Starcraft 2 details, fansite summit, screens and more

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Blizzard held a summit in China for their development in China and answering questions on their fan sites. SC2c, one of the Chinese StarCraft II fansites, attended the summit, which was conducted by the RTS community manager Jerome Wu and other Blizzard China representatives. There were some vital information leaked on SC2 during the summit.

Translated by Starcraftwire, this is what Stephen, the administrator of SC2c.com, was able to find out from Blizzard representatives during the event:

• Beta will include map editor, this is for sure, but we don’t know if the editor has some limitation to it. (note the map editor will not be guaranteed in the Beta version)
• The keys that Blizzard’s China Representative Office promised for the Chinese sites are the keys for North America beta, which will start before any other regions. However, the keys will be handed out in batches.
• The map editor (final version?) in SC2 is very powerful, RPG map making has infinite possibilities. (Sounds familiar?)
• Beta will only have multiplayer part, no single player campaign content. You need to connect with Battle.net even if you want to player with the AI.
• Current demo doesn’t have RPG maps. We don’t know if beta will have any yet.
• Insane AI will cheat, their resources gathering rate will be twice as fast as normal. Other AI’s will not cheat.
• Beta will have Battle.net Ladder.
• Classic maps are remade. For example, Lost Temple.
• About spec, it will require really good hardware to support the highest setting which will look magnificent.
• Mainstream dual core processor, +2G memory, +9800GT and the like will be required in order to set the graphics to medium. (speculated, not fact)
• As a guideline: A laptop from two years ago may still be able to play SC2.
• Blizzard Chinese official site is in preparation. No info when it will be online, but it will be “soon”.
• You can save replays in Beta and the features in the replays are much better than the original StarCraft.

Last but not least, here’s a quick recap on some important notes from the recent fansite Q&A batch from SCLegacy.

SCVs can patrol, so if you activate auto-casting of the SCV’s repair ability, that SCV will repair damaged buildings or units it encounters while on patrol. The SCV will repair nearby units and buildings and continue its designated patrol pattern again after the repairs are complete.

AI in Starcraft II is much more developed, the computer is required to scout like players and can think almost like a player. It adapt to what it sees you are building to counter your selected strategy with key units of their own. Pathfinding is also improved, melee units are smarter about attempting to surround enemies and players who choose to micro their armies will still have an advantage.

Hope you’ve enjoyed the long read and patiently wait for beta this summer. Just a quick note for those who hasn’t been following, Beta has been officially confirmed for this summer. No exact date has been set yet but its just around the corner. I’m already sweating.

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