New replay watching is awesome!

The host controls the speed.

Two players can take over playing while the other observers continue observing.

After choosing players, an awesome 3 second countdown animation appears in the center of the screen.

Rewind, fast forward, all available to host.

The replay lobby is like a custom game lobby. The list held at least 16 people.

phodacbiet

United States1740 Posts

January 25 2013 07:29 GMT

#225

The collector's edition ultras look so siiick!

iNbluE

Switzerland674 Posts

January 25 2013 07:37 GMT

#226

On January 24 2013 14:15 SOWxDISCORD wrote:
They let you know about maintance 10 minutes before dropping you, thanks for such efficiency and regard for your customers Blizzard.

It's beta, be happy to be able to play it you unthankful brat :/

Toads

Canada1795 Posts

January 25 2013 07:39 GMT

#227

On January 25 2013 16:29 phodacbiet wrote:
The collector's edition ultras look so siiick!

Have you find a way to unlock the other skin ?

Ordok

Sweden26 Posts

January 25 2013 07:40 GMT

#228

No balance changes?

i.of.the.storm

United States795 Posts

January 25 2013 07:40 GMT

#229

Hmm this isn't like previous patches where you didn't need to download the whole patch for the game to be playable

guess I'm not playing tonight.

Edit: Holy crap nvm! Just as I said that my play button lit up. I guess the "yellow" part of the loading bar was just not specified properly but seems like you can start playing when around 7.8GB is left still. I actually kind of wonder if all the single player assets are in the beta because if the game is truly playable with that much data undownloaded and the only thing you download when you join a game is maps, I really have no idea what all that data is for.

papaz

Sweden4149 Posts

January 25 2013 07:41 GMT

#230

Oh cool. Really nice feature to be able to play from replay.

ETisME

12345 Posts

January 25 2013 07:51 GMT

#231

On January 25 2013 15:35 Azera wrote:
LOL Anybody noticed the APM miscalculations? I just played a game and the performance review said I had 13k APM and my opponent had 9k LOOOL

I think they are APM score, not actual APM

frostdr

Germany42 Posts

January 25 2013 07:58 GMT

#232

hmm cant login. sys wrong client version after i downloaded the big patch?

grockey

United States51 Posts

January 25 2013 08:00 GMT

#233

This is weird... I have never had trouble with lag while playing SC2... WOL or HOTS Beta... until now. Maybe I'll redownload to see if that will fix it. But I have never experienced this before and was wondering if I was the only one.

dumplings

Germany298 Posts

January 25 2013 08:13 GMT

#234

On January 25 2013 16:58 frostdr wrote:
hmm cant login. sys wrong client version after i downloaded the big patch?

I have that too. German Client. Everytime I start the launcher it shows for 1 second that the launcher does an upgrade. Even after the tenth start. So it seems to be a bug. I try to reinstall now.

phodacbiet

United States1740 Posts

January 25 2013 08:19 GMT

#235

For the people with the "Wrong client" just ignore it and you can log in normally i believe.

AKnopf

Germany259 Posts

January 25 2013 08:28 GMT

#236

What a cool feature this will be. Its been a long time since the idea was first on the table (I believe WoL Beta) and now its finally there. I'm really looking forward to this.
It will be so easy for people to train say 2gate vs 2rax bunker pressure. Just download the reference replay from your favorite sc2 site (spoiler: It's TL!) fast forward and hit the play button. Safes so much time when you do it 5 or more times in a row until you find the perfect bunker placement.

Lysergic

United States355 Posts

January 25 2013 08:38 GMT

#237

On January 25 2013 17:28 AKnopf wrote:
What a cool feature this will be. Its been a long time since the idea was first on the table (I believe WoL Beta) and now its finally there. I'm really looking forward to this.
It will be so easy for people to train say 2gate vs 2rax bunker pressure. Just download the reference replay from your favorite sc2 site (spoiler: It's TL!) fast forward and hit the play button. Safes so much time when you do it 5 or more times in a row until you find the perfect bunker placement.

Or say start a Parting vs Zerg replay at 8:50, right when he pushes out with 3 immortal, 7 sentry, 1 stalker (wprism+obs queued, 7 warpgates ready soon). Will let you practice the actual micro involved, and the zerg you're playing against will have had perfect injects / timings of everything too, so you're playing in realistic ideal situation. Helpful for either player, as a learning tool or improved method of practice.

Creager

Germany1889 Posts

January 25 2013 09:10 GMT

#238

Wow, that game got better and better in a quite short amount of time, half a year ago I didn't even want to buy hots at all and now I just want to take a week off and hammer out beta games.

Killmouse

Austria5700 Posts

January 25 2013 09:17 GMT

#239

is the beta up now?

i got an error that the version of my client is old(mismatch) and i cant login with it

@i get the same error on my regular(EU) sc2 client

and i think its cauz of simon relocalizer and global play T.T

any 1 can help me?

@2 KR server seems to work lol...

shindigs

United States4795 Posts

January 25 2013 09:17 GMT

#240

Ok so it seems you need a minimum of two real players to Take Control from replays otherwise the replay will end in a victory as the other player "leaves".

Is there any way to have an AI play out the remaining actions of the unused slot? Otherwise this would be a slight disappointment.