The “Melee” section allows you to create new lobbies for custom Melee games. The “Lobbies” section displays all of the current open public lobbies available across both Melee and Arcade games. Inside this new top-level section, you’ll find three subsections called “Lobbies,” “Melee” and “Arcade,” with the “Lobbies” section being the landing screen for the “Custom” top tab. The first major change you will notice when logging in is that the “Arcade” tab on the top navigation has turned into “Custom.” We wanted to consolidate Arcade games and custom Melee games into one place, and putting melee games under the arcade didn’t feel right, so we put both under “Custom” instead. What are the changes and how do they work towards these goals?

We want to minimize those opportunities as much as possible. There are currently a lot of ways to abuse the current Arcade and Custom Games systems in our client in ways that ruin the experience that other players are having. We want bring that content front and center so everyone knows about it. There’s a ton of great custom games content buried in our current UI, behind layers of navigation and filters. Our hope is that this update will provide a more flexible system for joining and creating lobbies inside StarCraft II by relying less on automated systems and giving more control to the players. We also give you better tools to manage that content.

We want to consolidate the process for finding user-generated content to make it easier for you to find all the stuff you are interested in. There were many goals for the changes we are making! For the sake of this blog, we are going to focus on four specific ones. In this blog, we’ll detail the upcoming changes, go over our main goals, and explore the benefits we think they could bring. These changes will hopefully strengthen these already extremely active communities and provide both mod developers and players with better tools to make the most out of these features. In patch 3.19, we are implementing some changes to the UI, with a particular focus on the Arcade and Custom Games experience.

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