Others include portraits and decals in StarCraft: Remastered and StarCraft 2, a Kerrigan skin for Widowmaker in Overwatch, a special Tavern Brawl in Hearthstone on March 21, anniversary portraits in Heroes of the Storm on March 27, and special StarCraft pets in World of Warcraft. The Diablo love is just one of several in-game promotional items across Blizzard’s games to ring in StarCraft’s 20th anniversary coming on March 31.

To receive the special pet, just log in to the game and load up a character, and you’ll automatically receive an achievement that grants the pet as a reward. You can now claim a pet called Dominion’s Revenge, a Battlecruiser given a very red, black, and gold paint-job. those are the things that we're working on.'ĭiablo III lead designer Jay Wilson also confirmed that Diablo III will treat LAN in the same way that StarCraft II does, meaning that while traditional offline LAN will not be included in that game, it should support any solution developed for the RTS.Diablo 3 has gotten its own StarCraft-themed goodie in celebration of the space strategy’s 20th anniversary. 'Maintaining a connection with, I don't know if it's once or periodically, but then also having a peer-to-peer connection between players to facilitate a very low-ping, high-bandwidth connection. I asked Canessa whether the solution his team is working on might include a pseudo-LAN connection, where the game would only check in with to authenticate before reverting to typical LAN behavior.

'We are working on solutions with regard to things we can do to maintain connectivity to in some way, but also provide a great quality connection between players,' said Canessa.īlizzard recently announced that traditional LAN play would not be included in the game, with offline play only being allowed in the singleplayer campaign. developer Greg Canessa says that Blizzard is actively working on a LAN-like solution to include for play in StarCraft II.

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