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Finland4648 Posts
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Cricketer12
United States14003 Posts
The 2030 release date is disappointing and it tells me that they've restarted this year from the project's initial intentions. What my concern actually is however, stems from all the interviews, indicating, much like the trailer, this will be a TvZ story with toss sprinkled in a little bit. I don't want a TvZ story. I want a StarCraft story, that allows me to enjoy and play as/against 3 different factions. | ||
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Cin1
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Agh
United States1108 Posts
On September 14 2026 22:08 Harris1st wrote: I just read the War3 graphics updates is only for the new campaign and not the old two campaigns and most of the old assets are still in "reforged" graphics or upscaled original graphics...lol. And they want 30 bucks for Reforged and another 30 bucks for Forsaken Kingdom. Ah Blizzard nice try, you almost got me. Anything aside from increased poly count for War3 was going to be a failure. Can reference the people who had never actually played or seen the game and said they prefer the original for not only clarity but also overall aesthetic. The forsaken update 'reforged' still looks awful, and the new classic-modern is neutral at best (I think it detracts honestly). Also the thing that put my sides into orbit was the fact they basically copy pasted the tower upgrade graphic ideas that were scrapped from the original game and were removed because they were and I quote: "too gaudy". Just to be reintroduced 23 years later and look even worse than they did originally. | ||
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abdulhafeez
United States1 Post
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lestye
United States4245 Posts
I was hoping it was a multiplayer game like a Planetside 2. It being a single player product is quite odd because every single Blizzard title has been GaaS in the last two decades. I haven't played a Far Cry game since 3. I know Ubisoft open world games are meh but maybe the scifi setting can make this unique. Time will tell! | ||
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Harris1st
Germany7427 Posts
On September 15 2026 17:35 lestye wrote: The cinematic was amazing. I'm really disappointed that they literally had no gameplay at all. Which is weird for Blizzard, because I think for every single game they've announced for the last 20+ years, if they announce a game they have a playable demo on the show floor. I was hoping it was a multiplayer game like a Planetside 2. It being a single player product is quite odd because every single Blizzard title has been GaaS in the last two decades. I haven't played a Far Cry game since 3. I know Ubisoft open world games are meh but maybe the scifi setting can make this unique. Time will tell! Playing one Far Cry game was cool. Playing a second Far Cry game with some iterations was also interesting. Playing a third game was ...exhausting. I'm really hoping for more of a Space Marine 2 game. I don't see any version of this where Zerg or Protoss are actually playable characters though. | ||
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Ideas
United States8180 Posts
On September 14 2026 20:53 Harris1st wrote: This is gonna be a generic Ubisoft game. Climb on stupid towers to see surroundings, 1000s of stupid collectibles, stupid markers everywhere.... 8 different materials to collect to craft stim packs | ||
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TheMax
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Yurie
12175 Posts
Not what they are making but would have fit. | ||
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Harris1st
Germany7427 Posts
On September 28 2026 14:13 Yurie wrote: Wasn't there a game where you got a new soldier as you died and kept progressing the plot? Something like that could have been a good single player story focused game for the Starcraft universe. The expectation being that you keep dying and new soldiers just keep pouring in to secure the objectives. Not what they are making but would have fit. Helldivers? | ||
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Yurie
12175 Posts
Maybe, never played it. https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Hot-swap Battlefield 1 had a light version of but mentions Battlefield 2: Modern Combat. | ||
ZeromuS
Canada13427 Posts
On September 28 2026 23:11 Yurie wrote: Maybe, never played it. https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Hot-swap Battlefield 1 had a light version of but mentions Battlefield 2: Modern Combat. I think that if you're playing the same character across the whole campaign, you kinda need to be some sort of Raynor level plot armoured marine. They could also take a page out of GTA and have you playing multiple protags who change perspective each with their own storyline that kinda run in parallel throughout the broader campaign's story. Which could be cool, to be honest. I doubt its gonna be as simple as just being some faceless marine. Maybe they start out that way then grow to carry significance, kinda like Reynor did in the grand scheme of the storyline. But if they don't do it well it would definitely feel very derivative. | ||
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Maksim2010
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Waxangel
United States33708 Posts
you could finally become the BW elitists on TL.net  | ||
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ZeromuS
Canada13427 Posts
Brood war? Cool. I suck at it, and don't have the mechanics or patience to really deal with online ladder but its fun to watch sometimes and I like the campaign - like a good little casual. StarCraft 2 got me super into it, way more than BW ever did including online play and really grinding (and posting on here a ton). And if the StarCraft shooter keeps the franchise alive, I'm all for it. Whatever. It's hopefully going to be fun and enjoyable. I really liked Overwatch as a shooter before the competitive side of me was making me REALLY angry and it was a detriment to my mental health a few years back. Until recently, maybe the end of last year, I wasn't even playing online games *at all* because of what PvP mindset had done to my mental health at one point. I was just too competitive and hard on myself and angry all the time. Most recently I've really fallen in love with shooters again, my first PvP online gaming love/addiction I had, going back to to the HL1 mod PvP games days. Stuff like the original Team Fortress, CounterStrike 1.5 (1.6), Day of Defeat, Medal of Honour Allied Assault, Unreal Tournament. That stuff barely capable of running on my potato PC at garbage FPS was my bread and butter for YEARS. I only did Brood War and C&C, Red Alert etc for their campaigns back then. I dabbled in Diablo. So to see a shooter AND a StarCraft one at that is cool to me. Cuz I love both genres and I am so deep into the Shooter genre right now playing Marathon since it came out like a fiend, that I think a single player shooter will be fun. Even if there aren't PvP elements. And hell, if the franchise is alive that means there's a chance that we get another RTS in the franchise at some point too. If it doesn't happen I'll be sad, but there's a better chance if the franchise is alive vs shelved and sitting on servers never to be touched again as we all get older. | ||
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Balnazza
Germany1369 Posts
On September 29 2026 18:26 Waxangel wrote: let's be honest, chances are you guys would have hated an SC3 RTS as well you could finally become the BW elitists on TL.net That's just wrong. They just needed to announce an SC3 RTS that will release in the next three month, that has the balance and tactical depth of BW, the graphics and QoL of SC2, the dark and gritty feeling of BW while also having the great campaign-wide meta-progression and storytelling of SC2, while of course also delivering the nostalgic feeling of BW and SC2 (depending on the player). And it also would need to revitalise the RTS genre as an Esports factor and deliver us tournaments on the hype-level and global reach of LoL. Speaking of global: Naturally it needs to be a global success while also making sure that koreans are the best at it, otherwise my life has no purpose. Can't be that hard, can it? Why would they opt-out of these simple requirements and do something else instead? .... Also, on an unrelated note: They just announced a "looking to hire"-post and that post alone perfectly explains why they need until 2030 - they don't even have a Senior Mission Producer. This game is in very early stages. It is far too early to be hyped about it, but the hate on the other hand is also unwarranted. We literally have next to no clue what we will get. | ||
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apktops123
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Phyanketto
United States611 Posts
On September 30 2026 04:37 apktops123 wrote: --- Nuked --- genuinely wild that it's somehow worth it for a bot to create an account and shill stuff on here, given the low number of active users and probably CTR | ||
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lestye
United States4245 Posts
On September 30 2026 07:58 Phyanketto wrote: genuinely wild that it's somehow worth it for a bot to create an account and shill stuff on here, given the low number of active users and probably CTR It says we have 13k active users ! | ||
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