StarCraft II Battle Report 2

Wow thanks for posting this Brad. I loved the first one and wasn't aware the second one was out. Battle Report I mean. Hm maybe it's just me but the audio doesn't seem to be working. Audio works now :)

Anyone know where to DL the HD version?
edit:http://starcraft2.com/features/battlereports/2.xml

The Audio isn't working for me

word, ive got no sound

Just go on starcraft2.com or whatever the site is and few it from there.

Sorry, will get the sound fixed ASAP.

Damn you Brad. You make me click links that lead to awesome, then you just take them away -_-.

I'ma go and watch all your video reviews and shout obscenities to make up for the pain you've caused.

Looking forward to it when video gets back up.

ohh snap announcers missed the scv snaeking out there. And HAHAHAHAHA no one knows what the missile does :P

that was awesome.  BLIZZARD RELEASE THE FUCKING GAME ALREADY AND JUST PATCH IT AS YOU GO.

daang, these commentdudes, comment like crazy

Damn, I want to love this game so much, but I just can't possibly get to a hardcore or tournament style game. I loved the video for what it was, but as for actually playing the game, I think I'll pass.

The Zerg creep looks awesome. This game looks awesome. I hope the single player campaign is as stellar as I would expect from Blizzard.

woot go terrans :D game looks fantastic

I dunno why people knock on game commentary; it's awesome and exciting.
I think there's just a stigma against it because it's basically people who are excited about games, but there's nothing wrong with that.
It lets the viewer (especially those who don't play competitively) understand exactly what's going on.
Sure, e-sports trying to present itself as "eXtreme!" is pretty lame, but it's always a thrill to watch two people who are good at what they do go at it -- more so if you have someone to root for.

I'm actually excited to play this game now.

I like how the loser quits before the winner announced

Giant Bomb needs to send a commentary crew to replace those guys.

he quits before the other guy wins because that's just proper SC etiquette. No one wants to wait around while all their buildings are destroyed when you can just quit and be done with a game that you've pretty much already lost.

Everyone will love this game, just not everyone knows it yet!

The Blizzard guys did an awesome job on the commentary.

Looking forward to more of these.

I really love watching videos like this... it's almost like a sport... they should show this shit on ESPN, fuck poker.

I really enjoyed this video a whole lot.  Thought the commentators did an excellent job of describing the action and they truly were excited about what was going on within the game.

Can't wait to get my hands on this.

so pumped for dat sc2. gonna make dem zealots and high templar IN 3D. wut up.

this video is beyond me and my stratigic knowledge

Great match! Very entertaining video!

I want this now. Looks damn amazing - glad to see more from the zerg, they're my favorite race in starcraft.

Anyone else find two developers commentating on an RTS in a sportscaster's tone to be a bit ridiculous?

The other battle report they had with David Kim was a lot similar. I wont spoil the game for the people watching next. but the battle's flow went exactly the same for the most part.

sweet, totally went how I wanted it to go.

I wish these guys who are commentating would slow down and make it a bit nicer to listen to. I don't want to feel like I'm at a horse race.

Wow. Superb game. Really takes me back to the days where I could sit and watch in-game replays in Warcraft 3 for hours. Made me wanna go back and log some more games on Battle net.
This game cannot come soon enough.

Looks awesome and I can't wait!

You guys obviously don't play starcraft competitively, which is fine, but you shouldn't be calling the dude a sore loser just because he left early.  It's called courtesy, when the battle is over, you leave so as to not waste anyones time.  He dropped a GG and left thats just how you do it.

awesome comeback by the Terran player !

i think i'd rather watch that game being played than play it myself. it should be on t.v.

@Meltbrain

All 3 races are available in each game on Battle.net. It's just the single player portions that are restricted.

Are they actually only doing one race playable for 30 missions?  I thought it was just more of a theme for each race, or was hopin anyway.  One playable race would suck ass.

Starcraft 2 is going to revolutionize the world!!!  And no its not one race per pack thats fucking retarded :P.
The whole three releases thing should be just thought as 2 expansions. Only con is that because campaigns will come out one at a time we wont be able to "master" all races in single player campaign.

Love this video.. But this really looks like Blizzard are playing it safe. It's a very natural, "safe" progression, i feel like i'm watching a game of Starcraft alright.

I'm not sure if that's a bad thing? Or a good thing? Argh.. I'm so torn. Part of me just feels so "done" with Starcraft now that Dawn of war has been around for so long.

I know exactly how you feel Sunjammer. It pretty much is Starcraft in 3D. I mean... no infantry in squads? That's just as bad as RE5's control scheme.

Damn, they are scary-good at that level of play.

I'd love to play this game, but I know from experience that the online playerbase is insane and I'd never win.

I like the new idea of splitting the single player campaigns up into installments. Blizzard has said they want to make the campaigns less linear with different options, its probably gonna end up a lot like DoW2. Noone is complaining about DoW2 only letting you play Space Marines, are they? Furthermore, considering what we have seen in the past campaigns there is probably a very good chance that for at least 1 or 2 points in the campaign you are going to be forced into an uncomfortable alliance with the Protoss/Zerg and either fight as them or with both races, unlike DoW's 'you hate everyone and every mission's objective is to kill everything' style of game.

People are just getting upset thinking that Blizzard already made a regular linear 8-10 mission campaign for each race and said 'fuck it, lets sell these 3 times'.

Though promising 2 expansions means that we will probably find out what happens to the third race sometime in 2019.

@Delta_Ass

You must be the only person I know who likes squad based infantry. Name me a single game where the infantry weren't 1000x more cumbersome then regular unit based.

Ummm... Dawn of War? Company of Heroes? Command and Conquer 3? Dawn of War 2? They're all pretty great with squads of infantry.

Of all you mention the only ones I wasn't frustrated with the crappy squad pathing in was C&C3, and that was mostly because I almost never needed to use infantry. In DoW and CoH I was frustrated to no ends with the individual squad members standing outside of the line of fire, stupidly running over a ton of terrain just to maintain their precious formation, and screwing up a ton in small places. If you want squads in SC2, its as simple as forming a group and setting the 'formation' button (I assume they kept this feature over from WC3? Not sure.)

I'll say that if its your first time playing an RTS, Squad based combat is probably a lot easier since you aren't hugely concerned with getting 100% effectiveness out of every unit you produce, but in any kind of experienced high level play taking away control from the player and hoping a computer performs it well is almost NEVER a good idea.