EPTLotV closed beta announced to start on March 31 - Page 43
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Thanks to Reddit sleuths, everyone can try the LotV test maps by following instructions here. Note: This is not a beta key, it is simply access to Vs. AI and a Unit Tester. I have no idea how cool with this Blizzard is or is not, use at your own risk. | ||
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Shield
Bulgaria4824 Posts
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ETisME
12501 Posts
On March 25 2015 07:18 darkness wrote: While everyone is excited with news units, can we also ask Blizzard to improve performance for those who have more than 2 cores CPU? There were some reddit threads in sc2 and heroes of the storm about this but no response from blizzard as expected | ||
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gh0st
United States98 Posts
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[PkF] Wire
France24234 Posts
On March 25 2015 14:07 gh0st wrote: Do the first rounders know whether they'll get a beta key yet? If so, can we start a thread (or add it to the OP of this one) who is planning to stream on Tuesday? It would build more excitement, for me anyway. Doubt I'm alone. I'd be really curious to know too. | ||
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Detri
United Kingdom683 Posts
On March 25 2015 11:15 ETisME wrote: There were some reddit threads in sc2 and heroes of the storm about this but no response from blizzard as expected "Yeah blizzard spend 500000 hours reprogramming a game engine 'cause I get frame drops in 4v4!" Get a SSD or an upgraded GPU/CPU - this really isn't a reasonable request to make of any company. Sorry but it's true! :-( | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11135 Posts
On March 25 2015 03:58 Tenks wrote: I thought it was (5+5)x2 at Blizzcon but don't quote me on it This is the case, at least in the LotV alpha mod. This should slightly nerf their effectiveness against anything with armor. | ||
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purakushi
United States3300 Posts
Accounts have yet to be flagged for LotV beta. Will receive email when it happens. | ||
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Shield
Bulgaria4824 Posts
On March 26 2015 01:57 Detri wrote: "Yeah blizzard spend 500000 hours reprogramming a game engine 'cause I get frame drops in 4v4!" Get a SSD or an upgraded GPU/CPU - this really isn't a reasonable request to make of any company. Sorry but it's true! :-( I have i7-5820K (6 cores CPU, overclocked to 4.0 GHz) and NVIDIA GTX 980 (latest). I run sc2 fine but when armies in 4vs4 become huge, imagine what fps is. Not more than 50-60 in the best case. So sc2 is definitely not optimised well. Let's ask for optimisation and stop defending Blizzard. Edit: If anyone has missed the point, sc2 only supports 2 cores CPUs. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, for example, goes as far as to recommend a quad core processor. If we're given a new expansion and is on sale, we should ask for multi cores optimisation. Who keeps buying 2 cores CPUs anyway? Ok, maybe laptops. Edit2: And if LotV has more PC requirements just like from WoL to HotS transition, then it makes even more sense to optimise game. | ||
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404AlphaSquad
839 Posts
On March 23 2015 13:24 brickrd wrote: there's no such thing as "nerfs" in testing, lol, it's just called testing. if some things weren't broken in the beta i would be utterly disappointed that blizzard isn't trying enough radical ideas for things to be breaking. nothing in this community annoys me more than people who have never developed a game talking about how the dev process should go - specifically this magical world where there are concepts which will work out of the box and fix/improve everything, and how the developers just need to listen to joe blow on a forum but they're too busy bathing in esports dollars They should listen to good players though, which they dont too. | ||
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royalroadweed
United States8301 Posts
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
On March 26 2015 03:28 purakushi wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/3070px/what_if_for_april_fools_blizzard_gave_us_fake/cpqgiv9?context=3 Accounts have yet to be flagged for LotV beta. Will receive email when it happens. Hah, I was right. Two main factors are involved in determining beta invites: 1: System specs. 2: SC2 activity. | ||
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ETisME
12501 Posts
On March 26 2015 03:43 404AlphaSquad wrote: They should listen to good players though, which they dont too. good players do not necessarily make for good game designer. also wow, it's just 5 more days | ||
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
Good luck with the draw! I've never been lucky with Blizz RTS expansion betas. Didn't get it for TFT and didn't get it for HotS. Hopefully third time is the charm. | ||
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ETisME
12501 Posts
On March 26 2015 02:04 eviltomahawk wrote: This is the case, at least in the LotV alpha mod. This should slightly nerf their effectiveness against anything with armor. at around 1:08, you can see the marauders shooting with both hands, is that the shooting twice change? | ||
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SC2Toastie
Netherlands5725 Posts
On March 26 2015 02:04 eviltomahawk wrote: This is the case, at least in the LotV alpha mod. This should slightly nerf their effectiveness against anything with armor. Slight? That's a major nerf, from 23 damage at 3 atk vs 3 armor to 20. It gets worse for units with base armor, from 22 to 18. In the case of CP Ultralisk, from 20 to 14. That is a major nerf. | ||
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SC2Toastie
Netherlands5725 Posts
On March 26 2015 23:09 ETisME wrote: at around 1:08, you can see the marauders shooting with both hands, is that the shooting twice change? They changed the attack from doing 1x10(+10 Armored) to 2x5(+5 Armored), so sort of like Zealots, for example. | ||
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Tenks
United States3104 Posts
On March 26 2015 03:28 purakushi wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/3070px/what_if_for_april_fools_blizzard_gave_us_fake/cpqgiv9?context=3 Accounts have yet to be flagged for LotV beta. Will receive email when it happens. Knowing how slow these emails are you'll probably be notified by the game showing up in your BNet launcher. I don't even remember getting an email for Heroes but I was in the first wave of alpha invites. | ||
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brickrd
United States4894 Posts
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The_Templar
your Country52797 Posts
On March 28 2015 02:11 brickrd wrote: not sure where to post this, but - if i understand the scan range change correctly, won't it mean that units patrolling or idling to defend drops and runbys will be more effective with less multitasking? i.e. less chance to "slip past" units that aren't being watched? Slightly more effective, I think. Probably won't be as notable as, say, stalkers vs mines. | ||
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Uni1987
Netherlands642 Posts
On March 26 2015 22:14 c0ldfusion wrote: Hah, I was right. Two main factors are involved in determining beta invites: 1: System specs. 2: SC2 activity. System specs aren't registered anymore at account/beta settings. So I guess they stopped checking that.. | ||
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