IT'S ABOUT TIME!!

Now if anyone can tell me where to get this downloader from because I dont see it on my bnet acc page >.<

PiF wrote:IT'S ABOUT TIME!!

No PiF, its; HELL, ITS ABOUT TIME!!! fungerball

/jealous

PiF wrote:IT'S ABOUT TIME!!

Now if anyone can tell me where to get this downloader from because I dont see it on my bnet acc page >.<

If you can't see it, I doubt it'll work for you, (and if it does work I'm sure you won't be able to actually log in and play) but here it is:
https://us.battle.net/account/managemen ... atform=win
(that's for my language and region, etc. so if you get it via a different region it still might not work)

also: I must be dreaming...SC2 Beta actually released...Don't pinch me, I don't wanna wake up!

YAY!!!!!!!!

Yeah, that link doesn't work, Tiger.

It's been too long. I'm back and ready to play

ahhhh the lurker was taken out? say it ain't so ...

gah! AND customizable battlecruisers...

copyrightdna wrote:ahhhh the lurker was taken out? say it ain't so ...

YES! Hate those buggers ;p and omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is amazing! I cant even believe this!! AND i dont care if you dislike my post THis is just a glourios day spell checcckkk to the exnayyy

You BETTER be joking that the lurker was taken out.

to abd i didnt get it

Aegis Runestone wrote:You BETTER be joking that the lurker was taken out.

that's what it's saying on starcraft 2 armory. i'm guessing if it's still gone by the release, it'll be back in the expansions, but still... super gay.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I was so looking forward to using the Lurker!! AGH! T_T

Wait, I found someone posted a tweet that says: "#StarCraft2 Archons and lurkers have so far been under utilized in internal games and it is being addressed. #SCUpdate http://bit.ly/bjiIm8 10:00 AM Feb 9th from CoTweet"

I know, Feb, 9th. But maybe this means they'll bring back the lurkers back after some fixes or something.

Edit: sorry for double-post. Got too excited.

that's cool. i'd prefer expansion slots be taken by awesome new units and not scrapped units we were expecting to get in the first place.

Anyone knows if GMails works for the Beta? I didn't receive any mail.

reported wrote:Anyone knows if GMails works for the Beta? I didn't receive any mail.

lol

Just asking, since I see no one with gmails being invited.

Congratulations guys. Darn, I wish they'd sent you some member invites. I remember signing up here when we had less than 100 members and being excited for a shot at a key.

And Lurkers *will* be back in the game. I am employing a telepathic compulsion. They will be back.

Well 4:11 AM and i am kinda getting too tired to keep looking around for starcraft videos. My hunger has been fed but tomorrow im going to be hoping for some highly competitive 1v1s. Goodnight

reported wrote:Just asking, since I see no one with gmails being invited.

why do you think they would discriminate? "ummm ok all the people with hotmail get invited, but no gmail users allowed". doesn't seem too likely

He doesn't think that they would discriminate. He hopes that his beta invite was not forwarded through due to some complications. Well that is my guess on the subject anyway.

Any other mac user around blaming hell and heaven for such a disgusting treatment?

mac users deserve any and all poor treatment they get

dustaMaphone wrote:mac users deserve any and all poor treatment they get

Not nice man.

No, having Gmail isn't preventing you from being in the beta. I saw SC2 in my b.net profile before I saw it in my email, but I'm pretty sure that's due to Blizzard not sending all the emails out at once, not Gmail having problems receiving it.

Ipsar wrote:

dustaMaphone wrote:mac users deserve any and all poor treatment they get

Not nice man.

ha! i just don't understand why anyone would pay hundreds or thousands of extra dollars for an apple logo and a closed source, costly linux distro. and you have to PAY for your tech support?! WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

anyhoo..

apples are the nintendo wii of personal computers.

Idomis wrote:Congratulations guys. Darn, I wish they'd sent you some member invites. I remember signing up here when we had less than 100 members and being excited for a shot at a key.

And Lurkers *will* be back in the game. I am employing a telepathic compulsion. They will be back.

