Ask Blizzard - January Edition

[Arkalis]

About Wings of Liberty: Is the campaign done, being polished or still adding missions?

About Skirmish: Any plans on commands for friendly AI?

About Battle.net: How is rematch managed; any special command to remake the game with the same players or manually you remake the game?

About Galaxy Map Editor: What features are included in the editor to make RPG-styled UMS maps?

Misc: Do you need to be connected to the Internet to install the game?

[Kimera757]

About Wings of Liberty: Is the campaign done, being polished or still adding missions?

They've settled on 28 missions, and the game gets polished until it ships.

Misc: Do you need to be connected to the Internet to install the game?

Yes. That was confirmed quite a while back (and repeatedly at BlizzCon 2009). To answer the inevitable next question, you do not need to be connected to the internet in order to play single-player games.

[Arkalis]

Thanks Kimera...just wanted to confirm

[Shadow Archon]

How many unique upgrades and units will be in the Single player game?

How many cinematics will there be?

[KneeofJustice]

If Immortal Shields are less than 10, what would exactly happend when attacked? Is damage still reduced to 10?
Is there any limit, or as long as the Immortal has 1 Shield left, it can reduce incoming damage to a max of 10? What about Shield regeneration during battle? Won't that cause problems, or it's considered just a feature of the unit?

Do Shields regenerate during battle, or do they have increased regen when not in battle?

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Do you plan to change the Carrier model, or are you going to stick with the recolored Tempest model?

These are great questions. Some more clarifications on the immortal hardened shield mechanic would be great.

To expand on that shield question at the end: can you give us a better understanding of why you removed the "new" (no regen during battle, fast regen after) shield mechanic?

Also, how is the immortal working out at the robo facility? Any chance of seeing him back at the warpgate, or perhaps the gateway (as opposed to the warpgate)? Any observations would be nice.

How does the phoenix perform against stacked mutalisks going into beta?

[moosh]

I have one. In my SC1 battle.net experiences, you could only boot a misbehaving player on the game initiation screen. Will/can this ability be extended in game, for example, to boot someone who backstabs (after beating the other team) or cheats in some way? Will there be a penalty of a loss (or more) on the booted player's record?

Off-topic: I once theorized something like this, but the penalty was 1,000,000 losses. I think that might be harsh nowadays.

Dude, a feature like that would so get abused...

[flabortast]

What is the current status of shields? How does it interact with damage in relation to armor class? What is the reason behind returning the shield regen back to SC1 parameters?

[Edfishy]

When you morph a Zergling to a Baneling, what's the supply change? Does it remain at 1/2 supply, or is there an additional 1/2 supply cost?

[Skyze]

How are the beta keys gonna work? Will it be on an email-password recovery system like SC? Can more than one person use a key?

[Shadow Archon]

Because Archer kinda made me curious....


Will this sucker be in the game as a campaign only unit? For the Mini-Campaign or Legacy of the Void?