Starcraft2 Battle Report #4

[sirleos]

can you still levitate the command centers?

[shadowkill546]

Damn its like South Korea vs North Korea

[kimvaaro]

this video helped me get my bloodline champions beta key - /watch?v=gjlnkBXavIo

[cloudjin893]

what does the obelisk do?..

[shadowFIENDmuacks]

@cloudjin893 creates 6 dicks to nail ur butt

[TerrorWolfX]

@cloudjin893 allows for visibility in selected areas. In this case, I believe all the paths from and to bases

[nattycakes123]

@BatBalder86 wow scam much?

[jetaimemina]

terrible terrible damage!

[PAVN]

why does he say sal sal plz ^_________^;

And then david kim says no pak pak

No clue what they are talking about.

[kamikrazi123]

whats the blue shield that P has around 5:00 during helion harass? I never saw that when I play beta

[pr0fet]

Obelisk, looks like a pylon that grants reinforced shields. Probably another unit taken out of beta

[PivoPyro]

I WANT THIS ON TV!!

[Quietdeath]

Great video! To the people that wanted to download, its so easy. In your URL location bar type the letters "pwn" in front of "youtube", and hit enter.

[indigomist]

I wish the nuke sign wasn't so BIG AND RED

[dazedhavoc]

very fun game to watch. great skill. david kim ftw.

[Phillporre]

This is great !!

[PrkchpsNaplsaws]

you should televise matches like this with commentators. This is more enjoyable to watch than any basketball game!

[nilewow]

This is from alpha.

[Deprecate1]

"david kim and his addiction to terrible damage"!!!!

TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DAMAGE

[gibsoj2]

Terran imbal

[nilewow]

You're a moron.

[Limpfittz]

Can't wait until this gets to swedish television. The future is close

[Heimunen]

Do you really think they will brodcast SC on swedish television?

[TheHugeTurd]

AHHHHH This game is SOOOO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

[Belgdor]

yung hoe lost haha

[guitarman5676]

the game wont come out because there are major glitches, barely any maps, the final terran campaign level is not finished and theyre making cheats for it (just like the origional starcraft) THATS WHY THE GAME CANT COME OUT NOW!!!!!

[kikidagogo]

david kim just pwned everyone

[Krane157]

lol at the chat at bottom center of screen at beginning of game ^_^

[ZEXALPHA10]

SC2 IS PWNG, i cant wait to get game, and the reason for rapid nuking is cause u can hold more then 1 nuke in a ghost acadamy :D

[ZEXALPHA10]

no, usual David Kim loses :P

[theeverlastingdark]

What are you talking about? David Kim's won the last four battle reports. That's why they keep bringing him back.

[ZEXALPHA10]

lo, EH, WRONG, i saw, yeon ho pwned David Kim severel times

[theeverlastingdark]

Dude what battle reports are you watching?

Most battle reports have been uploaded to youtube in parts. David Kim usually struggles a little during early game, but he always comes back mid to late game.

[ZEXALPHA10]

im watching the real ones, u might me mixing em up, iv seen em all, unless theres a 5 out, AND Y CANT THE GAME JUST COME OUT NOW!!!!!!

[cseijif]

@theeverlastingdark he watched that exposition shits of the blizz con and that 2vs 2 match, david kim got pwned becouse his partner was a real noob

[ZEXALPHA10]

look at the battle reports, its Yeon who usualy wins :P

[emperor291]

wtf u can only mine 6 minerals at once and 4 gas?

[aclock2]

Scary, Terran now can use nuke rapidly, I think they should get the black hole back for Protoss and do something with Zerg.

[ZettaiYadda]

You know that terran was able to do this in SC1 right?

[aclock2]

Yeah, but it's limited with the number of command center. Terran in SC 1 normally have 4 command centers and 2-3 of them are built with comsat station. Did you see that David Kim use 4 nuclear strikes at very close time ?. In SC 1 you need 4 Command Centers with nuclear silo to do that. But in this game it seems like David get nuclear from a pyramid like building. What if a Terran players build about 6-8 of that building ? Rain of nuclear, lord of destruction man.

[cseijif]

@aclock2 and his fuking economy wrecks out, only one of those buildings needs at least tree bases

[unknownRx]

Great battle, very fun

But, I want to see David kim playing as zerg, or a ZergvsZerg battle. It gonna be cool

=D

[Jackassbobby112]

Nobody likes to get nuked. But it feels good doing it to someone else.

[PhatalPhury]

Like rape!

[ZEXALPHA10]

Nothing is like Rape

[cseijif]

@ZEXALPHA10  you have all the reason

[DisturbedMinds]

@Jackassbobby112 That's what she said.

