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StarCraft 2 Beta |OT| (Beta Now Reopen, GL HF)
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ChronicleX
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fanboi said:
Scrap Station. I also noticed that some maps were taken out of the 1v1 pool, pretty sure it was this and Incineration Zone that were removed.
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Deleted member 30609
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I play on all low settings on my MBP at native res and the game still looks oddly sexy. Everything is still very much readable.
I mean, I play more often than not on my PC with everything but textures on Ultra, but still...
I mean, I play more often than not on my PC with everything but textures on Ultra, but still...
ChronicleX
Banned
fanboi said:
I know which one you mean, pretty sure it is called desert oasis. However from experience Zerg do rather well on that map since they can fast expand on it rather easily, even to the gold min.
One game a few patchs ago I sealed a zerg in his base, he used Overlords to expand to an island while I owned the map and had a ton of Hydra's / sporecrawlers there, and then started attacking my bases using a Nidus worm. It was insanely hard to overcome, I even made 2 motherships trying to get close.
Personally I feel that is one of zerg's strongest maps, even with the short air distance.
ChronicleX
Banned
fanboi said:
It is still a massive rush distance. If you can defend that you will pull ahead, but that is mainly vs protoss since Terrans can lift to gold/islands. Midgame on that map zerg is insanely hard to stop.
As for the change of map it was a mistaske, I was busy watching the HDH final thing and the map was Blistering sands, I changed it straight away once I realised :lol BTW the final was a best of 5 right?
Manabanana
Member
fanboi said:
I don't think it's a mod, I think it's just a setting. My friend didn't know creep was purple until we played at my place
ChronicleX
Banned
fanboi said:
If you scout to make sure you are not cheesed it is very good for the zerg since speedling runby's are insanely good on all the expansions (cept the island ones). Also Nydus worm is very powerful on that map once you get some anti air.
Hazaro said:
I know about the scandal, but what's this about player conditions?
ultron87 said:
Are you Srex? That might have been me you were facing. :lol I didn't mean to lull you into a false sense of security, or anything, I just figured I'd keep playing even though the match was fairly easy to call.
If this wasn't you than kindly forget everything I just said. :lol
I just got reaper "rushed" (six reapers so I repelled them with only losing a depot) and the enemy transitioned into defensive nukes. Lost some tanks and mining time since I was paranoid after spotting a medivac going into my base. Rolled him over after making sure there were no ghosts in my base.
What a weird game.
What a weird game.
Hahahaa kespa.
The Nony vs TLO game was good but I'm pretty sure
The Nony vs TLO game was good but I'm pretty sure
Nony was done as soon as he let those lings into his base. He lost his nexus, lots of probes, and he didn't do anything to prevent more lings from running in on a regular basis. The phoenixes kept Nony in the game surprisingly long, but TLO really only needed to keep himself defended to win the game.
Interesting read, and I think more people should see this. I always worried in the back of my mind that Korean e-sports was about a bunch of suits making ridiculous amounts of money while giving kids the shaft because they don't know any better, and it sucks to see how true it is.FoxSpirit said:
StarCraft II online play is region locked?! Seriously?
The Lamonster
Member
Even Blizzard has noted there will be workarounds.snack said:
Plus, at least this way you won't have to play against those crazy Koreans!
OptimoPeach
Banned
Yeah, all you'll have to do is buy another keyThe Lamonster said:Even Blizzard has noted there will be workarounds.
Plus, at least this way you won't have to play against those crazy Koreans!
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Not surprised. Beta is like that. Want an EU account? Buy a code to go along with your US Code/Client :/snack said:
PC games has changed in 12 years
Akuun said:
There's this weird thing I've noticed in alot of pro games: very few of them have any sort of defense, most of the time they don't even wall off. I mean I understand there's a thought that if you're on the defensive then you've as good as lost, but guess what: if you don't have defense and they get into your base, then you've actually lost.
