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BWChart v1.03G

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

This latest version of BWChart, which is a couple of years old, is still good for checking APM and analyzing StarCraft replays.

Download: BWChart v1.03G BWChart v1.03G (166.6 KiB, 201 hits)

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RWAPlugins for BWL/Chaoslauncher

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Replay With Audio (RWA) was first created back in 2003 by JCA. It allowed you to watch a replay in StarCraft while at the same time listen to someone’s recorded commentary for it. 2005 was the last time RWA got an update… until today! tec27 from teamliquid.net has brought RWA back to life by releasing RWAPlugins for BWLauncher/Chaoslauncher. The RWAPlugins pack includes 2 plugins:

RWAPlayer v0.3

Allows you to play audio in replays modified with RWARecorder.

RWARecorder v0.2

Allows you to record and add audio commentary to replays.

Download RWAPlugins here:

Download: RWAPlugins RWAPlugins (857.8 KiB, 131 hits)

Extract the zip file to your BWLauncher or Chaoslauncher folder to use.

Also, here’s RWA demo for you to try out:

Download: RWA_Ninja_Blowex.rep RWA_Ninja_Blowex.rep (3.6 MiB, 116 hits)

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Extern StarCraft Chat v2.61

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

This program allows you to chat in the Battle.net channel while your StarCraft is minimized. It grabs all the text from the game, so it’s not really a bot and you don’t need another CD-key to use it. Read the spoiler below for the instructions.

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Download: Extern StarCraft Chat v2.61 Extern StarCraft Chat v2.61 (478.9 KiB, 176 hits)

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LiteChat Alpha v0.1.52

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

This is a pretty good StarCraft bot for moderating channels. It can also go on Diablo 2, Warcraft 2, and Warcraft 3. One reason that this bot is good is because it has Warden support. This means that it won’t get disconnected from Battle.net’s new security system, whereas other bots will disconnect within 2 minutes. When you’re setting this bot up, enter this for the BNLS address: logon.berzerkerjbls.com. If the BNLS address doesn’t work, click here to see other BNLS addresses to use. For more information and commands, check the spoiler below for the readme.

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LiteChat Alpha v0.1.52 by oXiDe

Go to www.war-lords.net for updates.

Known Errors
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Expansion login doesnt work.
Icon in tray doesnt show (issues w/ compiler)

Internal Commands
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/ver Displays version
/scq Silently clears queue
/rejoin rejoins
/ping pings a user
/add adds a user to access

External Commands Access
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add adds user access N/A
rem removes user access N/A
a gets access 1
trigger gets or sets trigger 1 to get, 90 to set
scq silently clears queue 1
ver displays version 20
say says message 40 w/ space, 90 w/o space
emote emotes message 40
whisper whispers user 40
ping gets user ping 50
kick kicks user 60
ban bans user 70
rejoin rejoins bot 80
join joins channel 80
setleave sets leave 90
setgreet sets greet 90
setidle sets idle 90
idletime sets idle interval 90
enable greet, idle, leave 90
disable greet, idle, leave 90
op op’s user 95

Alpha v0.1.52 - 3/16/2008
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Added Warden (0×5E) support

Alpha v0.1.51 - 3/9/2008
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Made Friends list work

Alpha v0.1.5 - 3/8/2008
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Added external commands & access
Warcraft 3 login works w/ account creation & email registration
Copy & pasting multiple lines will automatically send them to bnet (like stealthbot used to)
New black layout
Added prefix box
Keys, servers, and client are chosen from combo boxes
Added some internal commands
Added profile writing
Made chatqueue better
Colored user ping in channel list
Fixed small errors
Made chat box clear better
Added updater.exe (kinda crappy though)

Alpha v0.1.4 - 2/19/2008
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Fixed Random Drop
Redid config completely
Leave, Greet, and Idle works w/ arguments and uptime
Added /scq and /rejoin internal commands
Added whisper box
Ping spoofing works (0, -1, and normal)
Timestamps can be military or normal format
Can register accounts to emails
Chat is now queued so less chance of flooding offline (its not perfect yet, has issues)
Inet works (update notifier)

Alpha v0.1.3 - 2/16/2008
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Channel list works
First released bot publically

Pre-Alpha v0.1.2 - 2/10/2008
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Sort-of made channel list work (full of errors)
Fixed a lot of errors
Announced bot development

Pre-Alpha v0.1.1 - Date Unknown
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Made chat visible
Bot Resized

Pre-Alpha v0.1.0 - Date Unknown
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First connection to bnet

Download: LiteChat Alpha v0.1.52 LiteChat Alpha v0.1.52 (852.7 KiB, 249 hits)

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BLAHHH!, BLAHHHH!, Duhhh, GahhhHH, HuhHh?!, WhAaA?! - Counter-Strike Maps

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Try out these crazy Counter-Strike maps made by NIPPER.

