Starcraft 2 Release Date?

So was the Protoss. Dragoons used to suck, they had no reliable anti-air except for Psi Storm, lol. Photon cannons were nearly useless as well if you remember. Terran were the worse, with both the vulture, sci-vessel and goliath all being useless units. In order to play as terran you HAD to turtle. In SC befire BW Zerg was by far the best, with toss coming in a close second with Mass zealots and high templar, and terran coming in an uncomfortable third.

Thing is, in Brood war if you are playing players of equal skill levels (and they are good) you wind that Terran is the best, with Toss and then Zerg. Honestly for as much as people preach about Starcraft games being balanced they really aren't that balanced, unit wise. Creative strategy wise? Probably more so.

 

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Ya I thought the problem with terran was that there was no single "go to" unit like the zerg and protoss had (dragoon/hydra). However, I think really skilled players could make terran work effectively. Also I wouldn't say the goliath was "useless" if you paired it with tanks.

 

I KingMatt I, please dont quote the person that is right above you, and welcome to the forums!!

as for what is on topic in this thread as of right now, i dont really care if they go that extra mile to balance the game or not, because either way, it will still take about the same amount of time to get the game balance in the end.

 

Kingmatt, early on in Starcraft, the Dragoon was a horrible unit. It was classified as a large unit, had abysmall pathing, and cost more minerals! (200 or 175 I believe!). Its attack also had shorter range even after the upgrade, and its damage type was halved against small units (compared to what it does now). All in all the Dragoon was probably one of the top three worst units in the game. After its pathing, size, range, cost and damage type was changed, it became the backbone of the Protoss army...lol!!

 

Call me a pessimist, we've seen blizzards history, there are always delays. I wouldn't have it any other way. Its purely because they wont release a game until its ready. No rushing. Judging by all the criticism generated of SC2 gameplay at WWI, I'm guessing SC2 has a long way to go before the designers are satisfied.

 

I agree with Prodigal. BLizzard is known for late releases, but no game has been released perfectly. Starcraft got balanced trought years, perhaps Blizzard will be better with sc2. But it will never be released 100% balanced, more between 90-95%.

 

Dragoons are still large and still do explosive damage. (Of course, the cost did get reduced, and Phase Disruptor was improved slightly.)

 

Me hopes it is this year.
But really,i hope it will be this year! or in january or february in the next one,but it better be THIS YEAR,cause i can wait for it NOT.

 

I think it won't be ready until next year at least...
But I hope it will be ready soon. Operation CWAL LOL

 

I heard somewhere it was going to be released on november 28th, black friday. it may have been just a rumor...

 

Kimera, they are medium, but appear large in a shuttle. Although you may be right about its damage type, I could have confused them with Photon Cannon's which used to do explosive and were nearly worthless.

 

Personally I am torn, I want it asap! but also i want it to be the best! Anyone have the same feelings?!

 

Dragoons are and always have been large units and have explosive damage.

 

Well, I could be mistaken. They did however, change its pathing considerably, and I believe the game PHYSICALLY RECOGNIZES the Dragoon as a medium sized unit for pathing purposes but it is technically a large unit in other regards. Medium for pathing purposes only, though. Trust me I've played since the beginning, I should have made myself more clear.

 

Huh, whats this talk about dragoons? I thought this was suppose to be about the release date of Starcraft 2

 

Just to settle this Dragoon dispute; http://www.battle.net/scc/protoss/pstats.shtml

 

Prodigal, is right in that the Dragoon is seen as a large unit for everything but pathing, it had horrible pathing problems, more so that what it has now, so to fix it a bit they made its pathing size medium.

 

Thanks, I DONT stand corrected. LOL. Trust me the "large sized" dragoons of pre-patch SC moved around like a bunch of awkward, slightly quick siege tanks. Unless the map was wide open, you could usually only have about 3-4 goons firing at once, unless they had air units...short range air at that...pretty damn usless, its a good thing they changed the size for pathing. (Even though it retains the damage status of a large unit and fits into a shuttle like a large unit, IT IS PHYSICALLY a medium unit on the map).

 

Whatever the date could be I hope Blizzard will take AAAALLLLLL its time to finilize this game. I don't want to buy it and then to wait for the first patch. Let's let Blizzard finish this game without precipitation. Or we will ALL regret !

Hope Blizzard will not hurry a lot. We have been waiting for this game 10 years already. So some months more you know ...

I personally think this game will be released in June 2009

 

When will we find out for sure when starcraft 2 comes out does anyone know or is it just up in the air and wont really know when its coming out till that day