Official Starcraft Thread

Until the secret of the finals, yes.

Secret final map is Big Game Hunters.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FQoBnKa-e4E

zerggggggggggg

zerg 2 good.

Wow that final battle is endless they just kept throwing in shit :rofl:

There’s the good quality zerg video. I couldn’t make out anything on that youtube link.

cool vid. Some new zerg units, the one with feelers (Queen), the Baneling, burrowing ultras, some kinda burrowing-travel high damage unit (Infestor?) that infests buildings it blows up, Corruptor that infests enemy air units, the Nydus Worms. all pretty sick.

the Baneling (self blower upper) seems pretty strong, like its good against everything in the vids. Well, it does take more than one to kill zealots. but it seems to have splash damage, so that kinda counteracts if it does damage similar to starcrafts explosive damage type, since itll stil be good at killing swarm units. i wonder how u counter them. maybe the nature of zerg means theyre not that strong due to limits of larva. Maybe siege tanks and stuff if u can make them blow up before they reach you, but it might take alot of firepower. maybe immortals to tank them.

games really pretty.

edit with units name

new zerg shit is D.O.P.E.

Kind of hard to tell which units were what. I wish there was some music to go along with it though. Seemed kinda bland watching it.

I am impressed. The best race in SC is looking good in SC2.

burrowing mutli-attacking ultralisks will be the doom of all unzerg players

You can already see some pretty nasty strats available already. Infector rush to infect all buildings which need to be focused fired immediately and then a 2nd or 3rd pronged attack that does damage elsewhere probably consisting of roaches and lurkers. The Zerg aren’t perfect yet, but they are a great showing.

The Hydralisk looks rather incomplete. The death animation was nothing close to the level of awesomeness of the original. It’s also really hard to see the acid spit attack in the flash video. It’s instant sure, but it’s still nice to see the acid stream out. Right now the only problem I have with the Zerg is that they are extremely WC3 looking and all of the units and buildings don’t look distinct enough aside from the bloody fucking awesome looking Ultralisk, but stupid attack animation. I thought it would have been 2 sets of pincers instead of a side to side attack, kind of disappointing, but I still think the Ultra looks awesome. Right now it’s hard to tell the difference between the roach and the lurker for example and the buildings all look rather mediocre.

The things that traveled underground and infected the barracks… it looked like they were peeing on them lol. Like that alien from Aqua Teen who couldn’t speak english other than to say things like “401k! I rule you!”

The zerg look awesome. I love their bug feel and it’s the one race that reminds me the most of SC 1.

Side note though, I hope that they find a better Kerrigan voice actor. Bitch sounded too human…

Mutalisks sounds like they recorded someone in the back takin a shit…

Cool Vid 1

The unit sounds are crap right now. I love how so many people on the battle.net forums are so anti-SC2 being SC1.5, isn’t that the whole point of SC2 right now? Take the high successful and critically competitive RTS and bring it into 3D with new and hope to god better visuals, keeping the feel of the original while adding or changing new units to bring about different strategies?

All of that still means not only gameplay, but visuals and sounds should be just as good if not better and saying that, the game still looks and sounds amazing now and the new game just doesn’t have the same feel yet. It’s a new game, but it has big footsteps to fill.

XIII:
Ultras are keeping with their SC1 attack animation for the most part, which implied those giant blades are blade horns/arms, not pincers ;(

Anyhow…
I like that they’re taking the infestation thing to another level, though I doubt it’ll generally be a huge factor, unless the game mechanics give people a good reason to not just put all their production in a heavily defended main base… though I can see them messing up expos pretty well.
Plus they are pretty much the new Defilers with DARK SWARM so that’s a plus.

Apparently mutas are harder to micro, I’m hoping it’s the early build and not some funky balance attempt. I don’t play Zerg or like getting muta’d but I like that little bit of trickery that goes into making them good.

Roaches sound really good right now. Depends on how quickly the regen kicks in, though… if it’s constant then wtf.

The new queens seem pretty buff.

Yes! That’s exactly what I thought of when I saw that. :rofl:

Also, I love that episode of ATHF. Definitely one of my favorites.

12:51…i can play our matches anytime tonight.

aim sn: ninjaxhomeboy
bnet west: rushdownninja

Sibladeko /FAILS/

KingofKod moves on to play RushDownNinja.

Deuce vs Mr Ph
Deuce 3-0

http://www.battlereports.com/viewreplays.php?replaynum=32961
http://www.battlereports.com/viewreplays.php?replaynum=32962
http://www.battlereports.com/viewreplays.php?replaynum=32963

GGs