Starcraft 2 HOTS v1 Megathread - Kerrigan is coming (USE SPOILERS TILL 28.3.2013)

[LeonS]

[QUOTE=Don Ochs;39864955]Okay I know I'm a bit late on the SC2 story stuff, but what do you guys think will happen to Raynor? Here's what I'm thinking, it would be cool in a way if Raynor died because he's kinda poor as a character, but then that would just be dumb right?

What if in HoTS, he has a one on one fight with Kerrigan and he gets his legs cut off and is stuck in a super cool terran technological wheel-chair or something, but he's still like really depressed over not being able to truly walk. [I]Then[/I] in the protoss focused game, some of his old protoss friends come and give him bionic legs! And so he snaps out of the depression and gets the motivation to save the universe. Those would be two amazing, totally unforseen twists![/QUOTE]

ok let me just go re-watch Avatar and then re-read the book of clichés.

[Don Ochs]

But it's genius. And then he goes to a protoss neuropsycholotherapistthingy and it is uncovered that Kerrigan is just a production of his mind cause he's an alcoholic and that all along he was the evil character.

[Ogris]

Blizzard is getting worse but they're still quite a way off what you're proposing.

[Don Ochs]

Just watch and see, this is exactly what's gonna happen and it's gonna be awesome and people will never forget Starcraft 2, the game of twists.

[Jurikuer]

[QUOTE=LeonS;39862694]i mean even before all that, like when youre on Mar Sara in that bar even then Jim acts like some whipped little teenager regarding her and at that point he has no clue of her role nor that she can be "saved"

infact im pretty sure he still wanted to kill her, or before Metzen pulled that retarded lovestory, becaue she was guilty of killing billions of innocent people and he did not care if that was because of Mengsk or not[/QUOTE]

I'm as disappointed as anyone else with the cliche love crap. But Sarah has no control over herself. Once she became queen bitch of the universe she became a pawn of the swarm and her betrayal became a priority in her eyes because it is Mengsk's fault that she was abandonded. Or so we are to believe. I personally feel Mengsk is a pawn himself. So even if she does get her revenge, I don't think it'll end there.

[Melkor]

[QUOTE=Don Ochs;39865043]But it's genius. And then he goes to a protoss neuropsycholotherapistthingy and it is uncovered that Kerrigan is just a production of his mind cause he's an alcoholic and that all along he was the evil character.[/QUOTE]

Kerrigan is actually Tyler Durden.

[Siberys]

[QUOTE=Ogris;39865185]Blizzard is getting worse but they're still quite a way off what you're proposing.[/QUOTE]

Aye

They're not fantastic, but compared to a lot of popular games these days their writing's pretty good

Better than the latest Cod Clancy or whatever the hell they did to halo or C&C

[Anzu143]

SC2's ending was so full of clichés and whatnot, as much as I enjoyed the campaign, looking back at it, its pretty horribly written.

Eh, hopefully HoTS will be enjoyable. Looking forward to it.

[Jurikuer]

[QUOTE=.apex;39869047]SC2's ending was so full of clichés and whatnot, as much as I enjoyed the campaign, looking back at it, its pretty horribly written.

Eh, hopefully HoTS will be enjoyable. Looking forward to it.[/QUOTE]

From what I've been told, it should not disappoint. Course I don't expect you to take my word for it, but I hope my source is correct.

[aeeh]

Final Countdown, 2 Days :)!

I think the new campagn is much better than the old one...

[LeonS]

[QUOTE=Fridolin;39873162]Final Countdown, 2 Days :)!

I think the new campagn is much better than the old one...[/QUOTE]

how do you know that

did you read the script too

[ZomboJoe]

Probably gameplay wise, they added a lot of cool shit in hots.

Too bad I play for multiplayer.

I wish there was a way to revert back to the tychus loading splash, the kerrigan one looks obnoxious as fuck.

[LeonS]

raynor was the loading splash not tychus

[ZomboJoe]

I tried to play sc2 again for old times sake, haven't touched it in months.

