Campaign info... and the Hyperion.

[JudicatorPrime]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/810/810676p1.html

Confirmed in that screenshot in the cockpit of the ship, probably cruiser.

Marine=Findlay (duh)
Other guy=Raynor
Official looking guy=Matter Horner

Apparently you can control your (raynor) character in the bridge and they each offer unique dialoge, very RPG-WC3-ish.

The ship known as the Hyperion (better be badass and not just another BC) is pretty much your Ebon Hawk for SC2. It says you can pursue a side of a story given to you in the Hyperion, I wonderi f this means you can actually fight on it... It says theres a mutiny brewing and you can choose to "pursue" it... maybe control units and stuff onboard the ship? In the ship you can purhase upgrades during the campaign, so you dont always start out with a command center and scv's. You can buy them from money earned during missions. From the Starmap in the middle of the screen you can get an over view f the galaxy I assume, lots of info (history and whatever) and thats also where you choose/start your mission

It sounds like you choose your missions, but I doubt it because they threw in the word 'linear' before... The mission revolved around getting an Artifact from Toss, then Raynor is warned it has Xel'Naga origins by Zeratul sounsd like they;re carpooling. ZOMG SPOILERS...

Seriously, I thought there was no single player campaign at BlizzCon

[Fenix]

Well, that's.....Different.

[DeathRot]

ya i will continue the following of what i found at blizzcon there a abit of reveal about the aspect of the single player. During the StarCraft II presentation, Blizzard showed lots of the single player aspects and features.

while controlling Jim Raynor. He was able to interact with the different characters on board (including Tychus Findlay), take different missions, upgrade his arsenal with money, and view information about the various planets in the Koprulu system.



Pardo took a mission to steal some artifacts from a nearby planet. When the mission was completed, he took Raynor for a short walk within the corridors of the Hyperion, "to have a drink". Suddenly, all the lights buzz around him, and from the dark corridor, Zeratul emerges wounded, and collapses on the floor.Before the in-game cutscene ends, he tells Raynor

"James Raynor"

"Zeratul!"
"I bring tidings of doom, the Xel'naga returns, the cycle nears its end, the artifacts are the key"
"Key to what?"
"To the end of all things"


which of couse i guess the xel naga come to destory us?

i found it at scl when i take a look well.

[Outcaster]

OMG, THAT'S SOOOOO FABULOUS!!!!!!!!
Can't w8 to find more about the story
And i find the new in-game cutscenes delicious :O:O:O

[Lemmy]

Man thats crap... the wounded guy saying "they have returned" "the artifacts are the key". Come on... these guys have to be more original.

[IO]

Well then its very interesting mission system but the "artifacts" thing seems alittle un original but i have to wait untill the game come out to take a better look:
Also this means that the Xel'naga and possibly the hybrids will be in the game as well i can say that it must revolove around some form of an universal cycle of creation/destruction and that this is coming once again to a full turn as it is said in the quick dialogue that "to the end of all things" and Duran said that the hybrid was the completion of a cycle during dark origin.

[Lemmy]

How is the campaign maker fan supposed to make briefings now with such a complex system?

[IO]

Ummm you will find a way.......

In reality hopefully just before you land on the planet there is a briefing screen with the character heads and thus a custom briefing will most likely be a room on a ship then all players will select the galaxy map click on the mission and the custom briefing will start OR:

They may include an intire second editor which would allow you to alter the inside of the ship to fit whatever custom missions you see fit!

[Fenix]

It looks really good, but it's kinda off.....The people, especially Tychus look sorta cut out and pasted into the bridge....It needs smoothing, which of course it will receive.

[Star-Crap]

who the person in the back in the chair?

[burkid]

just some random person.

when i heard raynors voice, it annoyed me at first, but by the end of the demo i thought it sounded alright. zeratul has a different voice actor too, and he sounds fine as well.

