launch Time for HotS

murphzor · 13-03-2013 02:37PM

Orizio wrote: »

Pretty prejudicial analogy. Comparing basically a dumbed down casual game like SC2 to chess is a huge insult to the latter.

Are you still butthurt about those practice games where I made a joke out of you? Please go away.

IRL_Sinister · 13-03-2013 03:35PM

HAI GUISE

GosuIrish · 13-03-2013 04:02PM

Finished on Hard will go do brutal sometime later , was alot of fun few things i wish there was more of , now time to hit the ladder

Orizio · 13-03-2013 05:52PM

murphzor wrote: »

Are you still butthurt about those practice games where I made a joke out of you? Please go away.

...what?

Orizio · 13-03-2013 05:52PM

IRL_Sinister wrote: »

HAI GUISE

:pac: You back playing?

Rev Hellfire · 13-03-2013 05:54PM

Lets cut out the name calling.

SB2013 · 13-03-2013 07:19PM

Anyone set up a channel for multiplayer?

Gbear · 14-03-2013 09:12PM

Seeing as you apparently can't install from the disk, like a normal game, but have to download it from the internet (what's the disc for then?

) this is taking bloody ages to install.

A modern game shouldn't take 2 hours to install.

Similar sized games normally take about 10-20 minutes.

Edit: Nevermind 2 hours, this is going to take at least 4. This is bollocks to be honest.:mad:

Gbear · 14-03-2013 11:27PM

This is a serious cluster**** by Blizzard. How were any of the rest of you even able to play this?
Are you all fortunate enough to have 100Mb broadband?

It's going to take me at least 17 hours to install the ****ing thing. Utter ****ing disgrace.:mad:

Talk about fixing what isn't broken. I have absolutely no idea why they had to go reinventing the wheel when installing from the disk has worked perfectly fine for about 15 years.

Grimebox · 15-03-2013 12:49AM

I just bought it online. 12GB download comes with that convenience. It's bizarre that you can't install from the disk

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 15-03-2013 09:55AM

someone was saying last night that you can install from disk if you installed wol from a disk, otherwise.. download only

GosuIrish · 15-03-2013 12:05PM

i had wings installed from a disc and around a month ago hots started to download in the background its self so come release all i got was another 100mb update and it unlocked

Grimebox · 15-03-2013 01:12PM

GosuIrish wrote: »

i had wings installed from a disc and around a month ago hots started to download in the background its self so come release all i got was another 100mb update and it unlocked

People who didn't buy hots had to download that as well apparently

GosuIrish · 15-03-2013 01:42PM

Grimebox wrote: »

People who didn't buy hots had to download that as well apparently

yeah that is true , mine downloaded before i even bought the game and you got no notification about or anyway to stop it just happened on its own

Grimebox · 16-03-2013 05:09AM

I hate TotalBiscuit so much. I can't believe MLG hire him as a caster. It is litreally ruining the event for me. He doesn't know a thing about the game

ShadowHearth · 16-03-2013 08:56PM

Grimebox wrote: »

I hate TotalBiscuit so much. I can't believe MLG hire him as a caster. It is litreally ruining the event for me. He doesn't know a thing about the game

I like him.

Anyway, watching MLG Bomber vs GOSWSER match. Fecking trololol AWESOME game!

Gbear · 16-03-2013 09:04PM

Finished the campaign.

Seems like Blizzards modus operandi is to have some **** up at launch but then hope everyone forgets because the game is so good.

Really enjoyed the campaign.

Off to see if they've added Hots units to monobattles!

Gbear · 16-03-2013 09:08PM

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

I am also worrying of level mechanics beginning to repeat themselves too soon, serious case of deja vu with the third planet's first level.

Yeah.

There was a bit of that.

Most of the levels boil down to some race against the clock.

Last mission was nice though. Look forward to trying it on brutal. Don't think there was even 1 mission in WOL where you just had to build units and steamroller and the difficulty is brought by having to face lots of really strong units. I like those missions if there's one or two sprinkled in. In the original SC all the missions were pretty much like that.

murphzor · 16-03-2013 09:40PM

That game between bomber and goswer was absolutely bonkers.

SB2013 · 16-03-2013 09:46PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I like him.

Anyway, watching MLG Bomber vs GOSWSER match. Fecking trololol AWESOME game!

You can't possibly like him. He's a gigantic pompous ass. I like his casting though.

My issue with SC2 is this whole "streaming" thing. The internet in my area has been pretty poor for a few days and it's taking ages to load campaign maps or vs AI games. I can't understand how the Diablo3 and sim City have not thought people any lessons.

BlitzKrieg · 18-03-2013 12:15AM

Gbear wrote: »

Yeah.

There was a bit of that.

Most of the levels boil down to some race against the clock.
Last mission was nice though. Look forward to trying it on brutal. Don't think there was even 1 mission in WOL where you just had to build units and steamroller and the difficulty is brought by having to face lots of really strong units. I like those missions if there's one or two sprinkled in. In the original SC all the missions were pretty much like that.

