Responsibilities of Beta Testers

[SaharaDrac]

I've been in every Blizzard beta. They keep inviting me back...I must be doing something right. I have thrown my "beta hat" in with SCLegacy, and I intend to share all my screenshots, thoughts, videos, and commentaries with this site's community. (By the way, is there a thread for people like me to organize this stuff??) As long as bitter, angry children like DemolitionSquid are kept to a minimum, that is.

[DemolitionSquid]

I've been in every Blizzard beta. They keep inviting me back...I must be doing something right. I have thrown my "beta hat" in with SCLegacy, and I intend to share all my screenshots, thoughts, videos, and commentaries with this site's community. (By the way, is there a thread for people like me to organize this stuff??) As long as bitter, angry children like DemolitionSquid are kept to a minimum, that is.

Hey, good for you getting into every beta.

Too bad it hasn't made you any better at gauging what is and is not a good mechanic.

[SaharaDrac]

Hey, good for you getting into every beta.

Too bad it hasn't made you any better at gauging what is and is not a good mechanic.

Your supreme intelligence clearly shines through when you continuously argue the validity of game mechanics based on your postulations derived from watching one pre-beta battle report of an old, outdated alpha build. I hate to break it to you big guy, but you might just NOT be the smartest poster on these forums anymore.

[DemolitionSquid]

Your supreme intelligence clearly shines through when you continuously argue the validity of game mechanics based on your postulations derived from watching one pre-beta battle report of an old, outdated alpha build. I hate to break it to you big guy, but you might just NOT be the smartest poster on these forums anymore.

My basis for believing Proton Charge is an atrocious mechanic is based on quantifiable data (that does not require videos) and inferences based on my understanding of mass effect syndrome and how professional starcraft works. As far as I can recall I have never used anything shown in a video as an argument against Proton Charge aside from stating the obvious that in BR3 Lee lost many Queens trying to use them to attack and Obelisks are more specialized and easier to use. Get your facts straight or provide concrete evidence if you wish to discredit me.

[Warsaw]

Your supreme intelligence clearly shines through when you continuously argue the validity of game mechanics based on your postulations derived from watching one pre-beta battle report of an old, outdated alpha build. I hate to break it to you big guy, but you might just NOT be the smartest poster on these forums anymore.

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Dont let him get to you. Hes just a squid.

Also it is a good reminded to make sure beta testers are actually testing but as long as they have an easy way of reporting bugs its fine. I'm not sure how they have it in SC2 but if they had a place inside SC2 beta program after you played a match you just click "submit a bug" im sure a lot more people would do it then if they had to sign up on forums to do it. but im not sure how sc2 beta has it.

[Nottoway]

Wow, some people in this thread are angry they didn't get beta keys. Jeez...lol

EDIT: On WC3 servers, Blizzard was easily able to derive numerous statistical facts (Hero usage, unit production, map rotation, etc) as well as the most major one... Race by Race win %. They have been doing it for a long time in WC3 and I'm 100% sure that they will use it in SC2 to determine where the imbalances lie between race v race match-ups. As Nicol said, there will be little opinionated suggestions, more than most gameplay changes will be from Blizzard's own acknowledgment and analyzation of raw data retrieved from Bnet.

[SlickR]

I agree. Everyone with a beta key should make at least a small contribution.

[Zalamander]

I will, hmmmm record some movies for sure and put up on my fast site high res streaming and even higher res downloadable. :O

Too bad I prolly not have host space for too much so will have to switch to newever movies over days.

[Nottoway]

I will, hmmmm record some movies for sure and put up on my fast site high res streaming and even higher res downloadable. :O

Too bad I prolly not have host space for too much so will have to switch to newever movies over days.

Filefront is another good video hosting website. Their download speed is incredible, I usually max out at around 600-700 kbps. I can download Halo 3 montages in the 200 mb range in a matter of minutes

http://www.filefront.com/

[Zalamander]

I know, I know hosted a few movies there the upload speed is horrible to that site tho.