StarCraft 2

yea, i was frowning at a protoss commander. when they still have horner, tykus, mira, and all manner of interesting humans.

Holy shit i never knew how bad Brazilian/Spanish players were until trying to level up Fenix during the day.

I just got back to messing around with coop, bought Stukov, who is certainly one of the weirder commanders. Seems like the playerbase is shrinking, during the day on a weekend, I was getting matched with people playing on casual. Still, directing your swarm vaguely in the enemy's direction is fun, shame you have to relocate your production on bigger maps.

Before today most of the active, good players hit 90 mastery already. Today that changed and they're all playing Fenix, but that leaves only the more casual people to partner up with. Ranging skill levels from why the hell do you even try playing this game to half-assed but passable. Literally had a 86 Zagara spam build bile launchers but only at the center warp portal on the Void Launch mission.

edit: 84 Stukov who did not defend, build a single bunker, or move his spawner closer. Literally carrying them with a less than 15 Fenix.

Level 10 Fenix is where your play choices open up. You can go cyber core first before ever building a gateway and no longer waste gas on Dark Council, Stargates, Robo, Robo bay, or Fleet beacon. I mean, you could also just go straight Robo or Stargate too but the units are still gas expensive.

I'm not even gonna bother buying Fenix for a couple more days.

Fast Expand option for Fenix seems to be 4 minutes. Pylon, Assimilator, Gateway, Pylon, Zealot, Zealot hero research and can use him to clear an early first wave and the rocks. Teleport in dragoon Fenix and use the zero cooldown beam spam to deal 1k damage to multiple rocks as well.

Fenix's immortals and colossus are both underwhelming on upgrades so I would recommend going adepts or adept/carrier and skipping the robo unless you have extra money to get out those heroes.

Fenix seems unimpressive. All three of his suits are mediocre and the AI units are very underwhelming. He's pretty much just Artanis without guardian shell or shield overcharge.

Blizzard is finally aping Dota2's compendium: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/20859945/war-chest-visual-guide-7-15-2017
10€ per race/25€ for all, adds skins for all MP units, some decals/sprays. You have to actually play MP or coop to unlock them, 4 skins per month.

I finally got all commanders to 15, which has been fun, but I'm not sure I'm ready to buy a bunch of extra skins. It feels more like too little too late. If they came up with some extra gameplay content, I'd be the first in line. Nova DLC was apparently selling much less than the commanders, which is a shame, since I'd love more of that.

I'd be tempted if the skins worked in Co-op too, but I haven't seen anything that confirms they overwrite co-op skins.

One pack in HS? One Chest in OW? Not really up to par with the 'rewards' cross-game purchases used to supply. If it was 3-5 in HS and a pet in WoW instead of Diablo3, I would probably buy this.

Remastered stream going on. I feel like I was teleported back in time. WhiteRa just destroyed iNcontrol

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Remastered stream going on. I feel like I was teleported back in time. WhiteRa just destroyed iNcontrol

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Great stream. Definitely worth watching a few games.

This is going F2P Nov 14. Wings of Liberty Campaign + full access to ranked

StarCraft II

Interesting, does it mean it goes officially on life support ala D3, or is there going to be substantial co-op or singleplayer content ?

From the half-assed quality of co-op commanders, I'm pretty confident they're going to keep releasing those at the very least. They flat out said they weren't happy with how much the Nova campaign made so I doubt we'll get any more SP content.

Starting today, you can claim Heart of the Swarm if you already have Wings of Liberty. It should be in your gift box in the Blizz launcher. You have until December 8th to claim it.

Zaphid said:

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Interesting, does it mean it goes officially on life support ala D3, or is there going to be substantial co-op or singleplayer content ?

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I'd say it goes on life support, as I'm not touching this game ever again after playing SC1 and the toxic environments that are the players that I was playing against. Add to that, people would tell you how to win. Not, "This strategy makes the most sense, and here's why..." but no, instead "Move certain units here, certain units here, and voila."

It just seemed too much like a great way to troll people into thinking that you had created one of the best games ever. Make it impossible to do unless you do exactly what they say to do, and profit off'a the bloody heads of gamers who continue to smash their heads against the wall. Meanwhile, a thirteen year old is laughing at you because he beat you in under two minutes.

Terrific gaming experience.