Starcraft 2: Official ASE Thread

This is the Starcraft 2 thread. It is being released, like soon. Don't even talk to me when it does get out. I'll have it on day one.

I've got my copy. Anyone else?

Was thinking about buying it from blizzard online. So glad this came out today, blizz skipped server maintenance on all wow servers. Hahahaha yeah I'm a loser. =P

It's installed and I haven't played it yet. Trying to get a review done before.

If it's like the original, I *might* skip it. I never could beat the computer in single player mode.

I've got to say that I'm not happy about having to sign into Battle.net to play the single player game. What the hell is that shit about?

LAN gaming? Blizzard really dropped the ball on this one.

I'm appalled that no one has posted in this thread that has the game.

My name is MasterAron... FIND ME!

Aron, Whats your Real ID email, so I can add you to my battle.net friends list. I am planning on buying this after my AC trip.

StarCraft 2 is wonderful. It's been way too long and my macro has gone to hell. Definitely going to be working on that for the next few weeks.

PANCAKES IN THE HOUSE!

You better add me on Starcraft 2! WELCOME BACK.

Expect a request from signpainter, Aron.

actually i think i need your code

I was loving this game till I moved into university residences. And the damn ports are blocked so I cant play it here. Twas a sad day. Just been spending time looking for a work around

Really?

If it is NAT (PAT) based routing, Starcraft 2 should be able to handle that.

Question; Does the game work in single player?

No the game doesnt work in single player. Im not sure what kind of networking it is. if I try to start single player I get the message 'To enable offline play,connect to battle.net to authorize your game client. you also need at least one starcraft 2 player on the account'. Which is odd, as I was playing it the day before I got here.
While trying to connect to battle.net, I get the waiting for 'responce from battle.net' until it times out. I cant work out why some games wont work, Source games like CSS and TF2 work, but I cant get SC2, WoW or League of legends to work at all.

Blizzard really screwed everyone with this always online Starcraft 2. You can't even play single player... that's terrible. I'd probably email your network admin and tell them...

I'd also contact Blizzard and demand you be able to return the defective product (since you can't use it).

If you're interested at all Aron, I managed to get onto the single player through a SSH tunneling method. problem is I need to connect to a server, and the one im using cuts out every 30 mins due to me not paying for it, a trail account type thing. So I can play single player for now at least, and it gives me hope for a real fix. Just got to find a free SSH server. If you look for people using methods to tunnel World of warcraft to lower ping somehow, this is exactly what I did, with SC2. The network ports are all the same, so it was dead easy to set up, and it just allows me to get past the weird network configuration here at uni

I really don't understand. Why are you able to tunnel SSH and not play the game directly?

Also, the setup that you have would probably benefit some members. Could you post the steps? You can easily run OpenSSH on a Linux box.

Hell, you could get a really cheap Linux hosting service for that or roll your own at your house for unrestricted internet.

Errmm, these are the instructions I used http://www.wowtunnels.com/instructions_32bit_manual
Im not too sure how it works, I just know it does. I set up the application through freecap as starcraft insted of Warcraft though. I should find a free server soon, or set one up at home as you say. the problem is, my connection at home isnt great, like 2.2mb download and 0.5mb upload, so that would pretty much rule out multiplayer aswell. Before I tried this, I couldnt connect to battle.net servers at all, just got the battle.net is down message.