Blizzard says designing a StarCraft open-world shooter presents specific challenges in scale and perspective — 'If you're 10 feet tall and you're wearing something that weighs 1,000 pounds, doors are

At BlizzCon 2026, StarCraft general manager Dan Hay said that changing genre from RTS to open-world shooter required rethinking scale and perspective. The main unexpected problem was doors: a character 10 feet tall in 1000-pound armor cannot fit through standard openings.

• Genre change from RTS to open-world shooter required rethinking world scale
• Doors became a separate problem: character 10 feet tall in 1000-pound armor
• Developers aim for world consistency in first-person view
• Barracks from trailer shown from ground level, not top-down, to convey scale