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//: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm |OT| Like Riding a Bike
- Thread starter Corran Horn
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I'm watching the Blizz launch match but MLG is replaying Babyknight vs Nerchio and their 1080+ is soooooo crisp on my second monitor I'm watching it more. MLG vs NASL vs Dreamhack - which production has the best stream picture quality? All so great, perfect colours, ultra settings, 1080p and high bitrate = sex.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Id say Dreamhack...but maybe MLG has caught up recently, I havnt really watched them much.
Sigismundo
Member
Why would anyone drink Foster's? Or own a can of it for that matter?DDDDD
gonna look around for a collectors tomorrow
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
I think I'm gonna see if I can find a CE tomorrow/today at Best Buy or wherever and hold on to it for a bit, to see if Amazon gets more back in stock in the next week or two. Then return the B&M one if Amazon comes through (I don't need to open it right away - not in too much of a hurry to play.)
If it doesn't come back up on Amazon, I'll just write it off as an early birthday gift (mine's later in March.) Lots of other games this month too, but I can hold off on Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite until they're cheaper and I have a better PC.
If it doesn't come back up on Amazon, I'll just write it off as an early birthday gift (mine's later in March.) Lots of other games this month too, but I can hold off on Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite until they're cheaper and I have a better PC.
Seriously. Grossss
shiftplusone
Member
I put my CE order in on Amazon like last September to complete my collection of blizzard CE's. I have them all and they look great together
Plus it shipped and is bringing my other orders that I ordered today with 2 day shipping so starcraft 2 is so good it's giving free overnight to other products I ordered
Plus it shipped and is bringing my other orders that I ordered today with 2 day shipping so starcraft 2 is so good it's giving free overnight to other products I ordered
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The Everyman
i just watched it, slow, but awesome.
Yea I only drank like a 4th of it. It looked really trashy and sorta funny looking so I bought a can IDK why :-\
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
GJ blizz!
Anyone?
Not sure it's possible to play early.
GJ blizz!
WTF is going on? I have the stream muted, but the lack of anything happening other than Star Crafts shorts is not a good sign.
They didn't try to use the 'restore from replay' shit did they? Because as GOM and everyone else has proven lately, it's not like a live-from-the-event sort of feature in its current form.
Yes, it's a zerg campaign. There might be 1 or 2 side missions for terran or protoss, but thats it.
Is it possible to install the game early?
lol damn right
MrCookiepants
Member
I'm sort of a casual SC fan. I enjoyed the campaign in the last game. How does this compare?
Just start up WOL and it'll patch up to HoTS level even if you haven't bought it
njean777
Member
Will be buying then. I have WOL anyways may as well. But this makes me more happy.
Time for you to blaze the trail yourself and see.
My friend is at the Irvine launch right now. Here's a picture of the PETA people:
Got me and him a Collector's Edition with no problem. I called two GameStops today and got laughed at, so that's nice. My WoL CE is signed by the dev team, too, so that's pretty sweet.
Stream has been cool but a little choppy, and sad to see the resume from replay feature broken.
FlutterPuffs
Member
What you're saying is the complete opposite of what's the truth. Dota 2 was constructed to be competitive; while LoL is more accessible/friendly to newcomers.
I wouldn't say LoL is more or less competitive by design. they have different design philosophies, and perhaps those may have effects on the complexity of the game, but I'd say both are primarily about working as a team within the ruleset rather than one being less competitive than the other. Both can be entertaining to watch.
DotA philosophy - many many mechanics to learn, counter OP stuff with more OP stuff. You probably don't know as much as you could about the game even after 50+ hours. Extremely difficult to get into.
LoL philosophy - DotA is a good game, but we want to make a different game. It's too confusing for new players. We want to make skills clear even if you haven't read the text, so new players have an easier time figuring out what enemies are doing to them. This means eliminating skills like Rupture and hero designs like Invoker. We'll also do away with things like the denying or last hitting of towers, secret shop, long lane/short lane, couriers, high ground, turn speed, runes on the map, buyback, multiple-unit control, or captain's pick mode. Instead, we'll add brush, more static objectives, put it on a smaller map
I'd say the main thing that holds back my desire to play LoL is their business decision to lock heroes except for a rotating free-to-play pool every week. It's working for them, so I can't knock it, but I look at dota 2 and I don't have to waste time unlocking heroes, which makes the game more attractive to me, on top of the differences that I outlined above.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
"Shipping Soon"
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I bet you get one for not getting a copy. lol.
njean777
Member
Not to take this thread even more off topic but tbh in LOL you usually find a set of about 3-5 champs that you play most of the time (one for each lane/jungle). No reason to have 95 champs from the start. Pick one that you think looks cool or plays like you like and learn them.
Ah, alright. Does a new patch for HotS come out at midnight?
You select which one you want to play in the Gameplay menu I think.
I don't play either, but you could do that with the game with 95 characters from the start. Just have about 10 set off as the beginner characters and you pick which looks cool/has the gameplay description you like best, and from there you'd figure out what other characters were similar or far away from it.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
wont let me switch
people starting to complain on bnet forums. diablo 3 all over again.
Its not out yet isnt it? I think its 3am est for release right?
Chance Hale
Member
Mission or plot wise? For everyone playing now, how is the campaign? I play only for the single player really so I'm hoping HotS is on the same level as SC2's brilliant and varied campaign..
wont let me switch
people starting to complain on bnet forums. diablo 3 all over again.
Unless you're in Europe or Asia it's not out yet is it?
for real? so stupid....
like everybody on est is going to have to wait to play this until like tomorrow evening now