Brag if you got into the SC2 beta

[rcpratt]

Every time my loader finishes it repeats the last few reloading things, the thing where it refreshes all the icons on your screen... "preparing to download new patch" "no problems detected" "preparing to apply patch" "writing to something something something beta.patch" and that thing just repeats constantly.

Arg I just wanted to use the map editor

See my post #571. There is also a SC2Editor.exe file in that folder.

 

[Soccerman06]

See my post #571. There is also a SC2Editor.exe file in that folder.

lawl thanks... money map here i come!

 

[nanobreath]

To clarify, I don't think they're getting rid of LT and Metatopolis for 2v2, I think they're just done testing them.

Oh yes, I'm quite sure that is the case. I'm just happy for some gd new maps, even if I'll be sick of them in a week.

Playing around with the editor now. There is a "convert legacy maps" selection. Hopefully that will allow easy import of old classic starcraft maps. Either that or it's just for updating maps to new versions...I hope it's the former instead of the latter. Even though battle.net is down atm, I can load maps through the editor. Of course I don't have anything to open atm.

At least this lets me "play" starcraft when not even playing starcraft!

 

[speg]

Any ETA on when b.net is coming back up? I want decals!!!

 

[Soccerman06]

Really wish they woulda made a change to the reaper time, just seems too early of a rush you cant defense against if your toss.

 

[Pia]

At least this lets me "play" starcraft when not even playing starcraft!

The reverse, a Brood War mod / total conversion that someone is guaranteed to make eventually, is much more fun...

"Yo dawg, I herd u like Starcraft so we put Starcraft in your Starcraft so you can play Starcraft while you play Starcraft"

 

[rcpratt]

Now that both me and my roomie are in, had some fun with Terran/Toss 2v2. Went 3-0 so far, works pretty well.

 

[speg]

I hate this game. Been playing for a couple weeks but just went 1-4 in my placement matches Was so pissed the last game that I decided just to tech straight to Colossus but he built a barracks outside my base and Reaper'ed me in 2 mins. :twisted:

 

[ChaoZ]

Turning off all the sounds except for interface sounds helps a lot with your concentration. I just went from 70 average apm to 90.

 

[rcpratt]

APM is so overrated. Durrr I can spam click for the first 7 minutes of the game for no reason better than you.

Got thrown in platinum arranged 2v2 by going 4-1. 2-1 since then. Roomies not quite as good as me but we both got outplayed last game. I have to get better with ghosts EMP to counter psi storm.

 

[Soccerman06]

APM is so overrated. Durrr I can spam click for the first 7 minutes of the game for no reason better than you.

Got thrown in platinum arranged 2v2 by going 4-1. 2-1 since then. Roomies not quite as good as me but we both got outplayed last game. I have to get better with ghosts EMP to counter psi storm.

The higher in the plat leagues you get the more often people use hallucinations on immortals/colussi and templar. Only 2 issues are the fake immortals take a max of 20 per shield hit instead of 10 (bug? says 10 in tooltip) and you burn your ff doing that

Oh my point... emp rapes toss anyways so its usually a good thing to have 4-5 raves w/ dd and at least as many ghosts just so you have many emps to burn no matter its psi energy or shield energy, just be fast with your emps so the templar dont mind blast your ghosts in 1 hit (duh). Too bad they buffed fungal growth so dd doesnt stop it >.<

 

[Dumac]

Man, I went 1-3 tonight as protoss. I really wanted to main them, but I'm so much worse at toss then zerg or terran.

Maybe I'll try switching to zerg.

 

[nanobreath]

Now that both me and my roomie are in, had some fun with Terran/Toss 2v2. Went 3-0 so far, works pretty well.

Me and my brother play terran toss too. Careful going 5-0 unless you really wanna be in the plat league.

I hate this game. Been playing for a couple weeks but just went 1-4 in my placement matches Was so pissed the last game that I decided just to tech straight to Colossus but he built a barracks outside my base and Reaper'ed me in 2 mins. :twisted:

You picked the absolute WORST time to do your placement matches. I imagine that a high percentage of the people at that time are higher ranked people. So you're playing against a large percentage of gold/plat players instead of a random mix of people.

What I find funny about RTS is people say "I hate this game" then will proceed to play it for the next 3 hours, and again the next day. We don't hate the game, we just hate losing!


I haven't been able to log into bnet yet, for those that have, do the achievements give any idea as to how many missions there are in the single player?

 

[MikeyLSU]

damn I sucked in my placement games last night. Went 1-4 and placed in bronze...but at least 2 of them I just made a stupid mistake and lost.

Once, I was defending and had the guy beat so he backed off. I was planning a counter and he destroyed the rocks and got in my base. I just forgot about the rocks alltogether. I could have easily defended it had I been thinking, just a dumb mistake.

