Corran Horn
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It needs to be extended to more games. 10 or so at least to gather a better grouping of players.Procarbine said:
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StarCraft 2 Beta |OT| (Beta Now Reopen, GL HF)
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Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Well for the beta I dont mind 5 games because of the constant resets but during retail it wont happen as often
FromTheFuture
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mm I would really like to know how the hell divisions work. As of now, not much about the match making makes much sense to be honest.
Corran Horn said:
it would be annoying as hell to have to go through 10 placement matches for each bracket and every time you wanted to set up a new team. 5 is fine, and I'm pretty sure the way Blizzard determines placement is fairly sophisticated and will be improved leading up to launch.
I got placed in Silver and feel like it's the perfect placement for my skill level, so I guess it just depends on who you get matched up against in the placement bouts.
Ashhong said:
I would actually like that better. I can understand why the divisions exist, though.
Kodiak said:
I haven't played 2v2 yet, so I didn't think about that. Perhaps they could have 10 placement matches for 1v1, since it'd only occur once per season (will there be seasons?) and leave 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4 at 5 placement matches.
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I won 3/5 of my placement matches and placed in Silver.
After about 20 matches in Silver, of which I won probably 9 of, I was "de-ranked" down to Bronze which is probably more accurate of a rating since I don't even know what all of the buildings and units do yet.
I think their system works pretty damn well, all things considered.
After about 20 matches in Silver, of which I won probably 9 of, I was "de-ranked" down to Bronze which is probably more accurate of a rating since I don't even know what all of the buildings and units do yet.
I think their system works pretty damn well, all things considered.
FromTheFuture
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I meant how divisions are determined, not why divisions exist as a whole. I always figured it was something like a 'first come first serve' basis, and a lot of top players get put into the higher divisions because they play more. But then some people who are playing much later end up in division one. Then, when you check someone's stats, their rank within their division is the first thing you see. It kind of seems like having that information there is entirely useless.Ashhong said:
DurielBlack
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Before the first reset I lost 9/10 placement matches and got into copper, which I ranked up to bronze in before the first reset.
Second reset I made gold somehow, and quickly got bumped down to silver because I got my face stomped in gold. I struggled in Silver a bit, but could have probably held out there, then they did another reset.
Haven't played 1v1 since, been doing 2v2s exclusively, although I plan to do some more 1v1 now that there are new maps.
2v2 matchups with my friend seem pretty accurate. From time to time we get total newbs or platinum players but overall we seem to get opponents our level (we are ranked high in bronze before the last reset, and are probably on track to silver).
I think I can get myself to silver in 1v1. I doubt I will ever get to gold let alone platinum, which is kind of disapointing. I think that while the placement games and matchmaking should keep you against similar skilled opponents it might discourage a lot of people after several months of play when they reach their maximum level of skill.
I think I am just too old to reach the upper tiers. In games when I reach 60apm my hands and elbows start to hurt like hell after about an hour of intense play, and since I have a habit of playing for 6-8 hours at a time it means after I peak I start to lose a lot of games becuase my hands get stiff.
Second reset I made gold somehow, and quickly got bumped down to silver because I got my face stomped in gold. I struggled in Silver a bit, but could have probably held out there, then they did another reset.
Haven't played 1v1 since, been doing 2v2s exclusively, although I plan to do some more 1v1 now that there are new maps.
2v2 matchups with my friend seem pretty accurate. From time to time we get total newbs or platinum players but overall we seem to get opponents our level (we are ranked high in bronze before the last reset, and are probably on track to silver).
I think I can get myself to silver in 1v1. I doubt I will ever get to gold let alone platinum, which is kind of disapointing. I think that while the placement games and matchmaking should keep you against similar skilled opponents it might discourage a lot of people after several months of play when they reach their maximum level of skill.
