StarCraft anyone?

Crimson Wizard · Sat 27/02/2010 13:57:04

Quote from: Mr Flibble on Sat 27/02/2010 03:22:02Up for another game sometime?

I am using Game Ranger mainly, and I think I unistalled Iccup launcher some time ago, don't remember why, perhaps wasnt sure I will play on Abyss anymore.

Quote from: Mr Flibble on Sat 27/02/2010 03:22:02
Also, on SC2, how do you think it's shaping up? I was dubious about the Terran infantry units, until I found out that a group of Reapers can take down a building in about two hits, and Marauders cut through anything vaguely armoured like a hot knife through butter.

Hmm, yes, I've seen replays of a guy who likes to play Terrans. But he usually uses army of Thors. However, I've also seen how this guy was easily beaten by Protoss player using Colossuses with beam range upgrade

Mr Flibble · Sat 27/02/2010 14:00:29

I don't have Iccup anymore either, clean Windows install since then, I'll look into Game Ranger.

Crimson Wizard · Sat 27/02/2010 14:03:18

Well, if you havent used that yet, it's really easy to install and setup. I think there were posts above that explained that. My nickname there is "Crimson Wizard" and dkh's is "dkh" (go figure

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Crimson Wizard · Sat 27/02/2010 19:53:10

Game Ranger works strangely for me today, it disconnects every 5 minutes or so, and sometimes does not wish to reconnect for hour. Does anyone have same problem, or is it only me?

DoorKnobHandle · Sat 27/02/2010 20:00:55

Yeah I can't connect at all atm.

Ishmael · Mon 08/03/2010 00:27:39

Time to dig this one up again.

Anyone playing SC2 already? It is totally awesome and I would much love to play it with someone even remotely familiar instead of complete strangers, if the odd matchmaking and whatever mechanics in it at the moment permit.

DoorKnobHandle · Mon 08/03/2010 01:35:06

Hey, yeah.

Just got my betakey two days ago. I would too love to actually get to use the friend list thingie as well as play some games. Currently in the silver league btw.

I'm "dkh.dereine", add moi.

Crimson Wizard · Mon 08/03/2010 01:37:32

dkh, you seem to finally get that beta key?

btw Peder Johnsenn said he's got one too.

DoorKnobHandle · Mon 08/03/2010 01:39:06

Yep, I was lucky. Hopefully Peder can join us too, you still can't play online, Crimson, right?

Crimson Wizard · Mon 08/03/2010 01:47:13

Well, you well know I use that stolen beta with hack-launcher

it is possible to play vs AI (a very dumb one), but I have serious doubts it will allow me to play online... guess I'll have to wait to buy final release.

or... I heard something about possible "open beta test". What does that mean? Will they allow to download beta for everyone?
Or, maybe the one already going IS open beta test?

Ishmael · Mon 08/03/2010 11:13:51

No open beta I've heard of...

Anyway, I'm overly creatively Ishmael.ishmael over there, in case you feel like adding me.

Crimson Wizard · Mon 08/03/2010 11:20:22

Heh, well, I made myself a battle.net account (never had one before) and posted beta opt profile there. Let's see if Blizzard decide to make me a beta tester

Technocrat · Wed 10/03/2010 13:16:18

I was *just* thinking I had a strange urge to play Starcraft. I had the N64 version many eons ago, so I might just splash out on the real PC one for a slightly less pixelly experience.

Crimson Wizard · Sun 25/04/2010 19:21:43

I have an unusual question for those of AGS-ers who were lucky enough to get SC2 beta key.

I have someone's beta client downloaded from torrent. I can't play on battle.net, ofcourse, because I don't have beta key, and from some time I almost don't play versus AI (which was allowed by certain "hack"-launchers), because it's a bit boring (plus I don't have much free time to study new units/abilities properly, and they change in every patch).

Anyway, from patch 9 Starcraft 2 Beta has an editor. I tried it, and experienced very serious malfunctions there. I looked up on battle net forums, but found no signs of anyone having same bugs (well, there was one report which could be similar, but I am not sure). I tried to reinstall client, and all the patches again, I even got different client (different zone/language), but that did not help.

So now I am in a silly situation. At one hand I have a rare or unique bug that is not yet reported to Blizzard, and I have a troubling thought, what if it won't be fixed until final release (when I am going to buy the game). On another hand, I don't have beta key, so I can't even post on Blizzard's forums in SC2 section.

Question is, is there anyone with beta key who would be willing to send my bug report to bnet forums? I know that could be a bit silly, but well, I can't think of anything else. Maybe one can explain situation frankly (that I am using sc2 beta client illegally), or tell that you let me to try out SC2 Editor on my comp, or something like that.

magintz · Sun 25/04/2010 20:12:13

Oh I forgot, I've also had a beta key for about a month or so now... I'll get round to downloading and playing soon. Is it any good?

edit: Just started downloading 1.64gb guh

Crimson Wizard · Sun 25/04/2010 21:01:17

But can you actually help me with the aforementioned problem, magintz? Or anyone else? please... :'(

Maybe I could do that myself, but, heh, just imagine that - hey dudes, I am using your soft a tiny bit illegally, and want to make a bug report - heheh.

magintz · Sun 25/04/2010 23:23:18

I can post along your message for you to my contact on the inside

Ishmael · Tue 27/04/2010 12:28:50

Anyone willing to play give me a shout -- Ishmael.vilehand 's the name nowdays.

Al_Ninio · Tue 27/04/2010 14:12:41

I be hymnharmonia.hymnharmonia on der Starcraft 2 beta.

Crimson Wizard · Wed 28/04/2010 19:36:36

Hey guys... sorry for bugging, but I still wonder, can someone help me with the problem described above? magintz said he can post my bug report, but when I sent detailed info to him, I get no response, so I don't know if he actually did something

There are similar bugs mentioned on sc2 beta bnet forums, but they have differences, so this really bothers me. Do i need to update software, or hardware to be able to normally work with editor when final release is out? - that what's I wish to know.

Basically, my problem is following:
(put this in "spoiler" to allow people ignore this

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Spoiler

I can create new maps and open existing maps created by someone else without any trouble. However -
1) If I create a blank map and save it leaving default plain terrain as is, then close and reopen it, all terrain surface is completely invisible in the main view, it's like a black void. I can see all the units, but no terrain. I can see terrain on minimap though. I can select existing units, but can't add changes to the "map" - can't edit terrain, can't put new units on it (nothing happens when I click on the map in the main view with texture/unit selected from the left panel).
2) If I create a new map, do some changes to terrain, regardless how simple or complex: texturing, create cliffs, raise/lower terrain surface etc, - then save it, close and reopen, editor behaves like there's some data corruption or memory leak: it starts to "consume" more and more memory very rapidly until my system shows that 98-99% of RAM is in use, after that editor hangs completely.
This happens even if the map is very small (like 32x32) and only few changes were made to terrain.
Meanwhile, I can open any maps made by not me, regardless of how complex they are.
3) I can open maps made by other people, and edit anything, like units, triggers and data; I can then save and reopen changed maps normally. But as soon as I do ANY change to terrain, like paint a single block of texture, problem (2) occurs.

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