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[Wunder]

Yesterday I learned that I was not the only one mainly interested in the SP campaign.

Now I would like to hear how the campaign stacks up?

Story aside, how is the gameplay? Improved?

Missions are pretty fun/varied - not sure how much you've read about HOTS but it has a large focus on Kerrigan and as such she's in almost every mission. The unit upgrades are a bit weird, in my opinion. Some choices are really cool like how they give you a small mission to test out the new abilities but some other choices are questionable like

Spoiler

Why can't I upgrade my infestor or Aberration at all?

It's a bit bizarre and leaves a weird taste in my mouth but it's still quite enjoyable overall.

 

[MJLord]

Right guys, I suck. I've lost all of my 3 games in Bronze league. Can anyone link me to some material that can help guide me in the right direction? I play Terran. Thanks in advance!

 

[Narag]

The campaign supposedly has a lot of variety and also feels different than WoL and gets better after the first few missions (which are more tutorial-like).

Yeah, the first missions were very much a tutorial. I was sort of thankful though as it gave me a better grasp on Zerg stuff as I'd never really been able to grasp it before.

 

[Keikaku]

Good too know considering my complete lack of micro skills.

Check out my edit on the previous page. The also added unranked ladder and more stuff for the arcade.

 

[EviLore]

Try to have a couple gigs free on your harddrive. I remember I had a similar issue that was space related.

I uninstalled and I'm doing a full install from scratch from the downloader now. Not the most efficient way to go about things but whatever.

 

[fanboi]

I uninstalled and I'm doing a full install from scratch from the downloader now. Not the most efficient way to go about things but whatever.

Be prepared to get errors if you have the DVD in the drive...

 

[EviLore]

DVD? :lol

 

[fanboi]

DVD? :lol

In WoL, atleast for me, if I had the DVD in the DVD drive while installing via the downloader I would 7/10 times get error and the whole installation crasched.

 

[profit]

Right guys, I suck. I've lost all of my 3 games in Bronze league. Can anyone link me to some material that can help guide me in the right direction? I play Terran. Thanks in advance!

FilterSC Bronze to masters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SES1IAGlwDU

Apollo's Terran Tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH77tKJAQHY

And ask as many questions as you want in here, I, and most other SC2 players will be happy to help you improve your game!

 

[Tacitus_]

Now nothing happens when I load the game client. Updater launches, it closes and I get a "checking for updates" window, then that closes and nothing. Nice work!

The Blizz launcher has been really buggy lately. Check if you got an invisible window via task manager. Sometimes the launcher glitches, sometimes it's the updater and sometimes it's the client itself.

 

[jersoc]

well, i'm enjoying the missions a lot more so far. seeing how i love playing the zerg this expansion has been great fun. finished my first planet. got the first zergling and roach upgrades. really like how those are done.

there's a lot of nice changes they have done since wol.

 

[StayDead]

Right guys, I suck. I've lost all of my 3 games in Bronze league. Can anyone link me to some material that can help guide me in the right direction? I play Terran. Thanks in advance!

Have you tried the training mode?

Also look at teamliquid.net there's a bunch of guides there and also day9.tv does a series entirely based around helping people become better. Look at the ones where he's talking about Terran. ^^

 

[Sibylus]

Playing Starcraft 1's campaign leading up to WoL and HoTS (via a user remake in SC2), and jesus christ. Desperate Alliance (survive in Mar Sara for a half hour) kicked my butt up and down the stairs a couple times before I managed to hold off the onslaught. Suffice to say I have a lot of work to do on my positioning, way too many Medics got clobbered because they were standing in the front.

Some graphical rough edges here and there, but other than that I'm pretty pleased with how it all looks and runs.

Guys!

You remember War Hound?!


hahaha.

It was a piece of shit. Rest in hell.

 

[Cpt.Underpants]

What's the verdict in HoTS campaign plot? Good? or Bad?

No spoilers

 

[duckroll]

I uninstalled and I'm doing a full install from scratch from the downloader now. Not the most efficient way to go about things but whatever.

They really kinda fucked up how the expansion "works" for normal people. I think their brains are trapped in WoW-land so this actually feels more like how you would distribute a MMO instead. There is no difference between WoL or HotS as far as install directories and data goes. You just need to activate the HotS key on your B.net account, and then download the client and do a full install or something. There doesn't seem to be a way to install just an "update" or whatever.

