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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Starcraft 2: The beginning

With the Heart of the Swarm beta going on, I wanted to talk about how my love affair got started with Starcraft 2.

So how and where do I start! I have been playing starcraft 2 since it was early beta, on and off I might add.

It all started because ... Well because I got into the beta automatically because of work. I had never really played rts games all that much, I mean I messed around with games like command and conquer and warcraft: orcs and humans. The latter I only played a few times because I didn't have a computer and had to go round to my friends house to play.

I had no idea how the game worked, sure I knew you built workers and an army and then you killed your opponent but that was it. As you might imagine, I was terrible. At that point in the beta you couldn't play the single player mode so I ended up playing like 5 games on the big bad internet. I think I lost them all, surprise surprise.

My excellent start to playing starcraft 2 instilled in me something which I battle even now, the dreaded ladder fear. I'm not sure who else may suffer from it.. its not so much that you are scared of playing on the internet, more I think that you are scared of losing to someone you don't know. As crazy as that sounds.

At that point, I had an excellent playing buddy(Chris), who was just as terrible as I was. We played quite a few really bad games against each other.. I think I might even have some of the replays saved from that time.. if you are interested in watching some terribad Starcraft let me know and I'll let you have them!

I think it was then that I found that I couldnt play Terran and Protoss was a girls race, which left me with zerg...

It's time to get ready for work, so I will carry on with this later!

Ciao for now!

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