Oh well, I still need to get much better mid/late game.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

The higher in the plat leagues you get the more often people use hallucinations on immortals/colussi and templar. Only 2 issues are the fake immortals take a max of 20 per shield hit instead of 10 (bug? says 10 in tooltip) and you burn your ff doing that

Oh my point... emp rapes toss anyways so its usually a good thing to have 4-5 raves w/ dd and at least as many ghosts just so you have many emps to burn no matter its psi energy or shield energy, just be fast with your emps so the templar dont mind blast your ghosts in 1 hit (duh). Too bad they buffed fungal growth so dd doesnt stop it >.<

I think hallucinations take double damage, and I'm surprised the hardened shield works at all with them.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

damn I sucked in my placement games last night. Went 1-4 and placed in bronze...but at least 2 of them I just made a stupid mistake and lost.

Once, I was defending and had the guy beat so he backed off. I was planning a counter and he destroyed the rocks and got in my base. I just forgot about the rocks alltogether. I could have easily defended it had I been thinking, just a dumb mistake.

Oh well, I still need to get much better mid/late game.

I got stuck in bronze too. Went 2-3 and both games I won were basicly 1vs2s.

 

[dank69]

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I haven't been able to log into bnet yet, for those that have, do the achievements give any idea as to how many missions there are in the single player?

The single player acheivements are locked, I don't think you can view them at all right now. I think it is pretty well known that there will be 30 terran missions in WoL though.

Got my ass handed to me last night during placement and even practice matches. Went 2-3 in both and 2 of the 4 wins came from buggy disconnects, and the 3rd was a 2v2 where my partner carried me. It's my own fault though cause I play random and I don't know all the maps yet. I should have played more maps against the (cracked) AI. Oh well, I will learn as I go, it is fun so far!

 

[MikeyLSU]

BTW, I don't like the 4 player maps for 1v1 games.

 

[Kev]

The higher in the plat leagues you get the more often people use hallucinations on immortals/colussi and templar. Only 2 issues are the fake immortals take a max of 20 per shield hit instead of 10 (bug? says 10 in tooltip) and you burn your ff doing that

Oh my point... emp rapes toss anyways so its usually a good thing to have 4-5 raves w/ dd and at least as many ghosts just so you have many emps to burn no matter its psi energy or shield energy, just be fast with your emps so the templar dont mind blast your ghosts in 1 hit (duh). Too bad they buffed fungal growth so dd doesnt stop it >.<

Oh boy. What have I gotten myself into

 

[rcpratt]

Do you guys mostly play 1v1 or 2v2? I almost always played 2v2 in SC1 and WC3, but I just can't stand it now for some reason, unless it's arranged. Liking 1v1 a lot more.

 

[MikeyLSU]

I have only played 1 2v2 and probably about 20 1v1. just hard to get into 2v2 and having to trust someone else.

Though I wouldn't mind getting some 2v2 games with people from here.

 

[nanobreath]

I played a lot of 2v2 random in wc3, but the only one I've played in SC2 was an accident. My selection was still on 2v2 from playing my arranged matches with my brother. Why force yourself to play with people you cannot easily coordinate with.

I think one of the things that makes 2v2 random really no fun is that you play against 2v2 arranged teams. I can really, really tell when we play against another arranged team, and when we play against a random team.

 

[invidia]

I played a lot of 2v2 random in wc3, but the only one I've played in SC2 was an accident. My selection was still on 2v2 from playing my arranged matches with my brother. Why force yourself to play with people you cannot easily coordinate with.

I think one of the things that makes 2v2 random really no fun is that you play against 2v2 arranged teams. I can really, really tell when we play against another arranged team, and when we play against a random team.

Arranged teams will only fight other arranged teams and RT vs RT, just like in War3. If you believe they are an arranged team, then they are just very good players.

It's been like that all throughout War3 and most likely SC2. If it isn't it'll be overly unfair to those who do RT. I AT with my brother on SC2, it takes 3x longer to get matched up than RT, so we must be fighting other ATs only.

 

[nanobreath]

Arranged teams will only fight other arranged teams and RT vs RT, just like in War3. If you believe they are an arranged team, then they are just very good players.

It's been like that all throughout War3 and most likely SC2. If it isn't it'll be overly unfair to those who do RT. I AT with my brother on SC2, it takes 3x longer to get matched up than RT, so we must be fighting other ATs only.

No, so far in beta RT can face AT. It has been discussed many times, and has caused a lot of complaining from people who prefer RT.

Here is a thread discussing a problem with it. This was directed more towards a bug at the time not assigning points correctly. But you will see the people complaining about having to face AT as RT.
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23766805614&postId=239769017274&sid=5000#7

And another discussing AT vrs RT:
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23392959554&postId=233906947800&sid=5000#8

This may be only a beta thing in order to facilitate quicker AT matchmaking, but it is certainly happening at the moment. If you have a blue post saying it is indeed only for beta, I'd love to see it.

The only reason I started to suspect this is the number of times I played AT with my brother, and it was OBVIOUS the other two people were uncoordinated. Others one person would quit early after a bad start and the person remaining always commented about his bad partner.

 

[QuantumPion]

awesome, in my first 3 placement matches my partners quit in the first 30 seconds. 4th game had a low low copper partner vs two high platinums. Ended up in bronze league this time (was rank 11 in gold last time). I may just do 1v1 this season, I just don't have any fun where every game I am worried my partner is terribad.