eXan
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The gameplay is constantly evolving and skill level of the playerbase increasing. ICCup is getting harder and harder with every season too.
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The gameplay is constantly evolving and skill level of the playerbase increasing. ICCup is getting harder and harder with every season too.
A lot of pppl still play that on college campuses. I think Warcraft 3 too. But I think star craft is more. It's an old game. There isn't much computer power you need to play those games by today's standard. The only thing I would worry about is if you have widescreen it might look "squased" if it doesn't support that format.
LiquidSpikes
macrumors regular
Me and my friend just started playing this game on our LAN again, its still as good or better than it was before... I love Starcraft!
ZERGLING RUSH FTW!!!! 😀
ZERGLING RUSH FTW!!!! 😀
HiRez
macrumors 603
I just started messing around with it again and while it looks a little nasty on a 24" screen (giant 8 bpp pixels), it's a testament to the greatness of this game that it's still really fun to play 10 years later. Really got me excited for SC2, I will definitely be buying that. Only thing that's a bummer is that it uses a ton of CPU cycles for a low-res 10-year-old game, and I can't get the CPU Throttling thing to work at all. Since I'm playing it most on a MacBook Pro (where it uses about 45%-60% of both CPU cores constantly), I get a screaming fan, red-hot laptop surfaces, and almost no battery life.
eXan
macrumors 601
vmware problems
hey, Starcraft fellows!
I just got vmware to run xp just for this game... I installed the vmware fusion, then my friend sent me a created image of an XP pro with a SC pre installed (which works for him), everything works perfect except the multiplayer!!!
I can see the created game through UDP, but cannot connect - says : unable to connect...
can any one give a hint on this problem? 🙂
thank you!
hey, Starcraft fellows!
I just got vmware to run xp just for this game... I installed the vmware fusion, then my friend sent me a created image of an XP pro with a SC pre installed (which works for him), everything works perfect except the multiplayer!!!
I can see the created game through UDP, but cannot connect - says : unable to connect...
can any one give a hint on this problem? 🙂
thank you!
I have been trying to get into this game but I suck horribly at RTS games. I just can't seem to find the balance of researching and pumping out enough units to not get crushed. And I can't seem to figure out how to go to full screen. Playing on a tiny little square is frustrating as hell. I love the genre but fail miserably at anything but Halo Wars.
Sdashiki
macrumors 68040
eXan
macrumors 601
Hi guys,
i want to play - bought the game (again) and installed it last night on my 27" iMac.
BUT, when I try to go to battlenet in the multiplayer part of the game I get an error message saying "Unable to connect to Battle.net. If you are using a modem etc..."
I've spend hours googling for a solution and found something about port mapping/forwarding port 6112.
Then I made a static IP for my iMac on my Time Capsule wireless network and used that in the Airport utility where I put the 6112 port. But it still doesn't work.
Is it something silly like I need to reboot or am I going crazy over something else?😱😡😱😕
My portmapping settings: http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxSkQ2r
i want to play - bought the game (again) and installed it last night on my 27" iMac.
BUT, when I try to go to battlenet in the multiplayer part of the game I get an error message saying "Unable to connect to Battle.net. If you are using a modem etc..."
I've spend hours googling for a solution and found something about port mapping/forwarding port 6112.
Then I made a static IP for my iMac on my Time Capsule wireless network and used that in the Airport utility where I put the 6112 port. But it still doesn't work.
Is it something silly like I need to reboot or am I going crazy over something else?😱😡😱😕
My portmapping settings: http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxSkQ2r
Hey this sounds good but when I try to add the windows version of the game account it doesn't work -- it asks for a 26 digit game key, my starcraft key is only 13 digits.
Update:
After I click "Add Game" the screen refreshes back to the same page. If I try to enter a key that is slightly different (changing the last digit etc) it will say "invalid key".
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alejandro1938
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starcraft is, in my opinion, the greatest game ever. Its insane to think that people still play it, that it became the national sport of a country and that new strats are still coming out.
That aside, I've been playing it on my mac (2006 core duo macbook pro) from the third day I got said mac. Runs great, plays great (with a mouse attached of course.) WC3 runs very well too, specially DOTA. Oh yeah, dota.
That aside, I've been playing it on my mac (2006 core duo macbook pro) from the third day I got said mac. Runs great, plays great (with a mouse attached of course.) WC3 runs very well too, specially DOTA. Oh yeah, dota.
Hey, battle.net is awesome. It's all you need. You can even find dates on it!
http://us.battle.net/matchmaking.html
http://us.battle.net/matchmaking.html
LetUsHXCDance!
macrumors newbie
My advice is to watch replays. It helps influence your playing, and learn to adapt, i see a lot of players who lose because they decide they are going to go one build and the other counters it and they keep on the same build and Don't adapt! Also variety is a must! You simply cannot mass one kind of unit, yes it happens a lot on Iccup, especially in the 2v2 ladder, but if you lose to that then you're doing something wrong. Pick a main race, focus of them, watch replays from pros, Zerg- JaeDong, Terran Boxer_Slayer, Protoss Bisu.
CANEHDN
macrumors 6502a
I totally agree. I've been watching SC2 replays every day for over a month. I played SC the other day and could totally tell my skills have greatly improved. My macro has increased substantially. Totally worth watching the replays.
eXan
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