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Just posting this first on here, the Blizzard Worldwide international in Korea just officially unveiled StarCraft 2. I'm going to bed now, hopefully Saturday there'll be a video up of the trailer and more details, I'll check in the morning.
 
Goddamnit I can't sleep now reading this stuff....

3:26 - Showing another video of "things to come." concept art for SC2 - zerg landscapes - ruined terran structures - freen filds - SC2 looks, at least visually, strikingly similar to SC1 - both in unit and map designs. Now showing a giant rush of zerglings - probably over 100 of them, swarming with no slowdown - mroe character art - finishes with the StarCraft II logo.

3:23 - now showing terran and protoss fight - marines and zealots clashing on the ground - mothership and battle crusers in the air - framerate seems relatively stable as more units stream in - hard to tell - about 100 units on screen right now - a few of the new protoss units just came in - nuclear launch detected warning - every unit on screen destroyed - three nukes were launched at once - then zergs rush in and spell "GG" while turning into suicidal bombs.


3:18 - warprey also very effective against structures - very vulnerable to small unit fire - shws warpreys getting wiped out by terran marines. Physics system lets debris from warpreys roll down a ramp. Showing one more unit - warped in in a serious of cubes - giant floating base - called a protoss mothership - can only have 1 at a time - cost big resources - special abilities include timebomb that slows all enemy missiles inside - shows terran missle launcher shooting in projectiles that stop in the field before they reach the ship - when field ends missiles drop the ground - planet cracker attack - giant lasers stream from ship to ground - ship can be moved around while planet cracker laser is active - the ship looks like a metallic, triangular sand dollar - mothership can create a black hole anywhere it wannts to - creates distortion that actually sucks ships in and destroys them - in the demo the black hole destroyed four terran battle cruisers in about ten seconds.


3:16 - showing space platform environment, land mass floating over planets / nebulae. Showing phoenix units failing to destroy terran battle cruisers - new protoss unit - Warprey - flying unit that does increased damage the longer it hits a target with it's continuous blue laser.

3:15 - Zerglings can mutate into suicidal bomb things thar roll across the ground - very powerful explosions. Colossus using new IK system to move across differences in terraing height. Colossus extremley weak against air strike - New unit for protoss - Pheonix - can overcharge guns for multiple projectile blast - but after blast the ship is rendered inert for a short period.

3:14 - Protoss colossus - huge unit that can blast out dual lasers and use long legs to traverse differences in terrain height - in the demo two of them obliterate about fifty or so zerglings.

3:10 - Terran reapers - can hop across unever terrain with jump packs - two types of small pistols that don't activate immortals. Protoss now have the ability to create shields whereever they want. Protoss can now warp in units from manufacturing facilities anything within pylon range. New protoss unit - stalker - can teleport - quadripedal thing - can keep blinking forward - seems to be a shot cooldown on the ability. Zerg start coming in, giant worms pop out of ground unleasing zerglings. Protoss can use phase fields and teleporting abilities to create an army anywhere on the battlefield, according to Blizzard.

3:09 - controlling protoss zealots - still has psi blades and personal shield - new charge ability that let him quickly close range on enemies. Siege tanks shown - still the same type of behavior where they can lock down - take out zealots really quickly - new protoss unit - called immortals - have special shield that only activates upon being powerfully attacked - siege tanks could barely do any damage to them.

3:07 - Showing gameplay footage - Looks like protoss ships - floating over asteroid/ base structure - entering protoss ase - similar looking buildings - vespene gas still in the game - character pane shows up on right side - some protoss guy - shifts to terran bases floating on rockets over same type of territory - sill collecting crystals as resources - marines load out. Dustin is actually playing the game - nothing in the game is final.
 
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*sigh* Good-bye time... <O__O>

and ty Blizzard.. about damned time
 
Okay, now I'm crashing to bed, by tomorrow there'll be plenty of picture links, there already up on sites, hopefully some video clips, too tired to post now, I'm glad it's an Real Time Strategy and not another MMO, I can't get into another one with WoW and FFXI.
 
OMFG!! YES!!!!! YES!!! *Dances many dances of glee*

wait.. where are you finding this info? D:
 
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I'm happy.

I am not too convinced it would have worked as an MMO, Starcraft I mean, it would handle too much like Planetside, and Planetside sucked.
 
yeah already saw all the pics and the trailor. Looks sweet. Can't wait. Was a huge SC fan back in the day. The only other game I played just as long as FFXI.
 
This game looks crazy..I hope the story continues where the Brood War left off. I can't wait to play multi on this game too. I watched some of the trailers from www.gametrailers.com
 
the site itself says that the game continues after Brood War :P
 
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I wonder which comic is Bajaratt's favorite web comic :P

and ya, that's hilarious XD
 
Hard to say, I read a bunch of them and they all have their moments.
 
I'm keeping my ambitions for this game down.

I know if I get excited, they're going to fuck it up by borrowing the shitty aspects of WarCraft III. StarCraft cannot work with low unit limits(which thankfully, is obvious they won't use,) rock-paper-scissors damage/armor types, and unit upkeep.
 
Yeah, if they copy warcraft 3 and just put starcraft units in I won't even play the game.
 
From the gameplay video it seems like it isn't like Warcraft. As far as I can tell, there aren't even heroes. It's just mass armies against one another :D I'm hoping that's what it is. I liked the idea of the hero but they really.. over did it. Remember though, they had to limit the unit total with Warcraft III cause of general computer stats then. I think, being most have better computers (except me T.T) since Warcraft III was released, they should be able to have more with such rich movement and such.

I dunno, I really am hoping :P but I'm far more interested in the story right now anyways. I wonder what will happen.. hmmm

Though, didn't a lot of the old Starcraft team people leave Blizzard? :\
 
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From the gameplay video it seems like it isn't like Warcraft. As far as I can tell, there aren't even heroes. It's just mass armies against one another :D I'm hoping that's what it is. I liked the idea of the hero but they really.. over did it. Remember though, they had to limit the unit total with Warcraft III cause of general computer stats then. I think, being most have better computers (except me T.T) since Warcraft III was released, they should be able to have more with such rich movement and such.

I dunno, I really am hoping :P but I'm far more interested in the story right now anyways. I wonder what will happen.. hmmm

Though, didn't a lot of the old Starcraft team people leave Blizzard? :\
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The limits were stupid in warcraft 3, you could get 2-3 times as many units per player in starcraft which came out years earlier. I don't buy that it was just a performance thing, I didn't have any problems with the game running at max settings and my computer was about average.
 
Warcraft 3 was supposed to be a slower paced game more focused on micro management of small teams led by Heroes, rather than a mass bloodbath of generic armies like StarCraft.
 
This is greater than the second coming of jesus. Starcraft 2's greatness strikes more fear into the hearts of mankind than the apocalypse.

I think mankind can say they have successfully done everything in the world with the announcement of Starcraft 2.

I will play anyone who is alive after the release.
 
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