STARCRAFT GLOBAL FINALS 2018

Coming up, Rogue, the defending Global Champion, versus Serral, the most dominant foreigner Starcraft has ever seen.

Match 3 Rogue's lings went on the aggression but couldn't quite get through Serral's wall off and Serral's banelings decimated chunks of Rogue's army and barely saved his third. With his economy behind, Rogue started to retaliate but gave up mid push and Serral went to match point!


Serral's Story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neKRnmRWmXA
Stats Story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUD2VFaffHk



Stats almost got Serral in GSL vs the World, going 4-3 against him in the Finals but today Serral made it look almost easy against the best Koreans of every race. Stargate opening from Stats, another normal game opening from both with emphasis on Scouting. The Oracle and Phoenix killed absolutely nothing on their first foray. Phoenixes try to take out some drones but Queens and spores keep them from having too much effect. Locusts took out Stats new fourth before he could save it and he found the swarm hosts by themselves. Serral's Overlord bomber took out 17 probes while Stats wasnt looking. Storms hit dead on but the locusts coming from behind and Stats pulls off a win!

Serral 3 Stats 2, Stats sticks with what's working for him, Phoenizes in the drone line and Serral has his Queens out to slow him down but hes getting quite a few each time. He takes out two Queens and scout the future brood lords, 22 drones dead is hurting, and Stats army in the field chases off too few lings that try for a nexus. Banelings dont have the effect Serral wanted but the five broodlords are out now with hydras and he keeps harassing with the lings. Hydras attack Stats but Stats is warned and going for Tempests. Warp prism down as Serral moves south again. Storms force Serral back as the Tempests come into view. Corruptors join the Brood Lords and Stats move out with the Tempests and 11 archons. Tempests hit the Brood Lords. Hydra bane harass forces a recall home and Stats moves onto creep pushing the creep. Serral playing cautious takes out another nexus instead of defending but at the last second the mothership cloaks and saves the Nexus. Not ten seconds later the Vipers abduct the Mother Ship and Stats loses a valuable piece. Serral picks off Stats carrier and archons as he goes offense but Stats is base trading! Another nexus down to Corruptors! Serral jumps the carrier Fleet and destroys it ALL. Stats fights with Archons but cant replace any losses for awhile. Stats keeps up harass with zealots to keep Serral busy but the banelings destroy another nexus and keep rolling through another probe line! Serral keeps looking to pick off what he can and asa Stats rescues his base wall the Corruptors sneak up from behind but get swatted on the nose and Stats glides away. Another nexus goes down and Serral abducts 2 Tempests at Stats last base as he plays the patience game he does so well. Lings get into another base. Lings hit another base. SERRAL PICKS OFF THE MOTHER SHIP! SERRAL DOES IT!
WHAT'S NEXT PANEL

They want to have Starcraft tournaments viewable inside the game client at some point.
War Chest IV by the end of the year.
Buildings will have skins.
- They showed the Special Forces Terran, Forged Protoss and Simulant Zerg Building Skins.
Can unlock War Chest rewards by watching Starcraft tournament Live on Twitch.
Talked about the design idea behind the new Co-op Commander Zeratul.
- He is Xel-Naga Influenced in the campaigns so that plays a big role.
- He can call on other units to appear and join him such as Legendary Protoss Legions and Ultimate Xel'Naga Constructs.
- Xel-Naga cannons can fire up.
- He can find three fragments on the map to boost your top bar abilities
- He can customize his top bar abilities
DESIGN PATCH NOTES
Went over the last month's balance patch notes again.
GOOGLE DEEP MIND PROJECT UPDATE
- Deep Mind uses an Emulate human mouse click approach.
- The team combined approaches from earlier AI vs Atari Games and also AI vs Go because of the nature and complexity of Starcraft.
- Deep Mind has achieved a "very competitive level, maybe Grand Master." against other AIs the team created for it to play against.
- Deep Mind began with Protoss, probe rushing the enemy base and lost. Seeing that, the team (which includes Starcraft amateur players) focused on teaching it to imitate how actual humans play the game, with economies and unit building.
- The Community has not yet played against Deep Mind.
AUDIENCE Q&A
Nova story campaign type stuff? Not really replayable content unlike Co-op. Emphasizing Co-op.
War Chest Skin Twitch unlocks requires LIVE views currently. Can play to unlock tiers though.
Plans to open source Codes for Deep Mind? Last week open sourced some libraries.
Coop plans to make it more brutal? We discuss it but found Commanders are so powerful they overwhelm everything. Trying to find new ways for extreme players to play.
What will you do about trolls in Co-op? We should fix, have discussed it. Players are creative though.
Zeratul Commander Co-op Models finalized? Should be playable on the floor but will check.
Wide screen support? Gives an advantage but Community, give us feedback on it.
How many more Coop Commanders should we expect? Running out of lore characters. Don't see an end in sight though. Selendis maybe. Tosh. Can always add new characters to SC2.
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