On July 03 2010 01:19 shin ken wrote:
Am I the only one who things of SS runes everytime I see the psionic storm upgrade icon?
When undeads were the nazis of WC3, protoss are the ones of SC2!

What?
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Beta will be up again 15 days before official launching date IMO. The reason is it will be like a 15 day free trial, just like WoW.

zionteck

Belgium9 Posts

July 02 2010 16:27 GMT

#23

the message in starcraft 2 main stating the end of phase 1 has dissapeared on my client
could this be a hint ? =D

nalho

United States351 Posts

July 02 2010 16:34 GMT

#24

I read a lot of comments on a korean sc cafe (forum-ish) that sc2 beta phase 2 will be out july 5th =o

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

July 02 2010 16:39 GMT

#25

Interesting to note

Zerg
.5 supply units: Zergling, Baneling
2 supply units: Queen, hydra, roach, infestor, muta, corrupter
4 supply: Broodlord
6 supply: ultra

Protoss:
2 supply: Zealot, Sentry, phoenix, high templar, dark templar, stalker
3 supply: void ray
4 supply: immortal
6 supply: collusus, carrier
8 supply: mothership

Terran:
1 supply: marine, reaper
2 supply: maradur, ghost, hellion, viking, medivac, raven
3 supply: siege tank, banshee
6 supply: thor, battlecruiser

From this, I think blizzard decided to balance the game around the main units for each race being 2 supply. The only things not 2 supply are zerglings and marines basically and this makes sense as they are really weak units, but strong in huge groups. Also I think protoss has the most trouble in the opening of the game simply given the high cost of all units, but because of how strong each unit is + spells like guardian shield, blink, force field, etc protoss is extremely strong at later games.

Personally I think siege tanks should be given back their 60 damage and make them 4 supply so as to lower their effectiveness in the game.

Final note, as a protoss mainly, I think toss hasn't been utilizing templar or archons in most game yet. I really have this feeling that the best generic strategy will revolve around building 2 gate, 1 robo, and then going templar tech similar to how terran have the 1 racks, 1 factory, 1 starport build. I'm going to test out some builds against darktea sometime.

shin ken

Germany614 Posts

July 02 2010 16:46 GMT

#26

On July 03 2010 01:25 danbel1005 wrote:

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What?
Im Lost

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Look at that:

zealotz55

United States229 Posts

July 02 2010 16:47 GMT

#27

On July 02 2010 23:02 Sadistx wrote:

Poll: Beta up by the end of Friday?

No (418)

74%

Yes (144)

26%

562 total votes

Your vote: Beta up by the end of Friday?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No

I WANT TO BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

plz believe with me!

dNo_O

United States233 Posts

July 02 2010 17:07 GMT

#28

i just started download from battle.net main account page... 18% 30 minutes remaining

us.battle.net/account/management/

krowe

United States184 Posts

July 02 2010 17:09 GMT

#29

Yeah I wish the beta were to be up soon, but maybe sometime next week. I am thinking maybe tuesday (their maintenance day) but I am not even sure then. All we can hope for is soon, that is all they told us after all lol.

wolfe

United States761 Posts

July 02 2010 17:16 GMT

#30

So any news of an official blizzard launch party akin to WoW ones?

TheOGBlitzKrieg

United States346 Posts

July 02 2010 17:24 GMT

#31

i just really can't wait to play again... really excited for the beta to come back up, whenever it does

alphafuzard

United States1610 Posts

July 02 2010 17:28 GMT

#32

why cant mules mine gas?
why cant engineering bays lift off?

HezzerBoy

Canada59 Posts

July 02 2010 17:30 GMT

#33

We all know that beta will be up later today or by latest tomorrow right? Or did you guys not have the dream that i did last night??

zealotz55

United States229 Posts

July 02 2010 17:42 GMT

#34

IM FREAKING OUT MAN!!!!

EliteAzn

United States661 Posts

July 02 2010 20:02 GMT

#35

On July 03 2010 02:28 alphafuzard wrote:
why cant mules mine gas?
why cant engineering bays lift off?

Mining gas w/ a mule would be a major unfair advantage.

As for e-bays, I don't know...first time i tried lifing one off..i was like....crap

NuKedUFirst

Canada3139 Posts

July 02 2010 20:08 GMT

#36

On July 03 2010 05:02 EliteAzn wrote:

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Mining gas w/ a mule would be a major unfair advantage.

As for e-bays, I don't know...first time i tried lifing one off..i was like....crap

Same as I, I think they don't want people to use them to block expos like Sc:Bw and then use for vision while making turrets, etc.. Not sure what the deal is though.. I guess if you go mech you can make one to scout and it wont be important to your strategy with making factories, You can't do this with your barrack as you need to make marines to stop the early game pressure... But I guess you could just make another one to float? So i'm not 100% sure..

And as above said^^ It would be an unfair advantage for sure as chrono and inject doesn't work the same way..

roflpie

Estonia93 Posts

July 02 2010 20:11 GMT

#37

Not sure if it's related, but when I try to log onto EU servers it says my client version differs from the server's.

Edit: Didn't notice, sorry.

Conventer

Poland72 Posts

July 02 2010 20:16 GMT

#38

I think mining gas by mules could be a "bit" unfair for other races because for instance zerg, if zerg had something like that he could make about idk maybe 12 mutas fast haras instead of 4 xD so i even don't know why this question has been given here. About engineering bay i don't care because its useless to lift it maybe if you want to scout with it or make a wall.

Keitzer

United States2509 Posts

July 02 2010 20:22 GMT

#39

On July 03 2010 02:07 dNo_O wrote:
i just started download from battle.net main account page... 18% 30 minutes remaining

us.battle.net/account/management/

what Download?

Slipspace

United States381 Posts

July 02 2010 20:27 GMT

#40

i would like to see something done to the roach and ultralisk in phase 2, specifically the roach early on in the game (burrow tier 1 tech anyone?) and perhaps give the ultralisk some range.