Starcraft 1

Soldato
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Now that the beta of Starcraft 2 has finished I thought I make this thread before the other gets too cluttered.

I reinstalled SC1 after maybe 4 years. I didnt really know what was going on and obviously get beaten badly. I set a rally point for my probes on one block of minerals and some seemed to harvest it whilst others just sat around doing nothing.

If the colours are messed up make a shortcut to the game, go to compatability mode and select everything apart from the 'run in this OS' box (this is for Windows 7 64bit)

Is there a key to select idle workers?
What is the command to queue things up? (if you can) like in SC2 you hold shift and place a building, then harvest minerals

Another friends list for SC1 would be good. I'll start

alexl


Add friend: /f a name
Message your friends: /f m message
Message a single person: /m name message


e.g. /f a alexl
 
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How dated is Starcraft 1 ?

Saw it in my local games shop for £9 , thought i might pick it up whilst i wait for SC2

Is the game play similar, so i can get to grips with the basics in practice for SC2 ?

Cheers :)
 
Soldato
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How dated is Starcraft 1 ?

Saw it in my local games shop for £9 , thought i might pick it up whilst i wait for SC2

Is the game play similar, so i can get to grips with the basics in practice for SC2 ?

Cheers :)

Very dated. The graphics are painfully bad, the AI is glitchy and stupid and you can only select 12 units at a time. But at the same time, it is the most balanced and competitive game in the world, with a very very steep learning curve. Learning SC1 will help a lot with SC2, though I doubt you will be able to master it well enough before SC2 comes out.
 
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Very dated. The graphics are painfully bad, the AI is glitchy and stupid and you can only select 12 units at a time. But at the same time, it is the most balanced and competitive game in the world, with a very very steep learning curve. Learning SC1 will help a lot with SC2, though I doubt you will be able to master it well enough before SC2 comes out.
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