Bashiok — Phase two not starting until July?

[TheRabidDeer]

I dont think a mid july relaunch would give enough time to iron out bugs that may be introduced in the next patch or fix any hardware/network issues that occur. Remember, they need to actually put the game on disc and ship them to retailers as well and I dont think they want to ship a game that has some major flaw and force a day 1 patch to fix it.

[hyde]

They have to install a metric f**k ton of new hardware and probably do some minor recoding. Also, I expect them to implement (even if minor tweaks) an updated UI, and balancing changes. The beta will come back online to stress test their new hardware and iron out any last minute bugs that may effect Bnet prior to launch.

Hopefully we won't have any profile resets after launch. lol

But yeah, July for sure IMO. And not just early July, I am expecting a mid July relaunch.

Yes and no to the hardware. AT&T handles that. But I'm sure because of the scale of how many servers and the software required to install, they need to give AT&T a lot of notice/time.

After the beta ended, I would imagine they went ASAP on work for a Gold processing Candidate that was stable/good to be shipped off so they can print off the CD's. After that, more polishing and getting whatever the heck they want into phase 2?

They said a day 1 patch on retail release date is almost 100% guaranteed.
I guess there is a lot of unfinished business behind the scenes. Otherwise Phase 2 would be up if it was simple as hardware changes on the "To Do list"

[Mandilorordo]

I was thinking that they'd begin the second phase in June sometime . . .

. . . but I guess I'm all alone in that thought.

._.

I also thought it would be back around the last week of June, ah well.

[KillaKhan]

Aren't they redoing sounds as well? PLS PLS PLS

[n00bonicPlague]

I know they've got new sounds for the Bnet2 interface, but I'm not sure about new sounds for SC2 itself. Most likely not, but there's no proof that there won't be new stuff. Could very well be new stuff. Just don't expect it.

[JohnUcrazy]

Ever since Patch 14 (or 15), I totally forgot how Bnet use to sound like. Personall, I can care less about new sounds. It would be nice if they can change a few things with the voices of the units. Alot of complaints about hearing the Zealot yell "we can not hold", when one zergling would attack it (LOL?). However, I would love to see new animations or some polished graphics.

I just hope the beta re-launch will be bug free. The blacked out minimap was just so strange....

[TheRabidDeer]

Ever since Patch 14 (or 15), I totally forgot how Bnet use to sound like. Personall, I can care less about new sounds. It would be nice if they can change a few things with the voices of the units. Alot of complaints about hearing the Zealot yell "we can not hold", when one zergling would attack it (LOL?). However, I would love to see new animations or some polished graphics.

I just hope the beta re-launch will be bug free. The blacked out minimap was just so strange....

I hope they finally fix replay hotkeys

[n00bonicPlague]

Yeah, some of those "we are under attack" sounds made the units seem pretty whimpy.

A Stalker will be like, "Fall back to the shadows!" and I'll be like, "Dude — you outnumber them 10 to 1!! WTF?!?!?!"

[TheEconomist]

This topic has "many" useless replies and less than a "couple" posts of interesting information.

Without the anticipation we had before the beta, the mystery before we played the game, or the discussion while the beta ran, what are we going to talk about?

Back "on-topic": A few is defined by freedictionary.com as "more than one; an indefinably small number" while couple is defined by "A few; several". Given this, I'd say it whatever you want to be and that's why it's so regional.

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[Triceron]

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