Yeah you get placed into a league and division after the 5 matches.

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7/30/2010 10:48:56 AM

7/30/2010 10:54:41 AM

I was asked on facebook if this game has anything to do with Battlestar Galactica

7/30/2010 10:57:12 AM

Was your response: uhhhhhh.....yes?

7/30/2010 11:04:29 AM

haha, all I did was 'like' her question post

7/30/2010 11:10:49 AM

7/30/2010 1:11:02 PM

I'm having some real trouble with the Covert Ops challenge because it's so micro-intensive. Can only get bronze on it so far.

7/30/2010 2:34:10 PM

^same for me.

7/30/2010 2:41:27 PM

those turrets are money. i used nukes to hollow out a path and pushed in with the air to get lots of muta/overlord kills and then poped tons of turrets down to take out the ground forces/buildings. I didnt split the air units up.

7/30/2010 2:45:19 PM

Been doing some challenge mode missions today. Got 4/9 Gold. It's odd: the ones I thought I'd do well at I did awful. And vice versa. Patch 1.0.1 out today people!

7/30/2010 7:30:55 PM

son of a bitch. the game looked great and started out fine, but now i constantly crash to a black screen and skipping sound. A little browsing online suggests that this problem is due to my ATI HD graphics card. Anyone else having similar issues?

7/30/2010 9:46:21 PM

Ahh sucks, I have an ATI Radeon HD 4850 and I'm not having any issues with crashing. The only problem I have is little laser-like lights coming out of the scv's booster packs.

7/30/2010 10:12:04 PM

^^ This might be unrelated, but everyone make sure you put the fps limit in to ensure your video card doesn't overheat:

http://starcraft.incgamers.com/blog/comments/starcraft-2-and-overheating-video-cards/

Also, ATI just released new SC2 drivers today:

http://starcraft.incgamers.com/blog/comments/ati-beta-drivers-with-starcraft-2-anti-aliasing-released/

Might not be that significant for your issue though

7/30/2010 10:28:30 PM

If anyone wants do team up, I'm down for anything 2v2, 3v3 or 4v4.

Currently ranked 6th in Gold 1v1, and 30ish Gold 2v2.

Username: Unity
ID: 156

7/30/2010 10:34:33 PM

^^I installed that earlier and played two games online...no crashes. I also discovered that the resolution for the game was set differently than the resolution for my laptop by default. between the two of those things, i'm hoping the problem is fixed.

7/30/2010 11:35:22 PM

my computer runs this like a champ and stuggles with red alert 3 sometimes on low settings.... LOLOLOL

7/31/2010 3:38:52 AM

Went 4/1 and got placed into gold league rank 43

point is

got the panda marine!

7/31/2010 10:54:13 AM

Like a lot of you I am a huge Starcraft fan

but there are a few things about SC2 that disappoint me:

1) no LAN support WTF?!
2) online connection needed to play offline
3) only Terran campaign

I like Blizzard but the direction they are going with this game just makes me
STARCRAFT 2 IS NOT WoW

[Edited on July 31, 2010 at 4:22 PM. Reason : o]

7/31/2010 4:21:38 PM

Permanent internet connection for offline? Wow.

7/31/2010 4:39:14 PM

its given me the option to play offline a couple times when my router restarted mid game

7/31/2010 4:47:36 PM

So do you level up in this game and get something like perks?

7/31/2010 5:05:49 PM

Just decals and portraits that are unlocked and you can display next to your name online.

7/31/2010 5:11:13 PM

^^^I haven't bought the game yet so most of what I have heard is from reviews. But from wat I understand you can play campaign and challenges offline but if u want to just skirmish against AI (my fav thing to do besides online)
you must be logged into Bnet as yourself or a "guest"

[Edited on July 31, 2010 at 5:51 PM. Reason : Fix]

7/31/2010 5:49:36 PM

the whole lan thing is just bullshit to me. how can you make an RTS and not include the option to play over your own network?

7/31/2010 6:50:53 PM

thanks for the links to the ati beta drivers (however many ^'s that is). no LAN support really really bothers me. the original starcraft was the first game I ever LAN partied.

7/31/2010 7:20:33 PM

Yep, it'll never be a 5-star game 'til they put 100% offline LAN mode back in. Blizzard is trying to control all games through BattleNet. There are a few interesting points about lack of LAN:

- LAN was REMOVED, not never in the game. It's not solely for piracy prevention, because Blizzard has said in interviews that piracy has never been a huge problem for them in the past.

- If we assume Blizzard will have some form of LAN play for tournaments (which is reasonable, because it will be lag free and the traditional method of tournament play), then they must have some setup capable of LAN. Will we ever see that? Of course, if Blizzard intends for tournaments to have BattleNet latencies, then there will be an even playing field, but.....laggy games that depend on internet connections.

- It's DEFINITELY a move to consolidate ALL tournaments into Blizzard's hands. If you know anything about the Blizzard vs. KeSPA issue, that's a big reason behind the lack of LAN play.

