New navigational and chat overhauls for StarCraft 2 with patch 3.0

It looks like StarCraft 2’s in for a nice visual overhaul for its navigational menus when the 3.0 patch drops. The new campaign selections resemble the old Brood War look and they’re shuffling around both chat management and game navigation by concentrating where you’ll be doing most of your clicking.

Blizzard just released a video to supplement a recent blog post that details all of these changes, describing what’s in store, “We wanted to make a strong visual impact with the inclusion of 3D artwork across all the main navigation pages, and for some, you might recognize our tribute to the old Brood War campaign selection screen. We have streamlined navigation and kept most of your clicking to the upper left hand corner. With section subpages listed just below their respective headers. When we put out a request for feedback from the community, we heard loud and clear that players want a more social driven experience inside StarCraft 2. As a result we have bent the entire UI design around the desire to make chat both persistent and consistent. As a result, now all active chat channels will be listed in a single window that will remain open across the entire existence of the interface.”

There will be a host of other updates and changes that are bundled along with this patch including to the Arcade in an effort to make it easier and quicker to join a game and coupled with how clean everything looks in the new revamp, this will be a welcome update.