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Blogs \ SC2 view from the outside
sk-dynasty @ 25th February 2010 16:01 (Read 763 times).
Disclaimer : First of all, i want to point out that im a huge Blizzard fan and i do not, i repeat, do not encourage the use of unlegitimate copyrighted materials such as their latest title, Starcraft II : Wings of Liberty.
I for one, intend to get my own retail copy of the game when it gets released, like i did with all the previous Blizzard titles.

In this blog entry, i would like to talk about things you can notice without actually playing sc2.
Being a big fan of the game and unfortunately one of the unlucky people who didn't get a beta key, to my shame, i got the cracked version of the game.
The people trying to crack SC2B, only managed their goal partially. At the moment, you can only view replays (acces full game menus,but you cant play what so ever), which, eventhough it made me cry of jealousy,i enjoyed watching replays a lot (for pretty obvious reasons).
The set of replays that came with the crack, were very low skilled,but the nice part of them was that, in most games, they made use of all the units of their races,and the replay watcher could see them in action and make a pretty good idea of what their capable of.
This being said, i want to point out some personal notes i could make after watching around 50-60 replays or so (yes, im a big fan allready).

Zerg : Highly overpowered at the moment, not necessarily becouse of the roach. The power to tech up very fast and, like Reiko said, to change tactical orientation in a blink of an eye, makes it close to autowin,specially in the hands of someone with good micro/macro skills.
Eventhough they literally killed the old school lurker from SCBW, Blizzard sure took care of replacing it. With so many options to chose from, even a mid skilled zerg player would be a real challenge to overcome.
The zerg is probably so special,at least if you ask me, becouse it describes a fast paced play style and considering the game is faster than SCBW, now its simply, wicked sick. :D
The most amazing thing i noticed at this race is its power to surprise.With so many options to chose from, the oponents try to balance their land-air techs in order to prepare for different types of strats.

Protoss : In SC2B, the protoss doesnt show than many changes (compared to SCBW) as i expected. It got a couple of new tricks up the sleave but nothing to fancy.
The new psionic storm its outrageously hard to land,considering the little cast delay i was told it has.
The unit warping thing, near pylons and stuff, is a nice touch.It can give you a lot of ideas that might get you the win.

Terran : Probably the weakest race in this beta version.Eventhough the terran has some new units and stuff, it cant do much against the protoss and zerg,the way it is at the moment.
For instance, if the game goes into late game, the terran is more likely to lose. In the early game, if rushed fast enough, has a good chance of losing.
If you ask me, the current power ranking would be Zerg > Protoss > Terran and Blizzard has to do a lot of work to get Zerg = Protoss = Terran.
Anyway, this written here, is just the oppinion of a player outside the game.Those who actually played the beta, might not agree with me.
If you guys really dont agree with me, please comment and correct me where i was wrong.
 


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#1 TeG-SirNeo 2 years ago
Terran is not the weakest race, not if know how to use it ;)

P.S: you jealous on me ?
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#2 ESL-Dynasty 2 years ago
just a little :P
 

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