You are probably a more casual Starcraft gamer, because in my opinion I've loved the beta it's absolutely addicting. I was a hardcore Broodwar player ever since it came out I played on the Korean servers and they have done an amazing job with this game so far. Better than I thought to be honest. What league were you placed in when you played? Currently Im in the top 10 of Platinum 53, and every game whether I loose or win has been extremely fun and enjoyable.
The meta game for Starcraft has changed dramatically over the pass few years. The game is more of a macro management game now. Rush tactics are barely used in pro-matches and if they are and are properly defended with a proper scout the player rushing has a very little chance of coming back in the game because they are so economically behind. Most games now are based on quick expansions
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Starcraft is probably the best game for this as IMO is the most balanced and RTS available on the market. Hopefully the people programming the AI are seasoned players and know how the current meta-game for Starcraft Broodwar is.
What is status on the mutalisk micro. In the last build it was not possible to stack mutalisks. But there was mention in one of the updates that the developers are trying to include this type of micro back into the game. Has there been and progress in adding stacking of units to the game or will it not be possible?
Obviously you didn't play the game enough on multi-player to become good at it. This is not just my opinion but the opinion of the hardcore gamers that still play the game religiously to this day. There is a reason why Korea has 3 television stations dedicated to this game and why it is a multi-million dollar industry in Korea. The game has amazing re-playability (multi-player). You can only play single player campaigns for so long until it gets boring. Trust me when I say that the majority of the Starcraft gaming community have NOT been playing single player campaign for 10 years.
Starcraft Broodwar was not defined by how good it's single player campaign, it was defined by how balanced the game was in multiplayer mode. Sure Blizzard games usually have really great story lines and awesome cinematics but there is a reason why it has been delayed till 2010. Battle.net. For this game to succeed the multi-player aspect must be up to par with Starcraft Broodwar, Blizzard is currently having difficulties with the latest version of Battle.net and this is why it has been delayed till 2010. This single player stuff is nice to see but it is just a very small portion of what is in store for Starcraft 2.
This is towards Chris Sigaty:
With the addition of MBS(Multiple Building Selection) and auto split (Mining workers) do you think that a lot of the hardcore fans (including myself) will feel that the game has been made too easy for people to play? What new things have you added to Starcraft 2 to compensate for making everything easier to do to appease the hardcore fans?
I understand that you are trying to reach a broader audience but it was the little things like splitting the workers at the beginning and macroing through your unit production buildings manually, turning collision detection off on your (probes, scvs or drones) etc... that made Starcraft such a good game it was easy to learn and it is near impossible to master, I've been playing since it came out and I'm still learning tricks to help win games.
I don't know how he can say that video games leads to obesity. South Koreans probably play the most video games out of any nationality. A big portion of their economy is based on it. They have pro-gamers that practice 10+ hours a day and the last time I saw none of them were obese.
There are a lot of rumblings around the Starcraft gaming community about Starcraft 2. ahref=http://sc.gosugamers.net/news.php?id=5522/re l=url2html-31115http://sc.gosugamers.net/news.php? id=5522/> There is also an audio file of a top Counter strike tournament director speaking about Starcraft 2. ahref=http://zanno.oddwebsite.com/cevofull.mp3/rel =url2html-31115http://zanno.oddwebsite.com/cevoful l.mp3/> (Around 7:30 into the file).
IMHO I wouldn't want Starcraft 2 to come out as I still play Starcraft Broodwar actively and I think it is perfect in every way.
I have to agree that Blizzard is one of the greatest game developing companies around today, if not the best. Ive been playing Starcraft since it came out and havent stopped since. South Korea has a huge professional gaming community based on Blizzard games, instead of say football, hockey or basketball people in Korea watch professional gamers play Starcraft or Warcraft 3. Ive seen huge stadiums filled with thousands of people watching two guys playing Starcraft, with lighting effects, fire effects and sound effects going off in the background. They have Starcraft branded merchandise and Im not talking about figurines, im talking food, clothes. Their current season of MSL is sponsored by Pringles and most of the players are sponsored by big name corporations ie (SK Telecom, FILA, Addidas just to name a few). If Blizzard can help create such a community and hlp its economy in such a way they must be doing something right.
