"Starcraft II Expansion To Feature Fourth Race?" - Page 3
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BluzMan
Russian Federation4235 Posts
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dybydx
Canada1764 Posts
expansion is something they wanna do with the least amount of additional money yet earn the most profits by the end of the day. | ||
BlackStar
Netherlands3029 Posts
Problem is balance since that also gets harder and harder for the same reason. Also, there is no candidate for a 4th race lore wise. Also, the argument that an expansion needs an added race because otherwise it's too silimar is also nonsense. | ||
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MrHoon
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10183 Posts
Awesome for Singleplayer Terrible Terrible Idea for Multiplayer | ||
gravity
Australia1847 Posts
edit: I agree with BluzMan - the way to do the balancing without an unmanageable explosion of complexity is to just implement the 4th race to be balanced with the others, without changing the original 3. | ||
DownMaxX
Canada1311 Posts
I don't think they would add a whole race available for multiplayer through an expansion though... then they would have to rebalance the other three races. I can only seeing it happening for plot reasons in the campaign mode. | ||
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
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omninmo
2349 Posts
On August 30 2008 10:23 moebius_string wrote: If they keep the 4th race like the Naga thats OK, but including a playable multiplayer 4th race for the expansion could be a disaster for balance and is best left alone. this is pretty much all there is to say. of course, everyone wants SC2 to have 10 cool races.. if that were viable. but to maintain balance 3 will always be the best number. | ||
Telemako
Spain1636 Posts
“I’m sure in the event that we decide to do an expansion set it’s a feature that’ll come up for discussion,” said Pearce, in an interview with VG247. So, in the event(1) that they decide(2) to do an expansion set in the future(3), they will discuss(4) adding the 4th race. IMHO, this is pointless, we don't even have the game yet and we are discussing about a future event they may decide to discuss. C'mon guys... come back. | ||
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
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freelander
Hungary4707 Posts
But problems are: -balance: maybe they can do this. Balancing 4 races are much harder then 3, because there are 6 non-mirror matchups as opposed to the previous 3. But it seems possible. Any more than 4 races cannot be balanced in my opinion. -variety: The first 3 races, terran, zerg , protoss couldn't really be any more different. I mean.. these are like archetypes.. How can you fit in a 4. unique race? | ||
PobTheCad
Australia893 Posts
3 is hard enough | ||
jjun212
Canada2208 Posts
if there are balence issues, im sure we'd find it, complain and they'd fix it and we'd get a super new cool sc isnt that how sc2 is working right now? >< | ||
meegrean
Thailand7699 Posts
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milly9
Canada325 Posts
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CTStalker
Canada9720 Posts
On August 30 2008 14:48 freshtowers wrote: And why in the world would the race number have anything to do with those games being imbalanced? Because the more races, the more permutations of unit combat to account for, and more matchups to balance. It's a fairly simple concept, and shouldn't really broach argument. Infact wc3 is fairly balanced it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be and dawn of war isn't created by blizzard so it has nothing to do with anything. Actually, you were the one who insinuated that other games had successfully achieved balance with other races, by implying that people who only played starcraft had a misconstrued idea about RTS games with more than 3 races. Balancing 4 races is very very easy and doesn't take long especially with input from pros. It's just up to how commited blizzard is to balancing it, if they are they can balance 6 races, it will take time but the finished product would be alot funner than 3 races. How are you going to be playing the sc2 ladder with a mirror matchup every 2 games or so? Going to be really boring You're completely wrong, balancing a game with 4 races is not easy. WC3 isn't balanced, and it never really was. It took Starcraft a long time to become balanced with just 3 races. | ||
Klive5ive
United Kingdom6056 Posts
On August 30 2008 10:23 moebius_string wrote: If they keep the 4th race like the Naga thats OK, but including a playable multiplayer 4th race for the expansion could be a disaster for balance and is best left alone. | ||
XCetron
5226 Posts
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MarklarMarklar
Fiji1823 Posts
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