PC Starcraft 2

[Alex_au]

For those competitive Aussies in the Starcraft 2 scene, you will be glad to know that a Starcraft 2 National Team is being put together.

Australia has previously been represented in Starcraft Broodwars and WC3 playing matches against other nations.

The website is up and will be released in the next week. Will post back here with an update

 

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Moonglade is in the team I hope. Easily the best player in sea and arguably one of the best foreigners in the world

 

[Alex_au]

Moonglade is in the team I hope. Easily the best player in sea and arguably one of the best foreigners in the world

Yes and Yes and I also agree

 

[Upgrayedd]

Started playing again, man has the standard gone down? Ive won the last 5 games ive been in

 

[daicos4ever]

Just bought this, last played Starcraft many many years ago.

Any tips for multiplayer? I always used to be terran but might change it up.

 

[Dazb86]

Just bought this. Very late to the party.

I'm ******* horrible at this game. Last RTS I played was age of empires.

 

[Arecsa]

http://day9.tv/

Watch some of his archived stuff for help. Very useful advice there.

 

[Papa Juggs]

I never played it.

Wasted 10GB and then got nobbled by the copy protection.

Couldn't try so never wanted to buy. Blizzard can go * themselves.

 

[Smackrobiotic]

Bumpage for this.



Looks awesome.

 

[Quivorir]

Interesting, and for * sake blizzard! Hurry up and just make a CGI movie already!

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

They really need to fix their custom maps system.

Right now this game is only there for a competitive 1v1 standpoint and it's not going to keep players in.

 

[blackshadow]

I see this is on special at EB Games for $36,I'm seriously considering picking it up, just concerned whether my gfx card has enough grunt. (will have to check it when I'm back at my PC)

 

[Shaucob_Burjan]

That's because the expansion came out. Unless you only plan on playing single player.

 

[Mingo]

Bloke at work has talked me into getting into this. Looking at Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm I am a tad confused and googling hasn't really answered my question. HOTS says it's a standalone product and does not need Wings of Liberty to play, which seems odd to me given it's an expansion pack. Now, if I were to buy HOTS would it include everything that is included in Wings of Liberty or not? If it does, whats the point of buying Wings of Liberty when they seem to be at the same price?

 

[Ice-Wolf]

Bloke at work has talked me into getting into this. Looking at Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm I am a tad confused and googling hasn't really answered my question. HOTS says it's a standalone product and does not need Wings of Liberty to play, which seems odd to me given it's an expansion pack. Now, if I were to buy HOTS would it include everything that is included in Wings of Liberty or not? If it does, whats the point of buying Wings of Liberty when they seem to be at the same price?

I think if you buy HotS you get everything but the WoL campaign, so multiplayer is no different you just wont get get to play the Terran single-player campaign.

 

[Mingo]

I think if you buy HotS you get everything but the WoL campaign, so multiplayer is no different you just wont get get to play the Terran single-player campaign.

I was thinking that might be the case. Ta.

 

[Dazb86]

Bloke at work has talked me into getting into this. Looking at Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm I am a tad confused and googling hasn't really answered my question. HOTS says it's a standalone product and does not need Wings of Liberty to play, which seems odd to me given it's an expansion pack. Now, if I were to buy HOTS would it include everything that is included in Wings of Liberty or not? If it does, whats the point of buying Wings of Liberty when they seem to be at the same price?

The games pretty hard to pick up. Expect to get rekt.

 

[Mingo]

The games pretty hard to pick up. Expect to get rekt.

Ha well I don't intend to go on Battle Net and contend with the best in the world, just single player and against my less experienced at video games mate will be fine.

 

[schmuttt]

Ha well I don't intend to go on Battle Net and contend with the best in the world, just single player and against my less experiences at video games mate will be fine.

Good move

In my opinion the Wings campaign is a fair bit better than HotS, the missions had more variety and it was a lot more difficult.

Started playing SC2 again, ever since it came out I've had a binge on it for a few months then I leave it alone for a bit, sure it isn't BW but it is still such an amazing game, can't wait for LotV!

 

[Mighty P]

I still prefer Dawn of War to Starcraft 2.

Love Starcraft 1.

 

[Schism]

Dawn of war games were great.

pre-ordered LOTV. Trying the beta.

I wish they would go back to the old BW style, of not having to expand every 4 minutes. SC2 has become a base management game instead of a war game

 

[Mighty P]

I stopped playing Starcraft 2 when Blizzard wouldn't help me figure out why my bought retail copy stopped working (was being treated as a trial copy), reinstalled a few times with no fix...ended up uninstalling cos it wasn't worth the stress. If the game worked I'd be playing it, but in truth it put me off badly.

Never had a problem with Relic and Dawn of War 1 or 2.

 

[simba_]

yeah if battle.net wasn't dog s**t i would be playing. i can't even play offline. i can't get past the stupid log in screen telling me the game isn't updated for my region. my mate and i had to settle for downloading a starcraft no install quick play, played a game on LAN, couldn't believe how badly the original had aged (you can't even move units where you want them to go).... despite all this i could never talk bad of starcraft, just battle.net

 

[Mighty P]

yeah if battle.net wasn't dog s**t i would be playing. i can't even play offline. i can't get past the stupid log in screen telling me the game isn't updated for my region. my mate and i had to settle for downloading a starcraft no install quick play, played a game on LAN, couldn't believe how badly the original had aged (you can't even move units where you want them to go).... despite all this i could never talk bad of starcraft, just battle.net

I agree, it's the Battle.net stuff that turned me off too.

 

[Mindtraveller]

For those interested.

Gerrard, YoDa, BBoongBBoong and nine others indicted in match-fixing scandal.
The Changwon Regional Prosecutor's office announced the arrest of twelve individuals in connection with match-fixing and illegal betting in StarCraft 2, including PRIME head coach Gerrard (Park Wae-Sik) and progamers YoDa (Choi Byeong-Heon) and BBoongBBoong (Choi Jong-HyuK), according to a Kookje Newspaper report. Brokers and financial-backers were also arrested, including former progamer and esports journalist Enough (Seong Jun-mo) who acted as a broker. Two the financial backers were ex-gangsters who provided the funds for the betting to occur on illegal websites.

Five professional StarCraft 2 matches were found to have been fixed according to the Prosecutor's investigation. The matches took place in tournaments between January and June of this year, including GSL Season 1 and SKT Proleague Season 1.

Gerrard is charged with receiving 10,000,000 Korean Won ($8,900 USD, all figures are approximate) from Enough to order YoDa to intentionally lose a match in GSL Season 1. Gerrard is also charged with approaching BBoongBBoong about match-fixing, and receiving 5,000,000 KRW ($4,450) from an unnamed "Mr. Kang."

It was confirmed that BBoongBBoong received 5,000,000 KRW to lose a match in the SKT Proleague.

YoDa was revealed to have intentionally lost four matches across Proleague and GSL. He received 20,000,000 KRW ($17,800) from "Mr.Kang," who he was introduced to through Gerrard. He also received 10,000,000 won from another unnamed "Mr. Han," receiving a total payment of 30,000,000 KRW for losing four matches. Prosecutors said that YoDa received payment for two matches. In the other two matches, he manipulated result while only receiving an offer.

The investigation concluded that YoDa and BBoongBBoong had defended sloppily and failed to play properly against their opponent's attacks, losing losing games that normally would have taken approximately 30 minutes in under 15.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/starcraft-2/496866-yoda-b4-gerrard-banned-for-life-for-match-fixing