On March 13 2008 13:49 Last Romantic wrote:
[*]Since entertaining signature moves [Kim Sungje’s reavers, Park Jungseok’s storms, Lee YoonYeol’s mass irradiates] have been removed or de-powered, I asked him how he planned to replace them. While a BC with a plasma turret can decimate a similar amount of units as a reaver, anyone can use an upgraded BC while not everyone can make their shuttle shoot scarabs. This is still a concern of mine.
[*]There are many, many new mechanics being added to the game. The idea is that, in StarCraft 1, players discovered more and more tricks with rather basic mechanics; if they include more abilities, players will discover even more little bugs to play with. I’m undecided on this one – on one hand, more abilities such as the stalker’s blink may be cool and different, on the other, SC1 had a lot of tricks you could do with simple dragoons – see Reach vs TheRock, or Kingdom vs Rage. [Dancing feels.. different, now.]

I agree. There's something magical about watching a reaver with 34 worker kills fly away unscathed in a shuttle. I will miss that feeling dearly.

I don't believe the new mechanics of StarCraft 2 will give us the same array of outrageous tricks that the original did. StarCraft 1 opened up tricks that were incredible because they relied on mechanics that were so basic. You never could have imagined you'd be able to pull off something like that with that mechanic.

Some of the abilities I see in StarCraft 2 are a little too straight-forward for me.

mahnini

United States6862 Posts

March 13 2008 08:55 GMT

#53

omg I hate you, you tease!

Metaspace

Austria670 Posts

March 13 2008 09:02 GMT

#54

I would think about MBS. Sur eit makes macro easier, but what you save there might, e.g., go into micro, or craftier tactics.

HonestTea

5007 Posts

March 13 2008 09:06 GMT

#55

Wonderful job reporting you guys.

Envy and Admiration!

Thanks for repping us

semioldguy

United States7488 Posts

March 13 2008 09:41 GMT

#56

On March 13 2008 18:02 Metaspace wrote:
I would think about MBS. Sur eit makes macro easier, but what you save there might, e.g., go into micro, or craftier tactics.

I really don't want to start an MBS debate here, but what Blizzard wants to do is have an even balance between the micro and macro so that either play style can be effective. they don't want a game that can be dominated by just Micro or Macro but one where both have their places to shine.

Nitro68

France470 Posts

March 13 2008 10:00 GMT

#57

Thanks a lot !!!!

Is the minimap like in SC1 ? (everything black until you discover it once)

Or is it like in WC3 ? (you can see all the map, the minerals, ... right at the beginning of the game)

Lenwe

Netherlands757 Posts

March 13 2008 10:29 GMT

#58

Jealous much!?

I think I am.

Great report, can't wait for SoG' thought's, pics and movies.

BlackStar

Netherlands3029 Posts

March 13 2008 11:49 GMT

#59

David Kim replaced Pillars. He's Korean. I posted his real (korean) name here once and an article he wrote about balancing and the role of top players in this.

I think he was an amateur in a clan with a few people who later became progamers.

Testie would be one of the people on the top of my list if I were Blizzard. He plays random, which is a huge plus.

Someone said Pillars left to play poker professionally. Damn you poker!

Ooh, and with a 3d engine it's really easy to switch between team colour psi and blue psi as an user setting.

But can't they fix team colours by avoiding the same race having very similar colours? I am not that against team coloured psi. But it may be not that nice. And white vs yellow protoss is definitely an issue that SC2 needs to be fixed. But it can be fixed without coloured psi if they have to, it seems to me.

Vaanelo

Canada128 Posts

March 13 2008 11:56 GMT

#60

fuck i want to play sc2