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Zuries
Profile Joined May 2008
United Kingdom156 Posts
September 06 2008 21:14 GMT
#101
In my a opinion 4 races is perfect, it adds a whole other level to the game, and lowers the chance of mirror match, the problem is that the higher the races the more error and bad match ups that are available.

If Blizzard can promise to nail the balance and ensure that patches are like bi-seasonal to fix imbalances, then it is a good idea.

but knowing blizzard, and knowing wc3 it wouldnt work.

i prey to god they balance the 3 races properly, which doesn't seem entirely likely for a while. So maybe if they nail it, in an expansion it's possible, but it's cutting it thin.
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ImgGartok
Profile Joined August 2007
United States216 Posts
September 08 2008 00:55 GMT
#102
If they implemented a fourth race I would think it would have to be with the original SC2. Adding it into an xpac would just change the game too much. The expansions for Blizz RTS's have traditionally been meant to balance and tighten up the vanilla game (BW-->SC, TFT-->RoC.) Adding a fourth race just screws up balance big time.

It'll prolly appear in campaign mode.
prOxi.swAMi
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Australia3091 Posts
September 08 2008 01:58 GMT
#103
I agree with OC.
Adding a race is a bit more than you would expect from an 'expansion'. Expansions shouldn't drastically change the game, it should just offer new and exciting units/missions balance patching etc to the original game. Adding a new race would make it closer to SC3 rather than SC2:Expansion
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dcttr66
Profile Joined October 2003
United States555 Posts
September 08 2008 14:16 GMT
#104
On September 05 2008 05:50 imperfect wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 30 2008 09:59 grobo wrote:
I don't want another race, i think Blizzard was somewhat lucky that they managed to get SC as balanced as they did, and that just wont happen again if they decide to add another fourth race.


can you imagine, if they took this long to balance 3 races (as they have been lucky in sc), what the 4th race will cause? that means by the time the human race is about to become extinct, we'll still have no sc2 in the world.

i've seen some pessimistic posts here at TL.net, but this one has been the most pessimistic i've seen.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
September 08 2008 15:21 GMT
#105
On September 08 2008 10:58 prOxi.swAMi wrote:
I agree with OC.
Adding a race is a bit more than you would expect from an 'expansion'. Expansions shouldn't drastically change the game, it should just offer new and exciting units/missions balance patching etc to the original game. Adding a new race would make it closer to SC3 rather than SC2:Expansion

Well, if the trend in WoW is any indication, they have been adding new races with expansions. Of course, it's a completely different genre, but I'm just saying it's no longer beyond them to put that kind of effort into an expansion.

That said, they'd better have some damned good ideas, or it's going to be worthless. People should remember, that expansions don't take that long to come out after the game has been released (a year give or take a few months?). BroodWar went thru a tonne of balance changes even after it was released. SC Vanilla could have been balanced, but Blizzard chose to make the game more interesting. My concern is that a new race might not be interesting enough. It can't be a hybrid of the other three races, it has to be as different from them as they are from each other. In the BroodWar story plot, the new race is a hybrid of Zerg and Protoss, which suggests mostly that it'll be a single player non-functional race.

In short: The game will be balanced thru a myriad of patches whether or not a new race is added. The important thing is being confident that this new race won't take away from the games diversity by adding a race that's just a compromise of every other race.
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Piy
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Scotland3152 Posts
September 09 2008 10:43 GMT
#106
This would be bad
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Quanticfograw
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States2053 Posts
September 09 2008 11:02 GMT
#107
If they really do add a fourth race into multiplayer for the sc2 expansion it would take years to develop because I think they would have to totally rebalance the entire game. This could be done, however the time it would take as well as the effort make it pretty unlikely. Maybe a single player four race or something along those lines but if they were going to add a new race they would have done so in the sc2 vanilla rather then the expansion
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