Starcraft 2 - worth buying?

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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmess..._id=151132

There have been quite a few hacks reported on teamliquid.net and battle.net, some even allowing ridiculous things like warping in immortals. Apparently, Blizzard simply removed the buttons for certain features that were in earlier phases of the game, but they are still there.

Well, this is Blizzard's first test. Have they found a way to actively combat cheats with their new system? We'll just have to see.

I can definitely report that there's some issues with maphacking going on, especially in the 1v1 bracket, even at the high leagues. Oddly enough, they seem to be Terran players more often than not. I can accept the excuse of having good gamesense, but it gets to the point where gamesense no longer covers it. Routinely knowing exactly what I'm building, where it's going, and how many there are, without any sort of scouting (not a single SCV scout, no scans, not even Factory scouting) stretches belief. It's pretty ridiculous to proxy a Spire, build the Mutalisks, and find that in the intervening two minutes, he's built an Engineering Bay and has turrets all over his bases - without any scouting or scanning.

Likewise, it's dumb to fake Mutalisks, build Roaches, and run into a solid wall of Marauders when all he had was Marines previously. You can go back through these replays, watch only his view, and see that there was no possible way he could know what was happening, and yet... boom, counter units, and those units are in place. Lucky, perhaps, but luck only goes so far.

Until Blizzard gets the glitching and outright hacking under control, I'd strongly recommend not picking up SC2. The campaign was terrible (the gameplay was fun, everything else about it was trash), the AI isn't even close to being a challenge (will have to wait for AI mods), and hacking is becoming more commonplace in multiplayer. Additionally, the multiplayer balance itself is in a pretty sad state, and Blizzard seems to be glacially slow in addressing it.