Starcraft 1 Beta had Yellow Minerals!

[ArcherofAiur]

I dont know how many people know this but Starcraft 1 beta had yellow minerals. Also you can see that resources used to be more distant from your Command Center.


Link
http://gaming.feedfury.com/content/8...-and-beta.html


What do you think happened to these yellow minerals?

Suppose you couldn't build your Command Center close to resources. Do you think that would increase or improve harassment as part of Starcraft gameplay?

[Norfindel]

That's strange. Looks like minerals and gas were very similar. Never seen that image before.

[Pandonetho]

Are you sure those are gold minerals, separate from current SC1 minerals? It's possible that those were just... SC1 beta minerals and they got changed.

[GRUNT]

That's cool - I've never some of those two SC beta screenies before :P.

I think that they just imagined having both minerals and gas being harvested in the same manner - Warcraft 2-goldmine-style. Then they changed it to the system we all know and love today. :]

[ManaPirate]

The SCV's wireframe looks a lot different from the model... that's bizarre. And the academy looks like an addon to the barracks... where did these come from? I thought I had seen all the alpha and beta Starcraft stuff...

[ArcherofAiur]

Are you sure those are gold minerals, separate from current SC1 minerals? It's possible that those were just... SC1 beta minerals and they got changed.

Nope there yellow minerals

[Norfindel]

Maybe was a 3rd resource.

[Shadow Archon]

In the top screenshots you see yellow minerals and Vespene gas as the two resources in the top right corner, in the bottom screenshots(on this thread page) you see normal minerals and Vespene gas as the resource.

[Kacaier]

Nope there yellow minerals
http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alph...eta/beta38.jpg
http://home.planet.nl/~aggel005/alph...eta/beta37.jpg

I don't think these two screenies are in the same build as the first two. Look at the resource counter. In the first, you have gold substance and gray substance. By looking at the SCVs, one has a gold substance and another has the gray one.

The second set shows the minerals and gas that we know now. And while the probe carries the same gray stuff, I imagine that to be the universal gas containers. In the first image sets, you see a big of green as well, so I assume the gray stuff are just vespene containers.

SIDE-NOTE:

Who's bright idea was it to have tanks able to shoot air units at all? That's not even close to being realistic.

[KadajSouba]

Who's bright idea was it to have tanks able to shoot air units at all? That's not even close to being realistic.

And marines shooting down a battlecruiser is very realistic????

Also look at the dragoon in front of the defiler... It looks that it had some kind of attack.