KolosLazar16
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w3stfa11 said:
After a certain amount of time, yes.
i think it's after 3 or 4 minutes or something
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StarCraft 2 Beta |OT| (Beta Now Reopen, GL HF)
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After a certain amount of time, yes.
i think it's after 3 or 4 minutes or something
ZombieSupaStar
Member
i just got an email saying im in was titled SC2BetaGB and mousing over the hyperlinks lead to eu.battle.net?
legit? Im in the us, with us accounts?
legit? Im in the us, with us accounts?
The Lamonster
Member
Anybody wanna play right now?
I am a total nub, but a fast learner. Maybe 2v2 with us versus AI or something?
Lamonster.zone if you have patience for a nub
I am a total nub, but a fast learner. Maybe 2v2 with us versus AI or something?
Lamonster.zone if you have patience for a nub
The Lamonster
Member
Anyone?!?!?The Lamonster said:
Proelite
Member
2 reapers versus command center end game.
Definition of being bombed back to the stone age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSLZZ5IYy0M
Definition of being bombed back to the stone age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSLZZ5IYy0M
Ice Monkey said:
Uhhh Maybe our names are reverse, maybe mine is
Demi.Demimatt ?
Try that
or demi.demi
anyone know how to find out?
I know setreals name is the one I added from the match making thread, and when I play with his name it is just setreal and mine is just demi, so that makes me think mine be diff. Ill check it out tonight.
Paper Tiger
Neo Member
Trasher said:Sure. I'll let you know when the Mac beta comes out and if I get in.
Wait, the initial round of betas hasn't included Macs?
Calavera520
Member
Trasher said:
What, where did you read that? It was said by whom?
It stands to reason that most Mac opt ins will get in because there are simply far fewer of us.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=19913418&postcount=2219Calavera520 said:
Paper Tiger
Neo Member
Trasher said:
So, so awesome. Thanks for the info.
Looking forward to some GAF "Starcraft-for-noobs" type games once more people get in. And, of course, assuming I get in. Fingers crossed.
GasProblem
Member
My WoW account is going to expire the 26th, already signed up for the beta, but does that effect my chances of getting in after the 26th? And WoW is my only registered Blizzard game.
autobzooty
Member
My sister signed up for the beta with a Mac, but I'm on a PC. If we wanted to share her beta account between the two of us, would I still be able to log on to the game on a PC version of the beta using her login information? Or viceversa if by some miracle I get into the beta?
vultureparade
Member
I'm guessing that you guys could probably share the account. The beta information is synced up to the battle.net account. I don't think it has anything to do with which client you download.
Calavera520
Member
Trasher said:
That is excellent news, missed that. thanks!
Ice Monkey
Member
PhoenixDark said:
yeah i wouldnt have dared that if it wasnt ffa im not pro enough to survive so early hatch rush.
autobzooty
Member
Planetary Defense seems so useful for terran expansions, especially in the early game. I'm not sure why more people aren't using it. Orbital Command is nice, but it aint worth nothing if it gets blown up!
Ice Monkey
Member
planetary fortress is amazingly good at holding down the fort though, I watched a replay with this guy KHB, his fortress singlehandedly took down wave after wave of lots and stalkers
autobzooty
Member
DemiMatt said:
Planetary defense is a pretty special case for static defense though. It can almost perfectly defend your SCVs if the enemy is trying to raid your economy, and it lets you expend less of your army for defense, leaving you in a more suitable position for a counter-attack. It's especially useful if your expansion is right outside your main base because it'll soften up an attacking force considerably, especially if you use Supply Depots as walls to force incoming armies to go near the planetary defense.
Plus that thing hits for like a million damage. Every time I see someone make that investment, I see a huge payoff for them in their defensive game.
Fragamemnon
Member
autobzooty said:
Planetary Defense early sounds terrible.
150 gas when you're trying to tech, no MULEs/comsat from Orbital Command, and it doesn't even shoot down air.
Maybe I can see it being useful in a third, more vulnerable base since you can call down MULEs from your near-depleted main to new expansion, but even then it's not going to put much of a dent in an endgame army, it will only stop things like harass.
