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Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 1:39 am
by AA7Dragoon
What are those pink, bubble buildings?

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 4:14 am
by IskatuMesk
Presumably construction anims for zerg.

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 9:51 am
by Maglok
Now THIS is interesting: http://starcraft.incgamers.com/blog/comments/chinese-blizzard-fansite-summit-update-map-editor-confirmed/

I quote:
1. Beta will include map editor, this is for sure, but we don't know if the editor has some limitation to it.
Among other stuff. Go go go.

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:26 am
by Marco
I've hit my peak on excitement long ago Maglok, its impossible for me to be any more excited about SC2.  What could they do that would make me more excited?  Nothing.  I have reached 100 percent.

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:43 am
by Maglok
They should hurry the hell along? ;)

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 12:14 pm
by DrumsofWar
Desler wrote: I've hit my peak on excitement long ago Maglok, its impossible for me to be any more excited about SC2.  What could they do that would make me more excited?  Nothing.  I have reached 100 percent.
They could suddenly announce a .scm/.scx import feature.

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 12:43 pm
by Lavarinth
DrumsofWar wrote:
Desler wrote: I've hit my peak on excitement long ago Maglok, its impossible for me to be any more excited about SC2.  What could they do that would make me more excited?  Nothing.  I have reached 100 percent.
They could suddenly announce a .scm/.scx import feature.
If you only knew.

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 3:45 pm
by IskatuMesk
Maglok wrote: Now THIS is interesting: http://starcraft.incgamers.com/blog/comments/chinese-blizzard-fansite-summit-update-map-editor-confirmed/

I quote:
1. Beta will include map editor, this is for sure, but we don't know if the editor has some limitation to it.
Among other stuff. Go go go.
Just saw that on TL.

If this source is credible, AI in beta is something unheard of and is really exciting, at least for me. It means I'll get the opportunity to criticize the hell out of their AI with a somewhat legitimate hope that someone will actually listen. But most importantly, the editor and AI in beta will allow me to deconstruct the game and figure out how the AI actually works before release.

What I'm worried about is the emphasis on RPG mapping and other stuff and not actual modding.

The hardware requirements are admirably low, but remember, wc3 generally demands twice if not three times its recommended specs to run custom maps any decently, sc2 will probably be similar - ESPECIALLY if physics can be used in a server-side manner.

/edit

Apparently there's a bunch of sources saying that the specs/the chinese news thing are fake.

/edit 2

Okay there's just arguing on the specs. I think the actual news thing is real.

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 5:16 pm
by UntamedLoli
Video of the death animations and the next Q&A up tommorow http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=17367809543

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 6:12 pm
by Lavarinth
[me=Lavarinth]smirks.[/me]

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 7:35 pm
by Aegis
*waits for the animations to load* >.o

On the other hand, the Zerg as a whole definitely look much better now; less bright and cheery, more grim and freaky.  Even hot pink looked kinda good on them. >>

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 7:45 pm
by IskatuMesk
Hot pink looks good on everything.

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 7:47 pm
by Xenon
Gibby and burny enough for you Mesk?  ;) I can see you making good use of models tweaked so that they're always on fire.

Notice the new corruptor model in the first picture of the second post? Looks kind of like some lurker/triceratops/bacteriophage, and seems more "organized" than the original irregular blob.

Hecks, I think "phage" would be a good alternative name for either the infestor or corruptor, if not for the fact that it would be mispronounced both accidentally and intentionally  ::)

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 8:24 pm
by IskatuMesk
Depends if they include a model importer or not. They didn't with wc3 so chances are we'll be stuck with shitty third party crap just like wc3.

Re: StarCraft II Official! (Pictures)

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 10:39 pm
by Lavarinth
A small note that the article released earlier today is, in fact, not official and nothing has been confirmed in that article.