StarCraft 2 Battle Report #3 Brings 17 Minutes of New Footage

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  Also looks way too powerful. At one point the protoss player casts it literally three times in a row. N... : bladderfish
  • LOL... : wytefang
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    YOU HAVENT PLAYED THE FUCKING GAME YET AND YOUR ALREADY COMPLAINING : Jackass1233
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      You don't have to play it to see that it's overpowered. 2 enemy units venture into your base and drop shi... : FTY
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        if your "army" consists of all ground units, I think you deserve to lose. : mobab
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          You expect flying units in the first 5 minutes? : anal justice
          • Reread his post. I don't expect 50+ military units in 5 minutes either. : mobab
  • didn't he have several nullifiers? besides, i doubt everyone is able to micro like david kim. that guy ju... : gfboixx
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    Nah, it's no worse than Stasis Field was, and Nullifiers come at a high price. Especially versus the Zerg... : Modica Sol Solis
    • ^^ : razlebol
    • Stasis takes forever to get. This thing was really early game...either the zerg sucked at building units... : hanfeitzu
  • theorycrafting itt : bipolar
  • I agree, it needs to be either attackable, longer cooldown or last not as long - it seems pretty obvious ... : abrasion
  • He had to use it in juuuust the right spot at juuuust the right time, I can also easily see force field b... : Archangel2007
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    All you Zerg and Terran players (but especially Zerg with your ling rushes) can get the hell out of here.... : Dr_Cube
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      Basically. Protoss is the hardest race to use in SC1, since none of the maps custom tailored to protoss.... : DewFuel
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        Wat? A lot of people would take issue with that with a bunch of 1a2a3a jokes. Your fewer more powerfu... : MamiyaOtaru
        • who cares about lower modes of play. just look at win percentages on pro-league maps protoss consiste... : DewFuel
        • Also, against any decent player, protoss is ALWAYS playing in the fucking dark. Speed lings / vultures w... : DewFuel
• Yeah, the protoss used it perfectly : sikander

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  If not for them I probably wouldn't watch the video. : DougL
  • Yeah, I love the announcers. : Quaunaut
• Needs more Tasteless. : Memphis-Ahn
• I think they do a great job : rubicant
• I think they did a great great job. Everything is just great. The world is great. The kitties are great. : lavaflare
• I like them, it's not like they will be regular casters anyhow. : abrasion
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  There's absolutely zero analysis...just a crappy play by play. I can see what's happening without some r... : Rape.Farm
  • aren't you special : derean
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    Agree. But these lame "Battle Reports" are meant for people who doesn't follow the scene. The games are ... : anal justice
    • The only thing these guys helped me with were the Mind Control parts. I don't follow SC2 much at all, an... : Derringer
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  i fucking hate the fake excitement, you can tell its an actor acting... works on the mob though, as you c... : Angry Max
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    I don't think Dustin Browder is an actor : MamiyaOtaru
    • he is trying to be : Angry Max
• Not nearly as good as Tasteless & SDM or the SC2GG/Violetak people. I think part of it is the gameplay i... : Freon

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• What gives you the idea hives can only be built in certain areas? This player seemed to only build them ... : MamiyaOtaru
• David Kim was running a good economy the whole game as well. Yeon-Ho Lee didn't really do anything to slo... : Sebastian-TEC

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  I totally agree. Many people claim one of the things that makes the original so great is the fact that... : TwiiK
  • I totally disagree. If think they did a great job at making it more sci-fi and less fantasy/childish look... : lord_omega
  • Yes it was. It's been an issue since the first footage was released. I guess you could argue it's been ma... : Arceihn
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  low res + compression + small window = muddied colors blending together. : chrisschutz
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    Low res + compression + small window == YOUTUBE. While it's a good excuse for why it's hard to disting... : MamiyaOtaru
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      You realize Youtube has support for HD videos, right? (And I will never forgive the world if they try ... : Zyrusticae
      • No I had no idea and I certainly didn't address that by saying "f you need some super HD stream to see wh... : MamiyaOtaru
• Do not jugde colour delimitation in videos, the YUV colourspace/bit layout cares more for brightness vari... : ZaldronGG

