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Twin-Linked Flamethrowers, Dual-Fusion Welders, Microfiltering, Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Apr 13, 2014 |
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Apr 13, 2014 23:43
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:
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Apr 14, 2014 00:16
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Buy Advanced Construction. Research Orbital Depots. And lets do The Great Train Robbery, because, well, you know. (I don't know if you'll allow this in voting, but if Safe Haven wins, I choose to Purify the Colony.)
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Apr 14, 2014 00:30
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my dad posted:Micro-filtering and save the cash. Seconded or thirded or whatever.
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Apr 14, 2014 00:31
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Poil posted:Seige Breakers, Micro Filtering, and The Great Train Robbery. Seems like a good choice to me. I'll back this decision. Regarding the Haven mission, I've always been one for protecting the colonists. Just sits right in my book.
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Apr 14, 2014 02:00
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ExodusPrime0 posted:Regarding the Haven mission, I've always been one for protecting the colonists. Just sits right in my book. Happy endings are over rated. Sometimes you just need to watch everything burn and build a pile of corpses.
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Apr 14, 2014 02:11
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Right Now, the purge ending makes more sense, it's also more fun. The ending of the game makes it kind of a dickpunch though. The other non-canon mission is more fun than it's counterpart as well.
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Apr 14, 2014 03:50
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Kurieg posted:Right Now, the purge ending makes more sense, it's also more fun. The ending of the game makes it kind of a dickpunch though. On the other hand you get the very awesomest unit from the canon one (assuming given what is said in HotS that we don't help that unfriendly lady).
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Apr 14, 2014 04:15
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Wait, but the canon one is way more fun than the non-canon one.
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Apr 14, 2014 04:22
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Laughing Zealot posted:One thing about the colony mission choice here, Blizzard declared at some point which one is canon: Defending the colony is the canon choice. Well, now that you say that, CLEANSE THE PLANET OF THE FILTH
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Apr 14, 2014 04:43
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Feinne posted:On the other hand you get the very awesomest unit from the canon one (assuming given what is said in HotS that we don't help that unfriendly lady). Yeah, the canon path is not helping the unfriendly lady. Which is a pity because the post-battle cutscene is amazing.
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Apr 14, 2014 04:54
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:
Goddamn, I cannot unsee this.
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Apr 14, 2014 05:32
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Kurieg posted:The other non-canon mission is more fun than it's counterpart as well. You're nuts.
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Apr 14, 2014 05:41
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Voting Closed! Upgrade: Siege Breakers - 14 Save our money - 12 Maelstrom Rounds - 6 Thermite Filaments - 2 Twin Linked Flamethrower - 1 Dual Fusion Welders - 1 Advanced Construction - 1 Research: Micro-filtering - 30 Orbital Depots - 2 Mission: Great Train Robbery - 31 Purify - 3 Protect - 1 Raldan fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Apr 15, 2014 |
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Apr 15, 2014 04:22
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Xoidanor posted:Are you going to be showing off both the endings of Haven or will you put that off until the campaign is done? I'll probably be showing off the alternate missions after we make our choice. I think it's better than waiting until the whole campaign is done.
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Apr 15, 2014 04:23
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Siege Breakers are one of the mercenary contracts that I always pick up because they are a) in-loving-credible and b) available way quicker than normal siege tanks unless you started the mission teched up enough to make them.
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Apr 15, 2014 05:52
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Feinne posted:Siege Breakers are one of the mercenary contracts that I always pick up because they are a) in-loving-credible and b) available way quicker than normal siege tanks unless you started the mission teched up enough to make them. Yeah, having a pair of big rear end guns to help defend early game can make or break you sometimes. Especially if you suck at SC2 like I do. I just can't break out of the mindset of small elite forces... I find it a bit of a pity that the promotions in game don't actually do anything to the stats of a unit, because that marine that killed 100 things should be pretty drat good at it by the end of the mission. Though it is kinda fun to see that marine go up the ranks.
