Starcraft 2 - Read Post #2 for a useful beginner guide

[simonizor]

Alright, got stomped and put into Bronze.
And it was all cheesy wins. Protoss players always shoved a pylon on my front step with a couple of proton cannons.
Zerg always rushed me with zerglings. Thats how all my placement matches went.

So I guess its OK to use cheap tricks so long as you win? And only the loser gets to talk shit about such things?
And the guys in bronze are pretty darn consistent with cheese tactics. Did the same thing on the ladder matches too. AND talked shit to me when I didnt surrender at the first sign of action. As if I awe them an easy win or something.

I think that people are probably just doing what's easiest right now because they haven't really had the time to figure out the advanced tactics yet.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Bonus mission....hidden objectives....thank you Blizzard for getting me excited to play a game again. It's been a long time, now I get to watch the clock until I'm done with work.

 

[TridenT]

Also, I still have 2 StarCraft 2 Guest Passes and 2 WoW guest passes for anyone interested.

D: There are starcraft 2 guest passes? God damn. I shouldn't have bought the game already! Fuck!

 

[Udgnim]

finally get SC2 from Dell (they used some crappy packaging too)

takes 45-50 minutes to install then add some more time to DL and install patches

start up SC 2 and get shown the message "An error occurred starting Starcraft II. Please try again." too lazy to try to fix right now, but I am curious about one thing.

I played the SC 2 beta no problem. the difference between now and then though is that the SC 2 beta install was on a 1 partition hard drive with the OS. I've since split the hard drive into 2 partitions (OS and apps) and installed SC 2 to the apps partition.

can anyone confirm that they've done something similar and has SC 2 working correctly for them? thanks.

 

[Anubis]

can i inquire as to what kind of comp you are on that it took almost an hour to install? because it seriously took me like 10 minutes. as per your partition issue i don't know, but its possible i guess


anyway i have 2 guest passes as well, provided you arent currently on my ignore list ill gladly give them out

 

[velillen]

can anyone confirm that they've done something similar and has SC 2 working correctly for them? thanks.

I have it installed on a completely separate drive than my OS and it works just fine.

 

[Barfo]

Maybe it is just me, but is anyone else annoyed the general is only a 3 star? I guess because I am American, I would have figured the American rank system to be on English speaking human military. In reality, the general should have been at the very least a 4 star, if not a 5 star after he came out of retirement.

This is far into the future and besides, the Terrans aren't exactly the same civilization as the people from Earth so why would they have the same military ranks?

 

[RapidSnail]

D: There are starcraft 2 guest passes? God damn. I shouldn't have bought the game already! Fuck!

They last for 7 gameplay hours or 14 days after activation. Whichever comes first.

1 SC2 GP remaining. PM if you want it.

Edit: No more GP. Sorry guys.

 

[Schfifty Five]

This is far into the future and besides, the Terrans aren't exactly the same civilization as the people from Earth so why would they have the same military ranks?

Well, they are still using gun powder and bullets so why not the same ranks?

I mean if the year is in the 22nd century, shouldn't they be using laser guns and stuff? haha

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Where do you get the guest pass? Also my install was about 10 mins too and the patch took another 2 or 3 mins.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Does SC2 support add-ons like WoW?

I realize the use of add-ons wouldn't be the same as WoW, but I was just curious if they had the ability to use em.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Well, they are still using gun powder and bullets so why not the same ranks?

I mean if the year is in the 22nd century, shouldn't they be using laser guns and stuff? haha

Because gun powder & bullets are far cooler than pew pew lasers.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Where do you get the guest pass? Also my install was about 10 mins too and the patch took another 2 or 3 mins.

My comp is a i7 930 @ 3.8ghz, 4gb RAM, 7200 RPM HDD, SATA optical drive, HD5850 and it took me probably 15-20 min to install the game plus a few more minutes for the updates.

I have the CE and there were 2 guest passes (physical cardboard inserts) for SC2 and 2 for WoW.

 

[zerocool84]

My comp is a i7 930 @ 3.8ghz, 4gb RAM, 7200 RPM HDD, SATA optical drive, HD5850 and it took me probably 15-20 min to install the game plus a few more minutes for the updates.

I have the CE and there were 2 guest passes (physical cardboard inserts) for SC2 and 2 for WoW.

The comp in my sig took a good 15-20min as well.

 

[Anubis]

Where do you get the guest pass? Also my install was about 10 mins too and the patch took another 2 or 3 mins.

CE gets 2 of each reposts normal version does as well

 

[Udgnim]

Does SC2 support add-ons like WoW?