Speaking of GOMTV they have been running some clan knock out tournament. There is a thread over at TL located here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=127739
If you prefer to download the VODs (instead of trying to stream them from GOMTV website) you can do that here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=127739¤tpage=3#48
If you prefer to download the VODs (instead of trying to stream them from GOMTV website) you can do that here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=127739¤tpage=3#48
OptimoPeach
Banned
Only Terran can wall off without having to break part of it down later to get out of their base. Nony did the best thing you can do, which is leave only a single matrix unblocked so that you can still get in and out while (ideally) hindering the enemy's access as much as possible. He even had a couple of clutch forcefields that stopped the lings, but it turned out to be delaying the inevitable. He just got outplayed in a big way in that game. He would also have been playing right into TLO's hands by allowing full map control if he did something like turtle up in his main with a bunch of cannons, which is exactly why you never see players dump a shitton of resources into static d in the early game -- especially against Zergwebrunner said:
The problem is that it makes organizing tournaments difficult. Of course that isn't of any concern to the more casual players, but it's very possible that Starcraft 2 wouldn't be around without the driving force of the competitive scene. And then there's the fact that LAN will not be an option in retail, meaning that players will be required to purchase a second or even third key if they want to participate in any national tournament. It'll be really retarded if that is the state of things in retail (and to my knowledge, Blizzard has not confirmed this one way or the other). Much like their feud with KeSPA, it will be a decision that is 100% motivated by the potential cash flowMardil said:
Deadly said:
yea, and how is that different from having LAN? even with LAN you needed a key to install SC1 with. the only difference here is that you have to go through battle.nets server
PS: can someone please make a copy of Marvel Vs Capcom 2 Evolves? god i loved that game in SC1...all i see now are crappy Evolves maps that are full of glitches...
OptimoPeach said:
But I mean- a lot of pro protoss don't even do the one-square door, and a lot of pro terrans don't wall off, and they always pay for it almost immediately.
And really, he was giving him full map control (to an almost unprecedented degree), because he had no defense and had to spend all his time chasing zerglings around.
Having even a token attempt (by the time he got his starports he could have used them to wall off the back with a couple of stalkers) to block the repeated zergling attacks would have gone quite a bit better.
Menelaus said:On topic: I suck REALLY HARD at SCII, with little to no help at getting better. I haven't been this frustrated with an online experience in a long time.
Off topic: OH GOD I NEED THIS SOURCE
Post a replay, I'll gladly help out.
First pointer when watching a replay: did you ever seriously fall behind in resources? Did you ever sit on a huge pile of money when he attacked?
Those are the two most basic questions, if either of those two are yes, watch and learn. Third place would be scouting, did you have any clue he was building what he did. But I digress, post and I'll point stuff out
OptimoPeach
Banned
Deadly said:
Because the key is tied to your Battle.net account, which in turn is tied to your regional server. If European and Asian players want to participate in something like WCG in the states, they'll need a US Battle.net accountAshhong said:
OptimoPeach
Banned
I can't recall TONS of PvZ's in SC2 where the Protoss didn't build at his ramp unless he was doing some kind of 2 gate rush or a proxy. Granted, that might just be because I tend to skip Protoss games in SC2 as they are incredibly boring to watch, but still.webrunner said:
It's also worth keeping in mind that mass speedlings isn't exactly standard play in PvZ. It's not as much of an issue past the first few minutes (in which case you can simply block with a couple zealots) if it's just mass hydras or something.
Also, it's not as critical to wall in with certain match-ups (for example, PvT and TvP, and absolutely never in TvT), and in those players sometimes prefer to slap stuff down closer to their CC/Nexus so as to minimize the mining time lost and simply poke around for any proxies or signs of rush when you first scout. There are also other factors that come into play, such as rush distance, or whether or not it's a 1v1 map.
lol then you probably were on eu.battle.net when you added your code to your account. For whatever reason people sometimes get routed to the wrong site when they just type "battle.net" into their address bar, and when the beta first launched there were TONS of threads on the support forums and TL with people saying, "I was redirected to the wrong battle.net site when I redeemed my code and now I'm stuck on x server."FoxSpirit said:
And yes, once the code is redeemed, it is only good for a single region. Luckily this hasn't been as big of a deal with beta tournaments since foreign players can easily get their hands on multiple keys and make accounts for each server.