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Topic: StarCraft II (Read 293811 times)
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Luxor
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Up and running annndd....no support for my resolution it looks like. Have to play it like everyone else on one monitor. Apparently playing it on anything wider than 1920*1200 is cheating or something according to a blue forum post. I fail to see how that works in single player It works at 2560 x 1440 and I would assume it works at 2560 x 1600 too. It doesn't work at less than 1024 x 720. Yeah but it doesnt work at 5760*1200 as that would make me some sort of mustache-twirling uber cheat. I assume it's going to work at most 16:9 and 16:10 resolutions
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Paelos
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Skimmed thread. I gather the plot sucks but the game is passable. Buy?
I got it for free, so my view is skewed. Still, if you like multiplayer at all, cinematics with good flavor, cool music, good options, achievements, shitton of polish, yadda yadda. Buy it. If you are looking for a whole bunch of changes in the gameplay, that ain't there. It's faster and prettier.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Rasix
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I am the harbinger of your doom!
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Skimmed thread. I gather the plot sucks but the game is passable. Buy?
It's well done. Single player RTS is a bit lame, but it's a good diversion before I go crazy on the multiplayer. I'll let all of the psychos grind out their placement matches first. I don't care where I get placed though, really. Which is good, since this single player part is teaching me all of the wrong hotkeys.
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-Rasix
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schpain
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Forgiving the immersion breakers I'm loving the feel of the campaign. About 15 missions in by now and the story has opened up nicely. The extra units and map effects make me excited because the community will create some amazing content (omg dota 2.0)
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*Should be working*
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Ratman_tf
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I don't know if constantly being shut in a mech suit could be called the least offensive part of his background. He would have to smell like old shrimp stuffed with bad cheese.
Rash and hygeine issues. The dude would probably get some kind of infection and be sick all the time. Maybe the crotch comes off so he can shit, and they just hose his ass down once a week.
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"What I'm saying is you should make friends with a few catasses, they smell funny but they're very helpful." -Calantus makes the best of a smelly situation.
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tmp
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POW! Right in the Kisser!
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Maybe they attach hose to top of the suit once a week and rinse the insides down or something. On the other hand, who is to say the other Terrans bathe any more often
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K9
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Does anyone know if the game passes are region-locked? Skimmed thread. I gather the plot sucks but the game is passable. Buy?
The single player is good fun, and there's more than just the campaign. I'm satisfied with it, and like Rasix I'm just letting BNet settle down a bit before I place and start doing multiplayer.
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I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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I expect to not bother with MP. I will pick it up eventually.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Wolf
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Done, there are some pretty cool missions down the road. Did it all on normal, I'll go back now to get the kerrigan portrait (all on brutal). Took me about, I don't know - 12-13 hours, I was rushing through it anyway. Story was cool to me, but unless you were 14 when the original starcraft came out and you have some serious nostalgia going on don't get it for the story :)
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As a matter of fact I swallowed one of these about two hours ago and the explanation is that it is, in fact, my hand.
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kildorn
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Mission achievements are addicting. Damnit. I just last night thought of a way to get the red lobster one in a really messy manner.
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bhodikhan
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It runs at 2560 x 1600. Even with a GTX-295 I had to drop the settings to medium to get the screen to pan smoothly. But it still ooks good.
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Wolf
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god. Brutal is... well... brutal :) Almost failed the third mission
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As a matter of fact I swallowed one of these about two hours ago and the explanation is that it is, in fact, my hand.
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bhodi
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No lie.
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Got it last night. Digital download, because F physical media.
I'm finding brutal about the right difficulty. Am maybe 9 missions in. I just finished the floor is lava one. I'm doing it once on brutal and then immediately again on hard to get any achievements I missed. Medic+Marine has seen me through everything so far and I expect it, along with viking+siege tank, to take me through the entire game.
Medics are incredibly awesome and it's a crime that the entire single player game is based around it; people are going to be bitter as hell when they play multiplayer and don't have them. They even automatically move out of fire if they're being attacked!
Mercs seem pretty useless, I forget I have them. I've upgraded medic, marine, and golliath so far but still have 200k banked for things that come next.
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kildorn
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Some of the mercs are useful just due to the instant build times. They make for useful "huh, I need 3 vikings like.. Now" counters.
edit: the other hard achievement I was having issues with was The Best Offense, which I think just requires me to be WAY more aggressive than I normally am, combined with a lot of base micro to tell my idiot marines to kill roaches first.
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« Last Edit: July 29, 2010, 08:08:09 AM by kildorn »
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Ard
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Yegolev, if you're not interested in the MP, do what I'm doing and wait for them to kick the two expansions out first, and get the cheaper battlechest version a few months after that you know will be coming with all 3.
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Register
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Yegolev, if you're not interested in the MP, do what I'm doing and wait for them to kick the two expansions out first, and get the cheaper battlechest version a few months after that you know will be coming with all 3. Will be a good 3-4 years wait though. Hope you are moderately patient.
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Ard
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It's taken them just shy of 12 years to get the sequel out. I think I can wait a few more at this point pretty easily, especially since the multiplayer doesn't really do anything for me anymore.
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Ingmar
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Weren't you just saying you need more 20 hour games?
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT. Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Ard
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RPGs. And it's because I'm mired in 40+ hour ones right now. None of which is Starcraft. My point here was mostly that if you're (and by you're, I mean Yegolev) only interested in the single player campaign, you might as well wait for all 3 to come out, and get the slightly discounted package that past blizzard history has shown will be coming.
