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Interesting. I get the little icon that means I've posted in this thread, but my post is nowhere to be seen.

I suck at RTS games, but I still love Starcraft. It seems that you can't play against people from other regions, but if anyone wants to add me, I'm Pyro (#369)

Edit: Ok, apparently I posted here but it somehow didn't show up. Had to delete 2 other posts :)

Boobs, I fixed it for you.

What just happened?! Now I see my first post again :)

Hmm, I'm starting to think about getting this. D: I've heard the single player is really good, so even if I'm not good at the game at least I could manage that.

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Originally Posted by Bube (Post 271458)

What just happened?! Now I see my first post again :)

I fixed it for you, like I said.

I picked it up today.

This is my first ever RTS, enjoying it so far. I don't know that I'll ever jump into multiplayer, as I like my dignity just the way it is. The single player's great, though, and I'm looking forward to the mods that come out of the community.

So I tried an AI game (I don't play online, and my connection has been acting up so much that it probably wouldn't sustain me through a whole game). And I'm really annoyed at how many units from the single player campaign are cut out of multiplayer completely. I understand that the game needs to be balanced, but come on now. They cut out medics! Why would you do that?

This leaves the multiplayer (at least on the Terran side) looking like an expansion pak because there just isn't that much new, and some of the new stuff is too specialized to really be useful (Hellions). There should at least be the option to use some of the units from the single-player campaign in multiplayer games. Just make sure they don't count on the ladder.

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Originally Posted by Xantar (Post 271471)

The medic is now combined with the drop ship, to form the medivac

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Originally Posted by Typhoid (Post 271463)

I fixed it for you, like I said.

Haha, when I couldn't see my first post, I wrote the same thing again. When I did that, I saw my first post, and had to delete it. The next day, you said that you fixed it, but that wasn't really fixing it :D

I had to delete it again :D

Am I the only person on these boards NOT playing this game?

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Originally Posted by BreakABone (Post 271479)

Am I the only person on these boards NOT playing this game?

I'm not, but I really want to. My crappy 512 MB, un-upgradeable RAM forces my hand. :(

But I am surprised by what sounds like the complete lack of innovation, especially on the multiplayer side.

Back in the StarCraft early days, I was actually a HUGE online Age of Empires 2 gamer, but not so much StarCraft. By the time I started playing StarCraft, all of my friends and everyone online were goddamn experts. I got my ass wiped everywhere.

A few months ago, I finally picked up Age of Empires 3. AOE3, while very familiar to AOE2, had some big innovations in the single player that also transferred to multiplayer.

AOE3 had the New World theme. It was civilizations from Europe colonizing America. To tie into that, it had shipments that you could get from your home country. To get the shipments, you racked up points in a match in numerous ways, such as killing other units or fighting for and finding treasures etc. Once you racked up enough points, you could choose a bonus shipment from home, anything from food, wood, or gold all the way to some really expensive military units. You usually ended up getting several shipments in the course of one match.

But you only started out with a few possible shipments to choose from. To unlock the rest, you had to earn experience points, mainly by winning games.

Like I said, this was a part of both single player and multiplayer, thankfully so. To make it balanced for multiplayer, you could only bring in 20 or so possible shipments to choose from in a given match. And you gain XP whether you win or lose, just by playing matches you gain XP, though much quicker when you win.

Unfortunately for me, I got AOE3 long after it was released, so trying to find beginners/medium players to play with is difficult. But I really enjoyed and appreciated the innovation added to that game. It's disappointing to me that StarCraft 2 couldn't add more.

I could play this, but I would probably have to be on low graphics settings due to Graphics card limitations. I'll probably wait until I decide to upgrade the graphics card.

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Originally Posted by Bube (Post 271475)

It said you deleted two posts so I restored one of them. It must have just been some type of glitch if they kept duplicating.

Since the rest of you are all babies I decided to try a game online and I kicked ass.
It also helped that I was doing a 2 Vs 2 and had a competent team mate.
Protoss Carriers FTW!