The Glade 4.0

6 missions in. Game is freaking awesome. Really loving it so far.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

That's a pretty crappy way of doing things, especially without telling people beforehand.

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Thanks for this. Got it started last night. Pretty crappy that they start throttling down their http feed to you once they detect peer to peer traffic is coming through. They were giving me between 100-150k/sec. Once I turned off peer to peer the game was downloading at about 1MB/sec.

Chumps.

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The Dude abides.

I can only imagine the people who got home with the game, only to discover they couldn't play it because they didn't have their DSL hooked up or what have you. Internet required games piss me off, because they don't allow flexibility. For example, I often want to play games on my laptop at campus. Unfortunately, their proxy or whatever doesn't allow any type of connections to occur, so you can't even log in to play Bejeweled 2 on pogo.com, let alone Warcraft or Battle.net stuff. So, if I'm at campus, I'm forced to play a stripped down single player version of the game, without achievements, stats, profile info, rewards, or any of that fun stuff. *Groan*

All of that aside, I'm really enjoying the game.

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Ok, Ok, you win, I broke down and ordered the Collectors edition.

I got a call from Gamestop. They sounded surprised I didn't pick it up at their midnight release thingy. (I was boycotting it) I guess I'll pick up my copy on the way home.

I plan on boycotting the installation for at least a week, but I may as well pick up the collector's edition that was my birthday present last year before they sell it to somebody else.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

What's your reason for boycotting, if you don't mind me asking?

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It's my own protest aimed at RealID. Sure, I'm eventually caving and buying it anyways, but then, they don't have my billing info as I don't play WoW, but I'm not so eager to play it (especially after years of waiting and playing some of the beta back in May anyways) that I can't hurt their first-week discrete login stats in my own small way.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I miss Foxtrot daily

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I'm not a fan of RealID, but I'd prefer to make friends with people I somewhat know (Glade Folk) rather than randoms.

If anyone wants someone to play with, here's my info:

Character Name: Roophus
Code: 665

By the way, take it easy on me. I'm a relatively casual/noob RTS player. I'm working on the not sucking part.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

I played the first 3 levels last night. I have to say the in-between-mission areas are great. I'm hoping there's some easter eggs in those.

I like the idea of being able to buy improvements instead of continually researching them. I also really dig the idea of hiring out for elite mercs. Of course that makes me want to watch those mercs like a hawk because they're so damned expensive (at least for the moment).

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The Dude abides.

The soundtrack is epic.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I know, right? Sweet Home Alabama!

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The Dude abides.

This game is so full of epic win it's unbelievable. And yes, the soundtrack is great. The background music (not the jukebox, which is cool too) often feels very...Firefly.

Hey, how do I access the mini-protoss campaign? I can't find it.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I'm curious, having not followed the development of this title: Have they shifted gameplay at all away from base building/micro-management to favor more action/tactics?

Ex: think DoW II

Not in any significant fashion.

Well, I take that back. Not in the multiplayer. Single player wasn't in the beta, and I haven't started in on it, so I don't know how much the upgrade unlocking in the campaign affects the base/resource management aspects in the RTS campaign gameplay.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

So it doesn't get buried--

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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You'll find it during the storyline. I just unlocked it last night

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Loved the Lost Viking arcade game!

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"I Live, I Love, I Slay, and I Am Content."
- Conan the Barbarian

It doesn't change it that much. But buying the upgrades saves you from having to upgrade certain things on the Barracks sub-facility buildings, for example. You buy your Stimpack upgrade in the Armory before a mission and your marines/firebats start with it every level thereafter.

The basic upgrades at the Engineering bay, like gun damage and armor are still present though. Its just special abilities, so far as I can tell.

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The Dude abides.

One thing that kinda annoys me about the normal storyline missions is that they are all basically timed. Sure, they don't have a timer up there at the top of the screen, but you are always having to do something that rushes you. It gets kinda old after a while. I miss the original Starcraft levels where they fill up about 90% of the map with enemy bases, give you the last 10% with a small base and tell you to destroy everyone. Those kinds of maps are rather rare in Starcraft 2.

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Tried multiplayer for the first time ever in a Starcraft game and really discovered just how clueless I am when it comes to this game.

Though, I did win. I had my Terran rampaging through his base & he simply quit.

I seem to be doing decent in the story missions, but I worry how bad I'll suck when I go to play online. I hope they're right that Battle.net 2 will match you up perfectly with someone of the same ability.

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