[MrWickiSC]

Lost temple!

[jpark1120]

why doesnt yeon use photons to defend against the ghost? and why no immortals? very bad choice of units....but then again David Kim has been playing terran on virtually all reports while everyone else has been switching...

[kavugnarr]

Nice they combined the crappy vultures with the awesome firebat to make one badass unit, I hope they can still lay mines.

[thegoddescomposer]

nope not anymore now the reapers has the abillity to plants mines stuck to the buildings and gave a huge damage to the buildings ( sorry for my bad english)

[MarinoVargas]

Why does yeon keep attacking the command center on 14:40? If he had just turned back he'd have won -_-

[elianpz]

YEAH Terran THE BEST

[mechabeast]

High yeild mins was problably the biggest factor here. DK defended his and the Toss never grabbed theirs. Poor unit choices near the end really did the Toss player in. Immortals would have done much better vs thors & marauders.

[xjhs2007]

GHOST ALLOWED TO HEAL?? WTF?

[shadmahmood]

it was the medi-vac ( the transport) that was healing it

[merdufer]

dustin doesn't seem to know very well how the game works. let's hope he doesn't get much say in the actual design process.

[DanteSitwell]

He;s lead designer.,...

[merdufer]

it's "hotter than that", not "more hot than that".

[Vasiliosx2]

10:05

the nuke has a queue... wtf does that mean 1 building can make multiple nukes???

[spartandubble17]

Hell its about time

[xCorrosive]

2:50

Auto mining rally point?

[Vasiliosx2]

yes auto-mining is in sc2

[dilinger5566]

really how

[franknight]

Waaaaay too much terrible damage onscreen.

[mikeyzor]

dustin is the most annoying commentator ive ever heard

[eafanboyssuck]

살살 팍팍

[INeedAYTAccount2]

I dunno. For me its not that hard to distinguish units between each other.

And dam if the terrans can make that many units I wonder what the zerg can make?

[cseijif]

terrans FTW

[IrishDutchman]

Dude, those planetary fortress can take a ridiculous amount of damage.

[warriorfire8103]

wow love the nukes. having both stronger ghost and medvac makes it much more powerful then the first game. Can't wait get my hands on terrans, and TEAR THEM APART!!!! lol, I'm looking forward to this all around.

[ycfeatbn]

hard to distinguish units

fights are way too fast to micro efficiently

ghosts + nukes appear imba

[dystino]

awesome :D this is the best BR they made. Thors, High templars, ghosts, nukes, psi storms. :D :D :D

[hotboymm777]

if u never played sc1 dont coment thnx

[selfself7]

Those psionic storms looked so cool, especially compared to Sc1 psi storms. It looks like there's "wind" and stuff. And same with the nukes. Great graphics!

[Apollys]

Damn that was a crazy game, G F G!

[Unseen151]

nerf david kim!

[bugs1yb1ins]

I thought Thors were more able to play the role of bulwarks\meatshields.

[ShaRpTeeN19]

vagrant u werent truly just stating your opinion just whining about what u didnt like without much reasoning to back it up next time u state your opinion make it seem like one not a complaint about thw hard work the pple are putting into such a great game soon to come u didnt like anything of it just complained more

[goldliquid]

psystorm looks awesome =p

[STALKERX9]

Clearly one can see here, quite a load of crying protoss fanboys, already jumping on unbalanced excuses and kiddy craps like that.

: /

Annoying.....

[MrZern]

I really don't like how the hellions attack and move. Otherwise it looks awesome.

[888564342432]

How do you counter those nukes?

[dyddlf7]

not really unless u kill ghost b4 it shoots the nuke but obviously ghost has 100hp (lyk 2times more dan sc1) and a medivac which is impossible to kill it with jux couple units

[thegoddescomposer]

TERRAN THE BEST

[francisvsu]

David Kim with superb tactics, amazing economic management and a highly motivated player. Congratulations, Dave.

[jeepld]

Very sad to agree with Bboydnl, GreatOniSamuu, juju3322...

But, Where is the original subtlety and equilibrium of Starcraft licence?

I just see hack and slash sessions, blocky terran design, wow effect everywhere, units way to big, overpowering everywhere, SC on steroids (wtf is that speed!!), where is the micro ?.

It looks like the game have been tweaked by a junior game design team fan of C&C.

[hotboymm777]

kinda got bored watching at the end...

honestly all of battle reports were sort of.. boring. is it just me? yea graphics are fine, game balance is getting better but.. when i saw those thorns.. yawn. lame

[holyhunter]

thorns?

lol its thongs, i think ...

