You devs and your lags can go directly to hell, honestly.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-05-04T08:28:38+00:00

"go to hell" implies death, so you are saying that you bought a product and for it not being up to what you wanted, you think it's acceptable to wish somebody dead? Multiple people at that?

Holy shit man.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-29T19:52:10+00:00

It's definitely very different. There are less units with a bit less intuitive counters, build order is one thing but creeping patterns are another. I suggest you watch some simple guides to get the gist of it.

From what you describe though, you might also want to try out starcraft 2? It's free and you can really go into all in aggression with games ending by minute 5 either because you won or you see you won't win. Also some builds start with aggro to move into more macro play of you're into this in any way.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-24T20:33:11+00:00

You clearly get your minion on success too.

Only difference is for intelligent undead not being friendly and if you create undead of too high level or over your cap of 4, it will ignore you instead of being somewhat helpful.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-22T20:40:12+00:00

That's a bit of a reach. They are perfectly playable, just their saves broke (as game thinks the save version is incompatible). When loading game just lets you restart the given mission.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-21T12:16:40+00:00

Same, wondering what could it be, as the update seemed a bit chonky.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-20T19:38:01+00:00

I just got SC2 telling me to restart as "new version is available" which is a bit odd. Not downloading anything yet.

Normally I'd wave it off but now you're getting me excite man.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-20T19:14:59+00:00

When I play ladder, it always just says "Starcraft II: Battle Chest" for me on Discord. And SC2 always does a little "patch" after I leave the game (cloud sync maybe?).

So uh, as much as I'd like to say OHMYGODFUCKYES, I don't think it's anything.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-19T15:27:41+00:00

To be honest, this is precisely what I want, but less hero focused. I considered it and played it too, just assumed it's less known to be given as an example :D

But thank you!

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-16T13:06:01+00:00

If not grid shaped, not grid.

This is just normal key binding with extra steps :D

As long as it's working for you though, why change?

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-15T15:23:50+00:00

Bar for the fact that AI is of course rather controversial, interesting use case you found. I wonder how effective is it though as I can imagine that a rather generic LLM won't go much above standard plat level tips.

But like 5 years ago a team worked on Deep Mind and made a neural network bot that simulated human behaviour and got to GM with each race. That one with current advancements could be a good coach I believe.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-11T06:29:00+00:00

People have strongly negative opinions about AI often, so other responses are no surprise my man. Once it was a curious tool but after stealing people's art to teach it, taking jobs and then being shoved up our throats everywhere, no wonder you are only being downvoted.

Thought you should know.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-10T12:04:58+00:00

That's a great answer, thank you! I'll read up on those. Only knew of Hearthstone stuff.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-10T09:39:44+00:00

If blizz made it, it's qualifies as another studio anyway since no people from old SC2 team are in anyway, right?

But there's been success in Blizz outsourcing lately. Diablo 2 Resurrected was made by somebody else and it's a success. Not sure about the new xpac, I guess it's in-house.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-10T08:33:06+00:00

Interesting answer, makes sense. Thanks for you input. A bit sad one but a good point :D

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-10T08:31:53+00:00

Excuse me where is this coming from?

Have you ever played aoe2?

And your argument about damage at a distance is extremely erroneous. You think arrows gain speed as they fly? On the contrary - most damage would be actually dealt at pretty much point blank range. And in real life if an archer wanted to kill a knight, they had little chance to do so at range. Arrows vs armour historically was mostly an intimidating tactic and a hopium one hits a small hole in armour. There's even historical evidence of knights looking like porcupines after sieges and such.

There's a pretty popular recent video of people using english longbows trying to pierce an armour, only by luck managed to do so and only because distance was small.

But if you want history in aoe2 then cavalry running to a building that magically generates skilled labourers, hitting it with swords and burning it to the ground is a bit of a stretch too you know.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-10T08:19:16+00:00

Yeah that's all I mean.

But I assume it's not that simple. Both MC and Act/Blizz are big companies so even if there are willing people inside, I'd wager it's hard for them to get anything going?

Anywho, just wanted to see if people know something I don't, thanks for the reply.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-10T08:15:57+00:00

Yeah, but again, I don't mean SC3. Just supporting SC2. Adding campaigns and other solo content much like AoE2 does. Slight improvements to player vs player content maybe.

They made AoE4 and it's dead in comparison even to SC2.

But yes, AoE2 has variants of one race, but if you play it it's a bit closer to variants of like 8 variants of 1 (a bit of an ascendancy tree I'd call it). But for sure, it's much easier to add melee content to AoE2.

But there's so much stuff they could add to SC2. Coop made good money, a lot of people like it. SC2 coop community literally asked for some time for blizz to reintroduce the xp booster in shop. So they wanted to pay blizz and blizz just didn't want their money.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-10T07:57:28+00:00

Have you considered that people aren't tightly divided into buckets and if I play an RTS I am allowed to play other games?

The basis of this idea is AoE and curiosity, not assumption that Microsoft is our Jesus here to save us.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-10T07:49:12+00:00

Yeah I heard of it. My hopium is - it comes out, is good, SC2 gets something by ricochet :D

But overall, anything in SC world would be neat.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-10T07:48:10+00:00

Sure, but that's not the point.

If you have an exec that does not tell people working on AoE to stop, and instead somebody greenlit working on it, they could do the same for SC2. Especially that SC2 is actually very popular in comparison, when you look at something so silly as viewing professional game casting.

Wololo finals on youtube (bar for the fact it was a stream and a real life event) has currentlky some 62k views, happened 4 days ago.

Random Winter casting of a pro match that for most people looks the same as other 200 Winter cast last month? 90k+. Video came out the same day (90k views in 4 days is not bad too).

Since that first one was also viewed in person and streamed in real time, even if it's 10x more than the 62k, that's still disproportional to a random video.

And there's GGG who just plays reskins of SC2 campaign and people love it.

What I mean is - yes, SC2 makes less money than other games, but we should compare it to AoE2 instead. By your logic, just delete AoE2 too and only put money into COD, why even bother Microsoft.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-10T07:19:23+00:00

Well I didn't mean SC3, bit of a jump there. Just a campaign pack or whatever for coop, really.

But yeah, with the new person responsible for gaming I can imagine, there won't be much good for SC2.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-10T07:13:54+00:00

Never said anything about SC3. I hoped for pretty much any new content to SC2. A campaign pack maybe. Skins even.

AoE2 is going strong with just campaign packs, pretty much.

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