HotS will be priced like an expansion. So around 40 dollars.

There WILL be multiplayer changes, possibly including added units, but they're not ready to be unveiled yet. Otherwise multiplayer will build on the core of WoL.

Single-player will be RPG-like (not multiplayer), and will be unveiled next month.

Expansion coming out either very late this year or (more likely) early next.

Sounds good to me.

GeminiOne

Germany87 Posts

April 22 2011 20:57 GMT

#202

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.

You don't have to play the campaign if you don't like to dude.

SC2 heart of the swarm will for sure not have any Multiplayer RPG elements *in the multiplayer* so stop complaigning about Blizzard tweaking the single player a little bit...

ChrisXIV

Austria3553 Posts

April 22 2011 21:01 GMT

#203

Can't wait for it. Please Blizzard, make it better than Wings of Liberty. Please.

+ Show Spoiler +

Please make a Nova/Kerrigan/Raynor love-triangle happen.

Iyerbeth

England2410 Posts

April 22 2011 21:05 GMT

#204

Awww, I really hope I hadn't seen this. I've been doing my best to not get hyped early for HotS, and I know when I see footage I'll fail.

DoubleReed

United States4130 Posts

April 23 2011 00:00 GMT

#205

On April 23 2011 06:01 ChrisXIV wrote:
Can't wait for it. Please Blizzard, make it better than Wings of Liberty. Please.

+ Show Spoiler +

Please make a Nova/Kerrigan/Raynor love-triangle happen.

Pfff... mengsk/horner/raynor is practically canon. OTT!!!

theSkareqro

Singapore102 Posts

April 23 2011 03:19 GMT

#206

Hopefully it will play like WC3.
That game has a great campaign. If they revamp the inventory and level system it would be great. Current ones are kind of bleaaaaah

sCArtemis

Canada50 Posts

April 23 2011 05:27 GMT

#207

Hopefully we'll see clan support.

windsupernova

Mexico5280 Posts

April 23 2011 05:33 GMT

#208

I hope they bring in new units for multiplayer. Don't get me wrong, I like scourge and Lurkers as much as anybody but blegh I just won't like it if they just add BW units so unoriginal.

Carras

Argentina860 Posts

April 23 2011 05:45 GMT

#209

looking forward to new multiplayer stuff.. we need a zerg siege unit before broodlords..

rpg will be interesting, it will be similar to w3 probably..
WOL already had the upgrades , thats rpg like..
i dont get why people hate..havnt u ever seen how expansions work ? LOL

windsupernova

Mexico5280 Posts

April 23 2011 05:49 GMT

#210

Oh!, and i am pretty hyped about the Singleplayer. I actually liked the SP in WoL one thing I would love if they added something like a Codex for feeding me delicious delicious lore

hitman133

United States1425 Posts

April 23 2011 05:49 GMT

#211

On April 23 2011 05:26 Captain Peabody wrote:
HotS will be priced like an expansion. So around 40 dollars.

There WILL be multiplayer changes, possibly including added units, but they're not ready to be unveiled yet. Otherwise multiplayer will build on the core of WoL.

Single-player will be RPG-like (not multiplayer), and will be unveiled next month.

Expansion coming out either very late this year or (more likely) early next.

Sounds good to me.

I bought Crysis Warhead for only $25, hopefully HotS won't be too expensive cuz I don't like single player very much

BanelingXD

130 Posts

April 23 2011 06:00 GMT

#212

On April 22 2011 10:58 Bobster wrote:
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.

Same crap that resulted in the Mothership. Browder's team again building a singleplayer game without regard to balance or design.

Freebirdo7

United States163 Posts

April 23 2011 06:27 GMT

#213

On April 23 2011 03:34 PlosionCornu wrote:
Wait a sec, why tl wasn't invited for this event? Are they still banned from blizzard press events since that leaked screenshot from 2 years ago?

What leaked screenshots?

voltaic

1071 Posts

April 23 2011 07:33 GMT

#214

maybe he meant the leaked ending... but it's only a year old

FlamingTurd

United States1059 Posts

April 23 2011 07:44 GMT

#215

Ehhh that's really not too exciting considering we won't really see that much, anyway it's nice to see something at least.

voltaic

1071 Posts

April 23 2011 07:44 GMT

#216

so what screenshot!?

PlosionCornu

Italy814 Posts

April 23 2011 10:09 GMT

#217

On April 23 2011 15:27 Freebirdo7 wrote:

Show nested quote +

What leaked screenshots?

Cannot find the screen right now, but someone took a shot of a private lobby in the very early alpha stage, during some press event in the blizzard's own cinema, waay back. (early summer 2009).
I think there was a scv icon for some player, and that was basically it.

That particular part of the press event was meant to be under NDA, someone did not comply, and tl wasn't invited for another press event, held afterwards.

Hethkor

United Kingdom10 Posts

April 23 2011 11:39 GMT

#218

Very intriguing. I can't wait to see how drastically multiplayer changes. I'm assuming it won't be radically different, but even the addition of something like ~2-3 units per race would make a significant change (one would assume).
Looking forward to seeing how it all pans out!

HunterK

Argentina68 Posts

May 03 2011 19:52 GMT

#219

On May 25th our Taiwanese StarCraft II star SEn will be at the Blizzard headquarters to test out the new StarCraft II expansion: Heart of the Swarm. More details will be put over here once we get closer to the date!

http://www.fnatic.com/news/8721/SEn-to-Blizzard-Headquarters.html

SeaSwift

Scotland4486 Posts

May 03 2011 19:57 GMT

#220

On April 23 2011 15:00 BanelingXD wrote:

Show nested quote +

Same crap that resulted in the Mothership. Browder's team again building a singleplayer game without regard to balance or design.

Yeah, because the Mothership sure is IMBA and overused...

I have faith in Blizzard to make the campaign gameplay ridiculously good. The story of all the SC series has never been written particularly well, but people don't buy SC games for the storyline.