OMG SC2 BETA

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I GOT IN WHOO HOOO!! !! !!

Yeah baby, yeah baby, it's ya birthday, it's ya birthday!

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DAMN DOWNLOAD GO FASTER!! !! MUST PLAY ZZEEEERRGGGGG!! !! !! !


Once I calm down I'll actually try to post pertinent information.


OMG SC2 BETA!

I opted in for SC2 beta, even though I'm not a big SC fan...

Wake me when D3 goes into beta. I just put in my pre-order on Amazon.com.

I'm downloading at 30kbps. Only 14 more hours to go!

Ouch ><

I was annoyed when I only got 800-900kbps with my connection. Normally Blizzards P2P file transfer system is much faster.

Anyways, so far it's very similar to Starcraft 1, in terms of their being a great deal of the same units and the same extremely fast combat, unlike how Warcraft II went from fast battles to Warcraft III becoming much more of a drawn out slug fest. Which slightly annoyed me in Starcraft, some of those expensive units could get destroyed so damn quickly ><

Congratulations, man.

Are we still slated to get Starcraft 2 in 2010? I pledged not to buy any games for myself this year (MAJOR BACKLOG, BATMAN) but I could weasel my way into getting the game, since I've a July birthday...

Though I'm quite out of practice at RTS, it'd be fun to get back into.

I had to turn the peer-to-peer option off. My ISP is apparently having troubles, because the service has suddenly gotten bad. The 30kbps I'm downloading at is enough to completely kill my internet now, which it never used to be! That means due to the lack of throughput available I have to turn peer-to-peer off or suffer even more of a slow pace. With peer-to-peer on it drops to 15kbps for me. This connection just can't handle a lot of traffic, although it used to be fine.



Last I heard is they want a late June release. I believe that the beta test is a good indication of a release to be coming soon. Unless they hit a serious bug or have to change the balance drastically, then it will probably be released sometime in 2010.

I'm looking forward to playing with the map editor and custom games the most, but the regular play is something I plan on doing too.

Yeah, the Galaxy editor hasn't come out just yet, waiting on it. Can't wait to see what people do with that, especially if it's going to be even better than the WIII one was.

And ouch at your connection lol. That's seriously messed up mang, that's pretty much dial-up speed.

Also, knowing Blizzard and having gotten into the beta's of BC and LK, I'd wager around October/November for the release of SCII.

Warcraft 3's editor could do quite a lot, but unfortunately for the best performing maps to be put out the users really had to know their stuff. The GUI editor put out such poor code and had a lot of memory leak issues. Galaxy supposedly wont have any memory leak issues, but because they chose to use a custom language for its scripting I still worry. Oh well, even if the scripting isn't improved upon it still has the same features of Warcraft 3's editor and more.

Actually, my connection is approximately 5.4 times better than dial-up. I was only ever able to pull download rates of like 3kbps on dial-up. Assuming on a faster dial-up connection I was able to get 5.6kbps or so, then at my current download rate, I am moving about 5.4 times more data.

-typo- oops, typo, hard to remain consistent with "speed" vs "data".

Also, in terms of speed, that's not really "speed", it is just "wider". I can prove that because dial-up's response time is usually about 200ms, 300 if you're unlucky and 150 if you're lucky whereas on a high-speed connection such as my DSL here, I can pull anywhere from 40 to 70m for response times. Response time is the actual true measurement of speed since it "responds" faster! Throughput isn't a measurement of speed, just a measurement of how much data it can handle (think of sipping through a straw: wider straw = more liquid), and currently mine is not handling as much as advertised. Worthless ISP!

Oh well, for online gaming response time is the most important. Most games don't use a whole lot of throughput. I have that, just not when downloading something anymore. Response time is especially important for games like Starcraft. Although for the original Starcraft not so much. They gave units an automatic delay when playing online so that even a dial-up user was not at a disadvantage in terms of unit responsiveness. They didn't implement that in Warcraft 3 though, which is kind of crappy because now when you cream somebody you have to wonder if it is because of your response time or not.

I wonder if games like DotA will make it to Starcraft though. I'm not a fan of DotA myself, but given that games like League of Legends and Heroes of Newerth are out, and the fact that DotA works just fine on Warcraft 3, I just have to wonder if DotA will be popular on Starcraft 2 or not.

So excited for this game, I love Starcraft Brood War and I've been playing it for years but it's showing its age nowadays. Basically I'm excited that there's going to be a modern form of Starcraft coming soon. And new strategies, tactics, maps ofcourse as well.

Well done. Any word on when the game will be released.

Another round of invites went out today...

...and I was one of them!

i was going to go for the beta but i don't think my computer would run it (it's terribly bad) and i would feel bad taking the beta out of someone elses hands if i couldent even play it