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//: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm |OT| Like Riding a Bike
- Thread starter Corran Horn
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KojiKnight
Member
Nope. Blizz screwed everyone on it.
Parasite is instant and permanent.
Campaign Zerg is OP as FUCK. Even more OP then the Campaign Terran changes.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Activision-Blizzard prefers the term 'equal opportunity downsizing'.
Felix Lighter
Member
The compression is unfathomable in these cases. The devs that are involved have to be irate when they see the results. It is so bizarre.
Go Zerg. Embrace the swarm!
I deluded myself into thinking that I will go clean slate and just pick Protoss, but after a mere day, I was back at baneling busting Terrans, defending early expansions and fucking up ZVZ's like there is no tomorrow.
Just like riding a bike!
Also, mutalisks....how lovely you are.
Reapers also have +light and the building nades in the campaign. It was a nice surprise when over 10 of them showed up with full upgrades and rampaged through my base while I was attacking on the other end of the map.
Yup. Cliffjumping lings and banes, ultras can have a charge or hp steal, then their evolution can have either resurrection once a minute or a persistent dmg aura... all sorts of nonsense. I love it.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
I like my instant lings. Nothing stops an OH SHIT attack like 30 lings instantly
Interceptor
Banned
I'm having fun making huge swarms of cliffjumping, resurrecting zerglings.
That's exactly how i played the campaign.
Endless waves of zerglings with wings on metabolic rush. What a beautiful sight! Wish they were available in mp. :/Will it ever be $10
Same here. Played mainly Zerg in WoL, thought I would switch to Protoss in HotS as I liked how the mothership core looked, but I have returned to Zerg. I just really don't enjoy the protoss early game for a number of reasons and I find Zerg to be a bit more forgiving.
Either way, at this point I'm getting destroyed online, even in bronze (I've won a few games, but lost many more). I'm going to try and put the time/practice in as it would be pretty cool to work my way up to at least Gold.
Allright, time for some replays.... Some pretty awfull played games by me.
Big mistakes:
- constantly supply blocked
- not executing my build order properly
- too late pulling my scv's to repair the bunkers; also not enough bunkers
- awfull macro, not helped by my blocks
TvZ:
http://drop.sc/310280
Zerg went mass ling + mutas. First engagement I should have pulled out my entire army instead of trying to fight all the lings.
Also the lack of scouting gave me no preparation for the mutas.
TvP:
http://drop.sc/310281
Big early pressure by the Toss. I saw it coming, was scouting for forward pylons but did not find one. I was focussing on something else which resulted in me not pulling my scv's fast enough to repair.
TvP:
http://drop.sc/310282
Was really surprised by his oracles, which is the mistake I made because I scouted his two gas at the start which should have rung a bell, but the oracle option did not come into my mind.
I thought he mostly was going air so I pulled my marine force to my main, which was a big mistakes cause he had a follow up with his army... result: no army in bunker and again too slow with the pulling.
Oracle damage is also insane!
I know I can play better then this but I just have not played multiplayer enough these past weeks. Need to focus more and play a ton more games!
Big mistakes:
- constantly supply blocked
- not executing my build order properly
- too late pulling my scv's to repair the bunkers; also not enough bunkers
- awfull macro, not helped by my blocks
TvZ:
http://drop.sc/310280
Zerg went mass ling + mutas. First engagement I should have pulled out my entire army instead of trying to fight all the lings.
Also the lack of scouting gave me no preparation for the mutas.
TvP:
http://drop.sc/310281
Big early pressure by the Toss. I saw it coming, was scouting for forward pylons but did not find one. I was focussing on something else which resulted in me not pulling my scv's fast enough to repair.
TvP:
http://drop.sc/310282
Was really surprised by his oracles, which is the mistake I made because I scouted his two gas at the start which should have rung a bell, but the oracle option did not come into my mind.
I thought he mostly was going air so I pulled my marine force to my main, which was a big mistakes cause he had a follow up with his army... result: no army in bunker and again too slow with the pulling.
Oracle damage is also insane!
I know I can play better then this but I just have not played multiplayer enough these past weeks. Need to focus more and play a ton more games!
That's exactly how i played the campaign.
I imagine reconstituted speeding raptors in MP and I weep.
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The Everyman
tvt opening kind of sucks now with the reaper gambling game as explained by a b.net poster Giantorange:
Two rax reaper kills the vast majority of openings in TvT. Banshee's are no longer possible. Helion aggression might not be possible anymore because you'll die first. Gasless FE is no longer possible. Marine helion medivac elevator is no longer possible.
