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Zeenix
United States47 Posts
However, though the game will be playable on both WindowsXP and Vista, Starcraft II, in its current early state, does not support DirectX 10. The artist tempers his description of the advanced graphical effects by explaining that although the game will feature advanced graphical effects, it will scale, to some extent, downward to still allow players who don't own cutting-edge PC hardware to play the game. I just came. | ||
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
On May 20 2007 10:07 fanta[Rn] wrote: Why shouldn't it be SC anymore if there's no archon? -.- Anyway, cool article THANKS so much, this made me sleep easier tonight.  Because the archon is one of the most characteristic units in Starcraft.. at least for me. Power Overwhelming.. Destroy T_T! | ||
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Zeenix
United States47 Posts
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Nyovne
Netherlands19129 Posts
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PoP
France15446 Posts
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TopGear
United Kingdom796 Posts
A lot of this information is really reassuring, cant wait. | ||
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
Man I'm cool with everything cept the design on the zerglign T_T | ||
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Bully-Cdn
Peru58 Posts
Starcraft II, [Blizzard is] really going back to its roots to make a true sequel to Starcraft"--a sequel where resource management will be much more central to gameplay, with less micromanagement of different units with special abilities, and in which full-on early-game "rushing" (making an all-out assault at or near the beginning of a new game session) will be much more viable. In fact, the VP goes on to state that the game will probably offer more early "tech tree" optons--different development paths players can take by building different structures and researching different upgrades--which will make early-game scouting more important, and will make early-game rushing a more-diverse and deeper strategy. i keep hearing good things from this team.. they really want to keep the pros/semi-pros/wannabe-pros happy... CANT WAIT TO PLAY!!! | ||
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tec27
United States3690 Posts
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
On May 20 2007 11:24 evanthebouncy~ wrote: Ah... Man I wish they add moving terrains :D Man I'm cool with everything cept the design on the zerglign T_T Speaking of moving terrain, what does everyone think of attacks affecting the terrain (at least visually)? Too cluttered maybe? Burning trees might be cool at least (had it in earlier - alpha, beta - versions of SC :D). | ||
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Dendra
Croatia801 Posts
On May 20 2007 08:57 Kwark wrote: I disapprove of hard counters. While hydra - storm would seem an obvious example of them in starcraft bw always evolves into highly mixed armies in which no one unit dominates. Instead you react by slight adjustments to the composition of your mixed force. I don't want it to become A<B<C<D<E<F<G all the way down the tech tree where the game becomes a predictable mess of counters. word what makes bw so special? what do all have games have in common? unit x rapes unit y if you press attack move on it simply because it is the counter to it. how about in bw? you can give same army to 2 people and one can win with either army simple due to superior army control, there are some rules but who sais marines/medics can't rape lurkers? lurkers are like supposed to balance the edition of medics to the terran army but you can see 4lurkers raping 24mm and you can see 12mm raping 4lurkers, there are no certain rules, rules are made by players, who sais you have to use dragoons vs tanks&vults, hell i've seen players have 5groups of zealots+just one group goons against 200/200 NaDa on luna and raping him, it all depends on how you use your units, and if in sc2 they make that stereotype "pikemen counter horsemen so don't try killing an archer with a pikeman" it will suck. | ||
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mahnini
United States6862 Posts
On May 20 2007 11:38 FrozenArbiter wrote: Speaking of moving terrain, what does everyone think of attacks affecting the terrain (at least visually)? Too cluttered maybe? Burning trees might be cool at least (had it in earlier - alpha, beta - versions of SC :D). I think they should get rid of burrow holes at least. Especially if they include lurkers, all of the terrain is just going to be holes. Also, I'm not too sure about the new high terrain advantage, this is going to make cliffed tanks so much harder to deal with. And please cool it with the laser noises, less laser blasting units and more unique ones from now on! What's everyone's opinion about the laser beams? Like the Colossus attacks where the beam is always, uh...beaming when attacking. I can really see how that might get in the way. | ||
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
On May 20 2007 11:41 Dendra wrote:
Show nested quote + word what makes bw so special? what do all have games have in common? unit x rapes unit y if you press attack move on it simply because it is the counter to it. how about in bw? you can give same army to 2 people and one can win with either army simple due to superior army control, there are some rules but who sais marines/medics can't rape lurkers? lurkers are like supposed to balance the edition of medics to the terran army but you can see 4lurkers raping 24mm and you can see 12mm raping 4lurkers, there are no certain rules, rules are made by players, who sais you have to use dragoons vs tanks&vults, hell i've seen players have 5groups of zealots+just one group goons against 200/200 NaDa on luna and raping him, it all depends on how you use your units, and if in sc2 they make that stereotype "pikemen counter horsemen so don't try killing an archer with a pikeman" it will suck. There's just no pleasing certain people - first there's too soft counters, then too hard.... All