Starcraft 2 Battle Report (Specs Not Released)

[geno]

Interesting games yes, but any map that is so unbalanced against one or two races is a no-go in my book. I hate maps you ONLY see TvT on... or PvP, or ZvZ. While it is interesting, I like seeing variances. There was that one map that forced protoss to go a 1 base build, not forge fast expand, which was really interesting to see players try to play old school (stork/bisu)

Well, Monty Hall isn't an example of like a crazy imbalanced map. With the Korean scene especially, just a hint of imbalance is all it takes for many of the coaches to send only that race out for the rest of the season. It's unfortunate, but it makes a lot of sense for them when they are required to send out 1 of each race, or want to save their best players for sniping. It wasn't perfectly balanced, but the better, smarter player could and often did win on it, which made it a fine map in my book.

[Minions]

Well, Monty Hall isn't an example of like a crazy imbalanced map. With the Korean scene especially, just a hint of imbalance is all it takes for many of the coaches to send only that race out for the rest of the season. It's unfortunate, but it makes a lot of sense for them when they are required to send out 1 of each race, or want to save their best players for sniping. It wasn't perfectly balanced, but the better, smarter player could and often did win on it, which made it a fine map in my book.

TLPD - Map Information - Monty Hall
Race Stats (non-mirrors):
TvZ: 17-11 (60.7%) [ Games ]
ZvP: 5-11 (31.3%) [ Games ]
PvT: 33-28 (54.1%) [ Games ]

Mirrors: 23 TvT | 4 ZvZ | 27 PvP

zerg are fucked on that map honestly. I just don't like it in general.

[geno]

TLPD - Map Information - Monty Hall
Race Stats (non-mirrors):
TvZ: 17-11 (60.7%) [ Games ]
ZvP: 5-11 (31.3%) [ Games ]
PvT: 33-28 (54.1%) [ Games ]

Mirrors: 23 TvT | 4 ZvZ | 27 PvP

zerg are fucked on that map honestly. I just don't like it in general.

I still think your standards are a little too high and you are a little too reliant on a quick look at the TLPD map stats. Compare that to, say, Battle Royal, Raid Assault 2, and others like them that quickly became mirror maps only. Zergs didn't do well on Monty Hall, that is true, but they still got sent out 52 times over the course of the original map (not even counting Monty Hall SE). The coaches certainly preferred sending Terrans and Protoss, but not to the extent that they felt the map unwinnable by Zerg. Not even close. And thats in an era where Zerg were at the lowest in a long time, after Savior's fall and just before Jaedong's rise. Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that its not as imbalanced as it looks or you remember. And it would often produce some pretty exciting and creative games; much more fun to watch than Python the vast majority of time.

[Sonomaa]

my day just got considerably less productive

http://www.bluegartr.com/forum/attac...1&d=1246847333

[Maguspk]

What kind of windower is that? I've always wanted something like that but whenever I download something like it they usually bug out or glitch the graphics.

[Sonomaa]

Chaoslauncher for 1.16.1

works perfect, last 2 hours have been completely gone to SC goodness

[GRT]

^you know, i never noticed how time consuming blizzard's games were back in college....

[Ramor]

oh god i need starcraft II now, it's the only thing that can console me after BM's death D':

[Cheerios]

Chaoslauncher for 1.16.1

works perfect, last 2 hours have been completely gone to SC goodness

Does it keep the cursor inside the game window? I need something like that for both Starcraft and Warcraft 3. Just WC3 if this thing does just that!

[Dezzimal]

Yes it does do that, but you can turn it off if you wish.

[geno]

Screw windowed mode, go to the other side of things and play in high-res!

Resolution Expander 5.1.zip
Custom Resolution hack

[Maguspk]

Does Blizzard ban people still? I'd love to use that but it screams banworthy.

[Ramor]

Does it support 1920x1080? if it does i'm going to try it on my HDTV later and just jizz myself constantly for the next 8 hours

[geno]

Its probably ban-worthy, and I would think it would give you an unfair advantage online. Great for play with friends though, and ridiculously good for watching progamer replays. I'm not sure how high res it supports, but just a couple notch increases makes a huge difference and makes the game a different experience.

Its a bit of a trade off of course, you may be able to see your whole base on the screen, but microing individual units certainly can become more difficult.

[Dezzimal]

They don't ban for it on battle net though that could be subject to change, warden is implemented in starcraft currently but I think blizzard understands the necessity for a windower this day and age and lets it slide.

[Ramor]

I think Blizzard's probably just so fucking psyched that this many people still play SC on B.net

[Ramor]

Third one is out, I could just be really slow and not have noticed it coming out though, but I thought there was some really cool micro in this one from both sides throughout the entire thing, especially the force fields throughout the game:
YouTube - Starcraft 2 Battle Report 3 in HD (1/2)
YouTube - Starcraft 2 Battle Report 3 in HD (2/2)

[Haiko]

you were right..page 3
still no news on the release date? I hope we get this before 2010

[Ramor]

hmm coulda sworn i read through all the pages >.>

anyway, i've heard december 2009 or early 2010, i'm willing to wait as long as it's finished when it's released (though not 2011, that's tooooo long)

[geno]

Check the first post I updated when the third Battle report was leaked and then again when it was released officially. Also, yeah, page 3 lol.

They have said late 2009 will be release for SC2, but they've also said they want the beta to last 4-6 months. Factoring in some polish time after the beta's over, they are already cutting it pretty close if they don't begin the beta pretty soon. I still think beta is imminent though, within the next couple weeks and most likely prior to Blizzcon.