 I3oxerfan June 29 2009 17:18. Posts 215 | Profile |
Why no LAN? What is wrong with them?
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 CharlieMurphy United States. June 29 2009 17:18. Posts 17055 | Profile Blog |
What the fuck?
I thought a while back Blizzard said it would be impossible to rewind replays unless they did a complete overhaul on the engine and coding. Gom/Esports must've pushed them really fucking hard on this one.
But that leads me to wonder about the LAN thing. Esports would never let LAN disappear, there must be some crazy LAN 2.0 thing now.
btw, nice write up LastRomanticLast edit: 2009-06-29 17:19:30 |
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 sixghost United States. June 29 2009 17:19. Posts 1347 | Profile Blog |
On June 29 2009 17:17 Raithed wrote:
Show nested quote +On June 29 2009 17:02 Zzoram wrote:
On June 29 2009 17:01 ERGO wrote:
On June 29 2009 16:45 Nevuk wrote:
Out of curiosity, what does smart cast mean? Like, how is it any different from sc1 psi storms casting?
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that smart casting is similar to MBS, when you have 3 high templar selected and cast storm only one will cast it, if you cast storm again the second will cast it, and if you cast storm a third time the third will cast it.
Which is easier to micro and makes a stronger Psionic storm seem ridiculous.
the thing is, theyve made psi storm soo much weaker than SC's.
Did you read the article? Storm does more damage in less time over a larger area. |
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 motbob United States. June 29 2009 17:20. Posts 4398 | Profile Blog |
On June 29 2009 17:18 CharlieMurphy wrote:
What the fuck?
I thought a while back Blizzard said it would be impossible to rewind replays unless they did a complete overhaul on the engine and coding. Gom/Esports must've pushed them really fucking hard on this one.
But that leads me to wonder about the LAN thing. Esports would never let LAN disappear, there must be some crazy LAN 2.0 thing now.
btw, nice write up LastRomantic
Remember that it's not really rewind... it's like a "checkpoint" system. |
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| I3oxerfan June 29 2009 17:22. Posts 215 | Profile | |
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 DreaM)XeRO Korea (South). June 29 2009 17:22. Posts 2061 | Profile Blog |
i heald my breath while reading this and now im red in the face and gasping for air
 i cant wait |
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 devin June 29 2009 17:25. Posts 8 | Profile |
| Can we get the name of the stupid PR guy who NDA'ed this shit? And if possible the name of his manager so we can go complain? |
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 Leord United Kingdom. June 29 2009 17:25. Posts 2 | Profile | |
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 writer22816 China. June 29 2009 17:26. Posts 988 | Profile Blog |
| Someone will make a lan patch. Either Blizzard will add it in a later patch or some third party tool will be available. I believe~ |
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| Eiii United States. June 29 2009 17:32. Posts 127 | Profile |
| I think patching SC2 will be much tougher than patching SC1. |
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 Lobbo June 29 2009 17:33. Posts 606 | Profile Blog |
On June 29 2009 17:32 Eiii wrote:
I think patching SC2 will be much tougher than patching SC1.
Indeed but someone will and that person will get my respect. |
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| Aghawa Italy. June 29 2009 17:34. Posts 2 | Profile |
Ahah rotfl, no LAN.
That's ridicolous - no more lan partys at home ppl! XD
Anyways, it's still confirmed that Zergs are the weakest race now in SC2 - they don't do enough dps, don't have an air-air counter (scourge) despite of mutas who, well, don't do enough damage to stop something in time. Zergs are going to see hard time with that protoss teletransport air thingy.
That's pretty bad - no groundbreaking nda announcement 
But still eagering for the game to come |
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 Last Romantic United States. June 29 2009 17:35. Posts 19506 | Profile Blog |
Zatic says early game Z is strong; I believe him. Didn't test it enough to confirm myself, but his reasoning is sound.
Karune agrees too, but I'm not sure Blizzard is aware exactly HOW strong. More details from Zatic if you bug him. |
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 maybenexttime Poland. June 29 2009 17:35. Posts 1436 | Profile |
On June 29 2009 17:04 Last Romantic wrote:
Oh right Hellions... they work, they're practical - honestly it's a firebat weapon on a vulture body - but I honestly feel they're not an adequate replacement for the original vulture.
This is where the Napalm Trace comes into play. |
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| grax United States. June 29 2009 17:38. Posts 2 | Profile |
| SC2 is visually way too busy, in every video I've seen. I realize I'm judging from video, but just compare to SC1 video and the huge difference in screen readability is apparent. |
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 Bockit Australia. June 29 2009 17:39. Posts 2079 | Profile Blog |
Here's the direct quote from the interview they're sourcing:
We got quite different answers about local area networking (LAN), where both Dustin or Sigaty said they were still discussing it, however, Pardo knew immediately: "we don't have any plans to support LAN," he said and clarified "we will not support it." The only multiplayer available will be on Battle.net.
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 ghermination Croatia. June 29 2009 17:51. Posts 1657 | Profile Blog |
Was there any talk about the proposed ability for hellions, "napalm trail", or whatever?
How did protoss feel early game? Do the collossi really same that powerful/useful? Is the infestor very useful past early game? |
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| shimmy Poland. June 29 2009 17:56. Posts 979 | Profile Blog |
Sounds to me like the people calling to bring back scourges are not without merit. Also I would still really like to see the Mothership being dropped to the single player campaign and replaced with the Arbiter. A "Dark Arbiter" as proposed by someone in another thread would be the best idea imo as you could add/rework/enhance/change its abilities appropriately.
I like a lot of the things Im seeing in the tech trees and though theres surely going to be a ton of balancing issues the game looks fun as hell to play already. |
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 omninmo June 29 2009 18:00. Posts 1620 | Profile Blog |
hate to say i told you so about LAN..but i told you so about the LAN.
LR were you guys not allowed to take in-game screenshots/photos? were they at ?
gotta say the game is looking "fun" but also seriously flawed.
-starport is prereq for DTs, templar, and Robo support bay? the core used to be the key to any and all tech in BW. that led to so many cool styles and BOs. Now, Toss users have to core, and starport to get HTs? makes no sense.
-banelings are the demolition dwarfs from wc3. im not interested in mass suicide ground units. skurgee were amazing because you only made a few of them and really have to micro well to make them effective. massing a bunch of green demolition dwarfs to blow up shit while burrowed.. that is not zerg style.
-mutalisks sound like mere caricatures of their former selves and no scouge? an anti-air unit that turns enemy air units into "airborne turrets"? come one man, wtf. sounds like they are making all units with the idea that in battle these units will always be massed and a-moved into each other.
-mothership is so fail. why do we need useless units in sc2 browder?
-Terran seems so imba and Zerg so weak.
-still no inclusion of f2-f4 keys?
-its really easy to sit here without having played the game with its sleek new graphics and complain.. but honestly. i can't help but think that except for the starcraft intellectual property involved this game is looking for like warcraft meets C&CLast edit: 2009-06-29 18:33:49 |
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 {88}iNcontroL   USA. June 29 2009 18:05. Posts 21127 | Profile Blog |
| cool great writeup guys! |
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