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Even though I wasn't interested in getting the game, I might just go down for a looksee since I live nearby.

nuke the site from orbit

Wow that is a big do.

That's a whole lotta cold geeks right there!

Yes Im f***ing jealous. WANT NAO!

Gotta pre-order brudda?

Haha!

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Decent sized crowd.
I hope none of them are with OPTARSE

holy crap

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That's insane can't wait to get this tomorrow shame I gotta work all day :(

Everyone queued up for the big release

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I just installed my digital copy but can't buy the cd key :(

Lol. They are giving out empty boxes and posters. The longing look that some of these people are giving the boxes/posters is kinda creepy.

Is that Kerrigan cosplay a fan or a Blizzard?!

when does the game actually become playable?

From the quality of the outfit, I'd say fan.

The game is playable NOW! Well...when it's installed, I'm @ 62%, ugh!

so why does blizzard say it becomes available at 3AM on the 28th on its website?

That's for digital download copies...they want to give retailers a head start I guess.

good look activating it lol mate been trying now for a hour no go

Installerising. God damn that brisbane launch was boreville. Besides the Pylon guy lolz.

downloading now

Installed!!! updating now!!

Did everyone get like 4 guest passes for SC2 and WoW? 7 hours gametime for mates. Plus a notepad lolz.

Installing.... please tell me this s*** doenst need the dvd drive once installed, my dvd drive is so boned (takes about 300 clicks for the bastard to open) and I only have one between two pc's, so its kinda hanging in the air at the moment to install :P

Might have to go buy some drives tomorrow :/

Na its sweet. Once installed there is a small patch. DOnt need cd in.

Bnet is up and MP is working fyi.

awesome thanks ctd! Athzhr and I are about to jump onto some MP soon if you are keen :)

Some photos from the launch on my SLR: http://gamers-underground.com/content/690-sc2-launch-party-rocks-brisbane-southeast-asia-client-unlocked.htmlhttp://gamers-underground.com/content/690-sc2-launch-party-rocks-brisbane-southeast-asia-client-unlocked.html

Um, woops. Doubled that up.

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First Game:

Athzhr: Zerg (Drops in first 6 minutes)
Myself: Terran

vs

Terran
Toss

We Win, 2v1 :P ^__^

Yeah just won my first game as well - good start to retail. Off to bed now. :)

Mann im too tired. Won a couple of 1v1's and lost one and lost a 2v2. Just was so slow, could tell need rest :P try again fresh tomorrow arv after work.

Was great time, got my CE signed by StarCraft II Producer Kaeo Milker. If anyone saw me, I was the guy with the UV reactive eyes.
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ok so i have gone to the battle net site, tired to login and its not logging in anyone else having issue... the password is correct because when i type it wrong it tells me

WOrks fine for me - doesn't have a 'welcome, TiT' thing at top right when you enter correct password?

goddamnit i think i'm gonna have to cave and see if i can find a copy of this somewhere this morning.

except i'm on optus cable, worried about this whole ping situation :(++

ok for some reason i can login if i use us.battle..net but cant log into sea???

Ugh... My copy is in the mail somewhere and wont arrive till tomorrow at the soonest. I can be paitent... I can be paitent...

At least they've sent yours to the right spot DM. My copy is heading to my old office in Brisbane, which I have to then get re-sent down here.

I just went to my Local Big W this morning and picked it up for $74.96. Yay.

Met up with a friend of mine to see the launch, but I started work at 11:30pm, so I didn't stick around

I did see the Pylon walking around though, much win

Pics of pylon required.

Eagerly awaiting post here. I can be patient. I can be cool.

does anyone know the price of the digital version?

ONE MILLION DORRARS

Probably 80-100 AU I guess. Blizzard isn't gonna undercut EB.

At first I laughed at my mate who took today off work ... now i'm sitting at my desking thinking i should have done the same :(

only played first 3 missions in SP but such a nice looking game.

Was great time, got my CE signed by StarCraft II Producer Kaeo Milker. If anyone saw me, I was the guy with the UV reactive eyes.

I did see you, if you were a big dude with bright yellow eyes!

ok where is the cheapest place i can buy this game... Big W is looking the winnar

dick smith online $69.94

http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/4c4e1dfa01942b762740c0a87e010688/Product/View/YG6985?utm_campaign=HeroBanner&utm_medium=heroflash&utm_source=YG6985

Just rang dick smith Woolloongabba they 4 left at that price too

YES YES YES
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GIMMMMAAAH NAO

Hurry aaarrrrrrrrp driver!

