Starcraft 2 Beta


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Ah I remember that tune from ages ago - nice lyrics lol. Sadly it's right about a lot of things though it won't stop me enjoying the game at release.

Yea, the game itself is AMAZING. The other services aren't so good, but hopefully, Blizzard will get everything worked out before release.

Beta to restart July 1st

PC BanG leaked that the Beta of SC2 will restart the 27 of June exclusively on their Cyber caf?s while it will restart for everyone else on the 1st of July. The news comes from PC BanG employees.

My source is: http://www.team-aaa.com/news-16590-0-1-la_beta_reprend_le_premier_juillet.html

It's a French Esport website.

It doesn't seem weird since PC BanG are one of the partners Blizzard announced during their press conference of the 24th of June.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=132635

That would be awesome if the beta restarts on July 1st, though I must confess that I'm slightly suspicious of their source (a French e-sports website). I didn't get much of a chance to play during the first beta, so I would certainly like some time to get my hands dirty, especially considering that I pre-ordered the game :).

And +1 to NeptuneSak for posting that YouTube channel with all of those videos. I've never been a Zerg player, but with that much material to learn from, I may have to start.

You'll be a noob if you don't keep practicing before the release. :p

I'm already a noob. My skills have atrophied since the beta ended. :(

Lets hope that there is going to be some single player content in the rest of the beta. That would be awesome or even just an Intro video :p

I highly doubt they'd add SP content. Blizzard has never done that with their past MP betas and I'm sure they'd want to save that for the final game.

Blizzard was hoping to allow us back into the beta by now, but I guess they had more work than they expected. I'm sure we'll have access in a few days.

That's what I thought. I remember reading something about phase two only lasting two weeks so that might be it. Perhaps we'll have access by no later than Monday (the 5th).

Looks like StarCraft II will go 3D with a post-release patch: http://www.vg247.com/2010/07/03/starcraft-ii-to-support-3d-in-post-release-patch/

Still no word on phase two of the beta.

lol..Nvidia cards only.. Ati is not up with the 3D yet I guess.

phase 2 of the beta has started you can login and play again.

whats new

General

•Rally points now behave as a move command, instead of an attack move command.

•Enabled the ability to manually add a StarCraft II character friend using the player's character code. Character code is a server-assigned numerical code that is displayed within the Add Friend panel.

•Battle.net Achievements & Rewards have been updated.

•All Quick Match modes are now available: 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, and Free For All.

•All A.I. difficulties are now available for play.

•Cooperative matchmaking versus A.I. players is now available as a play mode.

•Enabled cross-game social features between World of Warcraft and StarCraft II.

Balance Changes

•ZERG

•Infestor

•Frenzy spell removed.

•Infested Terran spell added.

•Overseer

•Infested Terran spell removed.

•Ultralisk

•Now immune to stuns and mind control

Source.

Mine is updating. Love the new updater, HATE it wont let me change to server.

on top of that, mirrors are offline(as expected but come on I WANT TO PLAY NOW).

Paying off CE friday and then anticipating game. Will loose my gaming life/time to this game during the night.

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