I'm going to go for achievements tonight from all the missions, on normal first, then I'll be replaying on hard for those achievements
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I'm going to go for achievements tonight from all the missions, on normal first, then I'll be replaying on hard for those achievements
Been trying to get achievements by only playing brutal. Rendezvous is so hard to destroy all the buildings in 15 minutes. I'll probably give it another day before throwing in the towel and doing it on Hard difficulty. And then reneging and trying to do it on Brutal some more. whydoidothistomyself
yea, some of those I doubt I want to do on brutal lol
they are helpful for spells and such.
Btw just watched cella have to hold off a terran for like 30 minutes because he wouldnt GG when he had nothing left vs ultralisks
demosthenes
Member
I've decided I'm going to get a barcraft going. I've wanted to do it for a while now, and with HOTS launching I really want to get it done. I have Dreamhack Stockholm or MLG Anaheim to aim for. I'm from Buffalo, NY.
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/8197652564
David kim's thoughts on hots so far. Encouraging signs of them letting things develop.
David kim's thoughts on hots so far. Encouraging signs of them letting things develop.
People say the matchmaking in SC2 is one of the best but it continues to place me against people 5x better then me. I don't belong in platinum and i don't know why it keeps putting me against platinum/diamond players. I am high silver at fucking best.
Match making in this game is bullhockey. I have been horribly stomped the last 10 1v1s and i don't understand why their "great" matchmaking hasn't demoted me. I don't mind losing to people who are on my level or a little better then me but it's not fun to play a game where i am put against people who are insanely better, that's just stupid. It does this shit in 2v2/3v3/4v4 as well. I will lose 3-4 of my placement matches it and it fucking throws me in platinum.
Blizzard, do you have some grudge against me? I shouldn't be placed in platinum if i lose 3-4 of my placements, i continue to lose yet you keep pitting me against people who are far, far, far better than me.
there are just so many possibilities I don't see why they have to change anything right now
watching cella use those vipers against tanks. Amazing
HappyHunting
Neo Member
Give it some time, the game has been out for a week. The MMR was reset for HotS. Blizzard matchmaking system begins thriving after a month or two worth of data. The system is still trying to peg you and everyone else in a certain spot, and there is a ton of touch and feel.
EscapingJail
Member
This is exactly it.
It was doing the same thing in WOL.
Treemonkeys
Member
When and how many games did you play in WoL? Also why not look into how you an win the games you lost instead of just saying they're too hard for you?
You already have it in your mind that your opponents are 5x better than you (they're not), that's probably why you lost 10 games in a row.
ElectricBlue187
Member
On the other hand my friend and I had a bad run of matches and got put in 2v2 bronze yet every bronze game we played that night I swear were diamond+ level players, no business anywhere near bronze. Then last night we played and we're stomping everyone, so yeah I think it's just going to take time for everyone to end up where they are supposed to be
Completed the HotS campaign on Brutal a couple of days ago. That gave me the impetus to go and try to clear WoL again. Still nope. HotS is definitely way way easier than WoL, because I still haven't finished All In.
Also, what's up with the cinematics? Only the opening and ending scenes were in any respectable resolution. All of the ones in between were horribly compressed; that was not the case in WoL.
Also, what's up with the cinematics? Only the opening and ending scenes were in any respectable resolution. All of the ones in between were horribly compressed; that was not the case in WoL.
HappyHunting
Neo Member
How often did you play ? Even deep in a season if you don't have enough data points (games played) the system will still look to find your place. Don't forget that as a season goes on the MMR borders of each league shift.
What is this... learning?
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?
You can do it with the two you can control, both of them counts towards the achievement :3
You can do it with two of them
15 kills across both Giant Ursadons? The first one gets 7 so you only need 8 more?
LOVE IT!! The campaign is really good and the MP feels a lot better for some reason than it did in WoL.
Hnnnnnggg I want to order this on Amazon but I'm so tempted to just get this right now through battle-net !!
What is the general consensus on the campaign? I don't really care much for the story, just the mission design and such.
Also a quick question: When I played the beta ( I'm on EU ), no matter if I played online or against the A.I. I always got like a half second lag (my internet is pretty fast - 60mb ), so it was basically unplayable. Anyone else had this problem during the beta? If so, has it been resolved in the release?
Cheers !
What is the general consensus on the campaign? I don't really care much for the story, just the mission design and such.
Also a quick question: When I played the beta ( I'm on EU ), no matter if I played online or against the A.I. I always got like a half second lag (my internet is pretty fast - 60mb ), so it was basically unplayable. Anyone else had this problem during the beta? If so, has it been resolved in the release?
Cheers !
The mission design is pretty damn good imo, it varies a lot of stuff up so its not just build a base, mass units and win. It also doesn't feel boring, I was up till 5am playing the campaign because I didn't want to stop
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?
Yep!
Pick up the tower that slows down zerg and planetary fortress, give up the right and left wall and make a barrier of pf's with LOADS of tanks in the back. Make a big marine ball to snipe down Kerrigan. If you want you can make banshees to snipe down some nydus.
Easiest way for me to do that in brutal, and since I'm a masochist I did the "don't use the artifact once" achievement in the same run.
TheThunder
Member
David Kim is not a total fraud !
I think... I think I'm gonna cry...
HappyHunting
Neo Member
Not sure what they were going for in WoL and I am not entirely sure they did either.
I know HotS is still new but keeping aggression play promotes fractured combat which is awesome to watch as a spectator, and as a player if I could do what I saw this weekend I would feel damn proud.
