The Guts of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm

Can't wait for HOTS

Every time they say "star gate," (in the Bomb Cast too) I think Stargate. You know, that Stargate.

Ah, information on a game I care about!

Guts! Do you have it!??

Anyway, new units look cool and I like the renewed viability of hydras. But I'm still looking forward to the campaign more than mp. Of course, I said that last time and ended up playing a good 300 games.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

I never really freak out about games anymore, but I am so GOD DAMN MUTHER FUCKING EXCITED FOR THIS!!!!!!

I'm probably only getting this for the campaign at this point. Other RTS game's ladders have my competitive spirit.

Never shave, Brad. Never.

Bearded Brad is Best Brad

the bullshit this guy spews about terran is amazing.. saying that terran has a LOT to think about, siege tanks, stims and the occasional EMP? are you joking? this is the guy who ruined starcraft 2 .

So excite! Love all the SC content atm, keep it coming!

Woooooo, talk about videogames and videogamey thingies in those videogames. YES! So excited!

New units abilities and roles are the same as SC1 units' abilities and roles they took out in the first place. Very creative, Mr. Browder.

The first interesting and clearly sc2 player driven interview of HOTS that i´ve seen. Thanks Brad.

Great interview Brad. I love to know more about a game from people who actually KNOW the game. I hope you got some sleep man!

It's the weirdest thing. I don't know what I'm looking forward to the most. The new singleplayer Zerg campaign (FOR THE SWARM !!!) or the fact that this is probably gonna make pro competitive games even more exciting (I didn't touch the multiplayer in WoL).

Anyway, nerd out moment : OH YEAH HEART OF THE SWARM !

Brad and Dustin from Blizz are becoming a yearly feature or whatever, which is awesome. I especially liked that video where Brad was saying that they would release SC2(2009 which is what they said at that time, I know they say it's done when it's done, maybe I'm misremembering things anyway) and Dustin was chuckling a lil' bit, because he knew that shit wouldn't happen at all.

@Tarsier said:

the bullshit this guy spews about terran is amazing.. saying that terran has a LOT to think about, siege tanks, stims and the occasional EMP? are you joking? this is the guy who ruined starcraft 2 .

Err why are you making out Terrans an easy race to play? Mech play you need a lot of game sense, because drops and getting out of position is easy. Standard play requires a lot of multi tasking. Both pretty hard to pull off.

Damn these interviews are amazing. Much appreciated. /bow

Brad's voice is so manly I have to turn down the bass on my sound system.

Brad looks like he prematurely left a hospital.

Brad is an actual fan of games. Good to see.

I love in thew second interview brad looks like he is fighting against all hope to remain awake.

Thanks Brad!

Brad with the thousand yard stare

This is a fairly sexual interview. Unfortunately, I am no fan of the StarCraftering.

I want that poster from the background.

The Archon Toilet was a crazy move. If you missed it.

Great work Brad.

@xxNBxx: as awesome as that game was

I just find it baffling that a pro; at the final of the biggest tournament, during end game where there's no more macro and production/resource management. Down to 1 final army for the Terran. And he 1 "a" into battle.

@doe3879 said:

@xxNBxx: as awesome as that game was

I just find it baffling that a pro; at the final of the biggest tournament, during end game where there's no more macro and production/resource management. Down to 1 final army for the Terran. And he 1 "a" into battle.

I was practically jumping out of my seat when I saw that match the first time, but I'm with you, MVP is way too good to just let that happen. Can't help wondering if he let the series stretch out a bit to make it more exciting.

Hey David Kim, I found the perfect solution for the entomb-not-causing-an-alert issue!

...Entomb now turns all mineral patches in to photon cannons.

BOOM.

@prod88 said:

Brad's voice is so manly I have to turn down the bass on my sound system.

Exactly what I was thinking. When the video started I was like ''JESUS!''

Edit: Oh and great interview Brad.

I wonder how many real members of the games press that Dustin gets to talk to who know as much about the game as Brad. Must be pretty refreshing. 

I really need to finish WoL before this comes out.

Great interviews Brad, so excited for this game

@haffy said:

@Tarsier said:

the bullshit this guy spews about terran is amazing.. saying that terran has a LOT to think about, siege tanks, stims and the occasional EMP? are you joking? this is the guy who ruined starcraft 2 .

Err why are you making out Terrans an easy race to play? Mech play you need a lot of game sense, because drops and getting out of position is easy. Standard play requires a lot of multi tasking. Both pretty hard to pull off.

I would ignore anyone who uses the phrase "ruined starcraft 2"

Also, that was an awesome interview, way longer than I expected.

@Xeirus said:

@haffy said:

@Tarsier said:

the bullshit this guy spews about terran is amazing.. saying that terran has a LOT to think about, siege tanks, stims and the occasional EMP? are you joking? this is the guy who ruined starcraft 2 .

Err why are you making out Terrans an easy race to play? Mech play you need a lot of game sense, because drops and getting out of position is easy. Standard play requires a lot of multi tasking. Both pretty hard to pull off.

I would ignore anyone who uses the phrase "ruined starcraft 2"

Also, that was an awesome interview, way longer than I expected.

ok ignore me then. a lot of people see starcraft 2 as a massive imbalanced shit show of disappointment, same as WC3, WoW and diablo 3. blizzard hasnt made a good game in ages.

