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yea, team games r way more fun for me personally, though I feel there is a need to nerf mutas in team games, as if I can see a huge bunch together it's GG especially if their team is feeding them gas. I have tried HTs to counter large bunches, but their speed does negate that amazing unit that I rarely get to use anymore(having to go colosi almost every game =(
(team battles btw, 1v1 is fine, cause if I were to let them build that many mutas I deserve to loose.
also, for some reason after watching the last daily and MrMister telling me to just go fucking kill the enemy base, I've gotten quite better at pushes and in general using a lot more variety of units(I'll have a pack of z-lots, immortals, and sentries in 1 group and a pack of stalkers/colosi in a 2nd group) I just wish there was a unit I could swap out for the colosi, I may see if I could do a combo of carriers/void rays, but who knows
(team battles btw, 1v1 is fine, cause if I were to let them build that many mutas I deserve to loose.
also, for some reason after watching the last daily and MrMister telling me to just go fucking kill the enemy base, I've gotten quite better at pushes and in general using a lot more variety of units(I'll have a pack of z-lots, immortals, and sentries in 1 group and a pack of stalkers/colosi in a 2nd group) I just wish there was a unit I could swap out for the colosi, I may see if I could do a combo of carriers/void rays, but who knows
congrats!
really the secret to happy laddering is to not commit yourself to your score on any one day.
if you login, win 2 and lose one and you're feeling pumped, play some more. but if you get that feeling in your stomach... play custom 1v1s!
if you login and go 0:3, take a break from the ladder! dont obsess over the 45~ points you just lost, spend the day with the build order tester or playing customs and tomorrow you'll easily make those points back.
speaking of points, woo 1.4k! im coming for you yawee! [i think you're the gaf diamond points leader anyway]
mrmisters day9 quotes helped me win a game today. saw a terran go 1rax CC into banshee and i started to go into frowntown [gogo spire/detector]... then i remembered i had 8ish roaches, i checked his front and he only had a bunker of marines. ran by, killed all his scv's and only lost one base of drones to the banshees before the mutas popped.
felt nice.
really the secret to happy laddering is to not commit yourself to your score on any one day.
if you login, win 2 and lose one and you're feeling pumped, play some more. but if you get that feeling in your stomach... play custom 1v1s!
if you login and go 0:3, take a break from the ladder! dont obsess over the 45~ points you just lost, spend the day with the build order tester or playing customs and tomorrow you'll easily make those points back.
speaking of points, woo 1.4k! im coming for you yawee! [i think you're the gaf diamond points leader anyway]
mrmisters day9 quotes helped me win a game today. saw a terran go 1rax CC into banshee and i started to go into frowntown [gogo spire/detector]... then i remembered i had 8ish roaches, i checked his front and he only had a bunker of marines. ran by, killed all his scv's and only lost one base of drones to the banshees before the mutas popped.
felt nice.
Pandaman said:
"Go fucking kill him" has lost me more games than it's won me. It's always a case of me feeling like I can wipe him (or at least severely cripple him), but I usually fail at the main attack then fail to defend against the counter a few minutes later.
My Zerg play revolves heavily around containing the opponents expansions and counter-teching when needed. I only go for the kill-shot when I know they are low on minerals or they are doing a risky-expansion build.
you're doing it right.ahoyhoy said:
if you've got nowhere to be, you should be pleased as punch to pin someone to a natural and never let go until he runs dry and gg's. grab an expo or two, turn on your favourite music and sit back and wait for the suicide push.
extra points if they say 'just end it already' at some point in the match.
vicissitudes
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ahoyhoy said:
Pop quiz: If you're ahead, what should you do? Try to go in for the kill, or get more ahead?
Artosis: "Get more ahead!"
Artosis: "Get more ahead!"
Artosis: "Get more ahead!"
Artosis: "Get more ahead!"
Artosis: "Get more ahead!"
Artosis: "Get more ahead!"
Artosis: "Get more ahead!"
Artosis: "Get more ahead!"