I believe that it was Warcraft 2 that placed them on the map and helped them develop their next game, which IMHO is the best RTS of all time Starcraft!
Blizzard isnt always about pretty graphics like alot of other companies its all about game play!!
That may be true, but does having 8 times as many polygons and however many times as fast going to make it anymore more fun. Better graphics and a faster CPU does not make the system better overall, harware wise yes gameplay, no.
Id just like to congratulate Mr. Alex Bendiken on a job well done and that his design was also one of my favorite designs throughout the contest. I cant wait till the design is rolled out onto the live server.
Oh I completely agree with you there, there are alot of communication issues between the engineers and developers from what my friend tells me. Which could be the root problem of their sub par drivers. Documentation though Im pretty sure most developers hate to do is key to a good development process.
My friend that works at ATI was able to view this card in action at the labs and the demos were amazing but he told me ATI continues to lack in the driver department. He informed me that there is about 1 floor working on drivers which is about 60 people and they have not been up to par with the hardware that they seem to be producing. Hes gotten his hands on a couple of their video cards for testing and many of them have crashed his computer forcing him to format/reinstall his operating system. IMHO, I think that ATI should really look into improving their driver support.
If the same study was not funded by Microsoft and was funded by a company that supports Open source and the linux platform say google or IBM would your results have been the same?
Developing secure software should always be platform independent. But security for developing an application does not stop at the developer, it continues through to the system administrators and the users. We've all heard software is only as secure as the O/S its running on, well its also as secure as the administrators/users running it. Security should be practiced at all levels from development to roll out and installation and through its entire lifetime. No software is completely 100% secure, so if flaws pop up after development patches should be available ASAP.
Ok if you take it litereally, sure you can put a price on it, but how much for you to have the most important person in your life killed? cause each one of those people that would die has a relationship with on or another person.
10 million to kill your family? dont think so
Lets say the asteroid hits New York and whipes out its population and buildings that is going to cost ALOT the country alot more than 8 trillion dollars. You cannot put a price on human life!
Yeha I got my best friend one as well and she still has the laminant on it and I gave it to her about 1 month ago. She wont take that laminant off until she gets a case for it, she doesnt want her nano looking like mine apperently!
As an owner of an ipod nano I can attest to it being easily scratched. I had it not only 1 week and it seemed like its been thrown around for months, since then Ive been trying to buy a case for it but the local apple store is always sold out. Yes it scartches easily, but it still plays music, which is the reason I bought it, to listen to mp3s. Its not worth the time effort and money to get into a lawsuit with apple over!
This is like comparing Apples with Oranges, yes PHP can create simple dynamic web pages quickly and easily, but use it to create and type of enterprise scale application and watch its maintainability/simplicity drop like a sack of rocks. PHP has its place for scripting simple websites and making connections to small-intermediate sized databases, but it will never over take Java as a programming language, PHP is a scripting language in my opion. I dont know if this still stands true, but the last version of PHP that I worked with didnt even have namespaces, something that I believe makes maintainability of any application easier another thing only the core modules of PHP are thread safe, which is another thing you need to have in any large scale application. Java excels with threads making them extremely easy to use and has alot of support for it.
IMHO PHP wont over take Java, I have yet to see any Banks use PHP for their online banking involving money transactions. PHP has its place for creating small-medium dynamic websites.
The Canadian government does not subsidise internet. Nor does it receive any subsidies from any local or provincial governments.
One reason that Canada is able to do this is that the majority of our population borders the United States border, Im pretty sure that the majority of the US/Canadian Border has great broadband. The problem in the states lies in getting it to much more wider area because the US population is alot more spread out compared to the Canadian population which is alot more concentrated.