BATTLE CRUISER OPERATIONAL

i just picked up a copy from my local jb for $89 out of laziness.

goddamn, gotta get my APM happening again. haven't played any serious RTS for aaaaaages (wc3:tft).

Mine just arrived for me at work. I ordered from game.com.au.

I think I'm coming down with something. *cough*

T_T My tracking number I got ain't working. Comes up with the standard "no item with this number" thing. Guess I gotta wait a bit longer cuz it hasn't been put in the system yet. I'm extremely impaitent.

it only gets added to the system when its scanned at the destination.

I did see the Pylon walking around though, much win

Judicator Aldaris must have come back from the dead to do some whinging prior to the launch event.

just bought mine from dick smith :)

I did see the Pylon walking around though, much win

Judicator Aldaris must have come back from the dead to do some whinging prior to the launch event.

Well, he was right about Kerrigan.

Can I just say, single player was EPIC.

youve already finished sp? must be pretty short.

He's had 11 hours ... :)

BigW you say ?
dammit Im not gonna be able to resist.

Its been said the SP has ~12 main missions and a whole bunch of side missions and if you were to add all possible missions up and played on a challenging difficulty for your skillset then it would add up to ~20-30 hours.

I call bs!

Jesus you've finished SP already? Good thing I suck at RTSes then so it'll last me longer. Why would you just blaze through the game at breakneck pace though to finish it the day it's released? Why not savor it a bit more?

Its been said the SP has ~12 main missions and a whole bunch of side missions and if you were to add all possible missions up and played on a challenging difficulty for your skillset then it would add up to ~20-30 hours.

I call bs!

He might have rushed through doing only the core missions maybe? glittering prizes?! :P

oh i didnt call bs about him finishing it. i call bs the game has that many hours in it considering how few missions there are. fkn blizzard yapping on about their 30 hours of gameplay is sooooooo full of crap

Oh yeh, 30 hours if you wanna get all the side prizes and achievements mebbe.

This is no Dragon Age - the meat is definetly in the multiplayer.

downloading 40mb patch

Mine still hasnt been delivered yet and theres only 5 hours in the business day left. QUICK PANIC

Did anyone do the digital copy? Want to find out the price difference vs retail while I am still at work.

Mine still hasnt been delivered yet and theres only 5 hours in the business day left. QUICK PANIC

SAME PANIC NOW

i'm 1 win / 1 loss so far. Tried to proxy rush a terran who walled me off and smashtowned me. But then was PvP and proxy rushed. Walked into his base with 5 zealots and he hadn't built a unit.

Did anyone do the digital copy? Want to find out the price difference vs retail while I am still at work.

Digital copy is not out till tomorrow seen no prices that why i bought it from dick smith cant see it being any cheaper then $69.75

Yeah, because attending a promoter event with a developer panel, competitions and prize giveaways is exactly the same thing as sitting out the front of a closed shopping-centre for 24 hours to get a new telephone.

spoken like a true fanboy, it was more like 3 hours too
you're lining up at the exact same time for similar reasons - you want something that happens to be launched at midnight

lol what, I'm playing SP on hard, and I've put in maybe ?3 hours so far, getting every achievement on the way (which means redoing missions most of the time and trying to get as many possible done each time, which is usually difficult with the timed ones).

And I think I'm up to like the 4th mission? 3rd story and first sideline....
There's plenty of SP value if you aren't just in for "I finished first!" I guess.

Especially since a lot of the achievements are actually side-line things within missions as well, it seems very gimp to rush straight to the objective.
The first side quest artifact mission is a good example, you can skip ~3/4 of the map if you don't go for the sideline achievements.....

Also a massive difference between normal difficulty and hard, normal is slower gameplay, weaker (non upgraded) and far fewer enemies, you probably could finish it in a few hours on normal :/

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^ I should probably point out that what I mean is, some of the 'achievements' actually vastly changes how each mission is played out and the challenges involved.
It kind of does add replay value to the missions.

WOOT wifey reports receipt of precious cargo!

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Work slightly unlikely now...