Does anyone remember the development of Assassins Creed 2? Ubisoft's internet-only game? People bitched for months when they discovered the game would have such a restrictive DRM. Remember what happened on launch day? Massive DDoS attack on the game's servers ... resulting in an unplayable game, even the developers couldn't play their own game that day.

Basically, Blizzard has done the same thing w/ SC2. They just didn't outright say "this will be an online-only game." Yeah, you can play offline somehow, just single player. Some TL'ers have reported that even that ability is not working correctly yet.

I expect/hope Blizzard will patch in LAN play, even if much later on. No LAN will definitely be a thorn in the side of older gamers who think it's BS....because it is. Ars Technica recently did an article on the issue: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/07/why-lack-of-starcraft-2-lan-play-still-matters.ars

Blizzard has said they're going to release a tournament patch for SC2 sometime before Christmas this year. This patch should contain the chat channels everyone complained about, but could LAN support also be in there? I could see it as a possibility, because the initial sales would be over - a majority of their money made, and crackers will definitely have some stuff out by then.

[Edited on July 31, 2010 at 7:47 PM. Reason : tournament patch stuff]

7/31/2010 7:38:01 PM

Some people are absolutely trash at nexus wars. if there was a ladder for it, i'd be diamond

8/1/2010 12:34:36 AM

Got gold on all of the challenges last night. Psionic Assault was by far the hardest one for me. I'm not even sure how many times I got up to ~220 kills before I died. I hit 224 one time and as a result have a broken keyboard but I eventually got it as well. I found the expert ones to be rather easy, only took 2 tries for each, but the advanced ones were harder (except infestation, that one is just easy).

I can't decide if I want to go through the campaign on Brutal first or just do Normals/Hard and get all the achieves first. I've only done the first 3 on Brutal and was wondering if anyone is a lot farther on Brutal and could tell me if it gets much harder. The last mission I just barely beat by flying my command center away as the zerg swarmed the artifact.

8/1/2010 7:49:02 AM

Yeah that last one was pretty rough the best thing I found to do was make a small army of cheap useless things to throw in front of the queen each time to distract her so she didnt instead one shot my battlecruisers and siegetanks haha

[Edited on August 1, 2010 at 8:03 AM. Reason : .]

8/1/2010 8:03:32 AM

(mission spoilers)

So I'm playing through the missions, and I have some questions/observations:

-What's up with the missions offering a choice of who to side with? Are the missions/rewards different depending on who you pick? I helped Tosh when he raided the prison planet, and now I have Spectres for the rest of the campaign. If I went the other way, would I just have ghosts? I picked to help the Protoss rather than the doctor on Haven, if I had helped the doc, does she live?

-I like the armory/research and being able to make permanent campaign choices like it presents you. Orbital Supply Depots ftw

-iPistol is the shit

-What's everyone's best Lost Viking score? A game within a game seems a little tacky, but when it loaded I was amazed with how good it looked

-I like how contrary to popular belief, not all the campaign missions are Terran

-I can easily see myself playing through the campaign multiple times

-I like how you are offered a choice of what mission you want to do next, and what the potential reward to your campaign will be

8/1/2010 9:58:03 AM

^^^ Psionic Assault and Infestation are the 2 I can't get gold on currently. Got silver though. I find that saving at a point I know I'm doing well helps cut down on the time I waste too. What's your tactic for racking up kills in Infestation? I try using roaches to kill the collosi and tanks, and infestors just mass spawn infested terrans but it never works quite like I want. Do you go from the top down?

^ There are 3 times in the campaign that you have to choose one way or the other. They will affect how the rest of the game plays in minute ways. Yes, you helped Tosh, so you get Spectres. If you helped Nova, you'd get ghosts. I don't want to spoiler the results for you, but your choices don't effect the overall outcome of the game. Once you're done w/ the campaign, if you push "continue" on the battlenet screen, you get a list of all missions and cinematics (except the hidden mission). So, you can go back and play the missions you would've done if you'd chosen otherwise and see what would've happened to the Doc, what would've happened to Tosh and Nova, and the third choice that I'm guessing you haven't made it to ... yet : ) And they only differ you by 1 mission per choice. No biggie!

8/1/2010 10:20:49 AM

mind control the collosi and the tanks for quick kills, use roaches to clean up mind controlled units.

8/1/2010 11:08:00 AM

Infestation wasnt hard, i used roaches to clear out the left side and basically mind controlled siege tanks and collosi as well as dark templars to clear out most of the base then moved the roaches burrowed into the SCV area and with about 20 seconds left after I had cleared as much as I could with MC units I just popped those up and they finished off what i needed for gold

8/1/2010 11:28:37 AM

So far I'm 2-2 in 1v1 games!

Considering I expected to be like 0-4, today is a banner day for me!

That said, my copy hasn't arrived yet (I'm using a 7 hour pass at the moment), but is there anywhere online to read about good unit vs. unit matchups -- like the "Immortals rape Roaches" type fact, but for all units?

