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StarCraft 2 Model Upgrades

StarcraftWire.net continues their Preview article series "The StarCraft 2 Alpha Guide" and releases further analysis on the StarCraft 2 unit model and texture changes. It's the second part of two articles specifically directed at art changes.

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Leord6284d ago

The first part of these two was really good. Kalos usually delivers...

Cogo6284d ago

Yeah, whenever I have time, I try to read them. He writes a bit weird... o.O I kind of like it, or I am not sure, it's different!

Dorjan6284d ago

Keep going Blizzard, just make sure my old PC can still run the game!!

Leord6284d ago

Funny you should say that, since Kalos is the guru for all things technical. If you need a hand in looking over your set at home (and if it's up to SC specs), just ask him in his little forum. Just feed him Chocolate fingers, and all will be well...

Terrice6284d ago

Hopefully they can add all these art upgrades without needing to boost the sys specs :)

kalos6284d ago (Edited 6284d ago )

Chocolate fingers could very shortly become the next great stable currency to invest in: Buy now, else they could very well be mine, and devoured!

I know they'll work hard, and I doubt they'll compromise on the desire for low systems requirements just to tart the game up, Blizzard have always been very effecient at what they do.

Cogo6284d ago

@ Terrice: Yes, that is the only big Crux, isn't it. We'll see about that.

O.O chocolate fingers?

Medievaldragon6284d ago

Yea, people will have to get better machines to play this. If i7 X58 computers weren't so expensive. $300 each piece hurts.

SCFreelancer6284d ago

Well, with these kind of games there is running the game and beeing able to play it competively with large armies. Not sure where the border lies between the two for this game.

Speaking of large numbers of units: I am really happy with the demo's I have seen thus far in which they show hundreds of units battle it out. My fear of a second Warcraft 3 (small amounts of units) does not seem to become a reality here :D

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thetamer6284d ago

It does look really impressive.

kalos6284d ago

The game in general or the drone/lobster thing? :D

Leord6284d ago

The drone/lobster thing is obviously a merge between the old and new models. A bit clever, actually ;)

Cogo6284d ago

It's ok. It would not have been possible without Blizzards amazing graphics in the first place, ofc...

Fyzzu6284d ago

Some of those really do look good. Looks like the time is being well-spent.

kalos6284d ago

Yeah, I'm glad Blizzard have given the art team enough time to not just do the work satisfactorily, but go back over and upgrade most of it all over again. Shows they want this game to shine.

Terrice6284d ago

I would think it to get a little repetitive for the art designers to have to redo various models over and over. Though they probably get used to it, and might even get some satisfaction out of it.

Cogo6284d ago

Really? If I was the art designer, I'd be really happy to let my true skills out rather than going with "comicy" stuff..

Terrice6284d ago

It just shows that one should not take the earlier art as any indication of what the game will look like when complete. These new models are looking very good.

kalos6284d ago

Indeed, the Drone is the perfect example of how earlier art work, that some critics started using as a basis for giving Starcraft II flak for looking too cartoony and a Warcraft 3 Clone were basing their opinions on placeholder graphics, the less brilliant stuff is being phased out.

Cogo6284d ago

They probably used that design in order to have a smooth playtesting. Remember they started this like 5 years ago. Even power PCs were a lot weaker then!

Leord6284d ago

If they got unlimited time in a stasis box, I think we'd be looking at the sun, lol. You can only polish something SO much...

SCFreelancer6284d ago

I think its interesting to see how the organic development cycles of the Blizzard team actually work. We're able to see more details then ever before, even though its not even close to all that is changing ;)

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'Big Match' Over Starcraft IP. NC, Nexon, Netmarble, and Krafton Clash.

Leading domestic game companies have entered into an unprecedented competition to win orders for Starcraft, Blizzard's representative IP (intellectual property).

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RaidenBlack408d ago

Was aware the iconic Starcaft IP was jumping to South Korea ....

jznrpg407d ago

Weird MS is letting go of a good IP. I don’t mind it but hopefully the best dev wins and I’m not sure who that is outbid those.

Sonyslave3407d ago (Edited 407d ago )

What they are bidding for are exclusive rights to develop the IP. Microsoft/blizzard is essentially licensing it out to the highest bidder, not selling the IP.

B5R407d ago

I wonder if we'll see Starcraft Ghost come out of this. And if we do, I wonder if it'll be a free-to-play gacha game.

goken407d ago (Edited 407d ago )

Given the potential developers, looks inevitable there will be free to play gacha versions. But given south korea’s love for starcraft there would be one that is inline with starcraft 1&2.
Might want to expect some sort of backdoor cheat that only south koreans know of lol 🤣

Profchaos407d ago

Nah that's long since dead and gone it's only good is a leaked Dev build

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'StarCraft: Remastered', 'StarCraft II' Now Available on PC Game Pass

This week, Blizzard Entertainment dropped both 'StarCraft: Remastered' and 'StarCraft II Campaign Collection' into PC Game Pass.

meganick549d ago

Hopefully these get released on Switch and Playstation, along with Age of Empires. There’s a severe lack of good RTS games on both those platforms.

waytoobad548d ago

if only they didn't raise the price 500% last year.

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Coming to Game Pass: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, StarCraft & StarCraft II, and More

Happy spooky season to those who celebrate! We have a collection of scary games for you to enjoy with Game Pass, while hiding under the blankets (or maybe that’s just how I play). And if you want to do something slightly less scary, we have a whole list of games for you to start pre-installing including more day one additions like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and more! Let’s get to the games.

• South Park: The Fractured but Whole (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 16
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 25
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (Cloud) – October 25
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• Call of Duty: Warzone (Cloud) – October 25
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• Ashen (Cloud, Console, and PC) – October 29
• Dead Island 2 (PC) – October 31
• StarCraft: Remastered (PC) – November 5
• StarCraft II: Campaign Collection (PC) – November 5

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crazyCoconuts573d ago

Let the COD on GamePass experiment begin!
I would think their quarterly revenue will take a hit compared to a year ago, but will maybe make up for it throughout the year as the monthly GP subs keep coming in

pwnmaster3000573d ago

Was up with call of duty man?
I downloaded cod on gamepass and for some reason I cannot access the game.

darthv72573d ago

just curious what version? There are some that you can pre-load, but they wont work until their release date later this month.

pwnmaster3000573d ago

I have to redownload it again for the 3rd time to check.
I ended up just deleting it to make room for other games after the second time.

It was on Xbox game pass, I didn’t know there was other versions. I just downloaded everything, but sadly I couldn’t even access the game. Maybe 3rd time the charm. I’ll download it again.

SPEAKxTHExTRUTH573d ago

It’s not out yet man unless you’re talking about MW3.

pwnmaster3000573d ago

I’m talking about mw3. For some reason I could not get it to work.

just_looken573d ago

On xbox there is the last gen/current gen versions pc though you could also get a xbox version.

When that new forza first came out for one day they had the xbox version on the pc store i was like ? what it was odd.

On xbox you can easily download the one version of a game instead of the series version so you run into issues on your series console.

pwnmaster3000573d ago

Because a game won’t run after I download it??
Man your kids must hate your @ss if that’s how you think.

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dveio573d ago

It's going to be very interesting to follow up on how the new entry of CoD will perform at the box office, player numbers and distribution of Xbox, PC and PS versions this year.

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DivineHand125573d ago

I got excited thinking they ported StarCraft to consoles but it's just the PC version. Also, I thought Starcraft 2 was already free to play.

TheColbertinator573d ago

I'm certain it is going to be the Campaign Collection version.

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