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05-19-2007, 06:08 AM
Post subject: Starcraft 2 Confirmed!
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http://pc.ign.com/articles/788/788627p1.html
Hooray!
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Hal
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Ohhh. Thought it was still a few hours till they announced - thanks for the heads up 
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Holy shit, it looks amazing. It's about damn time!
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Why are terrnas getting ganked in every screenshot. damn...
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why is there no new race
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Why is it not installed on my computer!
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Smithers, use the amnesia ray.
You mean the revolver, sir?
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damn it...what happened to the hybrid protoss/zerg race??? did they complete ignore the secret mission for the protoss in brood wars???
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...87257388853221
unbelievable for us geeks
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Wow that was cool.
Stupid idiot nuking EVERYTHING...
The Terrans and zerg better get some damn cool counters or we're all fucked.
I guess this will come out in 2010, now? 
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I think they just nuked everything as an ending to the video. I guess what i dont like about the protoss from what ive seen is theres no infantry, its all vehicles. It sounds like theres no dark templars since they are now some dragoon looking thing which means no dark archons. There may still be the other templars where you can make archons still (the blue ones).
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Lukie
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i just want a damn hydralisk and if it has some kind of super ability like scaling cliffs, cybernetic shields, etc, even better
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I just want a pet hydralisk
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TrapperAB: you know, I really should have named myself after the mandibles of a homeless person
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dsm there are still zealots, which are pretty bad ass infantry.
I think this game is gonna be amazing. Cant wait to see what htey do with terran.
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btw do marines have jet packs now? wtf!? that was so cool. However thier guns sounded gay. Jet packs made up for it though!
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Originally Posted by dsmrolla06
I think they just nuked everything as an ending to the video. I guess what i dont like about the protoss from what ive seen is theres no infantry, its all vehicles. It sounds like theres no dark templars since they are now some dragoon looking thing which means no dark archons. There may still be the other templars where you can make archons still (the blue ones).
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I dunno. That stalker or whatever it is (dark dragoon) looks sick. Easily could challenge hydralisk for most efficient unit in the game (this being said without seeing how much it costs).
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this looks amazing
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For the last nearly 2 years I've been working on revising the Battle.net service for Starcraft 2 and beyond. It's really amazing being a senior member of a very small team building the online service for the world's greatest game company.
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Isop
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So Fnord, does Blizzard have any plans to do another wingcommander/privateer game? Those were about the best games ever done.
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Originally Posted by Isop
So Fnord, does Blizzard have any plans to do another wingcommander/privateer game? Those were about the best games ever done.
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That is a different company and there aren't thousands of people still playing those games unlike Starcraft, Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 (mostly because of DotA.)
Also, I can not comment on unannounced projects.
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Originally Posted by boostNslide
btw do marines have jet packs now? wtf!? that was so cool. However thier guns sounded gay. Jet packs made up for it though!
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They talk about it in the article.
There are several units now capable of scaling the walls, etc. So there's a second marine unit that has double oozies or something and can fly. Standard marines still can not
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Originally Posted by Fnord
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Originally Posted by Isop
So Fnord, does Blizzard have any plans to do another wingcommander/privateer game? Those were about the best games ever done.
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That is a different company and there aren't thousands of people still playing those games unlike Starcraft, Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 (mostly because of DotA.)
Also, I can not comment on unannounced projects. |
ok I hate to keep pestering you about this, but is there any possibility that you could get some beta slots for us? Youve got some pretty big sc fans with open schedules on here.
and ofc thanks for your work. I still remember the first time I signed on, it was a whole new world. Cant wait to see what youve done to improve it. Im guessing a ton more functionality for clans. Any chance you can give us any more details on the overhaul (of bnet)?
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ok I hate to keep pestering you about this.
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Not a problem I love my job, love the products and enjoy talking about it as much as I can without talking about stuff I probably shouldn't talk about.
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is there any possibility that you could get some beta slots for us? Youve got some pretty big sc fans with open schedules on here. |
I will see what I can do. At some point I would expect to have a bunch of keys.
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Any chance you can give us any more details on the overhaul (of bnet)?
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Unannouced features is another one of those things I shouldn't talk about.
