TeamLiquid Heart of the Swarm Preview - Page 23

On May 31 2011 19:12 Zelniq wrote:
"For HotS, we would like to emphasize the single player experience, to try to get the fact out there that it's not just for the hardcore gamers. For WoL, we emphasized the multiplayer so much that we almost feel like it got labeled as a game only for the hardcore players."

if WoL was geared towards us hardcore players...man I can hardly imagine what HotS will be like. Because it certainly was not geared toward hardcore BW fans who loved the game for all the subtleties that made it amazingly good... the subtleties that apparently the devs did not understand themselves, or at least failed to see how significant they were to BW's success as the best multiplayer game ever made.
My low expectations of HotS weren't low enough apparently as I did not realize they'd be catering more to the casual gamer, and focusing the majority of their efforts on Singleplayer. There's still time for things to change though, I'll just have to wait and see what they cook up for the multiplayer. I really hope they work on improving/changing/reworking existing units as much as the creating new ones, although they've made no mention of doing so. Really I'd just be so much happier already if they removed unit clumping, and made it more like BW where armies would bump into each other and be fairly scattered around rather than moving as a collective blob

at the very least, there was this one thing:


"For example, the Overseer is not a cool unit, it's basically a glorfied scout at this point. We're looking at either taking out or replacing these units that aren't as cool. The other thing that we need to watch out is how these units interact in combination."

I suppose that's a typical Blizzard way of thinking and was to be expected, but nevertheless it's great news. However I don't think a lot of the units that I think aren't as cool don't fit with Blizzard's ideas. Basically most zerg units I feel are pretty uninspired/bland, or some have extremely limited/situational uses.

+ Show Spoiler [more SC2 ranting] +

On May 31 2011 21:48 bittman wrote:
I don't see why people are reacting so badly? I think "lolfanshatingtheirownfranchiseforreleasinganewgame" attitude sums it up. Similar sentiments pop up every time a new game comes around from fans. I don't get these sort of people, why aren't they just playing Chess because all other tactics games don't do things better?

Q: Is there going to be a beta?

A: Yes

On May 31 2011 21:39 thebole1 wrote:


GREAT !!!!! THEY WILL ADD SOME UNITES AND REMUVE SOME. !!!! REMUVE REPERS COLLOSS MARADERS FORCE FEALDS BANGLINGS UNITES THAT DONT REQUIRE ANY SKILL TO PLAY....bring back some old school tipe of unites that require skill to play... !!! and spider mines

On May 31 2011 21:50 Archvil3 wrote:


With all due respect .. I thought relentless bashin of SC2 or BW by other community was a bannable offense on Team Liquid. This is a preview of the single player campaign of HoTS and you use the oportunity to bash SC2 WoL multiplayer?

If you dislike SC2 so much .. how about you stick to moderating the BW section instead of shitting up(how you mods usualy describe this kind of behaviour) SC2 threads?

Q: Why didn't you kill off Tassadar, and why did he come out of nowhere?

A: Are you talking about in broodwar, or are you talking about why they did it in WoL? We're not sure about the original game - for that particular moment in WoL we were expressing a pretty radical concept to Zera'tul; the fact that the overmind was not what he thought that it was, and we needed someone that he would really believe, someone that he would buy into almost immediately - we didn't have a cutscene or a ton of time to get it across, and it was believable to us that he could still be out there in one form or other. The character need to immediately allow Zera'tul to believe and understand what was going on, without a lot of backtalk.

On May 31 2011 21:54 setzer wrote:
Sounds too similar to the zerg brood war campaign for me to get excited. I had thought with them splitting the game up into three parts Blizzard would really take a creative look on how to craft a story, instead it simply seems to be rehashing ideas from their previous games with little to no consequence in how you choose to play your missions. Hopefully the plot isn't condensed into 8 or so campaign missions this time.

Their answer to the question on LAN is an absolute joke, same with the marketplace.

Overall buying HotS will hinge on how much better the multiplayer is. I certainly won't be spending $60 for an average single player experience and very limited multiplayer changes.

A: We typically don't provide details about pricing until the game is closer to release. We do view Heart of the Swarm as an expansion set, so for the regions that have a standard box business model such as North America and Europe, we will price accordingly.

On May 31 2011 21:58 karpo wrote:




Makes me believe that the expansion won't be priced at $60. WoW expansions were like $30 and they had probably as much content as this expansion if not more.

On May 31 2011 21:39 thebole1 wrote:
BANGLINGS