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//: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm |OT| Like Riding a Bike
- Thread starter Corran Horn
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I honestly was sad they had no larva injects, you're only running one to two bases in most campaign missions, and I was always larva starved before setting up a macro hatchery. whatever, that's why we got zergling reconstitution!
oh man, one of the protoss tech abilities should be the ability to bring back the dragoon
dragoons the best protoss units
better yet, bring back fenix
just put his corspe into another dragoon
oh man, one of the protoss tech abilities should be the ability to bring back the dragoon
dragoons the best protoss units
better yet, bring back fenix
just put his corspe into another dragoon
Nah, Immortals are souped up Dragoons. Dragoons are filled with half dead or crippled Zealots.
I got my legit key via simplygames day of release, but it refused to activate. Reputable site, but I checked with them and they reported no issues with their keys.
Went onto Blizzard's live chat support, waited an age because it's release day (I'm cool with that), but when I do finally speak to someone I get absolutely nowhere and am told to submit a ticket.
OK, do that. 1 day passes. Then 2. Ah, finally, a response, hopefully I can now play HOTS!
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That is your generic copy and paste response to a customer who has waited patiently for days for at minimum some help, and at best the ability to play the game he paid for? Am absolutely incensed.
Would it have killed them to have them to include "we apologise", or "sorry"? We messed up, but hey there, have a great day and don't get hit by a bus! WTF?!
So I won't be playing this weekend, and I might not be playing for a long long time. Could they not have invalidated the key and activated HOTS on my account? Would that have been too logicial a move? Jesus. I don't normally get so annoyed at things, but this is some of the worst and most inconsiderate customer support I've ever received.
Went onto Blizzard's live chat support, waited an age because it's release day (I'm cool with that), but when I do finally speak to someone I get absolutely nowhere and am told to submit a ticket.
OK, do that. 1 day passes. Then 2. Ah, finally, a response, hopefully I can now play HOTS!
<rage face.jpg>
That is your generic copy and paste response to a customer who has waited patiently for days for at minimum some help, and at best the ability to play the game he paid for? Am absolutely incensed.
Would it have killed them to have them to include "we apologise", or "sorry"? We messed up, but hey there, have a great day and don't get hit by a bus! WTF?!
So I won't be playing this weekend, and I might not be playing for a long long time. Could they not have invalidated the key and activated HOTS on my account? Would that have been too logicial a move? Jesus. I don't normally get so annoyed at things, but this is some of the worst and most inconsiderate customer support I've ever received.
I've found these videos (for your chosen race, the builds are a little out of date as well as they don't include HOTS stuff) good to come back to the game with, but they still might be a little advanced. Have you done the tutorials and played the AI at all?
Thanks, I'll check these out. They did new MP tutorials for hots, right? If so I haven't looked at them yet, and I haven't played the AI since wol.
Cool, I'll stay tuned for them too.
Level whoring. WoW only better.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
I really need to reinstall SC2 onto my ssd. Preforming a fresh windows install killed my hdd space so I had to put it on an 2ndary drive lol.
Did Blizzard change APM calculation since early WoL?
I remember being in the 60-70 APM category just after WoL beta. I start up my first 1v1 while I'm super rusty and I'm consistently just above 100 APM. I never got that high before, not even on a good day.
I remember being in the 60-70 APM category just after WoL beta. I start up my first 1v1 while I'm super rusty and I'm consistently just above 100 APM. I never got that high before, not even on a good day.
I noticed this. I averaged around 120 APM but now I'm at 249 all of a sudden.
Maybe it counts keyboard actions as well as mouse clicks now?
.....it didn't before?
Just 4 missions in and loving the game right now. Yes the story makes me feel all tingly inside like the last 5 minutes of a Full House episide but the cutscenes and gameplay are really cool. I haven't played in 2 years and have lost all ability at macroing. I can however keep a ling alive forever due to the awesome micro skills developed playing Dota.
Does anyone know if the cinematices and cutscenes are on the Blu ray that came with the CE? They had them on the WOL CE.
Does anyone know if the cinematices and cutscenes are on the Blu ray that came with the CE? They had them on the WOL CE.
They had lowered it before. However I still am around 50 APM down from 200 during the summer
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Umm like a year or so ago they introduced effective APM (APM minus spam) to go along with the regular APM. Besides that I dont think there has been much changes. But I havnt been messing around with Multi much yet.
IDK. I'm trying to think how my APM could have doubled when all I did was play DOTA2 in the interim. Maybe I actually got faster??? IDK.
Yeah, but like I said, I'm recalling how APM was calculated in WoL days, like beta and post-release. I never got to triple digits in those days and now I am?
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
With age comes SKILLZ
Synth_floyd
Banned
My main problem is my APM is so low. I'm stuck between 40-50. This even hurts me when I play the custom games and things like DOTA. So frustrating.
I thought it was the other way around!
Being too concerned about your APM is a mental block. If you go in with the mindset of "I can't do that because my APM is too low" then all you're doing is limiting yourself and you won't improve.
Just focus on trying to improve your game and your APM will rise with it.
I'll requote my post concerning APM from earlier:
I'll add that the reason WoL matches were far less than 60 seconds for a minute is because the 60 second minute is tied to the 'Normal' game speed. Ladder games are played on the 'Faster' speed, resulting in a compressed minute much quicker than real-time. They have addressed this issue in HotS, to the best of my knowledge.
I'll add that the reason WoL matches were far less than 60 seconds for a minute is because the 60 second minute is tied to the 'Normal' game speed. Ladder games are played on the 'Faster' speed, resulting in a compressed minute much quicker than real-time. They have addressed this issue in HotS, to the best of my knowledge.
Perhaps because they made the in-game clock a full 60 second minute?
Or did they simply just expand their definition of what is considered an Action?
Don't know if I'm sharing this properly, but here's a link to the replay of a match I just did. I was Z, opponent was T. Went bio + siege tanks and I went ling/bane/muta. Ended up losing and I'd like a bit of advice. Maybe I should have made infestors?
Hm, that could maybe work with blinding cloud and pulling tanks out of position. Would have to see it in action.
Crimsonlink
Member
2rax reactored Reapers is so irritating in TvT. Now I know better if my opponent has 2 gas with 2 rax.
Vipers are good. Blinding cloud pretty much makes tanks useless. I feel like they will definitely become part of the matchup as standard.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
So I ran SC2 to get HoS and it did its optimizer deal but its giving me a insane amount of error reports.
Restarting and running it as administrator is doing nothing.
Any of you run into this?
Restarting and running it as administrator is doing nothing.
Any of you run into this?
I don't think your composition was the problem. I think you fell behind around the time you let him take your third for free. You had the food advantage but I think you got too scared and ran back to your natural instead of using your banelings.
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?
Second playthrough done! I thought I'd have 100% single player achievements, but I had no idea about the "farm"-achievements (Deal 15k damage with Kerrigan etc) :3
TheIronChancellor
Member
The game tells me I have 100% downloaded, good to go etc, but then when I do campaign it is streaming data. Why is this?
Yeah, but the thing about Vipers is that a hive is necessary so they're used at least fairly late in a game, right?
Thanks for the analysis. Yeah, watching it, it's pretty much at the time I lost my third that I really got behind.
This game's hard.
StopMakingSense
Member
The game has the ability to be played even if not fully downloaded. That is just a thing that isn't hidden if you happen to have 100%
It's nuts how they attack air and do splash damage, reducing Muta balls to nothing.
Yeah, I think the only way is to sacrifice a ling once you know they're there then clean them out with an overseer after.
Lead with a roach when walking undetected ground. Lead mutas with an overlord.
Just 1 leading unit with decent hp can tank 2 widow mines easily and make them do nothing to your army. Micro, Zergs should learn to use it. Marine splitting against Banelings is harder than having a leading unit.