OT: Starcraft II at midnight?
Bah, why do I have to be so poor? Hopefully someone here is getting it later tonight so I can live vicariously through you until I get paid on Friday.
Good I'm glad you started this thread--I was just going to. Unlucky to not get the game tonight mate. I'll be leaving shortly!! I'll post a UFR after the first hour. Was wondering if anyone else is getting it? And if they were up for a game?
Christ we are surrounded by dorks, who gives a damn. Post in a "Hey i'm a geek shut in who has no friends" blog. In here we talk Michigan football. Thats right Fng Michigan Football,YE HA. Sons of Bitches
Hey brah! Let's eat nachos, drink beer, watch porn, and fart like real men, not these dorks!
I like the occasional video game, but those are all pretty awesome things.
GTFO.
thx
I'm not a fan of camping out at Gamestop until Midnight, so I'll probably end up getting it tomorrow morning/afternoon.
However, the folks at teamliquid.net are doing a launch-cast from now until midnight:
Probably worth a watch if you're into seeing some gameplay before you have a copy of your own.
Cooool. Thank you. The original Starcraft was most of my middle school years. I am entirely giddy.
Since you're not getting the game to friday, you can usually find 10-20 people streaming Starcraft 2 games on this website (look on the right of the webpage in the "user stream" section). There were lots of streamers during the beta and probably many many more upon launch.
A quick and easy way to get your Starcraft 2 fix while you wait for that paycheck =)
I'm getting it tonight, I was ranked Diamond #3 at my best during the beta :) Any tips you want, I'll give them!
please do. I have to work tomorrow during the day so I'm picking it up during my lunch and any help will be awesome so I can catch up to my friends who got in on the beta :)
I guess without giving a massive rundown of the entire game, here are some really quick tips:
1) Always always scout, with whatever you can. Knowing if the other guy is teching to air or rushing with mass tier 1 units is the difference between a win and a loss.
2) Play agressive: as a noob it's easy to just try and sit back and build up defenses, but that's the easiest way to lose. Always try to keep a very mobile army and poke around the enemy, looking for places to harass, attack, or do air drops.
3) Expand. If you ever have >400 minerals that you don't have an immediate use for, go build a nexus/hatchery/command center.
4) Saturate your harvesters. Always try and have ~2.3 workers per mineral field.
5) Don't play zerg. They're really hard to learn as a noob, either protoss or terran are better for a beginner.
thanks but I'm not a complete noob lol, I played sc1 a lot. I was never a standout but I was a solid player
Ah. In that case, watch out for void rays if you're playing V protoss. If they charge up they are super-destructive air. Also, remember that some units can jump/walk/warp onto/off of cliffs, which changes the game a lot.
ill be getting it, but i work at 5 am, so i won't be waiting to get it outside a store. Just having a friend at Best buy hide a copy for me for after work.
If people that get it actually wanna play a lot, ill come back and post my account details on here to add as a friend.
I was in Platinum for the beta in solo and 2's ladder, prob be playing after work quite a bit tomorrow
I was so excited when I got my beta key but it turns out my laptop is too old/slow to run it. I have a 6 year old dell inspiron 9300 that has been an absolute champ but it just can't cut it for SC2. I keep telling myself that I need to get a new PC but until this one dies I don't think that's going to happen. I'm flying back to Michigan for UConn, MSU, and the Big Chill so I'd rather save my money for those trips.
But if anyone has a suggestion on a cheap mid-grade gaming desktop I would definitely consider it. Plus I'm still a glutton for punishment at the hands of an 11 year old Korean kid.
"Plus I'm still a glutton for punishment at the hands of an 11 year old Korean kid." Prolly top out of context one liner this site has produced in about 6months
Check Newegg. If you've got a friend that can help you assemble one, you can build a very powerful PC for under a grand (built mine two summers ago, still top of the line, cost about 1k). If you don't have someone that can help you build one, the site also has prebuilt gaming PCs from offbrand companies, they pretty much buy the parts, assemble them, then resell them slightly marked up, for still very cheap. iBUYPOWER is the company I know of offhand, and while they sound really sketchy, I helped a friend of mine buy one of those about a year and a half ago, and it still runs great, with no issues at all (and only cost him 600$, all peripherals included.
Also, the best part about a desktop is, if something does go wrong, you can just fix/replace the bad part instead of the whole machine.
Built a pretty sweet computer for about 700 in January (I had keyboard, mouse, speakers, Windows 7, and a monitor already).
CPU: Intel i5-750
Mobo: ECS P55H-A(1.0)
2 X 2 Gigs mid-level DDR3 Ram 1600Mhz
ATI Radeon HD 4890
500 GB WD HD 7200RPM
Cheapest CD/DVD Burner with ok newegg reviews
Cheap ATX Mid-tower case with decent reviews
Sunbeam PSU-COM780-BK-US 780W
Christ we are surrounded by dorks, who gives a damn. Post in a "Hey i'm a geek shut in who has no friends" blog. In here we talk Michigan football. Thats right Fng Michigan Football,YE HA. Sons of Bitches
We are also, it seems, surrounded by double posts.
I get to neg you twice!
YE HA.
Has anyone with a Mac tried the beta? I have 2 year old macbook pro with only 2 GB RAM - Is that going to be enough to run the game? I hear it runs a lot slower on macs...
Depends on your graphics card. If you have an intergrated graphics card, it will run pretty slow (~10 FPS, playable, but slow). Anything with an Nvidia Graphics card should run no problems on a mac though.
from what my boss tells me, if you're running off 2GB RAM you should be okay during gameplay... he had the beta and said that the only problem i'd hit with 2GB RAM might be during the video scenes
If you guys are wondering this website has the system requirements.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/16/starcraft-2s-pc-and-mac-required-spec…
Junior, i am trying to help you out, get out of the house once in a while, sitting on that couch is turning you into a dough boy. there is a whole big world out there with girls and everything.
How the hell does playing video games equate to not having a social life, Junior?
He's one of those close minded people that can't imagine balancing your personal time with everyones social life. During the week I work, I experienced all the debacle of college, on the wkends most of us still probably party or go out with friends.. sound more like a dumbass.
PROTIP: For vidya game midnight releases, go to Meijer. Never a line, and you can buy a six pack to enjoy with the first few hours.
Have you guys tried to enable the death ray 6000 in that game? You have to push the button that says "What the hell is wrong with you geeks"
Ok guys after work i expect all of you guys at the gym, put down the pocket protectors, the game boys, and take off the black frame, coke bottle glasses with the tape in the middle of them.This is MICHIGAN FOOTBALL, WHERE THE WEAK ARE KILLED AND EATEN!
LoL...making fun of geeks probably isn't the smartest thing. Chances are, we make more money than you.
Chances are we are mostly in college or recent college graduates who enjoy video games because we grew up with them and remember how fucking sweet SC 1 was in middle school, guess we don't chew enough SKOAL...no take that back. Judging from your avatar you are probably some douche bag guido
Probably hacking into my computer as we speak.
I'll be picking it up at lunch.
i thought you were trying to get a bunch of people online to get a game together at midnight. Reminds me of college when guys would go to NUBS and (after NUBS closed) to north campus at midnight to play starcraft (you know, the first one). Before that, it was Doom II at UGLi until 4:30am when they closed the computer lab. I played a little Doom (where I learned the term "frag"), but never got into Warcraft, Diablo, Command and Conquer, Starcraft, etc.
Going to try to get it at meijer tonight, with a handle of bottom shelf whiskey.
as expected, of course. I am going to play through the single player before I hop online, because... well, I don't know why. However, I am also probably going to bump up the difficulty level, because it's been a little too easy.