PhoenixDark
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:lolvicissitudes said:
Sometimes I beat the opponent back so easily I want to charge my units after him and destroy his natural. But then I hear Artosis and Day9 in the back of my head and look to expand, or do a safe attack like a Muta attack on his mineral line.
not sure if this was already covered in the thread, but it looks like HotS will land in 2012, not 2011 (as I had hoped).
http://sclegacy.com/news/23-sc2/904-blizzcon-2010-heart-of-the-swarm-wrap-up
i wonder what that means for Blizzard in 2011? diablo 3 is unlikely... maybe only another WoW xpac?
http://sclegacy.com/news/23-sc2/904-blizzcon-2010-heart-of-the-swarm-wrap-up
i wonder what that means for Blizzard in 2011? diablo 3 is unlikely... maybe only another WoW xpac?
WoW expansions are done after Cataclysm. If they even release anything in 2011 I would put my money on D3. But who am I kidding...Scrow said:not sure if this was already covered in the thread, but it looks like HotS will land in 2012, not 2011 (as I had hoped).
http://sclegacy.com/news/23-sc2/904-blizzcon-2010-heart-of-the-swarm-wrap-up
i wonder what that means for Blizzard in 2011? diablo 3 is unlikely... maybe only another WoW xpac?
Really? Where did they say this? Usually it takes two years for expansions though. So 2011 would most likely be out of the question for one.V_Arnold said:
I'm aware of that. It just kinda concluded the game for me. They are trying too hard to milk it now. RIP Vanilla WoW days.V_Arnold said:
The Lamonster
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Frozen Throne was amazing. Probably the best expansion Blizzard has ever developed. If he's right about it being bigger, I'm fine with waiting.Scrow said:not sure if this was already covered in the thread, but it looks like HotS will land in 2012, not 2011 (as I had hoped).
http://sclegacy.com/news/23-sc2/904-blizzcon-2010-heart-of-the-swarm-wrap-up
i wonder what that means for Blizzard in 2011? diablo 3 is unlikely... maybe only another WoW xpac?
oh right, ok. in that case you're wrong. there's no way cataclysm will be the last WoW xpac while it has 11-12 million paying subscribers.Trasher said:
where do they actually say it's emerald dream?V_Arnold said:
anyway, i don't want to get off topic. this is a thread about SC2, not WoW.
That's not what I said or meant. I'm just stating my opinion on the current state of the game in relation to the story. I was a big Warcraft player and enjoyed seeing the continuation of that storyline. I realize there's a whole bunch of other gods/dragons and whatnot out there to make expansions for, but it just doesn't do anything for me or for pretty much all of my friends that used to play WoW back in its prime. I find it hard to believe there are still 12 million people actively playing that game. :lolzoukka said:
You started it!Scrow said:oh right, ok. in that case you're wrong. there's no way cataclysm will be the last WoW xpac while it has 11-12 million paying subscribers.
anyway, i don't want to get off topic. this is a thread about SC2, not WoW.
Btw, you guys took my comment completely wrong, and that's partly my fault because you didn't understand how I meant it. What I meant by WoW expansions being done was that I would most likely not be interested in them because I don't think they will be any good by then. Anyways though, I'll end my WoW talk here haha.
Scrow said:not sure if this was already covered in the thread, but it looks like HotS will land in 2012, not 2011 (as I had hoped).
http://sclegacy.com/news/23-sc2/904-blizzcon-2010-heart-of-the-swarm-wrap-up
i wonder what that means for Blizzard in 2011? diablo 3 is unlikely... maybe only another WoW xpac?
They've been saying 18 months after wings of liberty as the target for HotS. I'm sure it will turn in to 24 months
cubicle47b
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WoW isn't going anywhere. When they made the max level for Cataclysm 85 that was a pretty big hint.
Yeah, I think they might've said about 12 months again for SC2 expansions at some point, but 18 months has been their ballpark estimate for HotS for a while. And I'm going to be amazed if they even make that. On the other hand, I'm actually kind of excited by the fact that we're going to have an active dev team on this game for probably 3-4 years. That's something that usually only happens for MMOs, and while I'm not expecting the type of content patches MMOs get it seems like they're planning on the game continuing to accumulate features, in particular for battle.net. If you read interviews with them, and Browder in particular, there is a lot of 'yeah, we're probably going to do that within a year/before HotS/eventually' (see this reddit post for some of that). While a lot of it is typical 'blizzard time' intentions, that type of long tail development cycle luxury isn't usually present for non-MMO games.
