1billion[MM]

Q: Hey Farty! What's your most memorable experience of 2016?

A: I'm still trying to figure out Windows 10. Why can't they just make an OS as good as XP was?

Q: XP is old!

A: Yeah.

Q: ...

A: ...

Q: Any 2017 resolutions?

A: 1080p.
Quote from Excalibur

Q: Excalibur! How's it going?

A: Good. I updated one of my old projects recently.

Q: Fun! What kind of project?

A: A map, of course. This is a mapping community, you know.

Q: What? People still play Brood War?

A: You know this is going on Portal News, right? Why are you bashing SC1 when it's what this site is all about?

Q: Oh, Excalibur, even if Brood War dies, the community shall live on! Right?

A: I'll be here until SEN's last breath, but when the players are gone, so is the community.

Q: What about SC2?

A: [Excalibur has left the channel]


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[03:29 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.
[08:35 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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