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StarCraft 2 Beta |OT| (Beta Now Reopen, GL HF)
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autobzooty
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I'm finally in the beta thanks to Ashhong. I'm patching now, and it's taking a thousand hours, but once it's done, does anyone feel like playing a total scrub? I gotta learn the ropes. 
FromTheFuture
Member
thats so moe
autobzooty
Member
Just finished my first match. It went on way too long for how bad we both were :lol
I have a lot to learn.....
I have a lot to learn.....
storybook77
Member
autobzooty said:
I just played my first match tonight as well and it was pretty brutal. :lol
brucewaynegretzky
Member
So I just got on for the first time tonight... so just a few questions for those more experienced.
1.) Is it just me or is the game noticeably slower than the last game? Especially in regards to things like scrolling around the map? (I'm pretty sure this isn't a performance issue on my comp)
2.) Are void rays as good as they seem?
3.) Is there anyone else playing on an average laptop? If so what kind of settings have you been using for best results?
4.) How useful is the queen for zerg? And does what is their go to unit? It seemed like roaches until I realized they couldn't attack air.
5.) How many units is a good number for an early rush? And which units for each race.
1.) Is it just me or is the game noticeably slower than the last game? Especially in regards to things like scrolling around the map? (I'm pretty sure this isn't a performance issue on my comp)
2.) Are void rays as good as they seem?
3.) Is there anyone else playing on an average laptop? If so what kind of settings have you been using for best results?
4.) How useful is the queen for zerg? And does what is their go to unit? It seemed like roaches until I realized they couldn't attack air.
5.) How many units is a good number for an early rush? And which units for each race.
autobzooty
Member
filipe said:
storybook77 said:
You and you. Add me as a friend. We need to stick together!!
autobzooty.gaf
I'm up for a game right now if anyone wants to pwn/teach a noob.
scoobs
Member
brucewaynegretzky said:
1 - in practice matches the game IS slowed down, maybe thats what you're referring to. Otherwise, no feels the same.
2 - Yes, they own.
4 - Incredibly useful, you should have more than 1 assuming you expand. Go to unit - roaches AND/OR hydras. Both own, i love hydras, but mass roaches will beat most noobs.
5 - tough to say. I play terran and I usually play slower and control the map.
ultimate SC scrub here. Just got into the beta today and got owned by the first harass sent my way in my first two novice matches.
Guess I'm old fashion, but I don't like getting it on until I have an army that takes up more than one monitor of real estate.
kamspy.shallah
Add me. You can either own me with hyper harassing, or play with someone who likes a laid back, slow clash or the armies matches. I'm not against sending a few helpless scouts to get a peak, but rushing to get harass squads isn't fun for me to do or defend.
I'm gonna try the game with the Steam overlay. Would be a decent solution for lack of chat. Steam ID is kamspy.
Guess I'm old fashion, but I don't like getting it on until I have an army that takes up more than one monitor of real estate.
kamspy.shallah
Add me. You can either own me with hyper harassing, or play with someone who likes a laid back, slow clash or the armies matches. I'm not against sending a few helpless scouts to get a peak, but rushing to get harass squads isn't fun for me to do or defend.
I'm gonna try the game with the Steam overlay. Would be a decent solution for lack of chat. Steam ID is kamspy.
Well, don't take anything I say as the whole truth. Apparently if you place your expansion one grid space away from the "closest" it can be, you can fully saturate with 24 workers and get the maximum return rate :lolmbmonk said:Nice. Thanks for the info.
Can't wait to see if people number crunch this game as much as say WoW.
Ugh. I finally play my first game against another player only for me to begin my march on the other persons base (from scans I had the most troops. From marines to two Thors.) and then have the game crash on me. Leaving me with the lose of course.
I have been having fun playing against the AI though but as others have said needs a lot of work. If the difficulty of it is increased I can see it being a good way to practice. It did try to scout me and send out small groups.
How do you rotate the barracks though? Haven't been able to figure that out in order to land it different ways.
I have been having fun playing against the AI though but as others have said needs a lot of work. If the difficulty of it is increased I can see it being a good way to practice. It did try to scout me and send out small groups.
How do you rotate the barracks though? Haven't been able to figure that out in order to land it different ways.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Having issues with zerg today
/rage quit
/rage quit
MisterAnderson
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Anyone else get Stargate & Independence Day vibes from certain parts of the new menu overture?
TurtleSnatcher
Member
God damn.. they reset again yesterday?
lol..
Did my placement matches for the 4th time in Beta.. ugh.
5-0 Platinum.. 4 of my opponents were zerg =[
One of the zerg was pretty decent.. but commited to mutas and i went hydras.. yea.. he sent like 1 muta at my base.. and i just over powered him with land units while hits 1 muta ding'd my buildings slowly.
lol..
Did my placement matches for the 4th time in Beta.. ugh.
