New Battle Report (10/19/2009) - Page 20

On October 23 2009 11:34 immacolate wrote:
I would really, REALLY love to be excited about SC 2, but month after month, BR after BR this game looks more and more like the worst pile of crap ever.

- why are all the resources now shown on the mini-map like in WC 3. are the kids that are going to buy this game so stupid that they cannot scout for themselves, or perceive the concept of symmetrical positions on the map?

- why is even a map like LT with huge wide open space in the middle tweaked so that it looks like any random WC3 map, with some stupid corridors and narrow passages all over the place? there was even a forest on the fucking hill above 12 o'clock base.

- the sound in this game is terrible. i swear to god this sounded like Dune 2000 or C&C 2, with a bunch of cheap futuristic effects deprived of any identity. even siege tank fire sounded like children's toy.

- while we are at the siege tank, was that wide red circle around it actually its firing range that is now visible?. will this work only in spectator mode, or you can see range of every unit while playing?

- zealots look like some comedic combination between a waiter and a jedi with that flaming psi blade in right hand and unnatural position of their left hands. oh, and the sound of their attacks is just laughable.

- there are too many pointless animations or light effects. for example, there is some shit spinning around the pylon, and some stupid blue light below every protoss probe. this game will NEVER be an esport that spectators would enjoy with all this useless crap moving and shining all over the place.

- i hate how health bar looks. it was hard for me to determine how many hit points are left on any unit at any point in time. oh, and that terran dropship really refused to die, after being hit a shitload of times by those lousy excuses for dragoons.
- how to fuck did the terran have so many nukes? this looked like 3 or 4 silos in action. are the nukes now produced in 10 seconds? no, I did not bother to read unit and tech trees, they will change those at least 57 times before a full version of the game comes out anyway.

- the commentators are morons. they were acting like that little tank and dropship micro was the most skillful move in the universe. evar.

- as we all know, david kim is truly a bonjwa, but that protoss player sucked. he could not even block his ramp against 2 vulture wannabes, and he saw them coming 20 seconds ago.
- i see no point to concept of xel naga watch towers. with so many fast units that teleport and jump all over the place, why would you really need this feature in the game?

- i am not sure about units on low ground not being able to return fire to the high ground without a help from observers.yes, it is nice to jump and blink up and down with the units, but still, you are now basically forcing the players to make "jumping" units so that they could defend from high ground harassment and shit. i mean, siege tank from low ground cannot hit a templar on the hill? hello??

it seems to me like everyone already has their firm opinion about SC 2 (I hate it, thank you), and nothing that is written on this forum will change their mind one way or the other, but I am really disappointed with how this looks like. I am not surprised that beta is being delayed over and over again, because to be honest, this joke cannot be the sequel to the best RTS game of all times, can it?

On October 24 2009 00:29 PobTheCad wrote:
i agree with the whole laser thing
i haven't been following sc2 that closely but does zerg have a cliff jumping unit similar to the reaper , colossus or stalker?

On October 24 2009 00:44 Amber[LighT] wrote:


They can travel underground, I think that's a good substitute, and it wouldn't surprise me if this ability allowed for cliff jumping (well.. tunneling..)

On October 23 2009 23:30 immacolate wrote:
- almost all units seem to fire the same two types of lasers (small gay laser or big bossman laser), regardless of their race or function. bring back plasma bowls for the protoss or something, make them DIFFERENT than terrans. that is essential. this game is in serious danger of being perceived as robots vs robots, deprived of any identity.

On October 24 2009 08:15 frankzimmer wrote:
Uhhh 20 pages and nobody noticed the supply count?

They almost hit the supply cap in that game and at no point did it seem like either of them had a large army

On October 24 2009 08:22 Tsagacity wrote:
Actually, we did notice it and discussed it already in this thread. They each had 60-70 harvesters and thors+tanks = mass supply consumption.

On October 24 2009 08:34 frankzimmer wrote:


a capped army should never look that small, that's horrible

they're doing it on purpose so they don't have to render big armies because that'd make the system requirements higher, so they're just going to balance it so everyone uses high supply units

I'm telling you, 3d graphics ruin RTS

On October 24 2009 02:45 abyss wrote:
rly hard to kill 100hp ghost (sarkasm)

On October 24 2009 09:12 HunterGatherer wrote:
SC2....What an amazing piece of trash run my stupid egg head dustin "the kid" browder. I swear i could do a better job at making this game if they didnt fuck it up so much and turn it into a joke from the get-go.