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rEdEEmEd
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada68 Posts
January 23 2013 04:35 GMT
#401
Won't buy. Leaving the StarCraft dynasty after 14 years playing.
And, well….he’s Jaedong. And because he’s Jaedong, he is probably pretty damn sick of 2nd places. And because he’s Jaedong, and he’s sick of 2nd places, he might just hit SSJ (Super Sayain Jaedong) level 2 and kill everybody. -Artosis
AnachronisticAnarchy
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States2957 Posts
January 23 2013 04:46 GMT
#402
Say what you will about Blizzard, but their trailers can be some of the most bad-ass out there.
"How are you?" "I am fine, because it is not normal to scream in pain."
Qwyn
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2781 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-23 06:29:31
January 23 2013 05:48 GMT
#403
Now I know I said that I wasn't interested in the campaign...

But god damn it Blizzard's cinematics have done it again.

EDIT: Whoops ><. "Wasn't interested."
"Think of the hysteria following the realization that they consciously consume babies and raise the dead people from their graves" - N0
exog
Profile Joined April 2010
Norway279 Posts
January 23 2013 08:25 GMT
#404
On January 23 2013 13:35 rEdEEmEd wrote:
Won't buy. Leaving the StarCraft dynasty after 14 years playing.


ok

User was warned for this post
Jenia6109
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Russian Federation1613 Posts
January 23 2013 08:49 GMT
#405
Every new Blizzard cinematic is better than previous.
Starcraft and Diablo2 cinematics were cool!
Warcraft3 cinematics were masterpieces!
WoW cinematics were epic!
Starcraft2 cinematics were WOW!!
Diablo3 cinematics were ubercool!!!
And now this...
I have no words...
TvZ rough battle, classic in itself, and all of this is a dream of a girl... this is absolutely crazy...
INnoVation TY Maru | Classic Stats Dear sOs Zest herO | Rogue Dark soO
Deleted User 61629
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1664 Posts
January 23 2013 09:01 GMT
#406
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nimdil
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Poland3774 Posts
January 23 2013 09:24 GMT
#407
On January 23 2013 17:49 Jenia6109 wrote:
Every new Blizzard cinematic is better than previous.
Starcraft and Diablo2 cinematics were cool!
Warcraft3 cinematics were masterpieces!
WoW cinematics were epic!
Starcraft2 cinematics were WOW!!
Diablo3 cinematics were ubercool!!!
And now this...
I have no words...
TvZ rough battle, classic in itself, and all of this is a dream of a girl... this is absolutely crazy...

Actually the way the battle is handled seems rather stupid - especially the viking: "ooh, that guy just ignored several tank shots and stomped the machine; I better land down to fight it with my low calliber machine guns" wtf o_O

Also - where are Thors. I want to see Thors because Tanks/Ultralisk scale is waaay different than in the game (unless these were Omegalisks which I seriously doubt).
Deleted User 61629
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1664 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-23 09:27:26
January 23 2013 09:26 GMT
#408
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nimdil
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Poland3774 Posts
January 23 2013 09:27 GMT
#409
On January 23 2013 18:26 Inori wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 23 2013 18:24 nimdil wrote:
On January 23 2013 17:49 Jenia6109 wrote:
Every new Blizzard cinematic is better than previous.
Starcraft and Diablo2 cinematics were cool!
Warcraft3 cinematics were masterpieces!
WoW cinematics were epic!
Starcraft2 cinematics were WOW!!
Diablo3 cinematics were ubercool!!!
And now this...
I have no words...
TvZ rough battle, classic in itself, and all of this is a dream of a girl... this is absolutely crazy...

Actually the way the battle is handled seems rather stupid - especially the viking: "ooh, that guy just ignored several tank shots and stomped the machine; I better land down to fight it with my low calliber machine guns" wtf o_O

Also - where are Thors. I want to see Thors because Tanks/Ultralisk scale is waaay different than in the game (unless these were Omegalisks which I seriously doubt).

