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Beta Sign-Ups for WarCraft III

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the games-people-play dept.

Alcachofo writes "Blizzard Entertainment has announced the long waited Beta Sign-Ups for their newest game: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Individuals residing in the USA or Canada will be able to register for a chance to be one of the 5,000 players chosen. The beta signup is scheduled for a 24-hour period, beginning on January 7th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8) and ending on January 8th at 11:00 p.m (GMT -8)." I couldn't even count the number of great hours of fun WC2 provided us back in the day. What an absolute classic. I wonder if WC3 will be reboot worthy.

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  1. reboot worthy? by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Informative

    the pace that wine is going, you wont need to.

    I'm betting that by the time it comes out as a retail product you'll be able to run it under wine or the special mandrake version.

    You'd be suprised at how many games and apps actually run nicely under wine.

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    1. Re:reboot worthy? by Captain+Morgan · · Score: 2, Informative

      Certainly TransGaming will see this as a very important game to support. With TransGamings current patch Wine can run some of the very latest games and development appears to be moving foward rapidly.

      Support Wine by developing, testing or bug reporting.

    2. Re:reboot worthy? by JWhitlock · · Score: 2, Informative
      I'm betting that by the time it comes out as a retail product you'll be able to run it under wine or the special mandrake version.

      I wonder if they already have a Linux port in the works? In that case, there may be a business reason to keep it out of the hands of the Wine team.

      If you are a wine developer signing up to be a beta tester, be safe and don't use the same name you use in the wine source!

    3. Re:reboot worthy? by DRO0 · · Score: 2, Informative
      I highly doubt a Linux-native port is in the works, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
      • No Blizzard titles have ever been ported to Linux
      • Loki does not appear to be in a position right now to do a "AAA" port of this magnitude


      Maybe the fact that Sam Latinga(sp?) was at Loki and now at Blizzard may help the LInux cause, but I'm not holding my breath.
  2. Gamespot preview by DeadBugs · · Score: 5, Informative

    As always Gamespot has a good preview including screenshots

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  3. January 7th by eAndroid · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looks like January 7th is shaping up to be a great day. Apple's dropping hype bombs about the Jan 7 Macworld keynote, and now this.

    Spectacular.

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  4. Whore nicht! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The beta signup is scheduled for a 24-hour period on www.blizzard.com, beginning on Monday, January 7th at 11:00 p.m Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8). and ending on Tuesday, January 8th at 11:00 p.m Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8). Following the registration period, we will randomly select 5,000 testers based on a variety of system configurations and locations. Please note that multiple submissions will result in disqualification.

  5. Warcraft III info by proxima · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've already seen a few simple questions that are answered in the Warcraft III FAQ. Some highlights: Yes, there will be a Mac version. No, there won't be a Linux version.

    From the looks of things, WarCraft III will continue the age-old tradition of requiring decent hardware to run well. Fortunately, they apparently are making a full-featured map editor (probably similar to Starcraft's, which was VERY impressive, unlike Civ II/IIIs).

    Also, they finally are providing high resolution support, while still (somehow) maintaining lower resolution support for those of us with not-so-good video cards.

    Looks like it's going to be another addicting Blizzard game for me, but I'm glad it won't compete with my Civ III playing time for awhile.

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  6. System requirements by e-Motion · · Score: 3, Informative

    "However, now that they have added 3D chip features, Warcraft III will probably need either a decent video card (Geforce or greater) and/or a relatively fast processor (600-700 Mhz+). Of course, these are guesses."

    The system requirements are listed in the FAQ (http://www.blizzard.com/war3/faq/faq-features.sht ml):

    "What will the system requirements be?
    It is important to us to make our games playable on as broad a range of machines as possible, and we do not see WarCraft III as an exception. We are planning on having a requirement of a PIII 400 system with a 3D accelerator card and 64megs of RAM. Currently, we are working on game performance and should be able to give more concrete information soon."

    Since they are requiring only 400 Mhz and 64 MB of RAM, they most likely will not require a Geforce+ card to run this. That's a relief for me! Whew!

  7. Re:I certainly hope they kept the most important . by Quizme2000 · · Score: 3, Informative

    A little offtopic but..The sound editor for WCII was fun for loading monty python bites for my extremely addicted frat brother in college. He would camp out in front of my computer almost everynight for hours, evuntally I "crashed..wink..wink.." my computer and lost the only copy of the game I had. The next day he bought another copy from Best Buy. Also If you didn't know you can play the WCII CD in the cd player and hear the background music.

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