Yay! Also, I read on SC2 Armory that the Lurker Den was removed TEMPORARILY! Only temporarily! That means, if the Lurker Den is only gone for a little while, then the Lurkers are too. This makes me feel better.

Crap. I just ordered a new work laptop yesterday. Now I have probably have to go cancel it and reconfigure it with a better vid card since I don't have desktop moneys atm.

Aegis for the record I admire your optimism. ^^

here we go!

lucky...;/

Wow, so far I am not pleased with the sad performance of some of these beta players. Most of the videos I have seen are sad display of skill and I can notice they have never played SC/BW.


Also, most of them do not have good commentary.

I'm sad

hey man this is a BETA! not a Tournament AUDIE, relax, i would act totally as newbie in my first game thats totally normal, you first play some like crap to see what the hell is in this and then you start taking it to the next level of fighting & strategy!

AUDIE wrote:I'm sad

I'm with you sharing the same feeling.

anyone wanna share a bnet account?

sure i would <3

it's a kick in the ass that random newbies who have never played before get invites, while those of us who have played starcraft + warcraft for 10+ years don't get nothin'

dustaMaphone wrote:it's a kick in the ass that random newbies who have never played before get invites, while those of us who have played starcraft + warcraft for 10+ years don't get nothin'

Thats the irony.

I am not mad, just laughing at the stuff they are doing. I understand it is difficult to get "all good" players on beta, but I had to laugh when a player said "dude you need more miners" and the other said "dude I have seven" 10 minutes into the game lol.


He thought 7 miners was enough

maybe he was just stuck in warcraft 3 world where 5 pesants to a gold mine is a-ok

As far as I know. 4-5 workers is the best for efficiency in a Vespene Gesyer. But for minerals? At least 1 worker per mineral, if not more.

So, those are my thoughts on workers.

Aegis Runestone wrote:As far as I know. 4-5 workers is the best for efficiency in a Vespene Gesyer. But for minerals? At least 1 worker per mineral, if not more.

So, those are my thoughts on workers.

ive seen some all in builds on livestreams... one i remember being a protoss, outnumbering a terran by like 3-1 in units from just outmining one base almost

and i watched a 1 base zerg tech to ultras so fast.. where again, minerals almost gone

as for 1 per mineral patch.. well some games ive watched, some people produce workers until the main base minerals have depleted... some stop when theres a very large amount and has a big enough income to just pump units

seems zerg can have a very large amount of drones in sc2.. and dont need AS many hatcheries as brood war because the queen spawn larvae thing is insane lol

of course, ive been watching live streams i havent played myself.. so these are my observations purely

I get the feeling that 2 per patch is about as much as you can use.

doesn't really bug me that bad players get in. it's random supposedly, so it's fair. not like good players have more of a 'right' to play the game. i'm terrible but starcraft has been my favorite game since the day it came out.

I know its just Beta and System Reqs may change, but do you think either of the following cards could run this game?



Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD

256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330

If that latter can, please tell me!I have to call Dell immediately and cancel my order and rebuy my new laptop with the Mobile Radeon incase I havent bought my Alienwarecomp by the release (which I am assuming at this point is 6monthsmax)

Tiger0211 wrote:I get the feeling that 2 per patch is about as much as you can use.

I'd agree with that because then it would be about 18-24 miners per entire mineral patch.

Which would be about equal to SC/BW

As for as gas goes, I'd say three is still fine. You just need a lot more of it now. So early gas is a must.

Units are definitely different. It's going to be very weird for me to play SC2.

It is truly different from SC/BW in many ways. Especially the new damage system.

Pretty glad I ordered myself that new computer just for Starcraft 2.
It's a Desktop, and packs quite a punch - can't wait to get to play it.

I gave up my beta dreams, so instead, I'm watching the streams and look at the games there. Noticed a few wierd stuff with the game. Amongst these things, Sentry has a faux portrait, depicting the previous model, the Nullifier.

I'm also a little disappointed that it seems you cannot choose for yourself which of the Races' tracks you want playing in the background, and that there isn't a quick, easy way to turn off the music if you need it off.

