Bored of SC2

[Gifted]

For the record, much of the addictive qualities of the online gameplay is the ranking. Seriously, seeing yourself go up and down is really a kinda fun push to try and get better.

[Genopath]

without private channels the new bnet sucks imo

[Maxa]

For the record, much of the addictive qualities of the online gameplay is the ranking. Seriously, seeing yourself go up and down is really a kinda fun push to try and get better.

I second this. I wouldn't play nearly as much if I didn't feel like I was making some kind of "progress."

[Hamshank]

without private channels the new bnet sucks imo

Blizzard is working on adding them.

[Genopath]

Mind posting link to where they said that?

[TheRabidDeer]

Mind posting link to where they said that?

What we see right now isnt the full b.net 2.0

http://www.starcraft2.com/features/misc/battlenet.xml

There is also some other stuff from blizzcon but I cant find it.

[Gifted]

They have mentioned that chat technology would be implemented later on but not at release. This was mentioned at Blizzcon at the QA when questions about Clans were asked (which is also being implemented)

The concern they have is that the current chat channels, the ones you were "placed in" were useless to the majority of the people, and the generic themed ones they created were never used as intended. They liked how "guild channels" in wow had a purpose and brought people together so they were considering ways to bring people together in a likewise fashion.

In short, chat channels will exist, but they have to find a way to create useful "channels" and not random channels for clan/advertising spam bots.

[TheEconomist]

Since when is playing AI EVER fun for more than quick bursts?

[Operatoring]

You don't even have the beta.. stop bitching about a pirated copy and the default AI

Default AI? The community has made there own AI. Stop bitching about shit you know nothing about.

Have you ever played a game that was exclusively against AI that DIDNT get boring?

Me and my buddy Nick, to this day, still play SC1 against computers. He isn't as good as me (C-), so there is no use 1v1ing. He has never done ICCUP but I'm sure his rank would be D- with zero wins.

We play on large 8 player maps with regular minerals and 6 computers. We still find ways to make it fun. I figure out little ways to gimp myself so it isn't too easy. So yes, I have been playing SC1 for the last year or two against AI and it hasn't gotten stale.

Granted, his computer is old as fuck so we can't play anything more advanced than SC1. And the addition of a terrible team-mate could be the difference in making SC1 fun and SC2 not atm.



On a side-note. The speed of SC2 (The short meta game, the extremely fast minerals, the speed and duration of spells, the speed that units are made, etc) make SC2 extremely competitive. But it doesn't make it fun. I am an ardent SC1 fan, and I am all about high class competitive play. I love to watch SC1 Replays, and still do. The speed is fun to watch and props up a pretty high glass ceiling, but in excess, it takes away from the gameplay.

This sucks. I'm torn. I love competitive play. I love competing, watching, and learning. SC2 lost something in transition. I can't even put my finger on it. Anyone feel the same?

Even playing against the AI, you can see all the good ideas that were put into the game. I think they crippled the AI exclusively to avoid people getting a good play against a good computer AI for free. IIRC, it was supposed to be a challenge in some of the Blizzcons, right?

The only AI they have in there right now is named "Very Easy". They build only from the first tier or so, send only a handful of units at you at a time, and expand very slowly. They are child's play for anyone who is fairly experienced, but they still have enough smarts to beat a noob who is unfamiliar with RTS games. I think there is a slight bug, however, because they can't seem to figure out how to blow up the rocks blocking additional resources, keeping them in their base, or keeping them out of yours. It's rather annoying.

I'm told that the most advanced AI they have is the equivalent of Boxer + cheat codes.

You don't have a beta key, so your experience with SC2 is through the "Very Easy" AI (so named because it's, you know, Very Easy). And you're bored.

Duh! I wouldn't expect you to get anything out of the AI. Any player worth their salt can just rush a unit and kill the AI, no problem.

When you play actual human beings and can say the game is boring, we can talk.

Well, the community responded, and the AI is pretty fierce at this point. User-made content is what SC2 is all about!
If I was only playing against Blizzards shit easy AI, I would have never made the thread.

I can't wait to play Blizzard's AI though.

[SlickR]

Well theres your problem. You are playing against AI.
No matter how good or bad the AI is, its always predictable and beatable.
Even if you play against super hard AI and lost 3-4 games, you would come back knowing which strategies it uses and win all the games from there.

When you play against people its 5x more fun, you never know how they are going to play, what will they do and stuff like that. Its also more intense, because you know that the enemy may be better than you, so you are strapped in your seat and trying your best to win.

There are also too few maps. If you have 30 maps it'd be more interesting.
You can pretty much learn the current maps to play blindfolded on them. When there are 30 its a bit more surprising.
Also the Blizzard maps are generally small and we are yet to see big 1v1 maps.