[BWWI] From The Baneling's Lair - an in-depth look at Star…

DanceSC

United States751 Posts

July 24 2008 15:28 GMT

#121

so many reasons why I like starcraft better then warcraft
get rid of auto mine, rallying, and multiple building selecting and I'll be happy.
starcraft is for hardcore gamers thers no reason why they cant keep it that way

QuanticHawk

United States32066 Posts

July 24 2008 16:14 GMT

#122

Just finished Chill's review and this scared me:

'In terms of difficulty of mechanics, the game has less to do than StarCraft. Things automine, rally-attack, and you have MBS. Melee units run past enemies and surround, making targeting workers a nightmare and using Zealots vs Zerglings an experience in pain. Seriously, you just a-move Zerglings and they flank themselves, it's ridiculous. You drill workers and they fan out and surround Zerglings. This needs to change NOW. Units should go where they're told, this smart AI kills so much of a competitive game.'

That's really, really lame

And the lack of hit and run with muta is also pretty whack.

Ok, reading on.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

July 27 2008 23:56 GMT

#123

damn it FA what did you delete!

kreeshanman

2 Posts

August 03 2008 10:31 GMT

#124

Awesome report! I'm sure all of us were looking forward to this!

As a response to the advanced AI (auto-mine/auto-attack rally, auto surround, etc.) maybe Blizzard should add an options menu to turn that stuff on/off. I'm no programmer so I wouldn't know how difficult or impractical programming-wise that would be, but I feel that this flexibility would allow for new RTS players or those (like myself) who have retardedly low APM to have fun with the game while keeping the interest of competitive level players.

P.S. Sorry if this suggestion was already discussed/added in other discussions of SC2, but I really didn't see any of it in the reviews above so I thought I would give my 2 cents. Again, though, thanks Team Liquid for the reviews!

KungKras

Sweden484 Posts

August 06 2008 22:54 GMT

#125

Allthough they make macro easier, the do things that add some deph to it as well, like the mutant larvae, the terran ad-ons and the new gas mechanics

btw: great report

pyrogenetix

China5094 Posts

August 23 2008 04:36 GMT

#126

hm the auto surround and auto attack things sound like big issues, what i like about sc is that the units do exactly what i tell them, and makes micro all that more worthwhile.

anyway looks like you guys were very objective and articulate and hope blizz makes changes for the better.

thanks for the writeup it was awesome =D

IdrA

United States11541 Posts

August 24 2008 14:00 GMT

#127

On July 24 2008 06:04 Chill wrote:

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It is improved unit pathing. I never experienced a unit given a manual "move" command being overridden by a reactionary "attack" command.

i figured out what was causing that actually
it was if you had ctrl pressed while giving the move command they would just begin to move then turn around and go back to attacking whatever was nearby.
if you didnt have it pressed they responded normally.

not really sure why, but ya it isnt an auto override or anything horrible like that.