| Para |
Apr 14, 2010 10:05 PM |
Got my invite today. I haven't really kept up with the beta so a lot of things were new to me once I got it up and running.
The game is incredibly fast paced... faster than SC in my opinion. Minerals fly in so fast sometimes you are half wondering what you can do with all of it but once you get accustomed, you'll probably have some build orders to handle the excess minerals. I had excess in comparison to the original SC.
I play Protoss so naturally when I first got SC2, I screamed MY LIFE FOR AIUR and played my first game as Protoss.
Someone else in another thread here mentioned how they did not like how the "You require more minerals" message was displayed on the left side. That I agree. I prefer the messages placed in the middle of the screen.
The beta comes with the option of playing against the AI alone so I did that first to get accustomed to new UI and tech trees. Also, in the beta, everything is done online so you had to create a custom game like you would in SC/WC series and then set the opposing slot as AI. When you start the game, there's a countdown of 10 seconds but it seems the countdown is supposedly in sync with Battle.net. My countdowns often go down in a manner where there is a slight out-of-sync that causes the client to go up a notch or down fast (10..9..8..7..6..5.4.5..4..321). Also as I go through the list of maps, it seems that you must down the maps from Blizzard as they were not pre-installed along with the client installation which I found a bit weird. The maps ranged from 1Mb to 4Mb in size as what I saw but I did not go through every map.
On the topic of game pacing, minerals, as mentioned earlier, are harvested faster than before thus it is a lot more natural to have a larger amount of harvesters working in the mineral field than you would be accustomed to in the original. There are also two vespene geysers at the starting location so pumping out gas is a lot easier if you have the resources to invest in both. Protoss Sentries cost 100 gas so depending on how many you want to pump out to complement your initial army, the extra gas may come in handy.
The AI was set to very easy by default... funny thing is that it was indeed very easy. No expansions, some tech but small standing army. Also when the computer knows that it is game over for it, the AI will say gg in chat.
For music and sound, initially I found it a bit difficult to hear some of the voices of my units when either clicked on them and when I gave them an order. I tried adjusting my volume but it did not seem to work very well. I am not sure what exactly was overshadowing the unit sounds but whatever it was, I just could not hear the voices very well. What I did hear was the music. Protoss initially only had 1 track so I expect more in the release. Terran has 5 tracks (excluding main theme which was mostly terran with a little protoss) while Zerg has 6 tracks.
Of course... all this is one first impression after 1 game so I expect my opinion to change somewhat as I play more.
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