Spring RTS Engine

As everyone expected, Blizzard announced Starcraft 2 at it's yearly thing in Korea. http://sc.gosugamers.net/ has pretty much everything that's known so far. Here are some screenshots of the cinematics or something that were on show. This has the information live from the thing.

It looks interesting.

who cares about starcrap,

ive played games of TA against up to 3 AIs on MEDIUM difficulty, you think starcraft has that much strategy????

Going to the mountains to train until starcraft 2 comes out, cya.

I'll probably play it, but I'm reserving judgment, as usual, until I've had a few months in the trenches.

Holy shit.

I lol'd.

wtf where is diablo 3?????????////////////

for reals. blizzard is so dumb, making this azn rts instead. i wont play because azns will rape my soul every game i play on it. i'm sticking to spring which is an rts relatively undiscovered by azns...

Watched the IGN video.
So that's what they call an epic battle over at Blizzard...

hunterw wrote:wtf where is diablo 3?????????////////////

for reals. blizzard is so dumb, making this azn rts instead. i wont play because azns will rape my soul every game i play on it. i'm sticking to spring which is an rts relatively undiscovered by azns...

Considering blizzard makes a round average of 12 million dollars a day one would think they could afford to run a few projects simultaneously...

The more I think about it, the more I realize blizzard must be an evil empire. Where in living fuck is all that money going? It certainly isn't going into new game development like virtually every other game studio in development spends their profits.

You can't say that it isn't pretty. We'll see if the gameplay has changed...
Proportions clearly haven't. :(

Ill probably get it in the end, no matter if i like it at first or not.
The same with every blizz game for me, even wow. brr.

i want diablo 3.... gay starcraft.

All the units look so weird in 3d... i have a hard time diffrating the units.

Hopefully it's better in fullscreen. Also, it seems to have gotten the WC3 treatment.. all the units and buildings are more chibi... >.<

if you can zoom out further than on the screenshots, i will play this. but you probably can't.

Isn't it basically a modified WC3 engine their using for this show off alpha version, wich will change a lot or even be rewritten completly?

Zpock wrote:Isn't it basically a modified WC3 engine their using for this show off alpha version, wich will change a lot or even be rewritten completly?

how do you figure?

Boirunner wrote:

Zpock wrote:Isn't it basically a modified WC3 engine their using for this show off alpha version, wich will change a lot or even be rewritten completly?

how do you figure?

Some random dude wrote it on gpg forums, hehe. It makes sense tough, I don't think we're seeing final stuff here.

Zpock wrote: Some random dude wrote it on gpg forums, hehe. It makes sense tough, I don't think we're seeing final stuff here.

i dunno. why would they release a cinematic trailer if they play to completely rewrite the engine? anyway, we'll see. it'll be years before it hits the shelves, that's for sure.

Boirunner wrote:

Zpock wrote: Some random dude wrote it on gpg forums, hehe. It makes sense tough, I don't think we're seeing final stuff here.

i dunno. why would they release a cinematic trailer if they play to completely rewrite the engine? anyway, we'll see. it'll be years before it hits the shelves, that's for sure.

Uh cinematic trailer is just CG, it's not made used the game engine??


Anyway here is what they are writing on the FAQ:

Will StarCraft II take advantage of DirectX 10? What other graphical goodies are included?

The game will be compatible with DirectX 10, and we're still considering whether there will be exclusive DirectX 10 graphic effects, but the graphics engine will also be very scalable to ensure that a wide range of different systems will be capable of running StarCraft II. The new engine is also capable of rendering very large units, as well as large numbers of units on screen together. Havok physics have been integrated into the engine for added realism as well.

I guess they will change things up alot, starcraft is known for it's huge polish afterall. This early stuff is a little meh...

It will be a hard time for them to try and top starcraft1 achievements. Normally for sure a flash of brilliance, even less one such as starcraft was, is never really repeated by the same company/person. However, blizzard have done just that before and if anyone they are the one's to do it. Im not sure a lot of guys might have left them tough, and hireing guys with nice credentials and experience (I read RA2 somewhere) isn't convincing me. To be honest, I consider most RTS developers these days unimpressive idiots that don't know what their doing, lacking finesee, hope they dont draw on that pool... look at CnC3.. What's needed is young fresh talent guys with a vision, the best ones. I hope the guys in charge know what their doing at blizzard.

Zpock wrote: Uh cinematic trailer is just CG, it's not made used the game engine??

yeah, i said that before actually watching the trailer

... What's needed is young fresh talent guys with a vision, the best ones. I hope the guys in charge know what their doing at blizzard.

starcraft 2 is a second part in a series. people don't want innovation, they want to have a better starcraft, and there's nothing wrong with that. blizzard knows this and will try their damndest to make the game appeal to sc1 fans.

i do agree that we need fresh blood, but that's for new series. i'd be mad as hell if i loved a game, waited years for part two, and then the second part would be completely different from the original.