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BlizzCast 6 - New Portraits and Screenshot

Posted 20th Nov 2008 02:14 AM by Troglodyte

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The latest BlizzCast is out, this time discussing all three major franchises of Blizzard.  The StarCraft II discussion starts just after 19 minutes, and looks at the unit design from concept to creation with Senior Art Director Samwise Didier and Lead Game Designer Dustin Browder.  Some single player content and a brief analysis of the Thor is also included.

A summary of the SC highlights include:

  • Any unit that is deemed “too powerful” for the multiplayer will most likely end up in the single player campaigns.
  • The Thor, as you know, is still being worked on.
  • The overall process from start to finish on creating a unit is pretty interesting.

This batch also came with five new portraits (bringing our total to 14) and another screenshot:

Protoss_MothershipPortrait.jpgProtoss_ZealotPortrait.jpgTerran_MarinePortrait.jpg
Mothership or High Templar, Zealot and Marine

Terran_ThorPortrait.jpgZerg_MutaliskPortrait.jpg
Thor and the Mutalisk

You can download the entire episode here, or read the transcript at the Blizzard website.

Edit: Extracted the Thor and Mutalisk portraits from the flash files, although not as hi-res as the others.




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Troglodyte
Posted 20, Nov 2008 04:05 AM
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Updated, managed to extract the Thor and Mutalisk portraits from the flash files.  They do not have as high a resolution as the other portraits but will do for now.

It sounds like the devs are still trying to find a good role for the Thor. smile

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Troglodyte
Posted 20, Nov 2008 04:05 AM
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Updated, managed to extract the Thor and Mutalisk portraits from the flash files.  They do not have as high a resolution as the other portraits but will do for now.

It sounds like the devs are still trying to find a good role for the Thor. smile

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Leord
Posted 20, Nov 2008 02:07 PM
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Ooh! Excellent work Trog! =D Really good looking compilation!

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west4sider
Posted 20, Nov 2008 02:21 PM
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The zealot ant the marine look great smileI kind of don’t like the Thor portrait ..

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west4sider
Posted 20, Nov 2008 02:21 PM
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The zealot ant the marine look great smileI kind of don’t like the Thor portrait ..

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Elly
Posted 20, Nov 2008 05:35 PM
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Have to say, the Zealot does it for me out of that lot.

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Elly
Posted 20, Nov 2008 05:35 PM
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Have to say, the Zealot does it for me out of that lot.

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Leord
Posted 20, Nov 2008 05:37 PM
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Yeah, the Zealot is the most stylish and "warrior-like" in that bunch, imho.

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Freelancer
Posted 20, Nov 2008 05:45 PM
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I like the Thor portait, but thats still about the only thing I like about that thing. I still believe they are trying to hard to keep the Thor in the MP game. This episode discusses the subject pretty well actually: it comes from art, but it doesn’t really have a rightful place in the game itself.

Now I am not all negative today raspberry I love the new portaits and especially the new screenshot. Its amazing!

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Freelancer
Posted 20, Nov 2008 05:45 PM
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I like the Thor portait, but thats still about the only thing I like about that thing. I still believe they are trying to hard to keep the Thor in the MP game. This episode discusses the subject pretty well actually: it comes from art, but it doesn’t really have a rightful place in the game itself.

Now I am not all negative today raspberry I love the new portaits and especially the new screenshot. Its amazing!

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