Maybe they expected everyone to have uninstalled SC2 by now. :lol

What's the verdict in HoTS campaign plot? Good? or Bad?

No spoilers

Played 3 missions yesterday, plot is pretty bad. It's like a Saturday Morning Cartoon continuation of WoL (so at least its consistent in tone!), with bullshit excuses to make it go the way they need it to go for a full Zerg campaign.

 

[Keikaku]

What's the verdict in HoTS campaign plot? Good? or Bad?

No spoilers

Actual mission mechanics are great and they have spent a lot of time on making it feel friendlier.

The plot is less cheesy than WoL in my opinion but it still doesn't take itself too seriously.

 

[duckroll]

Actual mission mechanics are great and they have spent a lot of time on making it feel friendlier.

The plot is less cheesy than WoL in my opinion but it still doesn't take itself too seriously.

"Like riding a bike."

:lol

 

[profit]

"Like riding a bike."

:lol

Oh god; this thing!

 

[Keikaku]

"Like riding a bike."

:lol

I did say "less cheesy"! I'm still waiting for a "It's time to kick this revolution into overdrive!" moment

 

[profit]

I did say "less cheesy"! I'm still waiting for a "It's time to kick this revolution into overdrive!" moment

Most likely: "It's time to kick this #vengeance into overdrive!"

 

[EviLore]

The writing is so, so terrible.

 

[raphier]

ending changes:

Spoiler

Oh god no. They didn't even bother to change the ending How lazy can you get

 

[remz]

The first few missions is some of the cheesiest, lamest, most awful cutscenes, in terms of writing, that I've seen like ever. It's laughable

 

[Keikaku]

Well I just got to the

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jungle planet Zeras (sp?)

and what the fuck is this shit.

Off to bed but I'll see if I can wrap up the campaign tomorrow.

 

[Tacitus_]

They really kinda fucked up how the expansion "works" for normal people. I think their brains are trapped in WoW-land so this actually feels more like how you would distribute a MMO instead. There is no difference between WoL or HotS as far as install directories and data goes. You just need to activate the HotS key on your B.net account, and then download the client and do a full install or something. There doesn't seem to be a way to install just an "update" or whatever.

Maybe they expected everyone to have uninstalled SC2 by now. :lol.

Hm? I just ran the updater and it patched my client to HotS from 2.0

 

[Keikaku]

The first few missions is some of the cheesiest, lamest, most awful cutscenes, in terms of writing, that I've seen like ever. It's laughable

Looks like someone didn't play Gears of War. They're bad but there are 10s of games that are worse.

My main problem with the writing is the complete shift away from the darker themes of SC and SC:BW. Everything is so campy/cheesy now.

 

[profit]

Story spoiler:

Spoiler

Oh god no. They didn't even bother to change the ending How lazy can you get

I personally dont care;

Spoiler

but a few people who who had that ending spoiled might not want to know ahead if they changed it or not

 

[Cpt.Underpants]

Played 3 missions yesterday, plot is pretty bad. It's like a Saturday Morning Cartoon continuation of WoL (so at least its consistent in tone!), with bullshit excuses to make it go the way they need it to go for a full Zerg campaign.

Actual mission mechanics are great and they have spent a lot of time on making it feel friendlier.

The plot is less cheesy than WoL in my opinion but it still doesn't take itself too seriously.

God damn it Metzen

 

[water1111]

DVD? :lol

whats a DVD?

 

[Moff]

Story is good, but they way its presented and how the dialog is written is abysmal.
one of my favourite cutscenes of all time is the outro of BW. when DeGaulle puts on his favourite music and writes his good bye letter to his wife. what an amazing idea.

today, with SC2's sandarts, which is written for the michael bay audience, I dont see something happen like that at all, and thats really sad. blizzard had once amazing cutscenes, not just because they usually looked the best. but with diablo 3 and starcraft 2, blizzard have sadly fallen down to the rest of the industry.

 

[Ikael]

Well I just got to the

Spoiler

jungle planet Zeras (sp?)

and what the fuck is this shit.

That shit is Metzen writting. Any fanfiction writter could do better plot archs and dialogues. I am really disgusted on the downward spiral of shittiness regarding Starcraft's plot. WoL was the only game whose plot not only was unable to advance one bit, but it actually went backwards. Disgraceful, specially if you take into account the great job that they did with Broodwar's plot.