Terran was n00b bronze leaguer obv

I guess Mengsk without Warfield coach.
Copymizer
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark2108 Posts
January 23 2013 10:53 GMT
#410
Not really impressed by trailer nor hyped by hots..
~~Yo man ! MBCGame HERO Fighting !! Holy check !
FHC Nex
Profile Joined July 2011
Bulgaria44 Posts
January 23 2013 12:19 GMT
#411
On January 23 2013 18:24 nimdil wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 23 2013 17:49 Jenia6109 wrote:
Every new Blizzard cinematic is better than previous.
Starcraft and Diablo2 cinematics were cool!
Warcraft3 cinematics were masterpieces!
WoW cinematics were epic!
Starcraft2 cinematics were WOW!!
Diablo3 cinematics were ubercool!!!
And now this...
I have no words...
TvZ rough battle, classic in itself, and all of this is a dream of a girl... this is absolutely crazy...

Actually the way the battle is handled seems rather stupid - especially the viking: "ooh, that guy just ignored several tank shots and stomped the machine; I better land down to fight it with my low calliber machine guns" wtf o_O

Also - where are Thors. I want to see Thors because Tanks/Ultralisk scale is waaay different than in the game (unless these were Omegalisks which I seriously doubt).


Trolled by blizzard, vikings are useless after an Ultralisk remax

:D :D

I've already watched the trailer like 10 times, will watch for the first time today v0v cant wait for the campaign TBH. No demo for us?
"It seems that whenever a Terran wins its because "Terran OP" not because the player played well. "Terran OP" has been around since beta and its became an excuse for losses"
NEEDZMOAR
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Sweden1277 Posts
January 23 2013 13:05 GMT
#412
On January 22 2013 19:26 heishe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 22 2013 19:18 NEEDZMOAR wrote:
On January 22 2013 19:10 Amui wrote:
On January 22 2013 19:08 NEEDZMOAR wrote:
On January 22 2013 17:31 paralleluniverse wrote:
On January 22 2013 17:08 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote:
Skins for units
On top of new portraits and in-game logos, skins will be part of the experience and ladder reward system of Heart of the Swarm. The preview that we saw had only a picture of units skinned from campaign (mercenary marines, dark zealots, raptor zergling). The details are still being worked out on how to introduce interesting skins without introducing too much clutter to the competitive aspect of the game.

Now there needs to be a option to turn it off from the player's perspective.


THERE NEEEDS to be an option to turn it off.....

I'd rather pay a monthly fee straight up than being forced to play with this...


I'm more concerned about the performance hit. Not an issue in 1v1, but in team games it could be significant with enough of them. Probably a none/self/all option would suffice. Looking at it from a dota/lol perspective though, it gives casters and spectator's a bit of variety if somebody chooses to use a skin and you can see it.



that's true. Already I go down to sub 6 fps lategame, unless this is incredibly well coded, its going to be really annoying.


If the skins are just different textures, there should be literally no performance hit at all. The size of those textures is pretty small, so additional skins would likely fit on the same texture file (the same texture atlas). There wouldn't be a performance hit since the texture gets drawn anyways, a different skin just means that it gets drawn from a different sub-position in the texture file. The only performance hit with such a change could come if your ram is really small and can't handle the couple of megabytes of additional data, meaning you constantly have to reload stuff from the hard drive.


Alright, thanks for clearing that up!

my Ram is fine, for instance In Heroes of Newerth I started lagging so much when they added all the skins and new heroes, and I thougt it was because of bad coding (the optimized a lot of shit and performancewise its much better for me nowadays).


this might be a cool add for casters
Youtakenocandle
Profile Joined February 2012
543 Posts
January 23 2013 13:22 GMT
#413
Quote from the opening cinematic: "Vengeance shall be mine" .... come on Blizzard. Get some decent writers.
summerloud
Profile Joined March 2010
Austria1201 Posts
January 23 2013 13:31 GMT
#414
am i the only one who will watch the opening cinematic after he actually installed the game?

much more climatic that way
Weirdkid
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Singapore2431 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-23 14:12:41
January 23 2013 14:10 GMT
#415
There are Easter eggs to be found in the opening cinematic Lol not that I found it out myself. Just read on another website. The people (apparently a group of Hungarians) who found it are pretty imba I gotta say. It's pretty much impossible to spot if you don't know what you're looking for.