Ok just got mine from JB-Hifi on Adelaide Street. $69

Sorry, I think there was a little confusion. My fault over bad way of wording it. When I got home last night I played some of the SP and what I did play was Epic. Play brutal and by the 4th mission, when you have to sneak behind protoss when they are defending against zerg... Try to Take out Zerg. It's so fun on Brutal.

I think it will take me along time to finish SP as I want to do it well.

Installing now on my MBP which is just f***ing awesome - Blizzard really nail this s*** by releasing top quality games AND PC/MAC clients on the same DVD.

Installing now on my MBP which is just f***ing awesome - Blizzard really nail this s*** by releasing top quality games AND PC/MAC clients on the same DVD.

but how do you move your units with only one mouse button

(hahawheaahwehahwewa)

It just works Trog.

but how do you move your units with only one mouse button

You're holding it wrong

bazinga!

ahah is it just me or is the stripper hologram thing in the cantina in single player campaign a night elf doing /dance?!

i hope that my macbook is powerful enough to play it, its the only computer I have now :(

Work's almost over... almost time to play... I can taste it.

PS. Using Mac for gaming = You're doing it wrong.

just finished downloading and installing and i gotta wait 2 hours before i can check the digital price.. if its more then 44 i'll get it from a store

I feel physically burnt by trogs burn :(

PS. Using Mac for gaming = You're doing it wrong.

Any particular reason why it's wrong .. I mean SC2 has an OSX client (so does WoW) and it runs just as good as a game would on a PC laptop .. FWIW, the MBP is my work laptop (yes work is that awesome I get to play games here) and I have a PC at home for gaming.

this update is taking too long. GO FASTER

Any particular reason why it's wrong .. I mean SC2 has an OSX client (so does WoW) and it runs just as good as a game would on a PC laptop .. FWIW, the MBP is my work laptop (yes work is that awesome I get to play games here) and I have a PC at home for gaming.

Was semi-serious =] Basically I feel it's a right tool for the right job type of scenario. Yes you can play that particular game on a MAC, but it would be a lot more cost effective and allow you to play more games on a PC. So in terms of Gaming, PC has the advantage.

Yumm SC2 on my 27" i7 iMac I can't wait
I downloaded digital copy, installed last night updated and all ready to rock and roll by 11:45pm last night, picked up my copy today and activated my key online at work just gotta login when i get home /muahah it's perfect

Hrmmm, anyone had trouble with the voice options? Whenever I go into the options, and go to the voice options, it says there are no mics detected, then it hangs and I need to restart my PC (can't even kill it).

Khel - Using a Logitech USB mic here and don't have that issue :/
(For what it's worth)

sorry mate.

Hell , its about time!

Mannn, what a silly downloader. It's maxing my uploads which means my down speed is crap.

Are the servers really jolty laggy for anyone atm?

What is with games these days coming in a crappy cardboard case instead of a proper plastic one? What am I supposed to do with this? The game disc falls straight out.

I had to wipe my disc because there was a smear on it and the game wouldn't install. I blame the lack of a decent case.

Mannn, what a silly downloader. It's maxing my uploads which means my down speed is crap.

Turn off peer to peer in the options. Now.

Turn off peer to peer in the options. Now.

Yeah, I did before I made the post, jumped up to 350 from 80 or so. Still silly, I'd leave it on p2p and help distribute it if I could limit the up to 50 or something..

Did the RealID friends list f*** up or something? All the people I had added in WoW I've had to re-add in SC2 (even though they use the same b.net login).

Tickles, I believe it's not cross game just yet.

Did the RealID friends list f*** up or something? All the people I had added in WoW I've had to re-add in SC2 (even though they use the same b.net login).

Same, none of my realid friends show up in Starcraft 2, which seems kind of pointless cos I thought that was the whole idea behind the realid thing.

It definitely works cross-game, cos when I'm in WoW I can see people playing starcraft 2, its just in starcraft 2 none of them show up.

playing the single player is frustrating when the server goes down, it asks you to log back in to your account but it doesn't pause your game... and I pressed escape thinking it might just let me play offline but it quit the whole game instead.

boooooooooooooooooo..... (but its ok cause i was on the zombie mission - if thats a spoiler you are a girl - and I dont mind replaying that)

Server lag seemed fine, the ping is no better (or worse) than on the US in beta.