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Apr 15, 2014 06:44
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Now that I'm caught up with the LP I can comment on how much I love seeing players destroy Brutal difficulty. I always had trouble if I lost concentration on Normal, and barely dipped my toes into the waters of Hard, so it's very impressive and kinda cathartic, whether it's this LP or one of Raelcun's AGDQ/SGDQ speed runs. Using the barracks trick to let your siege tanks murder all the Protoss is amazing to me because I could never pull it off even without the stacked odds of Brutal.
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Apr 15, 2014 18:30
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I tend to run this when I've got air units and use them to spot for the laser drill on the enemy buildings.
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Apr 15, 2014 18:34
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Feinne posted:I tend to run this when I've got air units and use them to spot for the laser drill on the enemy buildings. You don't need air units when you have floating barracks. 
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Apr 15, 2014 21:55
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ArkhamPraetor posted:You don't need air units when you have floating barracks. It's irritating when you plop your overlord down on a nice safe scouting spot and the other guy floats his rax up so his marines can shoot it. But it is nice if it was a rax they walled in with. 
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Apr 15, 2014 22:44
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CrazySalamander posted:It's irritating when you plop your overlord down on a nice safe scouting spot and the other guy floats his rax up so his marines can shoot it. That's why you shoo the overlord away with one or two marines and build away from it. 
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Apr 15, 2014 23:04
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ArkhamPraetor posted:You don't need air units when you have floating barracks. You don't need floating barracks when you can scanner sweep and take out all their pylons
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Apr 15, 2014 23:10
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So watching When Cheese fails made me want to watch more competitive Starcraft, preferably with less awful commentators. Does anyone have recommendations of where to find good matches, preferably somewhere that doesn't spoil the result?
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Apr 16, 2014 00:02
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Patrick Spens posted:So watching When Cheese fails made me want to watch more competitive Starcraft, preferably with less awful commentators. Does anyone have recommendations of where to find good matches, preferably somewhere that doesn't spoil the result? Well, you have a few options. Pretty soon there will be the GSL super tournament, which is basically going to be the best of the best slugging it out in Korea. I'm not sure if VODs will be available, and I assume that they will be broadcasting at times that are most convenient to Korean viewers. There is sort of a "main" SC2 season, where the three regions (America, Europe, Korea) play their league championships. Broadly speaking they are divided into two leagues, where the lower one feeds into the upper one (For AM and EU, Challenger -> Premier; for KR, Code A -> Code S). Each region broadcasts games at times that are most convenient for their region, so you could find a good game most any day during the main season... it just finished last weekend, though. WCS: AM is running their qualifier tournament for Challenger right this minute if you want to check that out. If you are interested in seeing a team league, Proleague is ongoing, and has some incredible games. In individual leagues, you have brackets, best of X series, etc. In Proleague, the teams roundrobin, and play players on specific maps with matches announced ahead of time. PL games tend to be much better planned than individual leagues, as a result, and the games can be quite a bit different. On still a third hand, the Proleague casters are absolutely insufferable. If you would like to see something closer to home, zeez, Something Awful's SC2 team is participating in the SC2CTL in both the Advanced (Plat/Diamond) and Competitive (Master/GM) leagues. If there is enough interest, I would be happy to cross-advertise when streams for [zeez] events are going live in this thread. Raldan and I have been known to cast a large number of [zeez] events, sometimes with random [zeez] guest stars. We aren't as good as the professionals, but you could root for your ~local heroes~!
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Apr 16, 2014 01:59
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I would just like to add that if you want to see good SC2 games, the WCS website contains the videos for all their matches at http://wcs.battle.net/sc2/en/videos There is a switch on the top right to turn off spoilers, and you can watch a ton of great games there. I suggest watching the WCS Korea Code S games, as those generally have both good quality players and good casters.
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Apr 16, 2014 02:03
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It'd be tricky to do so without spoiling the results but you could track down last year's WCS finals on youtube pretty easily most likely. The final match especially was... interesting.