Speaking about stuff they intend to get to, cross region support is one they had fairly firmly said would happen within a few months of WoL release. Looking at this interview at shacknews (which has some pretty good questions) it seems that while they still want to do it, it's now gone into the 'no timeframe' bin.
Speaking about stuff they intend to get to, cross region support is one they had fairly firmly said would happen within a few months of WoL release. Looking at this interview at shacknews (which has some pretty good questions) it seems that while they still want to do it, it's now gone into the 'no timeframe' bin.
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Just letting you guys know Giant Bomb game night thing tonight is for Starcraft 2. Huk vs. Machine at 8:30 pm est.
One other thing i think is great about having 2 more expansions is that normal gamer interest will be revived each time one comes out. It could quite easily be just down to the hardcore in 3 years time with no expansions, but this way there will be a large spike for each expansion which hopefully has more and more people sticking around each time.
I haven't watched a GiantBomb TNT in a while. This looping intro video they have is kinda crazy. :lolBrassMonkey1010 said:
Direct link to the stream:
http://www.justin.tv/giantbomb
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I thought it was fairly heavily rumored that hots wasn't going to hit in 2011, I wouldn't count out d3 hitting next year thoughScrow said:not sure if this was already covered in the thread, but it looks like HotS will land in 2012, not 2011 (as I had hoped).
http://sclegacy.com/news/23-sc2/904-blizzcon-2010-heart-of-the-swarm-wrap-up
i wonder what that means for Blizzard in 2011? diablo 3 is unlikely... maybe only another WoW xpac?
pretty happy right now. i usually suuuck at 1v1, so much that i quit playing. havent played for months in my gold league, then a week ago i lost three games in a row to diamond/plat players. today i just played and beat a plat player and got promoted to diamond
the only reason i wont is cause of watching the gsl/day 9 commentaries. i scouted with a 10 drone, saw that 14 hatch was safe, did that, put overlords near his base ready to look in if needed, peaked up later on with a ling to see 4 gateways+cyber core so i assume hes going to push soon, move my small army back to my base and leave lings at the watch towers, see his push moving out and immediately make spine crawlers, bring the queen from my main and use both to infuse the spines and after that attack failed it was just a matter of time.
watching the commentaries helps so much though, the whole concept of when to make drones vs units... awesome. heres the replay if anyone is interested/ wants to tell me where to improve
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/97293-1v1-protoss-zerg-shakuras-plateau
the only reason i wont is cause of watching the gsl/day 9 commentaries. i scouted with a 10 drone, saw that 14 hatch was safe, did that, put overlords near his base ready to look in if needed, peaked up later on with a ling to see 4 gateways+cyber core so i assume hes going to push soon, move my small army back to my base and leave lings at the watch towers, see his push moving out and immediately make spine crawlers, bring the queen from my main and use both to infuse the spines and after that attack failed it was just a matter of time.
watching the commentaries helps so much though, the whole concept of when to make drones vs units... awesome. heres the replay if anyone is interested/ wants to tell me where to improve
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/97293-1v1-protoss-zerg-shakuras-plateau
Corran Horn
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Weekend GAF GO!
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TRUMPETS! :lolCorran Horn said:
Weekend GAF GO!
Corran Horn
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Zerg Q.
Does the Queens Larva prevent the hatchery from producing its 3 larva?
Does the Queens Larva prevent the hatchery from producing its 3 larva?
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Corran Horn said:
Nope, queen larva stacks on top.
cubicle47b
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The hatchery won't produce larva when it already has 3. A larva inject won't stop natural larva production but once the larva pops it won't produce any more until you're down to 2 larva or less.
Corran Horn
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Man I suck with zerg. Going random in 4v4s to learn Terran/Zerg. Terran I can do alright with MMM/Tank pushes, my macro sucks though. Zerg....fuuuuuuuuu. Needs more practice.
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Zerg's easiest for me.Corran Horn said:
I fucking hate getting Protoss when I do random because it feels too structured. You get what you get in the same order all the time. I feel like I just make hard counters rather than making anything for a fun, unique strategy.
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