[zeratul11]

rpg final fantasy like in campaign briefings? npcs? new pre buying and upgrading system? cinematic like in game cut scenes? and mission of your choice? wow! this is groundbreaking! awesome.

i think the terran dominion will not be a playable race on the campaing. the terran campaign will be composed of raynor's raiders and the UED(the logo in starcraft 2 . com is that of the UED ~flacon~). i think mengks will die on this one, he will be the main villain not kerrigan.

wow! xelnaga is comming to destroy everything? wow! like the undeead in warcraft. definitely a new race in the starcraft 2 exapansion. or not ^^

[gelu_gao]

just some random person.

when i heard raynors voice, it annoyed me at first, but by the end of the demo i thought it sounded alright. zeratul has a different voice actor too, and he sounds fine as well.

But Jim's face changed a lot. I cannot recognize him at all. In SC1 he was a little bit fat and had a round face, but not he becomes handsome.

[burkid]

yeah, it did. but then its been 10 years of solid drinking and pissin on the dominion.

[ArchLimit]

I personally enjoyed every moment of the briefing room demo. It was amazing to watch, and I think SC2 is going to just blow our socks off with the amount of depth involved. Y'know what else guys? I have an inkling that the REASON they're providing so much "unnecessary" information might be to facilitate the production of... a World of Starcraft kind of thing. That's obviously just a far-flung guess of mine, but hey, there's hopin'. I personally love the Starcraft universe a lot more than that of Warcraft's. Things, characters, places, seem more "tangible" and in a sense I think that having it be sort of a sci-fi thing allows the player to empathize a bit more with the characters.

Okay, sorry back to the topic. GREAT character models. Zeratul looked pretty badass. I personally liked the original Zeratul voiceover better, but meh, not bad. So I guess we can all say that Zeratul is the same guy as seen on the wallpaper on the official site. Hehe... kinda modeled my sig after that one, as a couple of you have noticed. It's interesting to see Zeratul preserve the old look though; makes me wonder if the new DTs are an "advanced" version in a narrative sense and not just an arbitrary redesign.

Okay, lastly, is anyone else stoked as all hell when thinking about what the Protoss or ZERG briefing rooms are gonna be like? My God, if I get to control Kerrigan waltzin' around that'll be just too damn awesome (even if she IS going to be kinda grody lookin' due to infestation). Haha.

[Fenix]

Na, with the Zerg ones, you're gonna control a Cerebrate squelching around....Heh heh.

Actually, as cool as this is, I would like to see different things for each race.

[ArchLimit]

Na, with the Zerg ones, you're gonna control a Cerebrate squelching around....Heh heh.


Noooooo! That's blasphemy! Blizzard would not rob us of the chance to control/view Kerrigan upclose! They already jipped us of Nova. Whatever, d00d, if it's really a fatass Cerebrate I'm coming after you ;P

[burkid]

it will probably end up being artanis or zeratul for protoss on the bridge of a carrier. or in a mothership.

haha if youre a cerebrate, what would you do? squirm across the room? try to go down stairs and just slip and flop down?

[Fenix]

*TOTALLY RANDOM ARCHLIMIT*

With those posts, we had almost the same number...
You: 146
Me: 1464
Heh heh....Yes, I find that funny.

Anyways.

You'll probably be Artanis....He's now the leader of the Light Protoss. If they do them the same way, the Protoss better be pretty freaking awesome. I was about to say "I've always wanted to see a Carrier's bridge" but then I realized we had...

Na, you'd rope yourself to a couple a Ultras to drag you around....

[JudicatorPrime]

I had a dream I saw a cinemtica of the Hyperion... and it wasn't a Battlecruiser. Odd huh? Im still on the second demo of gameplay, wanna see the campaign ones now!!!

[ArchLimit]

*TOTALLY RANDOM ARCHLIMIT*

With those posts, we had almost the same number...
You: 146
Me: 1464
Heh heh....Yes, I find that funny.Anyways.


That's... the most amazing thing I've ever seen. D00d, we're probably brothers in real life! See? SEE how SC brings ppl together??

[Fenix]

Course, that'd make me your big big brother.....Like, Zeratul to Raynor, to take an example we all know.

