Starcraft 2 beta

[DrSpike]

It's not an equals, but it is clearly implied. Even you can't deny this one.

[Asher]

It didn't imply it. Plenty of people who have HAD real life issues with societal rejections HAVE lives.

You guys just don't have a clue. Honestly. Dumb.

[Elok]

Looking forward to SC2, with a few reservations. I don't do multiplayer, first because I don't think that fast/am not that good, second because the people who are don't sound like they're having much fun ("clicks per minute?"), third because I don't feel like having some douche yell "OMGpwned!" at me whenever I lose an SCV to a Reaper. But the single-player campaigns sound cool.

The one thing I don't care for is that some of the new Terran units just don't seem as...cool as the old ones. They don't seem to fit in with the old forces, in terms of aesthetics and feel. Consider the Hellion. They took away the Vulture, a hardcore biker who drinks from a flask while he's talking to you and rides around terrorizing people with grenades, and replaced him with this nondescript thing that looks sort of like a dune buggy which for some reason has flamethrowers attached. Not cool. Of all the new units, only the Reapers really fit in with the rough-and-ready style of the Terrans. The Thor just looks silly on those two little legs. But I guess as long as it's fun to play it doesn't much matter. I prefer the Protoss anyway, and I certainly won't miss those clumsy Reavers.

[Lord_Icewind]

Aaand still waiting for a beta key/game to come out. I even have the special ed. reserved D:

[DaShi]

I saw it. It's the exact same as the old one , even the graphics are the same.

[DrSpike]

Lies.

[DaShi]

Why mess with what works?

[DrSpike]

That's a gameplay point, with which I largely agree (though serious RTS players report nuances in the micro and macro skills required to play SC2 compared to BW). But to say the graphics are the same as a (pretty ugly) game first released in 1998 is a bit silly.

[DaShi]

To be fair, I've never played either. So when friends showed me both games, they looked the same to me. But they were drooling over the new graphics. Maybe I'm just getting old.

[DrSpike]

I've heard it's the judgement that goes next. You might even start agreeing with all of Asher's posts on gaming.

[Kataphraktoi]

True, his posts are remarkably convincing.

But seriously, i think its a little silly that not participating in ''mine is bigger'' rituals=scrub. Having played Age2 for years years ago, i have no further interest in any kind of timed competition.

[teresa412009]

Is anyone in it? I don't see any thread on it and its been on open beta status for about a month i think?

I'm liking the new zerg. Even though there are lot of things I don't like, in general they feel pretty good. Game obviously needs alot of balancing to do and zergs feel the least finished imo.

Some signature units missing, like lurkers, defilers, sci vessel reavers and etc are a shame. They were such core units of high level gameplay, but game plays differently so I guess that's fine. There's plenty of other new units to play with.

Ladder system is pretty good in MY experience. I hear from the interwebs that ladder is sometimes all whack and mismatching people and giving wrong points. I guess those bugs will be fixed in time. I also hear that they're going to give out more beta keys in the future so that they can test how more people playing will affect the current issues of matchmaking system. So if you're interested you should sign up at the official battle.net page.

great thread, love it