The only thing that's decent against two rax reaper in marauder concussive expand which ironically is terrible against one rax reaper.
TvT became a terrible matchup very quickly since you've just made it a gambling match of everyone opening either two rax reaper or 1 rax reaper which can be made unscoutable which one a person is going for. So you'll open one rax reaper and you can either go reapers and pray your opponent isn't going two rax reaper and will kill you or you can go marauders and pray your opponent isn't going one rax reaper...because it has an advantage on you.
TvT seems to be in a pretty bad spot.
Two rax reaper kills the vast majority of openings in TvT. Banshee's are no longer possible. Helion aggression might not be possible anymore because you'll die first. Gasless FE is no longer possible. Marine helion medivac elevator is no longer possible.
The only thing that's decent against two rax reaper in marauder concussive expand which ironically is terrible against one rax reaper.
TvT became a terrible matchup very quickly since you've just made it a gambling match of everyone opening either two rax reaper or 1 rax reaper which can be made unscoutable which one a person is going for. So you'll open one rax reaper and you can either go reapers and pray your opponent isn't going two rax reaper and will kill you or you can go marauders and pray your opponent isn't going one rax reaper...because it has an advantage on you.
TvT seems to be in a pretty bad spot.
TimeEffect
Member
Does SCII ever go on sale like Steam games? would like to buy it for a good price
Wings of Liberty is $29.99 on Amazon right now.
Ummm, fungals are no longer instant in MP? The fuck...
Infestors were OP for the past year...
celestial body
Member
profit, I'm not a good player by any means, but I play zerg and can tell you Hellion harass is a major pain, that guy got to 3 bases untouched and didn't have any real defence aside for the standard 2 extra queens. usually zergs will at least narrow the natural with evo chambers.Dealing with the harass will cause missed injects and other mistakes especially at that level. Anyway far better players on here will be able to give you more help.
Just played a guy who says he was Masters in WoL. I feel like such a newb now. See, this is why StarCraft II has been beat out by League of Legends in popularity. With LoL I was able to have fun and enjoy competitive play from the get-go while here I feel like the game wants me to feel like a stupid idiot.
celestial body
Member
JLeack, right now the matchmaking is screwed in HOTS because all MMRs are reset. In a few days/weeks it will settle down and you'll play people of your own skill.
That's why I'm waiting a week or two to really dive into MP. I only played a bit of WOL, so I'm brushing up on my game by playing the AI.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
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?
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
How did you enjoy the ESSEEENCE of the dialogue?
Ah SNAP. That would explain it. Thanks!
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 enjoyed it as much as the ARTIFACTSSSSSS-part of this trilogy.
Honestly, there's only one way of describing how I felt as the credits are rolling:
Well, I felt like that too, but for a different reason >_>
I really wish there were more gimmick missions in this campaign. There have been way too many standard base building missions so far. Even on brutal, no matter what the objective is, it just boils down to: make an army, go kill stuff, defend the counter attack, repeat, and it makes so many of the missions feel the same. My favorite missions so far have been the ones that force you to play in an unconventional way, like the deep freeze mission, the protoss ship, mission, and the gorgon BC mission because it feels like more than a watered down version of a multiplayer match.
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?
Weird. I was just complaining to my brother that there were too many gimmick missions and that I would've really loved some more pure macro missions.
Starcraft and Brood War were all mostly like this (lots of base building and attacking), I enjoyed it. Gimmick missions are fun once in a while, but I'd really like my RTS games to mostly have RTS missions.
Macro is so easy with the Kerrigan upgrades it would make a lot of the game trivial.
Askherserenity
Member
Hey! I have the same problem. I literally get super nervous while playing Starcraft so I feel ya. Maybe we should play sometime? You'll most likely stomp all over me but maybe that's what you need!
Spam click the queen on the "growth" mission. Secret best character in the game.
Can we get the subtitle changed for the spoiler thread? I almost mistook it for this one. :x
Wings of Liberty is currently $19.99 at Best Buy. Good through Saturday, I believe.
Wings of Liberty is currently $19.99 at Best Buy. Good through Saturday, I believe.
AppleSmack
Banned
Almost never but I remember a 50% off sale occurred once
Starcraft and Brood War were all mostly like this (lots of base building and attacking), I enjoyed it. Gimmick missions are fun once in a while, but I'd really like my RTS games to mostly have RTS missions.
It is probably because I've played so much Starcraft MP over the years. When I play single player, I'd rather it be as different from MP as possible. I would just play an multiplayer match if I wanted to macro for 20 minutes.
Spoiler thread had it first! Should be this thread that changes imo!