@Tarsier said:

@Xeirus said:

@haffy said:

@Tarsier said:

the bullshit this guy spews about terran is amazing.. saying that terran has a LOT to think about, siege tanks, stims and the occasional EMP? are you joking? this is the guy who ruined starcraft 2 .

Err why are you making out Terrans an easy race to play? Mech play you need a lot of game sense, because drops and getting out of position is easy. Standard play requires a lot of multi tasking. Both pretty hard to pull off.

I would ignore anyone who uses the phrase "ruined starcraft 2"

Also, that was an awesome interview, way longer than I expected.

ok ignore me then. a lot of people see starcraft 2 as a massive imbalanced shit show of disappointment, same as WC3, WoW and diablo 3. blizzard hasnt made a good game in ages.

People say that about EVERY sequal to EVERY game. Not everyone will always be happy, people say the same shit about LoL and every other competitive game on this planet, I'm not impressed when "a lot" of people say something anymore.

No background beats makes me a sad boy.

I'm super excited for Heart of the Swarm. Even though I only play 7-8 games a week, I really want to see all the new crazy units being used by the pros although it's going to kind of suck having almost 50% of WoL become essentially obsolete.

@Xeirus said:

@Tarsier said:

@Xeirus said:

@haffy said:

@Tarsier said:

the bullshit this guy spews about terran is amazing.. saying that terran has a LOT to think about, siege tanks, stims and the occasional EMP? are you joking? this is the guy who ruined starcraft 2 .

Err why are you making out Terrans an easy race to play? Mech play you need a lot of game sense, because drops and getting out of position is easy. Standard play requires a lot of multi tasking. Both pretty hard to pull off.

I would ignore anyone who uses the phrase "ruined starcraft 2"

Also, that was an awesome interview, way longer than I expected.

ok ignore me then. a lot of people see starcraft 2 as a massive imbalanced shit show of disappointment, same as WC3, WoW and diablo 3. blizzard hasnt made a good game in ages.

People say that about EVERY sequal to EVERY game. Not everyone will always be happy, people say the same shit about LoL and every other competitive game on this planet, I'm not impressed when "a lot" of people say something anymore.

yes, but in this case these people are right.

@xxNBxx said:

The Archon Toilet was a crazy move. If you missed it.

Great work Brad.

MVP's face during that is priceless. I can't imagine what it was like seeing it live, since I already knew to expect something insane at some point.

@Tarsier: Melodrama aside, do you think Terran is overpowered? Have you been watching pro SC lately?

The Carrier was my favorite unit. RIP

@Fungiefips said:

@Tarsier: Melodrama aside, do you think Terran is overpowered? Have you been watching pro SC lately?

im not talking about pro SC, i have nothing to do with pro SC. the game should be balanced from gold and upwards. terran has been over powered in silver gold and diamond leagues since the game released.

am i the only one thinking that they start kissing when the camera shut off? :P

@Tarsier: I honestly have no idea how you could come to the conclusion Terran is OP at those ranks nowadays. I'll see if I can find the stats, but Terran were notoriously underrepresented in the middle leagues a few months ago, and the queen changes have had a huge effect on noob-friendly openers. And PvT with ghost changes has become a race to see if the Terran can kill the Toss before his deathball gets solidified.

Mmmmmm StarCraft. I'm watching GSL right now, so yeah I'm still pretty excited about more StarCraft.

@Tarsier said:

@Xeirus said:

@haffy said:

@Tarsier said:

the bullshit this guy spews about terran is amazing.. saying that terran has a LOT to think about, siege tanks, stims and the occasional EMP? are you joking? this is the guy who ruined starcraft 2 .

Err why are you making out Terrans an easy race to play? Mech play you need a lot of game sense, because drops and getting out of position is easy. Standard play requires a lot of multi tasking. Both pretty hard to pull off.

I would ignore anyone who uses the phrase "ruined starcraft 2"

Also, that was an awesome interview, way longer than I expected.

ok ignore me then. a lot of people see starcraft 2 as a massive imbalanced shit show of disappointment, same as WC3, WoW and diablo 3. blizzard hasnt made a good game in ages.

Yeah and you and this "lot" of people would be wrong.

@Tarsier: all games are bad. Duh.

@Lothars said:

@Tarsier said:

@Xeirus said:

@haffy said:

@Tarsier said:

the bullshit this guy spews about terran is amazing.. saying that terran has a LOT to think about, siege tanks, stims and the occasional EMP? are you joking? this is the guy who ruined starcraft 2 .

Err why are you making out Terrans an easy race to play? Mech play you need a lot of game sense, because drops and getting out of position is easy. Standard play requires a lot of multi tasking. Both pretty hard to pull off.

I would ignore anyone who uses the phrase "ruined starcraft 2"

Also, that was an awesome interview, way longer than I expected.

ok ignore me then. a lot of people see starcraft 2 as a massive imbalanced shit show of disappointment, same as WC3, WoW and diablo 3. blizzard hasnt made a good game in ages.

Yeah and you and this "lot" of people would be wrong.

i accept that you believe this