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//: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm |OT| Like Riding a Bike
- Thread starter Corran Horn
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We'll see tomorrow if they've improved!
AppleSmack
Banned
Sigh,
just my luck. Faced 2 master league players during my placements. Won 3 out of 5 games. Ended up in silver.
just my luck. Faced 2 master league players during my placements. Won 3 out of 5 games. Ended up in silver.
It's more fun to climb up the rankings than it is to stay in the same league. If you're really not supposed to be in Silver, then you'll be promoted pretty quickly (I was placed in Silver as well).
Yeah I started in Silver. Probably the best time you'll have since you'll get a huge win streak as you work up through gold, plat then diamond. I got promoted twice in two consecutive games from plat to diamond because my streak was going well. Unfortunately you will rarely ever get another streak like that again, unless you intentionally dip your mmr down by losing a bunch of games.
Yay, I got re-promoted back up to Diamond after getting placed in Platinum at the start of HotS! Took a 7 game win streak to get back there, but damn it was intense. (also, it was all 7-0 all zergs 
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Here is the download for the replay for those curious to watch the game, it was fun. Any pointers/tips are also much appreciated!
)Here is the download for the replay for those curious to watch the game, it was fun. Any pointers/tips are also much appreciated!
Yay, I got re-promoted back up to Diamond after getting placed in Platinum at the start of HotS! Took a 7 game win streak to get back there, but damn it was intense. (also, it was all 7-0 all zergs
Here is the download for the replay for those curious to watch the game, it was fun. Any pointers/tips are also much appreciated!
Thanks for posting it
Treemonkeys
Member
Not gsl right, what is their website?
Played two placement matches.
First one ended up being against an Unranked 1v1 diamond player/3v3 master player. Lost that one pretty bad.... I played like crap anyway, instant supply block at 10 food, late pool late hatch, but then he came with like 50 zerglings and I couldn't do anything anyway.
but then RAWWWRRRR! like a Zergling emerging from the spawning pool I came back with a vengeance and won my next placement match against what turned out to be a gold ranked zerg!
I barely defended his early attack and then barely managed to beat him in the end. Here's the replay: http://drop.sc/312140 When I played WoL I quit because I could never beat anyone above silver... so it feels really good to come back after that huge break and see some improvement. I think I might be getting over the 1v1 anxiety too, which is another awesome feeling.
I know it's super low level, and there's not much to look at, but How should I have defended his early attack? I should have put spines down as soon as my natural went up, and I probably should have had at least another queen... but my micro is terrible my queen got crushed, it felt bad.
Edit: crap I forgot to mention my amazing a-move to win with the roaches. Been watching too much filtersc.
First one ended up being against an Unranked 1v1 diamond player/3v3 master player. Lost that one pretty bad.... I played like crap anyway, instant supply block at 10 food, late pool late hatch, but then he came with like 50 zerglings and I couldn't do anything anyway.
but then RAWWWRRRR! like a Zergling emerging from the spawning pool I came back with a vengeance and won my next placement match against what turned out to be a gold ranked zerg!
I barely defended his early attack and then barely managed to beat him in the end. Here's the replay: http://drop.sc/312140 When I played WoL I quit because I could never beat anyone above silver... so it feels really good to come back after that huge break and see some improvement. I think I might be getting over the 1v1 anxiety too, which is another awesome feeling.
I know it's super low level, and there's not much to look at, but How should I have defended his early attack? I should have put spines down as soon as my natural went up, and I probably should have had at least another queen... but my micro is terrible my queen got crushed, it felt bad.
Edit: crap I forgot to mention my amazing a-move to win with the roaches. Been watching too much filtersc.
Felix Lighter
Member
It was their Twitch channel.
I think so
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Might be going on strike here soon...some extra laddering time..hmm
Crimsonlink
Member
We need a GSTL thread, someone mind making one?
Also Keen better win vs Alicia because otherwise I will lose points lol. I love you Axiom-Acer but you need to take one for the sake of my points!
Also Keen better win vs Alicia because otherwise I will lose points lol. I love you Axiom-Acer but you need to take one for the sake of my points!
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
I kinda want to get myself in a low league again so I could do shit like this again
I kinda want to get myself in a low league again so I could do shit like this again
Jesus. Imagine if the protoss was sandbagging and suddenly forcefielded and stormed the fuck out of those banelings.
I was watching Ret play ZvZ on his stream, and he was doing this trick that I can't figure out. When he was morphing mutas, he was somehow adding the eggs into his muta control group as soon as he morphed them. Can you just do something like ctrl+shift+muta control group number?
Click, shift+number of control group.
Treemonkeys
Member
Yeah control click the egg icons and it will select only the eggs and not the larva, then shift + control group key to add them.
lol lucky guess by me.
