On July 17 2010 02:35 Numy wrote:
I slightly confused. Why is "clan chat" mentioned but not Clan support? Does this assume that clan support will be in sometime?

There is no formal clan support and I haven't heard of any plans for that in the future. In that regard it's a major step back from War3 which had really nice clan support.

Lovedrop

2629 Posts

July 16 2010 17:42 GMT

#122

"terrible terrible damage" hahaha shoutcasters rejoice !

Backpack

United States1776 Posts

July 16 2010 17:44 GMT

#123

On July 17 2010 02:25 f0rk wrote:

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Yeah and the play conditions are optimal for tournaments! Seriously they talk about e-sport features and then deny easy access to the most important feature.

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How much they can charge and get away with it.

Oh stop with the stupid conspiracy theories already.

They said multiple times that they had plans for esports that would be addressed in a later patch.

Also, the problem with cross-realm is that in some countries (latin america i think, maybe russia?) they will be using a pay to play system and they need to figure out a way to standardize pricing so everyone doesn't just order the cheapest version.

TheAngelofDeath

United States2033 Posts

July 16 2010 17:48 GMT

#124

Thanks so much to Takkara for the simple version! I think it was a pretty interesting interview all around. Though I am dissapointed with a couple things.

Numy

South Africa35471 Posts

July 16 2010 18:18 GMT

#125

On July 17 2010 02:37 Excalibur_Z wrote:

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There is no formal clan support and I haven't heard of any plans for that in the future. In that regard it's a major step back from War3 which had really nice clan support.

This just made my day a very sad one. I hope this isn't true. No clan support would be a major downgrade. It's strange though that they always talking about clan chat channels but never clan support ;(

Takkara

United States2503 Posts

July 16 2010 18:26 GMT

#126

On July 17 2010 03:18 Numy wrote:

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I'm pretty sure they're planning to support clans. I'm almost positive about it. But I'm unsure if they've confirmed exactly their plans. It makes no sense for them to not support it, and it fits perfectly into their concept of making social communities in game.

They just may not call them clans and call them "groups" instead.

Bash

Finland1533 Posts

July 16 2010 18:36 GMT

#127

The MP part of this chat session leaves me in despair, I really don't like the way they are taking the game and was hoping they will realise the error of their ways but I guess not. The way they're kidding themselves in every single point where they compare SC2 to BW is sad.

MaxField

United States2386 Posts

July 16 2010 19:57 GMT

#128

WHO SPOILED THE INFESTOR TRICK!!! haha i hope he forgets about looking into so i can have some more burrowed infestor fun!

andeh

United States904 Posts

July 17 2010 00:14 GMT

#129

Guest-470: Dustin, when i first read about the new AI, which Sc2 would introduce, I thought you would be more inventive. I would love to recommend your AI-team some readings on planning AI... I see that you already read up on steering behavior for the zerglings (which results in poor movements by ultralists, but that's another story). (Master in AI @ university of Copenhagen, Denmark)
DustinB:: Sorry if you don't like our AI. I think it's pretty challenging and does a really good job of being aggresive and keeping you on your toes. Try Insane if you have mastered Very Hard.=)

lolwhat a dick

he had a solid point, but dustin read 'AI' and was like play insanelol!11

InfiniteIce

United States794 Posts

July 17 2010 00:29 GMT

#130

There were already announcements that clans would be implemented post-launch.

Also,

On July 17 2010 09:14 andeh wrote:

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lolwhat a dick

he had a solid point, but dustin read 'AI' and was like play insanelol!11

Agreed, lol. What a douchebag. "SORRY YOU DON'T LIKE OUR AI, YOUR VALID POINTS ARE MOOT!"

theqat

United States2856 Posts

July 17 2010 00:37 GMT

#131

Does "fazing" refer to charging up on your own units?

nextstep

Canada705 Posts

July 17 2010 00:42 GMT

#132

On July 17 2010 09:37 theqat wrote:
Does "fazing" refer to charging up on your own units?

it refers to changing attack targets back and forth real quick, resulting in faster kills, but less charge up (hope i didn't understand it wrong).

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=134124

nextstep

Canada705 Posts

July 17 2010 00:48 GMT

#133

On July 17 2010 02:37 Excalibur_Z wrote:

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There is no formal clan support and I haven't heard of any plans for that in the future. In that regard it's a major step back from War3 which had really nice clan support.

note that it wasn't asked in the interview.
he can't answer what was not asked.

Sabu113

United States11075 Posts

July 17 2010 01:05 GMT

#134

Awseome job making that transcript readable.

Interesting read. Nothing... ridiculous or unexpected atm.

URvis

New Zealand57 Posts

July 17 2010 01:15 GMT

#135

"They ask players in places like Australia to not buy US client and to populate the community on the SEA servers."

Bwaha.. this statement will have the opposite effect. We didn't want to be on SEA the whole time, and have been stating that continuously since they told us.
This just proves to us that it will put them out for us to use the US client, killing the SEA population, which alot of us have probably been looking for a way to do anyway.

Either way I'll be getting both, but once I have the US client, the SEA one will mostly be for testing crap / training, or possible AUSNZ tournaments-for those hosted who didn't go US.

Thanks for the post & clean up.

Kezzer

United States1268 Posts

July 17 2010 02:28 GMT

#136

DB seemed insanely happy throughout this interview with the =)'s

EDIT: Wait was DB being sarcastic about this...?

Guest-521: Marines are overpowered, a marine went to my base in the early game for harass and teching to void rays took too long for me, have you considered nerfing the marine? Or at least let it come to my base later?
ChrisSi: Guest 499: There will be a protoss side campaign where you get to play a few missions as protoss. But the majority of the campaign's 29 missions will focus on the Terran. We'll be mixing up the gameplay by throwing some fun mission types at you. One of the more interesting mission types plays out like an Old West train robbery, while another one is similar to a zombie movie where infested Terrans attack your base at night, and in the day time (yes there's a day night cycle in this mission) you ahve to go out into the map and burn down their hideouts.
DustinB:: I'll work on this. How late do you want the marine to show up?

Euphemism

Canada57 Posts

July 17 2010 17:28 GMT

#137

On July 17 2010 11:28 BDF92 wrote:
EDIT: Wait was DB being sarcastic about this...?

Obviously.

What I want to know is, who actually thinks Motherships are overpowered? 0.o

DrakanSilva

Chile932 Posts

July 18 2010 06:31 GMT

#138

No lan.

YEAH!!! thanks blizzar for lying to us once again.

FroZeNN

United States165 Posts

July 18 2010 08:51 GMT

#139

kewl, good stuff thanks for who ever organized the info, cause i tried reading the original WALL OF TEXT and almost fainted after like 2 minutes haha...

Deathstar

9150 Posts

July 25 2010 20:23 GMT

#140

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the wall of text. Sad that there won't be a patch at release though. I was hoping they would retract the neural parasite time limit nerf.