EPTAlso, it's pretty disapointing that the goliaths look like they are firing the missiles from their machine guns, it even looks like they are coming from their feet due to the angle at which they fly out. They should have really fixed this stuff already, considering the game is so close to release.
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lololol
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Also, it's pretty disapointing that the goliaths look like they are firing the missiles from their machine guns, it even looks like they are coming from their feet due to the angle at which they fly out. They should have really fixed this stuff already, considering the game is so close to release. | ||
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keeblur
United States826 Posts
Single player looks to be shaping up pretty nicely. | ||
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Kong John
Denmark1020 Posts
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dogabutila
United States1438 Posts
On April 23 2010 17:09 cHaNg-sTa wrote: Damn, they're still gonna keep the high ground to low ground mechanic? I wish they reconsider it again. It really makes those ramps in the middle of the map not as key to hold. SC1 was so important in terms of holding key ramps/chokes And when the game has progressed to this point, vision is not really an issue anymore and gives the ramp defender no more advantage. Thats not necessarily true. Ramp defenders will still have an advantage because the ramp is a choke. You merely have to defend behind it instead of on top of it now. A little proper pre-positioning will still give a good beating to anybody trying to fight up the ramp. | ||
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AncienTs
Japan227 Posts
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Fugitive
Netherlands32 Posts
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ZooG
Sweden618 Posts
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Glemdening
Bulgaria70 Posts
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Ricjames
Czech Republic1047 Posts
Good to read this, i would love to see some good koreans play the SC2. If you won't be able to join to another server - well that sux. So teams from America or Asia can't play CW with european teams or what? The SP will be great, i hope i will get sometime to finish the thing, cause it seems very nice. Also i don't think it is good to measure the balance by matchups. There was never 50/50 percent in every matchup in bw and still the game is as balanced as it can be. | ||
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cernunnos
France32 Posts
btw, killing archons with the lazer seemed a bit gore imho =) | ||
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snpnx
Germany454 Posts
My only real problem is with MP not being able to connect to different servers, how's that gonna make bigger (online) tournaments possible, if you can't even play against people from different regions? | ||
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mynameisbean
Australia82 Posts
One issue is that it means gameplay is going to deliver highly different results according to the zones allocated. Entirely different strategy standards and therefore 'metagames' are going to emerge, and that creates a whole new problem for Blizzard. The interview mentioned something really critical: KR vs US vs EU: In Korea, Zerg needs to be nerfed because Zerg is so dominant. For EU/US, Zerg needs to be buffed. At this point, due to limited sample size, nobody knows for sure what races are the most powerful. Universal patches. Region-zone based sample groups. Anyone else see the problem? I'm actually wondering, as these differences emerge, HOW exactly is Blizzard deciding what patch 'solution' should be implemented, when there are conflicting problems that require conflicting solutions? Is it 'whichever problem has the biggest sample size' wins? | ||
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araged
Czech Republic189 Posts
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keV.
United States3214 Posts
However... Playing on different gateways: Blizzard is not planning on allowing players to play on different server upon release, so things will be the same as they are in beta right now. I am really really disappointed with the current gateway restrictions. I think this is just blasphemy for an online game. StarCraft or not. There probably isn't a serious competitive gamer alive that doesn't have any friends over seas... | ||
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dogabutila
United States1438 Posts
On April 23 2010 17:49 Golden Ghost wrote: Because the server isolation only allows you to play the other people on your server you are only able to match yourself with a part of the high level players of the game. This automatically results in a few observations: 1) Tactics and playstyle on the servers may vary significantely after some time. 2) Because you can only play against a limited sample of people from this high playlevel the development of tactics and skill will slow considerably because there will be less people who can inovate the game. 3) A combination of 1 and 2 will result in a less competitive enviroment globally because apart from a few live tournaments you are unable to match yourself with the best players from around the world. Above resoning will imo also result in a much quicker demise of the popularity of the game as people are much less interested to wach games knowing the arn't seeing the highest competitive standard as was possible. In a worst case scenario the big tournaments will be Europeans/Americans/Asians only as we are already seeing in most of the beta. This also means there can't be a healthy development of E-sports as a whole as there will be less interest from sponsors due to the much lower audience numbers for the broadcasted games. Whichever way you look at it people from Europe won't stay awake/home to watch a tournament with only Americans and vice versa. There might possibly be more tournaments altogether as some tournaments for example will have a European and a American counterpart. This however will on it's turn reduce the amount of VOD's that will be downloaded of the tournaments from the other continents because why download the VOD of the American tournament played last night if you can watch the European tournament played right now live? Frankly, your analysis is shit. 1) no duh, it has already happened. 2) No, because the metagame will evolve three times as fast. People who keep in touch cross-league will still know of how the gameplay works in other servers. I imagine that after the original divergence in playstyles, they will actually merge to become similar as counters to various things and new builds are tested. I think each cycle so to speak will happen faster as smart players will use lessons from high level players in other servers to help them adapt. 3) Wrong. EG vs TL? smack talking and grudge matches can and will still happen. You might be right if the top tier players were all in a vaccum and nobody knew of each other except via bnet2.0 identifiers. Yet it's a small world at the top. They already DO know each other, and they will want to compete to see who is better. People will still watch SC games even if they know it isnt the highest competitive standard. We watch foreigner tournaments even though they are not as good as the koreans. We watch CSL even though they are not as good as the foreigners. Starcraft is starcraft man. Why download vods of another server when you could watch them now? Because you like starcraft..... We stay awake at 3am to watch OSL / MSL finals halfway across the world because we love the game. You seriously think we wont download vods of another tournament simply because there is another tournament to watch? | ||
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IdrA
United States11541 Posts
Hiding "match history" data: All professional sports are based on studying tape of the opponent. So no, they are not planning on hiding match history data. Once the tournament patch is added it'll be easy to figure out who the best of the best are (professional league). If a player wanted to hide their match history, they would need to make another account and play. i hope theyre not serious | ||
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Pixel.
Netherlands287 Posts
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trifecta
United States6795 Posts
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Golden Ghost
Netherlands1041 Posts
2) Wrong. If you can't practise against good players performing a certain strategy you can't develop a good counter. 3) EG vs TL was only possible because players involved had to use other accounts as their own. For this sole purpose I can imagine the top players purchasing multiple games so they can register one on each server and although this might solve a part of the problem I wouldn't consider it a clean solution. You watch OSL/MSL because it IS the highest competition available. So that only proves my point. And regarding the VOD's well there is just so much time you can spent on watching Starcraft and if you have to choose between a VOD of a tournament with only Americans and a live tournament with Europeans I know what I would choose. | ||
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Lyzon
United Kingdom440 Posts
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