Starcraft II Second Beta Phase – Patch 16 (v0.19.0.15976)

[MGCǂSpectre]

I still cant access bnet, you sure EU is up?

 

[Billy the Cat]

I still cant access bnet, you sure EU is up?

Used to be, but it seems that there are still a few problems.

Looks like I need to be logged in to use the Test map functionality for the editor.

 

[Zarakk]

Oh look, Dustin Browder is there, screenshot 1, row 6, pic 2

D

 

[Doctor-Pepper]

US has played 3 full days while we are still rolling our fingers... Not only they delay it for the 1/3 of the seconds beta phase, they cant even manage to keep the servers online

 

[Rui]

Interesting news. According to a player who posted in the Battle.Net forums, the same intense lag and problems logging in are affecting the World of Warcraft Europe servers. Can anyone confirm this?

 

[Tleno]

Interesting news. According to a player who posted in the Battle.Net forums, the same intense lag and problems logging in are affecting the World of Warcraft Europe servers. Can anyone confirm this?

Well don't know if there's any connection, but I actually noticed that after the SC2 beta started, Warcraft 3 Northrend server's quality decreased too...

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Right now bnet is working, finally.

 

[Statharas]

Interesting news. According to a player who posted in the Battle.Net forums, the same intense lag and problems logging in are affecting the World of Warcraft Europe servers. Can anyone confirm this?

Quite normal. See, the login database is shared. Battle.net accounts might not be able to connect while connected on another game. (Like, being online in wow, and trying to login in Sc2)

 

[Grey Nightmare]

I just thought, I know in this day and age it's extremely unlikely but if there was someone who bought sc2 and didn't have access to an internet connection, would they be unable to use the editor?

Or would it have something built it to only check for authorisation if they've used/logged into BNet 2.0?

 

[Dr Super Good]

You just need to activate the editor once.

 

[mrzwach]

If someone had absolutely no way to connect to the internet ever, why would they want to make maps?

Anyways, they could say, walk into an internet cafe and activate it, then walk out. Or steal internet from a neighbor or something for a couple minutes, I dunno.

 

[PurplePoot]

If someone had absolutely no way to connect to the internet ever, why would they want to make maps?

But, hypothetically, for our totally relevant example, let's just say they can't and they want to.

 

[Dr Super Good]

They could then use a third party editor or they could use other... ways...

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

If someone had absolutely no way to connect to the internet ever, why would they want to make maps?

To make offline/single player maps? You know, sometimes playing single player is also cool.

 

[Pyritie]

To make offline/single player maps? You know, sometimes playing single player is also cool.

But if they have no internet, how could they upload/download maps?

 

[Doctor-Pepper]

I believe in russia they had tons of wc3 maps in the gaming magazines, even my map made it there once

 

[Mechanical Man]

If someone had absolutely no way to connect to the internet ever, why would they want to make maps?

Anyways, they could say, walk into an internet cafe and activate it, then walk out. Or steal internet from a neighbor or something for a couple minutes, I dunno.

I did it in wc2 and sc1 times. Also in early wc3 times (before I got 56k internet). Why? Wanted to make campaigns and test maps to share with friends.

 

[Tleno]

I did it in wc2 and sc1 times. Also in early wc3 times (before I got 56k internet). Why? Wanted to make campaigns and test maps to share with friends.

Indeed. Some people may be mapping for their own enjoyment. Like before I dsicovered about The Hive I was making maps for myself all the time.

 

[Rui]

I thought the activation thing was a Beta measure...?

 

[busterkomo]

It would have seemed more likely that the authenticator would make it into the final release than the beta.

 

[mrzwach]

I did it in wc2 and sc1 times. Also in early wc3 times (before I got 56k internet). Why? Wanted to make campaigns and test maps to share with friends.

Could argue that in WC2 and SC1 times the internet was not available to everyone, but meh.

In any case, if someone was sharing maps with friends, would suggest their computer was portable enough to bring over to a friends house for LAN (since they have no way to access email or the internet in any way whatsoever ever), so they could just as well bring their computer over to the nearest WiFi hotspot. But whatever.

edit: also since there is no LAN you can't share maps with friends anyways, so I guess you could argue that some person with no internet wanted to make maps for personal entertainment, but I mean, I really don't think there are that many people like that out there anyways...

 

[Grey Nightmare]

It just occured to me because just a year or two back we had problem's at my dads with the phoneline, it meant no internet or house phone for a year or so D=

They could have fixed it sooner, but I guess they didn't want to - so I was assuming some people are the same and don't care about the internet that much - BUT I still played and made single player wc3 maps during those many months, this was before I even considered signing up for BNet.

 

[HINDYhat]

The game just updated to 0.20.0.16036. Patch notes aren't up yet, though.

 

[mrzwach]

Yeah. I can connect to Bnet, but its a bit buggy, can't play games or anything.

 

[DarkFrog]

In the portraits, is row 10, frouth one over.. A Protess\Zerg? Seeing the pysionic energy.

Infested Terran is lolwut. At first it was good, then they made it suck, and now they are buffing it so that it is even better than before they originally nerfed it?

On a side note, the way Terran units load/unload from Medivacs now is pretty awesome.


Also, they added a bunch of new animations for some units. For example, Ghosts have a "spell" animation which is basically the ghost attacking with a lightsaber or some shit. I'm pretty sure marines got a new animation, but I don't have the editor open for me to check.

Another note: screenshots have a different naming format. Pretty sure its timestamped or something now.

I could have sworn I read ghosts would have a zealot-like blade.. I think it could have been in Sc: Ghost

 

[Deolrin]

Yes, there are Hybrid Destroyers and Hybrid Reavers I think. They're already in the game as portraits for a big amount of Random\Protoss wins.