SC2 beta is here!

[thisruoy]

WOWWARS, in North Korea they don't even know what the computer is.

So their are aiming their imaginary nukes with imaginary computers towards your house?

 

[Vengeancekael]

i just made a battle.net 2.0 account.....wth i had to enter everything!!!! Thank god they didn't ask for my hobbies

 

[Ham Ham]

Fucking great. I waited 4 years for starcraft 2 be released, just to notice that my Nvidia MX4000 doesn't supports tit. My life lost its mean, and I think I'm gonna suicide.

Fuck, better I find a job before they release the full version.

 

[HaPpY sAdIsT]

I got to play a beta for three games. A few things, Zerg rushes are extremely op early game and can easily overwhelm most defences. Protoss are really fun to play and due to the huge unit cap they really don't have the same problem with number of units as they used to.

Terran seem to die before they can get any good tech.

In terms of graphics, I noticed that terrain and doodads are slightly visible when under water, which is interesting when seeing structures which reach out of the water. It appears that the individual tiles come with 3D grass animations, but it might be cleverly placed doodads, Im not sure.

But it is an awesome game.

 

[Cihparg]

IF you want the SC2 beta, I believe you have to make sure the option "News and Special Offers from Blizzard Entertainment" is checked in "Communication Preferences". Find that in Battle.net!

Offtopic: You need an Battle.net account for this.
Offtopic 2: It's an 0.0000000000000000000001 change that you will ever get an beta, since it IS an closed beta, it is NOT an open beta.

 

[Hero_Lief]

Or you could torrent it. Probably not the best idea though, and I'm not discussing it.

 

[Leubast]

I got into the SCII Beta! Fuck yes! I got slow internet tho, It will take a while to download. Once I play a bit of it I will tell the Hive how I LOVE it.

 

[Hero_Lief]

Fucking great. I waited 4 years for starcraft 2 be released, just to notice that my Nvidia MX4000 doesn't supports tit. My life lost its mean, and I think I'm gonna suicide.

Fuck, better I find a job before they release the full version.

I found a $45 9400GT 1GB on NewEgg. It runs StarCraft II fine (Except when there's a huuuge fight going on... But let's not get into that).

 

[PsYcoTiCluNaTiC]

I got in the beta via email.

I have 4 friends who tried with me, and I'm the only one.

 

[Hero_Lief]

Fucking great. I waited 4 years for starcraft 2 be released, just to notice that my Nvidia MX4000 doesn't supports tit. My life lost its mean, and I think I'm gonna suicide.

Fuck, better I find a job before they release the full version.

Untrue.

My brother has a 6150LE. I had the same.
To play DoW2, which needs a 6600GT, I upgraded to a 9400GT.
It didn't run TOO well, but it ran.
StarCraft II comes out and WANTS a 6600GT.
I run it just fine.
My brother does as well. He still has a 6150LE.
It seems it doesn't NEED it, but it wants it.
Do note my brother can't run it all too well, but also remember that you have a 4400, meaning that a 5400, 6400, 7400, 8400, and 9400 are all basically the same, with very slight improvements. Just rebranded.
I'm guessing you'll be able to run it okay-ish, but you might want to consider getting like, a 9400GT. I got a Sparkle 1GB 9400GT for around $45, so it's not exactly all too expensive.
THE GAME(!!!!) will be more expensive than the new card.

 

[Andreja]

I'm in the Beta.

 

[Eldrazor]

Me too! Playing with crappy radeon X1050 right now, so SC2 barely runs, simply because SC2 decided to kill my old 8800GTX...
New video card is on the way, tho!

 

[Tleno]

By the way people, I have a little bit of question:
If anybody knows of you if the game already is with latest patch on it installed or you have to completely patch it from 1 to 12?
Because just now I realised I have no editor and my Patch 12 keeps looping because patcher might think I already have all previous patches.

 

[Cihparg]

You have to download the patch from 1 to 12..
Like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12.

 

[Tleno]

Oh damn... and will I have to do it manually with Bllizard Patcher in support folder or just put those files into the updates folder?

 

[Cihparg]

It moves important files to where they belong. (If you just launch starcraft II)

PS: The patcher shows only the latest patch, not the one you are patching to. (This seems to be confusing people, making them believe the patcher is looping a patch, which it is not doing)

 

[Tleno]

No, it keeps looping the same 12.1 all the time, altrough other patches are already manually patched...

 

[RiotZ]

I'm interested in getting the Sc2 Beta for one reason... To see if it will run on my computer. Although my comp is uber fast Sc2 looks a bit overwhelming.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The beta is now offically over.

This thread has been moved to beta discussuion for archiving and has been closed.