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Heart of the Swarm to be Unveiled Next Month

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stormchaser
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada1009 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-31 00:30:55
April 22 2011 01:55 GMT
#1
Taken straight from Kotaku:

''Blizzard plans to show off the single-player side of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm for the first time next month, offering an early look at the first expansion for and follow-up to StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.

We received an invite to see Heart of the Swarm earlier today, promising that we'd see a small portion of the game's campaign, but warning that we won't see any changes or additions to the multiplayer side of StarCraft II at this stage.

Blizzard has indicated that it plans a different approach for the first StarCraft II expansion, one that focuses on Sarah Kerrigan and the Zerg legions for its campaign. It's expected that Heart of the Swarm will include some RPG-like mechanics and perhaps include new Zerg units.

Just because Blizzard is planning to show off Heart of the Swarm next month doesn't necessarily mean it's due this year. Blizzard has indicated that we will likely see the next StarCraft II game in early 2012. Note that we got our first look at the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty campaign nearly a year in advance of the game's release.

Heart of the Swarm is the second part of a planned StarCraft II trilogy.''

Link to Article

So no multiplayer information quite yet but still nice to hear.

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EDIT: Geez Guys, listen to SOTG, JP says the preview will be shown within the next week. This is not false information. >_>

UPDATE: The Blizzard HQ has been visited by the press! Now we just have to wait for intel >_>

UPDATE (2): -Teaser Trailer has been leaked.
-No official information has been released as of yet
-Many posters have mentioned that the NDA will be lifted within a week`s time

UPDATE(3):I think we finally have an official date of when the NDA is lifted. Giantbomb has a ''Coming up'' section on it's new homepage and the third item in the list is ''Plunging Hands-on into the Heart of...''. The date next to this is the 31st of May. I think it is safe to say we'll be seeing Heart of the Swarm sometime within the next 3 days.

UPDATE(4): A friendly TLer found these leaked photos!
http://www.insidegamer.nl/pc/starcraftiiheartoftheswarm/screenshots
Draconicfire
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2562 Posts
April 22 2011 01:56 GMT
#2
Was just about to see if this was posted here after reading about it on Kotaku haha.

Can't wait to see what they have in store.
@Drayxs | Drayxs.221 | Drayxs#1802
Bobster
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany3075 Posts
April 22 2011 01:58 GMT
#3
I'm not the only one who immediately thinks of WC3 when he hears about RPG-like mechanics, right? Not sure I want to level up Kerrigan and manage her inventory etc.

New Zerg units should be cool, I expect one of these to be added to the MP eventually.
DKo
Profile Joined July 2010
United States187 Posts
April 22 2011 02:03 GMT
#4
excite! excite!
Al Bundy
Profile Joined April 2010
7257 Posts
April 22 2011 02:06 GMT
#5
Thanks for sharing the information.
Nothing about multiplayer though Nonetheless I can't wait to see how will the single player scenario unfold.
o choro é livre
zhurai
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States5660 Posts
April 22 2011 02:08 GMT
#6
just wondering, is hots going to require wings of liberty? (since friends at church want to buy it, but are like "ehh i'll just buy hots and not wol"
Twitter: @zhurai | Site: http://zhurai.com
Eviltoast
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia166 Posts
April 22 2011 02:09 GMT
#7
awesome cant wait!
it's copacetic... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Draconicfire
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2562 Posts
April 22 2011 02:10 GMT
#8
On April 22 2011 11:08 zhurai wrote:
just wondering, is hots going to require wings of liberty? (since friends at church want to buy it, but are like "ehh i'll just buy hots and not wol"


Yes, it's an expansion pack. It expands on the base (WoL).
@Drayxs | Drayxs.221 | Drayxs#1802
Martius
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada6 Posts
April 22 2011 02:10 GMT
#9
@zhurai:
Yes it will. It's an expansion and requires the game content from WoL to work.
GLHF (go lose. have fun.)
DirtYLOu
Profile Joined May 2010
575 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-22 02:11:27
April 22 2011 02:10 GMT
#10
RPG LIKE? WHAT IS THIS!?!?!

This should be STARCARFT , not WARCRAFT -.-

wow blizzard really is going big for money there... and dont care about Starcraft Fans.


http://sc2ranks.com/c/9051/slayersteam/ <-- SlayerS players in Grandmaster !
ChaseR
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Norway1004 Posts
April 22 2011 02:11 GMT
#11
Hell it's about time, in 2012?
Life is not Fucking Fair and Society is not Fucking Logical - "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"
peeeky
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada631 Posts
April 22 2011 02:11 GMT
#12
On April 22 2011 11:10 DirtYLOu wrote:
RPG LIKE? WHAT IS THIS!?!?!

This should be STARCARFT , not WARCRAFT -.-

wow blizzard really is going big for money there... and dont care about Starcraft Fans.




It's the single player mode... I don't think it'll be that horrible.
peekn
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States1152 Posts
April 22 2011 02:12 GMT
#13
So if they're announcing HotS next month, will there be anything to announce at BlizzCon? >.>
Hopefully there will be something new :D
zoLo
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States5896 Posts
April 22 2011 02:13 GMT
#14
On April 22 2011 11:12 peekn wrote:
So if they're announcing HotS next month, will there be anything to announce at BlizzCon? >.>
Hopefully there will be something new :D


Obviously... You act as if Blizzard only has 1 footage to show and that's it until the release.
DirtYLOu
Profile Joined May 2010
575 Posts
April 22 2011 02:14 GMT
#15
On April 22 2011 11:11 peeeky wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 22 2011 11:10 DirtYLOu wrote:
RPG LIKE? WHAT IS THIS!?!?!

This should be STARCARFT , not WARCRAFT -.-

wow blizzard really is going big for money there... and dont care about Starcraft Fans.




It's the single player mode... I don't think it'll be that horrible.



I hope so. Cuz if they gonna implement that shit in Multiplayer imma be really disappointed.
http://sc2ranks.com/c/9051/slayersteam/ <-- SlayerS players in Grandmaster !
CGPlato
Profile Joined April 2011
United States5 Posts
April 22 2011 02:24 GMT
#16
That is awesome they are giving us a preview so early though, even if it just gets peoples hopes up.
AbeToss
Profile Joined September 2010
United States60 Posts
April 22 2011 02:25 GMT
#17
On April 22 2011 11:10 DirtYLOu wrote:
RPG LIKE? WHAT IS THIS!?!?!

This should be STARCARFT , not WARCRAFT -.-

wow blizzard really is going big for money there... and dont care about Starcraft Fans.




I guessing this refers to the campaign mechanics such as purchasing new technology/upgrades and choosing specific missions. They'll probably put a new twist on this for the Zerg campaign but I wouldn't expect to see any drastic changes to the game play, only the storytelling.
Nazza
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Australia1654 Posts
April 22 2011 02:27 GMT
#18
On April 22 2011 10:55 stormchaser wrote:
We received an invite to see Heart of the Swarm earlier today, promising that we'd see a small portion of the game's campaign, but warning that we won't see any changes or additions to the multiplayer side of StarCraft II at this stage.

Link to Article

So no multiplayer information quite yet but we'll definitely get a better idea of what to expect when the expansion finally does release.


Yeah they should take their time with multiplayer imho.
No one ever remembers second place, eh? eh? GIVE ME COMMAND
KevinIX
Profile Joined October 2009
United States2472 Posts
April 22 2011 02:33 GMT
#19
Hell, it's about time.
Liquid FIGHTING!!!
Freebirdo7
Profile Joined February 2011
United States163 Posts
April 22 2011 02:38 GMT
#20
Cool cant wait, still a long time before release though,
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