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A Lemmy.world instance dedicated to everything Brood War or StarCraft II.

Rules:

  1. Abide by the Lemmy.world rules outlined in this link. These are instance-wide rules.
  2. Posts must be related to StarCraft in some way (i.e. fan art, esports, gameplay, guides, events.) Please note that we are temporarily also allowing posts related to Stormgate, Frost Giant's upcoming RTS. More info here
  3. No pornographic or lewd content. This isn't LemmyNSFW...
  4. Any accusations made against a commentator, pro player, content creator, Blizzard employee or other noteworthy personality must include substantive evidence.
  5. Encouraging users to contact sponsors and other stakeholders with negative feedback on another person/org is not permitted.

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Frost Giant is a studio formed by veterans who previously worked on Blizzard titles like StarCraft II and WarCraft III.

Stormgate is poised to be a spritual successor to SC2 and has a lot of hype surrounding it. It would be disingenous to not allow the community to discuss this game, for that reason.

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With /r/starcraft being one of the hundreds of subreddits going private indefinitely, I thought that I'd take the wheel and create a community for it on Lemmy.

This place is going to be run similarly to how things were on /r/Starcraft, with some slight rule changes. Please read and abide by the rules whilst on this community.

General Rules:

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules outlined in this link. Please note that these are instance-wide rules that do not just apply to this community.

  2. Posts must be related to StarCraft. As long as it's related to Blizzard's hit franchise in some way (including but not limited to fan art, esports, gameplay, guides, events) it is generally welcome here.

  3. No pornographic content. This isn't NSFWLemmy...

  4. Hate speech (including homophobia, transphobia, racism, etc) is not tolerated.

Accusation Rule:

  1. Any accusations made against an organisation commentator, streamer, pro player or other stakeholder within the greater SC community/pro scene should be backed up with evidence. Baseless accusations will be removed.

  2. Do not encourage users to contact sponsors, teams or other stakeholders with negative feedback.

Temp Rule Changes:

  • 23/06/2023 - posts involving Stormgate and Frost Giant Studios are permitted, at least until the game's release. Explanation here.

Useful Links:

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Watch live here: https://www.sooplive.com/gslenglish

VODs might be here: https://www.youtube.com/@SOOPesports_EN/featured

Or here: https://www.sooplive.com/gslenglish/video

24 hours from this post is Group A starting with Cure vs sOs, and then Reynor vs Solar.

Group A preview article: https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/638105-code-s-ro12-preview-cure-sos-reynor-solar


48 hours from this post is Group B starting with Maru vs Trigger, and then Nightmare vs Rogue.

Group Stage 2 is May 14th and 15th.

The semifinals and finals will be May 16th.

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Global_StarCraft_II_League/2025/Season_1

Season 2 will be shortly after: 2025-05-28 to 2025-06-13

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Our GSL favorites have battled it out to make it into the GSL.

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Oops I'm a day late! Day 1 was Group B with Clem, Skillous, Rogue, and Zoun. VOD here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2444811242?t=0h42m57s


TLnet preview article: https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/637836-pig-sty-festival-6-ro16-preview

Group A starts in 13 hours from this post with Serral, Mana, Byun, Classic

Live streams here: https://www.twitch.tv/x5_pig

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/PiG_Sty_Festival/6#Group_Stage_2

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Details about 2025 GSL season 1 and 2: https://tl.net/forum/sc2-tournaments/637791-gsl-2025-details-announced-2-seasons-pre-ewc

Season 1 taking place during May 7-16 and Season 2 proceeding during May 28 - June 23. Each season will have 12 participants and feature a 40,000,000 KRW prize pool (~$27,800 USD). All games will be played from the FreecUP studio.


ZombieGrub did commentary for some of the qualifiers matches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdvHSEyM-xU

Season 1 qualified players:

https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/637833-code-s-season-1-2025-qualifier-results

(Dark did not participate. Creator, DRG, SHIN, Ryung, Bunny, Zoun, and Nightmare lost in the qualifiers.)


Group Stage 1 is May 7th and 8th. Group Stage 2 is May 14th and 15th. The semifinals and finals are on May 16th.

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Global_StarCraft_II_League/2025/Season_1

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Rex April Madness quarterfinals start 5 hours from this post, and semifinals 53 hours from this post

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Rex_April_Madness#Playoffs_2


WardiTV Spring Championship ro16 Group D starts 29 hours from this post. It's a GSL-style group starting with Zoun vs Rogue and Clem vs Showtime.

