Starcraft 2 has me at Beta

[Ice]

Hum, I kind of don't understand what you mean. Is it a hacked version? If so, you might want to delete this topic.

You won't find the word hacked, or anything of the equivalent in this thread.

In any case, even though a beta round ended yesterday, I'm not sure the NDA is lifted yet (as another round of test is planned). So even though I've played it, I'll refrain from posting about it, for now :D

Why will you refrain from posting?

[pevergreen]

It was an closed beta, but no NDA, wasn't it?

I got an invite to it, but I gave it away.

[Beskar]

I was given one, but I wasn't keen on the online play. I especially hated all the anti-rush forced on some of the maps, it really removed the ability of me to play zerg.

[Meneldil]

You won't find the word hacked, or anything of the equivalent in this thread.



Why will you refrain from posting?

Because I'm not sure what I can say or not according to the NDA, and because the Org admins are usually quite touchy about this kind of stuff. Anyway, there's not much to say : it's SC with better graphisms and new units. Nothing mind-blowing, even though the game is pretty good.

[TevashSzat]

I played some games on multiplayer as Protoss. It was a good game, but I just I guess didn't really feel too much into it. I think that probably has to deal with the fact that the custom map people haven't come out and worked their magic yet.

What I learned from the beta? Void Rays are just ridiculous.

[LeftEyeNine]

More or less the same critiques when W3 was beta as well.

That means something to love has yet to come.

[Beskar]

Have I mentioned I hated the anti-rush stuff they slapped in the game?

It seems completely unbalanced to play as a zerg, where you effectively have no defense and have to rely on the offense.

You have to surround their base to stop them expanding, but lets say if you are playing against Terrans, they just supply depot wall their base anyway, and they just stick thor's/etc defending, which makes it basically impossible for your attacks to do anything. While you are stunted off, the terran player just turtles the best ships, etc and Zerg have no effective anti-air counters, which means you are forced in having to attempt to mount up on Hydralisk (which are expensive) just to have a fail attempt at defending.


Another thing I noticed, a lot of the maps have ridges. So I am there having to take this long route around, destroying all these boulders, etc, the terrans build up on jetpacks, and just effectively fly into your workers, doing serious damage and running off, constant hit-and-run, while you can't even get anywhere near theirs.



In short, I am not going to play Zerg at release.

[Ice]

Have I mentioned I hated the anti-rush stuff they slapped in the game?

It seems completely unbalanced to play as a zerg, where you effectively have no defense and have to rely on the offense.

You have to surround their base to stop them expanding, but lets say if you are playing against Terrans, they just supply depot wall their base anyway, and they just stick thor's/etc defending, which makes it basically impossible for your attacks to do anything. While you are stunted off, the terran player just turtles the best ships, etc and Zerg have no effective anti-air counters, which means you are forced in having to attempt to mount up on Hydralisk (which are expensive) just to have a fail attempt at defending.


Another thing I noticed, a lot of the maps have ridges. So I am there having to take this long route around, destroying all these boulders, etc, the terrans build up on jetpacks, and just effectively fly into your workers, doing serious damage and running off, constant hit-and-run, while you can't even get anywhere near theirs.



In short, I am not going to play Zerg at release.

Yeah zerg does seem a bit unbalanced. The units above (marauders/thors) along with stimmed marines with balastic shields usually beats anything the zerg can muster.

@Menedil:

Is there really a NDA? There are public forums, which are open to the general public, where people openly discuss the beta. Along with this, many replays have been posted on youtube. The game is pretty much out in the open.

[Beskar]

I think this video decipts perfectly what occurs.


(excuse that guys horrible voice)