You can add them to the control group while their still in the egg... so as long as your only building one unit type you can just add them to the group right then... so for example:
S, Z, Z, ZZZZZZZ, crtl+1 all the zerglings you just made go to control 1
S, D, Z, Z, ZZZZ, crtl+1 all the zerglings and that one drone go to control 1
S, Z, Z, ZZZZZZZ, crtl+1 all the zerglings you just made go to control 1
S, D, Z, Z, ZZZZ, crtl+1 all the zerglings and that one drone go to control 1
Ctrl-Clicking selects all the eggs though, so don't morph lings or ovies and ctrl-click them or else they'll all die when you muta harass.
AdventureRacing
Member
Not only that but because the breaks in between matches are as long as the games themselves you get twice as much content!
Treemonkeys
Member
Do you get english vods?
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
eh look at the resources and food count before the battle, even if he eliminated the whole baneling force without losing much, I could just remax in a min lol
Crimsonlink
Member
LOL Talk about deathball armies. That is one lean mean green deathball machine.
How many Banes was that?
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Honestly I have no idea...that was like 6+ months ago but if I remember right I only had drones/queens/banelings in that game.
Sometimes I just like to troll lower leagues after awhile, its enjoying.
Aw, what the fuck @ this match of mine. Soon after a loss I suffered from someone even after I predicted their 6-7 Pool because of their freaking username.
ZvT. I see their proxy rax coming. So instead of expanding, I go Pool first and I make lings and banelings for what I guess is an all-in? Thought I did enough damage, but he bounces back and destroys me.
I play too much to be this bad.
ZvT. I see their proxy rax coming. So instead of expanding, I go Pool first and I make lings and banelings for what I guess is an all-in? Thought I did enough damage, but he bounces back and destroys me.
I play too much to be this bad.
i'm more confused as to why someone in diamond is only building one single marine at a time out of his 4 raxes (+ multiple tech labs) despite having lings/banes in his base and floating 500 minerals.
StopMakingSense
Member
How do we add our Fantasy team to the GAF group?
Misc tab -> All Groups -> NeoGAF -> Green +
What? I don't think I've ever seen a 250APM player on ladder. And I was playing Diamond/Master League players. Everyone was well below 100, IIRC.
HotS put an APM measurement in the after game statistics and it seems crazy random/inaccurate.
Not even real APM!
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 wishWait, I didn't know you and Yoshi were a couple.
edit: Speaking of APM, it's completely broken in HotS for some reason. I had 220-250 in WoL, in HotS I can reach 400 :lol
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
Had my first online game last night, 2 v 2
Lasted an hour and my APM was just OP.
I'm sure this has already been answered but is there a way I can specifically pick one unit type out and group them together.
I just usually get a hodge podge of an army together and send them in even though it's the wrong thing to do.
we won, I'm too good (I suicided my units at every possible opportunity)
Lasted an hour and my APM was just OP.
I'm sure this has already been answered but is there a way I can specifically pick one unit type out and group them together.
I just usually get a hodge podge of an army together and send them in even though it's the wrong thing to do.
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?
Sounds identical to my situation just a couple of months ago.
Bro, make sure to TELL HER THAT STARCRAFT IS IMPORTANT. I've told my girl over and over again how focused I have to be when I play. When she texted me in the middle of a game and I didn't respond back in seconds, she'd think I was mad at her or something. Nowadays she knows that I'm playing a game if I don't respond back immediately.
Tell her before it gets too late and she gets way comfy.
so i've been trying out that staircase method and it's been helping pretty decently in my spending so far. just messing around with the AI for now since step 1 is just build lings. but this has been pretty effective against very harder AI. managed to hold a banshee rush with 4 queens and 3 spores even and sent lings to their base to rock their world.
i should play my placement soon. i know i'll get just get in silver anyways so whatever.
i should play my placement soon. i know i'll get just get in silver anyways so whatever.
lol man she knows; and RL is more important then a game. I was just a bit ticked of yesterday cause I'm pretty overworked and I have another straight week of 12 hours ahead of me....
Does anyone else hate how the Oracle was meant to be a good harass unit for Protoss that didn't directly do damage, and it turned out to be an absurdly gimmicky unit that deals damage stupidly fast and dies even stupidly faster.
You can blind counter it easily, and you only get one chance to surprise the opponent and do damge with them in a game.
You can blind counter it easily, and you only get one chance to surprise the opponent and do damge with them in a game.
GSTL in two minutes, FXO vs. LG-IM
http://www.gomtv.net/live/index.gom?conid=72092
it wouldn't be so offensive if zerg didn't now have zero tech requirement for spores. such a boneheaded decision.
http://www.gomtv.net/live/index.gom?conid=72092
it wouldn't be so offensive if zerg didn't now have zero tech requirement for spores. such a boneheaded decision.
Crimsonlink
Member
Against early terran that didn't open factory or doesn't have a Ebay, Oracle is so good.
Crimsonlink
Member
Liking the new studio already!