Q&A Batch 44 Released!

well they probably had a lot to sort through, it does make sense regarding the fan base of this. Btw any one know whats going on with the stalkers? i heard they were changing them, this true?

 

Stalker is getting a model change that will look more like the artwork. That's all I know. No mechanic changes.

Hopefully, we get to see it at BlizzCon. I want to see some of the updated Protoss/Zerg art.

 

It probably won't need the DVD in the drive to further decrease system requirements. The game would load and operate much faster if everything came from your hard drive.

I think they can only be built on creep so that strategy would be just as inefficient as expanding with colonies now. By the time you'd reach anywhere near the enemy main or natural expansion, they'd long have detectors to counter burrowed things.

There's no such thing as a late game rush

 

I wouldn’t call that a solution but a Workaround. A solution would be that the main program would be able to run all replays with no problem.

Like it was said, I hope they get this patch/replay bug fixed.

 

It's not a bug, it's a natural cause of changing the physics and everything else that changes the whole gameplay. If SC2 was made to support all the replays regardless of their version, the game would be HUGE and would constantly grow with every patch because of backing up the old parameters in a quickly accessible way.

I don't even see the point in watching replays with obsolete (and probably imbalanced) stats and everything.

 

Well I hate to watch my old replays that bugs and we never get to see the game.

If you want to watch an old SC replay of Boxer vs Grrr, well you need to work around it.

I don't know how hard it can be to fix this, but it needs to be done.

 

Just use an old .exe. That fixes the problem, and will save you space on your harddrive, and effort/time on Blizzard's part.

 

If you're talking about patches that change the game in a way that doesn't affect gameplay then yes, that needs to be sorted out, but providing backward compatability with radically different versions is useless. I don't think there is such a game that preserves old version data just to allow players to watch old replays.

@Tychus: patches can affect lots of other files as well, so you'd need a whole different copy of the game for your solution. This is not possible with a game as big as SC2.

 

I am hoping for the new avatar animations for the units! they are going to be sooo cool

-Zerks

 

pretty dissapointed that terrans dont have their own "shock and awe" troop ability, considering that there was a drop pod, it was a really neat concept. i can deal with that. kinda want to see some multiplayer maps and the new look of the nomad, lurker and stalker. Hoping that they change the ghost back to the first concept.
oh yea is it true that bc don't have their plasma torp anymore? but now an air-to-air missiles attack? so would't there be a new look for the bc? and still waiting for the confirmed pc specs...

 

you get to choose to have either the Yamato Cannon or the Air-to-air missile attack, you just cant have both on the same BC.

 

^^so would there be a new look for the bc?

 

sigh, i still wish for my plasma torpedos, oh such a cruel world we live in! But at least we get a better anti-air attack.

 

Unnecessary Quoting. Please do not quote more than you reply. Strike two.

Yes, but in the past with other games this has been fixed by using an old .exe. Note that I said "in the past" .. I know that doesn't necessarily mean StarCraft will be the same way But, if that doesn't fix it then Blizzard needs to work on the backwards compatibility.

 

i believe they both have slightly different looks, we just havent seen a BC with the Missile attack, i did see a difference with those that had the yamato or the torps.

i didnt know what to feel about the Torps, but from what Jon said when he play the game when they had them, they seem that they were really easy to dodge.

 

i have not yet sen the air-to-air upgrade that the battlecruiser got, could someone give me a link?

-Zerks

 

there isn't any pics of it, i dont believe, it was told to us in a Q&A.

 

aww well i guess i have to wait longer (like everyone else) to see it when blizzcon comes up in Oct. 10-11

-Zerks

 

damn right you'll wait like us otherwise, were going to beat you horribly unless you were to bring back footage.

 

ill make sure the first things i see will be forwarded straight to here XP

-Zerks