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Blizzard , being the hard-working team they are, have released not only 1 but 2 beta patches in less than 48 hours. This came as a surprise to most players as they sat waiting with growing impatience for the servers to come back online. Speculations running rampant, many players took the time to guess what future changes may entail. 48 hours and 2 patches later, this is outcome. Discuss it here.

• Viking

•The damage done by this unit in Fighter Mode has changed from 6 (+8 armored) to 10 (+4 armored).

• Reaper

•The delay between attacks for D-8 Charges has decreased from 2.5 to 1.8

• Orbital Command

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Discuss it here.

12 years ago, a company by the name of Blizzard Entertainment took their first babysteps into what has now become a multi-million dollar industry, RTS gaming. RTS is short for real time strategy, where opponents are pitted against each other in real time, to determine who is the better player. 12 years ago, this was still a really new concept, which lead to a very interesting beta-stage and early development of the game. Fast forward to present time, and things are totally different. Gone are the days of slow hand speed, delayed thinking, and the overall casualness of gaming. This has been replaced with players who now have 10+ years of gaming under their belts, with mindsets capable of figuring out new mechanics, strategy, and concepts at a very alarming rate. All of this adds up to a much more tougher, competitive beta test filled with talented young individuals capable of bringing the RTS genre to the next level. Fame and Fortune!

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Just now Michael Morhaime (13:17PST) “announced” the Starcraft II Beta coming in this month!

Starcraft II beta testing ready to launch this month

The waiting is finally over. You can see it in this part of the conference (point •2-2). This means that we could expect the beta in a few days.

“We are slated to begin closed beta testing this month,” he said, explaining that the multiplayer test will be available to participants across various countries like North America,Taiwan,Europe and others.

At the Russian game convention “Igromir 2009″ [literally means "Gamesworld"] where Blizzard

is represented,Chris Sigaty answered  some questions in the panel.

One of them is related to the Beta Start

Q: When will StarCraft 2?
A: Tomorrow (laughter). Usually Blizzard we’re not talking about dates.

While we plan for next year to do a beta test.
As soon as we feel that the game is finished we will release it soon.

This is an indirect but explicit  announce that controverts Mike Morhaimes words:

“I’m confident the beta will start this year,”

At this rate we can pre-order Starcraft II for our grandchildren.

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