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//: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty |OT3| GL HF NO GG
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Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Means he was never a true niners fan. Just a bandwagoner. We dont want those shits.hoverX said:
Keikaku said:
Truth.
Niners fan for life!! I've had to put up with a lot of abuse the last few years (or ten) because I've lived in Dallas my whole life. Hopefully, we're back on our way up!
On topic, I have had the absolute worst timing tonight. At least 3-4 early rushes hit my ramp right when I look away to place a pylon...causing me to just miss my forcefield and lose.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
You can only have one team to root for.hoverX said:
Nice. I had a friend who was a cowboys fan. 90s were interesting time of back and forth shit talking lol.Birdman02 said:Truth.
Niners fan for life!! I've had to put up with a lot of abuse the last few years (or ten) because I've lived in Dallas my whole life. Hopefully, we're back on our way up!
On topic, I have had the absolute worst timing tonight. At least 3-4 early rushes hit my ramp right when I look away to place a pylon...causing me to just miss my forcefield and lose.
SteveWinwood
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Psh.... GO VIKES!
TheThunder
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*go into SC2 thread*
*See discussion about handegg*
*Leaves SC2 thread*
*See discussion about handegg*
*Leaves SC2 thread*
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
we can talk about LANTheThunder said:
went into mumble at 4am EST today after i got home from the bar to see who is around. LoL: no one, HoN: no one, starcraft: noone, minecraft: 4 peeps playing world of warcraft. 40 minutes later i was chatting with 2 of em, husband n wife, and may hav erecruited em to come join gaf night neft wed/post in the thread to come chillax with all us cool cats. somethingsomethingwithsomething, and pat, come post!
sry for forgetting uor name within 1 minute of talking with you, lol.
Two nights ago I was so happy going into SC2 games. Then I collapsed mentally (okay, early morning, long day, anyway), I lost 4 game against very.... dumb (go away, Idra sound in my mind!)...protoss players. Then I proceeded into a ZVZ, where my opp went for an exp first with NO GAS and no roach on Tal Darim. I went speedfirst, put down a bane, and obliterated him. Then he BM'd me for minutes, saying that I am dumb for not going for macro game. I tried to ask how he expects to enforce his macro on me when I already invested in speed+lings, but of course there is no answer.
Then, I take a deep breath, proceed to the next game. Terran, Shattered temple. See tech lab on the barrack, and no bunker. Exp, 2 queens, 10+ lings, going for fast lair. He comes then. WITH 3 REAPER, 4 MARINE AND 15 SCV. Yeah, good luck stopping that. WTF....
I am broken mentally. I cant play this game anymore like this. It bears no fruit. Either I hate myself, or the opponents hate me. Worst thing is that I went in so happily, hugging every single loss. But it is hard. Maybe I really should switch to a race with a safer early game. Terran?
Then, I take a deep breath, proceed to the next game. Terran, Shattered temple. See tech lab on the barrack, and no bunker. Exp, 2 queens, 10+ lings, going for fast lair. He comes then. WITH 3 REAPER, 4 MARINE AND 15 SCV. Yeah, good luck stopping that. WTF....
I am broken mentally. I cant play this game anymore like this. It bears no fruit. Either I hate myself, or the opponents hate me. Worst thing is that I went in so happily, hugging every single loss. But it is hard. Maybe I really should switch to a race with a safer early game. Terran?
V_Arnold said:
Terran is ez. Use Trump's 3 rax build and you'll be in Masters in no time at all!
The most difficult part about Starcraft 2, I find, is accepting that losing is normal. Think of every loss as a learning experience. Watch the replay, look for signs to improve your play and go from there. At the moment, you're dependant on the outcome of the game to dictate whether you're enjoying yourself or not. You need to switch it up so that you take enjoyment from playing the game, not just from winning.
It's so very easy to rage (I do it nearly every time I lose!
), but you have to persevere and ride out the plateau if you want to improve. Check out the book Mastery by George Leonard. It deals with mindset required to get the most out of skill acquisition. You can read it here - http://www.scribd.com/doc/257928/-Mastery-by-George-Leonard
Alternatively, this dude wrote up a pretty decent summary - http://gettingstronger.org/2010/03/george-leonards-mastery/
I really recommend reading the whole book - it'll only take an hour or two and you'll learn so much.
twofold said:Terran is ez. Use Trump's 3 rax build and you'll be in Masters in no time at all!
The most difficult part about Starcraft 2, I find, is accepting that losing is normal. Think of every loss as a learning experience. Watch the replay, look for signs to improve your play and go from there.
It's so very easy to rage (I do it nearly every time I lose!