Source: http://s.163.com/13/0123/10/8LT9831I00314D0E.html

+ Show Spoiler [Easter eggs] +

At 8 seconds and 18 seconds at the screen changes, there are pictures of people (supposedly the development group) partying.
+ Show Spoiler [At 8 seconds] +

[image loading]

+ Show Spoiler [At 18 seconds] +

[image loading]



This is not fake by the way. I saw it for myself by pause/playing really quickly on the 1080p Youtube video. A bit freaky to be honest
"Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself." - Proverbs 26:4
PonceDeLEGABE
Profile Joined March 2011
United States117 Posts
January 23 2013 14:11 GMT
#416
Great article shindigs and ghostclaw the campaign leveling system (mutation and evolution) will be very interesting hopefully it will give me a sense of replayability in campaign trying out different strategies(and of course difficulties).
Firebolt145
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Lalalaland34507 Posts
January 23 2013 14:12 GMT
#417
On January 23 2013 23:10 Weirdkid wrote:
There are Easter eggs to be found in the opening cinematic Lol not that I found it out myself. Just read on another website. The people who found it are pretty imba I gotta say. It's pretty much impossible to spot if you don't know what you're looking for.

Source: http://s.163.com/13/0123/10/8LT9831I00314D0E.html

+ Show Spoiler [Easter eggs] +

At 8 seconds and 18 seconds at the screen changes, there are pictures of people (supposedly the development group) partying.
+ Show Spoiler [At 8 seconds] +

&#91;image loading&#93;

+ Show Spoiler [At 18 seconds] +

&#91;image loading&#93;



This is not fake by the way. I saw it for myself by pause/playing really quickly on the 1080p Youtube video. A bit freaky to be honest

The Wilhelm scream is also borderline an easter egg by this point as well.
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Boo.Crazy
Profile Joined January 2013
Sweden21 Posts
January 23 2013 16:40 GMT
#418
lol so epic, i hope that one day Blizzard will make a movie about startcraft =)))
The prophecy is uncertain. There is always hope
nimdil
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Poland3774 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-23 17:29:48
January 23 2013 17:27 GMT
#419
I'm not exactly why but this intro cinematics feels a bit like C&C.
Maybe because I'm not used that much in macroscale battles in StarCraft cinematics.

On January 24 2013 01:40 Boo.Crazy wrote:
lol so epic, i hope that one day Blizzard will make a movie about startcraft =)))

You realize that it will almost surely be crappy below-B-class movie? What's good for the game is not very good for the cinema.
AnomalySC2
Profile Joined August 2012
United States2073 Posts
January 23 2013 17:33 GMT
#420
On January 23 2013 18:24 nimdil wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 23 2013 17:49 Jenia6109 wrote:
Every new Blizzard cinematic is better than previous.
Starcraft and Diablo2 cinematics were cool!
Warcraft3 cinematics were masterpieces!
WoW cinematics were epic!
Starcraft2 cinematics were WOW!!
Diablo3 cinematics were ubercool!!!
And now this...
I have no words...
TvZ rough battle, classic in itself, and all of this is a dream of a girl... this is absolutely crazy...

Actually the way the battle is handled seems rather stupid - especially the viking: "ooh, that guy just ignored several tank shots and stomped the machine; I better land down to fight it with my low calliber machine guns" wtf o_O

Also - where are Thors. I want to see Thors because Tanks/Ultralisk scale is waaay different than in the game (unless these were Omegalisks which I seriously doubt).


Dude the viking landing in front of the ultra was a really obvious (to me anyways) and humorous nod to how infamously bad vikings are on the ground. I loled anyways. I still can't get over the sheer quality of the cgi though, pretty crazy.
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