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Starcraft 2!!

Riley

Riley

Watch out for snakes!
Glaice said:
Did I mention you have to be connected to the internet to play SINGLE PLAYER?
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No you don't. You need to activate your game's key code online and log in with your Battle.net account once. Activating a keycode has been the primary form of DRM for over a decade, and only now, because of a single required log in, people are flipping out about it.

Hell, I unplugged my network cable and started the game. It worked.
 
Taralack

Taralack

Hit 'em right between the eyes
Glaice said:
Do you enjoy being region locked and not able to play online without going through that shit that is Battle.net? I also heard it has an irritating form of DRM that is reminiscent to a rootkit.
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Yeah I'm pretty fucking pissed off about it. At least they're letting us switch to US servers in about two months.

Riley said:
No you don't. You need to activate your game's key code online and log in with your Battle.net account once. Activating a keycode has been the primary form of DRM for over a decade, and only now, because of a single required log in, people are flipping out about it.

Hell, I unplugged my network cable and started the game. It worked.
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Sure you can play single player while offline, but you can't get any achievements offline.
 
Taralack

Taralack

Hit 'em right between the eyes
Scotty1700 said:
Now at 50%....from 37% in like 15 minutes :V

60% from 50% in 8 minutes...

Slow game installation is slow :(
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Yeah get used to it. The loading screens are pretty slow too.
 
Nollix

Nollix

Member
You don't *have* to be connected to B.net to play singleplayer, there's a play offline option like on steam. However, you can't get achievements and such.
 
Riley

Riley

Watch out for snakes!
Querk said:
I swear to god the insane AI uses hax


what a dick
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I tried a 1v1 against an insane AI with my 3 friends spectating. Fucker had a Colossus in 4 minutes, easy. My one friend was keeping an eye on the APM counter; it broke an average of 400.
 
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Tycho

Guest
Riley said:
I tried a 1v1 against an insane AI with my 3 friends spectating. Fucker had a Colossus in 4 minutes, easy. My one friend was keeping an eye on the APM counter; it broke an average of 400.
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APM = actions per minute?
 
Skittle

Skittle

Banned
Banned
When my husband installed it, I had to listen to him whine the whole time. He hoorahed when it hit 100% and then..."WHAT!? UPDATES!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO".
 
Runefox

Runefox

Kitsune of the PC Master Race
You mean 1/3 of Starcraft II. Enjoy buying each campaign as full games. I might think about picking it up someday when it's like $19.99 or something. But not $60.
 
Querk

Querk

Split-ended-headed marmot
Runefox said:
You mean 1/3 of Starcraft II. Enjoy buying each campaign as full games. I might think about picking it up someday when it's like $19.99 or something. But not $60.
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Except the Terran campaign alone is about as long as the entirety of the original Starcraft. And I hope you don't think that most people are going to buy Starcraft II for the campaign. When the other installations come out, the changes to multiplayer are what people will want. Plus there's the fact that the new games are going to come out years apart. A whole new singleplayer campaign and some changes to multiplayer are pretty much the standard for sequels to popular games right now.
 
Runefox

Runefox

Kitsune of the PC Master Race
Querk said:
Except the Terran campaign alone is about as long as the entirety of the original Starcraft. And I hope you don't think that most people are going to buy Starcraft II for the campaign. When the other installations come out, the changes to multiplayer are what people will want. Plus there's the fact that the new games are going to come out years apart. A whole new singleplayer campaign and some changes to multiplayer are pretty much the standard for sequels to popular games right now.
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StarCraft II finally released over a decade after the original, and from what I gather, it's merely more of the same. There are certain expectations of a game that's had that long a development cycle, especially from a company as large and "well-respected" as ActiBlizzard. The fact that these are all facets of the same game which when purchased add up to $180 when completed doesn't help matters. And what kind of changes to the multiplayer do you think they'll add between now and the next game, the Zerg campaign? A few new units? That kind of thing would constitute incredibly minor changes that companies like Valve would do for free. Unless the entire game is being updated between now and the Zerg campaign, that doesn't fly.

But hey, I'm not a fan to begin with, so being someone who wouldn't normally buy everything ActiBlizzard releases, I have a different outlook.
 
Querk

Querk

Split-ended-headed marmot
Runefox said:
StarCraft II finally released over a decade after the original, and from what I gather, it's merely more of the same. There are certain expectations of a game that's had that long a development cycle, especially from a company as large and "well-respected" as ActiBlizzard. The fact that these are all facets of the same game which when purchased add up to $180 when completed doesn't help matters. And what kind of changes to the multiplayer do you think they'll add between now and the next game, the Zerg campaign? A few new units? That kind of thing would constitute incredibly minor changes that companies like Valve would do for free. Unless the entire game is being updated between now and the Zerg campaign, that doesn't fly.

But hey, I'm not a fan to begin with, so being someone who wouldn't normally buy everything ActiBlizzard releases, I have a different outlook.
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I can't say what kind of changes will be made to multiplayer. But if it's anything like Brood War, there will be about 2-3 new units per race, which is actually a lot considering one change to a multiplayer as balanced as Starcraft can completely transform the game. I imagine they'll probably rework some scrapped units too. I'd actually be surprised if there were only a few new features for each installment, as Brood War and The Frozen Throne were pretty big for expansions, and the installments look closer to new games. But I see how someone who isn't a fan wouldn't like how Blizzard is doing things and wouldn't get all three installments. I still feel like Wings of Liberty is worth it though, for the campaign and the multiplayer.
 
Riley

Riley

Watch out for snakes!
The game keeps track of it, but a player can only see it in the replay. If someone's spectating, though, they have access to all sorts of neat information like APM, army value, current things being built/researched by each player, and stuff like that.
 
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