Dunno about what other people think,but it seems like Battlenet isnt ready yet,from the looks of it.

Even simple things like changing from euro to us servers are still not in game.

The map editor is great,though.

After 4-5 years of development, things like this are unforgivable.

I hope i dont have to go through another "shit game at first few months,then, awesome game later" situation again.

No doubt it looks great now,but some of the fundamental stuff isnt there.

Thanks to melvintcs, i got my Beta key too.

Patching now.

Nope,i didnt pre-order.

Hopefully it works,cause i have friend's beta couldnt launch at all without crashing and i could play without lagging.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: May 4 2010, 08:45 PM

My rig specs is 2.2GHz C2D, 3GB RAM and 8600M GT.

Im actually more concern about the internet connection and ping than my rig. I cracked the client before and it works pretty smoothly.

Thats the major problem with it. It might lag a lot,considering im in Australia which is even further to US.

Downloading the huge patch now. How big is that patch?

Damn,still havent patch finish.

The patching is uber slow.

No thanks,mate. I hate SMM since day 1.

I rather pay more in Aus now,even im paying another RM100 more.

Why i cant login to Battlenet?

It keeps on saying that i dont have SC2 while i have a valid key.

I have redeem and it's in my battlenet account.

Great,seems like my client is the Great Britain version where i downloaded back in KL.

StarCraft_II_Beta_enGB_13891_Installer

Thats my folder name.

I have deleted it.

Redownload everything again so that nothing goes wrong this time.

f***ing Blizzard. Develop a game for 5 years that cannot change region and a patching system that was used 3 years ago. Damn "awesome" game.

This have to work,wasted 2GB of my quota just to make this Beta work.

Thats why im getting from EB instead.

I rather pay RM100 more than getting from them.

The thing is, the Blizzard patcher suxs. It took me 3 hours to patch the damn game,while Steam would have happily finish it in 30 minutes.They have to get rid of the torrenting and use direct downloads. Then,they have region lock for Beta. It's another major problem and for some reason, it's on low priority for Blizzard to fix it.

My experience with the Beta so far is horrible. Worst beta ever,compared to RA3, BFBC2, DoW2, C&C4 and HoN Beta.

Well,as people always say, Blizzard is awesome and everything they do is great.

The way Blizzard patch is already obsolete and terrible, as most companies have changed to different method of patching where the client compares the local files and the files on server. Then, download only the files needed so the the local files is the same as the server. Blizzard have so much resource and they cant do it. Worse, there is not even a cumulative patch for the first few patches for the Beta as you have to download patch 1 to 10 one by one.

If they are so great, why is the patching is so painful and slow?

Even RA3 Beta have cumulative patches for each patch released.

I couldnt find any thread that have patch 9 which is the huge patch. The small ones are still ok.

I really dont see it as an excuse for not updating the software as the game has been in development for 5 years.

SC2 definitely needs a longer Beta,at least 3 months more,IMO. Battlenet doesnt seem as great as it was advertised.

From what i see on the thread, there are quite a few who spent few days in patching the game which means the patching system isnt efficient for some people.I have even seen people using a 3.5MBps connection who also took like 2 hours to patch the Beta.

It's not doing what is Steam is currently doing now, Blizzard updater is downloading each individual patches and apply them one by one which is slow and inefficient. Steam does it all in one go like find whats different and download whats different to replace it. There are cases where my TF2 just have a corrupted texture, it just find an replace that texture without the need of reinstalling the whole thing. Does Blizzard Updater does anything like this?

Considering Blizzard's past reputation and how close is the game to release, this isnt forgivable at all. Seems like the same DoW2 1.0 incident gonna happen again.

I cant be spending days to patch the damn game everytime i install the game.

Exactly. The size has nothing to do with it.

It took me 2 hours for Patch 9,while the earlier patches are pretty fast.

Could be better,IMO.

1 Day to patch a game is ridiculous.

Just finished my placement matches. Now in Cooper ladder.

Im not sure which race to go with, probably Random for now. Terran feels harder in SC2 than SC1.