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3:07 AM

I have returned

Dragoon!

HAHA

awesome

I still hear that voice in my head too

though the immortal voice is starting to replace it

I haven't actually gotten a chance at SC2 yet.

Been wanting it, though.

do you want a guest pass? or is this a time issue?

3:22 AM

Time issue.

that's fair

I've had very little time myself

and what free time I've had I've preferred to spend on gaming.se

Speaking of, what's your avatar of, anyway?

Roach from SC2

Ah. What do they do? I haven't actually kept up with what any of the new units do, aside from a couple of the questions on Gaming.

They're just a cheap unit with a ton of hp

basic meatshield

3:25 AM

Ah

since zerglings now die when a marine coughs

I think they're really cool, because they're one of two units that and move while burrowed (with upgrade)

and they regen hp fast while burrowed

used to be faster in beta, but they got nerfed hard

Hum, interesting

What's the other moving burrowed unit? And do we still have Defilers?

no

infestors

Ahm

They're teir 2, they have a combination of plague and web, but worse for both and they have mind control (channeled)

3:29 AM

No more dark swarm?

no more dark swarm :(

Boo

It really hurts late game zerglings

Ultra's got buffed till they're still useful

At least we get that

massive dps, aoe, auto speed upgrade, more hp

well they're so big, they often get trapped behind units

they're frustrating to use

A lot of people are saying Zerg is weak right now, but I don't really believe them

3:31 AM

Hm... true that.

To the size issue.

very powerful macro, hydras are deadly, cheap meat shields, and banelings are awesome

Hydras still a ludicrous force for such an early unit?

plus, creep = increased speed and nydus worms can have multiple entrances/exits

no, they're Tier 2

Oh, they're tier 2 now. Interesting.

Roaches replaced them as that tier 1 unit

3:32 AM

Ahha

Hey I have a question for you

and don't take this the wrong way

but are you male or female?

Hah, the moment you said "don't take this the wrong way" I knew that question was coming up

well it came up before

because I used the feminin to describe you

Did it?

and some else used the masculin

and I asked if you were a guy

and it turned out no one knew

Its fine if you don't want to say, I just didn't want to accidently insult you

3:37 AM

Don't worry about insulting me. To be blunt, I accept both pronouns equally. Use whichever one you feel most comfortable with.

ok

I gave up trying to assert anything when I ended up with 2 separate net communities who are each convinced that I am one sex or the other.

Without me even giving a statement in either direction, too! It was honestly baffling.

haha

Well your profile suggested one so I'm going with that

Heh

9:03 AM

oeh I like that Prince of Persia question

and morning @CRoss

good points about tags in the new blog points blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags

10:57 AM

> And you know what? It felt good. It felt right.

Just like our game-rec lynching

11:22 AM

@IvoFlipse I wasn't ignoring you, that was my wife using the computer at 05:00 Zulu

hehe, no worries, I'm kind of busy with chores anyway :)

12:47 PM

the question about to be posted by Gaming is a dupe

wait, it isn't

my bad

it does seem like a seeding question to me

team-fortress-2 controls keyboard-controls

@ArdaXi Which one?

5

Q: Instant weapon change

When I play Team Fortress 2 and want to switch weapons I have to select one using my the keyboard's number keys (1, 2, 3, ...) and press fire button on the mouse to switch to that weapon. Alternatively I can select a weapon using the mouse's scroll wheel and then pressing the fire button to switc...

yeah

yeah ... it's not a bad one to have around though

of course, that's why I answered it :)

1:21 PM

I'm glad SCII isn't on steam, or I would have bought it by now

it's available through battle.net

I'll ruin your life by giving you the link

you from Europe or US?

US

us.battle.net/sc2/en/buynow?ref=/sc2

wha- it isn't on Steam?

click the buy now link there

1:23 PM

but it'd be faster to drive to BestBuy and install it than the dl

why would they pay Valve to distribute the game

depends on your download speed

crappy 3MB DSL

I got the installer from usenet, so I only had to get a license

because SteamWorks offers a load of improvements to games

but I should be working more than I already do

Battle.Net offers whatever value Blizzard wants you to have :P

to keep you playing their games (and not anyone elses)

1:24 PM

meh, I haven't bought a non-steam game in years

well I can't log in to steam now, since a friend of mine is abusing it :P

my steam account is worth approximately $839.40

auch

or.. €821,40

I come a long way with my Guitar Hero games :P

1:26 PM

woah, that's close

the Steam discounts are just wicked too

-did not say that-

true, I haven't even paid half of that

funny, in GBP it's worth £557.90 which converts to approximately €670.900384

not bad :)

I only own a couple of francises

I buy most of my games by proxy through the UK

a bunch of Blizzard stuff (+2 years of WoW subscriptions), Half-Life/Valve stuff and Guitar Hero stuff

1:29 PM

but if some day I quit gaming at least I know I can make quite a nice margin on my account

hehe, it's a collector's edition account then

Member since: April 14, 2005

steam was so different back then

oh the memories

Condition Zero

that last mission was brutal

darn AI of your team sucked

Friends used to always be 'offline' back then

but it was actually just not implemented

heh, insaniquarium

1:44 PM

That game was good for about an hour :-)

1:54 PM

any SC2 players around?

@IvoFlipse plays it I believe

I finally had time to play a game after the campaign, wondering of some units just aren't available outside the compaign, was very puzzled when building

this has to already have been asked on gaming, trying to find it

I've played the multiplayer beta @NickCraver

@Ivo - you notice units missing? e.g. science vessel, firebat?

since SC1?

yeah they replaced units between 1 and 2

you know what, ask it as a question, what units have been changed and perhaps why and how (must be some blizzard blue talks about it)

2:08 PM

just about to, looking through all the questions now, i would be surprised it it hasn't been asked

oh wait I forgot to read your previous message: they aren't there for balancing

ah ok makes sense I was just making sure I wasn't missing a chunk of a tech tree somewhere

just google: missing units starcraft 2 site:gaming.stackexchange.com

here's a query for units: google.nl/…

I watched some developer interviews on Gametrailers

they choose to leave them out of multiplayer for balancing, but they could go all out in the singlyplayer campaign

yeah couldn't find anything, just surprised it hasn't been asked yet, will in a bit after I finish responding to SO questions

Starcraft has some advantages in that area compared to WoW

Addict! ;-)

2:10 PM

good point, i'm looking forward to parts 2 and 3, sc2 was very well done imo

Rakesh Juyal

i hopped in just because it says Gaming :D

it's what lures everyone in here @RakeshJuyal you should give the site a try too!

Chacha102

2:51 PM

Good Morning

4:57 PM

Evening all

@JuanManuel That isn't actually a duplicate

5:14 PM

rain rain rain all day today :(

hi

Downvoter

5:37 PM

isn't it a duplicate @ArdaXi?

Downvoter

let me read them again

Downvoter

ok, I saw the difference

Downvoter

reopened

Which?

6:32 PM

hmm, keyboard-controls and controls seems a bit double as two separate tags

any question with keyboard-controls would immediately have the controls tag apply to it

Well, comes the question, how often is it important to distinguish between keyboard controls and other controls when the distinction can't be divined from the platform?

hmm, didn't think about that

then again, I can't imagine such a case

I think most of the time the answer to that would still be "not often"

It's frequently infrequent?

Perhaps for questions about comparisons between using gamepads on PC and not using them or something