Original Starcraft 2 Thread

Manlove is my forte · 13 Jul 2010 at 13:40

Dist said:
I know this is cutting it a little late but I thought blizzard would have given me a key by now and they havn't. So does anyone have a spare friend key that I could please use? I expected there to be an open beta at least where I can test if my aging pentium dual core is up to the job of playing SC2, but it has stayed closed beta and I would rather see how this runs before my preorder arrives (so I have time to cancel if needed).

I'm playing on a CD2@1800MHz 2GB Ram Nvidia 7900 (was using a 7600 at beginning of the Beta)
Runs fine in Low graphics mode, which still IMO looks good. (certainly when compared to BW)

Guest2 · 13 Jul 2010 at 13:48

I have a 5770 & [email protected]. I run in high settings and it works a lot better than ultra. In 3 vs 3 it starts to slow down though. I dont think 3 vs 3 or 4 vs 4 will be playable on a dual core unless clocked to 4ghz or something. Single core will be a no hoper

chaotic_uk · 13 Jul 2010 at 14:24

as far as i know from what i have read is that they do not plan to put support for 4 cored cpu's or above as more people still are running dual cored cpu's (or something along them lines lol)

Alex74 · 13 Jul 2010 at 14:37

Thought I'd update the names list, try to keep all the names together in one place to make life easy

chaotic_uk- chaotic.224
H2F Scott - scott.479
Alex74 - VoidPtr.167
Indie - Luxotican.425
VeNT - VeNT.529
mart981 - Mart.566
dane3388 - LunarDonkey.787
EpicCarnage - watkins.226
kar - Kar.567
welshdragon - Welshdragon.729
Guest2 - alexl.288
RobHu - rjh.669
Manlove is my forte - Kronologic.617

Should be around for some games all day today

(didnt have a DS to use yesterday

)

Indie · 13 Jul 2010 at 14:43

Alex74 said:
Should be around for some games all day today

(didnt have a DS to use yesterday )

Quality ^^

Nice list, will try and add everybody when im on later tonight, need to see if the DS has any battery left! hehe

thedude23 · 13 Jul 2010 at 16:58

Is it still possible to get your hands on a beta key?despite it been released in 2 wks time?

Guest2 · 13 Jul 2010 at 17:26

Just watched the replays scott, You didnt block your choke on lost temple, units could get in/out at the side of your gateway. It was good on blistering sands though

I should have countered when you attacked on lost temple, i had a 2 or 3 more stalkers and might have won or at least taken out your expo or probes. I didnt build enough units and focussed on upgrades and more gateways. I had the same amount of units when you attacked early on as I did when the upgraded colossus and more stalkers attacked. I just needed to keep pumping out units and I would have been ok. I also didnt use my probe very well as it was over your army and I didnt even notice!

good game though

Manlove is my forte · 13 Jul 2010 at 19:08

Has Battlenet Just gone down?

chaotic_uk · 13 Jul 2010 at 19:36

still works for me

just Scott · 13 Jul 2010 at 19:51

Guest2 said:
Just watched the replays scott, You didnt block your choke on lost temple, units could get in/out at the side of your gateway. It was good on blistering sands though

I should have countered when you attacked on lost temple, i had a 2 or 3 more stalkers and might have won or at least taken out your expo or probes. I didnt build enough units and focussed on upgrades and more gateways. I had the same amount of units when you attacked early on as I did when the upgraded colossus and more stalkers attacked. I just needed to keep pumping out units and I would have been ok. I also didnt use my probe very well as it was over your army and I didnt even notice!

good game though

Aye you're not supposed to completely wall off on Lost Temple. Unlike Blistering Sands you don't have rocks you can break to make an entrance later on. It's just a build to use against Zerg really, leaving 1 space that a Zealot can block against early Zerglings, and still allowing you to take your expansion really early. Works really well with Colossus builds since you can support 2 Robo's off 2 bases. But I wanted to try it against you since I've never done it before and need to practise it a lot.

RobHu · 13 Jul 2010 at 22:39

Something for protoss players that are getting frustrated playing against terrans:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mnyj0nctyn2mykv

Pretty cheesy but it can work against much better players

EpicCarnage · 13 Jul 2010 at 22:51

battle net went down for me midgame .. kinda sucked but its been back up for like 2 hours now.. trying out all these new strats for all you protoss players out there check out the 4 gate strategy on my site

Alex74 · 13 Jul 2010 at 23:07

RobHu said:
Something for protoss players that are getting frustrated playing against terrans:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mnyj0nctyn2mykv

Pretty cheesy but it can work against much better players

nice

cheesy, but awesome. Cringed a bit when he accidentally MULE'd instead of using a scan though

just Scott · 14 Jul 2010 at 00:13

RobHu said:
Something for protoss players that are getting frustrated playing against terrans:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mnyj0nctyn2mykv

Pretty cheesy but it can work against much better players

Was that the real ret? :O

RobHu · 14 Jul 2010 at 00:25

Yes, hence 'much better players' ^^

just Scott · 14 Jul 2010 at 00:27

RobHu said:
Yes, hence 'much better players' ^^

Whoa, very nice. Are you friends with him or was that a tournament or something?

RobHu · 14 Jul 2010 at 00:44

Been friends with him for a few years, we used to play lineage 2 together. Dont let that game fool you though, he owns me 95% of the time with very little effort hehe.

just Scott · 14 Jul 2010 at 00:50

That's awesome. Must be nice being friends with one of the best foreign starcraft players.

Indie · 14 Jul 2010 at 07:30

Krono... i WILL get to have some games with you! lol

Sorry dude, last night was just a pain in the backside for me, missus wanted attention and then i got hooked watching chavs getting beaten up by police in Road Wars.. ha!

Manlove is my forte · 14 Jul 2010 at 08:28

Its nerf Zerg day

StarCraft II Beta - Patch 17 (version 0.20.0.16036)

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StarCraft II Beta – Patch 17 (version 0.20.0.16036)

The latest patch notes can always be found on the StarCraft II Beta General Discussion forum.

Bug Fixes

Many of the following bug fixes were intended for internal testing only, and are now being reverted.
250mm Strike Cannons can no longer deal damage to hidden targets.
Barracks build time decreased from 65 to 60 seconds.
Bunker build time decreased from 40 to 30 seconds.
Canceling morphing Banelings now returns 75% of the cost like other morphing Zerg units.
Hellion range reverted from 6 to 5.
Reaper build time decreased from 45 to 40 seconds.
Zealot build time decreased from 38 to 33 seconds.

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