[ArchLimit]

Haha, yea those two look so alike.

Actually, while you may be much wiser and more powerful than my humanoid self, I'll probably have an easier time gettin' chicks.

Unless u'r into the Matriarch sorta thing... hehe

[Fenix]

d00d, the chicks dig invisibility. And with my mad warp blade skillz.....Well, I'll just leave that part to imagination....

[JudicatorPrime]

I'm watching the SP demo on IGN, and the stuff looks awesome, the Hyperion looks great, sadly it is a BC... stupid dream. So much detail on it that you wouldn't get in game.

[Outcaster]

This new approach is so freaking AWSOME, and the cliffhanger insight on the story OMG!!!!!

[zeratul11]

In SC1 he was a little bit fat and had a round face, but now he becomes handsome.


you can say that again.

im in love.


it will probably end up being artanis or zeratul for protoss on the bridge of a carrier. or in a mothership.

haha if youre a cerebrate, what would you do? squirm across the room? try to go down stairs and just slip and flop down?


lol. haha.

*edit*

V i always find myself in love with video games characters most of the time. i had a big crush on rinoa, quistiss, etc back then :P

hahah. about raynor, im in love with the model not him. ::)

[Fenix]

A little creepy. You're in love with a video char. ???

[burkid]

i love when he cheated. then in the breifing Horner was like "That was suprisingly easy". it made me laugh. and everyone that was there as well.

[JudicatorPrime]

Omg Zeratul is my new avatar. So awesome.

[Fenix]

Heh heh, I noticed in another thread.....It's freaking amazing more like.

[burkid]

hmm... i just thought of something, if you have to buy tech and units outside of missions, what happens if you ally with the protoss? would you just automatically be given certain units, or would you have to buy them too?

[Itsmyship]

Hehe, I laughed as well Burkid. Hmmm...this is an interesting way to go....kinda part RPG part RTS...its different, but I like it. All this reminds me of a topic we had about how we wanted to be briefed. I enjoyed this a lot.

When thing I wondered though, why didn't the people yell as hard, if not harder, for Zeratul? I was excited as hell to see him.

[Lemmy]

HMmm. What can I say. I didnt like the idea at first but now i think its ok. Pity the voices of the original characters are gone. I still get the feeling that everyithing is a little farfetched right now, like they had a lot of ideas but they dont know how to put them in order. We will see in time.

[Itsmyship]

Well, like I said, I liked this idea...the side missions though I have mixed feelings for. I mean, I know that its meant to give you a bit more of a choice in the storyline and I love that idea, but at the same time it seems very RPGish.

All in all...I like they way the campaign is. Its interesting, and I'm sure it'll all work out in the end.

As for the voices....Jimmy's voice annoyed me at first, but it started to grow on me. I do hope we have diverse accents in the different voices though.

[burkid]

thats exactly what happened to me with jimmys voice.  Zeratul sounds pretty sweet now too. Tychus speaks kinda slow though haha. I didnt have a problem with horner or the engineer though.

i think the RPG is a nice aspect, it lets you get more involved in starcraft. i personally wanna screw around in the simulator.

edit: @ Lemmy, kerrigan is gonna have the same voice actress, there was an interview with her, and i think a few others are too, i cant remember.

[paragon]

I think the campaign thing they have now is awesome and they better not change it because the old way of doing it (starcraft and warcraft 3 and everything else from those generations of RTS games) is rather boring. This spices it up.

[burkid]

heck yes it does. and all that random trivial information... ohhh i can almost taste it. ;)

[ArchLimit]

I think the campaign thing they have now is awesome and they better not change it because the old way of doing it (starcraft and warcraft 3 and everything else from those generations of RTS games) is rather boring. This spices it up.


Agreed. I can't wait to see how deep this stuff goes, I love the SC universe and I'm stoked about getting a chance to know more about it. I wonder how much the choices you make will affect the story plot though. Do you think there's gonna be multiple endings for each race?

