Starcraft 2 beta testing has started.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:58 pm

Keys are getting passed out. 1up.com was streaming some game play, looks good.

When 1up was streaming there were about 400 people on SC2's portion of bnet.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:46 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Keys are getting passed out. 1up.com was streaming some game play, looks good.

When 1up was streaming there were about 400 people on SC2's portion of bnet.

Tks for the info.. very awesome!

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:38 pm

The game looks great.

It has a match making system, in a "noob mode" you start with bases blocked by rocks and stuff that take a ton of hit points to destroy to prevent an early rush.

And you arent limited to selecting just 12 units at a time anymore.

The Protoss seem the most different to me from watching streams. And for the Zerg, the roaches are an interesting replacement for lurkers.

fixationdarknes · Post by **fixationdarknes** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:49 pm

My PC meets the system req's, I just wonder how well it will run. I'm running an Athlon 64 3200 processor, GeForce 8800 GTS, 2 gigs ram. Anyway, hopefully I can get a hold of a key at some point. Glad you are enjoying it.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:04 pm

fixationdarknes wrote:Glad you are enjoying it.

Enjoying the streams, I don't have a beta key yet.

I'm lowish on the requirements too, but it looks to run well on slower systems, a couple people have streamed it on barely recommended levels.

I'm pretty sure you will be able to turn off or at least turn down the animation. Blizzard is usually good about making them work for older PCs.

fixationdarknes · Post by **fixationdarknes** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:06 am

Ah that's good, restores my hope haha. I checked out some stream on justin.tv and it definitely looked sweet, didn't watch for long though.

fixationdarknes · Post by **fixationdarknes** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:37 pm

w00t, I got a key lol.

--edit: As I'm downloading the game, I'm starting to think I should've maybe tried to sell it on ebay for some hundreds of dollars >_<

--edit2: But after looking around, I suppose it's really only the Blizzcon cards (including polar bear WoW mount) that are selling for hundreds whereas the email invites are going for a lot less. I guess that makes me feel better. Anyway, let me know when you guys get yours so I can own you after practicing all day 24/7 for the next two weeks straight.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:40 am

fixationdarknes wrote:w00t, I got a key lol.

I hate you. Enjoy

And anyone wanting to watch a stream:

http://www.teamliquid.net/sc2/

Some good ones along with ustream and justin.tv

dasein007 · Post by **dasein007** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:22 pm

we should make a list of all the people who gonna play, im really excited for this game, i remember how command and conquer was my 1st online game and Starcraft the 2nd.

dasein007 · Post by **dasein007** » Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:24 am

im new to this forums, but i used to be with the Dissidents Clan, with i think UOD and Sava i think, i was known as Random, im an old StarCraft player and love it anyway
if anybody wants to game add me to ur friends list i go by the name of

lDldasein on SC2, c ya on battle.net >D