BLAHHH!

Download: BLAHHH! BLAHHH! (6.9 MiB, 183 hits)

BLAHHHH!

Download: BLAHHHH! BLAHHHH! (7 MiB, 122 hits)

Duhhh

Download: Duhhh Duhhh (3.1 MiB, 145 hits)

GahhhHH

Download: GahhhHH GahhhHH (2.5 MiB, 136 hits)

HuhHh?!

Download: HuhHh?! HuhHh?! (1.9 MiB, 120 hits)

WhAaA?!

Download: WhAaA?! WhAaA?! (767 KiB, 130 hits)

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Where to Put StarCraft Maps

Monday, April 21st, 2008

To some people, it may seem obvious where StarCraft maps go. For others, it might not be so obvious. So for those who don’t know, StarCraft maps belong in this directory:
C:\Program Files\Starcraft\maps

More folders can be created in that location for organization and neatness. If you don’t care about organizing your maps, then just put them in the download folder. That’s where the downloaded maps go when you play on Battle.net.

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Shauni’s Various Micro Map Pack

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

This StarCraft map pack made by Shauni from teamliquid.net has 338 maps. It includes the best micro maps from 8882’s map pack and Locked’s map pack.

Download: Shauni's Various Micro Map Pack Shauni's Various Micro Map Pack (13.5 MiB, 261 hits)

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8882’s Micro Map Pack

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

This StarCraft map pack made by 8882 contains around 200 maps made for practicing and improving your micromanagement. Check the spoiler to read the readme file.

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Download: 8882's Micro Map Pack 8882's Micro Map Pack (8.4 MiB, 789 hits)

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Locked’s Wonderful World of UMS Map Pack v0.9

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

This is a huge collection of UMS maps for StarCraft! There are about 930 maps, all sorted and organized nicely into folders by Locked from teamliquid.net. Check the spoiler below to read the readme.txt.

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Locked’s wonderful world of ums; a map pack!.txt
Version 0.9

ReadMe.txt for UMS map pack of Locked (@TL.net)

I have had about 2000 maps in my download folder since early 2004 and decided
that it was time to sort through them, but I also thought some other people
might be interested in it so I would organize it a little more in depth and release it.

Notes on the maps:
>>>>>>>>>>I cannot guarantee the quality of these maps as I created none of them.<<<<<<<<<<
HOWEVER I did attempt to remove as many low quality maps as possible.
As an avid starcraft UMS player for several years prior to trying melee I will attempt to talk about each section in this pack

7v1: very simple really... its split into vs "Hard Computer" and vs a "Godzilla" type... this is not that interesting but I felt it should be included in the pack

Action Fighting: For games like Special Forces, and Smash TV, interesting games if you like those types.

Altered Melee: I am partial to Kings+Knights and StarCraft MiNi,
however I would recommend looking also at Macro Micro (substitute for team melee), Hunters 8x, SC Tourney, Altered SC, Phantom, the Turbo maps, and of course Blood Bath Obs version
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BattleCraft + Tug O War: Battlecraft is worth a try atleast, TugOWar is there for completeness.

Bounding+Dodging: Ah so many similar Bound maps, the pure generic bounds are in the "Bounds" folder, which has some classics such as Cipher2002 series and Monopoly Bound
the other part of the map however
I would especially try Frogger, Spider Mines FINAL, Larva Dodge, Observer Lovely,
Laser Fences (one of the very first and most popular of this type) and the puzzles

Builders Fighters, Buyers Sellers: Just some classic games that required their own folder.

Bunker Wars: I think I prefer Snowball wars for this type of game

Defense, Protect, Survive: I used to enjoy just about every single one
of these a lot but not so much now. I'm sure there are defense fans out there still though.
I do have to add that there are some actual creative, innovative, and quality maps here beyond the mindless infinite cash defense games.
For untraditional defense I would look at Poker TD (it is the korean one), maybe trigger happy D, turret wars for competitiveness, and even Defend Your Castle or Random Defenders.

Korean: As the name suggests these are Korean maps heh, I tried to put a short english definition for each one by placing them in their own folders.