[burkid]

no, they compared it to a football(shape) definate start, definate end, wide, custom middle.

[ArchLimit]

Ah, I c, thanks for that, Burkid. That's fair enough, I guess. I was just hopin to squeeze out some alternate ending cinematics, hehe. I swear, Blizzard does the best cinematics ever.

I'm about as excited to see those as I am to play the game. Oh, and does anyone else seem to take notice that during the cinematic trailer, when it cuts to a Templar being kicked for a split second, that the background looks a lot like the one where Kerrigan turns to look at you? Also, the "kick" seems to be done by a high heeled foot?

I think there's a chance we're gonna see one kickass fight between Zeratul and Kerrigan.

[burkid]

yeah, there was a thread a while back about that (i think sirbaron started it) it pretty much shows how kerri and zer are in the same area, and zer is blocking kicks from an infested leg that looks very feminine. so yes, i believe that there will be a fight between kerrigan and zeratul.

[Itsmyship]

It'll most likely happen...and will quite possibly end up in the death of one of our beloved characters :upset:

Well, back on topic, I really am liking this idea a lot....the units and upgrades ability when you're on the ship I like very much...give a strategical value to the game. I wonder what the Toss and Zerg ones are gonna look like?

[GuiMontag]

how gay would it be if zeratul actually died in that scene :P

[burkid]

It'll most likely happen...and will quite possibly end up in the death of one of our beloved characters :upset:

either death or the Xel are gonna bust in in the middle and kerri and zer will be like "oh shiz" and start kicking some ass. together. then go off and defeat the xel'naga. then resume fighting.


I wonder what the Toss and Zerg ones are gonna look like?

toss will probably be on a MS or carrier, and you will probably be artanis, and it could be resources rather than money.
Zerg... i have no idea.

[Itsmyship]

I can see the Zerg being in some slimy den type thing where you control kerrigan..ewwwwww :P

[burkid]

well i was thinking it might be on some form of ship so its mobile (lol in an overlord)
it could be on a behemoth (the giant manta rays in wiki that is supposed to be a heavy assault transport for zerg that can hold bases on its back.)

[Fenix]

Can someone link to this vid? I can't find it.

[GuiMontag]

its at gamespot.

[burkid]

the single player video on ign? sure

edit: here http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/vids_1.html

[Fenix]

Thanks. BRB with my take.

[kehmdaddy]

This has the potential to be completely ground breaking and the most immersive, immense single player campaign experience ever. Hopefully they'll do it right. I'm disappointed to see Jim has a new voice; and Zeratul's I kind of liked, even though in the original his voice was one of my favorites. I can't wait to see the Xel'Naga... I knew they'd show up. What the hell is Samir Duran going to be up to this time around? I guarantee we see some hybrids. God, the graphics on all of that was just so incredible... I hope there are actually REAL missions though and it doesn't end up being just 500 so-so ones. Epic battles between all the races... I'm looking forward to it. I loved the unit purchasing idea, although I hope this is a Terran only idea since they're low on funds. They could change it up and mess around with it to make it suit all the races, but I don't think it'd be as good that way.

[burkid]

well protoss arnt doin too well either on funds, seeing as how they had to rebuild their entire civilization after the destruction of auir.

haha "I'm disappointed to see Jim has a new voice"

[GuiMontag]

havnt they actually hired the same voice actor for raynor???

[burkid]

well he sounds different. but after a few minutes of hearing him talk it grows on you.

[JudicatorPrime]

It's funny you mention how Tychus speaks slowly. Also notice his gangster hand gestures, I guess you can't really notice with the big Marine glove on but... I love how it seemlessly (apparently) changes from just normal game detail to a polished up cinematic detail using the engine itself, check out zeratul part and the part where he talks to Swann and you'll notice.

I cant wait to see Tychus and Raynor from the sky down in game and ****.

[burkid]

yeah, i see what you mean about the seemlessness.

i love how tychus waves his hand right when they start talking. it makes me laugh.