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You are probably a more casual Starcraft gamer, because in my opinion I've loved the beta it's absolutely addicting. I was a hardcore Broodwar player ever since it came out I played on the Korean servers and they have done an amazing job with this game so far. Better than I thought to be honest. What league were you placed in when you played? Currently Im in the top 10 of Platinum 53, and every game whether I loose or win has been extremely fun and enjoyable.
The meta game for Starcraft has changed dramatically over the pass few years. The game is more of a macro management game now. Rush tactics are barely used in pro-matches and if they are and are properly defended with a proper scout the player rushing has a very little chance of coming back in the game because they are so economically behind. Most games now are based on quick expansions example 12nexus 14cc 12 hatch Starcraft is probably the best game for this as IMO is the most balanced and RTS available on the market. Hopefully the people programming the AI are seasoned players and know how the current meta-game for Starcraft Broodwar is.
What is status on the mutalisk micro. In the last build it was not possible to stack mutalisks. But there was mention in one of the updates that the developers are trying to include this type of micro back into the game. Has there been and progress in adding stacking of units to the game or will it not be possible?
Obviously you didn't play the game enough on multi-player to become good at it. This is not just my opinion but the opinion of the hardcore gamers that still play the game religiously to this day. There is a reason why Korea has 3 television stations dedicated to this game and why it is a multi-million dollar industry in Korea. The game has amazing re-playability (multi-player). You can only play single player campaigns for so long until it gets boring. Trust me when I say that the majority of the Starcraft gaming community have NOT been playing single player campaign for 10 years.
Starcraft Broodwar was not defined by how good it's single player campaign, it was defined by how balanced the game was in multiplayer mode. Sure Blizzard games usually have really great story lines and awesome cinematics but there is a reason why it has been delayed till 2010. Battle.net. For this game to succeed the multi-player aspect must be up to par with Starcraft Broodwar, Blizzard is currently having difficulties with the latest version of Battle.net and this is why it has been delayed till 2010. This single player stuff is nice to see but it is just a very small portion of what is in store for Starcraft 2.
Sounds about right, right after 4:20 people usually tend to get lazy and just not do work in general.
This is towards Chris Sigaty: With the addition of MBS(Multiple Building Selection) and auto split (Mining workers) do you think that a lot of the hardcore fans (including myself) will feel that the game has been made too easy for people to play? What new things have you added to Starcraft 2 to compensate for making everything easier to do to appease the hardcore fans? I understand that you are trying to reach a broader audience but it was the little things like splitting the workers at the beginning and macroing through your unit production buildings manually, turning collision detection off on your (probes, scvs or drones) etc ... that made Starcraft such a good game it was easy to learn and it is near impossible to master, I've been playing since it came out and I'm still learning tricks to help win games.
I don't know how he can say that video games leads to obesity. South Koreans probably play the most video games out of any nationality. A big portion of their economy is based on it. They have pro-gamers that practice 10+ hours a day and the last time I saw none of them were obese.
There are a lot of rumblings around the Starcraft gaming community about Starcraft 2. ahref=http://sc.gosugamers.net/news.php?id=5522/re l=url2html-31115http://sc.gosugamers.net/news.php? id=5522/> There is also an audio file of a top Counter strike tournament director speaking about Starcraft 2. ahref=http://zanno.oddwebsite.com/cevofull.mp3/rel =url2html-31115http://zanno.oddwebsite.com/cevoful l.mp3/> (Around 7:30 into the file).
IMHO I wouldn't want Starcraft 2 to come out as I still play Starcraft Broodwar actively and I think it is perfect in every way.
I have to agree that Blizzard is one of the greatest game developing companies around today, if not the best. Ive been playing Starcraft since it came out and havent stopped since. South Korea has a huge professional gaming community based on Blizzard games, instead of say football, hockey or basketball people in Korea watch professional gamers play Starcraft or Warcraft 3. Ive seen huge stadiums filled with thousands of people watching two guys playing Starcraft, with lighting effects, fire effects and sound effects going off in the background. They have Starcraft branded merchandise and Im not talking about figurines, im talking food, clothes. Their current season of MSL is sponsored by Pringles and most of the players are sponsored by big name corporations ie (SK Telecom, FILA, Addidas just to name a few). If Blizzard can help create such a community and hlp its economy in such a way they must be doing something right. I believe that it was Warcraft 2 that placed them on the map and helped them develop their next game, which IMHO is the best RTS of all time Starcraft! Blizzard isnt always about pretty graphics like alot of other companies its all about game play!!