 

[Tacitus_]

God damn it Metzen

The asspulls on the jungleplanet are worse. Then there is the DBZ style beam-o-war battle in one of the later missions.

 

[Yoshichan]

Straight up the best story I've ever experienced.

The best.

 

[MrKnives]

The writing is so, so terrible.

Unfortunately writing is not their strongest suits anymore. Is the missions itself as good as in WoL? Really liked playing them.

Also where can I get this the cheapest? I just want a key.

 

[profit]

Straight up the best story I've ever experienced.

The best.

Could someone please put Yoshi to bed? I'm betting he's been up all night and you know how he gets when he's tired....

 

[Robertto]

Right guys, I suck. I've lost all of my 3 games in Bronze league. Can anyone link me to some material that can help guide me in the right direction? I play Terran. Thanks in advance!

the first thing you need to grasp is the concept that time is actually the most important resource. So always be building workers + baracks/units at all times. and any down-time not building units/workers with money left in your bank is an inefficiency in your play. so ALWAYS BE DOING SOMETHING even if its just marines.

i think that mind set is the most important building block to start with. if you have an efficient build of a basic unit composition you should be fine in bronze

 

[Dennis]

Straight up the best story I've ever experienced.

The best.

Go to bed Yoshi. You are tired.

 

[Yoshichan]

Could someone please put Yoshi to bed? I'm betting he's been up all night and you know how he gets when he's tired....

Go to bed Yoshi. You are tired.

Maybe you two are right... Okay, I'll get to it soon!

 

[V_Arnold]

Straight up the best story I've ever experienced.

The best.

Yoshi, you are at the upwards phase of your sinus function...you know what is coming, right?

Right?

 

[Yoshichan]

Yoshi, you are at the upwards phase of your sinus function...you know what is coming, right?

Right?

Epic rage ._.? Nah man, as long as I think for a second or two before posting, all is gonna be well :3!

 

[Metal Gear?!]

How do you recover a Battle.net account that's been stolen and name changed?

My friend already tried to recover his account, with his email, but to recover your pass you need your name, and it seems that was changed.

Or is he doing something wrong? Can it be recovered?

 

[Lime]

ending changes:

Spoiler

Oh god no. They didn't even bother to change the ending How lazy can you get

and it was so fucking terrible when it leaked. Did no one at Blizzard look at or read the comments/reactions to how fucking atrocious the ending was?

 

[Bisnic]

Are the CG cutscenes good at least? Assuming there is more than the one we've seen a month ago.

 

[Mr Swine]

Has nobody uploaded the carbotanimations intro of Hots? Wanna show my sister it, she loves the small and cute zerglings :3

 

[Yoshichan]

Has nobody uploaded the carbotanimations intro of Hots? Wanna show my sister it, she loves the small and cute zerglings :3

He'll probably put it up on his channel today :3

 

[Mr Swine]

He'll probably put it up on his channel today :3

Oh I really hope so! :3

 

[HoodWinked]

the writing in the small interaction hub is good but the overall plot is a mess.

sc2 is going for a bit of that Verhoeven feel so not sure what people are expecting for the writing it delivers pretty well on that extent. one of the missions involving matt i thought was particularly strong.

 

[duckroll]

After 4 missions I feel the mission design so far is definitely inferior to WoL. I really hope that changes soon. I mean they still feel designed to be very different from MP, but it's been a literal cakewalk so far, with the gimmicks basically working perfectly to the player's advantage. It feels less like playing a strategy or action game, and more like playing Join the Dots. Everything is really automated, and it feels like one tutorial mission after another.

Or maybe I remember WoL being better than it was? I hope not!

 

[EscapingJail]

I really like the singleplayer so far.

Kerrigan doesn't give a fuck.

But it probably helps that I'm playing through brutal first so these missions arent a complete cake walk. I mean they are still easy but at least I have to think a bit.

 

[Cpt.Underpants]

ending changes:

Spoiler

Oh god no. They didn't even bother to change the ending How lazy can you get

Oh boy, saw the footage when It got leaked 2-3 years ago. If there's a gaming equivalent to the razzies awards, Metzen should take truckloads of the "awards".

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK