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StarCraft II Wings of Liberty Release Tonight

Quelex — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:49:32 +0000

Hey everybody,

Well the day is upon us finally. Tonight at midnight, there are plenty of places (Gamestops for example) that will be holding midnight launches of SCIIWoL.

We hope you all enjoy the game! We hope to see you on there too. If you want some people to play with you can always make some friends in the forums here at CC.

We will be getting new content out soonish. Summer is a hard time to get work on the site done. But we are planning on a patch notes page, SCII maps page, and of course, updating our unit pages. There’s plenty more work that needs to be done, and information that we want you to know. Again, the forums here at CC are a great resource because there are plenty of people who lurk around (Not so much posting in the last few days :p ) who are there to help. Much faster than waiting for the site to get updated by 3 guys on a volunteer basis.

At any rate, we are all very excited here at CreepColony to get on Battle.net with our new game. We will see you there. If you have anything (Maps, Screen Shots, etc) to submit, just join the forums and post it up and we’ll get it on the site and credit you.

And most importantly let us know how you like the game. It’s been over a decade, hell it’s about time.

Later!

SCII Beta Update: Beta Ends Today

Quelex — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:08:28 +0000

If you have been neglecting to get on Battle net with Wings of Liberty lately, you should get on there today. The beta testing will end tonight as they shut down the servers so they can get the game ready for release in a little over a week.

If you want anybody to play with, jump on our forums and say something. I’m sure a good portion of our forum members will be on there today (assuming they have the beta).

It’s been fun being on there. And we will continue to get you news on the game when it comes out.

SCII Beta Update: Patch 18

Quelex — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:05:07 +0000

General

- The Mac StarCraft II Editor is now available!

Bug Fixes

- Burrowed Ultralisks now have the correct 500 hit points while burrowed.
- Fixed an issue where custom maps utilizing custom loading screens could cause players to lag or be dropped from Battle.net.
- Fixed an issue during replays when rewinding could cause the replay to desync.
- Fixed an issue with in-game menus causing performance issues.

SCII Beta Update: Patch 17

Quelex — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:48:19 +0000

Bug Fixes

Many of the following bug fixes were intended for internal testing only, and are now being reverted.
- - 250mm Strike Cannons can no longer deal damage to hidden targets.
- - Barracks build time decreased from 65 to 60 seconds.
- - Bunker build time decreased from 40 to 30 seconds.
- - Canceling morphing Banelings now returns 75% of the cost like other morphing Zerg units.
- - Hellion range reverted from 6 to 5.
- - Reaper build time decreased from 45 to 40 seconds.
- - Zealot build time decreased from 38 to 33 seconds.

SCII Beta Update: Patch 16

Quelex — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:46:54 +0000

General

- Rally points now behave as a move command, instead of an attack move command.
- Enabled the ability to manually add a StarCraft II character friend using the player’s character code. Character code is a server-assigned numerical code that is displayed within the Add Friend panel.
- Battle.net Achievements & Rewards have been updated.
- All Quick Match modes are now available: 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, and Free For All.
- All A.I. difficulties are now available for play.
- Cooperative matchmaking versus A.I. players is now available as a play mode.
- Enabled cross-game social features between World of Warcraft and StarCraft II.

Balance Changes

ZERG
- Infestor
  - - Frenzy spell removed.
  - - Infested Terran spell added.
- Overseer
  - - Infested Terran spell removed.
- Ultralisk
  - - Now immune to stuns and mind control.

SCII Beta Update: Back online

Quelex — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:49:04 +0000

To those who have been following us we’ve all been on a little break. We did however find out that the Beta for Wings of Liberty is now back online. So all those who have been waiting go play some StarCraft II again!

SCII Beta Update: Beta Downtime Begins Tomorrow & Replay Info

Quelex — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:55:19 +0000

Hey guys,

The StarCraft II Beta is planned on going down tomorrow with no extensions announced. It should be coming back according to Blizzard a few weeks before the game is released at the end of July. So make sure you get on there now if you want to play with some people. You will still be able to play Single Player games while Battle.net is down for it.

It was also made known that a planned patch when the Beta returns will be removing the old versions of StarCraft II from your computer. This will cause your Replays to no longer be available to watch on Battle.net.

SCII Beta Update: Patch 14

Quelex — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:18:23 +0000

Patch 14 was released yesterday. Here are the patch notes. It seems to boost Zerg units and fixes a big error with map publishing.

Balance Changes

PROTOSS

Archon

- Build time decreased from 17 to 12.

TERRAN

Viking

- Ground damage decreased from 14 to 12.

ZERG

Corruptor

- Corruption energy cost decreased from 100 to 75.

Infestor

- Burrowed move speed increased from 1 to 2.
- Peristalsis upgrade removed.

Overlord/Overseer

- Pneumatized Carapace cost increased from 50/50 to 100/100.

Overseer

- Infested Terran energy cost decreased from 125 to 100.

Roach

- Organic Carapace upgrade removed.
- Tunneling Claws now also increases burrowed regeneration rate from 5 to 10.

Ultralisk

- Anabolic Synthesis upgrade removed.
- Health increased from 450 to 500.
- Speed increased from 2.25 to 2.9531.

Bug Fixes

- Map Publishing: the default Battle.net host now points to the correct server.
- Time Expiration notices that were added for testing of the Guest Pass functionality have been removed.
- Fixed a crash when trying to open an old replay by double-clicking it in Explorer.

SC2 Beta Downtime Date Changed

Puppet Master — Sat, 29 May 2010 20:54:42 +0000

That’s correct folks. The SC2 beta shall stay online until June 7th now, so make sure you take advantage of this because once the servers go down, they won’t be back up for at least a couple of weeks. For more information, check out this link:

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=25135304348&sid=5000

SCII Beta Update: Patch 13 Problems and Beta Downtime

Quelex — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:31:14 +0000

Hey guys,

Patch 13 has been having issues since it came out. I haven’t been able to join or create games on Battle.net and so have some of my friends. It seems all the servers are being used up constantly.

Patch 13 enabled the publishing of StarCraft II Maps. This means you can have up to 20 MB worth of Maps and Mods you can upload to your SCII Account, and once published anyone can use your mod or play your map even when you’re not online. Pretty cool. Except it’s probably linked to why all the servers went haywire.

At any rate, this article here talks about the issues with publishing maps and how to get around it.

One last thing to mention if it was mentioned on here before. Blizzard announced a little while ago that the Beta will be having downtime on Battle.net for a few weeks starting May 31st. This means you can still play maps by loading them through the map editor, but you cannot play online until they have finished.