I think I am just too old to reach the upper tiers. In games when I reach 60apm my hands and elbows start to hurt like hell after about an hour of intense play, and since I have a habit of playing for 6-8 hours at a time it means after I peak I start to lose a lot of games becuase my hands get stiff.
MisterAnderson
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Trasher and I played some 2v2 ladder earlier, and we had a few good matches. One in particular stood out as one of the coolest moments I've had playing StarCraft 2. I'd post the replay but I figure I could instead show screens of the exact moment I'm referring to.
The map was Twilight Fortress; I was Terran and Trasher was Protoss while our enemies were both Toss. At this moment in time the enemy force is countering my mass Banshee harass at his expo. Here's the moment they attacked:
A few seconds later, Trasher cast Vortex in the center of their army, sucking in a large portion of it. Right after he did that, I launched a nuke from a cloaked Ghost adjacent to the Vortex:
RIGHT as their units are released from the Vortex, they are met with swift death:
Then we countered and won it. I only wish that my Ghost hadn't of died in the blast so I could have seen how many kills he had
The map was Twilight Fortress; I was Terran and Trasher was Protoss while our enemies were both Toss. At this moment in time the enemy force is countering my mass Banshee harass at his expo. Here's the moment they attacked:
A few seconds later, Trasher cast Vortex in the center of their army, sucking in a large portion of it. Right after he did that, I launched a nuke from a cloaked Ghost adjacent to the Vortex:
RIGHT as their units are released from the Vortex, they are met with swift death:
Then we countered and won it. I only wish that my Ghost hadn't of died in the blast so I could have seen how many kills he had
FromTheFuture
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Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
click more! It part knowing and doing stuff fast and part spam to keep hands loseOlivero said:
MisterAnderson
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Ashhong if you're getting this the fucking game made my keyboard not work??? I can't type at all or do any hotkeys... :/
SuperAndroid17
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any chatrooms going on or games ?
FromTheFuture
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well now i just feel like a jackass
Tried Grid hotkeys for a sec.
Word of warning, prepare to relearn everything you knew about hotkeys.
The most annoying thing, I think, is a-attack is t-attack with the grid system. I thought it only applied to abilities, like in HoN but it applies to ALL hotkeys.
Word of warning, prepare to relearn everything you knew about hotkeys.
The most annoying thing, I think, is a-attack is t-attack with the grid system. I thought it only applied to abilities, like in HoN but it applies to ALL hotkeys.
I don't think so, maybe it's just me. I lost my friendlist but trasher's still in gold.aznpxdd said:
I just won a game where the other guy took out 3 of my probes with his probe and then went on to build a proxy pylon in my base while I was messing around with stalker/sentry. It was pretty funny though, I bet I scared his ass off when i sent 6 immortal hallucinations into the paltry force he left at his base. We ended up base trading and, get this, we both managed to sneak out some probes and lay down a nexus but when he used what he had left to try to hit me I obliterated him with my virtually untouched stalkers.
He promptly gave up, despite having two pylons and a nexus in the works (as did I).
FromTheFuture
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did this shit really just get reset again?
I know that hitting A will do the command to attack move but I'm clumsy and will randomly attack a builing instead of the enemy units in the moment. Prior to this patch, you could hold down CTRL and right click the ground and it will auto attack move so it was faster for me to fix my mistake. I read in this SC wiki that holding down shift was something I was looking for but it seems to just queue up movements for my units.
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Attack_move
any advice gaf? would make my sc2 so much better lol
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Attack_move
any advice gaf? would make my sc2 so much better lol
FromTheFuture
Member
Well my stats are reset. Every time I finish my placement matches, it gets reset within like 6 hours. This is getting incredibly irritating.
SuperAndroid17
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I guess there no point in trying to ladder..
Custom games till retail honestly
Custom games till retail honestly
MisterAnderson said:Then we countered and won it. I only wish that my Ghost hadn't of died in the blast so I could have seen how many kills he had
-Open your replay.
-Set it to "Units Lost".
-Check enemy numbers before and after blast.