Got around to finishing today after I stopped earlier in the week out of annoyance over the

crucible level where you had to defend kerrigon as she evolved back into the queen of blades, it wasnt a hard mission, it just was the third mission in a row that I found frustrating and tedious so wasnt in the mood to do it.

overall it was ok, but I think the WOL campaign was better, if anything this one needed

something along the lines of the prophecy missions from WOL with the hyperion, yeah they did *1* mission but it needed to be a bit more. But overall the story which should have been starcraft's 2 equivalent to the empire strikes back didnt leave me with much, it felt like the expansions existence was simply to tie up all the crap left over from brood war and wings of liberty so that the stage is set for the big bad. Which was bit huh. We knew that was what hots was for, but I would have liked a bit more of meat to the journey, it felt all far too easy.

Grimebox · 18-03-2013 03:15PM

Much shorter than the original. Technically there is the same number of missions but I'm not counting the evolution tutorial missions whatsoever. It is far to easy as well. I beat all the levels on the hardest difficulty setting bar one. I think they were trying to hammer home that the nature of the zerg is overwhelm your opponents. Building a ton of units and over running everything just isn't hard at all though. Very little precision micro required at all, if any. Last missions got even easier with Kerrigans ridiculously overpowered abilities, one of which spawns an entire army from the sky... you can almost beat the last few level with her alone.

The missions do vary like the original which keeps it interesting. The new evolutions for each unit keep it fresh too.

The storyline is the usual rubbish from Blizzard theses day. The whole premise is a love story and apparently Kerrigan is hell bent on revenge. It didn't do it for me at all. She doesn't seem like a real character at all. She comes out with cliché one liners non-stop. Her abraisive nature cuts short any conversations which could get interesting. You hear some people calling for blizzard to make a feature length film. I say they shouldn't embarrass themselves. They make fantastic visuals for cut-scenes but that's about it. The supporting cast were decent. Especially the creature in the evolution chamber and the return of Stukov from brood war

Zombrex · 18-03-2013 05:34PM

Grimebox wrote: »

I hate TotalBiscuit so much. I can't believe MLG hire him as a caster. It is litreally ruining the event for me. He doesn't know a thing about the game

Yeah, imagine if you were watching a football game on Sky Sports and the presenters spent the whole time talking about what chocolate bar they prefer. That is a bit like watching TotalBiscuit and Husky.

I'm sure they are nice guys but they have no clue how to comment on games. I watched a cast by Husky once where the game was 15 minutes in, and nearly over, before he actually made a single comment on the game (and it was to say that one of the players was building some marines), he had spent the entire cast waffling on about going to the PC shop to buy a new graphics card. Jesus H Tapdancing Christ.

Gbear · 18-03-2013 05:43PM

Zombrex wrote: »

Yeah, imagine if you were watching a football game on Sky Sports and the presenters spent the whole time talking about what chocolate bar they prefer. That is a bit like watching TotalBiscuit and Husky.

I'm sure they are nice guys but they have no clue how to comment on games. I watched a cast by Husky once where the game was 15 minutes in, and nearly over, before he actually made a single comment on the game (and it was to say that one of the players was building some marines), he had spent the entire cast waffling on about going to the PC shop to buy a new graphics card. Jesus H Tapdancing Christ.

Husky might work better as a foil for some of the proper casters.
I find him generally annoying and cringe-worthy though.

Not sold on Total Biscuit in any way shape or form. He totally doesn't deserve to have as good a name as that.

ShadowHearth · 18-03-2013 08:36PM

I still Like TB and his commentating. He makes it fun to watch. If I could choose i would always chose Tastless and Artosis though.

Grimebox · 18-03-2013 09:01PM

Apollo has got to be one of my favourite. He can do both types of casting very well

Gbear · 18-03-2013 09:39PM

Day9 all day.

ShadowHearth · 19-03-2013 02:07PM

Finished campaign. Really Loved it, but it was a lot easier. I replied only one mission i think and i played on hard. Now i am not a good SC2 player in any form, so it was really easy. Last mission compared to WoL was walking in the park. I did not used any tactics. Just randomly mazing out then A+Left mouse button on anything that looked at me funny.
Even so, i LOVED it. Story like always good, but WoL was better.

No twist in the end was sort of disappointing.

I still hate when they did i WoL ending though.

I liked that guy!

SC2 is the only game I love doing achievements. Looks like it has "master" achievements for those who found it too easy, so all good. I will have some fun doing those so! Will need to come back to Wol and do it on brutal.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 19-03-2013 02:08PM

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I did not used any tactics. Just randomly mazing out then A+Left mouse button on anything that looked at me funny.

well it is the zerg expansion

Gbear · 19-03-2013 02:59PM

I think that part of the problem is that with zerg against a dumb AI it's very easy to attack with impunity and then just run home if you're attacked. Harder to do that with siege tanks and so forth.

I tended to have 2 armies - Roach/Hydra/Kerrigan in one and then have ling/aberration/ultra in the other.

Attack with kerrigan and keep the fast, melee units in reserve to run around mopping up any attacks. Even better if you use the speed mutation for lings. They have a movement speed of 6 or so on creep then.

Especially useful on the

mission in Korhal with the bile launchers

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