The Lamonster
Member
Does anybody here make arcade maps? The tutorials on the collectors edition DVD are fantastic, and already uploaded to YouTube.
http://drop.sc/311069 - TvP Daybreak [Diamond]
Hello!
This was a very fresh TvP I just played on Daybreak, so excuse any lingering rage/anger that may seep into this description. It was a fairly standard game, he defended my drops well and easily, I didn't really do anything with them. Nevertheless we kind of stabilized and maxed out.
Here is where it got bad, you'll see multiple engagements in the late game where we just sort of clash, and I have no idea what to remax on. Is he getting 2x colossi? Templar? Pure Zealot Archon and rushing me? I feel like I have to have 50 of each production building to combat just 2 robos and infinity gateways. Another problem I have is landing good EMPs. The only time I've landed 'sick EMPs' is when a protoss doesn't have an observer and I can sneak in with 6 ghosts and blanket everything. This guy really loves his obs and he catches my ghosts out almost every time, which means I have a tough time EMPing his templar.
Anyway, would love some feedback
edit: also I really liked his oracle usage.
Allright, got around to watching it!
First of all, you could have won that game pretty early imo.
Here are some things I noted:
- I think the Oracle needs be engaged with 5 marines (?) I'm not too sure myself but when his oracle came in you got 3, thats too few, the oracle will slaughter them.
- At 10 minutes you only had about 31 scv's and that is waaaay to few
- At the same time the Toss was floating tons of minerals, if you just had kept your macro up you would just roll over his base when you started your aggression at 10 minutes
- That engagement at his natural; you had the game won there. You killed his army, his last collosi was almost dead but you just had to pull back from the photon overcharge, that killed your army during the fight
- At 16 minutes you finally got around to 50 SCV's, the Toss was at 75 probes
- You kept your upgrades flowing nicely, that was really good
- After every engagemnt you were ahead in supply, your opponent was floating tons of minnerals. You should not hessitate so much and just go for it, you had the game won a lot of times
- I think you should have build more OC's in the late game, and sacrificed your workers to replace them with mules and more army
- Now the reason why you lost the game in the end; at 30 minutes you guys had a fight, and for some reason your macro just stopped; and since he was floating 10000 minerals, he was able to reproduce super fast and roll you. You did not have to think too much about what units to build imo, if you just queued MMM and stimmed in, you could have killed him
There that are some of the things I picked up from the game; you do well in the fights with splitting and dodging his storms, I really liked that. You were better then him I felt, you just hesitated too much to finish him off.
GG!
JustProgress
Member
Hey I just got back into this game because of HoTS. Played WoL right at launch for like 4 or 5 months then stopped completely. Was wondering if anyone had a good newbie guide for the competitive scene, I remember Day9 had a Back to Basics video at WoL launch that was really useful. Any stuff like that.
Also, I watched MLG and loved it, but was wondering if y'all could shed light on the difference of play in WoL. Everyone seems to be very happy about the shift, was just wondering what it was before HoTS.
Also, I watched MLG and loved it, but was wondering if y'all could shed light on the difference of play in WoL. Everyone seems to be very happy about the shift, was just wondering what it was before HoTS.
Youtube apollo's tutorial videos and also filterSC. Great videos for beginning players or people that want to work on their mechanics.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Finished the campaign, and really GAF has been way over reacting on this one about the story, there are some cheesy moments here and there, but overall it's pretty solid.
Really liked the primal Zerg thing, but the evolution missions counting as full missions is a pure joke xD
The mission designs are really great overall, and really make you feel like you're in control of a swarm of locusts devouring everything in it's way.
Oddly enough my favorite is the one where
It's a shame though that you don't get to play Zerg the regular way once in the campain.
Really liked the primal Zerg thing, but the evolution missions counting as full missions is a pure joke xD
The mission designs are really great overall, and really make you feel like you're in control of a swarm of locusts devouring everything in it's way.
Oddly enough my favorite is the one where
you control the Hyperion
It's a shame though that you don't get to play Zerg the regular way once in the campain.
Treemonkeys
Member
Yeah I didn't like them too much, they seemed cool at first but after awhile they just felt like a chore getting in the way of the story missions. I would of rather had them be longer and
AppleSmack
Banned
Took me some time, but hey I used every free minute I could with this crap
Wow. Congrats.
Took me some time, but hey I used every free minute I could with this crap
I'll complete Hots to 100% in a couple of days, but WoL will sit at 97% forever because of that shitty arcade game.
Treemonkeys
Member
What is with those little backround pictures where you profile name is? Is there any way to change them and how does it decide which one to use?
What is this and how does it work, attractive young man?
I was surprised to see that you are ranked master (all the insane episodes I've witnessed has kinda overshadowed the fact that you are actually good at the game!) but why so few games won? Many accounts or what?
Took me some time, but hey I used every free minute I could with this crap
RPGCrazied
Member
Got it today, like it so far, only played like 3 missions though. What is with the overuse of "darling?"
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've coached SC2 for a year now throughout multiple different accounts. All the games I've played have also been split through 6-7 accounts :3
It'll calm down later on.
edit: GG HotS for today... won't be able to play at all tomorrow, or the day after that
Real life sucks sometimes...TricksterLoki
Member
Complete and utter noob to StarCraft and RTS's in general, is this game noob friendly? And any must see/read begginers guides to getting started in multiplayer? Not looking to be amazing at the game, just good enough to handle my own.
Plucked up the courage to play my first placement match.
I won.
I am the best StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm player ever.
Heart's still beating
Here's the reply
I won.
I am the best StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm player ever.
Heart's still beating
Here's the reply