But other than a couple of minor errors, I see that it's a completely new way of playing starcraft that I'm content with.

Wishing you guys a great beta!

EDIT: I'd also be much obliged if you guys with beta updated the wiki with information regarding units, buildings and abilities. However, if you're already working on it, I must thank you that you're remembering the community and not only playing to satisfy your own twisted needs.

maK88 wrote:I'm also a little disappointed that it seems you cannot choose for yourself which of the Races' tracks you want playing in the background,

I guess you can't, but I figured it'd just do one for the race that you're playing as, which I'm fine with. (I usually have it off, so I'm not 100% sure what it does)

maK88 wrote:and that there isn't a quick, easy way to turn off the music if you need it off.

Quick as in one button press? No. Quick as in go to the options menu and uncheck a box? Yes. Plenty easy for me.

maK88 wrote:EDIT: I'd also be much obliged if you guys with beta updated the wiki with information regarding units, buildings and abilities. However, if you're already working on it, I must thank you that you're remembering the community and not only playing to satisfy your own twisted needs.

Yes, I've been working on it. I've probably got about half of the Zerg race done. There's a lot of new info, and without cheats or a map editor it's not trivial to gather it all. I just played a long game vs the computer to get the whole Zerg tech tree, (I don't just mean the tech tree table thing, but where I got every unit and building so I could see what all the stats, abilities, upgrades, etc. are) which upon viewing the replay should give me all the info I need to finish updating the Zerg; once I'm done with that I'll do it again for Terran and Protoss. I'm hoping to get a lot of that done over the weekend.
In the mean time, some other fan sites have already updated their unit databases for the beta, so if you're itching to see what's what now, check one of 'em out (like SC2Armory).

I'm pretty sure the Zerg updates are all done now! (besides the icons...stay tuned for those )
I'll do Terran next.

Tiger0211 wrote:I'm pretty sure the Zerg updates are all done now! (besides the icons...stay tuned for those )
I'll do Terran next.

could you upload some beta replays afterwards? pls!!

my gf arrives from brasil in a couple of hours, so I'm sure I'll do a terran tonight

eLFootman wrote:

Tiger0211 wrote:I'm pretty sure the Zerg updates are all done now! (besides the icons...stay tuned for those )
I'll do Terran next.

could you upload some beta replays afterwards? pls!!

my gf arrives from brasil in a couple of hours, so I'm sure I'll do a terran tonight

Yes, yes,

I am sad to see the lack of replays being posted on this site. sclegacy has already created a livestream (great idea) and has a sc2 beta chat going while they stream.

Lets play catch up!

tiger, do you know yet if that shield ability the sentry has now also protects enemy units under its area of effect? the way dark swarm blocked ranged attacks from all units?

Terran should be all done now. Lots of upgrades moving around, etc...that's one thing we never got much info on before the beta: upgrades. (understandably so, but still )
Protoss might wait til tomorrow. I think I've had enough updating for one day.

copyrightdna wrote:tiger, do you know yet if that shield ability the sentry has now also protects enemy units under its area of effect? the way dark swarm blocked ranged attacks from all units?

I'll check, but I believe it's for friendly units only. IIRC it basically gives the Sentry an aura that raises armor (not exactly, but the same effect: reduced incoming damage for all friendly units within a radius of you).

I think Protoss is done now.
All three races are now updated to have the info from the beta.

Tiger0211 wrote:I think Protoss is done now.
All three races are now updated to have the info from the beta.

Awesome

...except that I forgot to build a Mothership, so I still need to get the updated info on that. *sigh*
Well, I've got one in another replay. I'll see it there.
Edit: got it

Well props go to Tiger for being busy and doing great work with everything. For the sentry... does that shield say block nukes? For example the guy tries to Nuke my mineral line and then i use 2 sentries and use shield and save my expo?

It might reduce it from 300 (500 structures) to 298 (498 structures), but I'm not sure.
It reduces incoming ranged damage by 2. And (in answer to a question somewhere) the tooltip specifically says "friendly", so I'm pretty sure it's only for friendly, and not like Dark Swarm (which was pretty similar, but for all units in the area).