The SP is very polished and is great fun the play, my only problem with it is the frustration when setting it to brutal, it basically turns into discovering what the triggers are, not setting them off, build up 200 army and then setting it off. Anything short of this and you will wipe and have to reload from last save. If thats what they mean by hard then.. bleh.

Honestly surprised how well the server has handled. Though I might of missed the initial surge. Played about 7 ladder games tonight, totally smooth except for 2 random dc's but it didnt count for some reason.

Servers seem boned now, dropping people left right and center out of games :/

Yea I finally started stomping someones base with 2 colossosossses, then randomly droppped >:/

wheres a cheap place to buy cd keys

I put together a feed system for Hogs site, but there may be other local starcraft communities that would benefit from the data.

http://sc2.slawed.net/

So I'm f***ing exhausted this morning - I was up till about 1.30 playing this and every minute was just brilliant. I smashed out some single player campaign on Hard mode but it became quite difficult about 4-5 missions in so had to throttle back to normal and then breezed through, so my first thought is that a middle ground here would have been nice but alas I can just go back later and give it a go.

The single player campaign and story line is just bulls*** for an RTS. It really gets you hooked and interested in what happens to the characters, the ability to upgrade & research outside of the 'battlefield' is very very awesome. So I cracked into some multiplayer and had one of the practice runs against someone who tried to rush me with marines, failed and then I started to attack with battle cruisers, drop shops with siege tanks, etc and he disconnected :(

10/10 from Ticcles!

it was interesting how you can connect to facebook and add friends... just showed me which of my facebook friends are geeks :)

Did the RealID friends list f*** up or something? All the people I had added in WoW I've had to re-add in SC2 (even though they use the same b.net login).

Same, none of my realid friends show up in Starcraft 2, which seems kind of pointless cos I thought that was the whole idea behind the realid thing.

It definitely works cross-game, cos when I'm in WoW I can see people playing starcraft 2, its just in starcraft 2 none of them show up.

SEA is seperate from US for RealID. So you can see Americans playing StarCraft when you are in WoW, but you can't see anyone in WoW ever when you are in SEA StarCraft because there is no SEA realm for WoW!

Its a complete and utter balls up, making RealID 90% pointless for SEA as there is no cross-game support to speak of. It just shows you more info on what your friend is doing in StarCraft. BFD.

I reckon this realisation is why they backflipped on SEA region locking, because SEA makes a mockery of their RealID posterboy.

SEA is seperate from US for RealID. So you can see Americans playing StarCraft in WoW, but you can't see anyone in WoW ever in SEA because there is no SEA realm for WoW.

For real? Jesus that's a balls up .. the whole regionalised thing is crap. The SEA forums are abysmal compared to the US forums, all my existing RealID friends are done via WoW so that's on the US battle.net, etc.

59 days to go

Got it yesterday, f*** it felt good to stick it to EB with that $69 price match. Being a complete RTS noob I need someone to show me how this s*** all works. I'm gonna get my ass handed to me online.

Awesome looking game though, looking forward to many months (years?) of play

Just got my copy about 3 hours ago and blizzard have once again smashed it out of the park. 3 things I bloody love about this,

- Getting to pick what mission, and thus what new units/buildings you get is fantastic. I know some other RTS games let you choose missions but you never know what you get for doing one before the other. This lets you tackle missions with better units.

- Research and upgrading paths are fantastic. Seriously they are amazing. The 20 or so zerg/protoss upgrades for buildings/units and then on top of that the bought upgrades with your mission credits are just so cool. Every RTS should have this

- Between missions how you can look around your bar/ship and see little scenes between people adds so much depth to the game. Silly as it may sound, looking around inside the ship, talking to people, watching the TV and all that stuff really helps you feel like your there through it all.

Never doubted this game would be good but holy crap. Also the stuff in the CE edition is awesome. Now I just gotta get in on time when they release the next 2 (which they will do I bet).

Lost viking Challenge (Access it from the old arcade machine in the cantina)

287,950 (level 6)!

Can't for the life of me get close to that 500,000 achievement :/

Started playing some challenge missions. For some reason the game speed in the challenges is set to normal (slower than when you play the SP and slower than MP; both are played on "Faster" speeds). Anyone know how to change this? I looked in gameplay options when I was in the challenge mission and the game speed is greyed out. :(