Everyone can watch me and Veezy just build a base and army for 20 minutes and then have a large battle to decide it all. It'll be thrilling.
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- Thread starter Corran Horn
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Everyone can watch me and Veezy just build a base and army for 20 minutes and then have a large battle to decide it all. It'll be thrilling.
I'll run Terrans and only build battleships, thors, and SCVs. Be prepped by minute 45, cause you'll never see it coming.
PhoenixDark
Banned
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PhoenixPause?
K, I'll build Colossi and Motherships. This could take a while.
The Lamonster
Member
I want to watch some matches right now, are there any streams going or any Gaffers playing that I could obs?
Felix Lighter
Member
Oh thank god those awful rumours we were all in on aren't true.
That's not going to end well for you.
I'm a scrub, what do I know!
I didn't say it would work, just that's what I'd do Those rumors are a feint, the real bad news that no one saw coming are gonna roll up on our spirits out of the fog and bust 'em.
Crimsonlink
Member
Wednesday night is regular GAF night is it not?
Oooo.. let's play
Protoss has the best army for this imo. That or Zerg, Terran lategame isn't the best vs Toss and about equal with Zerg.
AdventureRacing
Member
Hopefully all of this means that blizzard is actually going to take a more active role in the esports scene like riot is. Completely agree about NA needing a GSL style tournament (probably europe as well). Until the foreign scene has something like this to provide more regular tournament exposure and a better chance to develop new talent the foreign scene will continue to stagnate.
Sending 1 or 2 foreigners to GSL every few months won't achieve anything.
Sending 1 or 2 foreigners to GSL every few months won't achieve anything.
AppleSmack
Banned
I bet its another Blizzard World Championship Series.
Heavy's Sandvich
Member
I'm so rubbish.
TheThunder
Member
Probably something along those lines + announce a new battle net world finals or whatever they're called.
It's still fun to see everyone ripping their hair out though, I mean blizzard does a lot of dumb shit, but they are not dumb enough to make MLGs NA only and watch those 140k stream viewers drop to 10k at best.
PhoenixDark
Banned
Agreed. Not every tournament needs MC and the other Koreans in it. I thought NASL would be great for NA/EU but we know how that ended up.
The NA WCS was pretty damn good, I'd love to see that done again but as a GSL type league. You can't build the NA scene if every tournament has the same 6 people at the top. We've seen a transition in terms of the Idras, Machines, and InControls being replaced by folks like Vines and Scarlett and more folks need a chance to generate new fans and win important matches.
Question for zergs only:
I was watching those day9 videos I posted yesterday, and he's talking about tapping through your production facilities. But, how do you do this as Zerg? Right now I put all my hatches on 5 for production, but when you have more then 1 selected it doesn't show you the larvae timer. so should I put them all on 5, and then seperately on 6 7 8? Then I can tap through 6 7 8 while trying to control my army?
How do you Zerg?
I was watching those day9 videos I posted yesterday, and he's talking about tapping through your production facilities. But, how do you do this as Zerg? Right now I put all my hatches on 5 for production, but when you have more then 1 selected it doesn't show you the larvae timer. so should I put them all on 5, and then seperately on 6 7 8? Then I can tap through 6 7 8 while trying to control my army?
How do you Zerg?
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
I never really had hatches on seperate hotkeys. I usually had all my hatches on one then 5-6-7-8etc where my queens are injecting. If I really needed a certain hatch to build something I would usually get queen then select hatch...but then again zerg isnt my main
I'm trying to get more into Terran now but when I played Zerg I would just set my main 3 hatches on F2, F3, and F4 since I hate using hot keys past 6. :-/
Edit: In your case, yeah, I would do something like setting your main hatches on 6, 7, 8, and 9, separately, and all of them selected simultaneously being the 0 hot key.
Edit: In your case, yeah, I would do something like setting your main hatches on 6, 7, 8, and 9, separately, and all of them selected simultaneously being the 0 hot key.
Grats! What was unlegit?
