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Greetings!

Developer Update: Heart of the Swarm Multiplayer

 

Some interesting changes their, though toss still needs some more love since carrier/mothership are leaving.

 

Anyone up for some team games?

 

Sure - what are your character details and I will add you ingame!

 

Knoydart.547

Sorry for the late reply I got engrossed in trying to get the Blitzkrieg achievement last night.

 

So I never really got around to finishing the SP and barely touched MP before letting the game rot. But after watching this vid I've reinstalled the game and will get cracking

 

Is the SP actually any good?

I just wanted a pure RTS and couldn't be bothered with all the walking around and stuff in the campaign between missions. Also are the missions fun?

 

I found the SP very entertaining and highly polished. It's worth a play through.

It's also pretty long, 26 missions total.

 

Greetings!

Video.

 

Just thought I would show you how not to play XD

 

Greetings!

 

So they are gonna make us buy heart of the swarm to continue playing multiplayer?

 

I thought that was the most obvious part. They'll say something like "keeping everyone on the same page blah blah blah"

 

Yes the SP is fantastic.

 

Greetings!

New units:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=q4nNfZwwhYg

 

Nice to see some good changes for toss, as they where looking pretty weak when the first units where shown off.

Mothership core while it looks good for defence and recall- the loss of the mothership to provide mobile cloak and vortex will be interesting.

Oracle: While entomb is interesting it would be bettter to be able to freeze the scv's etc then the mineral line.
Cloak while the video makes it look good for defence, would be good to see how effective it is at offensive.

Tempest Not much change will be interesting to see how long it last against other air units ie vikings/corrupters.

Not really much change with Terran, the mines are interesting but with the amount of detection wonder how effective they will be.
Zerg units not much of a change though be interesting to see how well they combine with the existing zerg army.

 

The mothership is still in the game, you "upgrade" the mothership core into it.

 

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/06/09/redefining-starcraft-ii-in-heart-of-the-swarm

Gives more information about the new units and how they upgrade, will be interesting to see what units do remain once close beta testing starts.

Mothership/carrier could still leave the game along with other units, just wait and see really.

 

Unfortunatly they are not removing roaches or marauders.

Looking forwards to HOTS but really got over WoL a couple of months bk when every pvz was ppl going pure roach with drops. Toss cant be all over the map at once and thats what the other 2 races do. Frustration ensues constantly. lol. (this is at a master's level btw)

This is not a balance qq. Just the frustrations of a high level toss player that wants to be aloud to manuver a little more, its whhat they want for toss in HotS so lets hope they succeed in doing it

 

The one good thing about sc2 is that the game does develop quite alot, new strats etc to counter etc.
Though toss always does seem to have a hard time against zerg, hots will be very interesting to see how the new units join up with the exisitng units, still can loose alot of them.