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General discussion (archive)StarCraft II closed beta started so who is in?(27 posts)(27 posts)
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Posted February 20, 2010
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El_Caz: Team liquid has a beta page with a bunch of their beta testers doing live streams. You can see them playing the game and if you make it full screen, even fool a friend into thinking YOU are playing the beta.
So far matches end quickly after one player sends a bunch of enemy units to the base of the other player and either catches him with his pants down or sends the counter of the units guarding the base (then the pants can be on anyway). I figure once the testers start to pick up a few tricks or balancing patches start to flow, we might see some matches lasting longer.

There have already been matches lasting up to 50 minutes (mostly 2vs2 but a couple of 1vs1 as well) using most of the units (including the Protoss Mothership to cloak Carriers :D ).
The thing is that early game is really important now and some people tend not to get that; also, the number of players means that you will find players weaker than you even in higher ranked games.
Edit: Husky's stream and Psyonic_Reaver's are nice because they tend to use mics and that keeps things less boring.
Post edited February 20, 2010 by AndrewC
Posted February 20, 2010
I'm not in. Lame, just got unemployed again and got the time to play it finally. Oh well I won't pre-order.
Posted February 20, 2010
there cant be lag and Im guaranteeing you private servers or special event LAN play... that is if Korea has anything to say about it :)
my issue is at a lan party you better have a massive pipe in that room for everyone to play lag free... thats a crapload of data!
Posted February 20, 2010
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Starkrun: there cant be lag and Im guaranteeing you private servers or special event LAN play... that is if Korea has anything to say about it :)
my issue is at a lan party you better have a massive pipe in that room for everyone to play lag free... thats a crapload of data!

Yet again, all the data that is being sent is the login/account information and that's all, the rest is peer-to-peer which means local. This in turn means that a small connection is required for auth as the rest of the data is handled on the LAN.
Posted February 20, 2010
I wonder what the new battlenet has in it to compensate for the lag. Modern networking is amazing though, transfer of data is increased by compressing data and de-compressing via dual-cores and faster CPU's so fast we increase overall game speed. Hopefully the 'optimization and polishing' excuse for delays wasn't a lie like some companies made lately.
Posted February 20, 2010
Are you insanely rich with money to burn? Then hit up eBay and buy a Starcraft 2 BETA KEY for 0!
Or buy a lot of drugs and wait a few months.
Posted February 20, 2010
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michaelleung: Are you insanely rich with money to burn? Then hit up eBay and buy a Starcraft 2 BETA KEY for 0!
Or buy a lot of drugs and wait a few months.

That last suggestion would help the wait for sure. Or with that money buy a used PS3/360 and give that a go if you're like me and never had one of the new consoles. Or..... Well there's tons you can do with $300. Heck get a .22 and a 30-pack of beer. Drink a beer, shoot the can, repeat until you lose consciousness.
Posted February 20, 2010
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michaelleung: Are you insanely rich with money to burn? Then hit up eBay and buy a Starcraft 2 BETA KEY for 0!
Or buy a lot of drugs and wait a few months.
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tb87670: Heck get a .22 and a 30-pack of beer. Drink a beer, shoot the can, repeat until you lose consciousness.

Yes, and you'll probably end up in a coma from the liver failure from now until the game is released.
Posted February 20, 2010
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michaelleung: Yes, and you'll probably end up in a coma from the liver failure from now until the game is released.

Since we are on comas, I wonder how many people try to move forward in time by taking Unisom and Sominex and other PM medicines so they wake up like 5 minutes a day for taking pills until release. If there is anyone doing this Blizzard needs to hurry the hell up.
Posted February 20, 2010
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michaelleung: Yes, and you'll probably end up in a coma from the liver failure from now until the game is released.
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tb87670: Since we are on comas, I wonder how many people try to move forward in time by taking Unisom and Sominex and other PM medicines so they wake up like 5 minutes a day for taking pills until release. If there is anyone doing this Blizzard needs to hurry the hell up.

Probably the South Koreans.
Posted March 07, 2010
I just got into this if anyone wants a game some time just add me to friends my name on there is Ralackk and my identifyer is ral so Ralackk.ral
Posted March 07, 2010
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Ralackk: I just got into this if anyone wants a game some time just add me to friends my name on there is Ralackk and my identifyer is ral so Ralackk.ral

I'll add you but with my crappy internet connection I don't know how much I'll be able to play.
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