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Drolla
Profile Joined September 2010
United Kingdom389 Posts
May 24 2011 13:14 GMT
#101
Will there finally be LAN capabilities?
Gezuz
Profile Joined November 2010
Sweden306 Posts
May 24 2011 13:15 GMT
#102
Will they get new script writers or new people working on the storyline ?

THe dialogue in the WoL campaign is just extremly corny and made me want to bash my head against the wall.
GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
May 24 2011 13:49 GMT
#103
On May 24 2011 22:09 Jinsho wrote:
How are they planning to make us empathize with the Zerg? Terrans are obvious, and Protoss have this mysterious high-tech science aura, but Zerg was the enemy in WoL and they're creepy slimy bugs.


fixed i think

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vijeze
Profile Joined February 2011
Netherlands719 Posts
May 24 2011 14:08 GMT
#104
On May 24 2011 18:08 Ayush_SCtoss wrote:
So is Stukov coming back anytime soon?
Will there be ice maps?

Zergling ice skating!
Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
May 24 2011 14:22 GMT
#105
I (Some players) are deeply dissatisfied with Blizzards trend of worse and cheaper plots. The overmind is dead so he wasn't the arch bad guy. Kerrigan wanted free afterall! And so on. I was touched more by that marine, rocking back and forth in the trenches while DuGalles battlecruiser left for orbit than any of the million dollar shots in WoL. The "Sudden unexpected plot twists!" are shallow and forgettable.

Are you keeping the same writers and are they still writing from the same approach, heavily involving static (and mostly filler) characters? Will there ever be a return to the simpler but much more touching style of cinematics from the original game?

Remember the words of Lester and Sarge.


(Obviously i'm much to abrasive and opinionated so if there were any chance of this being asked.. well, I would completely expect it to be rephrased into a gentler one.)
우정호 KT_VIOLET 1988 - 2012 While we are postponing, life speeds by
turdburgler
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
England6749 Posts
May 24 2011 14:29 GMT
#106
On May 24 2011 23:22 Probe1 wrote:
I (Some players) are deeply dissatisfied with Blizzards trend of worse and cheaper plots. The overmind is dead so he wasn't the arch bad guy. Kerrigan wanted free afterall! And so on. I was touched more by that marine, rocking back and forth in the trenches while DuGalles battlecruiser left for orbit than any of the million dollar shots in WoL. The "Sudden unexpected plot twists!" are shallow and forgettable.

Are you keeping the same writers and are they still writing from the same approach, heavily involving static (and mostly filler) characters? Will there ever be a return to the simpler but much more touching style of cinematics from the original game?

Remember the words of Lester and Sarge.


(Obviously i'm much to abrasive and opinionated so if there were any chance of this being asked.. well, I would completely expect it to be rephrased into a gentler one.)


you have to remember when you say obvious and cliche blizzard hears EPIC and AMAZING ;/

i'd love to see a decent story told in the sequel. WoL just felt sexist and out of touch. Every Woman in the whole universe falls in love with raynor as soon as they meet him and even the scientist lady couldnt function correctly without a man.

i was disapoint
Daeizer
Profile Joined May 2010
France20 Posts
May 24 2011 14:40 GMT
#107
On May 24 2011 23:22 Probe1 wrote:

Remember the words of Lester and Sarge.



Starcraft bromance! it started here.

I really hope we see more of the Hovermind in HotS, Zerg just doesn't feel right without an Hovermind.
Homework
Profile Joined December 2010
United States283 Posts
May 24 2011 14:50 GMT
#108
On May 24 2011 18:21 Daralii wrote:
A lot of characters in WoL(Pretty much everyone other than Jim, Tychus, Zeratul, Matt Horner, Kerrigan, and Arcturus and Valerian Mengsk) seemed to be there for little purpose other than filler and contributed very little, if at all, to the plot. Can we expect a similarly weak cast in HotS?


