I had no intentions on getting it, but a few things swayed me
1. No Monthly Subscription fee – so I wasn’t forced to renew another month incase I still was interested in playing casually.
2. familiarity with similar Games I enjoyed I never played Star Craft – I actually bought it when news of SCII was released with the idea of playing it. However never even installed it. I used to be a big fan of Total annihilation though, and me and my brother would play against each other, and I liked the map variety and the principles sounded similar.
3. Cute little Mechs. Robot ♥ Yes I know he is an office assistant – but he is the ultimate poster boy for mechs. Little mechanical robots
4. Cheap Price. For Australian Buyers I got it for Aus $ 70.00 ( 69.97) from Dick Smith - and was able to have a copy set aside for me on release day afternoon and pick it up after work. Initial research showed that Eb Games had it for $98 Jb HiFi had it for $ 89.98 Kmarts Catalogue showed it at $74 I believe that EB and maybe JB ? have a price matching offer – I got my Aion cheaper from EB by proving Dick Smith had it cheaper when I got mine. So if you haven’t got a copy yet and your Australian – certainly worth asking. $28 bucks is still a worthy difference. And the Dick Smith Price is instore as well as online.
Initial Impressions.
While working through the tutorials ( unfamiliar game – so I wanted to do this right.) I got dragged into some Multi player Games V the AI by some friends. Yeah for MSN, or we would have never of known we were both in the game.
Real ID did not at the time transfer my Real ID friends from WOW to Starcraft, even though its connected to my battlenet account, and asks for my authenticator I use for wow when I log in. We had to add each other again
Half the games we 3v3′d ‘Server Lost’ - seemed to affect the bigger maps more.
Achievements “were not working at this time”
Campaigns look great. I only did a couple, but I can see myself being entertained long enough quite well.
I did a 1v1AI game, and I managed to get 4 terran marines up, and a couple of towers before I was smashed. Practise Practise Practise. Need to get a routine up for base start up. I need to get more familiar with what an Engineering building looks like, or get into a habit of building things like that on the right so I know I have one.
The similarities to Total annihilation make its easy. I need to go back to the Tuts to get some basic training on grouping my Units, patrols.
There is no deselect Unit button. You can canx a Unit’s orders, but you can’t unselect it unless you select another unit.
I am finding my 22 inch screen a little bit of a pain – I get a good map view, but I also have more space to move my mouse through to get the next part of the map. I probably need to use the mini Map more.
But Wednesday night ( tonite) is raid night – so I will be back in WOW.
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See I bought it to take to Europe and play when I am bored on planes and in hotels at night (with what little rest I will get!)
Now you make me wish I was playing it now!
It was the perfect tuesday night distraction
Despite their not being WoW maintenance on a Tuesday night for the first time in a while :O
$90 for a digital download of a game that has already been split into three parts. Or do you get access to everything here? I’m still not sure how it’s working. But I know I’m not paying $90 for it.
Its $90 for Wings of Liberty only.
I expect it will be $90 for Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void too.
You are better off getting a box copy from Dick Smith’s I believe.
its only for the Wings – nothing indicated ” free expansions” I read somewhere the price was so infalted because of no ongoing subscription fees – however some regions like brazil I think, and Russia get the game cheaper, but have to pay a monthly fee.
But you do get access to the whole PvP game, right? You can still control Protoss and zerg on the battle.net servers, I hope? Those other expansions will just include more story, yes?
Campaign, v AI , and rated pvp matches are all there.
Also LMAO “free expansions” as if Actiblizz would even consider such a possibility.
The reason that your WoW realID friends aren’t showing up on SC2 is that the SC2 servers aussies play on are SE Asia based, the WoW servers are US based and they aren’t connected as of yet. Very silly I know!
that explains it, cheers. I did notice the server region, but didn’t think anything of it.
Makes you wonder if the rumours about Oceanic WoW servers going live on the Singapore battle.net servers is true…
Does shift-click work to add and remove units from a group? I think that was the normal command in previous Blizz RTS games.
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