Topic: Starcraft II (Read 33191 times)

Esperath · « **Reply #360 on:** September 15, 2012, 01:47:42 AM »

My only problem with the current oracle design is that they were trying to step away from Protoss deathball play by giving them more harass options. If anything, this new Phase shield is going to encourage deathball play by negating most anti-deathball abilities. Yeah, it still has the mineral harass ability, but particularly late game, it just strikes me as a flying sentry.

Esperath · « **Reply #361 on:** October 06, 2012, 12:38:26 PM »

Starcraft 2 on sale for 10bux.

EDIT:
[13:44] <Cait> "The following item: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty for PC has limited inventory. We've adjusted the quantity below to reflect the number we have available."
[13:44] <Cait> 0 in cart.

Esperath · « **Reply #362 on:** October 09, 2012, 11:29:08 PM »

Old dude rages hard. It's...about the level of play I'd expect from someone that age, but apparently he plays all the time and is still in low silver league.

Old Guy Rages in Starcraft

Esperath · « **Reply #363 on:** October 17, 2012, 03:00:40 AM »

TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DAMAGE

Esperath · « **Reply #364 on:** November 01, 2012, 01:32:51 PM »

Büge · « **Reply #365 on:** November 01, 2012, 02:27:22 PM »

Can you blow them up, at least?

Esperath · « **Reply #366 on:** November 01, 2012, 02:53:37 PM »

Yeah, they exist to prevent Protoss from building a pylon wall at the lower base of the enemy's ramp. It's a popular way to deny Zerg expansions; most competitive maps have a neutral, lowered supply depot that prevents that from happening, but can eventually be destroyed. Blizzard decided to make a Blizzard-themed (ie: rocks) equivalent for the new expansion maps.

Friday · « **Reply #367 on:** November 01, 2012, 03:04:06 PM »

The problem is, in zerg v protoss, originally, you could block a ramp with only two pylons and then back it with cannons and deny/delay the zerg expo. Since Zerg are so reliant on getting a fast expo, there was really no reason not to do this every single game. You would always come out ahead as the toss player.

They changed it so it took 3 pylons to block a ramp in the hopes it would discourage this tactic, but the extra 100 mineral cost wasn't enough of a deterrent. In the end, you still come out farther ahead than the extra 100 minerals sets you back. So they added in the lowered supply depot for actual tournament maps so that toss couldn't do this.

Esperath · « **Reply #368 on:** November 04, 2012, 11:38:19 AM »

unimpressed flash is unimpressed

Esperath · « **Reply #369 on:** November 04, 2012, 02:39:27 PM »

god is dead :(

Esperath · « **Reply #370 on:** November 12, 2012, 05:41:48 PM »

So it looks like everyone with a WoL account should have access to the Heart of the Swarm beta now. You may want to log into battle.net and check!

EDIT: Looks like everyone can download the client, but people in this last wave are unable to login atm. So either it's a Blizzard snafu or HotS is about to go open beta, but not quite yet.

EDIT2: AAAAAaaand it's a bug :(

https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS/status/268168593542373377

Esperath · « **Reply #371 on:** November 13, 2012, 12:58:44 PM »

Heart of the Swarm released March 12, get a beta key if you pre-order from Amazon.

40 of the American dollars

A² · « **Reply #372 on:** November 13, 2012, 02:11:08 PM »

Where's the Collector's Edition.

Esperath · « **Reply #373 on:** November 13, 2012, 02:27:58 PM »

~~Looks like collector's edition is only being sold at bricks-and-mortar locations.~~ It's on Amazon now

Digital deluxe edition is available at blizzard store.

Esperath · « **Reply #374 on:** November 22, 2012, 10:18:42 PM »

Does anyone else want to play beta?

Also, SC2 is 20bux this week.

Esperath · « **Reply #375 on:** December 01, 2012, 05:23:24 PM »

If people are looking for a good series to watch, games 2&3 of DRG v. Bomber are pretty fantastic. Game 1 starts at 2h15m if you want to see that too.

Esperath · « **Reply #376 on:** December 06, 2012, 02:13:32 AM »

Holy poop, this beta patch is very ambitious. Pretty significant interface changes, too.

In other news, Jaedong joins Evil Geniuses.

Esperath · « **Reply #377 on:** December 09, 2012, 07:25:26 PM »

hello, this is dog

NASL Season 4 - Chance the Casting eSports Puppy

Esperath · « **Reply #378 on:** December 13, 2012, 04:19:59 AM »

Tastosis on Byun's Puppy

Esperath · « **Reply #379 on:** January 22, 2013, 12:42:27 AM »

StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Opening Cinematic

Wilhelm scream? really?

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