Official TBA StarCraft II Thread

[rtil]

when you try to download it?

[cipher]

nah whenever I tried to view it, sc2 would just yell at me. I'm probably just doing something weird, don't DL too many replays

[rtil]

probably a hots bug

well now i could just invite you in to the replay!

[Sinitron]

i discovered a bug with my collector's edition thor skin

if i activate the high impact payload or whatever it will cancel out the walking animation and it will just slide around

pretty cool imo

[Sinitron]

http://www.twitch.tv/starcraft

[psi43]

next "funday monday" is "the best HotS game", so if you have a really good one, you can submit it

[cipher]

I've finally had some time to play a decent amount of HoTs games over the past 2 weeks or so, and in all honestly I'm fucking awful at it for some reason. I feel like in every matchup I either do well early/mid game and then just dominate for the rest. But if I'm on equal footing then I just keep getting more behind and then just lose (aka most games). Well this is for going against Terran or Protoss, ZvZ hasn't changed a whole lot. I should also note I'm going against plat/gold players mostly.

Do those who have played see themselves doing worse? better? or just the same?

[rtil]

i'm stuck in high plat, so i'm basically one league below where i have been in WoL. so maybe i am doing worse, but it's hard for me to tell. i think that generally in this beta there are more active and good players - when hots actually hits retail i have a feeling getting back in to diamond will be no problem at all as noob will be back on the menu

[rtil]

btw you can see what maps and matchups you're worst at now on the stats and map preferences pages - it shows your win rate % and your w/l. best zerg map seems to be howling peak. my winrate on that map is 70%

[psi43]

i'm stuck in high plat, so i'm basically one league below where i have been in WoL. so maybe i am doing worse, but it's hard for me to tell. i think that generally in this beta there are more active and good players - when hots actually hits retail i have a feeling getting back in to diamond will be no problem at all as noob will be back on the menu

This may be irrelevant, but the ladder also consists of everyone in the beta, whereas WoL is region specific. I played both with and against korean fellas in 2v2 for example.

edit: holy WHAT?! So I just watched a replay and I noticed this little flip-arrow symbol on the replay controls. Apparently, you can now jump into a replay - on any position and play the game from that moment again. Not only that, but you can watch it together with other people and have them take over other people's 'seat' in the replay and retry shit.
Granted, if you do it alone, the AI will take over the other player/s and act differently but still, that's amazing.

[psi43]

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Preview -- eSports and Multiplayer

there we go, that's pretty fucking sweet.

[Sinitron]

basically they added some stuff that was already in brood war and improvements to the very same system which wings of liberty should have had on launch

this has been a long time coming now all they need is better independent tournament/LAN support because fuck butthole.net

[psi43]

we should have a 'launch party'. Just all get together on march 12th, play some 1v1 obs and/or arcade games, etc.

Anyone interested?

[Sinitron]

uhhh maybe but idk if i will have it by then

[Sinitron]

i ordered the collector's edition in store and it might take a day or two before i get it

[cipher]

i ordered the collector's edition in store and it might take a day or two before i get it

Yeah I'm in the same boat, can't pre-install because of it either. Otherwise, unless I have a ton of work, I'd be interested. Maybe we could do it the first friday after launch or something instead

[psi43]

i ordered the collector's edition in store and it might take a day or two before i get it

Yeah I'm in the same boat, can't pre-install because of it either. Otherwise, unless I have a ton of work, I'd be interested. Maybe we could do it the first friday after launch or something instead

Let's say 15th or 16th. First off, it's a weekend and secondly, I'm sure that some of us (me included) would like to play the campaign!

[rtil]

im also going to be splurging on the campaign on launch as well. but i will also have a physical copy because ofmthat beta deal on amazon. but it should arrive on launch day or no later than a day after.

[Sinitron]

i'm just not entirely sure when they ship it from the store so i could have it on launch day if they send it earlier or a couple days after that

[Crabarms]

I just went with normal digital version because the digital collector edition is not worth it.