I got Starcraft 2 beta

Film yourself playing it and upload it to youtube so I can watch it.

Did you get the key from a friend, or random email from Blizzard?

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I don't know what you mean

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Marine wars on starcraft. Footmen frenzy on warcraft 3. They were custom maps, and you can bet someone will make a version for SC2, the map editor will be badass.

what are the new zerg breeds?

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Marine wars on starcraft. Footmen frenzy on warcraft 3. They were custom maps, and you can bet someone will make a version for SC2, the map editor will be badass.

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Right now there are no Use Map Settings gamemodes. There aren't any custom maps or anything. Its just straight up 1v1 2v2 or 3v3.

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what are the new zerg breeds?

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I'm not sure yet actually. I haven't played too much zerg. I've only had time for about 5 or 6 good games. I can tell you though that there is A LOT of new stuff. The basics are still there for all of the races but there is a lot of new tech stuff.

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Let me have that pass code

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No

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Will they include Big Game Hunters in the initial release?

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Don't know. Right now there are about 5 different maps that I've played on and they're all limited resources ladder style maps.

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what are the new zerg breeds?

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Roaches - popular unit right now, easy to mass, ranged attacker that works against only ground units

Baneling - zerglings can morph into these, they can be massed easily, their attack is an explode on impact, you lose them after, but they do serious damage

Queen - a defensive unit that has a few good abilities for maintaining your base, I think you can only own one at a time

Luckily zerg has a ton of returning units, I would say moreso than other races - drones, zerglings, hydralisks, mutalisks, overlords, ultralisks

Infestor, Corruptor, and Nydus Worms are also a few cool new additions

As it stands now, I would say that the races are balanced as such in terms of power:

Zerg > Terran > Protoss

Terran have improved recently because of some Zerg nerfs, but Protoss need some more work, they have trouble against air units. Mass mutalisks for Zerg is basically GG against protoss.

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What about Protoss DrSteve?

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Worst thing about protoss which I'm still not used to, is that there are no Dragoons, they were replaced by a unit that is basically the same, called a stalker, which has a blink ability and can teleport small distances, but I still miss the Dragoons.

Zealots, High Templar, Dark Templar, Carriers, Observers, and Archons return (no dark and light archons this time, just archons)

Zealots have a researchable upgrade called charge, this lets them charge into units, like ranged, and close the gap faster, which makes Zealots a unit that is usable and useful throughout the game.

The Colossus is probably the coolest new addition, extremely tall unit that is devastating against any ground unit pack with it's splash damage, only disadvantage of it is that it is so tall that it is attackable by air units.

Sentries are cool ground ranged units that can put up forcefields and stop opposing units from entering choke points, or to protect your own ranged units from ground units like zerglings.

Immortals are hulking ground units, that are ranged and can only attack ground units. Their main perk is that they are beastly tanks, and have an ability that reduces any attack against them to 10 damage as long as their shields are up.

Protoss can own one mothership at a time. They make all units around them invisible, and they have other abilities.

Protoss air consists of Void Rays, Phoenixes and Carriers. All of these have their uses, but protoss need a serious buff in this area because they have nothing air or ground that is successful as anti air against the other races.

And my other complaint with protoss is that you pretty much have to get high templars with psi storm researched every single game to use against many types of unit combos or you will get owned.

How how i remember the countless hours of addictive gameplay on battle.net and single player. And how scared to death I am to get this game when it comes up for fear of readdiction.

It has been a good while since I played it but when I saw an X-play piece on it and hurt that robot-womans voice who does the Terran operations.. I about had an orgasm.

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Battlenet.. love it to death.. I'm all rusty now though

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Yeah that happens. Stop for 2 or more weeks.. and then get back on and you're slow response time while you're trying to remember everything will get you annihilated.


ETA: thats also what I love about SC, sometimes you can own the comp and it seems like they have no idea how the play the game, other times their damn near impossible to beat.

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I heard that the zerg are easily over powered.. is that true?

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Not overpowered, the other races just need buffs.