Dreamhack Winter 2008 – Day 1

Posted by Gradius on November 29th, 2008 filed in StarCraft News

Dreamhack is the world's largest LAN party. The latest StarCraft II build is playable at the Winter 2008 edition (that's going on until tomorrow). StarCraft II information from Dreamhack Winter 2008 has surfaced already.

GosuGamers attended the event, and LordofChaos has written up a great article on his thoughts of the playable StarCraft II build:

Quote:

The Mutalisks were clumsy. That's the best word for it. I did not expect Brood War mutalisk micro, expecting that the mechanic would be exactly the same would be foolish. But I did expect them to be fast and agile. They are not. They have two problems as of now: First, it takes for ever for them to accelerate. Meaning of you do a turn or an attack or anything than flying in a straight line they are slow as hell. Second, sometimes I would order them to make a turn to go somewhere else, and they would instead end up on a slightly different spot from where I ordered them to go to! This never happened in battle, but often when I was testing to micro them in the open. They are still a potent and mobile weapon, but this unit needs some work.

Read the rest here.

GosuGamers shot excellent photos from the event. If you've never been to Dreamhack, it's worth checking them out. In addition, GosuGamers shot a small video of the StarCraft II gameplay booths, showing a little bit of gameplay at the end.

MYM attended the event also. They captured this video of Rotterdam, a Warcraft 3 player, trying out the Protoss:

Rotterdam is later interviewed on his thoughts of StarCraft II and Warcraft 3.

Sources:
GosuGamers - Dreamhack Winter 2008 Coverage
myMYM - Dreamhack Winter 2008 Coverage

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