Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void

[quote name='Draekon']
That's the way Blizzards downloader has always been. The last patch gave me that, but it's a really slow patch, so make sure that it's not just taking a long time to download that one patch.[/QUOTE]

Did you just wait it out and it started working? Or did you have to configure something?
 
[quote name='KhaosX']Did you just wait it out and it started working? Or did you have to configure something?[/QUOTE]

The message generally means one of two things:

1) Your firewall is blocking the ports that we use and no traffic is going through.

2) Your firewall is causing issues by not having the ports open, but traffic is still going though at a slower rate.

When dealing with blizzard it could have a third meaning:

3) We're slowing down your download traffic to this torrent because your firewall is allowing next to no uploading in our peer to peer crap.


In my case and most others, it's usually the second or third. Since you had it working originally, it should definitely be the case for you. Simply put, let it run for a while and see if anything happens. If nothing does, then you should consider port forwarding the ports that blizzard uses for their peer to peer downloader that I assume they integrated into this patcher. If that doesn't work, then post on their tech support forums.

Oh and the patch I think is a grand total of approximately 900mb. To give you an idea of it's size in case your connection isn't very fast. I'm basing that guess on the /Base15097/ folder size within the Versions folder.
 
[quote name='killias2']Holy crap. I can't believe they -hurt- the toss v. terran. Exactly how is a terran outgunned? Early game - Terran DOMINATES with reapers. Protoss can't fight back until they have stalkers, and, if Terran tries hard enough, they will always get to the Protoss base before they can even have stalkers. Let's say, though, that this wasn't broken at all, and that toss actually cant build stalkers on time... It's almost stupidly easy for Terrans to switch from reapers to marauders and boom, end game. The only way the Protoss were able to stop -this- from happening was to rush an immortal or two.. which are quite killable by massed stimmed marines and some decent micro. Now, we don't even have that and marauders are back to dominating virtually anything else protoss can throw at them in the early game.[/QUOTE]
I think you're overreacting.
It's only +15 seconds for Immos. And the Marauder buff seems minor.

Then again, this is the internet. Most people overreact without even having played through it several times.
 
[quote name='kainzero']I think you're overreacting.
It's only +15 seconds for Immos. And the Marauder buff seems minor.

Then again, this is the internet. Most people overreact without even having played through it several times.[/QUOTE]

The one thing i'll toss out there is that in every league I've been in, well over half or more of the top 10 were protoss. I don't know the strategies that they used, though.. as far as I know they're badass at probe rushing.

If the 'best' players all use the same races and strategies, it seems that the race is unbalanced.. so the change is likely wise.

I'm STILL not 100% about the cost reduction + build time decrease for the marauder debuff.. but requiring the research, at least, is better than when it was by default enabled.
 
Still down... sigh. This is ridiculous. What is wrong with Blizzard this is fucked up. I'm never going to buy another product of theirs again. fuck them!

Kidding... I don't really care. And it's a beta.
 
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DarknessBear.shepard

Add me then msg me so i can add you.

It's crazy how much they changed. That's why Blizzard is the best in the biz they are so good with changing things up and scrapping things that dont work.
 
Playing a few games of this has reminded me how bad I am at Starcraft.

Balphon.balphon if any of you feel like owning me.
 
Pleasantly surprised at how much I don't suck (Not saying I'm good by any means)

Can honestly say this is my favorite RTS of all time. I could just never get in to SC1.
 
Banshees are so awesome. I got them really early and completely destroyed a Protoss's workers while my teammate sent in a Reaper rush (about 6 Reapers) to the Zerg base and destroyed his workers. The guys just left and didn't gg at all. The toss had a void ray to ward me off, but decided to just back off when I cloaked. He had an observer and we had no air to air or ground to air units at all. I really don't get why he backed off sicne he could have killed all of our units.

Do you guys also hate Toss as much as I do now? It might be because I'm not used to the warp gates, but I really don't like them much.
 
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ugh im done with this game I just lose cause I dont have the special drones/scvs everyone else has that gives them 500 minerals per harvest and 800 gas.
 
Dude, just admit it you don't want in this Beta! How can you not have a key yet? Can I go get you one from my Gamestop?

And I'm back in the game now. I just had the craziest game! 35 minutes and I got obliterated at the 20 minute mark but flew an extra CC to the floating island and defended it while building up a TON of Vykings and he could not eliminate me (he was zerg) I finally rushed him with everything and he quit. WOOO
 
Anyone got a video card recommendation? I have an old Radeon 1650 Pro. It's not great at all, as you can imagine. I don't need to run the game on max settings with 98 triple AAx9000 or whatever, but something to bump it up a bit from the bare minimum would be nice.

PSU is 480w. Hoping to spend as little as possible - let's say sub $100 at highest. I don't really game on my PC at all beyond some stuff I got from Steam, and even then it tends to be old stuff like Lucasarts adventure titles.
 
I just met the first larvae glitch asshole! Yay... the guy got himself up to the platinum league using the glitch, got raped by the platinum person while he tried to use the glitch and continues to use it so his rank could go up. How the hell did this happen? And how did I even get mached up against him? =/
 
[quote name='Strell']Anyone got a video card recommendation? I have an old Radeon 1650 Pro. It's not great at all, as you can imagine. I don't need to run the game on max settings with 98 triple AAx9000 or whatever, but something to bump it up a bit from the bare minimum would be nice.

