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Yeah, but that could be the default avatar. Since they are showing it on such a notable place, the avatar itself must be important. That means it might be customizable.
I wonder if it’s possible that Blizzard made week-long NDA just to confuse us. Maybe they’ll put up Blizzcast on Thursday for example, announce Beta, and lift NDA earlier. Blizz likes to surprise people and next Monday as announcement day seems too obvious.
might be but i would like to strongly support this theory: "There is a rumour that over 200 members of press have been invited there. They can’t all fit there at the same so that sounds a good reason for the NDA. Nobody can publish any information before the last visitor have been there."
“There is no longer dual gas. The tested build has SC1 style gas mechanics.”
Could someone explain this statement? Does this mean there will only be one gas extractor location instead of two? This would be a pity since the latest BR3 showed some nice chokepoints due to two gas extractors at the mineral site.
I believe that there will be only one gas location per a base place. There might be still dual gas points on some maps / some single locations. The idea why they added the dual gas was the new gas mechanics. You could refill a depleted gas extractor, but there was only a little initial gas. They removed this feature, so there is no need for additional gas anymore. I think it's a good thing.
I'm glad it's back to how it was. Splitting up the geysers was detrimental to the Zerg economy (need one extra Drone to create the geyser, and three extra ones to mine it).
So wait, does that mean that there will be 5000 gas per extractor like before in SC 1? Will people still be able to harvest gas at 2 gas per trip when it's depleted and 8 when the extractor has gas? Oh well, I guess we'll find out from those people have a beta key. Well anyway, I'm glad they FINALLY decided to take out the annoying gas refill-by-spending-minerals mechanic. It just seems to make to game more annoying. In the end, the player would just use the minerals to make a new expansion and use the other extractors rather than using valuable minerals to refill depleted extractors. I mean let's face it, when it comes to Starcraft players are going to take whatever path is the most powerful or efficient strategy. However, it's a good thing the Starcraft 2 devs decided to experiment with the mechanic to see if it's any good because now they have more knowledge and experience at improving Starcraft than before. Let's just hope they don't put it back in. heh heh
I understood that there will be many visitors visiting the place during the week. They don't want that the first ones to visit could post the news first.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59259
“Took a quick trip down to Blizzard HQ yesterday. Looking forward to writing all that up. Keep an eye out on Monday morning for that.”
For the love of god blizzard. give us something.
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avatar in top right corner looks like the SC2 SCV portrait imo
seen at bottem of http://www.scraftwiki.net/SCV