Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm

Heyo all!

So, I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about the Beta that is going on for the next part of the Starcraft 2 legacy.

Basically, it's a few new units for each race that will be available in multiplayer and a whole new campaign story, this time instead of from the Terran perspective, it's told from the Zerg(WAHOO!). Needless to say because I love the story/playstyle of the Zerg I am really looking forwards to it.

At the moment, you can only play the multiplayer because they need to balance the new units so they aren't like super duper overpowered in the competitive side of the game. But what do I think about it? Well, the new Zerg units are well, quite okay.. but there is at least one change that I am really really happy about.. and it doesn't even really effect the game in general..

As Zerg, all your units move faster on this stuff called creep.. you need to spread the creep with your Queen unit by planting these things called Creep Tumors. In Wings of Liberty these things couldn't be planted on anything like a ramp.. and when you spread them the next one just sorta appeared.. but now... now the spreading has an animation.. it looks like a snake travelling over and above ground to the next point you clicked! And you can put them on ramps!

Not even really a huge change.. but it made me stupidly happy. Perhaps more happy than I should have been about such a small change.

One thing that I was really sad about, was that they had said that one of our units; The Baneling, which explodes in a mess of green goo and happens to be one of my favourite units would be able to move while burrowed under the ground(Note: in Wings of Liberty it could already burrow under ground but couldn't move and was lovingly called the Baneling Land Mine). But it seems they have removed this ability :'(

This is the first of many posts about the Beta, I will most likely go into more details about the new units for each of the races.. or maybe just make one post dedicated to each race and throw info at you about them like that.

In other news.. I have managed to finally get Battle.net SMS Protect off my account and have got it updated to my new phone.. hopefully now I'll be able to start selling stuff in Diablo 3 again!! If things even sell there anymore. I guess I'll find out! Wish me luck!

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Ciao for now!

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Productivity Vs Me

Howdy doody!

So, today is my fifth day of non smoking..annnnd the cravings are pretty bad. For the most part my coping strategies are that I am avoiding all the things that used to make me want to smoke. Though, I can't escape the dreaded work.

So what have I been doing? Well, I played some HotS Beta.. but mostly when I have been playing games, I have been whipping butt in Diablo 3. I figured it was beyond time and finally got my Barbarian to level 60. It was easy once I got some better gear.. which I bought from the gold auction house using the profits of my other level 60 toon's.

I had forgotten how much I enjoyed playing the Barbarian, it's quite like the Monk but a lot more bulky, doesn't look like he'd snap in two if some group of monsters looked at him sideways. Also that pretty much all of the sounds of the maneuvers you use are very gratifying.. it sounds like it hurts! Which afterall is why we play such a bloodthirsty game.. because it sounds and looks so bloody!

I'm not going to go into too much depth about the Barb, I'll leave that for the post specifically about them but I just wanted to let you all know what I've been up to!

I had a day off work yesterday and for once I was quite productive... shock horror! I fixed my darlin's bike after going and getting a new inner tube, I bought a new lock since the nice guy at the post office depot snipped my old one for me*, bought some food and hit level 60 with my Barb!

I'm actually stupidly good at procrastinating, like a lot of folks I guess, which doesn't help when I am wanting to do stuff... you know, like work.. and writing blogs.. and well, everything! So it's always a bit of a surprise to me when I actually manage to get stuff done.

I think the next post will be about the HotS Beta, which I have managed to keep quiet about till now... wait for it, it's coming!

Ciao for now!

*Though I am thankful to that guy for helping me, I could have been anyone just trying to ram keys into a bike lock! He could have just helped me steal a bike... though it was indeed my bike and I had been there for... some time.

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