Starcraft 2 is now OFFICIAL

[Triple_6]

This is hot off the press

StarCraft 2 is OFFICIAL


May 18, 2007 - Live, from Seoul, South Korea comes the word that StarCraft 2 is official. Here's Charles' take after checking out the gameplay footage Blizzard just showed:

3:00 - FMV sequence in a spaceship - looks Terran - zooming in on a metal door - door opening - reveals a guy with a cigar in chains - prisoner - door shuts behind him - there's so much bass the room is shaking - guy steps into some kind of metallic devicce - legs are strapped in - guy rising toward ceiling - Korean text on screen got people very excited - another part of the machine is dropping metal arms on him - machine whirring - applying armor to his torso - extremly detailed visuals here - now guy is strapping on gloves - armor is molding together - seems like a Terran marine - rockets turn on - zerg now onscreen - Marine delivers a line - StarCraft 2 officially announced.

It is mother fucking ON.

Link (http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/790/790127p1.html)

[Triple_6]

Some text info on the new units reported by IGN:

3:23 - now showing terran and protoss fight - marines and zealots clashing on the ground - mothership and battle crusers in the air - framerate seems relatively stable as more units stream in - hard to tell - about 100 units on screen right now - a few of the new protoss units just came in - nuclear launch detected warning - every unit on screen destroyed - three nukes were launched at once - then zergs rush in and spell "GG" while turning into suicidal bombs.

3:18 - warprey also very effective against structures - very vulnerable to small unit fire - shws warpreys getting wiped out by terran marines. Physics system lets debris from warpreys roll down a ramp. Showing one more unit - warped in in a serious of cubes - giant floating base - called a protoss mothership - can only have 1 at a time - cost big resources - special abilities include timebomb that slows all enemy missiles inside - shows terran missle launcher shooting in projectiles that stop in the field before they reach the ship - when field ends missiles drop the ground - planet cracker attack - giant lasers stream from ship to ground - ship can be moved around while planet cracker laser is active - the ship looks like a metallic, triangular sand dollar - mothership can create a black hole anywhere it wannts to - creates distortion that actually sucks ships in and destroys them - in the demo the black hole destroyed four terran battle cruisers in about ten seconds.

3:16 - showing space platform environment, land mass floating over planets / nebulae. Showing phoenix units failing to destroy terran battle cruisers - new protoss unit - Warprey - flying unit that does increased damage the longer it hits a target with it's continuous blue laser.

3:15 - Zerglings can mutate into suicidal bomb things thar roll across the ground - very powerful explosions. Colossus using new IK system to move across differences in terraing height. Colossus extremley weak against air strike - New unit for protoss - Pheonix - can overcharge guns for multiple projectile blast - but after blast the ship is rendered inert for a short period.

3:14 - Protoss colossus - huge unit that can blast out dual lasers and use long legs to traverse differences in terrain height - in the demo two of them obliterate about fifty or so zerglings.

3:10 - Terran reapers - can hop across unever terrain with jump packs - two types of small pistols that don't activate immortals. Protoss now have the ability to create shields whereever they want. Protoss can now warp in units from manufacturing facilities anything within pylon range. New protoss unit - stalker - can teleport - quadripedal thing - can keep blinking forward - seems to be a shot cooldown on the ability. Zerg start coming in, giant worms pop out of ground unleasing zerglings. Protoss can use phase fields and teleporting abilities to create an army anywhere on the battlefield, according to Blizzard.

[Triple_6]

This little bit is from Gamespot:

Browder caps the demonstration with one last new unit, the protoss mothership, the ultimate weapon in the protoss army. It's an incredibly expensive unit with a "time bomb" ability that distorts time within an energy field, making enemy fire too slow to actually reach and hit the mothership. Once the time field collapses, enemy shells clatter uselessly to the ground. The mothership also possesses the "planet cracker," a stream of multiple lasers that devastate anything beneath it. Finally, the mothership can create a black hole--an extremely damaging ability that wrecks flying enemies. The glowing black hole simply sucks in the terran warships, which warp in appearance before disappearing utterly into oblivion.

Link (http://www.gamespot.com/pages/news/story.php?sid=6171170&part=rss&tag=gs_pc&subj=6171170)

I'm really stoked about this. The new units sound bad as shit and the old units getting new abilities is really cool too. I want to see some screenshots!

[Triple_6]

Screenshots:

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/imgs_1.html

[thegreaterbad]

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/vids_1.html

here are some video's IGN just put up.

Is it me or are Terran's carrying shields:question: :question:


On a sidenote, I started playing a lil SC 1 last night on BattleNet. Anyone else still do it? I am pretty n00bish still though, I am learning to speed build with Zerg, not easy

[HHBizzle]

This little bit is from Gamespot:

Browder caps the demonstration with one last new unit, the protoss mothership, the ultimate weapon in the protoss army. It's an incredibly expensive unit with a "time bomb" ability that distorts time within an energy field, making enemy fire too slow to actually reach and hit the mothership. Once the time field collapses, enemy shells clatter uselessly to the ground. The mothership also possesses the "planet cracker," a stream of multiple lasers that devastate anything beneath it. Finally, the mothership can create a black hole--an extremely damaging ability that wrecks flying enemies. The glowing black hole simply sucks in the terran warships, which warp in appearance before disappearing utterly into oblivion.

Link (http://www.gamespot.com/pages/news/story.php?sid=6171170&part=rss&tag=gs_pc&subj=6171170)

I'm really stoked about this. The new units sound bad as shit and the old units getting new abilities is really cool too. I want to see some screenshots!



omg omg omg orgasm
so when will we get this shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Triple_6]

I just read a transcript from a press conference by Blizzard's representatives after the announcement last night who said it's been in development since 2003 after Warcraft III: Frozen Throne was released and that the game is very far along now. All 3 factions are even playable in multiplayer! Also the cinematic trailer made me cream my fuckin shorts.

Link to Press Conference (http://www.gamespot.com/pages/news/story.php?sid=6171172&part=rss&tag=gs_pc&subj=6171172)

[Snk]

Ahhh man I cant wait :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: