Unleash the Hounds: Starcraft II Beta begins

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Have to remake account names and stuff... I'm just plain Letters.letters now. I takes it from whoever stole it before!

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I made it into the gold league this time. :D Early enough placement to sneak into division 1 too, hehe. Went 4-1 (Me Zerg against 3 Terrans and 2 Protoss) in my placement matches, only losing to one very good, aggressive Terran player. I made up for it in my last match, though, in which this guy wouldn't stop crying about... everything. Terran can't leave base because of banelings, hydralisks need a nerf, zergling speed upgrade is overpowered, and on and on... it was wonderful. I wasn't an asshole or anything about it, but I do love a good cup of tears before bed.
 
Yay "you were dropped", won three of the placements and crashed on two. Still crashing like hell. Now I'm not getting the blizzard error reporting anymore. I just get the windows window telling me sc2.exe is not responding.

I wish they would implement something like Heroes of Newereth has, you have like 5min to get back or you get DC.
 
Boo, terran nerf. Way to push Terrans towards getting MORE marauders...

Also, their big terran mech buff was reducing factory cost by 50 minerals? Really?? REALLY??? WE ALL KNOW TERRANS HAVE MINERAL PROBLEMS, AND THAT IS WHY NOBODY USES MECHANICAL UNITS. THAT IS EXACTLY WHY BLIZZARD, WAY TO GO123asdlasd

God, I was so looking forward to actually being able to use the Thors and Hellions more than once every 6000 matches. Yay, more M&M's, except that now we'll have less marines because because reactors got nerfed and so did marines!

F U too blizzard.

My new handle: Rico.trooper add me!
 
*You can now view any player's profile after completion of a game by right-clicking on their name in the score screen and choosing View Profile.

HAHA good one.

Edit: Seriously does this work for anyone? I still need to add everyone to friends list then check the profile.
 
is there a list of peoples names? I just got in through a friend invite... I kinda suck though
 
I can't wait to wrap my hands around the single player....
 
I just watched the best game of SC2 I've seen in a while. Nasgul vs. TheLittleOne, PvT. Both of them use great tactics, counter-building, and generally fantastic strategy. Also: exemplary use of nukes.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
 
Wow, just wow. TheLittleOne was great with those tech switches.
 
Ah, saw those in the TeamLiquid Invitational. It was a decent game. Scanning to see the army really tells you what your army composition needs to be, eh?
 
Damn, I'm never going to be good at this game D: When the good players look like that? ... fuhgeddaboudit.
 
I think I watched this this morning. If thats the game where thelittleone stacks battlecruisers? The commentator said something like: "what do you do when a terran builds battlecruisers and you're protoss?", lol you build templars. Every time someone has gone to banshee/battlecruiser I always go to high templars. Just feedback their asses and enjoy that no yamato cannon + 200dmg.

But yea that thelittleone seems like an amazing player.
 
I was just thinking that SC2 reminds me of one game and now I remembered what that game was! Street Fighter 4! The game is just like it was online, everyone goes for sagat or Ruy, everyone uses the damn same moves. At gold league theres not even any point in scouting since everyone always goes to the same builds. I want to platinum :<
 
While it's beta, there are going to be a very select few trying new things and those things working, while the rest just sheep the builds.
 
Does the game move faster than the original? I feel, especially as Terran, that the base progression just happens faster. I simply can't keep up and I'm realizing all the time that I've lost valuable teching time.
 
Sweet infestors can't controll Battlecruisers. Always nice to mass something and then notice, it doesn't work. Insert troll face.
 
yeah, the patch before last *I believe* said that they can't infest air units.

*EDIT* Yup
Neural Parasite has been redesigned:


* The limited duration of 10 seconds has been removed.
* Can no longer target air units.
* Cast range decreased from 9 to 7.
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You guys better be on tonight... last night was lonely, and I ended up watching Ghostbusters 2 on Hulu.
 
Monday's are my busiest night of the week. I should be on around 10:00 PST if you'll still be up then.
 