[CiDiB]

Terrible, terrible damage O_o

And this combination... Ghost + Medivac... This is where you need some terrible damage to 1-hit-kill that nuclearing bastard.

[markalfabeto]

this is THE best battle report i have ever seen by far. great micro. david kim's so good!

[flyskyairflair]

wtf storm is so strong in this game -_-

and i thought storm was already too strong... ridiculous.... the way david kim played, terran has to go mostly bionic vs toss, and that's just BEGGING for mass storm...

[pinkranger015]

storms FTW! :D

[Jpcristel]

Incredibly dynamic and exciting match.

[TheWalt09]

Storm IMBA!!

I don't like this game as much anymore, everything terran has a really blocky look or there's just something irritating about it.

They just replaced vultures with hellions, and replaced goons with stalkers.

But all this isn't totally realistic, we probably won't see standard tvp play in in sc2 for a while...

[TheWalt09]

Oh, but I do like how easy it is to see the the units health bars and how easily distinguishable everything on the mini map is.

[hotboymm777]

i actualy found those mouse cursor clickings(by both players) and health bars annoying.

[Xbizkitl]

I hate the look of the Thor so much...

[hotboymm777]

kinda agree

[JayT236]

I hate it when they say "terrible damage". Negative adverb describing a positive verb (well, damage is good in Starcraft!). It sounds like he's saying he's doing really shitty (low) damage.

[QuicksilverPhoenix]

I disagree, I love when they say terrible damage, it makes me laugh.

[mikhasw]

Terrible:

1. a : exciting extreme alarm or intense fear, b: formidable in nature

2. extreme, great

Also, terrible isn't an adverb.

[JayT236]

Sorry grammar police, it's an adjective.

[mikhasw]

If you're going to question someone else's use of a word then you should expect your own choice of words to be questioned as well.

[stevz0r]

where can you get this? (wasn't on the sc2 site..?)

[NubOmatic]

Nice that they made storms stronger but the medivac has too much hp. It took the stalkers like 12 hits to kill it. How much hit points does that thing have?

[paco2244]

stalkers are dragoons?

[QuicksilverPhoenix]

@paco2244 Dragoons became Immortals, downed Dark Templars became Stalkers, but in comparison to SC1, yes... They are the new Dragoon.

[xBiocide]

wow, the hellions are really poorly designed. rest looks pretty good, but terran looks toy-like. whatever, the gameplay looks solid.

[dragoons9009]

Can't wait to play.

[GreatOniSamu]

oh cmon wtf this suckx nuke cant be that easy most of the terran will just drop and nuke inside base and gg and thers no micro at all he did like 4 nuke in 2 min thats OP put a f**ng CD on that nuke.. cmon blizz..

[QuicksilverPhoenix]

Then counter it, genius.

[GreatOniSamu]

how u can counter something that fuck up ur eco? in sc1 u could counter a reaver drop or a MM drop or a lurker drp but how u can counter a ghost/medievac drop that fast? u cant even use ur ground/air advange coz Dkim had a HUGE ground army and nukes 2.. its just lame

[it0wont0be0long]

called being not bad

[QuicksilverPhoenix]

The protoss could have defended better their high ground after the first Siege attack. 2 or 3 Photon Cannos could have been enough to stop the Ghost pretty fast, I even would bet that it could have popped the Medivac, the protoss was just bad. Besides, Nukes don't deal as much damage as they did in SC1.

[KizZBG]

Terrible terrible damage! :O

[kngtheo]

eh is it me or did i just see almost no micro control at all

still sceptic bout sc2 if there is no proper micro as in sc1 its crap

[BboydnL]

yeah you didnt see any micro

-_-x

looks so lame.

[Spanxxx]

lol the high ground can't be seen if they shoot XD ..retarded.

[Wogrim]

Can't blink where you can't see but you can cliff-jump (Reapers) to where you can't see, or does he have vision?

Are the little "tabs" above the selected-units box their control groups?

[cyclotane]

i wonder how much will GDP decrease when Starcraft 2 be out. Im sure am not gonna do shit, for a week

HAHA

byebye grades! there is always a summer course to make up jijiji

[CHumga]

sc2 is even FASTER than sc1 holy shit. I'm convinced sc2 is going to be dope.

[BboydnL]

-____________________________-

wow.

[Sinani201]

psi storms look AWESOME

nukes are cool too.

[Juju3322]

I am also concerned about the speed of the game (no micro anymore), and the design of the terran units. I hate the Thor he is just way to big. It just not Starcraft like

[nyxgrenade]

thats what i'm saying!!! thats one of my biggest concerns, the speed i mean.

[BboydnL]

EXACTLY

omfg finally. someone who isnt noob.

talk about no mobility.

