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Part 1 2 3 4 5 The first StarCraft II Developer Chat on Twitter has concluded. For the full transcript of questions and answers, see the link below. Battle.net - English Forums -> #BlizzChat Developer Chat on Twitter - 3/12Q. Static defenses are very weak at the moment. It is more interesting to use the minerals on mobile units instead. Do you have any thoughts about this? A. Static defenses have always been vulnerable in StarCraft. They are used primarily to defend against raids, not to stop frontal assaults. The biggest current weakness in defenses in StarCraft II is not the weaknesses of the defenses themselves but the mobility of the armies that allow them to bypass the defenses in the first place. We have introduced several counters to increased mobility including Sensor Towers, Bunker Salvage, Spine and Spore Crawler movement as well as Warp-In which allow each race to have some answers to a sudden enemy attack.Q. There is an issue with people wanting to try a new race but not wanting to lose ladder placements due to inexperience. What are your thoughts on this? A. We are very aware of this issue and we are actively looking for a solution. Thanks for the great question!Q. Will we ever be able to play as the Xel'naga? A. "Ever" is a long time, but there are no plans currently to introduce a fourth race.Q. How exactly does the ladder/division/league system work? How do players move up and down? What exactly is the top 8 for? Tournaments? A. We are working on a FAQ for this right now that we will release to the community soon. At some point in the future we will be looking at doing tournaments and that is what the top positions are for. Q. Will units that have been cut from the game still be in the Galaxy Editor, or higher tier units from original StarCraft? A. Units that have been cut from the game completely will NOT be in the editor. However, there are many units that make an appearance in the single-player campaign that WILL be available to use in the editor, such as the Medic, Firebat, and Goliath.Q. Will there be an option that allows you to choose between different customized hotkey configurations? A. We are in the process of adding a few hotkey templates for ship which include left and right-handed "name-based" options. Grid based left and right-hand templates. Finally, we also intend to add a "Classic" hot key template which will, as best as possible, attempt to mimic the hotkey settings from the original game. We'll default to "name-based" right-handed for ship, but the end user can then choose from any of the other four templates.
Long term we're exploring allowing fully customizable hot keys. Assuming we can solve the many user interface challenges to make this work we will either release it in a patch or in the upcoming expansion.Q. Will you be adding additional zoom-out levels since it was suggested by a lot of players? A. No, we will not be adding zoom-out levels. StarCraft II plays well only at a very specific camera height. Too close and you cannot see what is going on, too far and you cannot effectively micro your units. We have picked a camera position that maximizes the tension between the player's need to see a lot of space as well as micro units. There are also game perfomance implications of a zoomed out camera. If we zoom out more, we are drawing more units on screen at one time and game perfomance will suffer.Q. The protoss templar line seems much less reliable to use than a robo build. Same for terran mech builds. What are your plans? A. We are looking hard at the terran mech builds and will hopefully bring out some fixes in the next patch. I don't know that I agree that Templars not useful. We are certainly seeing that at some skill levels, but other skill levels are getting quite a bit out of High Templars. We will continue to evaluate as we go forward in the beta.Q. Will more than one user profile per account be allowed? A. At ship we intend to have only a single profile per user. This encourages better player behavior and allows us to do better match-making between players. It obviously causes a number of issues. For example I may want to try a new race as a player but I'm afraid of losing rating, what do I do? We are looking to fix these types of issues for launch.Q. High and Dark Templars have split into two techs. Are you seeing a lot of people just going for other tech options now? A. High Templars are not a given in every game, nor are Dark Templar, but we are certainly seeing these units get a lot of use.Q. Do you agree with players about the zerg voice, or are you happy with it? A. We are looking at pulling some different takes for the zerg Queen that change the personality of her voice (a little bit).Q. Who would win in a fight, Greg Street or Dustin Browder? A. The battle would be close, but both parties would suffer TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE DAMAGE!Part 1 2 3 4 5
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Aldaris: Who is this human, Tassadar?
Jim Raynor: The name's Jim Raynor, pal. And I won't be talked down to by anybody. Not even a Protoss.
Aldaris: Amusing...
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