5-0 Platinum.. 4 of my opponents were zerg =[
One of the zerg was pretty decent.. but commited to mutas and i went hydras.. yea.. he sent like 1 muta at my base.. and i just over powered him with land units while hits 1 muta ding'd my buildings slowly.
mcrae said:
EDIT: I didn't run any high yeild test if that is what you are interested in.
The test I ran came out like this.. don't crack on my spelling.
All I did was play against the CPU, beat it and then kept playing. I pulled all my workers off the minerals/gas. And then put 20 workers on 10 mineral patch for 2 minutes. Then did the same with 30 workers for 10 mineral patches. Ran some basic calculations on the amount collected.
I am sure someone has a MUCH better method but I was just trying to get a rough idea of what the numbers should be.
I was putting 2 workers in the gas until I ran this test, now I put 3.
autobzooty
Member
I'm getting better! I'm still losing, but I feel like I'm getting better! I'm learning the hotkeys and spending lots of money!
TurtleSnatcher
Member
Yea. maybe tomorrow.aznpxdd said:
before I got on my "SSF4 never touching SC2 again" binge :lol
autobzooty
Member
Well I always have better resources than my opponents in the end, with less unspent and more total, but I keep losing. I guess I'm spending it on the wrong stuff....
mbmonk said:
i just did the same thing. my results:
BLUE:
3 per node on 8 nodes (24 workers) for 120 seconds: 2000 minerals, 16.67 per second total, 0.694 per second per worker
2 per node on 8 nodes (16 workers) for 120 seconds: 1675 minerals, 13.958 per second total, 0.8724 per second per worker
GOLD:
3 per node on 6 nodes (18 workers) for 120 seconds: 2113 minerals, 17.608 per second total, 0.978 per second per worker
2.5 per node on 6 nodes (15 workers) for 120 seconds: 2004 minerals, 16.7 per second total, 1.113 per second per worker
2 per node on 6 nodes (12 workers) for 120 seconds: 1813 minerals, 15.108 per second total, 1.259 per second per worker
notes: testing done in blistering sands. blue testing done on the right side's natural, gold 3 per node and 2 per node done on the right side gold site. gold 2.5 per node done on the left side gold site. i let the workers fully begin gathering and only started counting once they were 15 seconds into the gathering.
i think that im going to continue grabbing gold expansions, and not go much above 2 per node, for sure.
scoobs
Member
I have to reiterate this point but is anyone else getting dominated by this lame-o placement stuff? 0-6 since i got into gold by beating 4 worthless people. I can't hang w/ these people they macro up so ridiculous... can't do it. 1 more game tonight and if i go 0-7 im taking a break for a few days lol.
scoobs said:
when i do placements i just paly poorly. just played a twilight fortress where i got up to 120 pop... 34 probes and the rest zealots, from 9 gates. lol if i tech'd earlier in the game i would have dominated but i decided just just play shitty and likely lose... unfortunately we won lol.
anyways yeah, i just decide what my strat is before i start playing: massing marines, zealots, or lings... and then watch as any average player wipes me out, or i beat terrible players.
i usually get placed in bronze, and then quickly rank up to gold, and it balances out there. good system imo.
autobzooty
Member
scoobs said:
someone quit 5 seconds into my match and now i'm in bronze instead of copper :lol
God i love when you almost get wiped early in the game but survive on like your last army unit and you come back to win.
I almost got wiped out by a zealot rush, but my early immortal popped out just in time. Had to pull my workers off the mins and everything. Survived and teched up and owned him.
I love this game, already gone from losing like 7 straight matches the first night to winning 3 out of 4 on night 3.
Grid hotkeys are helping my apm a lot as well, hit a peak of 250ish last match. My average is still like 60-70ish though, need to get the average up to like 100, i still keep stopping to watch the action too often instead of spending my mins.
Need to learn terran and zerg some more, but i like the protoss army management more. Protoss armies are way easier to control than terran (unless you go straight MMM) and zerg. Protoss does seem to have way more special abilities you need to use to be effective though, with sentrys and stalker blink. I haven't tried zealot charge yet though, I normally phase zealots out of my army once i get a couple immortals and a colossus.
I almost got wiped out by a zealot rush, but my early immortal popped out just in time. Had to pull my workers off the mins and everything. Survived and teched up and owned him.
I love this game, already gone from losing like 7 straight matches the first night to winning 3 out of 4 on night 3.
Grid hotkeys are helping my apm a lot as well, hit a peak of 250ish last match. My average is still like 60-70ish though, need to get the average up to like 100, i still keep stopping to watch the action too often instead of spending my mins.
Need to learn terran and zerg some more, but i like the protoss army management more. Protoss armies are way easier to control than terran (unless you go straight MMM) and zerg. Protoss does seem to have way more special abilities you need to use to be effective though, with sentrys and stalker blink. I haven't tried zealot charge yet though, I normally phase zealots out of my army once i get a couple immortals and a colossus.