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invidia

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I used a different build order tonight and David Kim's strats vs Terrans as Zergs. Won 2 of my 1v1 games tonight as Zerg vs Terrans.

I also started playing more like if the game was WarCraft 3 than SC. Harass, harass, expand, expand.
 
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mav451

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Heh patch just released today (I'm just reading from SC2 Armory).

patch notes said:
TERRAN

Viking
The armor value for this unit in Fighter Mode has decreased from 1 to 0.
The damage done by this unit in Fighter Mode has changed from 6 (+8 armored) to 10 (+4 armored).

Reaper
The damage done from D-8 Charges has decreased from 40 to 30.
The delay between attacks for D-8 Charges has decreased from 2.5 to 1.8.

Orbital Command
The build time for this upgrade has decreased from 50 to 35.

PROTOSS

Observer
Gravitic Boosters: The cost of this research has decreased from 150 minerals and 150 vespene gas to 100 minerals and 100 vespene gas.

High Templar
Phase Shift: This ability has been removed from the game.
New ability: Feedback - Drains all energy from the target unit and causes damage equal to the amount of energy drained.

Colossus
The building pathing radius for this unit has decreased from .75 to .5625.

Mothership
Vortex: The energy cost of this ability has increased from 75 to 100.
Vortex: The target radius of this ability has decreased from 3.0 to 2.5.
Temporal Rift: This ability has been removed from the game.
Wormhole Transit: This ability has been removed from the game.
New ability: Mass Recall - Teleports all of the player's units in the target area to the Mothership.

Nexus
Chrono Boost can no longer target allies.

Gateway
The build time of this building has increased from 50 to 65.

ZERG

Infestor
Fungal Growth: The damage done by this ability has decreased from 48 to 36.
Fungal Growth: This ability now prevents affected units from burrowing.
Neural Parasite: Functionality changed - The Infestor now channels this spell, which lasts 10 seconds or until the Infestor is destroyed. You can now target all units with this ability.
Terran Infestation: The ability's energy cost has reduced from 50 to 25 and Infested Terrans now spawn 1 at a time.

BUG FIXES

Addressed an issue causing people to receive an "Internal Battle.net Error" message with their game client.

Muting your microphone will no longer cause your microphone to be turned off in the operating system once the program has exited.

Please note that the voice chat functionality has only partially been implemented. There are many known issues with voice chat that we expect to address in a future patch.

The "Medium" graphical settings were reconfigured to work better on appropriate machines. The video settings "auto-detect" functionality has been reset as a result.

Added a frame rate limiter to the game menus to prevent some graphics cards from running at higher frame rates than necessary.
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Probably biggest Terran change is the Viking goes from 6 to 10dmg in ATA - kind of a big deal considering how terrible Vikings were before (20 hits for a muta, reduced to 12). If anything, this is back to the wraith damage (20 explosive). The -1 on armor kind of reflects this change too.

Big changes with Protoss casters too...

That frame limiter is gonna fuck with benches - oh well.
 
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soccerballtux

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Dec 30, 2004
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I installed it and watched some replays. 3 to be exact.
Can't stand how huge everything is. Can't zoom out further but I want to.
Not happy with with the ginormous units-- that Terran Thor unit or whatever he's called. Bleh.

I promptly uninstalled it. Won't be buying this game. I like the art of the original starcraft. In fact I think I will go play that.
 
crisium

crisium

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Could you link to whatever other forum you got that from so that I can see some discussion other than youtube comments?
 
Maximilian

Maximilian

Lifer
Feb 8, 2004
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crisium said:
Could you link to whatever other forum you got that from so that I can see some discussion other than youtube comments?
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Dunno if theres forums etc, ive been following it on mirc, channel sc2c on rizon has devs etc on it. People keep linking here:

http://teknogods.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1584

Which by the link looks like a forum, but its down, apparently hammered by chinese/koreans or whatever.
 
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ChaoZ

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The launcher says it can't fund v.0.3.0. There's a new .4 patch out too; I'm all kinds of confused now.
 
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endervalentine

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damm, I'm so tempted, but after seeing the link on ATOT regarding the win7 torrent w/ so many trojans embedded inside makes a little bit weary ... ugh, but I want to play!! :(
 
Maximilian

Maximilian

Lifer
Feb 8, 2004
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You can use the maps that came with the original watch replays crack. Also if its not working you may have to reinstall it then try, i did that since i had the replays thing installed.
 
Fenixgoon

Fenixgoon

Lifer
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endervalentine said:
damm, I'm so tempted, but after seeing the link on ATOT regarding the win7 torrent w/ so many trojans embedded inside makes a little bit weary ... ugh, but I want to play!! :(
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you just get to base build though. there's no opponents to play
 
Kabob

Kabob

Lifer
Sep 5, 2004
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OK, I just want to watch a few replays to see if my PC can handle it at all (I'd love to postpone an upgrade). I downloaded the client and looked at this guide on how to watch replays, but since the patch was put out it kept trying to download the patch (over and over) and failed. At the bottom of the page people say to put the original files back in so I did so. I can get into the game but how do I watch replays? It wants me to log on (which I can't)...

Any thoughts? How do you guys do it?
 
Maximilian

Maximilian

Lifer
Feb 8, 2004
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Good news is they have cracked the AI, i fought against an AI yesterday. Bad news is its worse than braindead, the only AI in the beta is the "very easy" one which is worse than starcraft 1's AI lol, it didnt even attack me, although i think it mightve been trying to as i saw some units wandering around the map, possibly looking for my base. Ah well, at least theres somthing to fight against now apart from yourself/rocks/pre placed units.
 
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