STARCRAFT 2 - Available July 27

[BlackMamba]

blu-ray.com Starcraft 2 players:

blu-ray SN - Starcraft 2 SN
BlackMamba - LucaBlight



And, for your amusement... one motivational poster for each race:

[MyBlu-rayBrotherEd]

Will this be for PC only or will it come out for gaming consoles as well?

[CdnBlu]

Chances are it will be PC only

[BlackMamba]

yep, pc only. Blizzard learned their lesson after Starcraft 64. They also purposely make their games more accessible to the masses by designing them to be less graphic intensive (although they still look great IMO!)

[BlackMamba]

comes out tonight! Too bad I'm still waiting for my new computer to arrive...

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by BlackMamba

yep, pc only. Blizzard learned their lesson after Starcraft 64. They also purposely make their games more accessible to the masses by designing them to be less graphic intensive (although they still look great IMO!)

PC/Mac only if I'm not mistaken.

Logan

[BlackMamba]

A couple questions I was hoping someone could answer:

1) Is there a way to get SCVs to just auto-repair any mechanized unit close by? Or is there an "repair-move" (like attack-move) function for SCVs?

2) Speaking of attack-move, is there a more advanced functionality I'm not aware of? What are people doing when they're micro-ing hit and runs? Are they just right-clicking and when their units come to a halt they auto-attack anything nearby, then the user just right clicks elsewhere so they move again? Rinse and repeat?

Thanks in advance

[supersix4]

I'm still debating if I should pick up my reserved copy tomorrow, I hated the Beta because it wouldn't let you just practice and I like building massive army's/ bases, but obviously thats not how people online play where they just attack you like 2 minutes in.

[BlackMamba]

Originally Posted by supersix4

I'm still debating if I should pick up my reserved copy tomorrow, I hated the Beta because it wouldn't let you just practice and I like building massive army's/ bases, but obviously thats not how people online play where they just attack you like 2 minutes in.

well, rest assured that you will be able to mass all you want in the full game. Besides single-player campaign, you have custom matches where you can play any multi-player map against 1-X amount of comps (and friends).

[Lanfear]

1) Right-click the repair icon to auto-repair.

2) What I do is hit the Patrol hotkey behind the group I want to attack. Then after the attack animation, I right-click away immediately. Rinse and repeat.

Originally Posted by BlackMamba

A couple questions I was hoping someone could answer:

1) Is there a way to get SCVs to just auto-repair any mechanized unit close by? Or is there an "repair-move" (like attack-move) function for SCVs?

2) Speaking of attack-move, is there a more advanced functionality I'm not aware of? What are people doing when they're micro-ing hit and runs? Are they just right-clicking and when their units come to a halt they auto-attack anything nearby, then the user just right clicks elsewhere so they move again? Rinse and repeat?

Thanks in advance

[proxpilot]

this is the game with the billion dollar budget correct?

[BlackMamba]

Originally Posted by Lanfear

1) Right-click the repair icon to auto-repair.

2) What I do is hit the Patrol hotkey behind the group I want to attack. Then after the attack animation, I right-click away immediately. Rinse and repeat.

awesome, thank you so much!

[jadedeath]

Alright, since the game is coming out tomorrow, what is everyone's favorite hints tips and strategies for the first one?

Logan

[BlackMamba]

Originally Posted by jadedeath

Alright, since the game is coming out tomorrow, what is everyone's favorite hints tips and strategies for the first one?

Logan

I was never that great, but there was nothing funnier than taking out an entire squadron of battlecruisers/carriers with a (muta) decoy followed by wave(s) of scourges. I also loved playing around with hallucination and arbiter recall.

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by BlackMamba

I was never that great, but there was nothing funnier than taking out an entire squadron of battlecruisers/carriers with a (muta) decoy followed by wave(s) of scourges. I also loved playing around with hallucination and arbiter recall.

Scourges are fun, but I've had great luck while playing with Battlecruisers and Carriers.

My favorite starting off tactic against an opponent while playing Protoss is pretty fun, you run over with one of your Probes and create stuff behind their base near their resources and just blow them up right off the bat with Photon Cannons.

If you kill their resource gatherers then the game is essentially won without too much stress.

Logan

[OneDropCode1]

I've had the beta for 2 months but only played it twice, wasn't that interested even though I played the crap out of part 1. Now I'm very excited that its almost finally here! Will be playing campaign first.

[BlackMamba]

Originally Posted by jadedeath

Scourges are fun, but I've had great luck while playing with Battlecruisers and Carriers.

My favorite starting off tactic against an opponent while playing Protoss is pretty fun, you run over with one of your Probes and create stuff behind their base near their resources and just blow them up right off the bat with Photon Cannons.

If you kill their resource gatherers then the game is essentially won without too much stress.

Logan

that'd be cool, never really tried that early on (although I was a fan of the photon cannon lines at chokepoints. Might not work on zerg though because of the creep!

[BlackMamba]

Originally Posted by mtgredline

I've had the beta for 2 months but only played it twice, wasn't that interested even though I played the crap out of part 1. Now I'm very excited that its almost finally here! Will be playing campaign first.

yeah, I'm going with campaign first. Blizzard games always have pretty engaging narratives. Love reading the instruction booklets for the lore too (got the strategy guide just so I have something to look at while I wait for my new computer).

[jadedeath]

Originally Posted by BlackMamba

that'd be cool, never really tried that early on (although I was a fan of the photon cannon lines at chokepoints. Might not work on zerg though because of the creep!

If you position the photon canons directly on the other side of the minerals and gas it works surprisingly well.

If you're a Zerg fan, I'd suggest gathering with your 4 gatherers first, until you hit 200 mineral, then take one of those gatherers and build a spawning pool.

As soon as the spawning pool gets made, immediately make zerglings and rush the opponent.

Logan

[chefazn]

4 pool almost never works in game lol. 6 pool isn't work well at all either.