Damn you patch notes! I didn't know you could set seperate way points for drones and rest of the units. SWEET. Playing with zerg just bacame 10 more fun.
 
God I hate these small maps as a zerg. You could always try to do a ling rush but even the dummest players now know how to use workers. These maps are especially anoying against Protoss, roaches are nice yeah, they're usually just 2min too late in tech :/
 
Play Terran. But in answer to you distressful situation, 10pool/ovie/6lings is a very viable opening for zerg. You get lings faster than they would expect(knowing you are zerg) and even if you aren't able to kill a ton, if you keep your zerglings alive and in their base, they are contained which will buy you some time to tech to those oh-so-needed roaches.

And no, most people don't know how to use workers. They just think they do.
 
New patch out today!

I like the strengthening of static defenses quite a lot actually. Looking forward to trying it out.

Cyberpitz I think it was totally called the change to Thors.
 
Thors are so dumb. I hope they get a heavy makeover because they're too expensive and WAY too big.
I don't like the nerf to Storm, but other than that it seems okay.
 
Thors will still be used as mobile missile turrets. The problem is how slow and easy they are to kill, not necessarily the damage they did.

You never really see a Thor in action, because they're usually dead by first 5 seconds of any battle.
 
Usually if I rush with zerg I go 7-pool, that works sometimes, just need to micro lings and not let them get surrounded by workers. With 10 pool protoss gets the gateway up way too soon. Against terran I never try to rush, but maybe I should start doing that since they nerfed reactors.

Edit: Lol I can't understand these tards. I was up against one guy from platinum and he masses colosus when I mass immortals WTF :D Why teh f would you do something like that D:
 
If I'm even remotely afraid of rushing, I'll 10-pool. I really don't 7-pool anymore, as anybody with decent micro can take it down since the workers are so good at autosurround. I try to play standard most games, since I need to get better at the whole thing in general. I feel I'm pretty decent at cheese already :p
 
Rico said:
Thors will still be used as mobile missile turrets. The problem is how slow and easy they are to kill, not necessarily the damage they did.

You never really see a Thor in action, because they're usually dead by first 5 seconds of any battle.
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Despite this I'm badly tempted every round I play Terran if for nothing other than the Arnold voice D:
 
Bakurei said:
Usually if I rush with zerg I go 7-pool, that works sometimes, just need to micro lings and not let them get surrounded by workers. With 10 pool protoss gets the gateway up way too soon. Against terran I never try to rush, but maybe I should start doing that since they nerfed reactors.

Edit: Lol I can't understand these tards. I was up against one guy from platinum and he masses colosus when I mass immortals WTF :D Why teh f would you do something like that D:
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And while you micro those lings around not killing a damn thing, my own lings and queen hatch to destroy you, and you lose the game as soon as I attack with the roaches I'll be making in about 40 seconds.

Anything before 13-pool is a complete failure. EVERY time I get zergling rushed in 1v1, 2v2, whatever, it's a free win.
 
Had some really good games last night playing with Letters on the 2v2 ladder.
Here are the replays

First game letters got ling rushed and handled it like a pro, coming out on top for the crushing win.
The third game was on the twilight fortress map, and had some epic and huge battles in it.
 
I went back and watched the replay of that Twilight Fortress one last night for educational purposes. Was a fun one. :p

I love going back through my replays to see all the crap I did wrong even on games I won (actually I prefer those since that way I win AND learn!). It saddens me that my average APM has hardly changed since I first started playing, though.
 
God I hate you guys. SC2 looks like so much fun.... does anybody still have a friend invite?
 
That violates the EULA btw IIRC.

...imho.

Also ... Hellion is a biological, barracks unit now, wtf? And also, are people really lamenting how the playing field is leveled for some of the tricky techniques people had to learn in BW?
 
I am going to be a big supporter for this. I don't like the auto-mine and limited unit selection, but everything else sounds so delicious and exactly what SC2 need. Hopefully Blizzard will pick up on this and make changes accordingly!
 
Yeah, because I really miss the days of assigning individual workers to specific mineral clusters...
 
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