Starcraft 2 Battle Report (Specs Not Released)

[SchuldigGER]

Terran is OP with the sensor tower. Can see incoming units on 3/4th of the map

I got to play SC2 for a good 10 hours at Blizzcon due to hookups, shits legit, but sort of easy mode if you are used to high level play in SC

i had the chance to play S2 a few times now, 3 days in a row at Blizzard Regional Finals in Cologne(LAN mode vs others players) and 2 times at Gamescom (skirmish) also im a decent ranked ICCUP player and i dont feel the game is in easy mode at all. Theres just so much more stuff to worry about that wasnt in SC1 like eco/makro mechanics that keep you busy and cliffwalking units invading your base over and over.
i usualy play at about 90-120 apm depending on matchups and at SC2 i had about the same APM just a little lower overall because i wasnt used to new hotkeys/names/abillitys.

About the BR#4, i thought it was pretty entertaining but both the protoss and the terran went for strange unit composition when other units seemed so much more viable.

Also i still dont like the look of Terrans buildings. theres just way to much color and to less metal look, fuck the starport looks like crashed down red highheel in that BR.

also about the reaver thing, im not 100% sure about that since im not a protoss player but i think theres no shuttle in SC2 which would make reavers mostly obsolete because you need the shuttle micro for reavers to be effective.

[Ramor]

weird, i'm not sure how i'm starting to feel about protoss anymore without the classic reaver drops and DTs taking forever to tech to

but you're right, some weird unit composition on both parts in that battle report. there was that first wave of like 10 HTs then didn't see any more of them even though they were clearly doing their job really effectively. Although whatever the Terran player had for comp near the end seemed near perfect just based on what the toss player had, Thors and Marauders was it?

Whatever BR with the toss player using those impromptu shield things while microing was probably the most effective use I've seen of the new toss abilities thus far, can't wait for more BR and more sc2!

[Meian]

List of StarCraft II units - StarCraft Wiki - StarCraft and StarCraft II units, races, features and news

How reliable is this site? It shows what was shown before and what was taken out over time.

It mentions there being no Reavers and Thor's siege mode from that old Terran video was taken out (where it obliterated that CC and several supply depots) and got a new move instead for one unit.

As for Psi Storm it says it does 80 damage in small packets over time.

[SchuldigGER]

List of StarCraft II units - StarCraft Wiki - StarCraft and StarCraft II units, races, features and news

How reliable is this site? It shows what was shown before and what was taken out over time.

It mentions there being no Reavers and Thor's siege mode from that old Terran video was taken out (where it obliterated that CC and several supply depots) and got a new move instead for one unit.

As for Psi Storm it says it does 80 damage in small packets over time.

The informations are reliable atleast, for the last build that was open to the public.
The Thors attack focuses on one unit but it is in fact AoE, like you focus it on one Muta of a bunch and that particular Muta will be stunned while the others can still roam around.
if the selected unit dies the attack instantly ends but the thor can move until the 5-6 sec the attack would normally take end.

[Rulke]

I somehow missed the release of Battle Report 4 Great game and all, but fuck David Kim, that fool is 4/4 now. Give someone else a chance. Holy shit. Also, the terran medvac ship seems cheap as hell esp with that drop off/heal ghost strategy. Boo. It was nice to see a higher tech game this time.

[Sonomaa]

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Processor: Intel Pentium IV 1.3GHz, AMD XP 1500+
Operating System: Windows XP / XP64 (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista / Vista64 (service Pack 1), Windows 7 Home Premium
Memory: (Windows XP) 512mb, (Windows Vista) 1024mb, (Windows 7) 1024mb
Video Card: 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting with 32 MB VRAM such as an ATI Radeon 7200 or NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or better
Hard Drive Space: 15GB
DirectX: DirectX9.0c
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Processor: Intel Pentium D, AMD 64 X2
Operating System: Windows XP / XP64 (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista / Vista64 (service Pack 1), Windows 7 Home Premium
Memory: (Windows XP) 1024mb, (Windows Vista) 2048mb, (Windows 7) 2048mb
Video Card: 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability with 128 MB VRAM such as an ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT class card or better
Hard Drive Space: 15GB
DirectX: DirectX9.0c






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yeah, my old computer will still play starcraft 2

[Rulke]

Its cool blizzard makes a game for even the "poor man's" computer. I think a lot of people will easily be able to play with higher/max settings though.

[GRT]

booo i thought it was a new battle report

i wonder if this means the beta is gonna start "soon"

[Ramor]

I'm so excited now that I know I won't need new computer parts, and if I upgrade it'll just make everything look purdier

[LAGUNA]

Sorry to burst your bubbles

These system requirements are not accurate – the page went up with some placeholder information. We will have more information about beta system requirements once the beta starts. We’d appreciate it if you could amend the story and/or pull the listed numbers.

Thanks, and please feel free to contact me in the future for fact checking before posting StarCraft II stories.

[Ramor]

/depressed

edit: out of curiosity, who's everyone planning on playing?

i for one am going to stick to protoss, but the terran look like they're way more fun than they were in SC1 (to me) so I may give them a shot

[Minions]

I don't think the specs will be that high regardless, but still we wait. Was hoping this meant the beta was actually coming

[Meian]

/depressed

edit: out of curiosity, who's everyone planning on playing?

i for one am going to stick to protoss, but the terran look like they're way more fun than they were in SC1 (to me) so I may give them a shot

Pure Terran as I am mediocre at the original already, have to stick to one

[Rulke]

Protoss. All day and all night! Well, I do enjoy playing terrans from time to time.

[Misterjingles]

Zerg kekekekekeke

[Sonomaa]

fail kotaku is fial

UPDATE: Blizzard just called to let us know that the system specs released on the page were not the system specs for the StarCraft II beta test. They are still trying to track down how the page appeared on the company's support site, suspecting that someone pasted specs from World of Warcraft into a new article. The link below is now dead, and Blizzard has a lot of phone calls to make.
Blizzard informed us that the real specs will most likely be released via a FAQ or the support site once the beta dates are announced.
Incidentally, Blizzard's Bob Colayco sounds an awful lot like a bill collector, and this update nearly didn't happen.

to be fair the support site says this was right, even though it was RONG

[Pharaun]

When I first saw those specs I was :D then I saw the retraction and was

Anyway, gonna be playing Terran main with some Protoss thrown in for fun. I could never play well as the Zerg, even after watching a lot of the Korean Pros like Jaedong and July, so I'm not even gonna bother with them this time around.

[Kaelen]

Terran.

Also, fuck the couch of whoever posted the WoW specs.

[Nitsuki]

Definitely going Protoss, they've been my boys since day 1, never gonna leave the side of Aiur.

[LAGUNA]

After dabbling around a bit at blizzcon, im staying with zerg