That may be true, but does having 8 times as many polygons and however many times as fast going to make it anymore more fun. Better graphics and a faster CPU does not make the system better overall, harware wise yes gameplay, no.
Id just like to congratulate Mr. Alex Bendiken on a job well done and that his design was also one of my favorite designs throughout the contest. I cant wait till the design is rolled out onto the live server.
This is all Al Gore's fault; he invited the internet. If it wasnt for him none of this would have happened.
Oh I completely agree with you there, there are alot of communication issues between the engineers and developers from what my friend tells me. Which could be the root problem of their sub par drivers. Documentation though Im pretty sure most developers hate to do is key to a good development process.
My friend that works at ATI was able to view this card in action at the labs and the demos were amazing but he told me ATI continues to lack in the driver department. He informed me that there is about 1 floor working on drivers which is about 60 people and they have not been up to par with the hardware that they seem to be producing. Hes gotten his hands on a couple of their video cards for testing and many of them have crashed his computer forcing him to format/reinstall his operating system. IMHO, I think that ATI should really look into improving their driver support.
If the same study was not funded by Microsoft and was funded by a company that supports Open source and the linux platform say google or IBM would your results have been the same?
Developing secure software should always be platform independent. But security for developing an application does not stop at the developer, it continues through to the system administrators and the users. We've all heard software is only as secure as the O/S its running on, well its also as secure as the administrators/users running it. Security should be practiced at all levels from development to roll out and installation and through its entire lifetime. No software is completely 100% secure, so if flaws pop up after development patches should be available ASAP.
Ok if you take it litereally, sure you can put a price on it, but how much for you to have the most important person in your life killed? cause each one of those people that would die has a relationship with on or another person. 10 million to kill your family? dont think so
Lets say the asteroid hits New York and whipes out its population and buildings that is going to cost ALOT the country alot more than 8 trillion dollars. You cannot put a price on human life!
Ahh the AMD wins overall in performance but can it cook make me a sunny side up egg as fast as the intel :P
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Yeha I got my best friend one as well and she still has the laminant on it and I gave it to her about 1 month ago. She wont take that laminant off until she gets a case for it, she doesnt want her nano looking like mine apperently!
As an owner of an ipod nano I can attest to it being easily scratched. I had it not only 1 week and it seemed like its been thrown around for months, since then Ive been trying to buy a case for it but the local apple store is always sold out. Yes it scartches easily, but it still plays music, which is the reason I bought it, to listen to mp3s. Its not worth the time effort and money to get into a lawsuit with apple over!
This is like comparing Apples with Oranges, yes PHP can create simple dynamic web pages quickly and easily, but use it to create and type of enterprise scale application and watch its maintainability/simplicity drop like a sack of rocks. PHP has its place for scripting simple websites and making connections to small-intermediate sized databases, but it will never over take Java as a programming language, PHP is a scripting language in my opion. I dont know if this still stands true, but the last version of PHP that I worked with didnt even have namespaces, something that I believe makes maintainability of any application easier another thing only the core modules of PHP are thread safe, which is another thing you need to have in any large scale application. Java excels with threads making them extremely easy to use and has alot of support for it. IMHO PHP wont over take Java, I have yet to see any Banks use PHP for their online banking involving money transactions. PHP has its place for creating small-medium dynamic websites.
The Canadian government does not subsidise internet. Nor does it receive any subsidies from any local or provincial governments. One reason that Canada is able to do this is that the majority of our population borders the United States border, Im pretty sure that the majority of the US/Canadian Border has great broadband. The problem in the states lies in getting it to much more wider area because the US population is alot more spread out compared to the Canadian population which is alot more concentrated.