Starcraft 2, (Relatively) Open beta access! Options

[Crushinator]

You can now get SC2 beta keys for pre-ordering at Gamestop, so pretty much any of us who want in can do so!

I'll probably be snagging one later today, is anyone else going to get on this? We need to set up some AT games and b.net buddy lists!

[Scan_Man]

I have a lot of work to do to get better at this game. Man, I got placed in the worse league and I'm still getting owned. I'm ranked like 53 in the Copper League 5th division. That sounds like I'm waaaaaaaaaay at the bottom of the barrel. I never had this much trouble in Command and Conquer 3 or Red alert 3.

It seems the bar is ridiculous high in the skill needed to even be considered a total noob. Seems to happen in these types of game that people been playing for years. Like in Heroes of Newerth, playing in newbie games means the people actually have 5 years of experience playing Defense of the Ancients, and you will get owned and cursed at if you fuck up.


Now some impressions.

The home screen interface is bitchin! It is similar to the interface to Heroes of Newerth, but cleaner. The ladder system is very nice, and lot easier to see where you stand than some of ELO systems some games use.

This game is badly optimized. Yeah I know it is in beta. But, it just like WoW is badly optimized; it is several years old but runs like crap on high settings compared to brand new games like Mass Effect 2 on high settings. Right now I'm using my laptop until I replace my high end graphic card (which died on me right before I could finish Mass Effect 2 a couple months back) in my desk top. My laptop is decent, but I ran into a few problems. I kept running into this error that would spam my screen during play saying Low Page Pool, game will start to run like crap blah blah blah. It never affected my performance, but it was annoying to keep seeing that message. Anyway, there are people with top of the line systems getting this message too. There is a fix on the forums, and after trying them it fixed that error. And it fixed the minor hitching problems I was running into during gameplay, but mostly on the home screen with the big planet and ship passing by. But yeah, you have people running this game with very good computers and are having framerate issues with Medium settings when they can handle Ultra settings.

The game is nice though. Very easy to jump into a game.