Starcraft 2 Beta !

SeantheMan

Did anyone get it ??...omg I so want it bad !!

BopNiblets

I don't have another Blizzard game to add to Battlenet so I couldn't even opt in for it, laaame.
This guy on Youtube has some videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/PerfectionistEmblem

Skerries

think i signed up for this about 6 months ago but still no word, i'd say the list is massive

MrParanoid

I got it, and I don't even like starcraft! Played like 5minutes!

Funky

been watching people play through live streams, looks sweeeeeeeeeet

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MrParanoid wrote: »

I got it, and I don't even like starcraft! Played like 5minutes!

If you don't want it, by all means, send it my way

BopNiblets

If any WoW players want to give away a key, yo right here!

Another Youtube guy with SC2 videos (and commentary)
http://www.youtube.com/user/HDstarcraft

Jazzy

give a key to funky if you are going to give it to anyone


hes going pr0

Funky

Jazzy wrote: »

give a key to funky if you are going to give it to anyone


hes going pr0

listen to these wise words! man i'm dieing to play, must have watched like 30 games today 8(

BopNiblets

I watched 31! (maybe) GIMME!

Are there any other video sites or games I can watch?
Have the progamers started on it yet? (not some crappy cam ones, can't see much on those ones)

Funky

there's a few games up on youtube but i've mostly been watching the streams on starcraftmethod, they're not the worst quality and there's a couple of good players. the JessicaJung and Lumi streams are pretty good

CombatCow

I have a key from Blizzcon 2008 that im trying to sell at the moment....id be half tempted to keep it but I need the cash more :P

SeantheMan

CombatCow wrote: »

I have a key from Blizzcon 2008 that im trying to sell at the moment....id be half tempted to keep it but I need the cash more :P

what a whore ! selling a beta key ? thats a bit low tbh

CombatCow

Really, why ? I paid for the Blizzcon goodybag, and don't have a pc capable of running SC2 anymore.....

Lots of people have been selling them on eBay

Grim.

CombatCow wrote: »

Really, why ? I paid for the Blizzcon goodybag, and don't have a pc capable of running SC2 anymore.....

Lots of people have been selling them on eBay

fair play to ya tbh nice money for it

balkieb2002

Very select beta to get into... wonder what the selection process actually is or is it just random.
Lots of fun watching the "pirates" wait/spam to get a working online/lan version of the beta (currently they can watch replays, view full menus and listen to music...). Blizzard obv prepared for this though through some steps that they took which is good thing for game of this magnitude.

BopNiblets

I would trade a free HL2 copy on Steam for an invite, I wonder can we invade the WoW forum and troll for them?

Jonny7

these things are selling for 200 - 300 euros online..

Funky

yep, thanks blizzard for random selection 8(

WellyJ

I got one, have played about 10 games. Repeatedly get owned, but never played the first one. It's really polished and loving it to be honest.

Spunog UIE

God I'd love an invite to this too. Been waiting so long for it. I signed up to the beta with a trial WOW account which never played

Funky

a kind person hooked me up with an invite and i got in a good like 25 or so 1v1's yesterday, really awesome stuff. this game is gonna be some beast on release

tman

Just got a friends and family invite here... Have never actually played the original, but looking forward to getting stuck into this!:)

cherryghost

i hate EVERYONE who's on the beta.

Retr0gamer

Played a game last night and actually won! My friends who are far better than me all go beaten so I was the first that won Overall it's basically the original with new units and I've no complaints about that. Needs some serious balancing though, Air are way too dominant.

Funky

if anyone fancies some custom 1v1s or 2v2s or something gimi a pm

tman

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Played a game last night and actually won! My friends who are far better than me all go beaten so I was the first that won Overall it's basically the original with new units and I've no complaints about that. Needs some serious balancing though, Air are way too dominant.

I've only played one game so far and amazingly won that! (think that's the first time that I've EVER won an RTS match online:p)
Very enjoyable so far, I'll definitely be picking it up for the singleplayer campaigns anyway!

conorthehippy

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I Love Starcraft,,

Though lacking any form of decent computer i am forced to look at images of Starcraft 2 & pretend im playing it!
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grizzly

Have they given any indication about final release dates?

Jazzy

gimme betakey. funky is getting too far ahead. for the good of HEGA and set the balance right i need a key.... and there cant be a higher calling then that can there?

Jazzy

i have seen the top of the mountain. and it is good

SeantheMan

How have you all got beta keys ? or have they cracked the beta ?

WellyJ

Random selection, luck.

SeantheMan

I don't think all the above ppl were randomly selected.
Jazzy did you get an invite in the end or ??

Jazzy

SeantheMan wrote: »

I don't think all the above ppl were randomly selected.
Jazzy did you get an invite in the end or ??

nah was just playing in a mates gaff. they have 2 computers and 2 beta keys rocks socks

bugs

The beta was cracked over the weekend. No lan play, no online play, just the ability to play a map alone or against test AI.

Jonny7

Any idea if there will be an open beta?

Am betting any of those cracks etc are full of trojans

TheDoc

no key for me and ive jsut exhausted every avenue to get one.

I believe its cracked online where you can play 1v1 against the AI. Keeps getting patched but keeps getting re-patched.

And in all honesty blizzard arnt caring that much id say, its absolutely spawned so much more attention to this game its unreal..

