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On September 04 2012 13:42 SgtCoDFish wrote:
The select army thing is possibly the most fake thing I've ever seen.

I'll believe it when I see it.

On September 04 2012 13:40 ZeromuS wrote:


seriously, this means nothing. It wont actually impact any one above bronze.

On September 04 2012 13:46 sevia wrote:


You can download the client and try it out yourself. It's pretty simple.

The icon is a placeholder I imagine, but the button itself is fully functional.

On September 04 2012 13:36 SupItsG wrote:
Okay guys I know this is really scary stuff but maybe it's campaign only? Maybe.

On September 04 2012 13:36 SupItsG wrote:
Okay guys I know this is really scary stuff but maybe it's campaign only? Maybe.

On September 04 2012 13:44 Cyro wrote:


To your CONTROL GROUP.

Group, not GROUPS, this kind of change actuly has the potential to LOWER the average army control in the game :/

On September 04 2012 13:46 oOOoOphidian wrote:
I know masters league players who dont hotkey anything and have units lost all over the map. This kind of change is bad for the game imo, but it won't affect pro play.

On September 04 2012 13:29 BlackPanther wrote:


This is starting to scare me. I'm all for making the user interface as easy and simple to use as possible but giving the players extremely simple controls is NOT good for competitive play.

On September 04 2012 13:53 PlosionCornu wrote:
Welp, more dumbing down/casualization, just in case I needed any more reasons not to buy hots or support blizzard in any way.

They are definitely not the same company, I never heard all of this "our more casual players need baby sitting day in and day out" talk before the activision merger.

On September 04 2012 13:53 neoghaleon55 wrote:
So I have two accounts.

When I logged into one of them, it links me directly to download HotS beta client.
The other one just goes to good old battle.net account details.

I'm now pretty certain that if/when you log in, and get redirected to download client, it means you will be receiving a beta key shortly!

On September 04 2012 13:55 oxxo wrote:


The changes don't affect high level/pro play in the slightest. How in the world is it a bad thing to help ease new players into the game? Any change that doesn't affect high level play but helps newbies is good for the long-term health of SC2.

On September 04 2012 13:54 ROOTT1 wrote:
sry didnt read through the thread, has blizzard sent out any beta keys yet?

On September 04 2012 13:40 avilo wrote:
Wait what? I thought they wanted to do things to get rid of the deathball? Adding an idle army button is another way to dumb down the game further and encourages you to just gather up your units...

An FYI, command and conquer has "global select" all units, this is a command and conquer feature meant for "noobs." I doubt pros will use it very often, but still...it's going the wrong direction imo. We will see.

On September 04 2012 13:48 SgtCoDFish wrote:


I'm not necc. calling you a liar, but the way the image is presented just screams "fake"

Again, I'll believe it when I see it or someone does an actual screenshot of it without cutting it up.

On September 04 2012 13:55 oxxo wrote:


The changes don't affect high level/pro play in the slightest. How in the world is it a bad thing to help ease new players into the game? Any change that doesn't affect high level play but helps newbies is good for the long-term health of SC2.

On September 04 2012 13:53 Dox wrote:

Do you REALLY think this is going to make a difference in competitive play? Top tier players already have distinct control groups for different types of units, they're not just gonna start "1+A"ing just because a new button has been introduced to the UI.

People are being really ridiculous about a lot of these new gameplay changes. They help the lower leagues out as they focus on other aspects of the game. It won't make a difference to the people at the top.