Slow, news goes. We're hoping the wait will be over soon. We keep reporting and one of the best things about this community is it doesn't need big news; we had a good seven years of making do for ourselves. Now we have that experience and a dedicated forum team to give us the posts in blue. A wide selection in the latest edition of...
The latest and last Dark Templar novel was released recently and Drake Clawfang reviewed it for us.
HappyMint, one of our community members, gave us an exclusive article and Q&A about his experiences with the Cologne WarCraft III finals StarCraft II build. Read them both here.
Finally, we released a belated interview with Nick Carpenter, the Creative Director for StarCraft II's cinematics and art.
Karune, Cydra and Xordiah all made posts this week. First up, early on Cydra let us know about the winners of the June comic contest.
More information came from Karune, on the subject of health bars:
Yes, there will be an option to 'always show health bars' similar to the option present in Warcraft 3.
Then we have a rare appearance from Xordiah, the European community manager, who provided information about the macro mechanics:
No auto cast for Mules or Obilisk (new name for Dark Pylons), or for the Queens ability to spawn Larva for that matter. The thing is, these abilities can be used optionally and using the ability costs energy that you could also use for Scanner Sweep or the extra supplies on the Command Center for example or for the Obilisk loading your units with energie. So using this ability to get extra ressources should still be a choice.
Also, as already mentioned, this is an option that advanced players can use to really get ahead in the game, it is not necessary to enjoy the game as a beginner. Still when you have a couple of expansions, you can really see that you got to pick up on your game to really fully take advantage of these features, especially if you have battles or harassment going on at the same time.
This week's piece comes from Mr. Jack, who's becoming pretty famous thanks to his other StarCraft related work. If you have any suggestions for the fan art segment, please e-mail
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TeamLiquid.net started another contest for beta keys this week, the Ironman Tournament. Their fansub team also released their first games, check them out here.
For the map-makers out there, Campaign Creations has a scenario creation contest to win a beta key - time is running out to get those.
This concludes another edition of the Legacy Weekly, until next time.
The Legacy Weekly approves: Mr. Jack. No really, he's good.