Check out the book Mastery by George Leonard. It deals with mindset required to get the most out of skill acquisition. You can read it here - http://www.scribd.com/doc/257928/-Mastery-by-George-Leonard
Alternatively, this dude wrote up a pretty decent summary - http://gettingstronger.org/2010/03/george-leonards-mastery/
I really recommend reading the whole book - it'll only take an hour or two and you'll learn so much.
Thanks for the appreciations, though over the coarse of the last few years, I have been doing competitive games and competitive games only (5-4kyu at Go, a decent Viper in SF, not to mention Halo3 months
). And my goal is not to become a master player. If I wanted that, I would cherrypick a few good pressure->kill T/P builds and destroy any random opponents on ladder, but I actually want to become a good player that Master will only be a "side effect" of this V_Arnold said:Thanks for the appreciations, though over the coarse of the last few years, I have been doing competitive games and competitive games only (5-4kyu at Go, a decent Viper in SF, not to mention Halo3 months
I was being sarcastic about the masters comment.
(Terran really is ezmode, though! ;D)
Seriously, though. Read the book and apply what's in it. You'll be all the better for it. Once you learn to play to practise instead of playing to win, you'll find your results grow exponentially without any effort and you'll have a lot more fun. It's awesome.
I try to read Mastery every 6 or so months - it's one of my favourite books of all time and it's helped me so, so much in loads of different parts of my life.
Awesome Animals
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twofold said:I was being sarcastic about the masters comment.
(Terran really is ezmode, though! ;D)
Seriously, though. Read the book and apply what's in it. You'll be all the better for it. Once you learn to play to practise instead of playing to win, you'll find your results grow exponentially without any effort and you'll have a lot more fun. It's awesome.
I try to read Mastery every 6 or so months - it's one of my favourite books of all time and it's helped me so, so much in loads of different parts of my life.
pssh...Toss is ez mode.
mescalineeyes
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Terran is not ezmode at all, they just have pretty good units.
mescalineeyes said:
I find it significantly easier mechanics wise than playing Zerg so it feels like easy mode to me. After learning to macro as Zerg, macroing as Terran feels so easy. I have so many units out so quickly that I end up overwhelming my opponents with brute force.
I'm sure this changes at the super high levels but I've been beating mid/high Diamonds on the KR server using the ever so simple Trump 3 rax opening and building lots of shit.
When I play Zerg against the same opponents, I lose really, really badly despite playing 500+ more games as Zerg.
shattered temple is one of the easiest map to scout thank to the hidden spot behind the mineral line, you can easily see if he have a expo or taking a second gas which indicate cloaked banshee,
you need to have a certain timing to check the terran expo,if he didn't expand you need to 2 spines and baneling nest to counter whatever all in he is doing while.
explain to me why i'm not in masters then : |
so you are interested in seeing 6 rax every game
AdventureRacing
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Is Elcheris a masters player? If so looks like first round for me.
Is there anywhere i can check what race he is so i know what to practice for?
Is there anywhere i can check what race he is so i know what to practice for?
Q8D3vil said:
I don't think it's that at all. I think it's just that Terran requires less APM to play effectively than Zerg.
When I play as Zerg, I feel like there's a million things I want to do but there's not enough time to do it all. As Terran, I find it fairly easy to do everything I want to do and keep my minerals/gas low and my production facilities making stuff.
AdventureRacing
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Pandaman said:
Masters and zerg. Well that kinda sucks.Awesome Animals
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twofold said:
Sheth has a very low APM as a Zerg.
and AdventureRacing, check out SC2Ranks.com we have a division there (NeoGAF) I believe.
Awesome Animals said:
208 apm is very low? What?
Look, simply put -- Terran macro mechanics are the easiest of the three races, macro decides the majority of games in Master league and below - therefore, unless you're at the tip top, Terran is the easiest to play since it's easier to build more stuff. Protoss is marginally more difficult than Terran due to the Warp Gate mechanic. Zerg is the hardest.
twofold said:
208 apm is very low? What?
Look, simply put -- Terran macro mechanics are the easiest of the three races, macro decides the majority of games in Master league and below - therefore, unless you're at the tip top, Terran is the easiest to play since it's easier to build more stuff. Protoss is marginally more difficult than Terran due to the Warp Gate mechanic. Zerg is the hardest.
Uhm, nooo. No. Nothing difficult about that.
V_Arnold said:
I actually gained a newfound respect for the Protoss warp in macro mechanics as well as chrono boost after playing the Multitasking Trainer UMS. Your multi tasking needs to be good to keep your gates constantly on cooldown while using chrono effectively.
Q8D3vil said:
I have absolutely no idea what you mean.
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