For the campaign, yes.
But there are better free strategy videos 2 days after the game comes out on YouTube, so it's pointless.
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But there are better free strategy videos 2 days after the game comes out on YouTube, so it's pointless.
SnakeswithLasers
Member
RTS are really only about varying strategies once you get APM and muscle memory down.
At the bronze/silver ladder tiers you'll win just buy building peasants every 8 seconds and expanding appropriately. That's the only strategy you need at that point.
(Consequently, it's why I gave up on playing the genre--I just don't have the will or the skill to try to keep up anymore.)
Um, really? I thought the spread went like 50 percent bronze and 5 percent diamond? That's what I remember WoL season 1 being.
Moff
Member
really like the new protoss units. the mothership core seems almost too good. such a strong protoss unit so early. and the new artillery bomber, wow. even only against land units it would have been awesome, but air, too? like the starcraft 1 guardian onl with air to air capabilities. and with the oracle comes its perfect supporter. really looking forward to the online part of this game.
fatty
Member
Check out my post earlier in this thread.
My friend was struggling as well and didn't even like playing 3v3 or 4v4 matches with us since he consistently would place last and not really factor into the battle (which frustrated him since he didn't really get to take advantage of his army). He practiced to achieve those benchmarks and is doing so much better and likes playing now.
If you have any questions, ask away and/or post some replays and people in here will help. I'm an OK player, but I'd be more than happy to help you out anyway that I can.
At the early stages of Season 1, before Master and Grandmaster came out, it was 20% evenly distributed through Bronze-Diamond. (5 leagues x 20% = 100%)
Before Grandmaster League was released, Blizzard used to manually publish a list of the Top 200 players in each region on their blog.
Bronze and Silver together have always been the bottom half of the player base, in terms of skill (bottom 40%, 20 + 20).
EscapingJail
Member
Just so people know, everything antitrop is saying is 100% correct.
HoodWinked
Member
are they hiding the loading?
EscapingJail
Member
Also, for the people who want to get better at the game. I've said many times in the various SC2 threads that I'm offering free lessons to gaf members. That offer still stands.
Feel free to shoot me a PM.
I guess if you need to know my qualifications I've been Masters since season 2, and I've been close to GM mmr many times. (Beating players like Select.)
Feel free to shoot me a PM.
I guess if you need to know my qualifications I've been Masters since season 2, and I've been close to GM mmr many times. (Beating players like Select.)
SC2ranks.com is telling a whole different story...?
Has yours shipped yet? Mine hasn't changed at all.
You just need to force yourself to become competent at the mechanical part of the game. Pick protoss or terran, and practice against the AI or in an empty map until you can:
-Constantly produce workers
-avoid being supply capped
-can execute 1 build order per matchup from memory
-keep your minerals and gas below 1000.
-expand every 5 or 6 minutes
-Use hotkeys, all attacking units should be on control groups, all production buildings should be on control groups as well. Look up some recommended control group setups if you don't know what any of that means.
Keep going until you are maxed at 200/200; do that until you feel comfortable. It's boring at first, but it helps to remove the pressure and tension that comes with a match against another human.
The game is fun, but due to it being an APM intensive RTS, there's a mechanical barrier to entry that you need to break through before the strategy part actually matters.
Try playing some team games if you are still having trouble playing 1v1.
masterkajo
Member
What race are you playing/coaching?
Blizzard got to him.
I'm having some really fucking annoying issues with Bink on my PC. Usually on games which use Bink movies a lot I do get some sort of stuttering if it's loading something in the background or whatever, but mostly it's smooth. On HotS it seems that the video actually lags behind the audio completely making the scenes desynced and unwatchable if they're longer than a minute or two. Zero problems in actual realtime stuff. >_<
To be honest, a player in masters doesn't need to play the same race if they are coaching someone in platinum or below. At that point, mechanics are causing 90% of peoples problems.
HoodWinked
Member
try changing the game to fullscreen (windowed) or fullscreen if already.
sorijealut
Member
I am interested in some lessons! next weekend!
He's probably talking about the ingame cutscenes, not the CG ones.
ThreeSixty
December 16, 2009. 4:00 AM. THE LIGHT FIELD is the force. The mind. That guides. Controls.
I'm curious too. How are you guys playing this game early? Do you have review code or something? I checked the times Blizzard posted and it goes live 11pm GMT over here in the UK. Later for the US. I should be able to start playing this in three or four hours. The game hasn't leaked yet so how are you guys playing the game so early?
I did the same thing yesterday. I think I'm over physical CEs anyways.
oconnomiyaki
Member
Picking up two copies of this today. My fiancée laid claim to my collector's edition. 
Funnily enough, my excitement for it is somewhat dampened by the fact I have to play it on PC. I know it's the kind of game that doesn't work on a console, but I can't see myself relegating myself to my study for more than the campaign. Was so much easier in my student days.
Funnily enough, my excitement for it is somewhat dampened by the fact I have to play it on PC. I know it's the kind of game that doesn't work on a console, but I can't see myself relegating myself to my study for more than the campaign. Was so much easier in my student days.
In WoL the non-CG cutscenes were realtime and really nice looking if you have good graphic settings. In HotS they seem to be mostly pre-recorded scenes with in-game assets, but since Bink sucks donkey cock there's visible compression, the contrast is worse, and it just doesn't look as sharp and colorful as it should if it were really rendered in realtime at the native resolution you're playing at.
GhostRidah
Member
Guess im still a sucker for Starcraft, only played the campaign and mostly did co-op matches with a friend in WoL but I just pulled the trigger on this fml
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Wow that's pretty lame. The WoL in-game cutscenes looked nice in 3D. Now they're all pre-rendered?
It looks like they changed the distribution in HotS for bronze, silver, and gold.
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/9067510/Heart_of_the_Swarm_League_Percentages-3_11_2013
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/9067510/Heart_of_the_Swarm_League_Percentages-3_11_2013
SRTtoZ
Member
Nope, I do as well. Hoping to finish up WOL tonight (again) in preparation for tomorrow.
The license is super cheap, under 10k if I remember correctly.
Maybe it is cheap to license or easy to work with, I don't know.
Still want the music CD. Think they will sell it or is it only for CE?
KojiKnight
Member
It's still stupid on the real time cut scenes... I sure as hell can't remember a single person complaining about that.
Might I suggest you take a look at videos on Apollo's youtube channel there are some old but still awesome ones here as well.
I was able to go from high bronze to gold with the help of those videos and a lot of practice.
GL have batman.
In HotS:
Bronze 8% (was 20%)
Silver 20% (was 20%)
Gold 32% (was 20%)
Platinum 20%
Diamond 18%
Master 2%
Grand Master Top 200 players in region
The real reason they did this is so fewer people would be bronze and feel bad about themselves.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I return from work to this? Thanks for stirring up such a shithole in this thread. And thanks for backing me up SC2GAF.
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And with that said, I'm extremely excited (obviously) but I won't be able to play it until tomorrow FUCK.
I don't. Cool assumption bro.
Good job getting the "point" of my donation to GGG - my current favorite company of all time.
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And with that said, I'm extremely excited (obviously) but I won't be able to play it until tomorrow
FUCK.GhostRidah
Member
When I think of Bink I think of late 90s early 00s, so old.
And with that said, I'm extremely excited (obviously) but I won't be able to play it until tomorrow
I thought you weren't going to buy this. Didn't you say it was the worst game of all time or something recently? Lol.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I also bought Bad Rats and Dark Souls. Nothing stops me from buying bad games.I thought you weren't going to buy this. Didn't you say it was the worst game of all time or something recently? Lol.