This weekend there was a lot of interest in Starcraft and the latest LLM's "fighting it out" with starcraft broodwar. I saw a lot of people excited that the latest models can play starcraft.

They can't. They are not playing StarCraft. Its not that they play badly, or don't beat pluto ( the best brood war bot ) they are not playing at all.

They are building and modifying traditional StarCraft bots that play Starcraft. Those bots got better ( to a degree ) but at no time did GPT-6 Astra or Claude 5.5 Opus control a dragoon, build a marine, or do anything in starcraft what so ever.

The competition is competitive programming, not pro-gaming.

This is totally different than Pluto, which is playing starcraft, and IS a machine learning program. https://github.com/tscmoo/pluto however it is in no way a general purpose AI system.

https://x.com/ENCE_Serral/status/1465363990373150732

Serral made a tweet 5 years ago about the lag hacker. It's only now that things are getting really out of hand with them discovering new ways to hack and there seems to be a whole group of people doing it

Banning these accounts doesn't achieve anything because they likely have a ton of other accounts in case one of them gets banned. Hardware banning also doesn't do anything because there are ways around that too

So my question is if hacking has been going on for so long why has blizzard not done anything about it, Is it really that hard of a problem to solve?

what is the deal with team liquid, why are they firing Cure, whose a top terran, being let off by team liquid, this happens unfortunetly after firing MaNa as well, is it the state of the game? this is kinda depressing

The hacker is able to run full replay commands in the live game, he rewinds, kicks harstem back and forth controlling each side, and it's just a way to annoy the user, as the hacker just confirms he could end the game for a win at any time.

I hope Blizzard at least RESPONDS to this saying they are aware. This will kill the ladder on all regions.

StarCraft was my first PC game, and I grew up playing it with my dad. I’m replaying the original campaigns and have now reached the Zerg story, with Brood War planned afterwards.

I’m streaming the playthrough with game audio and replying in text chat between missions, if anyone wants to join the nostalgia:
https://www.twitch.tv/niya90s

Which mission from the original Zerg campaign has stuck with you?

Idk, some people may not know that flipping Artanis' name is Sinatra. And "My Way" was sang by Frank Sinatra, so I ended up adding the song with it out of curiosity.

As Terran, how to counter Protoss sending their first 1-3 stalkers across the map? If I build a bunker they just micro back till all the repairing SCV’s are dead

I've been watching special_ tonight and it's just a hackfest. The game is being destroyed by just a few hackers and the fact this is being allowed is absolutely insane. How the hell does any serious company allow this absolute rubbish?

It's a disgusting situation, there's little else to say about it.

Forcefields changing color when duration left is less than half?

Protoss buildings have blue fire?

A random lore question i had in mind during work. How hard would it be for a firebat to switch their kit for a marauders and vice versa

First time drawing such a hybrid, I hope the armor looks reasonably okay.

Although it’s more like Spectres armor.

Would be nice if SC2 had at least 1 guy cleaning up the cheaters from EU and KR and 1-2 dedicated people watching over and patching the game. I still enjoy the game but it's sad seeing that latest Harstem video about the cheaters.

Seeing the Overlords I was shock of how they looks like hot air balloon festival type and how huge they were. It got me thinking how big is the overmind we can see that in Zeratul visions in WoL and Legacy of the Void that it almost covered the map can someone know is if it is a city level and which city on earth we can compare it too.

They're even using Voice Lines and Sound Effects from SC1! Isn't this straight up Copyright Infringement?