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Dante.StarCraft
Norway170 Posts
Blizzard just made a new launch day site. It even has a timer! Check it out! | ||
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voltaic
1071 Posts
kerrigan will be re-infested 100% even a leviathan with an iq of 2 can assure you that. @dante thx for posting it, checked it already out! i hoped there would be some new information, not just some schedule. Also, will there be something like we had pre-WoL? unlocking stuff? | ||
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Dante.StarCraft
Norway170 Posts
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voltaic
1071 Posts
the last hopes will vanish 2 weeks before release... and after that it won't matter as HotS itself will be out later. Anyway i want Blizzard to fire the guy who decided that it would come out on wednesday (or so). wtf people work or have to study and then they release the game. so basically i (and many others) can start campaign etc only on friday. those will be the worst 3 days of my live, chilling in the nets without spoiling the ending/story. it makes a gorl cry.... | ||
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Dante.StarCraft
Norway170 Posts
The password is Y7_$0>0k_3<$m. | ||
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voltaic
1071 Posts
it hasn't that much new information tho... the twitter accounts don't feature interesting stuff, but there's more to come i guess. creating a twitter account for that lawl. also, the site itself has 7 sections locked as of now and maybe another (differet) section to be unlocked later. | ||
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voltaic
1071 Posts
i "was so emotion" at the end. check it out, it's on the official site! | ||
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Ender985
Spain910 Posts
On February 05 2013 23:56 Denda Reloaded wrote: 1 month remaining. the last hopes will vanish 2 weeks before release... and after that it won't matter as HotS itself will be out later. Anyway i want Blizzard to fire the guy who decided that it would come out on wednesday (or so). wtf people work or have to study and then they release the game. so basically i (and many others) can start campaign etc only on friday. those will be the worst 3 days of my live, chilling in the nets without spoiling the ending/story. it makes a gorl cry.... Well, connection-requiered games nowadays are notable for using under-dimensioned servers for their opening days, meaning it is highly probable that many people will not be able to even start the game the day it is realased. So after all, it might be a good thing to not be able to play on release, it might save you a few hours of desperation xD | ||
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voltaic
1071 Posts
the CE-guys spoiled me so hard after WoL came out, as the CE with all the material arrived before the game launch. lorefreaks like me will have to avoid youtube, teamliquid etc for all discussions about the story, whining about the execution of it. dodging wikipedia for reviews and storyline. i have to plan something distracting for that week, hopefully gaga will make something those days.... | ||
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lukashTheArtist
Slovakia2 Posts
I am closely watching how the design goes of the game and evaluating the general movement of the game. There are few things I am concerned currently. I really concerned about where is the game heading to from the observer point. There is also an artistic view on the game, which people do not take in to account at start, but they can somehow feel unconsciously and of course some consistency, to get the job properly done. On start, there needs to come out from main traits of the races: Protoss: big units, less mobile strong spellcasters - strategy : dominate game through spells and hitech Terran: in the middle of the other two races best defensive abilities - strategy : dominate through positioning and through drop assaults Zerg: smaller units, very mobile weak spellcasters - strategy : over helm through masses and outrunning I dont thing, the traits of races in WOL and HOTS are intact with this. In my eyes, designers failed. Zerg is nowadays the main spellcaster and user of the high tech ( infestor + Brood lord ), terran took zerg role by massing weak small agile units ( marauder + marine, than + tanks ). Protoss would be fine after smaller tweaks. I think, there needs to be buffed the basic zergs units ( hydra, roach, ultra ) and fungal spell needs to be completely removed, probably with infestor, so the game can get better. This can be done by reworking queen... So the zerg cant rush to strongly. Queen maybe have to do upgrate so it can inject. (Fungal is the best spell, it's boring, and its not consistent with Zerg traits... Somebody was too inspirated by Star troopers probably. Btw, infested terran is somehow unlogic spell... there has been nothing infested, so why do infestors cast infested terrans with metal weapons? Pure biological race cast warriors with metal? Please, dont be kidding. ) I am really dissapointed by blizzard lack of fantasy and by inconsistence. This is the alfa and omega of the beaty of the game. If you blizzard would hold to this, you can provide much more interesting game experience. Other things are: the spawnings made after hatchery or other zergling building is destroyed, are disgusting. Why do they explode and their bodies are so unflexible? The artwork is bad. The same goes for the broodlings... Why do they explode? It's disguisting. To avoid the same with the swarm host, please, study how ants are marching and try to imitate that in the swarms animation, so it look at least little bit cool. | ||
