BF2S Forums =OFFICIAL= Starcraft 2 Thread

Must...have...that....game!
Finally I will play again with my lovely Protoss!!

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3159662

ThomasMorgan wrote:

=NHB=Shadow wrote:

i dont know about you guys but im pre ordering this shit when it first is avaliable for preorder and also trying to get into beta. - I have connections.

With a game like this, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't use beta testers other than ones they privately hire.

It definitely won't be like 2142.

They will do both... they will alpha test and then beta test.

BF2Craglyeye wrote:

Im so happy, I could cry.

weak.

I am crying.

Damn i really want to get that

I'm not supriesed....but I still say fucking finally!
I had a feeling they'd release some info on it sooner or later...it wasn't like they'd never make a second starcraft ever again.

Lost Hope wrote:

Can someone tell me the story of Brood Wars, because I didn't buy it when it came out and after it was only sold with  Starcraft.

Episode IV

Following Tassadar's sacrifice, the Zerg on the Protoss homeworld are in disarray, but still overwhelmingly numerous. Except for some Protoss forces commanded by Jim Raynor and Fenix who stay in Aiur counter-striking the Zerg, the rest of the Protoss army refugees retreat to Shakuras, the homeworld of the Dark Templar, by using an interdimensional portal, despite protests from Aldaris, the ancient leader of the now ravaged Conclave. However, despite the efforts of Raynor and Fenix, the protoss are followed there by the Zerg . The Protoss and Dark Templar, with the supporting assistance of the Dark Templar's matriarch Raszagal, reluctantly join forces with Sarah Kerrigan's Zerg forces, after she explains she's now free of the Overmind's control, but that a new Overmind is growing on Char. Kerrigan asks for their help to kill it before it reaches maturity. However, the Protoss ask for a favor in return. Two ancient crystals, fused with the powers of the dark and high templar, must be recovered to defeat the Zerg on Shakuras. The two crystals are discovered and the Overmind is crippled to slow its development. During the battles, a massive Terran fleet from the distant United Earth Directorate intervenes, and Aldaris, troubled by their alliance with Queen of Blades and the Dark Templar's trust in her, gathers supporters and declares war on Zeratul's forces and the Dark Templar. As he is about to reveal why he staged the rebellion Kerrigan assassinates him and she is banished from Shakuras. The two crystals, infused with the power of the two templars, are then joined in a Xel'Naga temple on Shakuras. The two energies fuse and destroy all Zerg on the planet, thus saving the Protoss.

Episode V

This is the Terran campaign of the game.

The player joins the United Earth Directorate (UED) Expeditionary Fleet, assigned to subdue the Terran worlds in this sector, but their high-handed actions quickly make enemies of all the various Zerg and Protoss factions as well. Their first enemy to fall is Mengsk's Dominion, overconquered by the UED forces in their capital world of Korhal. However, Raynor manages to rescue Mengsk before he could be captured by the UED, and both escape to the Protoss homeworld of Aiur where some scattered Protoss forces commanded by him and Fenix were still on fight against the remainder of the Zerg invasion. The UED follows them to the planet but is unable to track them as they escape through the Protoss Warp Gate. Though divided by the intrigues of a Zerg-infested human spy, Samir Duran, who turns Admiral DuGalle against his chief deputy, Vice Admiral Stukov, the UED succeeds in capturing and enslaving the new Overmind and control of Zerg swarms.

Episode VI

With the massive UED fleet controlling increasing numbers of Zerg, Kerrigan is severely threatened. By painting herself as a victim and the combined Zerg-UED as the greater enemy (and through the judicious use of threats and hostages), Kerrigan and her new ally Samir Duran gain the reluctant assistance of the scattered Terran Dominion of Arcturus Mengsk and the Protoss forces that had stayed in Aiur and didn't travel to Shakuras, commanded by Jim Raynor and Fenix. This alliance manages to reconquer Korhal's desert world from the UED, as an apparent deal with the emperor Mengsk, but after the victory she turns on each of her "allies" one by one, resulting in the death of Fenix and General Edmund Duke. In the following events, Kerrigan's forces arrive to Dark Templar's homeworld of Shakuras and manage to capture the Dark Templar's matriarch, Raszagal. With the matriarch as a prisoner, Kerrigan pursuades Zeratul to help her destroying the Overmind controlled by the UED. The Overmind is killed by the Dark Templar, and Kerrigan gains complete control of the Zerg. Prior to the Overmind's demise it's discovered that Raszagal was infested by Kerrigan, even before Zeratul's arrival to Shakuras, and was Kerrigan's mere decoy all the time (something Aldaris had suspected before he was killed by Kerrigan). This forces Zeratul to kill her before Kerrigan's eyes. After all these events, Kerrigan defeats the Protoss, UED, and Dominion fleets in a single epic battle, and by the end reigns as the dominant power in the Koprulu Sector.

Prior to the climactic battle of this campaign, Samir Duran mysteriously vanishes, much to Kerrigan's annoyance. Unbeknownst to her, but revealed to the player in the secret level "Dark Origins", Duran's alliance with Kerrigan was yet another level of his deception. Secretly, Duran had been conducting experiments on creating viable Zerg-Protoss hybrids at installations scattered across the sector, and he's discovered by Zeratul and the rest of his scattered forces. Duran reveals that he is in fact working for an as yet unnamed force. He warns Zeratul that the hybrid he discovers is only one of many, and they will bring about the end of the current order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brood_Wars#Storyline

ThomasMorgan wrote:

I wish I was Korean.

Heh. I dunno, I'm Korean and I wish I wasn't sometimes. The whole AWP whore/Zergrushkekeke/etc. hype about Koreans annoys me sometimes.

Man I can't wait for this game to come out. StarCraft was pretty much the first PC game I've ever played.

Hurricane wrote:

I'm not that thrilled tbh. It seems like a re-hash of SC with some new units and shinier graphics. Woo.

why change something so great?

I HOPE they don't try to make too many "improvements"

oh yeah boi. Finally some good stuff from Blizzard ^^

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, SC was a fun game I just, I don't know, expected something more stunning. I realize they probably don't wanna mess with what's a tried and true system, but eh... maybe fancier graphics?

And yeah I'm no wiz with RTSes either =p maybe I too will find my copy of that game.

And here's a funny little video I dug up last night (damn is it old):
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/9090

One thing Id like to say about the graphics... After ALL those years, and the graphics look like THAT? I mean...COME ON!!! Atleast make it less WC3-ish, but other than that, can't wait to play it!!!

Hurricane wrote:

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, SC was a fun game I just, I don't know, expected something more stunning. I realize they probably don't wanna mess with what's a tried and true system, but eh... maybe fancier graphics?

And yeah I'm no wiz with RTSes either =p maybe I too will find my copy of that game.

And here's a funny little video I dug up last night (damn is it old):
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/9090

I just read the article on Gamespot.com, and the reasoning for keeping the graphics turned down a bit was to make the game very accessible for competitive play.

And I'm pretty excited about it. I logged tons of hours into SC, and wouldn't mind doing it with the sequel.

Somebody find me a linky for a demo/spawn version of SC? I can't be fucked waiting for my mate to burn it.