What I will say it that in Software Development, when you're doing things the second time around you tend to do it a whole lot better. Between my co-worker's 10(?) years evolving Battle.net and my time on the orginial Xbox Live server development team, we had a lot of experience building these things. It was fun early on getting together and talking about what worked well and didn't work so well for both services. We've been super-focused on providing a great, reliable, low-cost (for Blizzard) service.
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Lukie
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man, I'm getting the jitters from just reading this thread.
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eric.. wanna own up the 2vs2 circuit? letusgogogo
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Lukie
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Only if you promise not to kill me IRL if I die to a double team early on.
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Lukie
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btw I was SICKENINGLY good at SCBW back in the day. And not like everyone else that proclaims it. Of course this is what happens when you play a game for the better part of 3 years or so.
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How come everyone says there good at Starcraft?
I know everyone can't be good.. so i'll say it... I GET MY ASS KICKED AT STARCRAFT.
PS Fnord, is it LOW COST because they wont be charging fees? hint hint hint hint?
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Fnord
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PS Fnord, is it LOW COST because they wont be charging fees? hint hint hint hint?
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Not my department. I just do my best to keep costs down and the buisness guys figure stuff like that out.
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Maybe we should start a FTR SC:BW league until 2 comes out
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here's another good article:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6171178.html
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I wasnt amazingly good, but I was a decent player. I wasnt some bgh fish. Its kinda like my poker career, put a good couple years into it, but never reached 'that' level.
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i love playing use map settings
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I'm more excited about all the nutty Use Map Settings that will come out than ladder actually, haha.
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there were some cool ums' MTG was pretty cool, also the classic bunker /rine wars. Smash TV was cool too. But nothing compared to a good match on lost temple or dire straights.
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paintball was pretty cool, or the bunker wars or whatever you call it where you kept spawning endless marines at a bunker.
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http://www.onemorelevel.com/games.php?game=431
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Meh, got to level 35. I didnt realize i could get the combo towers that early and decided to upgrade others instead.
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Fnord - just wondering if there's anyone in house that is a linux fanboy that pushes for us users who refuse to use M$ software.. I appreciate that that Bliz has been great releasing Mac versions of many games where most other comps ignore it - but not all of us can afford that hardware
(Still I'm happy just being able to run WC3/WoW on my linux box - but would love to know that someone is testing SC2 on theirs too  )
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Got to the last level and its never ending. I only got like 5k points though... Has anyone else played it?
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Got to the last level and its never ending. I only got like 5k points though... Has anyone else played it?
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To those thinking about trying. It's amusing, pretty easy after you figure out the basic strategy and will waste a couple hours.
I got to the end, don't remember my score
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I pretty much just build a couple cannons and upgrade them, then build the fire towers when i can and upgrade a couple of those until i can get the rockets. Do you think it is worth while to build water towers to slow or just build as many rockets as possible?
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k, just played again, 9387. Last level isn't infinite, there are just a lot of guys.
I never used the fire. I just used upgraded cannons and water. The water is still useful after you get rockets. I think I had 22 rockets and 5 water towers on the last level
{EDIT: the water may be a mistake}
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Fnord - just wondering if there's anyone in house that is a linux fanboy that pushes for us users who refuse to use M$ software.. I appreciate that that Bliz has been great releasing Mac versions of many games where most other comps ignore it - but not all of us can afford that hardware |
I think all of our games run in Linux via Windows emulators, although that's not officially supported.
For what it's worth, I worked at Microsoft for over 6 years.... and we plan to run the entire service on Linux.
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Just the standard upgraded ground cannons? I didnt think the water slowed down those guys on the last level though.
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Also where are you placing everything.
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Also where are you placing everything.
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This is kind of a shitty hijack for a good thread, but oh well.
In white (spoiler if you're going to play the game):
water on the branch that goes into the middle, one in the middle of the bottom and one in the middle away from the other 2, a cannon at both edges of the backwards C and a couple arrows in the middle.
I just tried with the fire. I got to the rockets just using 2 cannons and one fire.
Sell things when they're not useful so you can earn interest.
After level 21 all you need is one rocket tower, adding/upgrading as necessary. I used the fire this time and had 30 rockets on the last level, I fucked up the screen shot but there were 20 in the middle, 6 on the branch touching the middle and 4 in the middle of the right arm.
I'm not sure what it takes to get 200k points  . That page has it's own forum
New score: 12529
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I never realized what the interest was from. You think it is worth getting a couple levels of interest first?
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