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StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
I picked this up today and I'm surprised at how low the system requirements are, although, the game was certainly developed for Pentium 4 and 1GB of RAM. It isn't capable of using more than 2 cores on my CPU, but even with a pretty old nVidia 9600, I'm playing at high graphics with no lag. The 5 or so missions I've played are perfect vignettes, none of that old 4 hour marathon mission thing.
I was very surprised and full of disappoint that there wasn't a tech tree in the box.
I was very surprised and full of disappoint that there wasn't a tech tree in the box.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
I just tried the first couple of missions. It's AMAZINGLY good looking. I'm really impressed. I'm using a ATI Radeon HD 5770 on Ultra and it looks stunning. I forgot to run FRAPS to see what sort of a frame rate I'm getting, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's higher than what they were reporting in that article. I'm off to bed, but I'll check tomorrow.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
I'm guessing it's going to be at least a year before we see these expansions and by then you will have forgotten that you paid $60 for the first installment.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
I'm not sure if you're just arguing to be contrarian or what. Someone suggested that it was their understanding that each game would be treated as a standalone title. We were just discussing the ramifications of that. Isn't that what a forum is for?
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
At last year's Blizzcon they said the zerg and protoss expansions would be 30-40 bucks
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
based on what they did with their other RTS. i would be that they would be expansion packs and would be priced below $60.
I just noticed some quirks for SCII battle.net. You cannot change your name once you register. I did not know that and initally created a fake name intending to change it later.
also, there doesn't seem to be a way to set your status to offline in battle.net. sometimes you don't want to be disturbed by your friends. also found it weird that you need to login to battlenet to play a game against the computer only.
I just noticed some quirks for SCII battle.net. You cannot change your name once you register. I did not know that and initally created a fake name intending to change it later.
also, there doesn't seem to be a way to set your status to offline in battle.net. sometimes you don't want to be disturbed by your friends. also found it weird that you need to login to battlenet to play a game against the computer only.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
They give you plenty of warning like saying "Are you sure? You only get one shot at this". Not trying to be harsh here, but if you couldn't take those sorts of hints, that's really more your fault than theirs.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
I'm pretty sure there's an option on the login screen to just "play locally" or something like that. Down in the lower right-hand corner, maybe? I can check when I get home tonight.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
I just have to say HOLY SHIT
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This is one robust engine.
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This is one robust engine.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
There's a play as guest option, but it looks like it doesn't let you play against the computer, just the campaign. That kind of sucks.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
i even created another account to see if i missed it and saw none.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
Weird. I'm 100% certain I got a big old warning like I detailed above. I installed the game on Thursday, and there was a patch auto-installed so maybe that warning was included in the patch?
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
I got my copy on launch day. I remember seeing a message that said the name was permanent. I don't remember any warnings besides that one.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
I just have to say HOLY SHIT
<object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vjuf7DELz9s"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vjuf7DELz9s" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object>
This is one robust engine.
<object style="height: 344px; width: 425px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vjuf7DELz9s"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Vjuf7DELz9s" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"></object>
This is one robust engine.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
It isn't the engine that is impressive, but the Map Editor. It seems they looked at all the things people tried/wanted to do with the Warcraft 3 editor but couldn't and now added that functionality into it. It is very impressive stuff.
Also all of the high-res models that are used for cut-scenes are available in the editor as well, to do with whatever you want. You can also import in sound effects, music, and 2d artwork... not sure if you can also import in 3d models though.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
I play it on my Intel Mac Mini and it works just fine. Sometimes it stutters coming out of cutscenes and into the things that happen on the map before you get control, but once the mission gets going it works great. Looks good too.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
Can you cross platforms if you're playing multiplayer PC v Mac on Battlenet?
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
Yes, I'm fairly positive you can cross platform when playing MP. Battlenet doesn't care what system you have. Also, I think your auto-saves are saved in the "cloud" so you could play in Mac OSX and then also in Windows via Bootcamp and not have separate saved games for each. I don't think this applies to manual saves though.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
I would like to know specs as well, thanks. I have the late 2008 iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz with the Nvidia 8800GS.
Yes, I'm fairly positive you can cross platform when playing MP. Battlenet doesn't care what system you have. Also, I think your auto-saves are saved in the "cloud" so you could play in Mac OSX and then also in Windows via Bootcamp and not have separate saved games for each. I don't think this applies to manual saves though.
Yes, I'm fairly positive you can cross platform when playing MP. Battlenet doesn't care what system you have. Also, I think your auto-saves are saved in the "cloud" so you could play in Mac OSX and then also in Windows via Bootcamp and not have separate saved games for each. I don't think this applies to manual saves though.
And yeah, it keeps track of what mission you're currently on, but not manual saves.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
1.5 million copies sold worldwide in 48 hours. not too shabby.
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Re: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Mac & PC) - July 27th, 2010
i created my account thru the webpage battle.net and not thru the game.