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Heart of the Swarm Preview - [22.01.13] - Page 6

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NEEDZMOAR
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Sweden1277 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-22 10:08:25
January 22 2013 10:08 GMT
#101
On January 22 2013 17:31 paralleluniverse wrote:
Show nested quote +
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...
carlfish
Profile Joined June 2011
Australia57 Posts
January 22 2013 10:10 GMT
#102
On January 22 2013 17:34 sCCrooked wrote:
Curious why there's NOTHING new like the units or abilities in the opening cinema o_O

Also why doesn't that T have any hellbats against all them lings?!


Remember how during WCS, Blizzard kept playing that HotS unit preview video that showcased a bunch of stuff that had already been pulled from the game? Annoying, wasn't it.

These cinematics take months to develop. Blizzard doesn't get the chance to "do over" if the hero unit of the movie gets pulled from the game at the last minute. As such, it makes sense for them to only feature the units they know are definitely going to still be in the game when it comes out.

C
I am a fish.
Trasko
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Sweden983 Posts
January 22 2013 10:10 GMT
#103
I just jizzed everywhere ..... /Lorenerd
Jaedong <3
Amui
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada10567 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-22 10:12:26
January 22 2013 10:10 GMT
#104
On January 22 2013 19:08 NEEDZMOAR wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.
Porouscloud - NA LoL
yawnoC
Profile Joined December 2010
United States3704 Posts
January 22 2013 10:12 GMT
#105
I am really looking forward to both the campaign and the multiplayer ^_^
GG - UNiVeRsE is the best player in the WORLD
Mutalisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
288 Posts
January 22 2013 10:15 GMT
#106
On January 22 2013 18:14 Noxblood wrote:
One question i was hoping to get answered was is there coming or not coming a shared replay feature in HOTS?
Sick cinematic as always from Blizzard!


This. Will we be able to watch replays with friends in HotS or not?
NEEDZMOAR
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Sweden1277 Posts
January 22 2013 10:18 GMT
#107
On January 22 2013 19:10 Amui wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.
Discarder
Profile Joined July 2012
Philippines411 Posts
January 22 2013 10:23 GMT
#108
On January 22 2013 18:14 -Archangel- wrote:
I want a Starcraft MOVIE!!! Who is with me?!?!?!

Make it happen Browder!!


Yes please! Every starcraft cinematic on youtube has this comment. Blizzard should know that this is a great idea!
You can take the lion out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the lion
AssyrianKing
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia2116 Posts
January 22 2013 10:23 GMT
#109
Why cant all vikings land like that...
John 15:13
Jetaap
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France4814 Posts
January 22 2013 10:25 GMT
#110
Not a suprise but marketplace confirmed for never happening basically (after legacy of the void... )
heishe
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany2284 Posts
January 22 2013 10:26 GMT
#111
On January 22 2013 19:18 NEEDZMOAR wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.
If you value your soul, never look into the eye of a horse. Your soul will forever be lost in the void of the horse.
Destro
Profile Joined September 2009
Netherlands1206 Posts
January 22 2013 10:32 GMT
#112
I WANT CLAN SKINS.

i mean how awesome would it be to see a TL pony on the top of taeja's CC?
bring back weapon of choice for hots!
Falling
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada11525 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-22 10:59:19
January 22 2013 10:34 GMT
#113
Is that the first cinematic that had siege tanks in it?

edit.

I think that map marketplace is never going to happen at this point. They've pushed it till the 3rd? If it is delayed after that, then it can only be for Starcraft 3.

Still not happy with pathing explanation.

What do they have against hidden expansions? That's what scouting is for. Oh well, they're conceding.

On January 22 2013 17:38 Mrvoodoochild1 wrote:
Let's make a trailer for our new game without any of the new units we are introducing to our new game. Dat blizzard logic. In all fairness to them, the trailer was probably in the works before the balance team had any idea what units they were going to keep and such.

Iconic units are iconic. Zerglings, hydralisks, mutalisks and ultralisks. Marines and Siege Tanks. We're kicking it old school. I guess they have a viking and flash of baneling. Hard to go wrong with the old stuff as they're among the best looking units cinematically. Have we seen a cinematic with a Roach? I have a hard time picturing exactly how they would be beyond their unit sprite. Hydralisks still got that Alien vibe Hard to give that unit up in the video even the actual ingame unit has been relegated to side jobs compared to the hydras of old.
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paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-22 10:35:32
January 22 2013 10:35 GMT
#114
On January 22 2013 19:32 Destro wrote:
I WANT CLAN SKINS.

i mean how awesome would it be to see a TL pony on the top of taeja's CC?

Awful, ugly and immersion-breaking.
paralleluniverse
Profile Joined July 2010
4065 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-22 10:38:34
January 22 2013 10:38 GMT
#115
On January 22 2013 18:38 Cheeseling wrote:
I really hope all this story with Kerrigan's feeling guilt and raging on Mengsk will not end up like some Disney movie with her return to be a human or new "friendly compassion zergs"

On the second point, you should watch the leaked ending cinematic (which given all the information released so far, I'm 99% sure is real)... and then rage at the cheesiness.
Mambo
Profile Joined February 2012
Denmark1338 Posts
January 22 2013 10:39 GMT
#116
That cinematic is so damn good, i got a tear in my eye. Im looking forward to play the campaign and watch the pros use the new units in epic ways.
Boxer | MVP | Taeja | TLO | Grubby | Bunny (danish)
Greendotz
Profile Joined October 2011
United Kingdom2053 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-22 10:41:58
January 22 2013 10:40 GMT
#117
Awesome cinematic, so much high intensity action (although clearly that viking pilot was in bronze league if he thinks he can take an ultra and about 50 lings) :D I'm really looking forward to this, sure multi-player is good and all but I really love RTS single player campaigns. While the story may have been a bit 'lite' I really enjoyed the WoL campaign (enough to play it about 5 times over) and this looks like it's shaping up to be a fun sequel.
wildstyle1337
Profile Joined September 2011
Poland514 Posts
January 22 2013 10:41 GMT
#118
funny that viking could attack ulltralisk with air mode, cos they are so big
Integra
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Sweden5626 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-22 10:50:16
January 22 2013 10:49 GMT
#119
I really enjoyed the Single campaign of SC2 WOL and it looks like they are doing a great job at Hots as well and I can't wait. And the intro cinematic kicks ass, as always when it comes to Blizzard, too bad the Terran was bronze level, what noob to land his viking to fight that ultralisk
"Dark Pleasure" | | I survived the Locust war of May 3, 2014
WArped
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom4845 Posts
January 22 2013 10:51 GMT
#120
They really know how to make cinematics, holy shit balls that was AMAZING.
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