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Starcraft 2 Shooter

TheGuardian — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:03:27 +0000

Quick entry: some guy took the Starcraft 2 editor and created a zombie apocalypse Mod with it. Check out the Starcraft 2 shooter bellow and don’t be a skeptic.

The Starcraft 2 shooter supports up to 8 players, flashlights, aim and weapon-swap animations. This is why we love the modding community! If you have a Twitter account, follow us to stay in-touch with the latest StarCraft 2 news. Gotta run now, the zombies discovered our secret spot.

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Starcraft 2 Changes: Patch 16 “Secret” Changes

TheGuardian — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:56:58 +0000

Besides the already published Starcraft 2 changes for Patch 16 on Battle.Net forums, there are few several changes not mentioned in the patch notes, such as:

For Terran:
- Hellions now have a small Cooldown on their rate of fire.
- Ghost ability to not attack a nearby enemy unit has been changed to a Toggle ability (useful when cloaked).

For Zerg:
- Roaches can no longer move under the Sentry Force Fields while burrowed. Really smart change!
- All units inside a Nydus Network can now be seen, which makes unloading of specific units easy.

For Protoss:
- Stalkers can no longer Blink up ramps without previous vision; also, cannot blink across islands.
- Another change: upgrading a Warpgate into a Gateway takes 10 seconds up from 3.

General Changes:
- A worth mentioning change: various critters now wander the map.
- Attack cooldown info is now listed in the weapon/ability’s Tooltip.
- Xel’naga towers now show up on the Mini-Map as eyes.

These were the latest Starcraft 2 changes. Stay tuned for more!

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Top 10 StarCraft 2 Changes

TheGuardian — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:04:32 +0000

More than 10 years have passed since the classic StarCraft came out… Over a decade of anticipating a sequel for the perfect competitive real-time strategy game of all times. After the headline associated with StarCraft II, enthusiasts everywhere had been allowed to get involved in the development of the video game with suggestions as well as questions on fan web pages and message boards.

Every so often, Blizzard provides Q&A (Questions & Answers) batches, specifics regarding the up to date units, structures, not to mention lore, podcasts (Blizzcasts), videocasts (Battle Reports) in addition to posts by Karune (Kevin Yu) at the BattleNet Discussion message boards. Blizzard listened to the online community of avid gamers which made StarCraft what it is in the present day.

On the Summer 2008 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, people found out that StarCraft II is intended to be released as a trilogy, beginning with “Wings of Liberty” (Terran campaign), followed by “Heart of the Swarm” (emphasizing on the Queen of Blades), and finally “Legacy of the Void”, dedicated to the awesome Protoss. On February 2010, StarCraft II initiated closed beta testing, along with beta keys selling on eBay for rates up to $400.

We are now days apart from the midnight release event for Starcraft II across Europe, in London, United kingdom, on July twenty six. “Reports of Zerg activity have been coming in from around the globe, and we need you to fend off the Swarm that’s set to arrive this summer with the launch of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty,” stated Blizzard.

Let’s have a look at Top 10 StarCraft 2 Changes, in comparison to the first StarCraft:

10) Individual units are difficult to identify as well as micro accurately, while in StarCraft units were easily identifiable.

9) StarCraft II has lots of units on-screen, with Colossus lighting getting in the path of units and surprising gamers.

8) The Twilight Archon is visually worthy of the Protoss, when compared to its predecessor.

7) The Protoss Phoenix really good alternative to the Scout; I certainly cherished its Overload ability.

6) The new siege tank may resemble a toy, dispersing its legs. Was it too inexact?

5) In StarCraft II, teleportation is not really gamer talent, it’s cheap unit skill (see Stalker).

4) Certain units in StarCraft II mimic ninjas and WarCraft rip-offs, especially the Marines and the “Crypt Fiends”.

3) LAN support will not be installed into StarCraft II; players need to authenticate with Battle.net so they can play.

2) StarCraft II buildings are blocky; in the initial StarCraft buildings are actually metallic and shiny.

1) StarCraft II really ought to reward those who exercise more to be a deserving successor of StarCraft. There’s too much automatization in the sequel, which could minimize the returns of extreme training. A handful of Koreans players will be very upset with this one, which happens to be first on our list.

In spite of so many modifications, in the end, you will glimpse at Starcraft 2 without having to feel unfulfilled, mainly because Blizzard never didn’t climb to fans’ expectations. Regardless, we are at this point very close to view the finished version of this long awaited video game. For Aiur!