PSU is 480w. Hoping to spend as little as possible - let's say sub $100 at highest. I don't really game on my PC at all beyond some stuff I got from Steam, and even then it tends to be old stuff like Lucasarts adventure titles.[/QUOTE]

I know it's a bit over your max but this is a great card from what I hear.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161334

Has Eyefinity support as well. If you want to save a few more bucks though this is another great card which I personally have. on a different computer.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161315
 
[quote name='Strell']Anyone got a video card recommendation? I have an old Radeon 1650 Pro. It's not great at all, as you can imagine. I don't need to run the game on max settings with 98 triple AAx9000 or whatever, but something to bump it up a bit from the bare minimum would be nice.

PSU is 480w. Hoping to spend as little as possible - let's say sub $100 at highest. I don't really game on my PC at all beyond some stuff I got from Steam, and even then it tends to be old stuff like Lucasarts adventure titles.[/QUOTE]

For a Sub $100 card.. I'd try this. It's also DX 11:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102874


Edit: I've never heard of HIS.. though the egg ratings on the cards are decent.. If you want the most for your money, the HIS versions of the cards seem cheaper.

I just bought one of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...5309&cm_re=ati_hd_5770-_-14-125-309-_-Product

I went with it for several reasons, even though there are better cards in terms of overall performance:

1) Price - in cost:performance, the card was one of the best
2) Power consumption - the Nvidia cards in the same price point used a LOT more power to run - this one should run OK in your power supply (i believe)
3) The card is Direct X 11 compatible - if you're thinking you'll use the card you get for the next 2-3 years, this one is future proof. The Nvidia cards are still all DX11, and most cards less expensive are still DX10.
 
Would it be possible fro someone to get me a code? I tried to sign up for the beta already but didn't know you need to have a previous blizzard game, so i guess i need to find a cheap copy of an old game.
 
I pre-ordered Starcraft 2 from Amazon when it first became available. Then I cancelled it 10/18/09 or so and I still recieved a beta code from them... No complaints here I guess. So yeah, just pre-order at Gamestop or Amazon. Note that if you cancel an Amazon pre-order when bonuses are involved like this, you still have to pay them $5.
 
Ars Technica has an article about the Single Player SC2 campaign:

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/04/starcraft-2.ars/

Tbere's also a bit in there about the win/loss percentages. Terran v Zerg, the win/loss ratios are within 1% of each other. For Protoss V Terran, Protoss win 5% or more often - meaning they think that the balance is messed up.

That bit of the article may have been written before the recent Immortal nerf, tho.
 
[quote name='The Crotch']I'm hesitant to call any unit imbalanced at this point.

No god damn way I'd call a race or a match-up imbalanced right now.[/QUOTE]

The metrics they're using to try and determine unit balance, while possibly flawed, seems pretty sound to me. If across all P v T matchups, Protoss win 5% more often, that is a statistically significant difference; they theoretical should be even, if all things are balanced.

That DOES allude to unit(s) that is/are imbalanced.
 
Think I just encountered a zerg glitcher. He had like 8 roaches before I had 3 marines. Lame stuff.

Placed Bronze, but I'm getting whooped by these bronze people. I wonder if anyone is purposefully placing low so they can 0wn n00bies.
 
Basically you can cancel a larva/egg morph, regain minerals, and keep the larva. Hive continues to spit out more larva. But the time you 6 pool, you can have 12 zerglings within about the first two of the game. Then it's kekekekkekekeke zerg rush ^_^
 
[quote name='BattleChicken']I'm at work, so i can't view the video... Summary of what the glitch is?[/QUOTE]


When you cancel larvae transformation, you get your larvae and resources back instead of having the eggs explode. Now since a new larvae pops pretty quickly after transforming all larvae into eggs, it can be abused to quickly produce units.


Bah, beat by Strell.
 
[quote name='Hydro2Oxide']Think I just encountered a zerg glitcher. He had like 8 roaches before I had 3 marines. Lame stuff.

Placed Bronze, but I'm getting whooped by these bronze people. I wonder if anyone is purposefully placing low so they can 0wn n00bies.[/QUOTE]

Then after a couple of wins they'll be moved up to the next higher league :p
 
[quote name='Strell']Basically you can cancel a larva/egg morph, regain minerals, and keep the larva. Hive continues to spit out more larva. But the time you 6 pool, you can have 12 zerglings within about the first two of the game. Then it's kekekekkekekeke zerg rush ^_^[/QUOTE]

Aha.. i'll have to see if i can find the replay of my first game after the patch.. i think i got hit by that. I wasn't playing well because my mouse speed was all wrong, but Theres no way that 8 lings were out before my first marine built and my second barracks was completed...
 
[quote name='RedGamer']How well do you guys think a Sapphire Radeon 4670 1GB 128Bit video card will run SC2?

Would I able to run it on max?[/QUOTE]

It will absolutely run it, probably on all highs but I think ultras may bog you a bit.
 
[quote name='BattleChicken']Aha.. i'll have to see if i can find the replay of my first game after the patch.. i think i got hit by that. I wasn't playing well because my mouse speed was all wrong, but Theres no way that 8 lings were out before my first marine built and my second barracks was completed...[/QUOTE]
uhh, that's totally possible. a normal 6pool can have 8 lings out by then, but you should have 13-something SCVs and 1 marine and it's just a good microbattle.
 
[quote name='kainzero']uhh, that's totally possible. a normal 6pool can have 8 lings out by then, but you should have 13-something SCVs and 1 marine and it's just a good microbattle.[/QUOTE]


ehh.. the first wave was easy to take down. with the SCVs after he punched through my supply depot. he sent in another huge wave AFTER that that made me wonder.. i was playing a little bit off, but not THAT much.. i was only sitting on like 100 minerals when i died.
 
I pre-ordered my SC2 collectors edition today and got another beta key.

I've decided that someone who has posted in this thread will be the recipient of the code. I've already got a few people in mind, could you be one of them!?
 
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