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darklycid
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On August 06 2022 23:11 Vindicare605 wrote: This is wild. HOW MANY years did it take for Protoss to FINALLY start making static defenses on their outlying expansions? It's incredible! It's revolutionary! It's remarkable! ? | ||
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Fanatic-Templar
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Waxangel
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On August 06 2022 23:25 Fanatic-Templar wrote: Those are the Storms I love to see! Indeed "fanatic templar"  | ||
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Fanatic-Templar
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For 24 years now :D. | ||
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Charoisaur
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Captain Peabody
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Waxangel
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Captain Peabody
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Here, though, is another wrinkle to that story from an oldster (me) who was very actively involved during the early phases of SC2 Pre-Beta. In that pre-beta phase, in early released videos, screenshots, and on the original website, SC2 Archons did have legs. This was one of a few things, though, that created an absolutely feverish negative response from people complaining that Blizzard was ruining the visuals of SC and making the WC3-ish. People yelled and screamed that Archons in SC1 didn't have legs and Archons shouldn't have legs, that they looked silly, etc, etc. And this was one of a number of visual things (of which there were a fair many: the way SC2 looks was actually very shaped by early visual feedback) that Blizzard did actually change, explicitly in response to that feedback. Even so, though, some of the (fair number, actually, of) artists who worked on both SC1 and SC2 eventually pointed out that Archons had always been intended to have legs, and were able to point to concept art and the actual 3D model used in SC1 as proof. This was confirmed well before SC: Remastered, but that obviously made it visible in a way it had never been before. So there: the reason SC2 Archons don't have legs is because BW fans (wrongly) hadn't noticed that they had had legs in SC1 and attacked the legged archons SC2 as a stupid change from BW. Strange world. | ||
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Durnuu
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Waxangel
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Elentos
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Fanatic-Templar
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On August 07 2022 01:04 Captain Peabody wrote: Even so, though, some of the (fair number, actually, of) artists who worked on both SC1 and SC2 eventually pointed out that Archons had always been intended to have legs, and were able to point to concept art and the actual 3D model used in SC1 as proof. This was confirmed well before SC: Remastered, but that obviously made it visible in a way it had never been before. Yeah, if you look at the Archon in the SC manual, it's practically unrecognisable. I do have to side with not showing their legs though. Not so much with switching the scorpion-tail Sentries for the snowglobes. | ||
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Elentos
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Captain Peabody
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On August 07 2022 01:23 Fanatic-Templar wrote: Yeah, if you look at the Archon in the SC manual, it's practically unrecognisable. I do have to side with not showing their legs though. Not so much with switching the scorpion-tail Sentries for the snowglobes. Yeah, I also miss the scorpion-tail Sentries. I imagine they did it in part for easy-visual-read reasons, but the snow-globe just still looks kinda cheap to me and makes it have less of a distinctive or interesting silhouette imo. | ||
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Waxangel
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On August 07 2022 01:25 Elentos wrote: Shoutout to the fact that Team Liquid's best result in TSL for SC2 is still uThermal getting top 6 in TSL 5. Proof that StarCraft II is very fair and unbiased; no Alpha X player has ever placed top four in a King of Battles either Only KeSPA would be so uncouth as to have SKT win the SK Proleague  | ||
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Durnuu
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On August 07 2022 01:36 Waxangel wrote: Proof that StarCraft II is very fair and unbiased; no Alpha X player has ever placed top four in a King of Battles either Only KeSPA would be so uncouth as to have SKT win the SK Proleague Let's not forget Apollo rigging brackets for foreigners, shall we? | ||
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