Truthfully the best way to stop rushes as terran in SC2 is actually the same strategy in SC1 and that's building a wall of supply depots to cut off your entrance.

Nice thing about SC2 is that you can lower them if you need to move out your ground units.

I've been playing a lot of SC2. The campaign seems long. I'm rather sad at the lack of cinematics... I mean, it's all in-game cinematics instead of glorious Blizzard movies. Also, this game is making me wish I had a better computer.

I beat all of the missions, including the ones from the crystal in about 20 hours. So it's sort of long-ish for today's standards. I counted 4 actual CG cinematics in the whole game. Intro, Zeratul fight, Kerrigan flashback, and outro. The Zeratul fight one was pretty cool, though. But I agree, there should have been more.

Ya, they really haven't innovated or kept up with the rts genre at all. It's basically unchanged. Warhammer 40k:Dawn of War, Company of Heroes are way better rts games than SC2. Heck, even Sins of a solar empire is better.

Reminds me, they need to make a Homeworld III. Real 3D RTS combat is something I miss.

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I like it, but they took out a crap load of terran units that you get in campaign from multiplayer. Firebats, medics, wraiths, goliaths, vultures are all removed from multiplayer.

Like I said I think it's good and I'll play it, but there's a lot of small changes that make me go "Huh?"

I still think Company of Heroes is better btw.

I was wondering about what was in multiplayer since they give you so much stuff in the campaign. I don't understand why they would remove any of these units? Medics could be replace with the air medic but goliaths? Except for the thor, there is no other ground unit that can attack air unit! Thor aren't that awesome against air units either.

Do you get all those weird research upgrades in multiplayer?

I also think there are better RTS out there now though I don't mind that it stayed closed to the original. I just wish the loading time were better... The game says I should run almost everything at high quality but I get audio skip, I lose 30 seconds of not being able to do anything when a round start and the first mission on Char gave me a 5 minutes loading screen!

There are a few campaign upgrades you can get in multiplayer (They cost resources but still.)

You can get planetary fortresses, those marine shields, the concussion shots for marauders, and ravens.

As for attacking air units there is still marines, missile turrets, and ghosts. (You can get ghosts surprisingly early now.)

Yeah now try playing as zerg and defending against early air raids. Oh and the queens are now ground units you can can make from the start and you need them to expand creep. Defilers are replaced by infestors and mutilisks can't turn into guardians anymore. Oh and the scourge suicide units are gone.

As for protoss? Scouts, reavers, dragoons (Though they got replaced by stalkers), and dark archons are gone. Honestly I think protoss are the least hit race with the changes they've made. Hell proxy photon cannons make the AI a joke.

Seems like they replaced the guardians with the Brood lord which is more effective than guardians were. Guardians were awesome but seriously, Brood Lord kick ass.

I'm at the last mission. I've been playing it on hard and this mission made me take a break. Also, this game needs a "formation" button badly.

Ya, they had to do that for gameplay balance. Being able to crank out marines, marauders and medics from barracks would have been insta-death to protoss or zerg early game. Hellions are meant to replace firebats, reapers in place of vultures. Microed mass reapers are total rape rape rape from what I've seen. They outrun Mutalisks...

Marines can attack air units. Marines+stimpack = unholy firing squad.



In a word, yes. But you actually have to click the lab to research them. I wasn't aware that I could "share" techlabs and reactors by lifting off one building and dropping another in it's place.



I'm running a Pentium D805 dual core 2.66 and not really having any problems. GTX260 seems to run most things on ultra without a hitch, with some slight lag that gets annoying. I've toned everything down to high to eliminate it all.

Sometimes there's a big loading screen, but I got smokes, books, and 3 other monitors to look at, so I don't really mind.