Fansite Q&A Session.

You need a hot iron up your anus man. It's energy. The m word almost made me vomit the way the sound of American English makes me.

Do you plan to assign a function to middlemouse?

 

Not mana Kaara - its called energy

 

Quick 6:


1) Will Blizzard make cash-tournament play available to local communities throughout Canada? EG: tournaments in major cities such as Vancouver, Montreal? $25 per entry?

2) What is the furthest range ability in SC2 other than siege canon?

3) In multi player, will there be different varieties of interface? people who cant use a key board ie: dual mice, infrared or touch screen interfaces, ect. - essentially, will there be any other way to play SC2 other than just the keyboard and mouse? if no, what about saving user preference hot keys?

4) Will players be defined by more than a colored block on the top left of the screen?

5) Will UMS count as a win?

6) What stats are viewable of your opponent while in game? wins losses avg, average game time ect.

 

About how many soundtracks per race do you plan to have? (for multi player, of course)

Are there any spells / abilities that can bypass Immortals' hardened shields? If so, which ones?

 

@jamaylot
Your first quistion refers to battle.net. We can't ask anything about that.

@gmg
I would also like to know more about the soundtrack. -And if it turns out to be awesome, can we take it from the disk to listen to? Might be strange, but I like game soundtracks.-

 

Will all, or most of the music in Starcraft 2 be fully orchestrated and hardly compressed or are you going to use compression techniques which lessen the quality of the music?

On the subject of Specific Battlecruiser Upgrades, when you double click to select all of your battlecruisers will it select only the other cruisers with similar abilitys?

 

Wait, wait, wait.... I just remembered something. This is a question to anyone who knows, but what is the current status on LAN for StarCraft2? Because if it's not in, there are some questions I'd like to ask about why it isn't.

 

i keep hearing there not gonna put it in but i think thats evil of them..

 

I refuse to accept that. That's pure evil. I would just post the questions before you forget and change them later if needed.
Lol, countdown to lan announcement.

 

1. Is there going to be a 2nd battle report?

2. What are the current tech trees?

3. Does the space background move (like a moon looks like to is orbiting a planet)?

4. How many players can there be maximum?

5. What upgrades are there currently for the command center?

 

1. Yes its Terran vs Zerg

5. http://www.sc2pod.com/wiki/Command_Center

 

My question is this: what steps are being / have been taken to make the game easier for color-blind people? In the original, it is sometimes difficult for red/green colorblind people to distinguish colors on the minimap. I notice in SC2 though that because units have a black box around them on the minimap, it should be much easier to notice enemy blips on the map. But what about something like the red spot from a nuclear strike, for instance?

 

interesting question vega12 - and welcome to the forum!

 

Indeed an interesting question. I never really thought of that, and I would like to know if Blizzard has. tWelcome to the fortum by the way. Be sure to leave a message at the introduce yourself board.

 

I haven't posted in a while but I really want to know... What caused the game's graphics to go more bright, cheerful (with even flowers on some levels) places from the good old dark, evil looking places?

How many levels of play are there? (in the aspect to there being low-ground, ground, high ground and sky as the 4 levels of starcraft 1)

 

I think they said there will be as many "grounds/highs" as in Starcraft 1.

 

They did indeed. They did not want to use that since it would make the game to similar to warcraft and units like the colossus would not be possible. And there are actually 5 levels, since some units can move underground instead of only burrowing.

About the bright colours, you probably looked at old footage. The whole game has a much darker feel to it now.

 

Are there any plans to incorporate any infested Protoss units into the game at all?

Exactly how strong will the Xel'Naga be compared to the rest of the three races. Can we get an approximate ratio such as 1 Xel'Naga [unit] can take on 5 marines/10 zerglings/4 zealots. Something like that.

As of this moment, are there any units with lore issues? Such as units that you can't explain the origin of or how they came to change from this unit to that. If so, which units and what do you plan on doing to make the lore make sense?

Do you feel as if you have implemented too many abilities? It does seem that the game is now mostly based on abilities especially since you've added the ablities that change the rate at which you mine minerals.

 

Please dont ask any single-player related questions.... Darktemplar_L....