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Starcraft Universe

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Originally called “World of Starcraft”, the newly named Starcraft Universe is well into development. Starcraft Universe has been in the works for almost a year now, and I must say it’s looking mighty fine. The game will be free to play for anyone that owns a copy of Starcraft 2 and will be available as a custom game map. Their game will look and play very similar to World of Warcraft except on a smaller scale version. There are currently 8 classes; 4 Protoss and 4 Terran. Each of them currently has 11 different moves, and 4 complete item sets. They are working on having 15 moves for each class and 5-6 item sets for each class before the mod launches into Beta.

Starcraft Universe will only have one instance available at it’s launch with 5-6 bosses available. Originally they planned on having servers hold 10 people for the raid, but to make it more accessible and easier to fill games they decided to cut it down to a 5 person instance for now. They plan on adding more instances after all of the bugs have been worked out and item/move sets are balanced.

The developers are planning on implementing a PvP arena setting, where there will be 3 v 3 or 4v4 (still yet to be decided) rated matches. You will be able to save up to 3 different characters to your account and choose between them between games. The character’s gear, loot, and experience will roll over between matches.  You will also receive AP (Allocation Points) with experience. These points can be pushed into individual stats which will very subtle but overtime can become significant.

I’m extremely excited for this mod for Starcraft II. This will be a very nice break from WoW and Starcraft while combining both into one of the best mods we will see in Starcraft II.

-Jon

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