[Thraviel]

Am I the only one who think it's qiute sad that Zeratul looks like he ain't gonna survive much longer in that end scene?

Also, the thing about buying for the Terran, I imaging that the Zerg and Protoss won't have to, but they might have some other gimmick... I mean, the Protoss being poor trying to get money to buy upgrades? I don't really see that happening :P

Anyway, just my 2 cent.

[GuiMontag]

the 'buying' is a terran thing only, protoss will probably have something like, go to this distant planet to reactivate the mighty collosus. Zerg could be, capture a horde of monstous creatures for infestation.

[JudicatorPrime]

I think Protoss are going to find hidden cache's and rally more Protoss, I don't think they revolve around currency, because they're more single-minded as a race. So... more soldiers, and caches of weapons like the Colossi are, im guessing be what they do. Afterall, its in the Colossi's description.

Zerg will probably get minerals or something to evolve into new beings... like wise they can get missions to take over planets and AFTER they do, they assimilate a race and make a new unit... this would only work for new units because they've already had Zerglings, and whatnot...

I don't think Zeratul will die that early on, if that is early.. they could have gotten a mission a quarter into the game. Anywho, I don't think they made that amazing model and not have it go out with a bang. Plus, isn't he some leader of some people or something?

[ArchLimit]

Yea, I think Zeratul is just injured. Plus, if you saw the Cinematics, Kerrigan kicked him in the arm. So he's holding his arm in the demo. I have my bets that good 'ol Zeratul ain't gonna die at least not in that cinematic.

Raynor'll take care of 'em. Then they're gonna do some kickass combined race missions, hopefully.

*EDIT* The fact that I said it was Kerrigan who kicked him is still just speculation. It's what I and a few others on the forum have guessed but it's not for sure.

[burkid]

This just in! Raynors special ability:
Cherry bombs, he mixes cherry vodka with redbull to give him the effects of stim packs that lasts till the next morning, and doesnt take health away, but the next day has reduced accuacy and a massive headache! take that kerrigan!

lol jk.

zeratul better not die. ill be sad if he does.

[JudicatorPrime]

Raynor drinks NUKE cola for that, it's pretty much the Red Bull of the future, no side effects except you might get random diahrea a week from drinking it.

[Sagathox]

No way zeratul could die in the arms of raynor, that´s lame, if he has to die, then he will die after killing or fighting some super hybrid or kerringan with a double ko or maybe sacrificing his life to halve the fury of the mighty xel naga.
Zeratul is just so big that he cant die, too many protoss heroes hace died that way, its zergs turn to die!

[LJYLJ]

Man thats crap... the wounded guy saying "they have returned" "the artifacts are the key". Come on... these guys have to be more original.



u better show zeratul some respect and atleast adress him by hes name...man

[thrif]

Man thats crap... the wounded guy saying "they have returned" "the artifacts are the key". Come on... these guys have to be more original.


Totally agree. I'm also pissed that you're playing Jim and not the faceless "commander" that you were in SC. I liked the feeling that I was with them in the briefing room, not that I was one of them.

[Nikzad]

well for all we know, that level of the Terran campaign could be after the Zerg and Protoss campaigns, so it might now be so early if he does indeed die :(

that doesn't mean I think he is or I don't hope that he won't :-\

[Griffith]

I'm not liking how Jim's character turned out. In Starcraft 1 it looked like he could be a descendant of Jack Bauer, but now he looks kinda pathetic with the drinking and bitterness, definitely doesn't look like a faction leader. His intention was probably to get wasted and cry like a little girl before Zeratul showed up. I hope he man's up after that encounter.

Also I dont like the idea of playing the freedom fighter faction, I was hoping to play as the Dominion for the human campaign but it seems I won't have my chance :-\

Campaign interface looks great though :P

[JudicatorPrime]

Jack Bauer is lame, with that in mind the new Raynor seems 10x better.

Only good thing that came out of 24 was Elisha Cuthbert.

[burkid]

wasnt she the girl in "the girl next door"?

