It has now been over a month since the start of Blizzard's StarCraft 2 Beta. On February 17th 2010, thousands of lucky gamers from around the world got an e-mail in their inbox notifying them that they had been chosen to participate in the StarCraft 2 Beta. For hundreds of thousands of other people, they were left pressing F5 for a few dizzying hours before finally giving up. Within a week thousands of games were played, beta testers from all around the world pulled all-nighters through the week to test out the newest RTS from Blizzard.
The results of this fervent testing has resulted in 4 patches that have changed the dynamics of units such as the Infestor and Mothership and have buffed entire aspects of a race such as Terran build times. These changes are all categorized by race and then by patch in the "a work in progress..." section of this feature. Radoslav "NydrA" Kolev has also written a review of some of those changes.
Not only have players been playing hundreds of matches, but a few hundred of them are making these matches count. Over half a dozen tournaments and show-matches have sprung up over the internet, rewarding the best and brightest beta testers that have been able to find winning strategies and builds this early in the beta. Check out who is contributing by organizing these events, and just how much they are giving away in the "Tournaments" section.
In the last section I take a look at several units of the Terran army which have a huge significance in the army compositions of every match up.
The results of this fervent testing has resulted in 4 patches that have changed the dynamics of units such as the Infestor and Mothership and have buffed entire aspects of a race such as Terran build times. These changes are all categorized by race and then by patch in the "a work in progress..." section of this feature. Radoslav "NydrA" Kolev has also written a review of some of those changes.
Not only have players been playing hundreds of matches, but a few hundred of them are making these matches count. Over half a dozen tournaments and show-matches have sprung up over the internet, rewarding the best and brightest beta testers that have been able to find winning strategies and builds this early in the beta. Check out who is contributing by organizing these events, and just how much they are giving away in the "Tournaments" section.
In the last section I take a look at several units of the Terran army which have a huge significance in the army compositions of every match up.
