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Ok, yeah. I know. I realize these questions are purely cosmetic and not that important. But I'm trying to sleep here and they're gnawing at my mind.
1. Will you be able to select your color for ladder play using AMM?
2. Decals are racial rewards. Will there be rewards for Random players?
Can we submit this for a Q&A or something? I'll also post these questions on the SC2GDF. Can I wait and see? NO.
@ 2: Maybe your rewarded based on accumulating stats for whatever race you end up playing with. Say you end up playing Zerg about 50% of your random games, you might end up unlocking more Zerg decal/portraits rather than Terran or Protoss. Just a thought.
PS: Never knew you were the "Battlecruiser Operational" dude. Awesome voice impression.
You get to select your color. I don't think the AMM does it though, so who knows what happens if two people want to be red.
Have we been able to see what Zerg unit decals look like yet? -- Just wondering how that'll get pulled off.
The zerg units have tatoos or birth marks?
And lol , i thought this thread was about something else :p
iirc, color selection is on a first-come-first-serve basis. For a new game, people who join up first will get a wider variety, while those joining last will just have to suck it up and deal with it.
Hahaha, same here! :PQuote:
And lol , i thought this thread was about something else
hopefully the one with the highest ELL ("evaluated level", is wc3 lingo, the player among the matched with the highest ELL is the one deemed most probable to win)Quote:
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Cosmetic Questions? Lol...Quote:
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If you ask me, I'm more worried about Hydralisks attack animation. If it's as ugly as I've seen lately (as if those spines were two arrows thrown by an archer... with similar physics) heck!
They should definitely look like in SC1: thousands of small spines with green slime moving almost as fast as marine bullets...
I hope, down the road, Blizzard gives us the option of possibly using our own decals in place of the default options. Obviously, Blizzard would have to put in place some type of standard approval process (can't have little marines running around with genitalia decals on their shoulder pads...and there are idiots out there who would do stuff like that). I'm not sure Blizzard would or could go through all the trouble though to manage such an approval process. It could end up being a heck of lot of work.
Maybe they could periodically hold design contests instead. Three or four times a year.
The possibility of being able to truly personalize your army would be cool and helpful. And it would be even better for the pros who, I bet, would really value being easily recognized by their own unique emblem. Brand recognition is a powerful tool.
Yeah I agree with the Hydralisk statement about the current attack animation. I really do hope Blizzard tends to this. While I do think it is really cool that hydras melee now, they really do need to scrap the dry-humping-the-air-while-spitting-toe-nails-at-things.
Also, the blue lasers that come from the stalker / phoenix look pretty crappy. They should make them differ from each other and also make them look a bit more devastating.
On a positive note, I love how the colossi attack now. The side to center with the 2 beams really gives it that siege damage look that it needed to really fill the role of the reaver.
The Psi storm really looks nice and I cannot wait to blanket people inside of it.
The building animations look great and all of the unit death animations are well thought up. (Especially the burning ones)
All in all I think they have the visuals like 99% there. Just a few corny animations, and little tidbit changes, and we should be fine.
I also agree Hydra attack animation looks horrible.
Stalker and Phoenix really need a prettier attack animation. It looks far too feeble. I wouldn't mind the Scout's Anti Matter missiles on the Wraith, or something like it. The Blue smoke looked Protoss-y :P
Cosmetically, I hope they improve the Terran a bit. The designs of their buildings along with the over-use of the color yellow is still giving them a plastic toy-like surface appearance.
Both players should have the same ELL, so...Quote:
Originally Posted by Todie
The hydra animation was better in BW imo, there was acid spiting in the direction of the target and we don't even see the spine. So it look like it goes very very fast. Now the attack is like a physically impossible 60km/h arrow going totally horizontal, it really suck.
Hydralisks don't spit acid.Quote:
there was acid spiting in the direction of the target
I find the juxtaposition of these statements confusing. So going faster than one can see is OK, but going slow enough that you can see is "physically impossible."Quote:
So it look like it goes very very fast. Now the attack is like a physically impossible 60km/h arrow going totally horizontal, it really suck.
Color distribution will be entirely random, just as it was in the prior matchmaking system in WC3. There is no way, to my knowledge, to impose a system that allows a person to choose color prior to searching. It would conflict with the thousand others choosing their own colors.
Imagine the complication the color distribution would become when it becomes larger team games. This is just as bad as the idea someone said of having conditions set whereby "If the enemy is protoss, it picks terran for me... If the enemy is Zerg, it picks Protoss....etc" These conditional scenarios people provide seem to omit the extreme variables that exist when multiple people are factored in.
I agree. Was just wondering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nottoway
CnC 3 actually let u select a "preferred" color, and you would default to that unless your opponent was the same color, in which case...I think it randomed your color, or something.
What do you mean are there rewards for random? If random goes to Terran you're going to be getting the Terran decals you unlocked.
In WC3, playing random had its own set of icons to unlock dependent upon wins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hamshank