Starcraft News for Oct. 31st
Brood War Beta Patch 1.02
The latest patch was released yesterday. Here's what it changed. Personally I think they can quit improving the Protoss anytime now. And how about increasing the Battle Cruiser speed and giving the Valkyries back those afterburners... Just my wish list :)
Sunken Colony damage was increased to 40.
Science Vessel sight radius was reduced by one.
Science Vessel cost was increased to 100 minerals and 225 gas.
Valkyrie sight radius was increased by two.
Lurker damage type was improved to "normal".
Dark Archon speed was increased to equal that of a normal Archon.
Carrier hit points were increased to 300.
Interceptor damage was increased by one.
Robotics Support Bay build time was doubled.
2 new Ladder Maps were added.Battle Reports from Blizz
Blizz has put up a new section where employees post their Battle Tales from the beta. It's a good source for strat tips and there's a lot of screens to go with it. The first report is a 2vs2 game where BobF & EnoYls take on Cain & SiliconWafer. If you haven't read it yet give it a peek. I think you'll like it.Unit Info
RTS Gamers and Agent911 have updated their BW Unit info section. There's a lot of details on the new units here and the animated portraits add some eye candy.
Weekly SCM
The latest scm from Blizz is a 192x192 Ash world map for 2-6 players. Here's the teaser:
The temperatures on the planet Char can become so intense that large portions of the planet's surface become completely liquefied. During certain times, when the planet is furthest from the twin suns of the system, small islands form on top of these seas of magma. These bits of land are, not surprisingly, replete with minerals and greatly prized as sources of incredible wealth. These riches are not without cost, however, as more than one potential prospector has met his demise within the fierce heat of Char. Download now! (225kb)
Starcraft News for Oct. 30th
All the Unit Sounds!!
Here's all the BW Unit Sounds in .wav format zipped up for easy downloading. I know sc.org has released some of these allready but hey, at least my links work =P The Corsair and the Medic are my favorites. The Corsair has some off the wall stuff, hehehe. It's a keeper ;) Enjoy!
Medic Sounds- (1.54mb)
Valkyrie Sounds - (1.37mb)
Corsair Sounds - (2.31mb)
Dark Archon Sounds - (1.79mb)
Dark Templar Sounds - (986kb)
Devourer Sounds - (949kb)
Lurker Sounds - (1.27mb)
Starcraft News for Oct. 29th
Medic and Corsair Sounds
SC.Org has released all the Medic and Corsair sounds. You can grab them in zip files below or listen to them in wav format by clicking the links above.Medic zip (1.5mb)
Corsair zip (2.3mb)BW Buildings
Here's some new pics for ya. Thanks to King Arthur for helping me with them. I don't know what the heck that Terran Psi DIsruptor is for... I guess these buildings will show up in the single player game.Disruption Web Animation (Corsair)
Terran Psi Disruptor - You got me on this one
XOvermind Cocoon (Zerg)
XWarp Gate Animation (Protoss) - Xel'Naga(?)
Starcraft News for Oct. 28th
Treats for the Wicked
Brood War Sounds! I finally got that mpq viewer to work (sporadically, it keeps freezing my system) and got some great sounds for you. Check them out below. Seems Blizz hasn't lost it's sense of humor after all :)
One of the Critters
Corsair
Dark Archon
Dark Templar
Valkyrie
Medic
Devourer
Lurker Firing
Witness1
Kerrigan
These are gone now, but at least we can hear what they would've sounded like
After Burners On
After Burners Off
New Wallpapers!
Blizz has three new ones up, the Medic, the Lurker and the Valkyrie. These are computer generated art, not Samwise stuff. :( That's not saying CG is bad, I just think his stuff RULES!! The Lurker and Valkyrie are pretty cool, but that Medic looks like an ad for a new action figure :O hehehe. Grab em here.Brood War AI Scripts!
Yep your reading that right. Camelot Systems has BW Scripts for the taking. Grab them here and get mapping. If you've got the beta cd, King Artur has also uplaoded a sc_data.txt for the mpq viewer. I just want to know one thing... where the heck did he get that list and why didn't I have it last night???? You know how many trial and errors I did? *sigh.. my poor fingers*Brood War Ladder Forum
Blizz has opened a new forum BW Ladder Games. Its just like the SC Ladder Games forum, you can look but can't post.
Starcraft News for Oct. 27th
New Animated Gifs
X-Virge has been busy at Shafe's and put up some new anim gifs of BW units. He's got the rotating Valkyrie, Medic and Corsair. Their fun to look at. My concious only lets me grab the Valkyrie to stick up here. Check out Shafe's to see the others. I've also stuck up some critters he posted since they are about 2 days old now I don't think he'll mind. Hope not anyway. Figured maybe some of you haven't seen them yet. The first critter is a desert one and the second is from the snow tileset. Apparantly somebody was having target practice with them.
Lurker Page
Blizz has put up the Lurker page for their Brood War Section. Funny, it's not at all what I thought a Lurker would like... I think the concept art version closer to what I had in mind. They've also got 18 screenshots up from the beta now. Some of them are really good! Check out the show here.Brood War Bugs
BW does have a few bugs to be dealt with as shown in this screenshot I saw over at Planet Starcraft. They've got several cool screens up, give em a look at the site!Email From Blizz
I got an email from Blizz detailing the changes to BW and SC units. It's kinda long so I put it up here. Pretty soon I think the Protoss are going to be just too da*n strong. They're wreaking havoc on the Terrans now.A Revealing Post
Tek7 sent me an email on these 3 posts. At first I thought who cares about some guys resignation??? But I read it, and sadly I can identify with it in some ways. I know so many ppl that play games online and hope to find acceptance and friendship, for whatever reason. But the friendships are often superficial and short lasting. Are games addictive? I think so, the good ones anyway. But hey, the post is revealing, open, and I wish Happydaz the best. I've met some nice ppl through SC, but unfortunately I've met more jerks, (as shown in some of the replies he got). I was recently in the BW USA-1 chat channel and many many top players were there. I was surprised to see how they patted each other on the back for doing such and such to "some shmo" and ignored the other ppl in chat to the point of extreme rudeness. I lost quite a bit of respect for them that night watching their bloated egos at work. It was sad really, I mean it's only a game guys. Oh well, steps off the podium...
Happydaz's resignation statement
Lameking's reply
A message of hope
Happy Halloween from Antioch
Are you in the mood for some Halloween carnage? Antioch dishes it up with this weeks new SCM, Sleepy Hollow. Download it now and get in the spirit of things :) While your there take a peek at the Halloween Banner he put up, pretty cool :) And his BW editorial/rant, Brood War makes you wonder.... He's got a few bones to pick over the quality of attention paid to detail, and the Tongue firmly in cheek follow-up.Camelot Happenings
Camelot Systems has announced that they will be adding support for Brood War Beta files to Arsenal, SCUnit, and StarDraft. Don't know if that's good or bad. Would like to have seen the game actually come out b4 that happened. Eh, Call me a purist. They also have a poll up wanting to know if your interested in a HellDraft (a Diablo version of StarDraft). Check it all out and vote at Camelot Systems.
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