anyone get in? how is it.

i gotta wait for the mac client i guess...

i might get in, some dude i know works for gamestop or gamefly or something.

not invited

i know someone who went to the blizzcon that gave out beta keys.
he's probably playing it right now
i will go to his apt. and check it out when i get the chance

You can watch replays in the game engine without being in the beta. Just search isohunt.com for "Starcraft 2" and download the first two results. The first one is the beta installer, and the second one includes the battle.net cache and maps required to view replays. There are a few places online uploading SC2 replays for you to download and watch, I found a few good ones here, especially the 2v2 ones near the bottom.

Yeah there is now a crack that allows you to play against the AI, offline. This is awesome... I want to play the full game so bad. They might as well make the game open beta at this point.

Actually, I had the opportunity to play on someone else's account for about 6 hours online (pre patch) the other day. It was glorious. They did a perfect job of continuing the original Starcraft atmosphere and style, while updating everything you can think of. The graphics are awesome. The AI is so much better (especially pathfinding, worker AI, move-attack... everything.) The new units mesh perfectly. And playing online, you run into a lot of the old strategies plus completely new ones.

Anyway, if you want to play against the AI, go to this page and follow the instructions. You can play on any map available in the beta, with 2 or 4 players, with any AI difficulty level (although even Hard is ridiculously easy, I'm going to try Insane next.) Unfortunately you cannot choose your race, it is random, but I'm just happy to be playiiiing.

Edit: Turns out if you hit F10 during the game and click "Restart" it chooses a new race for you, so that's the best way of quickly rerolling for a new race.

I've only watched a few short videos of people playing the beta, and I really enjoyed listening to the new Terran music. Does it remind anyone else of Firefly?

Does it remind anyone else of Firefly?

Pretty much everyone.

it plays pretty much like SC1 except with more unit options.

im in it who gonna play with me im scared of korea

I personally didn't really like the tempo and style of WC3 that much. Starcraft feels so much more fast-paced and more direct.

this is what i like about starcraft! you don't have to waste your time worrying about too much bullshit. it's good to hear that the core gameplay remains unchanged.

This is just the multiplayer though and while it's a huge thing for most people I'm still pretty excited for the campaign and map editor, the latter  probably going to be a majority of the replay value (dota heh).

i just got back from GDC the other and while there i heard a blizzard employee talking about the map editor and apparently they are expanding it a lot, supposedly you can make any kinda game with it(guy even mention that they already have an FPS that was created with it).

blizzard sux

reported.

i always used to get my butt kicked online on the first starcraft. probably going to be more of the same on the new one.