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StarCraft 2 Beta |OT| (Beta Now Reopen, GL HF)
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JWong said:
I use them mostly if I go down the Nydus worm route...other then that I would not bring them in the middle of a battlefield...unless it's en-mass...
ZealousD said:
iirc when I last used them I got raped by Stalkers...I had 5 Brood Lords and my opponent had like 6-7 Stalkers and a couple of Immortals and DT's...
thunker 9000
Member
JonAmikar said:
If it works like any other game tied to your account, once you input a key you can DL both the Windows or MAC versions. Once the Mac client is released, of course.
TurtleSnatcher
Member
F#A#Oo said:
Wow.. Maybe you should micro them more? Broordlords have a ton of life.. and 5 of them can pretty much 1 shot each stalker.. Immortals and DT's dont even attack air so thats a non factor.
You need to really abuse the broodlors range. In close combat they are useless and one colossus usually is enough to melt the broodlings. So get them to high ground and get some meat in between the lords and the enemy.
Too many times have I lost a pack of lords for just pure arrogance. They get raped by anything that can shoot in the air and get beneath them.
I haven't seen or made a single ultralisk post reset.
Too many times have I lost a pack of lords for just pure arrogance. They get raped by anything that can shoot in the air and get beneath them.
I haven't seen or made a single ultralisk post reset.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Gotta have a roach wall or something on the ground buffering the Broodlords. And 5 Broodlords should destroy 6-8 stalkers with 0 casualties, you must have had them flying over and not attacking.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
fanboi said:
I keep all the hatcheries on 5, well all the hatcheries that aren't on an island, as global larvae select is awesome. I don't bind queens at all, I just double tap 5 and go back to base, click the queen and inject. To move to the other hatcheries I click the minimap and then click the new queen, I can do this decently fast since I've got pretty high sensitivity on my mouse, but I don't know if it's the most efficient way.
KingOfSoap
Neo Member
czartim said:
Same here. Haven't played it yet tho, installing now.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
mcrae said:
If you bind all of your hatcheries to the same key and then press 's', you'll get all the larvae at all the hatcheries in that group.
Ice Monkey
Member
Cheeto said:
shift click them like in windows or excel
MisterAnderson
Member
I've been watching Orb livestreams and I'm wondering if anyone could answer this question. Whenever he moves a bunch of probes to a newly created expansion from his main/previous expansion, it looks like he has a bunch of probes selected and then slowly 1 by 1 the little wire-frame boxes of probes dwindle down as he issues some order (I'm guessing mining order?) The livestream takes away the mouse indicator so I can't see what he's clicking or if he's using a hotkey what he's pressing, and was wondering if anyone knew what he was doing here and why he wouldn't just select his workers and right click on a mineral patch?
MisterAnderson
Member
ZealousD said:
No it looks like he will have like 15 or so selected and one at a time the number goes down until there are no more selected...at first I thought they were all being asigned to like their own mineral patch/some getting ordered to vespene, but it looked to me like they all went on one mineral patch after this happened anyway, so I'm really confused about it because I've seen this happen almost every game I've watched him play on the livestream where he's expanded.
Zapperkhan
Member
He clicks them all to minerals. Then deselects down to 6, clicks on a geyser, clicks down to 3 and clicks the other geyser.MisterAnderson said:
BlueScrote
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JWong said:
This is why I've pretty much given up playing Random Team.
Ice Monkey
Member
a176 said:
no, its not that simple. It's him as quickly as possible maynarding his probes to the expansion. It's been well documented that by doing either what he does or hotkeying 3/etc groups of units like this, for example when attacking with scourge in brood war you get it done much more efficiently. He's not just trying to boost his apm.
MisterAnderson
Member
Ice Monkey said:
I agree that his probe to expansion routine is definitely not him trying to boost his APM, but he clearly does boost it ALL the time. He's constantly clicking and pressing hotkeys even when there's no need to. I'm sure it helps him to constantly be aware of what his production buildings are doing or not doing and is a constant reminder to keep up with everything and multitask, but goddamn. It's overboard IMO.
I mean, is it really necessary to click 10 times per move order?
To help keep your mind in an accelerated and alert state yes.MisterAnderson said:
Are you going to be more alert and react faster if you only click one or click 15 times?
I find I play better the more I remember to spam, since I have a sense of urgency I feel like I need to (and actually remember to do) everything.
Sounds like a bunch of BS but it helps me (my normal APM is like 45) :lol
I mean my APM for the first 3 minutes of a game is like 8. I don't spam at all in the beginning.
Ice Monkey said:
actually you're right, sending three probes to a gas could make or break a game
not
i wont say its completely retarded to be constantly clicking everywhere. its a left over habit from original sc. even in sc2, there are situations where you still need to micro the hell out of your units (picking off/evading banelings for one). but probes to gas is not one of them. along with alot of other crap he does to keep his apm visually high. there's little return for that much effort in sc2.
Yeah, I hear ya. It's just that its the only game I've ever played that I really felt required strategic planning for battles. It's by no means a perfect game, though.Zzoram said:
I feel like Starcraft is more about twitch game play and knowing the ins-and-outs of units. Ala a glorified rock, paper, scissor match where speed is important.
I just wish there was a mainstream RTS that focused more on the "S". Or at least an option for players like myself who prefer to go a bit slower and think things out.
BananaBomb
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czartim said:
I find that TBS really allows for the strategic planning you're talking about. The nature of RTS is that your speed must play a factor or else the game becomes incredibly boring.
And of course you can always lower the game speed.
