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[Door2Dawn]

Another F you to blizzard then.

 

[TheExodu5]

Anyone try out invisibility on units? My friend says it looks awful and his characters are all opaque.

Thing is, I've noticed that my Heroes of Newerth invisibility turns my character opaque as well now...I wonder if it's a driver issue.

edit: turns out he was exaggerating about the opaqueness. Definitely doesn't look that great though.

 

[Xabora]

Listening to the soundtrack now.

Turns out SC2Data and SC2Assets are just renamed MPQ files.
Another thing, no LUA this time around for the UI coding, its all done in SWF with linked CWF Sets.

 

[Hazaro]

nananana I can't hear you nananana

:[

 

[Mindlog]

:lol

Giantbomb needs to learn the merits of 1/2 hour tape delay.

 

[Lasthope106]

ಥ_ಥ

I'm so sad I didn't make it to the beta. Gamespy is reporting that those were "all" the invites that are going to be sent. Can anyone confirm this from other sites?

 

[Xabora]

ಥ_ಥ

I'm so sad I didn't make it to the beta. Gamespy is reporting that those were "all" the invites that are going to be sent. Can anyone confirm this from other sites?

Shacknews has blizzard quoted its going to be in waves.
Also Shacknews has the client up for download.

 

[DevelopmentArrested]

Giantbomb vs 1UP starting now!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/giant-bomb-live-test
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/1up-game-night

 

[traveler]

:lol at Thor's voice.

 

[Xabora]

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62411

 

[Lasthope106]

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62411

Yes! There is still hope!

 

[JonAmikar]

The menu suite it plays when you load up the beta for the first time is AMAZING.

 

[TheExodu5]

I have my next hour decided for me:

 

[Cday]

Yeah I'm getting nothing done tonight

 

[gillty]

brad finally won a game...

against 1up :lol :lol

 

[NeoUltima]

GiantBomb wins!

 

[Nardonicus]

holy shit...Brad won! :lol :lol That was awesome.



Where is my damn beta key Blizzard.

 

[Metalic Sand]

brad finally one a game...

against 1up :lol :lol

Lol he crushed 1up

 

[mcrae]

Giantbomb vs 1UP starting now!

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/giant-bomb-live-test
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/1up-game-night

thanks for posting that man! i checked em both out at the same time, listening to giant bomb's audio, funny guys. cant wait to play...

 

[Milabrega]

I know you guys got a thing for 1up/gb but this is the much better stream: http://www.justin.tv/iccup#r=ude10Lc~

 

[jett]

Anyone try out invisibility on units? My friend says it looks awful and his characters are all opaque.

Thing is, I've noticed that my Heroes of Newerth invisibility turns my character opaque as well now...I wonder if it's a driver issue.

edit: turns out he was exaggerating about the opaqueness. Definitely doesn't look that great though.

Are those "ultra" textures?

 

[newelly87]

lol @ 1up losing to Brad... dude is terrible.

 

[NeoUltima]

I know you guys got a thing for 1up/gb but this is the much better stream: http://www.justin.tv/iccup#r=ude10Lc~

But does it have this?

 

[TurtleSnatcher]

So who on GAF has a key?

Cause I wanna play you

 

[Neverwinter27]

Its Round 2 Brad Vs Nelson!!!

 

[BlueScrote]

Yeah I'm getting nothing done tonight

Same here. Its gonna kill my attempt to reduce my backlog as well.

So who on GAF has a key?

Cause I wanna play you

My "identifier" is BlueScrote.blue if you want to add me

 

[btkadams]

i hope the mac beta isn't too far off.

 

[NeoUltima]

:lol

 

[Tremis]

is there no one at 1up that knows starcraft? lol! seriously, take away their beta key and give it to me.

 

[Trasher]

i hope the mac beta isn't too far off.

Wait so they haven't given out any beta keys to Mac people yet?

 

[GhostRidah]

tech trees

 

[Scrow]

is there no one at 1up that knows starcraft? lol! seriously, take away their beta key and give it to me.

why do you have to be good at starcraft as a requirement to participate in the beta?

if anything it's completely in line with blizzard's strategy to bring in more casual gamers to the starcraft universe.

 

[vultureparade]

Wait so they haven't given out any beta keys to Mac people yet?

Blizzard isn't releasing the Starcraft 2 beta for mac, at least not now. There's always a chance that Mac users could be included in future waves.

 

[a176]

Has nobody at 1up ever played an RTS?

 

[manofmandango]

Blizzard isn't releasing the Starcraft 2 beta for mac, at least not now. There's always a chance that Mac users could be included in future waves.

 

[bounchfx]

Has nobody at 1up ever played an RTS?

It was extremely bothersome at one point how nowhere there even wanted to play.

 

[Tworak]

Has nobody at 1up ever played an RTS?

they might have played halo wars I suppose

 

[Pai Pai Master]

Oh snap I'm in!

 

[nilbog21]

Ok what can i do to get in this beta?

 

[Johann]

tech trees

Let's see changes from the earlier versions:

Protoss:
- Immortal moved from Twilight Council to Robo Facility
- Obelisk has gone the way of the dodo. It's been replaced by more functionality to the Nexus. Old news by now.

Terran:
- Reaper moved to Barracks. Mercenary Compound removed.

Zerg:
- Lurker Den gone.
- Hydralisk Den moved to Lair tech.

 

[Corran Horn]

is there no one at 1up that knows starcraft? lol! seriously, take away their beta key and give it to me.

All fired/quit Im guessing :lol

Watching other streams now, god I want this.

Think ima bootup starcraft1 on laptop and play while watching

 

[JWong]

Still waiting.

 

[Campster]

I made a game to fight against the AI just to test out some of the Terran changes, but the only AI setting was "Very Easy." On a map designed for six people it didn't even expand beyond a single base and had gotten a few Hydrolisks up when I was invading with Battlecruisers and Thor.

Thor is awesome, by the way. The only thing that annoys me is his Arnold Schwarzenegger voice and the fact that the lighting inside the thing makes it look like he's at a rave. But the ability to stun and deal hundreds of points of damage using their special ability makes them my favorite new unit by far.

The also have a buttload more quotes implemented when you keep clicking on your units (at least for the standard Marine, who was the only one I tried it with).

Ultimately it looks like it's changed a lot more about the game than I was expecting - I had it in my head that they didn't want to do much but add a new super unit or two, but lots of stuff about the Terran tech tree seems different. Missile turrets no longer act as detectors (there's a separate unit for that), flame troops and Vulcans are merged into one unit, and you can use your communications upgrade at your command center to add a one-time permanent bonus of 8 supply to a supply depot. It's neat stuff, and I'm going to have to look into how the other races have changed.

 

[JSnake]

How do you play against bots?

 

[Campster]

How do you play against bots?

Create a game, chose a map, double-click on the map you like, then when you're waiting for another player to join you click the AI button. As I said before, the only option I had available was "Very Easy" and it was dumb as a sack of bricks, so you might want to choose a really small map. That six big-ish map I was on was just boring after a point.

 

[spoon!]

There must be something wrong with the tubing going to my inbox, because I do not have my invite yet.

 

[maniac-kun]

i like the lighting of the terran buildings

 

[Pandaman]

oh wow, i just saw the installer up on a private torrent tracker. :\ wonder how many groups are trying to lay claim on a fake battle.net solution.

 

[Artanisix]

Someone PLEAAASE rip the music!

 

[maniac-kun]

http://www.justin.tv/iccup#r=a84P66I~
playing against david kim