First the downloader breaks and I have to fix that using a weird work around, then it makes me dl a 4gb patch. :/

After that I load into the screen and the main menu nearly fries my graphics card and breaks my gpu drivers. So I have to restart in safe mode and fix my drivers.

Looks like I'm not playing tonight. Hell if I don't play now WoL is going to be a ghost town. :suicide:

[k0dex]

jaedong best dressed pro!

[Alexander.]

This launch event is cool yo :)

[HendoV2]

has this released for Australia yet? haven't been paying attention to it all that much

[igamiwarr]

Hope HotS gets to be at least half as popular as WoL was at launch, some of my best memories were from attending packed SC2 tournaments and lans for the year it was released, and meeting some really cool people.

God I am going to suck I haven't touched the game much at all since September.

[Dark Link]

fungal + blinding cloud hnnnnnng

[HendoV2]

[QUOTE=HendoV2;39874094]has this released for Australia yet? haven't been paying attention to it all that much[/QUOTE]

apparently it launches in 1 hour [url]http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/8983616/Heart_of_the_Swarm_Live_Server_Times-3_8_2013[/url]

[aeeh]

[QUOTE=HendoV2;39874392]apparently it launches in 1 hour [url]http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/8983616/Heart_of_the_Swarm_Live_Server_Times-3_8_2013[/url][/QUOTE]

We have Global Play feature now do u think we can play on Sydney Servers? So we can try to play the campaign , will this work?

[dark_console2]

[QUOTE=Fridolin;39874466]We have Global Play feature now do u think we can play on Sydney Servers? So we can try to play the campaign , will this work?[/QUOTE]

No, it's still region based so the servers don't overload, like, umm, that other game, umm, DRM City?

[aeeh]

[QUOTE=dark_console2;39874678]No, it's still region based so the servers don't overload, like, umm, that other game, umm, DRM City?[/QUOTE]

region base over ip? So a proxy will work ? ^^

Edit:
But in Diablo 3 it worked too, i played with my my account (im from germany) on the asia server before the eu relead?! :O

[Prollgurke]

I play Starcraft 2 HOTS and wear SOCKS with FLIP FLOPS

[aeeh]

[QUOTE=Prollgurke;39875112]I play Starcraft 2 HOTS and wear SOCKS with FLIP FLOPS[/QUOTE]

[B]Edit: HOT SOCKS with FLIP FLOPS[/B]

Naarrr u dont :P

[Prollgurke]

I will log into the Sydney servers too, i hope it works somehow.
And if it does, i hope those servers wont break down.

[LeonS]

tbh the worst feeling u get is probably when u get a text message saying "your package from *website* has arrived" and that package being HotS.

now thats not the worst feeling thats a good feeling. the worst feeling is that youre stuck working an afternoon-to-night job every second week

[aeeh]

[QUOTE=LeonS;39875240]tbh the worst feeling u get is probably when u get a text message saying "your package from *website* has arrived" and that package being HotS.

now thats not the worst feeling thats a good feeling. the worst feeling is that youre stuck working an afternoon-to-night job every second week[/QUOTE]

thats bad :/

[darkrei9n]

So if you preordered from Blizzard you might be interested in this trick. It works.

Add a file named regions.xml in the starcraft 2 folder. Paste this in it.
[quote]create regions.xml

<regions>
<region displayname="AUTHENTICATION_SG_REGION" hostname="sg"
allowedProductLocales="all" localesThatDefaultToThisRegion="enSG"/>
<region displayname="AUTHENTICATION_US_REGION" hostname="us"
allowedProductLocales="all" localesThatDefaultToThisRegion="enUS"/>
<region displayname="AUTHENTICATION_EU_REGION" hostname="eu"
allowedProductLocales="all" localesThatDefaultToThisRegion="enGB"/>
<region displayname="AUTHENTICATION_KR_REGION" hostname="kr"
allowedProductLocales="all" localesThatDefaultToThisRegion="koKR"/>
</regions>[/quote]

Will let you connect to the SEA region and play HOTS since they disabled global play.

[aeeh]

kk n1 thanks

edit: in wich folder ??