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Preston #503
Preston
6/10/2011
Well, I'm away from my home and home country for a bit. I'm currently in Brazil for a while, and I was wondering. I found a LAN house with SCII installed close to my home, but it's (obviously) pirated, and won't even give me the option to log in. Is there any way to log in on a version that bypasses logging in? Clearly I bought the game. I just was wondering if there were a way I could activate. Anyone with any knowledge would be a great help, even if it's in the negative. Thanks.
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Wickedgood #482
Wickedgood
6/7/2011
The ability to reset your rank in ladder. I'm trying to switch from Zerg to Random. But my Terran is terrible. So I usually play a good game as Zerg and might win or lose, I play a decent game as protoss and have a slim chance to win. But I get ROLLED as terran. Please make it so a player can Reset their ladder once every 2-3 months.
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Ender #247
Ender
6/13/2011
@Horologe: I agree . . . in a way . . . why not have rankings/ladders for all three races?
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Zalphon #827
Zalphon
6/14/2011
@Ender: I can understand both sides. It'd be boring to play just TvT or ZvZ. If you have rankings/ladders for all three races then they have to fight the same race.

So you just have to learn in custom games how to play the race you're bad at.
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Zalphon #827
Zalphon
6/14/2011
@Horologe: Horologe, I'd gladly help you learn how to play Terran if we can set up a time together where I'll instruct you on a few good tactics.
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Alexander #1332
Alexander
6/2/2011
I liked the idea of troop formation. Age of mythology and age of empires has it and it made the game a lot of fun. Of course you could turn of the troop formation if you wanted. You could have light infantry in the front like zerglings and marines.

Then heavier things in the back like collosolous and thors and brood lords. It would make it better if you could set them to loose or close formation.

Im not sure how many people would use it but I do know it would make the game a lot more enjoyable for a lot of people especially people transitioning from games that do have unit formations (I was one of those people :)
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Radix #843
Radix
5/31/2011
How about we make quick match completely random and then teams can play against other teams. So annoying to get ran over by an organized team when my team is a pick-up group.
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Bananagans #236
Bananagans
6/5/2011
@Radix: yes
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MCWarhammer #569
MCWarhammer
6/10/2011
@Radix: There should be a pre-org section and a pickup section of the quick matches.
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soapwarrior #304
soapwarrior
5/24/2011
not sure if anyone has an answer to this but when i downloaded patch today it worked the first time but no audio would play. Then my comp blue screened I system restored and tried to re dl the patch but it will only load to 70-72% before error message comes up i deleted old pacth update to to try get it to work but no luck any ideas besides reinstalling??
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MoMo #384
MoMo
5/28/2011
@soapwarrior: i had the same issue. I uninstalled the game and then re installed it. It worked but it takes a while cause u need to reinstall every patch so far
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Buccaneer #385
Buccaneer
5/29/2011
@soapwarrior: i experienced the problem too, after the patch, i repeatedly clicked the SC2 icon on my desktop, once a patch fail to 70%, i closed it the made a new one. finally after 5-8 tries, i successfully installed the patch
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Gornis #476
Gornis
5/21/2011
My hotkeys are enabled but I cannot use them. They worked before I downloaded the client, but now they do not. I checked my keyboard and it works, just not when playing. Any suggestions?
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AbsoluteZero #563
AbsoluteZero
5/24/2011
@Gornis: try restarting the game that works for me
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Cody #1370
Cody
5/19/2011
@inferno the same thing happened to me, i think it was because i was messing around with some cheat codes on one of the wings of liberty campaign missions, and now my achievments and multiplayer is disabled. should i try erasing the data or starting a new campaign?
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Vultureling #390
Vultureling
6/9/2011
@Cody: New campaign, try that. You can still keep the old one, too :)
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Inferno #162
Inferno
5/17/2011
why are my Achievements Disable everytime I logged on?? This starting happening about 2 weeks ago and now I can't mulitiplayer? Any advice before I go by a new computer..lol
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brister #667
brister
5/17/2011
@Inferno: My advice is don't blow hundreds of dollars on a new computer just because achievements aren't working
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Luminos #744
Luminos
5/15/2011
It seems like spell-casting micro was easier in Warcraft III because the HUD down below was more clear on who was selected with tab and such. Anyone else feel like casting micro could be a little easier somehow?
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Crotchrot #248
Crotchrot
5/10/2011
I would really like to see a few troop formation sets. I.e. wide spread vs ball. It shouldn't require 200 apm to do a simple thing like organizing a standard troop formation
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PhatskillZ #126
PhatskillZ
5/14/2011
@Crotchrot: GOOD IDEA i think they have that in the civilization series, i know i'd like to see it in HotS
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Rendourous #247
Rendourous
5/15/2011
@Crotchrot: Yeah man that would be epic. I have wondered what it would be like if a group of rines in a wedge formation could defeat a bigger army of charging zlings because of their placement.
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Phoenix #1145
Phoenix
5/21/2011
@Crotchrot: Age of Empires (II) anyone?
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darkprelate #830
darkprelate
5/24/2011
@Phoenix: my favorite game before star craft 2
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TheOther #212
TheOther
5/9/2011
I think blizzard should make interactive maps, like gates you can pay minerals to open or close, and turrets you can pay mins or gas to activate for your team. That would be epic!
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ReddGhost #836
ReddGhost
5/9/2011
why is starcraft not running is the patch comin now or something??????
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Ford #354
Ford
5/7/2011
HOW CAN I SEE ALL THE GAMES I PLAYED. NOT JUST THE ONES FROM RESET.
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Darwin #428
Darwin
5/6/2011
I can't connect to the game. On the window where it asks for email and account name; the connect button is not highlighted. Can anyone help. I've tried the process on the website to no avail.
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GrimReaper #465
GrimReaper
5/7/2011
@Darwin: having the same problem. stinx!
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skinns #608
skinns
5/4/2011
how are people building so fast in the online games?
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WombatEX #340
WombatEX
5/9/2011
@skinns: Having trouble online, bro? Add me, we will 1v1 and I will help you out. My Real ID is 508
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hmm
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Gerwyn #910
Gerwyn
4/30/2011
I was wonder what the next 2 title were
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Ender #247
Ender
5/9/2011
@Gerwyn: "Heart of the Swarm" and "Legacy of the Void"
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nomet #873
nomet
4/29/2011
bring bak the kydarian amulet my mid game harrasment is depending on it
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@nomet: new game, learn to play it
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Free #500
Free
5/3/2011
@gXn: Stop being a douche
If the game had less teabaggers it would b more ppl playing it ecspecilly new ppl.
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eZZ
5/6/2011
@BulletprooF: agredd!!!!!
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haxQQ #154
haxQQ
5/6/2011
@gXn: lol this bronze talking crap.
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BigJoe #245
BigJoe
5/8/2011
@nomet: they removed it for that reason. just accommodate for it by saving up energy