GStar 2009 Videos

[GRUNT]

5:45 in part 1 of that video posted by scorpio - were those Hydralisks shooting up at a Siege Tank without anything to spot for them? I thought that they changed it so that you can't respond to enemy fire coming from higher ground unless you had line-of-sight of what it is that's attacking you.

[Raisk]

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTcwMjEwMjQ=.html

Found this one in the related field to the Gstar vids. Dunno if anyones seen it before, but it's the over the shoulder kind of footage, so half the screen is this dudes head. Figure I'll give it a watch anyway.

[Josue]

Some youtube comments made me wonder...

Ugh, good game, but when are zergs going to win? :\ Haven't seen zergs win a single SC2 game so far...

David KIm lost...... For the first time......

Was David Kim playing as Zerg? What happened, he had never lost in Battle reports with Protoss nor Terran but now he did with Zerg?
What is going on here? Why don't we see Zergs use Mutalisks? Is there any reason they have never won even up to now?

[DemolitionSquid]

5:45 in part 1 of that video posted by scorpio - were those Hydralisks shooting up at a Siege Tank without anything to spot for them? I thought that they changed it so that you can't respond to enemy fire coming from higher ground unless you had line-of-sight of what it is that's attacking you.

From what I can tell, units on the very edge of a cliff can be shot at. If the tank had been further away from the edge, it would have been safe. You can also see this effect in a game from Blizzcon where Tanks shot at a Colossus on a cliff.

Was David Kim playing as Zerg? What happened, he had never lost in Battle reports with Protoss nor Terran but now he did with Zerg?
What is going on here? Why don't we see Zergs use Mutalisks? Is there any reason they have never won even up to now?

That was not a Blizzard dev game, David Kim was not the Zerg.

Zerg are unanimously the weakest race right now according to internal testing. Personally I'm convinced its because of two reasons:

1. Spawn Larva - used properly (ie. all the time), Zerg should swarm overwhelmingly. Used improperly, Zerg suffer lack of Larva compared to MULES and PC. As I have pointed out many times before, the resource variably created by these mechanics is needlessly hard to balance.

2. Zerg were the last race Blizzard worked on, and they still aren't new enough. People are using old strategies because they've ben given old units, and they're not working effectively against all the new stuff Protoss and Terran get.

[scorpio19]

Protoss vs. Terran

Part 1:



Part 2:

[XSOLDIER]

Nice find scorpio19

There's a Goat Critter @ 7:21, and a Lizard one at 7:35.

And good GOD, those 2-3 Nullifiers managed to totally incapacitate that Terran force.


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[Dauntless]

A comment on the first ZvT video (just marking this so the comment doesn't get confused with other videos):
This Zerg player played lousy. He started out by massing Hydralisks. That just doesn't work in SC2. He apparently didn't know that.

He kept loosing units while "juggling" back and forth, while the Terr army kept firing all the time. And generally a lot of unwise decisions. Seems to me they haven't played alot of SC2 before.

[Blazur]

terran / protoss..gradius please upload youtube

http://news.replays.net/page/20091127/1440235.html

That was a great game to watch. Nice to finally see some Void Ray pressure. Oh man I can't wait to play SC2.

He kept loosing units while "juggling" back and forth, while the Terr army kept firing all the time. And generally a lot of unwise decisions.

It drives me nuts when I see players do that. Either commit to an attack or retreat, but don't dance back and force while undecided...it only gives you opponent free hits.

[DemolitionSquid]

I love Void Rays.

Edit: There's a lot of good stuff here.

New Map: Bulken

[TheEconomist]

Bulken was announced through Twitter. I believe I even made a topic or a post about it.