EPTAnd I agree with Raithed, I also thought the commentary was fine.
[EP1] Starcraft 2 Battle Report #1 - Page 5
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
And I agree with Raithed, I also thought the commentary was fine. | ||
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Gregsen
Germany667 Posts
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SirNeb
United States243 Posts
On December 20 2008 05:15 Gregsen wrote: Man I'm absolutly unhappy with those Marauders. They look like those Nightelf Druids from WC3 and seem totally unfitting to Terrans... just out of place. They look cool but I don't like how they shoot these fireballs. | ||
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
Also, what happened to marauders wall climbing and stalker blink ? | ||
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
On December 20 2008 05:23 FrozenArbiter wrote: Marauders never climbed walls (that's reapers) and stalkers still have blink as far as I know (the video is older than blizzcon), he just never used it/researched it. Lol what a n00b, no wonder he lost, he didnt use a major upgrade from one of his most used units. | ||
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
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Eury
Sweden1126 Posts
Their target audience is probably a much broader, more casual audience and based on the reaction from other more general gaming sites/blogs/forums this video was a tremendous success. People really enjoyed it, especially the commentating. Only real complain I saw was about the release date. Personally I don't think the terran player was that bad, that Marauders micro against the Zealots was pretty neat. If I recall David Kim was a pretty decent Starcraft player before joining Relic and is now currently on the SC 2 balance team. | ||
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Mora
Canada5235 Posts
On December 20 2008 05:45 Eury wrote: Keep in mind that this Battle Report probably wasn't target for the hardcore TL crowd that are used with better players and commentating. Their target audience is probably a much broader, more casual audience and based on the reaction from other more general gaming sites/blogs/forums this video was a tremendous success. People really enjoyed it, especially the commentating. Only real complain I saw was about the release date. Personally I don't think the terran player was that bad, that Marauders micro against the Zealots was pretty neat. If I recall David Kim was a pretty decent Starcraft player before joining Relic and is now currently on the SC 2 balance team. i believe he used to play wtih xellos back in the day. | ||
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Loverman
Romania266 Posts
 .As a general observation about the Collossus, I think it's actually a high-er tier unit than the reaver (Maybe like in between reaver/carrier). The thing is I don't really see it as getting Collossus purely for harass or as a support force for a small army. I think they're role fits better in 100+ food armies were they're range and shields are upgraded and they're both allowed to dish out more damage as well as adding more maneuvrability to an attack or while defending a position. | ||
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.risingdragoon
United States3021 Posts
not gonna comment on how well they played, they're devs so naturally they're not gonna be high level it's fine for other games, but for starcraft this still has waaays to go | ||
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hiroxx
Ireland115 Posts
As for commentary - it just sounds like a big advertisement and they seem to be unnecessarily enthusiastic at points for no reason (again - its like a big advert) | ||
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Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
On December 20 2008 05:55 .risingdragoon wrote: its ok I guess, nowhere near as dynamic as sc. units clump up together, a dozen units doesn't look like a dozen, the rock barricade's a lame wc3 carryover, and the group movements for ground units look oily, like a slithering snake while the air units are rigid and awkward. not gonna comment on how well they played, they're devs so naturally they're not gonna be high level it's fine for other games, but for starcraft this still has waaays to go I hate you. ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Tadzio00/rocfla2_1.jpg) Anyway, I know I'm repeating myself but I don't get how people complain about the casting, they have > 0 < dead time, I think they are pretty professional. I'd like if they talked more about things in the game (ie how a typical TvP goes inhouse, how things have changed.. etc) rather than what's happening but overall I think they did a great job. | ||
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Eury
Sweden1126 Posts
Korean map makers use the same mechanic for their maps in Starcraft by placing 10 neutral temple on top of each other. What I would like to see improved upon at the most is probably the death animations and sounds for the units. Blizzard have always been good at that no matter what game it is so I expect it will have changed for the better when the beta starts. | ||
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
Also its easy to observe. You can totally see whats going on etc. At least for me o.,o | ||
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Eury
Sweden1126 Posts
On December 20 2008 06:04 G.s)NarutO wrote: nice game! looks awesome. I want to play.. now T_T Also its easy to observe. You can totally see whats going on etc. At least for me o.,o It can still get improved upon though. Like improving some of the animations and last time I watched zerg the zerg units kinda blend in into the creep. Hopefully Blizzard can sort that out with some constructive feedback from the fans. | ||
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.risingdragoon
United States3021 Posts
Yeah, it's one of the gimmickier aspect of mapping. Even so, those barricades in ur pic are well-designed. The rocks in the video are the same ones from wc3 singleplayer, ones you hit a few times and they crumble to dust. And what about the other points? They're valid concerns, cus I can care less if only sc wasn't so so good. A step backwards would just be too sad. | ||
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funkie
Venezuela9377 Posts
they were not, and will never be clean. NASTY!!!!!!!!!!adfad | ||
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funkie
Venezuela9377 Posts
Also the game looks so sharp, and so bright, it's awesome., I really like what they are doing, but I wish they'd stop saying "Alpha" and bring the beta  .Oh well, it's looking good so far I guess. | ||
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SlickR12345
Macedonia408 Posts
The only problem i have is how powerful marauders are. They completly raped stalkers, were even decent against zealots and totally raped colossus as well + they have the slowing down passive ability. Though the level of play was not high at all, protoss player didn't really play well, poor strategy, poor tactics, poor scouting, poor attacks and he didn't use any of the protoss abilities. But this video was probably meant for the more casual audience and judging by the responces its a success. | ||
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