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StarCraft II Q&A Batch 55

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AdunToridas
Profile Joined December 2008
Germany380 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-11-18 18:31:22
November 18 2009 18:27 GMT
#1
---StarCraft II Q&A Batch 55---

1. Not all potential players of StarCraft II have played the original StarCraft before, thus they might encounter problems with the understanding of the story. Is it possible to play the campaign of StarCraft II without knowing anything? Will you come up with some things that happened in the original StarCraft and Brood War again – just so that people not familiar to the story get more information?
We plan on having story elements that will bring players up to speed on the most recent plot developments and prepare them for the StarCraft II storyline. We also plan on having a plot summary of what transpired in the original StarCraft and Brood War during the installation process. However we feel that regardless of your familiarity with the original story, all players will be able to enjoy the story developments in StarCraft II.

2. You have already announced that you are going to record various stats when playing StarCraft II with the new Battle.net 2.0 – but how detailed will those statistics be? Will one be able to see how many units of a certain kind (for example Marines) one have build or even killed so far?
We will be recording a large amount of stats for StarCraft II, but we are still in discussion as to which stats will ultimately be tracked. We will determine how detailed the stat-tracking will be based on what information we think will benefit our players the most to help improve their game.

3. You have already stated that you will support DirectX 10, but what about DirectX 11?
We currently do not have any plans on supporting DirectX11-specific features, but the game will be compatible with DirectX11.

4. How many stats will a Hero unit be able to take? Three like in Warcraft 3 or is there even a limit?
If you create a user-amp with heroes, you can outfit them with a large number of stats. However, currently only three stats will be able to be displayed on the UI due to limited space.

5. In lore Protoss warp in their units and buildings from some far planet. Will there be any mechanic that reflects this such as a "warp out" that could act as a refund?

We do not have any plans to include a “warp out” game mechanic. We have discussed the possibility of this in the past, but it felt too similar to the Terran mechanics of being able to salvage the structures.

6. Will there be a converter to convert our favorite original StarCraft maps to StarCraft II maps? I don’t want to lose all of my favorite maps from the original StarCraft when I get StarCraft II.
There will not be a map converter for StarCraft II. Map-makers will have to manually rebuild any of their maps using the new StarCraft II map editor.

7. I'm just going to assume that you will have some sort of window mode in StarCraft II. But I was wondering if you're going to implement a windowed mode like the one that World of Warcraft has? You know where you can maximize the window, removing the borders and enabling fullscreen mode yet providing easy access to the desktop.
You will be able to select both windowed and full-screen windowed modes from the options menu.

---End of Transmission---

[Source: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=21043889722&sid=3000#0]
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cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
November 18 2009 18:35 GMT
#2
These were some really dumb questions.

"Can my heroes have a Charisma stat? And Proficiencies? And a backstory pane?"
viletomato
Profile Joined June 2009
Canada277 Posts
November 18 2009 18:38 GMT
#3
On November 19 2009 03:35 cgrinker wrote:
These were some really dumb questions.

"Can my heroes have a Charisma stat? And Proficiencies? And a backstory pane?"



Agreed, one of the worst Q&A IMO
Tomatoes, the king of fruits
Mutalisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
288 Posts
November 18 2009 18:40 GMT
#4
Q&A doesn't say any relevant info anymore..
Ho0ps
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United Kingdom216 Posts
November 18 2009 18:44 GMT
#5
Useless.
mucker
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States1120 Posts
November 18 2009 18:49 GMT
#6
They should put extensive stat tracking in if they want SC2 to be an ESPORT. A big part of sports fandom revolves around following stats and debates about what they mean. I'd love to be able to look up things like who has the highest average kills per psistorm or most lurkers ever canceled in a single game or historical changes in marine/medic ratio.
It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.
Pufftrees
Profile Joined March 2009
2449 Posts
November 18 2009 18:51 GMT
#7
Shitty Q & A overall, but thats the norm now thanks for sharing.

I agree with Mucker about the stat tracking. Hopefully (and I have faith with Blizzard) they are tracking an immense amount of things.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Latham
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
9391 Posts
November 18 2009 19:00 GMT
#8
The fuck is this? I mean, seriously, I think it can't get any worse from here. This has to be the single worst Q&A session EVER.

I think they should put themselves and the community out of misery, and just stop with Q&As. It is clear they have far out lived their usefulness, and if they don't have anything relative to comment on, they just shouldn't do it overall. This is beyond crap, this is just insulting -.-
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Deadlift
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States358 Posts
November 18 2009 19:01 GMT
#9
There is an inordinate amount of nerd rage in this topic so far.
mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5649 Posts
November 18 2009 19:03 GMT
#10
i am thoroughly upset.
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CongoJack
Profile Joined February 2009
Canada417 Posts
November 18 2009 19:07 GMT
#11
Seriously a question about windowed mode rofl that is pretty damn lame.
d3_crescentia
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4053 Posts
November 18 2009 19:08 GMT
#12
On November 19 2009 04:01 Kishime wrote:
There is an inordinate amount of nerd rage in this topic so far.

quoted for truth.

funny thing about q&a's is that they're SOMEONE's questions... whether or not they're interesting to us who already obsess over every minute little detail about gameplay is irrelevant at this point.
once, not long ago, there was a moon here
Nitrogen
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States5345 Posts
November 18 2009 19:14 GMT
#13
hahaha this was so terrible
UNFUCK YOURSELF
Amber[LighT]
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States5078 Posts
November 18 2009 19:34 GMT
#14
There are people that have never played SC1 that are planning to play SC2? How did that question even come about?
"We have unfinished business, I and he."
ShadowDrgn
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2497 Posts
November 18 2009 19:46 GMT
#15
On November 19 2009 04:07 thewalkindude wrote:
Seriously a question about windowed mode rofl that is pretty damn lame.


World of Warcraft has the best implemented windowed mode I've ever seen in a game. At desktop resolution, it looks identical to full screen, runs at the same fps as full screen, but is obviously much more responsive to alt tabbing (and you can put windows on top of it, of course).
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
ELESSAR
Profile Joined July 2009
Bulgaria173 Posts
November 18 2009 19:50 GMT
#16
On November 19 2009 04:07 thewalkindude wrote:
Seriously a question about windowed mode rofl that is pretty damn lame.

No, the lame part is the fact that this was the most interesting question
niteReloaded
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Croatia5277 Posts
November 18 2009 19:50 GMT
#17
wow...
zazen
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Brazil695 Posts
November 18 2009 19:51 GMT
#18
Dumb questions, answered mostly with "we're still not sure" and "no you can't"...

Sometimes when I think about SC2 I just want to start screaming and crying in despair because this game simply isn't coming out any time soon, despite the fact that I've been already waiting for 11 years.

"The quest for nexus has brought many men of genius to insanity... HUEHUEHUE!"
prOxi.Beater
Profile Joined December 2008
Denmark626 Posts
November 18 2009 19:53 GMT
#19
Boring

Not worth the wait
Nobody beats the Beater
Drunken.Jedi
Profile Joined June 2009
Germany446 Posts
November 18 2009 19:58 GMT
#20
Well, questions 3, 4 and 7 were moderately interesting, so not the worst Q&A yet.
But it shouldn't be all that surprising that the newer Q&As are not as good as most of the earlier ones.
There's simply a limit to how many intelligent questions you can ask.
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