What Beta will be like.

[Caliban113]

My faith needs to be restored... oh great spinning turret guy... Please tell me when the public Beta comes out...

Been asking all day......he just sits there and spins...


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[RedPineApple]

willing to bet that latency for the first week will be unplayable.

[rcp181]

willing to bet that latency for the first week will be unplayable.

Hehe, that's just how it works for MMOs :P I think SC2 should be fine in that respect, and I'm sure Blizzard is working hard to avoid any hiccups that could generate a lot of bad press.

[RedPineApple]

Hehe, that's just how it works for MMOs :P I think SC2 should be fine in that respect, and I'm sure Blizzard is working hard to avoid any hiccups that could generate a lot of bad press.

Depends on how the game is hosted. When Diablo 2 launched with everything being completely hosted on the Bnet servers, it was a total disaster for weeks. Obviously tech has changed since 2000 as well as the cash Blizz is pulling in annually, so, I hope things run smooth.

But as far as how I am going to roll...

I just cant wait to cliff step someones mineral lines with 91827391273 colossi!

[SaharaDrac]

Bolasdamas is wrong about one thing: The first Pimpest Plays candidate will be on beta day one, courtesy of yours truly.

[Norfindel]

willing to bet that latency for the first week will be unplayable.

After the BN 2.0 delay, and all the wonders they talked about latency when it was the no-LAN announcement, it better has good latency, or they better get ready for some heated complains.

[Nicol Bolas]

When Diablo 2 launched with everything being completely hosted on the Bnet servers, it was a total disaster for weeks.

Starcraft is a peer-to-peer multiplayer game. All Battle.Net does is record statistics (win/loss) and do match-making.

[Crazy_Jonny]

A few things I think might happen during beta.

- Marauders get nerfed
- The Medevac should either increase in cost, or require heal to be researched (possibly in an earlier building), or heal gets nerfed.
- Macro Mechanics get downgraded somewhat.
- Immortal and disruptor get either changed stat/cost wise or get moved.

[Alex06]

Perhaps the Raven and Ghost might get some ability modifications, and the Corruptor, Infestor, Overseer and Queen might get such changes, too.

I'm guessing the Colossus, Immortal, Marauder, Thor, Roach and Hydralisk might see some movement in the tech trees or cost-wise/buildtime-wise changes.

Perhaps we might also see the return of the Cobra, in its campaign form: The Diamondback, as an early T2 ATA Factory unit.

[TwoTimer]

"People complain"

That still exists in Brood War 10 years+ later.