[Knit]

http://www.starcraft2.com/


!!

[xlabratx]

omgosh :O supposedly diablo 3 is comng out too
and theres completely new units
the cinematic is immence

This post has been edited by XLaBrAtX: 19 May 2007 - 11:50 AM

[Emerald]

omhumpingosh!

"hell, it's about time." yein!

This post has been edited by Emerald: 19 May 2007 - 12:39 PM

[Knit]

Just been looking at some of the screenshots - looks like one hell of a monster! (The good kind..! )

[xlabratx]

the creation of the marine was awesome i thought it was some beast at first xD
wiki : http://en.wikipedia....ki/StarCraft_II

This post has been edited by XLaBrAtX: 19 May 2007 - 08:23 PM

[Emerald]

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Just been looking at some of the screenshots

looks like C&C3... lol. i hope they don't change too much of the interface and hotkeying style.

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Mothership: A powerful hovering unit that consumes an extreme amount of resources to produce. It is able to attack multiple units at time, and has three unique abilities, which are the Time Bomb, Planet Cracker, and Black Hole. The Time Bomb ability slows all enemy missile attacks. The Planet Cracker ability is a large laser that fires from the bottom of the Mothership, obliterating anything in its field. The Black Hole ability creates a void that absorbs and destroys enemy aircrafts. Only one Mothership can be active at a time.

finally they've brought the first ever Protoss unit into the game! In the opening cinematic (before playing the game at all) one of these is seen... yet it was never in the game.

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Baneling: A mutated Zergling filled with explosive and acidic chemicals that can roll across terrain and explode on impact.

infested terrans crossed with zerglings? crazy i don't like suicide units much in any game though.

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Zealot: An automatic charge ability that allows a Zealot to quickly close the distance between itself and an enemy unit.

winner... the main weakness of melee units is that they have to close distance. still won't help vs units on hills or vs air though pretty much an idea they've stolen from themselves in WoW for warriors 'charge' ability.

some interesting ideas and a lot of new stuff seems to be appearing already... looks like they're going for the big time and taking a lot of risks!

This post has been edited by Emerald: 19 May 2007 - 08:52 PM

[Deonilin]

woo after further reading,

banelings seem good if u mass them early as zerglings for a rush and then u could convert and take a building quikly or something maybe could be amsuing. but yeah not sure wether a suicide unit is that great .

the other units just seem to be on a development of the orginal units with added features that worked from warcraft 3 so its basicly a amalgamation of the tried and tested.

seems like they are keeping the sc camera angle and basic interface which is good becuase it wont have the dissadvatages of the 3d views. seems like they are also keeping the engine to a minium so will be fast pase action with minimal response times between clicking YAY keeping mirco management ftw.

[Knit]

HOW ABOUT SOME NUKE?!!

GG.

[Emerald]

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HOW ABOUT SOME NUKE?!!

lol... BCs are firing yamato liek every 10 seconds or something! instead of 150... musta weakened it somewhat or made some other cost! nice to see they don't just fire the way they're facing any more with lasers too

nukes look more powerful now too killing a BC in one hit? winner.

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banelings seem good if u mass them early as zerglings for a rush

due to the exploding part i woulda expected them to cost gas... maybe not the case though.

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seems like they are keeping the sc camera angle and basic interface which is good becuase it wont have the dissadvatages of the 3d views. seems like they are also keeping the engine to a minium so will be fast pase action with minimal response times between clicking YAY keeping mirco management ftw.

the original isn't the national sport of south korea for nothing.

[Bronze]

Looks very nice from the screenshots on blizzard. i'd buy it xD

[Emerald]

i'll be on amazon or play.com pre-ordering it as soon as its on there

[xlabratx]

lal it seems the units dont die so quick which leads to nice long battles

[Knit]

I look forward to random Pyloning all of you in 3 dimensions.

[Deonilin]

lol yup and with mobile pylons makes for some nice new additions ... only thing is that the attack effects dont seem that great and are very shiney. I was hoping for a game that would work on lower spec machines but if they increase the unit count a lot and have a lot of units firing effects like that u can expect some massive performance loss like with warcraft 3 thats the first dissapointment so far =(

[xlabratx]

hope you can click more than 12 units at a time

This post has been edited by XLaBrAtX: 20 May 2007 - 12:42 PM

[Emerald]

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hope you can click more than 12 units at a time

i don't...

12 unit groups is win! muchos adds to the tacticalness

[Deonilin]

yeah u can...if you look at the gameplay vids

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=_TR7nGISEfc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJDFw4TGWmo...ted&search=

it shows them selecting lots of zeolots at once seems more than 12 but looks like there will still be a limit. but as it says nothing is confurmed as of yet.

if they increase the maximum unit capacity they will need to increase the amount u can select in a group or there will need to be stupid amounts of groups.

[Calz]

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Will there be a console version of StarCraft II?

StarCraft II is being developed for the PC. We have no current plans to bring the game to any console platform.

they're missing out



plus, looks alot like supreme commander =/

it seems all the old strat games are coming back

C&C
Total Ann(Supreme Commander)
now SC
and apparently Diablo

This post has been edited by Calz: 22 May 2007 - 06:58 AM

[Emerald]

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they're missing out

well SC:G was going to be console only... which woulda been silly

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it seems all the old strat games are coming back

AoE4 anyone?

[Deonilin]

yeah tbh they are not missing out all the hardcore sc fans would play it on pc its designed for fast pace playing etc which u would neva achive on the console. previous console versions of starcraft have all been unsuccesssful so it makes no sence bringing it out on console.

also as far as i can tell they are not bringing out a new diablo as there is nothing on their site that i can see. with the development of sc i doubt they will bring out a diablo any time soon anyway becuase a new diablo would mean having comitition with their wow market which seems stupid they are more likly to develop wow further as it already has a large fan basis with all the main development done.

[xlabratx]

lal theres a petition on diablo 3 on diablo3.com research more!

[Deonilin]

a petition means nothing

"At Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational in Korea, they have just announced that their next game will be...

STARCRAFT 2!!!

Sorry everybody, it's not Diablo 3, but one thing we Blizzard fans are used to is WAITING. Diablo 3 will happen, in the meantime, let's all enjoy the Starcraft 2 news because Starcraft was one hell of a good game.

Big thanks to all of our faithful forum members who've been following the story over the past week"

as it says on diablo 3 website. the petition is just loads of fans doing it becasuse they have nothing better to do. there is nothing on the books for diablo3 as stated by blizzard.

[xlabratx]

read the forums diablo 3 ones xd

http://www.diablo3.c...read.php?t=3201

[Deonilin]

means nothing tbh at least until blizzard annouces diablo 3 most of those could be contributed to other games.

[xlabratx]

yein but is we do it your way we will have to wait years