it will be. 35 missions I heard. 

imo, the balance is fine, what isnt is probably the uniqueness (although that means more/tougher balancing job to do) amongst the 3 races.

having played all 3 race against insane AI (yeah, lol.) where they try their damn best to rush you down, im pretty much limited to 1st/2nd tier units and its pretty much coming down into micro'ing and those minor mistakes that one may make. toss (sad  being a toss player lol) is on the disadvantage though since you're likely to get outnumbered and zealots are pretty shit without charge upgrade. the most viable choice is a quick tech to stalkers (which is what everyone do right now) and using initial zealots before acquiring stalkers to serve as meatshields (try ur damn best not to lose em lol)

with the above said, id assume it may get a little boring as time passes, though with players, not all players will be rushing like mad, even david kim doesnt do it all the damn time. then again, i am playing against AI and not players, and its 1v1. so most likely it wont be the case with players/2v2 as 2v2 can get REALLY hectic and some of the strats in 2v2 can be really really interesting.

umm, theres an insane version finally out lol. it basically scout you (yeah right, lol) and then rushes you the moment it has ~5 marines/10zergling/4 zealot give/take, though if you rush him first he'll turtle abit and bring in heavier firepower. they will build 2x rax/early queen/2 gateways confirmed and maybe more or tech up.

when losing, they will say gg too (giggled a ton on that)

further discussion on that, well mods made clear its forbidden already ^^;

I don't agree. Blizzard is clearly trying to make StarCraft II the next worldwide e-sports game & they can't afford to intentionally buff a specific race just to get people to use it more. After all, they gain almost nothing from the various major StarCraft competitions out there due to the availability of some LAN-emulation softwares hence it's gonna take them a few more years if they truly want to wait until all the expansions are released (which I doubt to be the decision they'll be taking).

medic/valks

lurks/devourer

DT/corsair

notice how the 2nd unit are all AAs

I've to agree. Shows how better micro doesn't always guarantee you a win.

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Added on March 9, 2010, 10:48 am
The very reason I like StarCraft is the rock-paper-scissor rule / mechanism that was implemented into it. A player who rely on his luck with a small army of powerful units? Infestors are the answer! Imagine a Mothership being placed under Zerg's control!

Anyway, against Infestors, I guess you'll have to make a large army of basic units such as Zerglings, Marines or Zealots (looks like Fungal Growth does not require any research ). Else, High Templar's Feedback / Ghost's EMP would be pretty useful. One thing that comes to my mind: If your opponent Zerg has 5 Infestors & you only have 1, would it be possible for you (with good micro) to Neural Parasite all 5 of them? I can imagine the crowd going crazy if this was displayed in a pro-game.

so ...

micro = direct control of units in the battle field, doing combat with enemy forces

macro = base management, resource management, unit producing management, base expansion management, base defense, etc


yes?

choo choo ing with gf = micro
managing relationship = macro

Godly boxer days still exist today just look at jaedong micro and macro skill .

well if anything, i know my reaction/micro have gone down a notch. i dont war3 like i used to, thats for sure. and in sc2, im not playing as good as id want myself to be. im not expecting pro level, but somewhere between above avg - pro is what i wanna be at, and for sure i am not there.

also, ~100 apm give/take is the "standard" for pro levels, and for koreans, thats like the bare minimum to be at. look at david kim's apm for example, it avg at ~130-150 but once battle starts, holy shit 200-250 ROFL

Build queue is shortened to just 5 queues. I blame this on those stupid Koreans. I remembered that in Warcraft 3 you could put like 12 or something.

- Economy system is still dependent on building drones one by one. Why it didn't adopt Warcraft3's more efficient and streamlined economy system is beyond me. Again I blame this on motherfcuking koreans.

- What the hell happened to auto-casting? You know, that handy little tool that helps you cast minor spells? That would have been REALLY useful with units like Phoenix and it's gravity spell. Koreans again.

So you are assuming everyone is good enough to macro 3 bases and micro 5 armies at the same time? How about those who cant do that? Dont need to play the game?

Autocasting doesnt make you noob.

This definitely isnt W3,but this is SC2 in 3D with ridiculously conservative minded community that is still trapped in 1998.

The,if you want a "pro" game,might as well get rid of multiple selection, no queuing in bases, and no AI for mining so that you get to micro everything yourself.  Play SC2 in the way just like Dune 2. Thats pro,right?

What do you mean War3 doesn't have econ harassment? About half of my games on War3 back then was won through early econ harassment. The difference is i would lost at most 2 or 3 peons, and all i have to do is train 2 or 3 more peons. In SC2, players tend to lose a lot more drones, and i have to replace EVERY ONE of them.

I heard the High Templar one is removed. There isnt much autocast in the game,but not like WC3 where most spells need to have autocast.

It's not like RA3 where you see a tank,you more or less know that it's good for buildings or tanks after a few tries with it. It's the same confusing hard counter system as C&C4 like Titan is good for huge Mammoth tank,but not the smaller Wolf tank.

Elitism again.

Amd what's up with the game's tendency to split up old SC units into two different units?

Protoss Scout = Phoenix/Void Ray

Hydralisk = Roach/Hydralisk

Terran Wraith = Viking/Banshee

i understand if spells like psi-storm doesn't have auto cast, but what about phase shift? That should be auto castable.

And Phoenix's gravity spell. That SHOULD have auto cast, since it's just a flying version of the Crypt Fiend in War3.

Yesterday in my dream, I dreamed that Starcraft 2 will be out in July 2010.

lol viking is easy to get out and fast with a useful ability...
thor has aoe for air...
marine+steam packs = win...