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StarCraft 2 Beta |OT| (Beta Now Reopen, GL HF)
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DaFish said:Lame
Edit: How's she doing tonight, boys?
it's just such an inconceivably boneheaded move. i can't fathom it past some bizarre megalomaniacal scheme to create some kind of digital apartheid.
or perhaps they're saving it for battlenet+. this is activision after all.
Nah just spam marines and hellions. As Terran you should have an excess of 500 mineral the entire game vs PWon said:
I play TvP and never bother with ghosts. (I only use them as late game support with a mech army, but never have reached late game in a 'real' match)
The early opening style of marine/ghost + marauder support feels far to fragile to 4 gate for me.
*Disclaimer I haven't played THAT many 1v1's
Hazaro said:Nah just spam marines and hellions. As Terran you should have an excess of 500 mineral the entire game vs P
I play TvP and never bother with ghosts. (I only use them as late game support with a mech army, but never have reached late game in a 'real' match)
The early opening style of marine/ghost + marauder support feels far to fragile to 4 gate for me.
*Disclaimer I haven't played THAT many 1v1's
you need ghost if you want to do a straight head to head battle in this situation. emp is very useful.
Yeah, ghosts or bust.Hazaro said:Nah just spam marines and hellions. As Terran you should have an excess of 500 mineral the entire game vs P
I play TvP and never bother with ghosts. (I only use them as late game support with a mech army, but never have reached late game in a 'real' match)
The early opening style of marine/ghost + marauder support feels far to fragile to 4 gate for me.
*Disclaimer I haven't played THAT many 1v1's
Oh absolutely no doubt it is, but I'm just not used to getting it :lola176 said:
Plus my barracks only have reactors on them so I can spam marines. Marines are so good.
I really should try to work in a tech rax for ghosts + shield/stim upgrades into my build.
I just have found that a contain with harass can lead into a slow push that works out really well vs Protoss (Use banshees to draw back stalkers while moving forward your tank line) Keep marines in front to soak damage and kill off any air/engage stalkers before they can blink, etc. Then if the stalkers do get do your tanks throw down a PDD and unseige if you like.
Using that timing push ~10 minutes/70 food you get your expansion and shut down the protoss expansion. The Toss shouldn't have templar tech let alone storm so you only need to worry about a collosi/immortals which get chewed up by marines/tanks/banshee. If VR come out you have a good number of marines and can just swap the reactor on your barracks to your starport and get vikings + EMP. I love the 1 rax, 1 fact, 1 port build. So much flexibility.
The only start I've seen work is aggressive phoenix harass with 4 gate zealot/sentry timing attack but I don't think many Protoss can pull it off that well (it was NoNy who I saw do it).
OptimoPeach
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You'd think so, but the way it usually works out is that P usually pushes RIGHT as get your natural up, and when you land your CC you should have some spare minerals to slap down bunkers. Keep a spotter in mid so you see em coming, then get some SCVs ready to auto-repair your bunker. At worst you'll lose your bunkers and the marines inside. The only time I've had any trouble is on Steppes of War, because that choke is so goddamn wide and you can't abuse any high groundHazaro said:
watervengeance
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Finally got myself into Gold. Next stop Platinum. Working your way up is tough work.
It is very satisfying though. Starcraft 1/2 has a steep learning curve at first in MP, but the payoff is worth it imo. Even in lower leagues you will get rolled often, but once things click you can start moving up steadily. It is tough to think of another game that has solid players in all levels. Keep some of your old replays, so you can go back and laugh at your dumb mistakes and see how much you have progressed :lolwatervengeance said:
Early gas Ling muta build is so awesome Gas 13, pool 14, natural as soon as you have the minerals(i typically get it like at 17-18), ling speed with your first 100 gas, and as soon as your first queen pops out you will have 100 gas for lair. Soon as you get lair, you can get your second gas at your main and double gas the natural and when your spire finished you will have enough for the +1 air attack and a bunch of mutas.
It's basically sen's build from the day[9] daily 125. Sen is the fucking man.
The timings are so sweet. I keep fucking up the second OL though, and building an extra drone instead of an OL so my first queen is getting psi locked for like 10 secs cause i gotta wait for another larvae to get the OL. Need to practice that more.
It's basically sen's build from the day[9] daily 125. Sen is the fucking man.
The timings are so sweet. I keep fucking up the second OL though, and building an extra drone instead of an OL so my first queen is getting psi locked for like 10 secs cause i gotta wait for another larvae to get the OL. Need to practice that more.
Jokey665 said:
Nice. I just finished up my 3v3 placements as well. Diamond also. Maybe I should go back to 1v1, see if I've truly improved. I was bronze before the league adjustment patch. :/
And I reeeealllly wish they would fix the minimap problem in replays. I want two watch my gigantic mutaball destroy everything (easier).
daynine is commenting an invitational in the next 5-10 minutes.
the little one will be playing.
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the little one will be playing.
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watervengeance
Member
Idra is so passive. He could've doom dropped with his Roachs.
watervengeance
Member
Damn, poor TLO. Finals should be epic.
He's not going to suicide units because he knows he has won.watervengeance said:
He's cementing his win instead of possibly throwing it away.
They still build insanely fast, move quickly, soak damage.Won said:Roaches are supposed to be useless!
If you have 40 larva saved and 3k in the bank you spam that R key and you have back to 180/200 in 23 seconds. Then you just a-move.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Its a lagfest for me. Funny since I had perfect stream with the HDH tourny and that had 25k people watching :lolmsv said:
MisterAnderson
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I just decided to do a tweak to Lotus Prime making it more 1v1 friendly and a bit roomier. It essentially removes the main path to your teammate in 2v2's, but you can still get there via the middle high ground expansion it just takes a bit longer. The important thing though is that it does away with one of the paths to the natural expansion which was an issue in 1v1's.
Before:
After:
Also if it isn't obvious in the picture, the high ground expansion ledge is now completely touching the asteroid ledge of the high yield center. There used to be a gap there but I extended them all the way to make the high ground platform as large as possible since it's now the main path to your teammate's main in 2v2's.
Please let me know if you think these are good or bad changes.
Before:
After:
Also if it isn't obvious in the picture, the high ground expansion ledge is now completely touching the asteroid ledge of the high yield center. There used to be a gap there but I extended them all the way to make the high ground platform as large as possible since it's now the main path to your teammate's main in 2v2's.
Please let me know if you think these are good or bad changes.