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by sebosp 985 days ago
Wow that is interesting that it patches back and forth, super cool! How did you find out about this? I wonder now and then if one can "consume" the events on a live game somehow, like connect as a bot or sniff the events before they are encrypted through the network... Also curious about the drone kill counter mod/overlay that Harstem uses, do you know of the name of that? I can't figure it out but would love to enrich it with stats from the data analysis
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reaperman 985 days ago
> sniff the events before they are encrypted through the network

Uhh, this is confusing as written. But there are cheating hacks which allow you to see extra data that is sent to your client in-game, such as the entire map and your's and your opponents production queues. And while I'm not sure if this is what you were asking: "sniffing" events from other clients which haven't been sent to the blizzard server is not possible, because they're delivered to your client via the blizzard server (it's not P2P).

> Also curious about the drone kill counter mod/overlay that Harstem uses, do you know of the name of that?

It's a combination of two things: 1) A customized UI layout for replays called "GameHeart" and 2) a custom SC2 game mod called "GameHeart" -- you can use the UI layout for ladder games which weren't created as custom games with the GameHeart mod, but for that replay you'll miss out on features like the drone kill counter and income graph vs. time for which the data is generated by the game mod.

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reaperman 985 days ago
> How did you find out about this?

I studied SC2 altogether far, far, too much from 2019-2022. Had a goal to get into masters, played tens of thousands of games, watched multiple YouTube videos every day, memorized and practiced dozens of build orders, but still got stuck at my peak in low diamond.

When you're playing that much and reviewing replays, you start wondering why you can't watch old replays with people coaching you and someone eventually ends up explaining the system to you.

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