I realize the use of add-ons wouldn't be the same as WoW, but I was just curious if they had the ability to use em.

if you're talking about UI mods, then no unless you're playing a custom map then maybe

can i inquire as to what kind of comp you are on that it took almost an hour to install? because it seriously took me like 10 minutes. as per your partition issue i don't know, but its possible i guess

E8500 @ 4.05, XP, install to Velociraptor 300

install speed is probably limited by my Emprex DVD burner though

anyways, reinstalled SC2 once to the apps partition and produced the same error message. now installing to my FRAPS drive.

edit: and I still get the same error message from SC 2. awesome!

edit2: and it is so awesome that I can not post on the bnet forum about my issue because I need to create a SC 2 character in-game to be able to post.

 

[zerocool84]

Where do you get the guest pass? Also my install was about 10 mins too and the patch took another 2 or 3 mins.

I got the regular edition and it came with 2 SC2 passes and 2 WoW passes.

 

[Attic]

Game is awsome.

 

[Glitchny]

Loving the game so far, in gold league 2v2 and silver 1v1(which is bs, comp crashed on a 1v1 and i got a loss). The game is so much faster than what I remember but I've had some epic battles and most people online haven't been poor sports.

I also have 1 guest pass left over if anyone is interested just PM me.

Also the fact that the game runs on my computer without an issue during multiplayer is a testament to Blizzard's programming staff. I can't believe it works on this laptop but it cruises along fine.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I got the regular edition and it came with 2 SC2 passes and 2 WoW passes.

I guess it's not in the digital version. I wanted to save on the tax.

 

[MikeyLSU]

Loving the game so far, in gold league 2v2 and silver 1v1(which is bs, comp crashed on a 1v1 and i got a loss). The game is so much faster than what I remember but I've had some epic battles and most people online haven't been poor sports.

I also have 1 guest pass left over if anyone is interested just PM me.

Also the fact that the game runs on my computer without an issue during multiplayer is a testament to Blizzard's programming staff. I can't believe it works on this laptop but it cruises along fine.

PM sent.

to fanatical, yeah, no passes on digital, I'm in the same boat.

 

[Barfo]

I guess it's not in the digital version. I wanted to save on the tax.

You should be able to request 2 guest passes via email or something.

 

[Spike]

So, question, does anyone else get a ton of lag when trying to play "lan" with someone else? My brother picked up two copies and was nice enough to give me one last night. We played several 2v2 (with AI) and all was well with only minor hick-ups. We then switched to 3v3 (again, against AI) and in the middle of the game it became a horrible slide show.
Both the PC's are within the reccomended stats (main and lan pc in my sig) and we did not max out the settings anyway. Could the issue have been due to the battle.net servers and having both our games going along the same connection and same IP address? This seems more likely than pc stats since both pc's started stuttering at the same time and they have fairly different parts. This has me worried as I want to do this at my next lan with 4-8 people but if it's a slide show with just 2 then we have a problem.

 

[Aikouka]

Just finished the campaign... not too shabby.

Spoiler

But why does Kerrigan still have Zergy hair when she's human? It could reference some keeping of power in that she's still somewhat Zerg-like.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Just finished it. The last mission was decently difficult on Hard, and I eventually got bored and turned it down to Normal. Then it was way too easy.

Overall, excellent game. The single player was FAR better than the original, Brood War, Warcraft III, etc. The bonus missions are very nice, and achievements feel just rewarding enough to make me go the extra mile for something relatively simple. I won't be grinding for the ones that will require hours of work, though.

Now, time to try some custom matches vs. the AI, and then off to Battle.net for the real game play.

By the way,

Spoiler

did anyone else choose to kill the nidus network on the second-to-last mission? I thought dealing with fliers would be easy, but I didn't realize they'd still be launching hydras, lings, and roaches at my ground defenses constantly. The only way tactic I found that worked was keeping a decent ground defense (2 siege tanks, 2 bunkers, 4 perdition towers, and a few missile turrets for support) at each of the two base openings, and then running with a heavy army of battle cruisers with vikings for the occasional brood lord snipe (since BCs take forever to move). The Yamato cannon worked really well against Kerrigan. I'm curious to see if the mission would have been easier if I took out the fliers instead of the nidus network.

Finally, for anyone that's having trouble with missions later on,

Spoiler

research the science vessel and tech reactor (combined reactor and tech lab add-on). 2-3 science vessels can heal up a large mechanical army easily while away from your base, allowing you to roam freely and kill without pausing to repair. Tech reactors allow you to train two of any available unit at a barracks, factory, or star port simultaneously, which can help you to build up a massive Goliath / Thor / Banshee / etc. army very easily

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