It's a trademark of Blizzard (go for the masses!!). Plus, having a so-so graphic engine but offers great gameplay always sells the game.

Some thoughts about Terran:

- Marauders are a must have unit since their grenade unit can snare (slow down) any unit except Massive unit - which means Ultralisk, Colossus and Thor. Also useful while fighting armored units.

- Bunker can be recycled now. No more wasted mineral.

- Initialy I am skeptic about MedEvac. But now it seems a wise choice because units can be easily transpot and get heal while dropping into a hot zone (with SCV's auto cast repair, it's even handy).

- 2 upgrades of Command Center offer different strategy value. As a Planetary fortress, it's essentialy a giant cannon platform with huge hitpoint. As a Orbital command, it acts as an support building which can build MULE and increase the supply of a supply depot <-- another way to save minerals while increasing population cap. Also during tier-3 stage of the game, I found myself building more Command Center than Supply depot.

- MULE! Although they are temporary unit, they harvest more minerals compare to SCV (30 minerals per trip vs. 5 minerals per trip). I found myself keep building MULE at tier-3 stage to sustain the massive mineral requirements of armored units like Thor and Siege Tank.

- Marines with Combat shield overcomes the cons of having low hit-point. Which mean they can hit with up to 4 stimpack now.

- The biggest change of Terran Infantry is Ghost, imo. They have 100 hitpoints now, high damage versus light armor unit, can snipe now, and can call down nukes which doesn't eat up the population cap (Just build tons of Ghost Academy)

- Barrack with Nuclear Reactor in early game can be deadly since 2 marines can be trained now simultaneously, handy to counter early zerg rush.




This post has been edited by zioburosky13: Mar 4 2010, 11:24 PM

I have a sense that the current SC2 is focusing more on Terran so they get all the goodies. Bear in mind that Blizzard has planned a trilogy for SC2. Which mean the 2 factions will get some boost in their upcoming expansion.

Your GPU.
Also, more RAM couldn't hurt (smooth map loading).
However, keep in mind that SC2 is currently in BETA.
Which means there are some bugs they need to S&D before release the game.

Depends on what resolution you are playing.
Come to think of it, you are using a 3 years old CPU...(just came back from work so a bit dizzy)
However, wait until the game is release if you want to upgrade.
Here's a quite similar GPU review of your Radeon HD4890. GPU only.

Back to topic, after testing the game, I somehow find SC is now lackluster compare to its identical twin...the one with 40k in its name...

This post has been edited by zioburosky13: Apr 10 2010, 08:51 PM

Have any of you encounter the black flickering screen problem?

Until we swap the goverment.
Sometimes the screen of the game will go black and flickering. Can't do anything except alt-tab out to window. That's some nasty bug.

Right, how about lowering down the price of SC2 in Asia?