Oh this is new or was it in the normal release?

Never heard of that. One thing I would like would be to make the whole Main Menu more Keyboard friendly.

It was not in the 1.5 alpha that came out like a month ago, but they changed quiet a bit for the beta.

-Kyo-

Japan1926 Posts

June 01 2012 23:02 GMT

#122

Not sure if it was mentioned earlier in the posts but some small things i noticed

Obs timing is 40 sec
Probes now show a "waypoint" on the mineral patch they are gathering from, even if multiple are selected you see dots on all minerals. Moreover, there seemed to be more waypoiting shown by probes on movement command. Though, all of the above may have just been because the client was not full updated when i was playing.

There are now chat channels that u can join when looking through strategy, multiplayer(arcade) etc at the top of each game type. This is to help I guess with the "community" aspect.

Overall, not much changes.. and personally I don't think it's really "better" just different. Though, some of the other things that will be introducted with Hots i think will make the new UI much better and smooth with the game. We will see though.

Xapti

Canada2473 Posts

June 01 2012 23:05 GMT

#123

OMG they added open games! I was worried that due to the private/closed beta that they wouldn't add it, and just use fun-or-not like they said at Blizzcon (and I think even in earlier 1.5 patch notes, although it didn't work when I tested it)

Also:

The following new slash commands have been added :
• /help – displays available /slash commands
• /close – closes the focused chat window
• /min – minimizes the focused chat window
• /max – maximizes the focused chat window
• /restore – returns the focused chat window to default position and size
• /afk – puts the player into AFK status
• /dnd – puts the players into DND status
• /partyinvite – invites the targeted player to a party
• /partykick – removes the targeted player from party
• /block – blocks the targeted player
• /unblock – unblocks the targeted player
• /addfriend – adds the targeted player as a character friend
• /removefriend – removes the targeted player as a friend
• /profile – opens the profile page for targeted player
• /report – opens the Report Player dialog for targeted player
• /friendnote – opens the Friend Note dialog for targeted player

FINALLY. Long overdue. I guess open games list was also really long overdue too (although I could see it taking more time than chat commands to implement)

jabberjaw

225 Posts

June 01 2012 23:08 GMT

#124

On June 02 2012 06:19 bbm wrote:
Mine's been stuck on "validating cache" for an awfully long time now

same thing happened with me. i just closed sc2 and restarted/re-logged in and it worked.

AsymptoticClimax

United Kingdom249 Posts

June 01 2012 23:19 GMT

#125

Welcome to the party Blizzard, you're 2 years late.

NeWeNiyaLord

Norway2474 Posts

June 01 2012 23:33 GMT

#126

One thing I noticed was, that you can only fungal units. This way, you can't miss.... Can't fungal if there's no units -.- ridiculous..

speknek

758 Posts

June 01 2012 23:35 GMT

#127

On June 02 2012 08:33 NeWeNiyaLord wrote:
One thing I noticed was, that you can only fungal units. This way, you can't miss.... Can't fungal if there's no units -.- ridiculous..

sure hope this is a bug or troll, absolutely ridiculous indeed

( bush

321 Posts

June 01 2012 23:37 GMT

#128

well something strange happened to me, i played a game where thors were fucking big just like the old thor, but in the next game, normal thor.

i think theres some weird bugs around...

pallad

Poland1958 Posts

June 01 2012 23:37 GMT

#129

On June 02 2012 08:19 AsymptoticClimax wrote:
Welcome to the party Blizzard, you're 2 years late.

Get job at blizzard and make things faster , but now just stfu

ThePlayer33

Australia2378 Posts

June 01 2012 23:40 GMT

#130

WHAT is this???

"Banelings will now auto-cast Unburrow if a Colossus comes within their attack range."

tnud

Sweden2233 Posts

June 01 2012 23:41 GMT

#131

On June 02 2012 08:40 ThePlayer33 wrote:
WHAT is this???

"Banelings will now auto-cast Unburrow if a Colossus comes within their attack range."

Relax, it's just that the auto attack while burrowed for banelings didn't trigger for colossus before. (Colossus could walk right over baneling mines set to explode, now they properly explode)

SuperEight

United States333 Posts

June 01 2012 23:46 GMT

#132

In case you haven't noticed -- it is possible to create an ID written in Hangul. Whee!

CursOr

United States6335 Posts

June 01 2012 23:46 GMT

#133

On June 02 2012 05:20 Ben... wrote:
Keeps telling me it can't read a file when it tries to install.

Any fix for this? I've tried all kinds of things.

EuSpex

Germany73 Posts

June 01 2012 23:48 GMT

#134

they also did balance changes?

just did a ladder game and saw:
stim now costs 150/150 and is back to 140 sec
combatshild costs 150/150
concussive shells 100/100 and 80 sec
nitro packs 100/100 and 100 sec

3DGlaDOS

Germany607 Posts

June 01 2012 23:49 GMT

#135

On June 02 2012 08:46 CursOr wrote:

Show nested quote +

Any fix for this? I've tried all kinds of things.

try to diable antivirus, it fixed it for me
edit:

On June 02 2012 08:48 EuSpex wrote:
they also did balance changes?

just did a ladder game and saw:
stim now costs 150/150 and is back to 140 sec
combatshild costs 150/150
concussive shells 100/100 and 80 sec
nitro packs 100/100 and 100 sec

I think they use an old SC2-game build for this beta

emc

United States3088 Posts

June 01 2012 23:52 GMT

#136

I'm downloading the beta now, I didn't know I had it until now, maybe they opened up the beta to a lot more people? anyone following this thread should check their account to see if they got it.

On June 02 2012 08:40 ThePlayer33 wrote:
WHAT is this???

"Banelings will now auto-cast Unburrow if a Colossus comes within their attack range."

all zerg units can auto-unburrow if you decide to auto cast their burrow icon while they are burrowed. All it does is unburrow your burrowed units when any enemy units comes within sight range of your unit. We've had this functionality since launch but no one uses it because you get less DPS as the baneling will have to unburrow, then find it's target, which leaves room for it to die without doing anything. A small bug fix that literally doesn't do shit for zerg because no one in their right minds ever used auto cast on unburrow.

Werk

United States294 Posts

June 01 2012 23:58 GMT

#137

After checking it out, i must say, I am quite fond of the UI...maybe some tweaks and changes and it will be reaaaally good..seems off to me though that they would leave out the clan UI and restarting from replays for HOTS...seems like they might have to redo the UI when that comes out...

CursOr

United States6335 Posts

June 01 2012 23:59 GMT

#138

The "can't read file" problem... just disabling anti-virus didn't do it for me. I went thorugh all my processes and made sure all AVG and Spybot were off... checked every process. I had to right click, properties, use Run as Administrator... which still didn't work... then, still in properties, I had to tell it to "unblock"... where it warns you that the program came from another computer... etc. Windows7... that finally got it go work.

EuSpex

Germany73 Posts

June 02 2012 00:00 GMT

#139

I think they use an old SC2-game build for this beta

jea that could be true

dat protoss was really annoyed when I stimmed his ramp up that early lol =D.

A very great patch, can not wait to have this released! It is an online multiplayer game with lots of people playing.. thats how it feels now

)))))) no more "lost alone"

Shield

Bulgaria4824 Posts

June 02 2012 00:03 GMT

#140

On June 02 2012 09:00 EuSpex wrote:
A very great patch, can not wait to have this released! It is an online multiplayer game with lots of people playing.. thats how it feels now

)))))) no more "lost alone"

What do you mean?