Your Prayers Have Been Answered: StarCraft 2 Beta for Mac Due in April
Posted 03/23/2010 at 6:08am
| by J.R. Bookwalter
(Image courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment)Gamers everywhere breathed a collective sigh of relief recently with the news that a beta for
StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty would be winging its way to the Mac as early as next month.
The Loop is reporting on the latest news, which comes straight from the
StarCraft 2 beta developer chat. After a Windows beta appeared a few weeks ago, publisher Blizzard Entertainment
revealed during a March 12th chat that “A Mac beta will be available in April, when it’s ready.”
While that may not be a rock-solid release date that may gamers want to hear, at least we know that yes, it exists and yes, it’s coming. The Loop is quick to note that the original StarCraft for Mac was released a “whole year apart” from the Windows version, so we’ll take what we can get.
Among the other nuggets revealed during Blizzard’s beta developer chat,
courtesy of the BlizzPlanet fan site:
- Blizzard plans to release a major content patch mid-April to enable some basic achievements and improved voice chat, 3v3 and 4v4 maps, among other unidentified features.
- The Map Editor will be out before late-April.
- No new races are planned for the three episodes of Starcraft II.
- The roach, Infestor and reaper are currently in their Watch List.
- Critters were not priority for beta, and will eventually be added.
- Plans for Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) and community maps ladder and matchmaking.
- Dustin said more players will be invited to beta in upcoming weeks, and encourages gamers to enable the beta opt-in option in the Battle.net Account webpage to qualify.
- Replay hosting and sharing won't be available at ship date.
- Streamed replays for Tournament Finals is planned in future Starcraft II expansions.Now really, all that good news ought to be enough to tide you over until next month, right, Mac gamers?