[cseijif]

tor is like the the bully that makes shit big things and receive the strnog atackas

[superarbol]

nuke all very nice !11

[xxbluejay21]

WTF REAPERS HAVE STlM???

[duchaolun]

LT is broken take it out and put python in instead

[adamisuber]

TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DAMAGE

[Ghost2867]

Why is terran the new zerg? -_-;;

[ycfeatbn]

it's really hard to distinguish the units

how in hell is one supposed to kill off High Templar if one cannot find them? the action is way too fast to micro efficiently..

[brozors]

David Kim.. first SC2 bonjwa

[jinhk93]

Yea, starcraft 2 won't be as good as broodwar

I think that blizzard is trying too hard

[BigAple]

thank you for starcraft 2 =)

[Roochfan20]

Kim tries to play Mr. Gosu and stuff, nice try buddy but that left little to be desired.

[loztdignity]

Anyone else than me who thinks SC2 looks quite bad tbh? Graphics are cartoonish and messy

[Brutaxilos]

I'm fine with it. They're trying to keep it vibrant and easy to see like in SC1.

[synapsii]

i think terran units are too cartoony...ish...

you know.

and when you have a bunch of units together, you can never tell what is what >.>

but tbh, toss and zerg look reaaallly hot

[adamisuber]

I agree with the terran thing.

Also 3D tends to make things a clusterfuck, which makes me worry about sc2, but well see

[w00tzor25]

I'd like to see more Zerg battles <.<

Especially with the Zerg actually winning...

Psi Storms do look pretty awesome though, but the Nukes seemed a little bit OPd...

[Mykillyang]

did you read about the queen zerg larva inject?

they haven't done a BR with it.

[sdpgposd]

sadly this game is gonna be so fucking shit compared to the original

[Ccolebrooked]

Original wasn't as good as it is now when it first came out, much less in closed beta testing.

[wmhunter]

Nukes may be overpowered... Kim made that look easy.

[kreternal]

Sigh, I still want someone who actually plays the game well to do commentary. Not the creators -_-

[stonedawg2012]

yung should of seized his early game advantage more effiectively, but instead he allowwed DK to tech and turtle

[nigerfahgot]

nukes are that easy? ehhh

[ManicRevelation]

I was a bit skeptical about the game at first but it actually looks pretty sweet. As a long time fan of classic SC, I wasn't liking alot of the new abilities like blink and I thought alot of shit seemed overpowering, but just like in the last, there's always the proper technique to counter the proper techniques. Still don't like the look of alot of units and I'm having trouble telling some apart, but the gameplay looks good so I approve.

This will change SC completely. Have to get used to it.

[finalscarab]

can't believe i thought David Kim was going to loose

[ManicRevelation]

Sorry to anyone who like him, but Dustin (Justin w/e his name is) the designer dude kind of seems like the Madden of sc... Say something intriguing? Something I didn't know?

[Kruggy0]

Terrible terrible damage!

[fiendin281]

blink should be on zealots, not those dragoon things

[ShaRpTeeN19]

wow vagrantsc u just a born hater of new games or a plain hater in general like wow take a chill pill pple like u dont give new games a chance and judge and say stupidest fucking shit ever without even thinking your opinion is fail think before u speak kid...

[VagrantSC]

I was just stating my opinion about the game. If you want to talk, you can adres the issues I raised in my last post. If you just want to flame, then you can sit by your desktop and continue being sad.

[kylepwndyou]

nukes are good now? o.0

[VagrantSC]

Hellions look like toy cars. And the fire animation isnt very nice either. Other then that - this is starting to look and play NOTHING like the original starcraft. And Blink is the most stupid ability name ever. "He blinked his forces to the ridge!" Fail.

[LasTCursE69]

Pylon warpin

Phase prysm warpin

Blink?

and the zreg's drop for overlord is removed ?

Blizzard are fucking protoss fans -.-

[kreternal]

Haha, you're pretty ignorant if you believe that. They don't know the balance of the game yet. If you want to point out favorites think Zerg and their larvae injection skill. They're obviously going to balance the game.

[scorpio4850]

campare the PvZ of last BR, this TvP makes me more like hotblooded. Excellent!

[RedGrobo]

Protoss are kinda op they have way to easy an answer for everything, and zerg need a boost, as all their advantages are easily countered by the mass aoe and speed of the other two races.

Youll see when they release the game, and the holes that beta testing missed are shown due to the greater public playing.

[lostreason1]

i don't know why but i don't like the units, and it's only me or the vision field is smaller, or the units are bigger in it ? , but storms are looking very cool

[korea88]

lol nukes..boxer nuke rush

[cagatenen]

Wow Storm looks sick xD