Still alive

So I couldn’t resist using the famous line from Portal…just too easy!  As you could have guess from my lack of blogging recently, things have been pretty busy since I last wrote. 

I’ve been having a great time with the StarCraft 2 Beta and have even managed to get a few friends involved and overall it’s been a great experience.  The real SC2 is set to release on the 27th of July and you can bet whole countries *cough*Korea*cough* will shut-down for this release.  I have to admit that I’m also really looking forward to the release, there are a number of things that are in the Beta but not functioning that look quite interesting.  Of course the big part is going to be the taunted single-player campaign that will feature the Terran race.  I’m hoping the single-player is at least as good if not better than the multi-player.  I’ve played the Terran race during the Beta and there are number of really interesting new units (for all the races really, not just Terran, but since the first SC2 is all about Terran, that’s what I’m talking about.)  With the addition of the large Thor unit, along with a number of smaller/cheaper units I think the Terran race is moving more towards a early game skirmish race, as opposed to the build-up to a nuke race that they were in Brood Wars.  Also I’ve seen the Tanks have gotten a lot better, which I’m excited about as I love to use lots of Tanks to crush opposition! 

The other thing I’ve noticed in playing against the Terran race, is the how ineffective the nuke has become.  Back in Brood Wars, the nuke was something to fear, now the few times I have been hit with nukes, they have had little to no effect on my buildings or units.  The worst I’ve seen them do is to take a few probes which does slow down the economy, but by that late in the game I really don’t think killing a few probes will bring my economy to a complete halt like it would in the early game. 

Oh well, I think overall the new game will be fantastic and I’m really excited about getting my hands on it the night it’s released!  As I play, I’m sure I’ll post more thoughts about SC2.  That’ll be it for now, more later on!

~C