Harsh, man. Wonder what their reaction would be to it, though...
kochujang
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany1226 Posts
May 24 2011 15:11 GMT
#109
Will there be any reference/easter eggs involving the community, like using the primal scream from day[9]? What about the Esport scene? Like a offhand story about the shameful retreat of the cerebrate Egi Dra, after being fooled by a short statured protoss commander who hallucinated an army of Void Rays.
Daralii
Profile Joined March 2010
United States16991 Posts
May 24 2011 15:34 GMT
#110
On May 25 2011 00:11 kochujang wrote:
Will there be any reference/easter eggs involving the community, like using the primal scream from day[9]? What about the Esport scene? Like a offhand story about the shameful retreat of the cerebrate Egi Dra, after being fooled by a short statured protoss commander who hallucinated an army of Void Rays.

Would there also be a high ranking protoss named LuhcNim? :p
Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth!
pred470r
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Bulgaria3265 Posts
May 24 2011 15:35 GMT
#111
Is Kerrigan gonna marry Raynor?
Metaphysic
Profile Joined September 2010
63 Posts
May 24 2011 15:38 GMT
#112
How many campaign-unique units will there be for Zerg and how many new units for battlenet gameplay will be introduced?
POiNTx
Profile Joined July 2010
Belgium309 Posts
May 24 2011 15:55 GMT
#113
The WoL campaign had a system where you could upgrade and buy units to use further in the campaign. Will this system still be there, in a modified form, or will you have something totally different?
Fuck yeah serotonin
caradoc
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada3022 Posts
May 24 2011 15:55 GMT
#114
There's been a lot of talk about 'rpg' elements, is the system analogous to War3? What differences are there?
Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea...
Danglars
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States12133 Posts
May 24 2011 16:42 GMT
#115
What are some of the new gameplay mechanics they're considering introducing? (Cloak, Light-Mechanical-Psionic-Etc additions to unit types, AE root with damage/damage/shielddamage, burrow mechanic, energy mechanic)
Great armies come from happy zealots, and happy zealots come from California!
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Hikari
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
1914 Posts
May 24 2011 16:46 GMT
#116
- Will there be a "hyperion" phase for character interaction and upgrade selection?
- One of the selling points for WoL is its "non-linear optional progression", however the side missions have very little influence to the main storyline. Will HotS improve this idea?
- Length of the campaign: How long is it compared to WoL?
- Duran has been missing throughout WoL and Kerrigan may have a bone or two to pick with him... will he be back this xpac?
- WoL successfully introduce a wide range of mission objectives other than "build a base and kill everything", what new elements can we expect in HotS?
- Favorite mission in HotS and some description?
- Any co-op missions available?
- The prophecy tells that Kerrigan is a key to repelling the xelnaga: will the story be progressed (or even resolved) in HotS or Legacy of the Void?
- Zerg without Kerrigan: will they go back on a rampage just like the fall of the Overmind?
Michaels
Profile Joined August 2010
419 Posts
May 24 2011 16:46 GMT
#117
what is "starcraft 2 phoenix"?
Kinetik_Inferno
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1431 Posts
May 24 2011 16:51 GMT
#118
Do you think the competitive scene for WoL and HotS will die and we will be left playing the newest expansion pack, LotV? StarCraft 1 pretty much died in multiplayer when BW came out. My question is, do you intend it to be a sort of "Choice" thing for the competitive multiplayer?

GSL 1a WoL
GSL 1b HotS
GSL 1c LotV
Chras
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada50 Posts
May 24 2011 16:57 GMT
#119
Will you try and kill WoL, then give up half-way, when HoTS comes out? As evidenced by the lawsuit against Kespa and BW.
In 2060, Blizzard finally admits that destructible rocks was a bad idea.
SmoKim
Profile Joined March 2010
Denmark10305 Posts
May 24 2011 17:15 GMT
#120
On May 24 2011 08:34 AimlessAmoeba wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 24 2011 06:31 Sheth wrote:
Any plans on implementing games where allies in a 2v2 game, can remove ally and "backstab" like in BW ?


God, I hope not... lol


BGH

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