StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

[Kaoru]

Is it just me, or did the horrendous-ness of the Zerg hit the SCII forums so hard, they fell off the internet?
...Penny Arcade fans, please don't shoot me.

In other news, yeah. The forums seem to be down. All of them. Even the foreign-language forums. Possibly all of the Battle.net forums, period. Poor Blizzard.

[Mucky]

I hope Infester, Roach, etc. are temporary names because they're pretty lame. Also, what's with all the green? I can understand Banelings having green because of the fact that they're living bombs, but the overlord? So do overlords explode?

EDIT: Also the creep looks like shit.

[tipereth]

Units look fine, although they're REALLY focusing on that huge fucking dorsal crest motif.

[Marco]

The Zerg look amazingly.. AWEFUL. Not a single Zerg unit matches another and the buildings appear as if they were textured and modeled by amateurs as they don't even appear organic, they appear like plastic toys and also don't match in texture colors.

Must post on Battle.net.


Annnnd.. Done: http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.asp ... dID=635429

As always Doack, your negative opinion on things never ceases to amaze me.

[Marco]

I hope Infester, Roach, etc. are temporary names because they're pretty lame. Also, what's with all the green? I can understand Banelings having green because of the fact that they're living bombs, but the overlord? So do overlords explode?

EDIT: Also the creep looks like shit.

Seems like its leaning more towards Starship Troopers.  But StarCraft predates Starship Troopers if I remember correctly.  "Roaches check in, but they don't check out."  Now all we need is a brain bug.

[IskatuMesk]

The Zerg look amazingly.. AWEFUL. Not a single Zerg unit matches another and the buildings appear as if they were textured and modeled by amateurs as they don't even appear organic, they appear like plastic toys and also don't match in texture colors.

Must post on Battle.net.


Annnnd.. Done: http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.asp ... dID=635429

As always Doack, your negative opinion on things never ceases to amaze me.

So, if my negative opinion never ceases to amaze you, why did you quote lav?

[Thalraxal]

I hope Infester, Roach, etc. are temporary names because they're pretty lame. Also, what's with all the green? I can understand Banelings having green because of the fact that they're living bombs, but the overlord? So do overlords explode?

EDIT: Also the creep looks like shit.

Seems like its leaning more towards Starship Troopers.  But StarCraft predates Starship Troopers if I remember correctly.  "Roaches check in, but they don't check out."  Now all we need is a brain bug.

Well, SC pre-dates the movie, but Starship Troopers,  the novel which the movie was based on, by Robert Heinlein predates SC by about 4 decades.

[Marco]

The Zerg look amazingly.. AWEFUL. Not a single Zerg unit matches another and the buildings appear as if they were textured and modeled by amateurs as they don't even appear organic, they appear like plastic toys and also don't match in texture colors.

Must post on Battle.net.


Annnnd.. Done: http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.asp ... dID=635429

As always Doack, your negative opinion on things never ceases to amaze me.

So, if my negative opinion never ceases to amaze you, why did you quote lav?

It was a joke.

[IskatuMesk]

A very bad joke.

[WB]

Corrupter seems kind of unbalanced. I mean, usually if you were outgunned in an air battle you could flee, corrupters make your guys stay and die.

Units all look fine, the infested terran shooting a gun, not liking that.

[Lavarinth]

The Zerg look amazingly.. AWEFUL. Not a single Zerg unit matches another and the buildings appear as if they were textured and modeled by amateurs as they don't even appear organic, they appear like plastic toys and also don't match in texture colors.

Must post on Battle.net.


Annnnd.. Done: http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.asp ... dID=635429

As always Doack, your negative opinion on things never ceases to amaze me.

So, if my negative opinion never ceases to amaze you, why did you quote lav?

It was a joke.

Yar!

[tipereth]

I hope Infester, Roach, etc. are temporary names because they're pretty lame. Also, what's with all the green? I can understand Banelings having green because of the fact that they're living bombs, but the overlord? So do overlords explode?

EDIT: Also the creep looks like shit.

Seems like its leaning more towards Starship Troopers.  But StarCraft predates Starship Troopers if I remember correctly.  "Roaches check in, but they don't check out."  Now all we need is a brain bug.

Well, SC pre-dates the movie, but Starship Troopers,  the novel which the movie was based on, by Robert Heinlein predates SC by about 4 decades.

Note that the movie has nothing in common with the book but a title and bugs.

[WB]

Yea, in the book they actually had a better strategy than human wave attacks.

[IskatuMesk]

the pathfinding was ripped from sc1 it looks like

Maybe SC2 will be able to handle more than 2 units moving at once

[AA7Dragoon]

Corrupter is going to need some balance tweaking.  It's a double advantage  to freeze units dead and then the remainder auto-firing on those frozen units.  Talk about a micro nightmare.  Do the corrupted units "unfreeze?"  Or do they die after some point?

I don't think the Infestor's infestation abilities are going to last very long in this game.  How does this stack against the Protoss?  Infested Zealots?  Isn't that a lore breach?

I like the Queen concept.  I was wondering how they were going to give the Zerg a super unit.  It makes sense that the Queen becomes the intercessor for the Queen of Blades herself.  Now that there are no more cerebrates, it makes sense local control would go to a unit like the Queen.

The Ultralisk attacks are very groovy.