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DoubleReed
United States4130 Posts
But there's other fun things like the zerg concept of evolving units and terran concept of transforming units. Terran got this moreso with the tech lab-reactor things so that their buildings are modular as well. In HotS they got a new transformation and even widow mines sort of change modes between burrow and unburrow. But where's the zerg evolutions? NONE of the new units are evolutions. That is a travesty. I was hoping for a flying evolution of the zergling, or perhaps making the viper evolve out of the hydra. Or a queen evolution. Evolutions are cool! | ||
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lukashTheArtist
Slovakia2 Posts
Yep, there is not evolving nearly at all... Only banes and broodlords... it's such a waste of interesting thing. | ||
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voltaic
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Dante.StarCraft
Norway170 Posts
On the topic of not getting spoiled: This is becoming harder to avoid, but just playing the game and staying out of relevant sites should do the trick. I'd advocd not looking in the artbook of the CE or checking the soundtrack tracks titles (I think Phantom Menace had a spoiler there!). | ||
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voltaic
1071 Posts
i know that i have to avoid everything from the CE (artbook as you said for example). teamliquid, legacy etc. and youtube. but before i start playing i would like to see the reaction of fans. and i see tons of "ommmg ending was soooo gayyyyy"-comments coming, but there is still hope that it will be surprisingly good. | ||
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Dante.StarCraft
Norway170 Posts
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voltaic
1071 Posts
no story spoilers, but generally the reviewed quality of the lore/missions etc. that doesn't spoil or worsen the experience... only if i will read everywhere that it was utter shit in every aspect possible, which i personally doubt, then i will be more pessimistic while playing it. but hey, before i was playing WoL i already knew the ending and was quite... sad. but i enjoyed the campaign eitherway c: and not only the opinion of the fans, but also reviews from other sites which criticize character development etc (not only bad) etc. all that spoils nothing, just says how good it will be. time will tell, 28 days left!!! | ||
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schmutttt
Australia3856 Posts
On February 05 2013 23:29 Denda Reloaded wrote: @schmuttt kerrigan will be re-infested 100% even a leviathan with an iq of 2 can assure you that. Unless you're saying that the leaked 'ending' is true I don't know how you can say it is 100%. I thought her being human again but still with her powers was to demonstrate that the overmind didn't give her powers, it just broke the restraints that the ghost program had put on her powers. Nevertheless can't wait to get it, my only problem is I'm probably going to finish the campaign less than 12 hours after I buy it :D . | ||
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voltaic
1071 Posts
i doubt that it will even occur, but there is enough material that proves that she will get a zerg again, but i guess her mind will stay "human", or at least to some extent | ||
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Spyridon
United States997 Posts
On January 24 2013 02:14 Denda Reloaded wrote: You see the position of the Dominion in the trailer, the outcome is quite obvious, except something (as in the leaked ending) appears. I also noticed some mistakes in the trailer but will be happy if it's only my stupidity and Blizz did everything right: In the scene where the Ultra gets a Tank blast in the head, we see Banelings/Zerglings rolling/running ahed of it, making them nearer to the Dominion troops /logic. But after the Nydus worm bursts of the ground the Ultralisk is somehow at the siege line before the Lings (strange, but not automatically a mistake) and kills the Marine (the Banelings should be there long before him or at least the Zerglings). After the Marine gets bashed by the Ultralisk stomp, we see a scene from above where the Ultras are still like 30 metres away from the siege/marine line and the B/Z-lings are already closing in #nonsense #contradicting. Notice the Nydus worm there which is slowly lowering itself to the ground, which means this scene wasn't just edited, the scenes happened in chronological order and weren't just mixed up. I hope it is understandable. It's not important and i am not hating, it' okay (in contrast 2 the infamous Wilhelm scream) "Zerg seems to be submerged (it's more visible in the video), and really, really angry." what do you mean with that? She's under water (in the first pic) it seems o.O (maybe a cocoon?) i noticed those few clips earlier but both aren't cgi so i guess they aren't the ending... @the second pic: here comes your theory with Kerri midgame killing Mengsk. If it were the ending, it would be CGI in Blizzard fashion. But maybe it's just another event, i don't want to interpret too much bullshit into those things. lawl i already did. Those scenes of her as the QoB are probably her memories of the metamorphosis after she was captured by the Zerg and integrated in to the army. + Show Spoiler + In Flashpoint she's constantly having bad memories/nightmares of when Mengsk abandoned her and the pain she went through, followed by memories of Zerg killing a mother and daughter, etc. I'm sure they are going to cover this aspect in the game for those who did not read the book. I doubt she will go back to the full-blown QoB - there's much less they can do with her as a character. | ||
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