And then the WardiTV playoffs are 77 hours from this post on the 25th to 27th. This will be a double elimination bracket.

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/WardiTV_Spring_Championship/2025#Group_Stage_2


Both tournaments will be streamed by Wardi

https://www.twitch.tv/wardiii

https://www.youtube.com/@WardiTV/streams

Keep checking the comments here for updates.

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GSL and Dreamhack Dallas confirmed!

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Esports_World_Cup/2025

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Mine was zerglings because I have 0 self control.

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https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/WardiTV_Spring_Championship/2025

https://www.youtube.com/@WardiTV/streams

https://www.twitch.tv/wardiii

Group Stage 1 is April 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th

Group Stage 2 is 16th, 18th, 19th, 23rd

The playoffs is the 25th to 27th

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If people are interested in this kind of content, I will cast more

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Over 28 years old players only.

https://www.twitch.tv/wardiii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT2wuJYriBs

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/WardiTV_Boomer_Bash

https://tl.net/forum/sc2-tournaments/636384-3000-warditv-boomer-bash-mar-18-30

Featuring: DnS, Kelazhur, Scarlett, TLO, Bunny, Solar, Classic, herO, and more unannounced players

Here is today's group:

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Maru played every game as Protoss for this group. All these players are qualified for the main event, these matches are just for seeding purposes. It was a GSL-style group.

Bracket without spoilers:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2412195164?t=0h21m31s

Final results: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Bellum_Gens_Elite/2025/Qualifiers/Asia#Results

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The first day is Group A with ByuN, Creator, SHIN, Gerald, and Clem.

Here's the first day of matches:

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cross-posted from [email protected]

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Hey guys, I know this doesn't apply to many people, but I'm posting my findings in the hope that search engines will index this and help somebody someday. I and a couple friends play Starcraft 2 in Linux using Valve's Proton. Ever since the last balance patch, we've all been hit by this bug where double-tapping an army or building control group doesn't move the camera to view the unit(s). The only thing I've found that fixes this is to delete the user.reg file before you launch the game. This has to be done every time otherwise the bug returns. Unfortunately, deleting this file means you also have to sign into the Blizzard Launcher every time too. You can automate the deletion of the file by changing your Steam shortcut:

  1. Right click on the steam shortcut
  2. Click on Properties...
  3. Change Launch Options to say "rm -f /path/to/user.reg ; %command%" where /path/to/user.reg is the path copied from the Target and then modified. See attached picture.

If you use Xorg, you can use my script to automate the entire sign-in and game launch process using pyautogui: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MD6e9-eDLO44wotWVuFrvpC4Q0k4id5A/view?usp=sharing Just make sure you change the 2 variables that say CHANGEME near the top.

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Hello my fellow dead community subscribers! I've been very frustrated by the lack of communication by the balance team and/or whoever is pushing patches. I heard that in this last patch they fixed the biggest of the bugs, but not all of them. The bugs are detailed in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IAj0CB91Pk I've gone through them to see which are fixed and which are still present:

  1. Lurkers shooting units cloaked by Mothership: Fixed!
  2. Oracle revelation with extra range: Still present (I think, this one is hard to reproduce from the video, I'm not sure how exactly range is calculated for revelation.)
  3. Cyclones doing extra damage: Fixed! It leaves a mothership with 300 hp instead of 200 after a full lockon.
  4. Amygdala reaper jump spots: Still bugged, at least partially. Testing this one is hard but I did get a reaper to bug out and spin in a circle like in the video.
  5. Protoss Assimilator probe-queing: Fixed! If you tell a probe to make an assimilator and then queue a 2nd assimilator, it builds the 2nd one right after starting the first.
  6. Energy recharge on warping in units: Still present. Units being warped in are untargetable by Energy Recharge until the unit is fully warped in.
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Stream A: https://www.twitch.tv/taketv

Stream B: https://www.twitch.tv/cranky_ducklings

Results: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/HomeStory_Cup/26

TL Discussion: https://tl.net/forum/sc2-tournaments/633311-homestory-cup-26-nov-29-dec-1

November 29: RO24 Groups A & B (6 player round-robin)

November 30: RO24 Groups C & D (6 player round-robin)

December 1: Playoffs (8 player single elimination)

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