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  Why does this always come up. Yes, it's the Starcraft UI. Get used to it. : Modica Sol Solis
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    Because it's horrible. At least they're not sticking with 640x480 or 4:3 because it's Starcraft. It wou... : capt tripps
    • What's horrible about it? I think it was great in Starcraft and the small changes they've made have made ... : Modica Sol Solis
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      there is nothing wrong with the UI. Starcraft at 640x480 is still more amazing than anything released ... : DewFuel
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        ...obviously Starcraft is the zenith of design. If you even question the ui in the game, you just don't u... : nardman
        • That's not ui graphic related. You can have all those feature without having a ui that takes 1/3 of the s... : razlebol
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          Why are you comparing UI's of FPS games (Deus Ex, TF2, even F3) to that of a RTS game? You guys need to ... : nakor_
          • The UI is not dark enough. I don't feel the "grittiness" of the universe. lol /sarcasm : mobab
  • I kinda like the UI. Seems like they made some improvements, however, there is always more room for impr... : mobab
  • It needs refinement though, it's a bit bland. : abrasion
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  Agreed. I find it mind-boggling Blizz can't figure out how to refine a RTS GUI after 10 years... They ... : DarthStank
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    Because fans of SC do not want this. It's. That. Simple. They're listening to the fanbase. : nakor_
    • It's. Not. That. Simple. It's. Been. Ten. Years. I'm a major fan. Been playing SC since the good old da... : DarthStank
• the made that UI specifically so I could feel superior for bucking the trend and having a tall screen /tr... : MamiyaOtaru

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  i find starcraft to be one of the least fun. classic C&C > starcraft i personally enjoy company of ... : myatomicgarden
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    You're outta your wits. Check this man into an asylum. : Xulu
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      sorry, i just never got into the starcraft universe. i never found it very fun, probably due to the f... : myatomicgarden
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        C&C is sci-fi...tiberium....from SPACE! : Adaptive
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          tiberium was meh : myatomicgarden
          • so you like C&C despite the fact that it's sci-fi? : shyguy74
          • What? basically all the games had tiberium in it. From space. Sci-fi. : Johnnsen
  • The thing about the realism factor is that there's usually not too much difference between the factions. ... : aldraek
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    People always gush about Company of Heroes. It is a great traditional top down RTS, but don't kid your... : battlehardenedbeaver
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      RTS games were never about realism anyways, just look at the cartoon scale in starcraft, its hard to imag... : ballystix
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        That's for gameplay reasons. If people are looking for realism in anything other than simulation genre... : Xulu
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          I like the almost perfect scale of DoW2 tanks/dreadnoughts compared to infantry units, and I don't see ho... : FTY
          • Problem is, how many fighters have tiny fighters fly out of them during a fight. Carriers do that, hence... : mobab
    • I can't think of any RTSs that aim for realism primarily (in a way that ARMA does). Certainly not CoH; li... : crummynz
• Oh man, go pick up Battlechest. The game has really aged well. Single player campaigns are great. : Freon

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  nevermind.. heard wrong :( I was a little surprised, I'd think I would have heard if it was him playing : MamiyaOtaru
  • Don't expect pro's playing in a Battle report :( : anal justice

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• It's you. : Archangel2007
• Ha. I looked for something like this to reply to before commenting just now. Oh well. I don't like t... : hanfeitzu
• it does : Angry Max

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• This is the part where I actually past the link: http://g4tv.com/videos/39365/StarCraft-II-Battle-Report... : empathe

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• I haven't watched nor plan to watch any of these videos. I want it to be fresh and exciting! : headbone
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  Because watching videos are the exact same as playing the game, lol! Seeing as we haven't even seen th... : Modica Sol Solis
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    Not to mention that StarCraft II has changed a fair bit over these past few years. New units have come in... : Alice O'Connor
    • I agree. ajvitaly you're full of shit. : Dr_Cube
  • I was going to say exactly what you said in the first sentence, almost word for word. : CyCo_PL
• Except that the current starcraft II doesn't look much like the game that was shown years ago. That game ... : battlehardenedbeaver
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  plays a lot just like starcraft 1.... nothing really really new... scout with worker.. harass workers.... : virtualsinner
  • You mean it seems like an RTS? : Spookyman-X
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    i think a certain popular someone has an alt. : chrisschutz
    • lol, that's what I was thinking. : OmegaRed59

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• Thanks for these. : Cowburn199
• Thankyou, and of course we'll wait, this is the internet!!! : ev0ljon
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  "You have reached the download limit for free-users. Would you like more?" -- after downloading part 1 : wwonderboy334
  • waited it out... i want this in HD dammit! : wwonderboy334
• This is the same thing as the single file you can download from the mp4 torrent, right? : lord_omega

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• It's Blizzard, they're constantly refining everything about the game. I'm sure the audio will get some TL... : carbontree
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  Dude, most of them are placeholders from SC1. You honestly didn't recognize them? : battlehardenedbeaver
  • By effects I'm talking about the visual effects like the explosions, laser beams etc. Not the sound effec... : TwiiK
• they usually edit the sounds heavily in the final stretch of games. they stick to old effects from prior... : DewFuel

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  Already? Wow. It's not even out yet and it already won Razebol's GOTY. :P : wytefang
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    I opened the door for him once and he said, "YOU MOTHER F*CKING ROCK! MAN!" : Davidget
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      ROFL...I enjoyed that. Does it ruin my sarcastic remark if I admit that I suspect that Razebol will prob... : wytefang
      • Of course I will. : razlebol

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• :( : Chris Faylor