Starcraft 2 Battle Report (Specs Not Released)

[Metah]

Damn, those Nighthawk missiles look good. That was a cool match, although the announcers are annoying

[Waef]

I wish, just once, I could see a Zerg player win a match in SC2. Maybe there's a video out there somewhere, but it seems like Zerg always gets pwned in these videos.

[yayaok]

+6 against air? fuck yeah 3hat hydra
it was dope, i swear sc2 keeps looking better and better

ps: i was out for 30hrs and am drunk/tired as fuck so i was half-assing it but banelings seemed fucking rigged yo, and did they splash your own units too? wtf

[The Blackrose]

+6 against air? fuck yeah 3hat hydra
it was dope, i swear sc2 keeps looking better and better

ps: i was out for 30hrs and am drunk/tired as fuck so i was half-assing it but banelings seemed fucking rigged yo, and did they splash your own units too? wtf

That's the general rule of splash damage units (Siege Tank)

[geno]

That zerg is definitely worse than the terran, its the same two who played in the first video and the result was the same lol. If you want to see a zerg win, start watching some Korean progaming, zerg are dominating right now.

Yeah hydras are badass vs air in their build right now. They have relatively low HP though, need a lot of support for them to not just get steamrolled by marines.

As for roach aoe, I dunno, they probably do. I havent kept up with all the changes they make to unit mechanics (actually outside of watching out for this battle report, I haven't followed SC2 at all for awhile lol). If you mean that battle right by the terrans nat, you might have been seeing the reaper d8 charge bomb things. Those wrecked like 7 of the zergs roaches; If the zerg had killed the charges (which I think you can do) or dodged them, he might have ended the game right there. Roaches look really powerful right now.

[Kaylia]

Was fucking awesome. I want to play that game so badly.

[geno]

Yeah me too. Knowing SC2 and NS2 (natural selection 2) are probably going to be out or at least in beta this year, and D3 later, I'm getting too damn hyped. I really love the direction SC2 is taking, and I cant wait to get my hands on it.

[Waef]

Roaches look insanely powerful, except they can't attack air, lame.

I just keep thinking that they made all the Zerg units too weak. And I've never seen a gameplay video that supports the idea of Zerg being "cheap but many". It always seems like either side can just pump out as many units as they need to match the Zerg's army, yet the Zerg units are weaker.

tl;dr I really hope they make Zerg a LOT stronger, because so far I've only seen proof that Zerg is underpowered.

[Kaylia]

Zerg didnt look too bad in the video. He would have won this game easily if the microing wasnt perfect on the terran side.

[geno]

The Zerg did a risky build. He was 2 hatch the whole time and was way behind on worker count. All he did was pump units the whole time and keep pressuring. The Terran meanwhile was pumping units WHILE pumping workers, and teching / building more production buildings. Those nitehawks are like top tier tech lol.

I think the Zerg chose his strat because its the most suited for this type of report - Its an aggression based strategy so there is always some interesting battles for the obs. Like I said though, it was risky. If it didn't work, he would be very behind, which he was. He almost could have had it when he pushed into the natural with some better roach micro against the reapers but lost it there imo. Thats why he never really could get a big army, he just kept sending reinforcement armies to keep the pressure on and to try to delay the inevitable lol. He never got a third, he didn't really even put up more hatcheries so far as I could see.

[Pikarya]

Can someone confirm for me if its true they "darkened" a lot of the atmosphere, units, etc. due to the scrutiny they were receiving on the colors being too vibrant and colorful?

[Kaylia]

I thought it was for Diablo III, not Starcraft.


I dont really care what color my unit will be, as long the control is the same as SC1.

[Elvis]

Mass Effect, Diablo III, SC2, Aion, White Knight Chronicles (NA), FF13 and Versus.... so far away....

someone help me cryogenically freeze myself

[Pikarya]

This is the only thing I found via google.
[link deleted]

[SchuldigGER]

ppl complained about Terran buildings being bright and shiney so they darkend them and put some scratches on them.

i really enjoyed this Battlereport even tho the game it self wasnt that great. No Tanks ? No Muta harrass ? No Medivac ???? how can you play Rinz and marauders, have an starport but no medivacs ? Tanks would have solved this game in no time...

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also overlord looks shitty imho ... nothing like the old sc1 version with tentakles and stuff

[geno]

I'm pretty sure they did darken things a bit. They also made zerg units look a bit more discernible on creep (or maybe just the darkening did that). I'm fairly certain it was from the feedback they were getting, they've been doing that a lot. They changed the siege tank when people complained about that. They made Terran a bit more gritty when people complained about that. When people complained about the lack of a good macro mechanic (some reason for players to go to focus on their mineral lines every now and again) they put in some solutions for that. The actual solutions they came up with (dark pylons, mules, queen's spawn larvae) are actually very similar to community feedback ideas. They've really taken the community's opinion pretty seriously with the game so far it seems.

[geno]

Mass Effect, Diablo III, SC2, Aion, White Knight Chronicles (NA), FF13 and Versus.... so far away....

someone help me cryogenically freeze myself

http://media.southparkstudios.com/im...son10/1012.jpg

[Dezzimal]

I don't even understand korean but nothing compares to their commentary (and for fun, a behind the scenes look at the commentators, lol)

This one for the girls screaming/commentators freaking out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3IbwjeCx6U

And these two just because reach is playing tomorrow and its an amazing (and somewhat lucky) play, complete with commentators being awesome. Fast forward to 2 mins on #2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_5FsB8zCBY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPKlT5ZiZbM

[yayaok]

geno i dunno about you but starleague lately just seems kinda wack imo, im not sure whether its cause my favorite players are totally sucking or something but mmmmm yea i end up not watching the matches lol

and when i was talking about the baneling splash, i was comparing it's explosion to infested terrans... infested terrans dont dmg your own units, do they? i always thought they were like lurker/archon splash... splash opponents and safe for your own bros. although... i havnt played zerg for like 8 months and more so, i never ever use queens so maybe iuno

ps: omfg the reach vs iloveoov match, i was eating at the cafeteria at school when that shit was on lol when that shit happened and the vultures died like 60 guys stood up from their seats and started going OOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH lmao was the funniest shit ever

[geno]

I loved the OSL final, and the MSL final wasn't too bad imo. I like Lux and Jaedong though, it was good to see them win. Winner's league was obviously very awesome for me as a CJ fan lolz.

Since those the excitement has admittedly kinda dropped a bit. Now I only really watch proleague or qualifiers if I'm bored (quite often considering the time they come on here), or if I know some game is going on that I want to watch (FBH @ Savior coming up!).

You should get back into it for the ACE matches at least though. Their team is so fucking sick, its like the ultimate dream team, except a couple years too late lol. I think there is actually a pretty good chance they won't be the worst team this season (MBC is so terrible lately)