Starcraft 2

Revision as of 20:26, 29 July 2010

FAQ

When is Starcraft 2 released to the public?
- Starcraft 2 Global Launch is 27-7-10.

Where can I purchase Starcraft 2?
- Starcraft 2 can be purchased from any good retailers including EB Games, Game, JB Hi-Fi or online from the Official battle.net website.

What is battle.net and how does it work?
- Battle.net operates very much like Valve's Steam software to act as both a form of digital distribution as well as management for all Blizzard games. Once you purchase your copy of Starcraft 2 and activate it on your battle.net account it will be locked to this account indefinitely. Visit the Official battle.net website for more details.

As an Australian player what region(s) am I eligible to play on?
- Australians who purchase an Australian, New Zealand or SEA (South East Asia) copy of Starcraft II will have access to both the SEA (South East Asia) and NA (North American) Servers. For more details see Starcraft-SEA Facebook

I can't wait to play my favourite race in the single player campaign. For the swarm!
- The Starcraft Single Player campaign will be released episodically so please be patient while these features are available for more info see the Blizzard trilogy FAQ

I want to add my username and identifier to the OCAU wiki but I can't find those numbers, where are they?
- The easiest way to locate the randomly generated numbers attached to your account is to go to the "Add a Friend" Tab located at the bottom right. The add page dialogue displays your unique account number.

I want to brag about my awesome ladder ranking but I've forgotten where I'm ranked.
- Once you log into battle.net and access the multiplayer tab, select profile, then "Ladders and Rankings". Brag away with screenshots and e-taunts good sir!

Updating

Starcraft 2 deletes the update files after you download and install them. For multiple systems or re-installs this can be a problem when updates get to 1gb+ in size.

Luckily we can backup and restore the update files to save a heavy redownload later.

To do this follow these steps:

Start Starcraft 2 and let it update normally.
When the update has finished, minimize out of the update screen. *do not close the screen or click play as the update files will be deleted.
Go into the Starcraft 2 directory and copy the updates folder and the torrent and other update files from the main Starcraft 2 directory to another directory of your choice.
After that is done you can now click play.

Installing updates:

Copy (not move) all the files from your updates backup directory to the root of the starcraft 2 folder.
Load starcraft 2 normally and it will update using the files you copied and download any new updates you don't have.
Check the folder if any new updates have been downloaded using the method above and copy those over to your updates folder. (copying all the updates over again is quicker)
You can play after the update and the backup of new updates are done.

Notes:

You can reuse the same directory for all update files just adding the new files for each patch that comes out to the directory.

Sometimes the update may have problems installing, if this happens run the starcraft 2 repair tool and retry to update.

Links

Official Starcraft 2 Battle.net website - Purchase or manage your game here.
Starcraft 2 Official Twitter Page - Get new information first on twitter!
Day[9]'s official live stream site - Great as both entertainment and a learning tool.
Day[9]'s episode archive - A Fantastic tool for new players who wish to learn strategies in a simple and easy to understand format.
Team Liquid - One of the Internets most active Starcraft related sites. Has a very informative community and a heaps of technical jargon.

Player List

A place for users to share their ingame information as well as their preferred region. Please copy the 'exampleuser' code, paste it at the END of the table and change your details to suit.

Current list of registered OCAU Members ingame account information

If you would like to add your own Starcraft 2 Unique ID, just edit the page, copy the last bit of code, add it to the end and swap the details.

Could all new comers please add themselves to the BOTTOM of the list.

OCAU Username	Starcraft 2 SEA Name + Identifier	Starcraft 2 NA Name + Identifier	Preffered Region
EXAMPLEUSER	Exampler - 000	Exampledurface - 876	North America
gruntLOL	gRnt - 414	n/a	Oceania
h0uSe	Krouse	Krouse	Oceania
Mikos	train - 597	n/a	Oceania
bex	bex	bex	Oceania
Gr00my	Gabba - 526	n/a	Oceania
IPW	Teracis - 913	Teracis - ???	Oceania
Deftone2k	Deftone - 499	n/a	Oceania
redw0lf	Phaded - 122	n/a	Oceania
SpammT	SpammT - 786	n/a	Oceania
viggenn	vig - 617	n/a	Oceania
nugget28	Nugget - 110	n/a	Oceania
soulblade64	soublade - 554	n/a	Oceania
eniGzor	eniGma - 497	n/a	Oceania
MudBlood	MuddyOCAU - 954	n/a	Oceania
dfcowell	Taco - 788	n/a	Oceania

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+| Taco - 788
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