BopNiblets

I just played a cracked beta game, me as T vs Z, Z, P, actually some mad version of the AI that didn't want to attack and didn't know how to move their units away from nukes.
Lawl I got 37 kills on one ghost before I got bored and decided to mass Battlecruisers!
PEW PEW PEW, NEED MORE PEWS!

Great fun if not at all challenging.

Spunog UIE

I just read here that StarCraft II beta testers getting second beta key to give to friends!

I'm your friend right guys? ... right? Pleaseeeeeee

SeantheMan

I'll be your friend too !

Jonny7

Wow the keys have dropped ALOT in price on ebay.. 50 quid now

You are gonna get guaranteed 2 or 3 months play out of the key.. thats more than most games.. and I can tell you now its bloody great.. the only thing is you'll exhaust yourself from playing.. think I've done almost 70 games in a row.. so ****ed

Jazzy

now i have a key

game rocks

tman

D'oh!
Didn't realise they were still going for cash moneh...

That'll be €50 please, TheDoc!;)

Funky

anyone who got keys there's a SC2 boardsie user id thread on the Strategy forum here

jimi_t2

A lot higher spec than I thought that it'd be! Immediate impression is of a cute hybrid between the visual styles of Warcraft III/later C&C iterations. Haven't really delved into it much yet, but

*Menus/Titles/Sound improved drastically
*Terrain looks *gorgeous*
*Not as many new units as I'd expected. Probably a good thing
*Some great mechanic altering buffs (i.e. the protoss chronos ability)

Tech demand is a bit higher than I expected though, I'm getting a lot of paged pool memory errors (250gb HD, 2gb RAM, 256mb Laptop GFX).

(Anyone with a spare beta key who doesn't want to whore it out please feel free to indulge me, I'm stuck in sandbox mode for the time being with some questionable AI )

EDIT: Later thoughts.

* Thor unit for marines is hilariously oversized. Voice actor is a Schwarzenegger knock-off, one of whoms phrases is ''I'll be back''.
* A whole lot of emphasis based on 180 or 240 second units for the terrans. All of the Ravens turrents, the MULE etc...
* The extended supply depot thing for the Terrans is skewed. 50 energy for +8ppl? Madness
* LOVE the ability or lower the supply depots
* Computer, just before I annihiliated it, said ''gg'' over chat. A little thing, but it made me smile and I haven't seen that feature since Q3A.
* The ability to have larger groups is great as well, really makes for some epic battles.
* Its reminding me more of Warcraft 3 than Starcraft so far... not sure why, but it could almost be a mod. I'm playing on the crap graphics settings to get 50-60fps, and other than some advanced wireforms and such (the protoss one for placing pylons is lovely) you'd wonder where the development time went.
* Some very Firefly esque musical cues for the terrans. MIDI-esque overall but keeping in line with the original. Couldn't fault it. Ambient and FX sounds are superb

BopNiblets

The Starcrack AI is pretty good.
I didn't get a beta key but that didn't stop me playing against computer!
Playing a 4 player match with 3 AIs is tough enough, if they scout you first and there's 2 zerg players:

kekekekekekeke

quarryman

can someone explain to me what exactly is cracked, the beta demo?

And what is Starcrack AI?

jimi_t2

quarryman wrote: »

can someone explain to me what exactly is cracked, the beta demo?

And what is Starcrack AI?

As it stands anyone can download Starcraft II's beta. It's online only though, so if you don't have a betakey to log on to battle.net then you're just wasting your time. You can't skirmish or anything as enemy AI routines aren't implemented and there's no single player mission demo.

What the community have done is develop a series of launchers, series of maps and their own inherent (and frequently updated) enemy AI to staple onto the open beta. Starcrack would be the most popular one, and has gone from the original proof of concept of computer creating a couple of marines to look at you to quite a bloody challenge.

This way you can happily get to grips with all the races and have a few good laugh skirmishing offline and developing strategies so you're well ahead of the pack when the commercial online goes live. (See darkblizz for details).

Jonny7

They are constantly tweaking the balances based on feedback from the top pro's mainly in Korea, that is Blizzards strategy and its worked well for Starcraft 1.

I love the game and the menus so far, nothing annoying, fairly smooth and functional.

There doesn't seem to be any single unstoppable strategy from any race so far.. they each have their strengths..

Players from copper bronze and gold all seem fairly clued in, most players will scout, and they'll try anything, often attacking early rather than turtling in their bases for the rest of the game

Playing as Zerg exclusively, some forums go on about the roaches but I rarely use them, I just experiment with tier 1 and tier 2 units.. especially banelings, which I feel are an amazing unit and totally underused, I can harrass groups of protoss zealots and whatever else just by running one baneling in at a time and exploding him until the other player just gets pissed off and then I hit him with a ton of them mixed up with zerglings.. the protoss often quick tech to void rays so I quick tech to muta's.. just a lot of back and forth which I love

Its roughly the same with Terran, but the bunker rushes and the huge mixes of marines, medics and medivacs can be hard to counter, the game really rewards players who scout, however am still learning what the other buildings look like so I can predict if there are fliers or drops or sneak attacks coming

The best thing of all is the attitude of the other players, so much respect.. decent guys.. ... no LOL WTF PWNED rofl so easy lolzzz.. of course when the full game is launched expect all that

So far so good





I think I'll start playing with other races as I still have little clue how the other units operate