Starcraft 2 Replays

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I've been having connection issues since patch. I read somewhere it has something to do with firewalls so I created rules allowing SC2 to be allowed and was playing for a bit. I just tried to log on and there was a note to the left of the screen stating battle.net was having issues with connectivity. So if you're experiencing errors like "unable to authenticate" or something like that or any connectivity errors in general please stand by as per Blizzard. They're working on it!

Starcraft is by no means an ugly game. It’s beautiful. The art direction is typically Blizzard and the units are detailed. At first glance it just seems to be a less visually appealing experience, but then it lets its hair down. It takes off its glasses and tousles its hair a bit. It looks you in the eyes and says, “At the end of the day, DOW 40k is a shapeless affair with too much make up and expensive clothes. As for me, this face and these curves were cut with one thing in mind. And it certainly doesn’t require make-up or fancy clothes.” And uhh... that thing is being a better game, amirite? That’s where this analogy is going. Definitely. That was not a sexual reference. Even though Starcraft is definitely dead sexy. I don’t want to have sex with Starcraft. If you do please seek psychological help.

StarCraft II Beta -- Patch 13 (version 0.15.0.15449) General

• Map Publishing is now enabled: Using the map editor, you can upload your custom maps to share with the Battle.net community. 
• Facebook feature is integrated: Here’s a quick way to expand your social network by seeing who among your existing Facebook friends also has a Battle.net account. 
• 3v3 and 4v4 formats are now enabled. 
• Numerous updates have been made to the Leagues & Ladders system:

Fast-forward a bit more now, to the present day. I got the beta just under two weeks ago and I have to tell you I wasn’t impressed by the graphics initially. They aren’t that far removed from Warcraft 3. After playing Dawn of War 40k and admiring the detail put into each unit, SC2 just didn’t seem as pretty. Then you get down to the grind. You actually play through a couple matches and the graphics sort of fade away to the fluidity of the game itself. I never got that feeling with DOW 40k. I just didn’t. Yeah it was fun and yes it was complex. There was innovative use of terrain and structures, so many different “stances” you could place your unit in and the graphics/animations were a hell of an improvement over it’s RTS predecessors. But this almost Zen-like gameplay feeling never occured. And that’s the thing with SC2. You can feel it. You can feel a perfection of a technique that belies its graphics. It’s like handling a perfectly weighed blade. It just feels right in your hand, like an extension of yourself, your will as a testosterone fueled male mammal, tempered and forged to execute your need to maim and destroy.