8/1/2010 12:29:53 PM

^^^,^^ Whoops, I thought the infestors didn't have Neural Parasite available for that challenge. Doh! That will definitely work then. I don't know how I missed that. Yeah, that should make it really easy. Thanks for the tip!

^ I don't know of an exact URL for a chart like that, but I would check out Team Liquid's Liquidedia as a start!

8/1/2010 12:39:38 PM

Quote :

"^^^ Psionic Assault and Infestation are the 2 I can't get gold on currently. Got silver though. I find that saving at a point I know I'm doing well helps cut down on the time I waste too. What's your tactic for racking up kills in Infestation? I try using roaches to kill the collosi and tanks, and infestors just mass spawn infested terrans but it never works quite like I want. Do you go from the top down?"

I didn't even know you could save and load in the challenges... That would have saved me a lot of time. For Infestation I burrowed and sent the roaches off to the left side and queued an unburrow. Then I moved all the infestors individually next to a tank, collosus or high templar and unborrowed and mind controlled. After that its just moving around the roaches to get LOS for the tanks and moving the collosus around a bit. I got around 214 kills the second time I did it.

For Psionic Assualt I didn't use any storms until the first set of protoss units. Feedback the bashees to one shot them. Use hallucinated archons for the reapers and vikings and storm them. Try to use just two high templar until they are out of energy and make them into an archon. The archon will get you through the northeast waves pretty easily. I only had the archon left alive against the 2 tanks to hit 225.

8/1/2010 1:19:16 PM

I just got "yelled" at in game, lol.

Me (protoss) vs. Zerg. He went roaches and tried to rush me, so I fought off the inital rush with zealots/stalkers and then walled off my ramp with cannons.

He started harassing me: "You that much of a n00b?", "Walling your base off, what an idiot move.", "God i hate playing fucking n00bs!".

Bear in mind, we are in the bronze league.

In the mean time, I went immediate void ray with 2 stargates pumping them out.

He tried to load up overlords with roaches and come in the back of my base, and my void rays just mowed him down.

It was like a death march to his base while i flew my void rays over. He started screaming in all caps, "YOU !$!$!%# NOOB", "FUCKING CHEESE TACTICS", "LEARN HOW TO PLAY LEGIT", "GOD DAMN YOU ARE A #%!@%&#% NOOB".

As my void rays charged and wiped him out, i thought how awesome it must be at his house right now as he loses his shit. He was probably bright red.

Awesome.

8/1/2010 1:51:13 PM

i just say QQ when they start doing that shit.

8/1/2010 2:17:40 PM

just say "no english, i sorry" and they will go away

^.^

8/1/2010 2:20:05 PM

Hell, I would antagonize them further if they did something like that. Haha.

It reminds me of a 2v2 arena match we had the other week in WoW. It was against a druid/lock and when we won the lock spammed me and my friend telling us how bad we were, how I was the worst healer ever and how they'd only been playing for three weeks after being gone for a year, yet we were so bad. I was extremely puzzled considering we won the match yet they were proclaiming how bad WE were.

8/1/2010 2:46:22 PM

I finished the mission where you have to upload at the 3 bases.

At the end of the missions it has a "no" beside "Secret Found". Any ideas?

8/1/2010 3:10:47 PM

Media Blitz?

8/1/2010 3:27:59 PM

Yeah, Media Blitz is how you enter the secret mission in SC2 !

8/1/2010 5:43:49 PM

Reaper harass = automatic win

8/1/2010 5:57:28 PM

Quote :

"Reaper harass = automatic win"

If your opponent is the terribads.

8/1/2010 6:17:42 PM

Yeah seriously. It's not a bad opening, right now I'd lose it to just because i need practice, but after I smooth it all out I should have a zealot and a stalker by the time you get it in my base. Maybe you get a probe or two, but that stalker will take that reaper out if you aren't careful.

8/1/2010 6:24:59 PM

Quote :

"I just got "yelled" at in game, lol."

Haha, that's always fun. I was doing random 2v2 and once we started to win, one of the opponents was

like "You must be some nerd who has never touched a girl" "poor nerd, all you do is play starcraft 2 all day"

"did mommy buy this game for you?"

Unfortunately I'm never any good at making snappy comebacks so all I could do was , but winning never felt better.

8/1/2010 7:07:37 PM

I love people who say how you win is cheese or some noob way. Last I checked SC2 was a RTS game which means whatever strat it takes to win is a good one.

I haven't played online yet because I know my playstyle isnt the most multiplayer friendly. I tend to first build a very solid defense and then mass an army while I take pot shots at the opponent to either find a weakness I can expose or simply make them spend resources rebuilding as I continue building a large army haha. I realize chances are this wont work in multiplayer so Im working on quick offensive builds now against the AI so I can get my speed up.

8/1/2010 9:36:13 PM

I really don't see why so many people frown upon cheese. it's fun, fast, and effective.

8/1/2010 10:01:09 PM

Placed into Gold 2v2 tonight!

8/1/2010 11:11:42 PM