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Recently, the television station G4TV and Joystiq held interviews with two seperate Blizzard employees. G4TV interviewed Dustin Browder, the lead designer of StarCraft II, where he reveals the current state of the game. The following is a summary of the interview:

- While the AI has been significantly improved (for example, it will no longer charge headlong into a
superior number of units), it currently does not handle Siege Tanks on cliffs very well
- Mirror matchups are progressing well so far and have a lot of diversity. The Terran vs. Terran matchup in particular has become a lot more mobile thanks to units such as Vikings, Banshees, Reapers and Thors.
- Map control plays less of a roll as it did in the original. Blizzard has yet to decide whether they want to go with that direction.
- In spite of unfavourable changes, Siege Tanks and Lurkers are (suprisingly) effective. The improved pathing, which causes units to clump up more, improves the potential of splash damage.
- The community will ultimately judge the balanced between macromanagement and micromanagement
- Blizzard would like to make Nukes viable in regular gameplay. Browder indicated they could serve as an additional source of firepower for a Terran biological build.
- Medivacs and Warp-In are seeing a lot of use, but Nydus Worms much less so.
- Blizzard has plans for a Casual League, which would have games run at Normal speed and a mappool that discourages rushing.
- StarCraft II will include Challenge Modes, which would teach the player various aspects of multiplayer play
- Blizzard has intentions of including custom/Proleague maps in the mappool
- Videos, such as the Battle Reports, are ment to promote StarCraft II as a spectator e-Sport (particularly outside Korea)
-Browder estimated that the StarCraft II beta will last 4-6 months

Source: G4TV

The videogaming website Joystiq, on the other hand, interviewed StarCraft II`s lead producer Chris Sigaty. While the interview was less informative, it still included some new pieces of information. Here is a summary:

- Mapmakers/modders will have the ability to create their own score screen which works specifically for their map
- Blizzard brough back the original voice actors of Jim Raynor (Robert Clotworthy) and Arcturus Mengsk (James Hayes?)
- Unit portraits move their lips (assuming they have them) phonetically with what they are saying, a
considerable change from previous games

Source: Joystiq

Now we need Kerrigan! =D lol

YES!!!!! OMFG!!!!! THANK GOD (ahem I mean Dustin Browder once again)!!!!! The old Raynor was so pimp thank ****ing Dustin Browder!!! Whats your source??? And cool Mengsk is back

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Now we need Kerrigan! =D lol

Yeah it really sucks she left..

this must be the big news!

This is interesting news. Fix up the post and add more to it then submit it in the news section.

It really is great news. Hopefully we will get more confirmations soon that other favorites will be returning to reprise their roles as well.

Wow, people think this is new news?

I liked the old raynor more than the new one, by far, so I'm glad he's back


The new one sounds like a ****ing hick, and in no way resembled the old one at all.

Hmmmm..... I am not so sure that is the best idea. Take a look at Raynor in Sc2, then put his SC1 voice to it. It will be really stupid. He is more war torn and angry inside now. His voice should be different. Also, Mengsk should sound a tiny bit different. He is kinda oldish. Unless the original voice actors of Raynor and Mengsk actually change the way they make the characters talk, it is going to end up being cheezy.

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Hmmmm..... I am not so sure that is the best idea. Take a look at Raynor in Sc2, then put his SC1 voice to it. It will be really stupid. He is more war torn and angry inside now. His voice should be different. Also, Mengsk should sound a tiny bit different. He is kinda oldish. Unless the original voice actors of Raynor and Mengsk actually change the way they make the characters talk, it is going to end up being cheezy.

are you joking?
and as for the 'oldish' you forget that starcraft 1 was made 10 years ago. so all the voice actors themselves are now ten years older. and i forget the time difference between broodwar and starcraft 2. i think it's less

I did not forget anything. And no, I am not joking. Here, how about. this http://www.starcraft2.com/features/heroes/raynor.xml Now, look at him and say "This is jimmy" in you head. It will be really jokey.

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I did not forget anything. And no, I am not joking. Here, how about. this http://www.starcraft2.com/features/heroes/raynor.xml Now, look at him and say "This is jimmy" in you head. It will be really jokey.

I can see where you're coming from, but Clotworthy did a pretty respectable job pulling off "betrayed", "angsty", and "hateful". Granted he didn't do that for the majority of the campaigns, but I've heard enough that I believe he can pull it off.

Hey BigFatButtFace, is your avatar Gaskaville's new face?

@swarmaster: I guess. I just saw it on SC2pod and thought that it looked eally awesome. I think it is an art conception of Gaskaville.

Hmmm, gaskaville resembles Sean Connery in this picture....