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Can someone look at this replay and tell me how badly I fucked up?
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Well, to be fair, it's another full-length campaign (the same size as Wings of Liberty), plus a bunch of multiplayer mods with new ladders for the new units and buildings (lurkers, apparently). I don't mind paying full price for it, especially since we won't even see it until Q1/Q2 2012.green shirt thursdays-
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PS, I'm having a racial crisis. I can't decide if I want to keep playing Terran, but there are things I hate about each race that I'm not sure I can overcome:
Terran: Siege tanks. I fucking hate using them, and I hate playing against them.
Protoss: The whole mechanic behind warp-ins is odd and unfamiliar. It feels like having a third arm or something.
Zerg: Balancing drone production with army production.green shirt thursdays-
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http://gameaxis.com/exclusive-interview ... er-part-1/
Q. Return of old units?
We’ll certainly have the old units [laughs]
Q. What about Lurkers? Will we see them ever again?
Well certainly Lurkerswill probably be in the solo campaign. Uhm. No guarantees.
But whether we put them in multi, it really depends on a number of factors.
The reason we pulled the Lurker from multi was that they were simply just weren’t useful at the end of the day. Like, the reality was that so many units had taken over his combat role as we went forward – infesters, roaches and banelings all were doing things better than the Lurker was doing at the time and we found that we just weren’t building them in games really all that much
We were so in love with the unit that we kept it way past its prime like it was sitting way at the very end of the tech tree. It was like an artillery unit now and it was doing all this crazy stuff and it was not really even a Lurker anymore.
It didn’t really make sense but that’s what the unit had become and it was just a desperate attempt to hold on to it and as we looked at it this was not a unit the game needed. The Lurker was not actually doing what it used to do and the game had changed too much for this unit to have the same core role.
I do know there was a big outcry from certain players; not specifically for that unit although they’ll sometimes say that. Althoughthe outcryI’ve heardis that they wish they had more ways to use cloak or burrow specifically as a threat to enemies and they feel they have lost that with the Lurker. I think that is a fair feedback from our players that is something we will definitely look to address in the expansion.
Like I said - it's a rumor. But it's not completely baseless, since the lead designer said they're addressing the issue.green shirt thursdays-
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JDodge wrote:xRECKONERx wrote:The MS.net Worst of the Worst SC2 Tournament
JDodge, ShanbaCaster(s):
Knight of Cydonia, ReaperCharlie, gandalf5166, Papa Zito, Flameaxe, xRECKONERxPlayers:
Are we going to actually make this happen? I can start working on figuring out format/like that if there's actual interest.
KoC, are you on the EU server? We're all on NA so that'll probably unfortunately take you out of it.
With KoC out, we could do the rest of us in a 5-player double elimination tournament. Would you be down for that? If so, I'll set up the brackets and we'll start working out the dates and times.green shirt thursdays-
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@JD, with Moratorium in, a six-player double-elimination tournament works just fine.
First two games are played
Winners of first two games face the two people who didn't play
4 losers enter losers bracket; 2 winners face off
Winner of loser's bracket faces loser of winner's game
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Moratorium wrote:Is this going to be at a set time (like some weekend afternoon or something), or just pairings where the two involved need to settle on a time to play each other and report their results?
I would say we'd give ranged deadlines for rounds to be completed (like 3 days per round) and then let the competitors set up specific times to play. Are we going to do Best of 3 or just 1 win for the round robin?green shirt thursdays-
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kiwieagle wrote:Just bought starcraft 2!
Any tips?
Who should I be?
im thinking zerg due to almost everyone being terran....
is there a big learning curve?
Play around with all three races to see which one you like the most. I would recommend learning the absolute basics of each one and then playing about 5-10 custom games as each race against the AI to get a feel for them. I can tell you this much:
Terran are the most straight-forward. They feel the most "RTS"y of the three races. A lot of their strength comes from brute ground-force power... in the air, they aren't so great. Another feature special to Terran is some of their buildings have the ability to lift-off and move... so if you want to expand with another Command Center, you can just build it in your base then fly it to wherever you want when it's complete. Terran also start out with 11 supply instead of 10 like the other two races.
Protoss are a lot of fun. Warp technology is important in Protoss strategy. Building warp gates allows you to warp in ground forces anywhere on the map that there's a Pylon (Protoss energy structure). Stalkers can research "blink", an upgrade that lets your stalkers blink a few yards ahead to anywhere on the map. So if an opponent's base is walled off, you can just blink past it, or blink up the cliff, or something. Oh, and Protoss worker units "warp in" structures... so all you have to do is click to drop it, they warp it in, then you can go back to doing something else while the warp-in completes, which means you don't have units wrapped up in building stuff all the time.
Zerg are the most unique of the three. Rather than having specific structures to produce specific units, all of your units are spawned from larvae which are generated at your hatchery. When new larvae hatches, you choose whether or morph them into worker units or military units. Furthermore, your drones morph into the buildings you need, so when you build a building, you lose a worker. The only purpose of buildings, as Zerg, is to upgrade units or unlock new units. All the production is done by the hatchery. Zerg is also a lot more reactionary than the other races, so you have to kind of get a feel for what they're doing first before you start going for a certain strategy.
Overall, I'm most comfortable with Terran, I have the most fun with Protoss, and I'm very challenged by Zerg and would like to learn more.green shirt thursdays-
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