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This patch is causing major problems. Alot of people are "lagging" although they really aren't. I would get a couple of games where suddenly I was lagging, then games where my partner was lagging, and then games where my opponent is lagging, even though our connections were fine. Then there's also the mini-map issue with replays.

Just placed Diamond...I'm not even very good...

Wow, I play three matches. The first two are Zerg players who, guess what, don't know how to do anything else but roach rush my probes. I'm convinced that there are no Zerg players who actually know how to do anything else but roach rush; they're all so bad.

The last one never loaded after ten minutes and I had to force quit. Wonderful first three games since the patch.

Yeah a friend and I were playing last night and he kept lagging for no reason too.

You know what is really awesome, since everyone is having to play placement matches again, i get to play with people waaaay above me in skill.

I think i MAY have figured out what was going on with that can't download authentication.

I checked my firewall exclusion list, and I had about 25 different versions of SC2 there. I removed all of them, restarted SC, re-enabled access for the program, and I don't get that error anymore.

It then prompted me to accept the beta agreement, Had me re-create my name again (where did the dot name go??) and now i'm logged in.

I'm now "BattleChickn" Edit: Wait a tick.. they removed the ability to add people by their names? Email only now huh... If anyone wants to play with me, send me a PM and i'll give you my address. I forgot that anyone can see what my addy is here, and i'd rather not share it too widely.

Yeah they seemed to have completely overhauled the friends list. No more dot names, no more adding by name. Don't really understand why they changed it.

Wow.. the game is stupid broken right now.

I tried three times to matchmake, it failed every time. trying to cancel resulted in it STILL trying to match me. I finally got into a game just a second ago, and it went for about two minutes before it froze.

Bah.

Originally Posted by JolietJake Yeah they seemed to have completely overhauled the friends list. No more dot names, no more adding by name. Don't really understand why they changed it.

Blizzard seems to feel like they have to screw something up in every patch

So many laggers in 4v4.

Originally Posted by Tony208 So many laggers in 4v4.

Don't blame the people.. they changed from TCP to UDP - the lag is a function of bugs in the network protocol they just added in the recent patch.

Why the hell would they do that? There was less lag before the patch.

I can't join or do matchmaking =(

I work in IT. This sort of shit should be caught in your test environments before sending it to production.

The scale of user hitting test vs prod is way different, though.. and the issues seem to be network/server capacity related.. so even though I'm miffed that its down, they MAY have tested well, and the vast difference in the number of users couldn't have been caught before deployment.

Every patch seems to have these sweeping, bad, UI changes though... and the game is leaving the 1st stage of beta in a couple weeks. I'm a baffled by the choice to release so many UI changes this late in the game.

They seem to be making a lot of large changes very late in the game. Either they'll delay shipping (wouldn't surprise me) or they'll be changing/fixing things well after it's released.

Originally Posted by JolietJake They seem to be making a lot of large changes very late in the game. Either they'll delay shipping (wouldn't surprise me) or they'll be changing/fixing things well after it's released.

Which is a business model too many game makers are adopting...hopefully they go in the other direction and delay.

Damn, you guys werent joking when you said it is now broke. I can't do really anything without it lagging or freezing.. and is anyone else lacking sounds in the menus?

Yeah my menu sounds are absent as well.

Hopefully they fix all this soon, I want to try playing this game with my new Brood War unit sounds pack. I liked what they did with the music in SC2 but wow have the unit sounds gone downhill.

Originally Posted by Megazell Which is a business model too many game makers are adopting...hopefully they go in the other direction and delay.

Well the original SC had some significant balance issues after retail before it was patched into the perfect game we know it as today =D

Originally Posted by panzerfaust Well the original SC had some significant balance issues after retail before it was patched into the perfect game we know it as today =D

Yep. I know. It was very rare for me to ever buy a game when it came out. I usually waited til a mod came out that made the game 'worth' the purchase and till others vouched for it to be stable.

Only took me 1 game purchase to follow that model.

They intentionally removed the sounds, something about getting them ready for the release.