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Apr 16, 2014 02:03
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Day 9 and Total Biscuit do a thing where they upload as many videos as there should be games, and if it's over in 3 then game 4 and 5 are just a random length of silence.
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Apr 16, 2014 02:39
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Raldan posted:I would just like to add that if you want to see good SC2 games, the WCS website contains the videos for all their matches at http://wcs.battle.net/sc2/en/videos Had a quick look at some of the matches there: does no one play Zerg? Unless I'm reading things wrong, it looks like the most recent match featuring Zerg is 8 months old. Strikes me as a bit weird.
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Apr 16, 2014 03:59
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I think the race filter does not work on that website. When you filter by race there aren't any videos within the last 8 months. If you don't know any of the players, I guess you're just going to have to hunt around for zergs. You shouldn't have too much trouble just selecting some random games and finding a zerg. Edit: If you want some specific zerg players, you could search for Jaedong, Revival, Scarlett, Snute, Hyun, to name a few.
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Apr 16, 2014 04:20
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I thought there was something odd there. Then again, the meta for these kind of games gets weird as hell sometimes, so I was honestly starting to wonder if all the big names favoured Protoss and Terran exclusively. Thanks for giving me some suggestions.
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Apr 16, 2014 04:48
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I'm loving the LP but I've never played StarCraft so I'm not too familiar with the story and characters. Is there a decent LP of the first game and/or Brood War with a non-irritating LPer? The ones I've found on YouTube all seem to have that "now I want to stab something" quality.
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Apr 16, 2014 06:24
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:I'm loving the LP but I've never played StarCraft so I'm not too familiar with the story and characters. Is there a decent LP of the first game and/or Brood War with a non-irritating LPer? The ones I've found on YouTube all seem to have that "now I want to stab something" quality. I can't say there is offhand but I know there's a person on two on SA who want to do one sometime in the future.
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Apr 16, 2014 06:53
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Man the new voice actor for Zeratul just doesn't have the same character as the original.
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Apr 16, 2014 14:01
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I felt pretty much the same way about the Adjutant.
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Apr 16, 2014 14:04
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I miss the Adjutant being a actual cyborg instead of a robot/AI. Don't mind the new voice much though.
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Apr 16, 2014 15:24
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I mainly miss the SC1 style conversations. More than two people in most conversations and the writing felt much better than SC2's, which tends towards the melodramatic even without getting into what Metzen has said is the real focus of the Starcraft 1 and 2 storyline.
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Apr 16, 2014 16:14
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Honestly for me the Zerg campaign has better characters and thus better conversations. Even if you don't like how Kerrigan acts in a few of the scenes she's got some pretty great interplay with some of the... entities that are hanging about at different times. Fred Tatasciore is doing Zeratul now (also Swann), his original VA Jack Ritschel seems not to have done anything since Brood War so maybe he's just not doing voice work anymore. Most people who aren't Mengsk and Raynor have new voice actors, which is sad but not really surprising given how much time passed between Brood War and Wings of Liberty. Feinne fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Apr 16, 2014 |
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Apr 16, 2014 16:32
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Feinne posted:Honestly for me the Zerg campaign has better characters and thus better conversations. Even if you don't like how Kerrigan acts in a few of the scenes she's got some pretty great interplay with some of the... entities that are hanging about at different times. Fred Tatasciore isn't doing any more voice work because he's passed away. EDIT: Nevermind, got the wrong guy! SoggyBobcat fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Apr 16, 2014 |
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Apr 16, 2014 16:47
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Reminds me a bit of people complaining about the new actor playing Spartacus in... the Spartacus series, not realizing that the previous actor died of cancer. The only time that more than two people are speaking with each other are in certain dialogues directly before or after a mission. I think this has something to do with how you can miss certain characters due to not having done their mission/sided with their enemy, and since you can have so many variations on when you do which mission, they had no choice but to make most conversations for two people only. They obviously did not have the problem in SC1 or Brood War, where the story was entirely linear.
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