StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
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Oct 30, 2026
Mr. McSpicyHOST
It's cool.
Mr. McSpicyHOST
Then don't finish Starcraft 2.
Mr. McSpicyHOST
Just don't.
Mr. McSpicyHOST
Because
DavidHOST
Actually, I probably played Starcraft 1.
DavidHOST
I just don't remember.
DavidHOST
But I never played Starcraft 2.
Mr. McSpicyHOST
Blizzard, in their heyday, made great characters and great stories with those
Harrison KinsleyHOST
Starcraft 2 is a multiplayer game where the objective is simply to eliminate the other players.
Harrison KinsleyHOST
You do so with an army of attack units.
Harrison KinsleyHOST
We like this.
Harrison KinsleyHOST
But we're also machine learning practitioners.
Harrison KinsleyHOST
Could we just simply import some reinforcement learning from Stable Baselines 3 and play the game? I guess it's going to be a little harder than that.
Harrison KinsleyHOST
But let's say that we really do want to use deep reinforcement learning to play some Starcraft 2.
Harrison KinsleyHOST
How might we actually do that? Like most deep learning problems, at the macro level we have to consider what our inputs and what our outputs are going to be as these are the things that we actually have control of and we have to determine the characteristics of these ahead of time.
Harrison KinsleyHOST
For the input, what information do we think the neural network will actually need? In this case, it could quite literally be the game visuals like the frames from the game, it could be some other graphical representation, or it could just be a vector of values like number of units and minerals and locations of things and so on.
FrancisHOST
Ghost? Blizzard was going to make the console ghost game? No.
FrancisHOST
From the character from StarCraft 2? From StarCraft 2.
FrancisHOST
They had the ghost, like the cool little ghost that, you know.
FrancisHOST
I did not know that.
Alan DeBerryGUEST
So I worked on Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos and the expansion.
Alan DeBerryGUEST
I worked on Starcraft 2 and expansions.
Alan DeBerryGUEST
And then I also worked on Heroes of the Storm as well.
Alan DeBerryGUEST
And then helped out around the company in other capacities as well, like on the shared game engine tech and stuff like that.
Christopher MyklesHOST
That's crazy.
Christopher MyklesHOST
Starcraft 2 is almost 20 years old.
Christopher MyklesHOST
Starcraft Brood War is almost 30 years old.
Christopher MyklesHOST
Actually, Brood War came out in 1998.
Christopher MyklesHOST
What were the changes for Starcraft that were made and why were these controversial?
Kevin van der KooiGUEST
The biggest one that we recently went through was that we had a big patch that reduced the starting workers back to eight workers.
Kevin van der KooiGUEST
Obviously, a long time, Starcraft 2 was played with six workers.
Kevin van der KooiGUEST
Eventually, they decided to speed up the game with the release of Legacy of the Void, which was 2016.
Danielle FongGUEST
And it was really the first...
Danielle FongGUEST
StarCraft II was really a critical... game in esports his Starcraft 1 Brood War especially in Korea and then Starcraft 2 and like launched with Twitch and like that's originally it was Justin.TV and like the fact that people were playing so many Starcraft 2 games on Justin.TV there was like we need to shut down everything else just focus on video games that became Twitch And also they had some, some focus on, on AI, um, back in the 2010s, uh, where they're like, you know, after we beat lease it all and go, we can train on a real time strategy.
Danielle FongGUEST
And that's going to be a route to, uh, extremely powerful AI.
Danielle FongGUEST
Maybe, maybe not in the domains that we want, like, you know, writing code, but maybe, maybe, maybe.
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William OsmanHOST
I, I remember in...
William OsmanHOST
So, like, StarCraft II was supposed to come out when I was, like, a sophomore in high school or something, and I, I ran cross country, and the cross country is sort of, like, notorious, like, uh, to, uh, nerds, I think-
Kevin KohlerHOST
Okay
William OsmanHOST
... is what I'm trying to say.
William OsmanHOST
Like, I don't even...
William OsmanHOST
I don't know what StarCraft even is.
William OsmanHOST
Is it still StarCraft II right now? Like, is that it?
Kevin KohlerHOST
Yeah, I think it, I think it is.
Joel DuscherHOST
Ooh.
ChrisGUEST
Um, GOYL, uh, s- uh, uh, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, but specifically Archipelago randomizers have, uh, consumed a lot of my life in the last, like, two years, and I ju- just on volume I think it has to be that.
Joel DuscherHOST
Yeah.
Joel DuscherHOST
That's, this is the kind of shit-
SwaglockHOST
Yeah.
SwaglockHOST
It'd be like if you tried to replace StarCraft II with like a first-person shooter game, right? It's just not, it's not what people are looking for.
ChickenHOST
Yeah, I don't think it'll re-
SwaglockHOST
That's what they like
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