I just think it's silly to restrict entry to a tournament based on where a person is from, especially if lots of money is on the line. It was fairly understandable why this was done for TSL1 and TSL2 back in Brood war, because the Koreans were light years ahead of the best foreigners. Random b-teams that never played were probably better than the best foreigners back then because there was an astronomical difference in infrastructure back then. I don't think that is the case in SC2, foreign teams have salaries, team houses, etc, the Koreans are just better.
I put all my hatches on 1 hotkey and spam select larvae. When I hear the larva burst, or I see an abnormally large amount of larvae able to be selected, I hit my queens hotkey and inject via minimap.
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The Everyman
i just got placed there when i got promoted heh.
You should have base locations bound, it makes it quicker to go back for upgrades/new buildings as well.
Felix Lighter
Member
I decided to play some unranked matches for the first time in a while. I really have no feel for when I should attack but the first 2 matches showed me why you have to put on pressure or have some vision on the map. The 3rd game, I actually pulled off a drop and had some vision on the map to put my army in a position to crush his. I need a ton of practice but I don't know if I have the nerve.
You guys are probably sick of me coming in here wringing my hands about SC2.
I have this problem too, it's got to the point where I've started doing school work when I could have played some ladder games lol
He looks haggard as fuck.
Yea he does. That's why I love him though.
edit: He's going to play in the Code A qualifiers. This guy is just unreal man.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
I think he tried last season too? Something like that
edit: looking at tl liquidpedia i guess he didnt
Don't worry, everyone who's played lots of starcraft remembers how clueless they felt at first. Scouting is the biggest thing you can do to reduce the anxiety of the fog of war. The biggest thing you need to realize is that every build has tells, every build has counters, it's just a matter of gathering that information and having a general idea what to do once you have it.
This game is extremely overwhelming when you aren't scouting. It feels like an endless amount of units are pouring into your base and destroying you, or the other guy somehow has 3 bases more than you. I really think it's better for newer players to use more aggressive builds at first, as it forces them to get out on the map and not turtle for 15 minutes.
I wouldn't worry about it. As shown above there are a ton of people just learning the ropes, myself included. I think my biggest problem is that I have no idea what counters what right now, so I'm just building and hoping for the best. Hopefully that'll change as I get more experience.
The best counter to bullshitters in this game is to out bullshit them.
Sometimes trolls and liars in this game are too much. Telling me they get 100 fps and 500 Mbps
Bullshit lol they are lagging the game I'm in.
EscapingJail
Member
Wonderfully written. Sums up everything with being a new player.
Felix Lighter
Member
Yeah, thanks, that sounds about right. I really should just finish my placement matches, go in whatever league I belong in and just keep playing. Scouting is a weakness but so is just not ever looking at the minimap.
If having ladder points on the line stresses you out even a little bit, just play unranked. I've played sc for almost 5 years and I still end up clicking unranked MM moreso that ranked. You still get matched up with players in the ranked ladder that are around your skill level, so there's almost no difference.
edit* I forgot to mention the most important advice. WATCH YOUR REPLAYS. I know it's the worst feeling in the world to watch a replay where you played like crap, but you need to do it. Watch a replay until you understand why you lost and what you could have done differently. If you can't figure it out, post it here or ask someone.
it's the artosis/idra way. I just enjoy listening to him talk about SC, though. You can tell he loves it.
i'm not sure, but i find his stream pretty agonising to watch. everything is so textbook, glacial and conservative. unless it's PvP you can guarantee he'll just meander up to three bases attempting to hold off whatever he can, then sit back and hope they eventually overcommit so he can a-move his 3/3 maxed composition to victory. never any shred of creativity or daring.
in short: a BW terran doing what BW terrans do.
the issue is none of those tells mean anything at lower levels. that's why you're better off carving through the shit leagues with a super hard timing which punishes all their unpredictable but grossly inefficient bullshit. when your timing stops working you'll know you're playing people whose builds actually mean something.