I'd rather have another Orbital Command calling in MULEs for turrets/marines/bunkers at that point, and use the gas for something else.
edit: Though it does make for an awesome manner cc upgrade. :lol
Ice Monkey
Member
watch, this is basically what i and autobzooty mean in general http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbOZnDWQpwo
CajoleJuice
Member
I usually use Planetary defense in my first expansion, but I haven't even been taking advantage of the MULEs --mostly because they weren't in the original and I'm scared of new stuff. :lol
Fragamemnon
Member
ElJuice said:
go.go to play SC2 for hite sparkyz confirmed.
I mean, that's cute and all but there is three of them and it's not doing all that much damage for the tradeoff for 450minerals/gas and the loss of mule call-ins. You could make an obscene number of hellions or marines with those minerals that would absolutely throttle that number of hydra.
(that being said, it doesn't seem like a terrible upgrade if you are pushing 200/200 and swimming in minerals already)
Ice Monkey
Member
nevermind, didnt realize there was another forum hehe
Fragamemnon
Member
CajoleJuice said:
They ignore gatherer saturation and get 300 minerals per call in for free. Unless you REALLY need a scout/snap detection or you bungle a supply depot on your way to a timing attack, you should be macroing in MULEs as often as possible.
Ice Monkey
Member
Fragamemnon said:
argghh, you didnt pay attention enough, only one is there until there are about 3 hydras left!
Notice in particular the splash damage, it kills 3 hydras at once, showing off how much the splash really is.
with that in mind, look at what you said but instead say 150 mins/gas. Look at how many hydras were killed with the equivalent of 3 reapers
I know how useful the OC is, but the planetary fortress is extremely tough
CajoleJuice
Member
Somehow, I didn't even realize they were free. Shit. I'm all over this now. Thanks.Fragamemnon said:
Ice Monkey
Member
CajoleJuice said:
they are free, but you do have to buy the OC first, and its the same mana cost as an entire supply depot and a scanner sweep, the latter of which is INVALUABLE in many situations.
so basically for every 25 mana the CC regens at a normal, impossible to be modified rate, you get either a scanner sweep, 8 extra supply for any depot, or 300 minerals, assuming you have one of the crystals that is closest as possible to your CC.
So choosing the mule although please understand i see how valuable this is, extracts 300 minerals from the easily exhaustible crystals when the alternatives are a supply depot (ACTUALLY free 100 minerals, plus if used right, extra build time) or stored energy for scans to kill burrows and such and such.
Let me again mention I know mules are great, but there ARE tradeoffs.
additionally compare this to the queen, where her heal is relatively useless unless you're defending (queens stay at base) and yet still the larva may be more profitable, the creep tumors can spawn themselves after the first, and spawn larva is well, spawn larva.
it's much more simple for the queen is all im getting at. same with toss who just basically get chronoboost macro with every nexus nothing more.
CajoleJuice
Member
I didn't even notice the supply depot tech either. I'm still playing Starcraft 1. :lol
Ice Monkey
Member
Trasher said:
for the same mana cost as the mule or the scan sweep you can basically build a double decker supply depot. it comes out of the sky like a mule and upgrades the supply depot to double capacity.
Ice Monkey
Member
nilbog21 said:can someone explain to me how the warp gates work?
and also the larva queen shit? WTF
anything else i should kno about
its not that big a deal. you buy the warp gate upgrade from some tech building, then just morph the gateway into a warp gate.
In warp gate mode its like your gateway is now a summoner and you just click which unit you want and you can summon it within like 10 seconds to any place you have a pylon or a warp prism in pylon mode. then theres a cooldown, but overall even with the cooldown this is much faster than a gateway spawn and you can boost it even more with chrono boost.
The queen is a unit built from the hatchery that is produced rather than hatched from an egg, and you just click her spawn larva ability and target a hatch and it spawns 4 eggs that hatch into larva after 40 seconds. right after they hatch you can do it again on the same hatchery.
the queen also spawns a creep tumor that is like a super small creep colony that cant be upgraded. each creep tumor can spawn additional ones within a certain radius set on a cooldown, that doesnt cost either mana or minerals.
the queen also can heal any unit/building for 125 hp. costs 150 minerals and takes 2 supply.
what else do you want to know? reapers, thor, vikings, BCs, colossi, void rays, carriers, motherships, mutalisks, hydralisks, roaches, banelings and ultralisks all pwn, use those. everything else is like rock-paper-scissors fodder or specialist units IMO.
SafetyFirst
Member
Trasher said:
I had received an email with the CD key included. I had to redeem the key within my battle.net account before I could see the game listed there.