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Epicness of Starcraft 2's Editor and Bnet
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Oct 4 2009, 6:13 pm
By: EzTerix  

Oct 4 2009, 6:13 pm EzTerix Post #1



Doesn't the picture below look like the canceled X-Box game Starcraft: Ghost?

Well no, It's Starcraft 2 in third person action game mode.

Yep, Starcraft 2 has the capability for third-person action games, up and down arcade shooters, and editors that can craft crazy units like the Uberlisk.
The action game in the video didn't take them much longer than a few days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iosMcvPIMcw <<< Watch to see epic capabilities of Starcraft 2's Universe Editor

Think of all the possibilities mapmakers can create with Starcraft 2. You can now actually make a third person action game(although you could do it in WC3) that will be much easier to integrate and much easier to control the unit (the guy in the video only used his keyboard, no mouse clicking!)
Not only that but the ability to make unique units like the Uberlisk.

Not only that but I discovered some cool stuff about the Bnet as well. The new Bnet will feature quite a few new things that will interest most avid players:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWukqOA76ck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVofETBQSUk

What do you think about Starcraft 2 now?
I believe the editor is amazing and the Bnet is looking pretty nice. I'm sure we all heard of the pricing for premium battle net maps, but who's to say that other freelance mapmakers won't make maps that will surpass the premium ones?

All in all this is pretty amazing stuff. ^^

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Oct 4 2009, 6:20 pm by EzTerix. Reason: hi =)



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Oct 4 2009, 6:18 pm Jack Post #2

>be faceless void >mfw I have no face

Blizzard gets full rights over any map made. If they want to make it a premium map, they can. Basically we can't choose for a map to stay free.



Red classic.

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Oct 4 2009, 6:29 pm MrrLL Post #3



Thanks, but this is old news now.
http://www.staredit.net/topic/8342/



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[10:31 am]
NudeRaider -- blessed innocent soul knows nothing of the strife we had before EUDs were discovered :teehee:
[2026-6-23. : 3:29 am]
DarkenedFantasies -- Probably just didn't care. For example, at some point before release, they've updated the graphics of some of the Protoss buildings (Forge, CyberCore, Citadel, Observatory, Arbiter Tribunal), but instead of properly re-rendering them with edited 3D models, they did crappy copy-paste jobs on the rendered graphics.
[2026-6-22. : 8:35 pm]
Ultraviolet -- :wob:
[2026-6-21. : 11:38 pm]
Symmetry -- :wob:
[2026-6-21. : 4:56 am]
Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically
[2026-6-21. : 4:26 am]
Oh_Man -- so that makes me think maybe the theory they are unfinished is not true and its a deliberate design decision, coz why not finish them wen ur making brood war?
[2026-6-21. : 4:25 am]
Oh_Man -- the thing is thos buildings are from classic. that means they went ahead and made brood war without ever finishing the 'unfinished' buildings
[2026-6-20. : 6:15 pm]
Ultraviolet -- Yeah he's talked about a lot of that stuff in his casts before. It seems plausible. Especially knowing how Blizzard of yesteryear operated.
[2026-6-20. : 3:47 pm]
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
[2026-6-20. : 3:43 pm]
NudeRaider -- Contained nothing new for me. Didn't know all building's behavior, but very much all unit's. Also Terran balance whine - also nothing new :lol:
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