At one point I thought about how cool it would be to learn to play this online. Then Super Street Fighter 4 came out... I don't think I can go through learning pains for two games at a time.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Jul 27, 2010
The first chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy focuses on the struggles of the Terran race, as seen through the eyes of Commander Jim Raynor, leader of the rebel group Raynor's Raiders.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Hits Retail July 27
Man, i really should of had my WoW account paid for. Might have helped me into the beta :(
Anyway, can't wait to play it. the editor looks great as well, racing, FPS, will be very entertaining to say the least.
" @psoplayer said:...uh if you can't Scout, I'd be damn surprised if you placed higher than copper. Even the scrubs in Bronze and Silver can do it.That's very hard to pull off against a player that knows how to scout (gold league and up). "" The winning strats I've seen in protoss games recently usually involve 8 or more warp gates and a warp prisim going around behind the enemy base and destroying econ before anything can be done about it. The best part is that you can probably tech to warping sooner than they can more than a ghost or two out, and I haven't seen too much ghost play. "
I know SC2 is an RTS game and a competetive one at that, which is always in need of balancing and changes, but let's hope that Blizzard has learned from past beta-testa by now that when the game hit retails it doesn't end up with still feeling beta the first few weeks. Remember when WC3 it the shelves and still alot of imbalances that the last beta patch had was carried over to the retail. So let's hope they atleast take the remaining beta months to actually try out to balance it out, so we don't have a rocky first weeks with balance changes every other week.
"In the multiplayer there are ladders which you are placed to after playing a few placement matches. This means you'll only play people around your skill level. Smurfing doesn't happen either since you can only have on account per copy of SC2 and I doubt people would buy another copy of the game just ot beat on newbies in the copper league.that's why I don't play online...and miss half the game. "So expect to get destroyed on Battle.net at the end of July by all the people who have been playing the beta for months before then!
" @buckybit said:...yeah but there's a problem in the beta right now and that has to do with achievements. A good chunk of players are failing their placement matches to get put into copper for free, and then just gang rape the noobs for all the achievements. They balance it out with losses here and there, to make sure they stay in copper until they got what they need. They'll leave once they get the harder achievements but for the first week or two...a lot are gonna fail on purpose."In the multiplayer there are ladders which you are placed to after playing a few placement matches. This means you'll only play people around your skill level. Smurfing doesn't happen either since you can only have on account per copy of SC2 and I doubt people would buy another copy of the game just ot beat on newbies in the copper league. "that's why I don't play online...and miss half the game. "So expect to get destroyed on Battle.net at the end of July by all the people who have been playing the beta for months before then!
im having the exact same problems as you brad, as a toss aswell, i think emp is extremely op aswell as marauders.
lol, my cousins in Korea just sent me a frantic email begging me to pick up a copy for them. Is that release date international or NA only?
" @jmrwacko said:There's a difference between actually scouting and just waypointing a probe into an enemy base." @psoplayer said:...uh if you can't Scout, I'd be damn surprised if you placed higher than copper. Even the scrubs in Bronze and Silver can do it. "That's very hard to pull off against a player that knows how to scout (gold league and up). "" The winning strats I've seen in protoss games recently usually involve 8 or more warp gates and a warp prisim going around behind the enemy base and destroying econ before anything can be done about it. The best part is that you can probably tech to warping sooner than they can more than a ghost or two out, and I haven't seen too much ghost play. "
" @KaosAngel said:Yea but that isn't really because of the system :P That is because people will try to earn all achievements even if it means being douches lol." @neojb1989 said:thanks a lot guys for the input. I am not in the beta. Interesting to hear this. "" @buckybit said:...yeah but there's a problem in the beta right now and that has to do with achievements. A good chunk of players are failing their placement matches to get put into copper for free, and then just gang rape the noobs for all the achievements. They balance it out with losses here and there, to make sure they stay in copper until they got what they need. They'll leave once they get the harder achievements but for the first week or two...a lot are gonna fail on purpose. ""In the multiplayer there are ladders which you are placed to after playing a few placement matches. This means you'll only play people around your skill level. Smurfing doesn't happen either since you can only have on account per copy of SC2 and I doubt people would buy another copy of the game just ot beat on newbies in the copper league. "that's why I don't play online...and miss half the game. "So expect to get destroyed on Battle.net at the end of July by all the people who have been playing the beta for months before then!
" 1 day before my b'day. I'll be away for a whole month though so it's bad timing. By the time I get back I probably won't be able to win a game. :( I bet it'll get the classic blizzard delay. I'm saying mid-late August. "
Nice, same for me, happy birthday to us! funny how things work out. Though i must say, these 12 years and the rise of the Warhammer RTS series has dulled my passion for SC2, i have no doubts whatsoever that it will be an excellent game by any standards and i will definitely play it. Looking forward to seeing what it turns out to be, especially the single-player campaign.
Anyway, nice to have a date, cheers to Blizzard and to all of us for our patience finally paying off! ;)
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