StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

[Hercanic]

The No-LAN decision really ticks me off. I've played my fair share of SC/WC3 games over LAN when the Internet has been down. What of LAN parties? Honestly, dozens to hundreds of PCs all bottlenecking through one Internet connection out to Battlenet, then bottlenecking back through again? Stupid. If it's to thward piracy, again, plain idiocy. Look at WoW Private Servers. Look at SC Private Battle.net servers. People will find a way to create fake Battlenet servers, voiding piracy prevention. Really, why inconvenience paying customers to stop people who will never be customers to begin with? Piracy isn't lost sales.

[IskatuMesk]

There will be no lan in Diablo 3, either. If there ever was something that hurt mods, it would be no lan in a game that absolutely depends on LAN for multiplayer gameplay with mods like diablo.

[AA7Dragoon]

The graphics are looking great! What are the smaller Protoss air units doing to those seige tanks.

[Falchion]

The graphics are looking great! What are the smaller Protoss air units doing to those seige tanks.

It's the anti-grav spell the Protoss use as advantage against Queens, Tanks and many other units.  This renders them vulnerable to ship AA fire (i.e Viking Missiles), as well as usual Missile Turrets.  They also can't move nor attack (I suppose  ).

[Falchion]

Also, effects are looking decent enough, although I think the death explosions are still too gay.  Mothership doing a little boom???  You know, maybe Mesk could write a line to Blizzard asking them to make a Blood Moon like boom.  Would be delicious.

[GreatGodSajuuk]

They would ignore it...

[Maglok]

Also, effects are looking decent enough, although I think the death explosions are still too gay.  Mothership doing a little boom???  You know, maybe Mesk could write a line to Blizzard asking them to make a Blood Moon like boom.  Would be delicious.

Dude multiplayer deaths are NOT equal to singleplayer deaths. They even have a little movie on their site illustrating the difference.

[Marco]

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/29/interview-starcraft-2-lead-producer-chris-sigaty/

New interview with SC2 lead producer Chris Sigaty.  Mostly some design philosophy stuff that some people might find interesting.  Also some talk about the single player.

[omega20]

I've just seen that in some sites are announcing that Robert Clotworthy is returning as Raynor's voice in SC2. Is that true?

[Maglok]

Why would they lie collectively?

[Rocco]

Apparently it's true, I've seen it on multiple sites, and it seems like they're trying to get the old Kerrigan back.

[AA7Dragoon]

This is very good news

[omega20]

I also heard that Mengsk's voice actor is back too. Mengsk is especially pleasing to me, his voice fits perfectly with his character.

Now, get back Glynnis. Get back Glynnis. *Crosses fingers*

EDIT: Also, I've found the link to an interview talking about this

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/29/chris-sigaty-interview-part-2/

[Hercanic]

Why would they lie collectively?

Assuming they all didn't get their information from the same source. =oP

[Marco]

I also heard that Mengsk's voice actor is back too. Mengsk is especially pleasing to me, his voice fits perfectly with his character.

Now, get back Glynnis. Get back Glynnis. *Crosses fingers*

EDIT: Also, I've found the link to an interview talking about this

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/29/chris-sigaty-interview-part-2/

You mean that link I just posted?  Great find. 

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