• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Starcraft 2?

D

DudeItsMe

[H]F Junkie
Joined
Aug 10, 2004
Messages
15,720
I have a friend telling me that he's waiting for Starcraft 2 to come out, and that he's heard it's in the works... basically a few rumors that I was unable to confirm. He also mentioned he saw it on Underground.com, but that's not an actual site. Apparently he forgot where he saw it.

Anyways, does anyone KNOW anything about this? Like, official stuff, and not just rumors? Yeah, we all know it'd be great if they made it, and being Blizzard, I suspect it's in the works. But has there been any OFFICIAL word that can be trusted about the future of Starcraft?
 
If that video is real, I've just been owned...

But the skeptic in me says you wouldn't see a video like this before hearing the game announced.

Whatever that is though, it's amazing.
 
I dont think that video is anything like what the final release will be, or should be. The game looks like ass, C&C:Generals looks beetter.
 
I believe that was the StarCraft mod for C&C: Generals that was sadly shut down. :( A 2nd StarCraft would be killer though.
 
Mr. Miyagi said:
I believe that was the StarCraft mod for C&C: Generals that was sadly shut down. :( A 2nd StarCraft would be killer though.
Click to expand...

Dammit! You owe me a new pair of drawers :p
 
Starcraft 2 will be released when the mountains turn dust and the seas dry up and God himself falls from Heaven. So it is written in the Book of Blizzard.
 
Clowning said:
That's a video of the warcraft 3 mod for starcraft.
Click to expand...

It’s definitely SC mod for C&C:Gen like Mr. Miyagi said, and not War3.
 
Amazing footage, whatever game or mod it is (the later stuff looks like cnc generals, but the earlier stuff looked like warcraft 3)
 
Since it looks like Starcraft 2 is a long way from ever being made, It would be really nice of Blizzard if they could put together 3D expansion pack for Starcraft. Something that is based on the Warcraft 3 game engine and probably be multiplayer only too just to make easier to make.
 
I believe the ONLY official rumor out there is some European pianist or instrument player went on record saying he just finished working on the soundtrack for Starcraft 2.

I highly wouldn't expect this game for another 2 years atleast though. WoW is a big baby and will be a money/time sink for quite some time.
 
I really think the reason Blizzard isn't making SC2 because it's gonna be hard as hell to top SC. The balance that the 3 races in SC are incredible, completely different, yet so balanced. If they do make a SC2, they most likey have to introduce a 4th race (like War3). Which will take a LONG time to get the balancing and the gameplay right.

I mean look at SC:Ghost, it's slowly turning into another DN:F simply because Blizzard will not release a game that is up to their high standard.
 
I can't remember if I heard this correctly (It was awhile back), but during an interview with some Blizz devs they said that out of all the games they disliked making the most was starcraft and said they would never make another (RTS) starcraft game.

But I'm probably wrong
 
aznpxdd said:
I mean look at SC:Ghost, it's slowly turning into another DN:F simply because Blizzard will not release a game that is up to their high standard.
Click to expand...
Excpet for the fact that blizzard actually let people play Ghost at blizzcon, which goes above and beyond what any game dev(publisher?) would do in majority of cases.
 
theNoid said:
I believe the ONLY official rumor out there is some European pianist or instrument player went on record saying he just finished working on the soundtrack for Starcraft 2.

I highly wouldn't expect this game for another 2 years atleast though. WoW is a big baby and will be a money/time sink for quite some time.
Click to expand...

I thought that rumour was actually for a finished soundtrack of Diablo III...
 
iHatePants said:
I can't remember if I heard this correctly (It was awhile back), but during an interview with some Blizz devs they said that out of all the games they disliked making the most was starcraft and said they would never make another (RTS) starcraft game.

But I'm probably wrong
Click to expand...

I'd believe it, StarCraft was in development for years, I'm sure they spent hundreds of hours playing and tweaking.

Hell I would pay for another expansion based on the original engine! Even if it was just more campaign missions fleshing out the story!
 
Xaeon said:
I thought that rumour was actually for a finished soundtrack of Diablo III...
Click to expand...

Ahh you know what... you're correct. I was wrong, it was for Diablo III.
 
Jason711 said:
i dont see how a starcraft 2 would take longer than war3 to develop.
Click to expand...

The balance in starcraft is a hell of a lot more subtle and refined: War 3 units are just variations of power and cost, starcraft is truly a sublime design.
 
Slartibartfast said:
The balance in starcraft is a hell of a lot more subtle and refined: War 3 units are just variations of power and cost, starcraft is truly a sublime design.
Click to expand...

even then, what does it amount to... values? (no, i have no idea how to code.. just guessing) they could bring those along... and it would be so bad incorporating a 4th race... (is there even a 4th mentioned in the story anywhere?)
 
I guess Hybrid was somewhat introduced, the combination of Zerg and Protoss. Then there's Xel'Naga, the creators of Protoss and Zerg.

But yeah, the balance in SC is much more refined than War3.
 
Jason711 said:
even then, what does it amount to... values? (no, i have no idea how to code.. just guessing) they could bring those along... and it would be so bad incorporating a 4th race... (is there even a 4th mentioned in the story anywhere?)
Click to expand...

Well sure it's just adjusting numbers from a pure coding standpoint, but the difficulty is making sure that everything is evenly balanced.
 
i was thinking... marine does "x" damage, has "x" armor. siege tank does "x" damage has "x"armor" ..... etc. all that carried over to a shiney new interface and graphics engine.

i suppose that would really only amount to a starcraft 1.5, than anything else tho.
 
Yeah it would probably just be SC 1.5. But they also have to get other things right, not just the numbers. Such as: unit movement speed, their rate of attack, etc.
 
aznpxdd said:
Yeah it would probably just be SC 1.5. But they also have to get other things right, not just the numbers. Such as: unit movement speed, their rate of attack, etc.
Click to expand...

Yeah, if you want a good idea of the things they have to consider, take a look at the entire patch history and all of the tiny little things they tweaked.

btw, does anybody remember when the 1.4 patch came out, and all of a sudden the resource amounts were in green text, instead of gray? that was awesome!
 
I would drool over an updated starcraft... i used to play the original all the time, but 640x480 stunk :( 3D would be badass!
 
Jason711 said:
i dont see how that couldnt be ported over aswell?
Click to expand...

Well yeah porting is fine, I thought we were talking about re-creating a whole new game on the scale of starcraft. Even SC on the War 3 engine would be awesome, but they may need to tweak the engine because of terrain effects: for example, in StarCraft if a ground unit is trying to hit another ground unit on higher terrain, it has a negative "to hit" modifier. But in SC there are what, 3 or 4 levels of terrain at absolute differences, while in War 3 the goes up and down gradually. Not a huge deal, just something to consider.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top