Updated: Video available in higher quality and in one part for your convenience. ^_^
A Happy Friday indeed, says this bit of 18 minutes of StarCraft II goodness.
Blizzard's Battle Report video series for the long-awaited RTS StarCraft II has edged watching RTS-commentated matches closer to watching a World Cup game of soccer or high-speed chess. I've never been able to really watch friends play as I could never deal with the temptation of knocking them out of the chair commendeering the mouse and keyboard to do things for myself, however the commentary sure does a great job of keeping context to all the macro and micro events transpiring.
Enjoy the uncanny experience below. P.S. wtb beta key.
StarCraft 2 Battle Report Trailer
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Bellamorte
I like.
mxc
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!
THIS LOOKS LIKE THE F@#$%ING S@#t
ITS GREAT TO BLIZZARD DO SOMETHING ELSE ASIDE FROM THAT LAME WOW CRAP, IM SO FREAKIN EXCITED FOR THIS GAME WOOHOO
Captaincel
David Kim is a champion
B1ack_Blob
gonna watch this sh][t
makessense
i think that the three races are relatively balanced so far from what ive seen. given there are some unit abilities (cough cough forcefield) that are alittle OP but one thing that needs to be kept in mind is that this is the ALPHA build of the game. the beta isnt coming for another month or so. the beta version will be improved and they will take suggestions from skilled and professional as well as amateur players to give feedback and insight on the balancing of the game. blizzard will make an amazing game that i believe may just outclass the first. but its like they said "its done when its done" i personally thing it will ship in the first quarter of next year but if it takes longer than so be it
RedRingsOfDeath
i cant wait for the Use Map Settings maps, those were awesome.
Zechs1134
Well that field is def OP but one of the main reasons that zerg isnt winning is because all they are doing are showing the new units and zerglings..thats it. Im a zerg player myself and have been playing for a long time, he didnt win cause he didnt go to mutas to hydra/lurk tech or 5hatch hydra rush. so all the real units that zerg really use to win havnt been really shown at all in these battle reports hence saying that the new units for protoss and terran are stronger than zerg's new units.
KevinJames23
@drogalyon
I agree. I'm also concerned about the Pylons ability to teleport units.
Forcefield as we've seen it is essentially the Arbiter's stasis field - only now it's an EARLY game spell - and not only that, but it's casted on GROUND which makes it extremely more powerful than stasis ever was (Not that stasis doesn't have advantages still particularly for air).
The pylon's teleporting is basically like giving recall early in the game too.
So I don't get it. Protoss users essentially have access to arbiters right from the get go of the game. What ever happened to having a tech tree that starts basic and gets more complex as the game goes on? Like I said, I think Blizzard is overcomplicated starcraft with too many abilities and units. Sure they look fancy, but they hurt gameplay.
Fritzl
@Brian
The fact that we didn't see any air units is why it seems like its hard too get air units, and everything else you've mentioned is ineffective against air units. If the zerg had better air defense, he could have easily stopped the unit warping. The mind control is strong, but its later in the tech development than the force field, while the force field is way too strong, especially for that early in the game. a few low tier units should not be able to render over a dozen units useless.
drogalyon
Yeah do take David Kim's skill into consideration when talking about balance, but I would still have to say that I think some of those Protoss powers (namely forcelfield) are just utter BS and overpowered.
bdrake09
@ Kensan_Oni
I don't think it's an issue of balance. I think it has more to do with the skills of the players. Please note that the only person who has won so far has been David Kim.
Let's hope David Kim plays as Zerg in the next Battle Report!
bleahy
@Fritzl,
Not at all the case. From the zerg, we didn't see ANY air units (Mutalisk/Corrupter).
The Infestor's mind control was way powerful against the colossi and countered them in a big way.
Baneling burrow + roach burrow are major, as well.
We didn't see Lurkers.
It was just a better represented game for Protoss over Zerg.
TroBogues
David Kim is unstoppable.
Fritzl
Zerg are way underpowered, they get not many great abilities, while the protoss get some good stuff including that forcefield which is WAY OP for that early on in the game. It seems like Zerg also a. have too hard of a time teching to air, and b. defending against air.
KevinJames23
@Jamie,
Totally agreed. I was very surprised.
thiswillallbeburned
pure EPICNESS
jamie543
i hhope the next battle report is a 3v3 with all 3 races on each team
jamie543
I know, the whole i game i thoguht the zerg were winning and then protoss won i was like wtf?
raziel_hell
Now im in the mood to play some miro map starcraft.
bleahy
Don't expect SC2 to be balanced anytime soon. It's going to take years. People still play Blizzard RTS games nowadays, so I wouldn't worry about longevity.
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