Site Updates

Posted by Quelex on March 9th, 2010 filed in General News, StarCraft News

Hey guys,
Just to let you know, we’ve had added a little bit more content to the site in the past couple of days.
The new Screen Shots page has slide shows of the Screen Shots of the Month and Screen Shots from StarCraft II taken by Puppet Master and I.
The Blizzard Battle Report Videos for StarCraft [...]

Dustin Browder Interview March 9th 2010

Posted by blueberrycream9 on March 9th, 2010 filed in StarCraft News

Community Tournaments at BlizzCon

Posted by Blizzard on March 9th, 2010 filed in StarCraft News

Nal_rA intends to return to progaming

Posted by Raistlin on March 9th, 2010 filed in StarCraft News

IPS Problems, Starcraft 2 Single player, how to start , amp=//= skill ?

Posted by Lipton on March 9th, 2010 filed in StarCraft News

Ok so I’m really piss off, the isp in London are a F*** inkg joke,, the upload speed is ****,and during times like 7-9 the Internet i just not working!!! and i suppose to have up to 50m …. ect for only 50 pounds a month,,,

And of top of that for some reason i got just crazy ass lag when I’m playing sc2….

So i don’t now for how long, but for now ill stick with playing few games with ai to polish my early game micros and uber fast rushes ,

And that’s the First Adcice on how to be better at SC.

The list got this awesome name i was thinking about it for like 1h!

” the top 10 tricks to get from Noob to Good”

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Rule Number 1

Start polishing ur game from early beginnings !

play with super hard Ai and lear to rush him every time

Play with cheating Ai to lear how to defend.

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Rule Number 2

Actually that should be first one but lest make it 2 :P

Learn each unit and class in the game.

Now u can go for medium level AI and play each game trying a new build with olny one class

see how to get some early game mutalisk with zergs and try to defet the enymy olny with those

the same thing with mutalisk

get to win by ghost Nukes

or a early banshi rush

try every single unit in the game
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Rule Number 3

(even do i dint play myself much into the beta )

Learn from other Mistakes by watching some good replays, if Ur a NOOB i can highly recommend the YouTube channels of Husky and HDstrarcraft

Great Job guys !

i hope one day u gonna end up as pro commentators, when sc2will rise as a E-sport.

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Ok lets keep the rest of the Rules of the next blog .

The topic i wanted to cover is a bit confusing one, as much as i love SC , but this game i no where near being perfect single player wise,,, the game looks OK , but did blizz needed 12 years just for that ?

The thing that bother me is the fact that this game suppose to come one in 3 Parts where u gonna have to pay for them ?

Come on looking at the single in sc1 how long it could take u to REMAKE the hole single player missions in a MAP EDITOR ?

Assuming that the sc2 single player gonna fallow sc1 as the sc2 multi, blizz is making fun of sun asking us extra money for it…..
That why i don’t like the idea , we all know how blizz is taking care of of his games right ?
its always the BEST the most balanced (cough cough wow) games.so whats now ?

are blizz gonna release a ”crapy single” ?
or ?

My idea is, as we all know Starcraft ghost was droped long time ago what if the game wasn’t droped but just renamed ”SC2 single” ?

Starcraft 2 BLOG #3: Suggestions and Bug Fixes

Posted by Lipton on March 9th, 2010 filed in StarCraft News

The Starcraft 2 Beta is in full motion with an almost constant 7000-8000 people online all the time. This means a lot of games, a lot of testing, and a few fixes that need to be made. Cameron ‘fams’ Carson comes to you with his latest blog, all about his feedback on the beta and a few fixes that need to be made so far.

You can view an excerpt of this blog below:

“As promised, you can find a small replay pack HERE.

Now, in this blog, I would like to talk about some problems I personally think Battle.net 2.0 and SC2 possess.

-Overlords won’t hatch sometimes.
This is caused by Overlords stacking directly on top of your eggs, so when they try to hatch, they can’t float up, so they stay as eggs. Even after you moved your overlords however, it takes a little while for the eggs to hatch. I would preferably like this fixed, there is no real reason to have it in the game, as it just means I will set the rally point of my main a few feet from it, rather than having them spawn where they are.

As you can see the cocoon is 100% complete but does not hatch.

-Zerg upgrade times are too lengthy.
This could just be me, but I find it extremely slow going when I want to upgrade the attack of my mutas, and at the same time upgrade my main to T3 (So I can add broodlords to my army) and my T3 finishes well before my level 1 attack upgrade finishes. I then have to continue waiting, then once that finishes I can upgrade my spire, which also takes a rather long time. “

To view the rest of this rather long blog (which contains a TON of screen shots) click HERE.