[AnArchY]

I liked how in SC1 you played the role of some nameless commander which was you, now it looks like you play as the main person or whatever from that faction. I think Raynor will only be a stepping stone for the new major terran faction, which will be lead by Alexei Stukov, he will slowly take charge as they come closer and closer to surpassing the Dominion in power, plus Stukov has most of the power already among the other Terran factions, he has the UED remnants with him, and he has alot of Confederate people siding with him as well, those two combined with raynor's raiders could very well be enough to take out the Dominion or atleast enough to become the major Terran faction, and then Raynor would play a role to Stukov as Duke did for Mengsk.

[JudicatorPrime]

wasnt she the girl in "the girl next door"?


Indeed, she is also the very attractive daughter of Jack Bauer.

[GuiMontag]

sadly stukov wont return in sc2

[Nikzad]

I'm not liking how Jim's character turned out. In Starcraft 1 it looked like he could be a descendant of Jack Bauer, but now he looks kinda pathetic with the drinking and bitterness, definitely doesn't look like a faction leader. His intention was probably to get wasted and cry like a little girl before Zeratul showed up. I hope he man's up after that encounter.

ok lets summarize:
Aliens invade your homeworld.
You try to fight them and fail.
Your homeworld gets incinerated.
Girl you love is betrayed by your douchebag boss.
Girl you love dies.
Girl you love haunts your mind. You look for her and find out she is alive, but infested by the aliens that infested your homeworld and precipitated its destruction.
You fight against the girl you used to love and find new friends in a noble race of psychic aliens.
You earn the trust of some of them, which is something big, considering you are a human.
Your ex-boss uses you to become Emperor.
Your best friend with whom you've been fighting is killed indirectly by the girl you used to love and is now an ruthless, evil, infested c***.
You vow to kill the girl you used to love, but it has been 4? years and you have not achieved it, but rather wandered through space doing odd jobs as a low-class mercenary.

How would you feel? :-\

[drindelladome]

I cant wait to see the protoss/zerg campaing briefing rooms. I wonder how that is going to work by the way? We cant have Kerrigan having to purchase upgrades!!! (Maybe some sort of evolution process for the zerg and an honor system for the protoss?) but neither would explain why they do not already have access to full tech-trees. I guess every campaign is going to have to be from the perspective of an "underdog"? I guess they always were anyways.

-who knows.

-Drindell

[MarineCorp]

Oh yes.. the campaign briefing rooms looks amazing and i was thinking that Zeratul might die in that scene... he will probably get killed by Typhus Findlay by accident

[ShdwyTemplar]

I doubt Tychus Findlay will do that. Although, I think Tychus Findlay will lay waste to Zerg somehow. Jim is about to confront Kerri again though I can see it happening... I wanna see Zeratul pwn some Hybrid Duran A**! Anyways.. I love the Campaign room the most appealing aspect of SC is the storyline for me. As it is so in depth, yet, at the same time easily understandable and predictable, yet, yet,.... *Head Explodes* :P

[Nikzad]

bah! mere mortals cannot begin to comprehend the magnitude of the SC1 campaigns!

[longlivefenix]

i cant wait to see how the zerg campaign is set up!... and then on the bridge of the overlord... :) or maybe there gonna be in the ass!

jk that would be nasty... man a creature that big has to have some big pieces of feses...

kerri n duran NEED to die and Fenix NEEDS to come back... and own... raynors pretty cool, he aint dieing

[NateSMZ]

Blizzard has said that each race will have different campaign mechanics, so I doubt we'll see the bridge of a carrier and pick missions and/or the butthole of an overlord and pick missions...

they'll prolly each have their own completely different way of campaigning

[CarriersMustReturn]

Man thats crap... the wounded guy saying "they have returned" "the artifacts are the key". Come on... these guys have to be more original.


Totally agree. I'm also pissed that you're playing Jim and not the faceless "commander" that you were in SC. I liked the feeling that I was with them in the briefing room, not that I was one of them.
Me too! I like it when I'M the commander, not Jim Raynor. :good: