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StarCraft 2 Beta |OT| (Beta Now Reopen, GL HF)
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The Everyman
me tooWedge7 said:
i think that was one of the most inspiring things ive ever seen. so many good life lessons in that.
i was able to relate to a lot of the stuff too.
i want the normal life, preferably working in games, in an office, making good pay. but im definitely going to keep making competitive videogame playing a part of my life too. it really does give oneself a unique experience that will better ones life. it goes for any competition really, but there's something about competitive gaming that's different and i really like it.
also, at the end of the video he mentions being the ambassador to e sports. this video is a good start.
Wedge7 said:
ElJuice said:
Post in the thread! Otherwise no one will see it! :lol-COOLIO- said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=392833
Here's an interview GameInformer did with Dustin Browder. It looks like it's a week-old but I haven't seen it posted here yet.
An Extensive Interview With StarCraft II's Design Director
An Extensive Interview With StarCraft II's Design Director
The Lamonster
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Thanks! Feel like posting the entire article? GI is blocked at my workGribbix said:
Cru Jones said:
If you look on the battle.net forums you will find the build order (I can't post it here because battle.net is blocked at work).
The strat basically comes down to terran building a proxy barracks outside of your base, and going straight for a reaper. With the right build order they can have a reaper inside your base at around 2:45, then like 30 seconds later they can get a bunker with 2 reapers inside your base for an almost guaranteed victory.
Currently there really isn't a good strategy to counter this, especially if you are playing protoss.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
I such at base races :/
He had the better army but I had the advantage of destroying his economy and escaping to create a new nexus.
Had 2 structures left to destroy to win then his army killed mine then my last base while I was re-creating stuff...orzzzzz
edit: lol I won and got reclassified as bronze afterwards...
He had the better army but I had the advantage of destroying his economy and escaping to create a new nexus.
Had 2 structures left to destroy to win then his army killed mine then my last base while I was re-creating stuff...orzzzzz
edit: lol I won and got reclassified as bronze afterwards...
frankthurk
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Well damn, I've been playing as Random in Bronze and doing pretty well, got up to 3 in my division. Decided today I'm going to focus on Protoss so I switched and lost about 7 games in a row, mostly to cheesy early rushes, I even got bunker rushed by a terran. He must have started just after my scout went out.
sigh
I guess knowing I'm protoss makes my enemies a lot braver than when they weren't sure.
Or maybe I suck at them much more than I thought...
sigh
I guess knowing I'm protoss makes my enemies a lot braver than when they weren't sure.
Or maybe I suck at them much more than I thought...
That strat that nk pulled on you is pretty imba, so don't worry bout losing to thatDes0lar said:Wow, I really suck at SC MP, but was great playing with ya guys :lol But I'm a fast learner at RTS, so I'm already anticipating the next games
Good that there's finally another noob like me in the game, I have a 1 1/2 week head start so you better learn quick ggsIce Monkey
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content patch any day now....
MY MONEY IS ON TONIGHT
MY MONEY IS ON TONIGHT
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
yall ever just stay in a match to destroy shit because you were mad you lost a bunch of matches before? Ya thats what Im doing today in bronze league :lol
also like before silver/bronze player, if anyone wants a 2v2 partner, corran.horn
also like before silver/bronze player, if anyone wants a 2v2 partner, corran.horn
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Only 2 waves of friend invites came out to my knowledge and last one was like a month or so agorhfb said:Just got into the Beta. When does my "Friend" key arrive?
I won't be seriously playing for quite some time though as I need to learn some hotkeys and get my broken MX518 back from Logitech (slow ass RMA
raphier said:Sounds like you're talking throught experience
Yes. Did a ladder 1v1 today, and by every measure I should have won. ZvZ, and we both did a FE, but he decided to build crawlers at his expo rather than build units. I quickly built a nydus and filled it with roaches and zerglings to hit his back door. I pretty much took out his lair and several tech buildings, but a few mutas popped out so I couldn't do as much damage as I hoped. Went to hydras, but my macro during this whole period suuuucked. I didn't bust him in time and he got all the way to broodlords. I could have come back, but my macro was just so bad that he got ahead of me and had enough corrupters and broodlords to take me out. Bleeeeeeh.
rhfb said:Just got into the Beta. When does my "Friend" key arrive?
I won't be seriously playing for quite some time though as I need to learn some hotkeys and get my broken MX518 back from Logitech (slow ass RMA
lol @ the thought that a key means an instant friends key.
and @ the thought that you need a gaming mouse to play this game.
you're sounding pretty privileged my friend
NeoGAF Beta Tourney 1v1 #1 Round 5. Best of 3. Milabrega Vs DemiMatt
Game 1
Winner
Game 2
Winner
Game 3
Winner
My thoughts on the matches before watching replays:
Game 1: I hope Haly was watching when I did the Zealot shuffle to break the wall, tried to explain it to him in text once. Probably would have went in if it weren't for those Hellions which are great vs Zealots. Was hoping that gave me a Temp supply cap to muscle through. I poorly managed the drop and should have had those other gates up and running before going. Smart on Demi to focus down with the little AA he had on the Prism, wish I had noticed would have switched targets to the rines. I panicked with the Thors out didn't know Protoss counter, probably Immortals but I never think about going to Robo's so I was just pumping Colossi. Was planning on playing a resource contain war and hope Demi didn't get air (either Banshees since I stupidly didn't get any observers or Vikings to counter the Colossi). Got lucky Demi decided to make that heavy push another ten seconds and he would have caught me out of position. Was also very lucky he ate the two Illusioned Colossi before the real ones.