Large War: Initially there were many crap ones... I have filtered out many.
I would encourage UMS players to try BraveHeart (a castle assault version).
Some others are well made though, or atleast interesting.

Mass, Madness, Ranchers, ZC, etc.: I would recommend a good oldschool EVOLVES,
also fun to play is Xelda, Golems, Simpsons. The others are o.k.
Don't overlook Zone Control either.

Micro Arenas: For those interested heavily in micro I would strongly recommend 8882's micro mappack and it has most of the ones that I include plus mor
I have tried to pick the micro maps I find most fun though, while 8882's is more for completion
NOTE: Team Macro Arena is incorrectly named I think... it feels basically like Team Micro Arena although it's fairly well made in that respect.

Micro Problems: Different from Arena, most of these are about doing a specific task, and many require a team of people.
njoyable are TrapD APM Trainer and some of the team-micro vs computer maps.

Movies: SC movies... I highly recommend b.net exp and b.net exp 2
HIGHLY RECOMMEND
everyone should watch them

MTG: Just another fun old map... Magus Wars is included here just because it is similar but not really the same, also Naruto battles.

Random: This has some of the most fun maps in this pack.
Included within are Assassinate the President, Random Fighters, The Puzzling, Worms.
Also interesting are the people games, fire fighters, pistol duels,
and if you're bored there is RandomBAN, Russian Roulette, and Bannninated.
WARNING: Hello desktop will crash sc if you're wondering.

RPG: Your standard fare RPGs, some better made than others, I was never really a big RPG fan.
A note... some nonstandard RPGs are here like FFTactics and Aeon of Strife.

Snipers: I was a competitive sniper player "back in the days"...
Out of pure fanboyism, if you are looking for the competitive paintball map I would recommend either SnipB AoD v310 or SnipB NbK v321. Upgrades, Trees, and Locks Only all suck but are included for completeness.
Also some of the others are good, such as Speed Duels, Sniper Arena, Speedball, V-tec, and Laser Tag
Even vs CPU is ok, several versions are included.

Sports + Games party: Another awesome set of maps, just about all of these are extremely fun
I would endorse Teh Seekers, SC Party, Pinata Party, Wallball, Pong, SCV Football, Bomberman.
But once again, all are fairly fun, save perhaps Quidditch which is very lame, but included for completeness.

Tag: An O.K. set of maps, some like it these more than others.
Not really sure what to recommend, all I have to say is if you like one of the types of maps I would try the others as well.

Turn + Diplo + LOTR style: I abhor LOTR style maps, I find them utterly boring, but I do know some people love them so here they are.
Diplomacy can be fun with the right people, the other maps are just here as they are slow paced war games.
The exception is Virtual Battle which is easily the fastest paced map here and can be quite fun and interesting.
Advance Wars is also amazing in the way that it emulates the actual amazing game

Short progress history:
12/19/2005: Started preliminary sorting
12/21/2005: Finished preliminary sorting, still much testing to do
Leaves me with about 700+ maps not thrown out as crap and atleast 200 maps that I must test
12/29/2005: I still have about 5 maps to test because I need other people to start the game, I've tested many maps by myself, and even more with help from others.
I also have about 50 korean maps that I have been unable to test... I'll probably ask Fireblast! or someone.
12/30/2005: Finished testing all the english maps more or less.
1/10/2006: It's been a while since my last edit of this readme; attempts to read Korean have failed, so I have now decided to simply rename the unreadable maps, but this means going through each one and testing them.
Which means I have now about 100 maps to test, I am working my way through them.
1/14/2006: Tested basically everything that I can do alone now, but I still have about 30 maps left that can't be tested with just one person.

Thanks to the following people for helping (mostly help in testing maps):
123bangbang, Ajvanadri, All-Out, FireBlast!, GTR-2-GO, happymanrun, Hobbes., MuShu, NeX-decaf, RancoR(Sphere), sMi.Incubus, Smurg, tlsrl8701, XeNoZ and all the others that helped.

Also thanks to 8882 for making his micromappack; it provided a little inspiration in making this, plus I probably blatantly ripped maybe 1/4 of the good maps in his pack that I didn't already have.

Download: Locked's Wonderful World of UMS Map Pack v0.9 Locked's Wonderful World of UMS Map Pack v0.9 (56.8 MiB, 842 hits)

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Impossible Scenarios Map Pack

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

This StarCraft map pack contains 70 “impossible” UMS maps. Each one is difficult to beat and requires good teamwork to win. Check the spoiler to see the maps included.

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