you guys realize that BW is probably considered a hard counter game, right? I'm pretty sure micro will be important.. On May 20 2007 11:44 mahnini wrote: I think they should get rid of burrow holes at least. Especially if they include lurkers, all of the terrain is just going to be holes. Also, I'm not too sure about the new high terrain advantage, this is going to make cliffed tanks so much harder to deal with. And please cool it with the laser noises, less laser blasting units and more unique ones from now on! What's everyone's opinion about the laser beams? Like the Colossus attacks where the beam is always, uh...beaming when attacking. I can really see how that might get in the way. The burrowholes disappear as soon as the lurker is burrowed I assume? Or were the holes still visible when the lings unburrowed in the videos? As for the colossus attack, yeaaaaah, not loving it - the constant sound is a little annoying, same for the warpreys. Doesn't feel all that protossish either I think. I mean, it doesn't look bad, just out of place I guess? EDIT: I've probably made a 100 posts in the starcraft 2 forum now haha :D | ||
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mahnini
United States6862 Posts
On May 20 2007 11:44 FrozenArbiter wrote: The burrowholes disappear as soon as the lurker is burrowed I assume? Or were the holes still visible when the lings unburrowed in the videos? As for the colossus attack, yeaaaaah, not loving it - the constant sound is a little annoying, same for the warpreys. Doesn't feel all that protossish either I think. I mean, it doesn't look bad, just out of place I guess? EDIT: I've probably made a 100 posts in the starcraft 2 forum now haha :D Hmm, didn't really pay attention to if they disappeared or not, come to think of it most of the stuff does disappear. Even the nuke holes, I don't mind it all too much, I guess. | ||
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Zelniq
United States7166 Posts
On May 20 2007 11:41 Dendra wrote: word what makes bw so special? what do all have games have in common? unit x rapes unit y if you press attack move on it simply because it is the counter to it. how about in bw? you can give same army to 2 people and one can win with either army simple due to superior army control, there are some rules but who sais marines/medics can't rape lurkers? lurkers are like supposed to balance the edition of medics to the terran army but you can see 4lurkers raping 24mm and you can see 12mm raping 4lurkers, there are no certain rules, rules are made by players, who sais you have to use dragoons vs tanks&vults, hell i've seen players have 5groups of zealots+just one group goons against 200/200 NaDa on luna and raping him, it all depends on how you use your units, and if in sc2 they make that stereotype "pikemen counter horsemen so don't try killing an archer with a pikeman" it will suck. Before whining I advise you to read more carefully please, he said it's going to have the same kinds of hard counters as the original starcraft has, and then he gave the example of psi storm vs zerglings. So his definition and your definition of a hard counter seem to differ here, he is not saying the hard counter is an end-all counter based system where good control cannot counter act, he even gives the example of storm vs zerglings and good control can counter that also. Anyways he says it will be like the original SC so stop worrying otherwise. | ||
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mahnini
United States6862 Posts
On May 20 2007 11:59 Raist wrote: Before whining I advise you to read more carefully please, he said it's going to have the same kinds of hard counters as the original starcraft has, and then he gave the example of psi storm vs zerglings. So his definition and your definition of a hard counter seem to differ here, he is not saying the hard counter is an end-all counter based system where good control cannot counter act, he even gives the example of storm vs zerglings and good control can counter that also. Anyways he says it will be like the original SC so stop worrying otherwise. Sounds like Dendra agrees with Kwark to me. | ||
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zobz
Canada2175 Posts
There are a couple things that bother me at the current stage of their programming which may or may not get better. the way the zealots in that one gameplay video during the charge special ability demonstration, just lept onto their targets and seemed to surround them automatically, seemed a little crappy. there's also something strange and lame about those immortals vs tanks that i just can't put my finger on. for one thing i guess like 5 of them taking on 6 or 7 tanks and still having 4 left in the end. and i may just be clinging but i hope they invent a new ranged unit that has to rush up within tanks' minimal range to define owning or getting owned 'cause that's really fun. I dont' like how they referred to broodwar in the past tense as having been a great game. who knows if the guy was supposed to put it that way or not but it seems iffily suggestive of bw and sc2 supposing not to coexist in progaming. we could always use another amazing professional title, i dont' see why there can be only one. Awesome that workers can stack. where'd you see that? i am much more enthused than i was before. it's just that all i see here are mostly purely positive faithful comments, with a couple scattered short, bashed sketicisms. so most of what i have to contribute is negative. | ||
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fusionsdf
Canada15390 Posts
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Zelniq
United States7166 Posts
On May 20 2007 12:37 fusionsdf wrote: If they had a white flash of light all over the map the moment the mothership was completed, it would make for an awesome "Oh, fuck" moment. haha that would be really cool and scary sort of like hearing Nuclear Launch Detected, you should be able to see the coming of a mothership from anywhere on the map | ||
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Gokey
United States2722 Posts
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