Game 2: Got stuck with Toss again (My worst race), figured I'd go Gate -> CC -> Robo -> Gate into an Immortal drop since that's what Haly recommended me earlier in the day since I feared the PvT match up. I did just that, but Demi had some really nice reaper action and I had bad canon placement and unit micro inside my base. I got behind and just never recovered. I tried to go full speed ahead with the Immortal drop, but left it idle behind the scvs long enough for demi to move units over. I think if he delayed the second reaper/marauder attack a minute or two I could have with stood it, my plan going forward was to get defensive colossi and then maybe Voids depending on if he expanded/tech switched, alas I got destroyed.
Game 3: I went observer heavy thinking he was going to go banshees or a FE, and yet I never found the banshees until it was too late. I got aggressive at the wrong (right?) time and lost my main and got supply capp'd. Came down to me canon turtling inside my natural and a base race. I had terrible management that game, lost the colossi and some stalkers unnecessarily inside demi's base in the base race, and lost two of my observers just from not knowing where they were. Had to use the one I had hotkeyed. I also thought demi had floated his buildings into the abyss where stalkers couldnt reach instead of landing them for production. So i finished what I could find and went back to protect my base. Really well fought game by Demi, I got lucky, again that Demi missed attacking at my weak points, or catch my stalkers the couple of times they didn't have an obs around.
Game 1
Winner
Milabrega.
Game 2
Winner
DemiMatt.
Game 3
Winner
Milabrega.
My thoughts on the matches before watching replays:
Game 1: I hope Haly was watching when I did the Zealot shuffle to break the wall, tried to explain it to him in text once. Probably would have went in if it weren't for those Hellions which are great vs Zealots. Was hoping that gave me a Temp supply cap to muscle through. I poorly managed the drop and should have had those other gates up and running before going. Smart on Demi to focus down with the little AA he had on the Prism, wish I had noticed would have switched targets to the rines. I panicked with the Thors out didn't know Protoss counter, probably Immortals but I never think about going to Robo's so I was just pumping Colossi. Was planning on playing a resource contain war and hope Demi didn't get air (either Banshees since I stupidly didn't get any observers or Vikings to counter the Colossi). Got lucky Demi decided to make that heavy push another ten seconds and he would have caught me out of position. Was also very lucky he ate the two Illusioned Colossi before the real ones.
Game 2: Got stuck with Toss again (My worst race), figured I'd go Gate -> CC -> Robo -> Gate into an Immortal drop since that's what Haly recommended me earlier in the day since I feared the PvT match up. I did just that, but Demi had some really nice reaper action and I had bad canon placement and unit micro inside my base. I got behind and just never recovered. I tried to go full speed ahead with the Immortal drop, but left it idle behind the scvs long enough for demi to move units over. I think if he delayed the second reaper/marauder attack a minute or two I could have with stood it, my plan going forward was to get defensive colossi and then maybe Voids depending on if he expanded/tech switched, alas I got destroyed.
Game 3: I went observer heavy thinking he was going to go banshees or a FE, and yet I never found the banshees until it was too late. I got aggressive at the wrong (right?) time and lost my main and got supply capp'd. Came down to me canon turtling inside my natural and a base race. I had terrible management that game, lost the colossi and some stalkers unnecessarily inside demi's base in the base race, and lost two of my observers just from not knowing where they were. Had to use the one I had hotkeyed. I also thought demi had floated his buildings into the abyss where stalkers couldnt reach instead of landing them for production. So i finished what I could find and went back to protect my base. Really well fought game by Demi, I got lucky, again that Demi missed attacking at my weak points, or catch my stalkers the couple of times they didn't have an obs around.
Ice Monkey
Member
lol, looks like we may get private 3v3 and 4v4 on twilight fortress before official 3v3 and 4v4. stupid blizzard.
Ice Monkey
Member
mcrae said:
i got the img working now, check out my post again
Wow, just got a key yesterday, wasn't really expecting it Props to Blizzard for making this game run at playable framerates on my ancient 2006 PC, an Athlon 64 3200+, 1GB RAM and a Radeon X700. I'm a casual SC1 player, so I didn't have much luck in my first games, I finally won at the third attempt with a Terran Battlecruiser rush. Can't play anything above 2v2 though.
Props to Blizzard for making this game run at playable framerates on my ancient 2006 PC, an Athlon 64 3200+, 1GB RAM and a Radeon X700. I'm a casual SC1 player, so I didn't have much luck in my first games, I finally won at the third attempt with a Terran Battlecruiser rush. Can't play anything above 2v2 though.Won said:
Well, the barracks can be almost anywhere since reapers can cliff jump, so it has to be a very thorough scout very early on.
Honestly, I think they should trying requiring an engineering bay for reapers, and then cut their build time back to what they were before. That would cut down on the early reaper harass while still keeping them relevant in the mid-game again.