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« Last Edit: July 29, 2010, 11:15:56 AM by Ard »
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Trippy
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Are there any efficient counters that don't require lots of micro to massed Void Rays?
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kildorn
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Are there any efficient counters that don't require lots of micro to massed Void Rays?
Even with micro, they're a pain in my ass (campaign at least) Stalled at mission 7 for trying the hard achievements. Mass void rays sitting behind cannon emplacements and required rushing to make the achievement, woo!
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Sir T
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Walked into a Gameshop today and they already had "buy 2 Get 3" stickers on them I'll probably buy it eventually when I don't have to pay full price 3 times for the 3 campaigns.
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Hic sunt dracones.
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Wolf
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Are there any efficient counters that don't require lots of micro to massed Void Rays?
Vikings do good in big numbers, just single target the voidrays - press shift and spam right click :) 'specially in the campaign. Vikings are ridiculous - 11 range and splash
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As a matter of fact I swallowed one of these about two hours ago and the explanation is that it is, in fact, my hand.
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Trippy
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Is there a way to hide my status from other people on the SC II Battle.net? I.e. somebody has added me as a friend but I don't want them to see if I'm online/away/available, etc.
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NowhereMan
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Are there any efficient counters that don't require lots of micro to massed Void Rays?
Based on watching tournament matches mass marines can do well, especially if you can take them out before too many get fully charged. Alternatively just keep sending wave after wave of infantry at them.
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"Look at my car. Do you think that was bought with the earnest love of geeks?" - HaemishM
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Rasix
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I am the harbinger of your doom!
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Like Wolf said, you can upgrade your vikings into ridiculous killing machines.
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-Rasix
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Teleku
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Does the physical copy come with a cool instruction/story manual, or anything else? I'm tempted to hold off and buy a physical copy just for nostalgia sakes (I've got my physical CD's of every Blizzard game made so far) since I can just register the key and download it online anyways. However, if all your getting is a CD and a cheap instruction manual with no cool artwork or anything, guess I shouldn't bother.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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Trippy
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The CE comes with lots of cool stuff, the regular edition does not.
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fuser
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Does the physical copy come with a cool instruction/story manual, or anything else? I'm tempted to hold off and buy a physical copy just for nostalgia sakes (I've got my physical CD's of every Blizzard game made so far) since I can just register the key and download it online anyways. However, if all your getting is a CD and a cheap instruction manual with no cool artwork or anything, guess I shouldn't bother.
Regular edition has a manual in the box (9 pages of back story, 2 on how to play the game and no keyboard reference), cardboard dvd sleeve, box front folds out twice to a four time the size game highlights and a few time limited buddy cards. The manual stood out as completely shoddy for the lack of any information on how to play the game vs covering the whole game buildup which is redone by the installer and cut-scenes.
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Rasix
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I am the harbinger of your doom!
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Btw, post your character name + numerical code here if you'd like to friend up with other f13 people. This isn't the Read ID nonsense, so don't be timid.
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-Rasix
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Segoris
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Does the physical copy come with a cool instruction/story manual, or anything else? I'm tempted to hold off and buy a physical copy just for nostalgia sakes (I've got my physical CD's of every Blizzard game made so far) since I can just register the key and download it online anyways. However, if all your getting is a CD and a cheap instruction manual with no cool artwork or anything, guess I shouldn't bother.
Off the top of my head, here's a run down of list of things in the CE: 2gb Flash drive with SC1 & Brood Wars (the drive itself is awesome, it's in the form of Raynor's dog tags. The only downside is that it's a small capacity. Art Book Soundtrack Game DVD A 'Making of..' DvD A SC2 Comic Some bnet exclusives, avatars etc. Game trial passes for WoW and SC2 (2 each) Additionally, I found a $20 off coupon and free shipping coupon, that were able to be used together, for gamestop.com (only reason I ordered there, since CE for $80 is okay and was cheaper than Amazon when I ordered) and the package came with a code for 20% off EVGA products. That EVGA part may not sound that great, but I was thinking of picking up a gtx 480 and this drops that price from $500 down to $400 ($370 after mail in rebate). The CE has now paid for itself and then some. Though, even without that EVGA code, I'd still have only paid $20 more (due to coupon codes) than a regular edition and would still be happy with this purchase The regular edition, as Trippy states, does not come with cool stuff.
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fuser
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2gb Flash drive with SC1 & Brood Wars (the drive itself is awesome, it's in the form of Raynor's dog tags. The only downside is that it's a small capacity.
You forgot the major feature when you plug it in, it glows
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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Yegolev, if you're not interested in the MP, do what I'm doing and wait for them to kick the two expansions out first, and get the cheaper battlechest version a few months after that you know will be coming with all 3. Will be a good 3-4 years wait though. Hope you are moderately patient. I am not patient, really, however I spend all my time working right now. I'll take Ard's suggestion since I am sure I can buy The StarCraft Chest at any store for the next ten years. Some people are patient, others have patience thrust upon them.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question. They called it The Prayer, its answer was law Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Segoris
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2gb Flash drive with SC1 & Brood Wars (the drive itself is awesome, it's in the form of Raynor's dog tags. The only downside is that it's a small capacity.
You forgot the major feature when you plug it in, it glows True, my bad. It is even more awesome than I described.
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