Rumor: Starcraft 2 Beta Release Date

Starcraft 2 is near Beta and Blizzard has even set a date for it, as mentioned time and time again from every other Starcraft fansite. Althought he actual date has not been announced it was rumored that the date has already been set. Xordia (an employee of Blizzard entertainment) had a long chat with a German fan in ESL weekend Vienna who among other things heard that Blizzard have a set (secret) date for the Closed Beta!

While the actual date has not been officially announced, its nice to know we are not too far away and Blizzard is moving things quite nicely.

Here are the translations from the German fan’s summary:

  • Blizzard has a fixed date for the beta, however, it’s still a secret.
  • The multiplayer part of the game is basically done, except for a few details.
  • There will be several opportunities to participate in the beta to come (including competitions, perhaps a kind of story competition or similar).
  • In the current build (internally at Blizzard), there is a Dark Pylon with a cool ability, which enables Probes to harvest faster within the reach of the Pylon.
  • The Command Center can now use a new cool ability that creates a “bigger” SCV which is better at harvesting.
  • Supply depots can be upgraded to give +2 Supply.
  • Xordiah, who is a “Protoss Fetishist”, is Very Happy.
  • This Immortal is a new unit replacing the dragoons and are extremely strong.

The German post can be found in one of the pages of this thread.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *