When are they going to correct Blizzard Time?
As game speed changes time should also change.
When I play against the AI at dead slow (slowest), the in game clock shows 26min. and 33 seconds at the end of the game.
When I get to the score screen it shows 1:24:47.
It has been this way sense SC;R came out.
The fast speed setting is 40% faster than Normal speed.
The faster speed setting is 40% faster the fast setting.
The slow speed setting is 40% slower that Normal.
The slower speed setting is 40% slower than the slow speed setting.
Time should change to reflect the change is speed.
40% is not quite right. 1 frame takes 42ms in Fastest, while 48ms in Faster.
So Fastest has FPS 23.810, and Faster has FPS 20.833. Fastest is 14.3% faster than Faster setting.
Fastest: 42ms
Faster: 48ms (+14.3%)
Fast: 56ms (+16.7%)
Normal: 67ms (+19.6%)
Slow: 83ms (+23.9%)
Slower: 111ms (+33.7%)
Slowest: 167ms (+50.5%)
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I’m not talking about fps.
I’m talking about game time.
The Normal speed setting is real time.
Each second of game time at the normal speed setting is equal to one second of real time.
As the game speeds up time or, (Blizzard time), speeds up also.
Because originally time was tied to the speed setting
When they decided to add an in-game timer they had to release time from the speed setting.
They have done this for SC2 but not for SC1.
If you play at Normal speed everything is OK.
However, if you play at the Fast speed setting Time is 40% faster because game speed is 40% faster.
Likewise at the Faster speed setting both time and game speed are 80% faster.
At the Fastest speed setting, time and game speed are 120% faster.
As you decrease game speed, time also decreases by that 40% factor.
Because I have never done the ladder thing I’m broken. I cannot play at the faster speed setting. I can only play at dead slow (slowest).
When I got to the score screen after a 28minute game it shows the game time to be about an hour longer or 1hour and 30 minutes.
So Blizzard, take away the in-game timer or give us real-time, time not based on speed.
Hmm, this is confusing me little bit. Are you saying that if you play on fastest (default multiplayer, ladder) speed then timer also 120% faster? This is not true. F.e. you can google “Flash Starcraft” and watch some of his first view vods (FPVOD). Game timer and timer of score screen mostly match (plus minus 10-20 sec. can be because of latency issues). And of course youtube timer (real life timer) is going to show almost the same (just find a video where it instantly starts when game begins, not cut or edited one).
The Blizzard time thing was an issue for SC2, they fixed it I think on LotV last expansion. StarCraft: BroodWar never had Blizzard timer thing, timer always matched real life timer.
Didn’t test slowest speed because I never play on that (I’m not masochist) and can’t test right now because I wiped my system so don’t got SC for now. Is this is a new issue since Remastered came out? Game timer and score timer did match on 1.16.1?
OK, this is how it works.
Game speed is based on time.
Normal speed is real time.
To increase game speed Blizzard decreased time.
Going from Normal speed to Fast speed decreased time by 40%.
Going from Fast speed to Faster speed decreased time by another 40%.
And going from Faster speed to the Fastest speed decreased time by another 40%.
Decreasing speed from Normal to Slow to Slower and then to Slowest increases time by that same 40% factor.
Blizzard did this to set the standard for pro/ladder play.
The faster you could play the more gooder you were.
Now pay attention. When Blizzard decided to include an in-game timer with SC-R they did not unlink time from the game speed setting and therefore time will still change as game speed changes.
That is why the score screen says a 28-minute game is an hour and 31-minutes when I play so slowly.
Game time and score time cannot match with patch 1.16.1 as that was in 2009 and there was no in-game timer. I can’t even remember if there was a time on the score screen. If there was not an in-game timer why have it?
Can I ask you why you think this is worth addressing?
Sorry, dude this is really not so important … But i can give you a hint put a clock next to you … Problem solved…