StarCraft II

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

StarCraft II

rathalos150 · Monster Hunter

It's gonna be a while until I can get hold of a copy of SC2. Until then I can always play Sins of a solar empire.

1xTrEmE · its me .. i'm back

I can't believe they removed the LAN play option on this guys?

I don't have the bandwidth to have everyone on my LAN connect to battlenet (free or not)

WarCraft used to be free on battlenet also, lets hope their not going there like they eventually did with WOW.

With out the LAN feature as much as i loved the first game and Blizzard games i'm going to personally pass unless they patch it and release a fix for it. (There was a huge petition on this, it seems they cut off their own noses to spite their faces)

What about all the peeps in rural areas, what about all the peeps on dial up, what about those with no connection, what was Blizzard thinking ..

They used the excuse of piracy but I'm personally not buying that one, its more about bad decisions with in company leadership and greed so that they can possibly eventually commercialize or charge a subscription like they eventually realized the profitability WOW. (At least their keeping it as an option this way with StarCraft II now as well - not sure if they will eventually or not or perhaps on StarCraft III) If it were really an issue of loss prevention they could do like Ascaron did with Sacred 2. (Its a very reliable 1 time activation system, like some O/S have)

Oh well have fun for me LPS / guys .. smile

rathalos150 · Monster Hunter

Perhaps they will include a LAN option in an update. If enough people demand it, It just might happen.

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

I doubt very much that there will be an official LAN patch. The alterior motive to remove LAN play would be to stop piracy, at least in the multiplayer side of things, IMO!

Thrallala · Level Designer

A friend gave me a retail copy of Starcraft 2, had some fun with it in LAN and then moved on to Campaign. Awesome game, unlike most single player rts campaigns this one is actually quite fun!

And the story is cool ofc :). Can't wait for expansions!

@ 1xtreme, it does suck that there's no LAN. But imo just the singleplayer part of the game is worth the money it costs. Also, do people still use dial up? :P

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Add me to friends @ Starcraft 2, jonatan.czapnik@gmail.com

-- Edited by Thrallala on Wednesday 4th of August 2010 03:10:38 AM

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

I finished the campaign last night and it was probably the best RTS campaign I've played in any game!

You are right in that the game is worth the money for the campaign alone!

Watch out for the last mission in the campaign..it's a ripe b1tch!

Bane the Zergling · crocodile dundee

Kinda not happy about the original units not being in online mode or versus AI games only found in campaign mode.

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Which units are they. I was told by a M8 that there online mode is stripepd down but I seemed to have most(if not all) things in VersusAI. aww

My only issue with the game is that the Galaxy editor looks mighty mighty tempting. I was playing around with it the other night and was able to get a quik working map up and running without the wiki that seems to be non existant atm. I'm trying to avoid the editor as I know that I'll be playing with it when I should be back in the UT3 editor. ashamed

Thrallala · Level Designer

I haven't played much multiplayer games yet, but I know for fact that Terran Medics are not available in Multiplayer and rightly so! (Overpowered!!!)

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Thinking about it I haven't seen medics in the VersusAI mode. They have the flying medivac but I don't recall seeing the medics.

Bane the Zergling · crocodile dundee

Ok missing units Highlighted mean important should have stayed in the game.

Terran (Vulture, Medic, Goliath, Science vessel, Firebat and Wraith).

Zerg (Defiler, Lurker, Scourge, Devourer and Guardian). smile

Protoss (Arbiter, Corsair, Dragoon, Scout, Reaver, Shuttle.

Thrallala · Level Designer

Pff, medics are waaaay OP. I could complete most singleplayer missions on hard with like 30 units (50% medics) :P

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

I've been playing with the Galaxy Editor for the last week, learning on the fly! As expected I've gone straight for the Space assets and have been working on a smallish 4 player map! biggrin

I've gone for a symetrical space platform map to keep things simple!
Here's two screenies!

One half of the map:

Closer view of one of the player starting areas(including a map layout preview-bottom corner):

The editor seems OK enough. Some things were annoying until I worked out how to do it...like rotating objects...

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

My map is now available via the ingame menu. Just check the battle.net maps and look for my name or "Stable Orbit".

Bane the Zergling · crocodile dundee

Nice map m8 I tryed the map editor few times but may need help with pathing **** etc.

Has anyone tryed a baneling rush very nice.... wink

Bloody sweet as.

-- Edited by Bane the Zergling on Saturday 14th of August 2010 06:16:08 AM

Achernar · Amateur UT mapper

Has anyone seen this? Free Play This Weekend

I can't afford the 7GB download but might be able to get it off a friend. I guess its the old drug dealers hook [free trial] to get you addicted.