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Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-15 22:16:35
April 15 2010 22:08 GMT
#1
I finally have SC2 (For a brief time. Thanks Megalisk!) It finished downloading today and right now im trying getting use to it by playing vs nothing. Its pretty hard to get use to >_>...
The graphics are fine at lowest and its the only way i can play sc2 lol. The retarded hotkeys... fuck how will i ever get use to marine as a when m was perfectly comfortable It really is a whole new game T__T... I didnt play against pubs yet cuz i would barely make it into silver league (-_- gold league) I only tested out Terran once and im posting this blog because of how hard it was to test out the game.
I just want to know how many people were thrown off by the game and how hard it was to get use to the game.
+ Show Spoiler [Were you thrown off by the game when y…] +
Poll: Were you thrown off by the game when you first played?

Yes (20)
 
65%

No (11)
 
35%

31 total votes

Your vote: Were you thrown off by the game when you first played?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No



+ Show Spoiler [Was it easy to get use to the game? (S…] +
Poll: Was it easy to get use to the game? (SC players)

Unbelievably Easy (20)
 
57%

Not really hard (11)
 
31%

Took a while (3)
 
9%

YES IM STILL FLUSTERED.. (1)
 
3%

35 total votes

Your vote: Was it easy to get use to the game? (SC players)

(Vote): Unbelievably Easy
(Vote): Not really hard
(Vote): Took a while
(Vote): YES IM STILL FLUSTERED..



also whats the easiest terran mu?

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Terrakin
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1440 Posts
April 15 2010 22:14 GMT
#2
of course the first few times will be confusing, just play more. There's nothing to be ashamed of being put in the bronze copper silver league0
Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9830 Posts
April 15 2010 22:17 GMT
#3
i got into gold because mbs is hard to get used to terrans really have too many types of buildings, its so annoying

but also cuz of speedling all-ins on backdoors you forget about
boomer hands
infinity21 *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada6683 Posts
April 15 2010 22:17 GMT
#4
It's not that bad, really.
After the ladder reset, I got placed in silver and I worked my way up to gold and then platinum.

Experiment and find out what works in each MU.
Official Entusman #21
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11567 Posts
April 15 2010 22:21 GMT
#5
I remember when I played SC2 at a LAN cafe and I just massed rines until I figured out that marauders were good.
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
Sentenal
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States12398 Posts
April 15 2010 22:28 GMT
#6
Playing it for the first time did throw me off again. I mean, the hotkey changes completely fuck with my Brood War knowledge. Probes and Pylons are now 'e', and not 'p'? That throws off my entire BW setup, where I would have my starting nexus at '0'.

But after I played a bit more, it didn't take long till I got used to it.
"Apparently, Sentenal is a paragon of friendship and tolerance. " - Ech0ne
DreaM)XeRO
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Korea (South)4667 Posts
April 15 2010 22:32 GMT
#7
ahaha the sc:bw hotkeys threw me off
big thang there. the only problem i have is the unit dying animation
takes too long
im clicking and TRYING to micro a marine thats already dead
-_-
cw)minsean(ru
Jugan
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States1566 Posts
April 15 2010 22:39 GMT
#8
I can't tell you how many times in one game I grab my probe and go B P.... B P.... B P.... WHAT'S GOING ONNNNN? ARGHHHH PYLON!
Even a Savior couldn't fix all problems. www.twitch.tv/xJugan
Protocon
Profile Joined February 2010
United States255 Posts
April 15 2010 22:50 GMT
#9
I've gotten a bit use to it after a week, but some stuff I just can't seem to easily get used to.
I play Terran, so siege/unsiege is so weird.

Also, was so used to M for pumping rines, and generally pumping units based on the first letter of unit. M for rines, F for firebats, W for wraiths. But unit production in SC2 is counter-intuitive albeit simpler since it's all within WASD. Still though, A for rines, D for marauders/medivacs, S for tanks, E for hellions AND banshees? fuck hell. my fingers get all twisted when I'm trying to macro.

T_T
asdf
Naib
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Hungary4952 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-15 23:26:44
April 15 2010 23:23 GMT
#10
It took me like 2 days to memorize most of the new hotkeys, and I've been playing SC:BW for almost 10 years now (first introduction to the game at least). It really isn't that hard if you're somewhat serious about it...

The only complaint I have is the "i" hotkey for the Immortal. I mean, the hell did Blizz optimize everything (probes, pylons, marine) to the left side of the keyboard, only to leave Immortals this way? I always click "u" and "o" when I want to make one (hence I sucked playing T in SC1, I could never siege up / lay mines properly due to simply missing the hotkey every now and then).

^ This is a huge blunder, especially considering the German version (or so I heard) comes with built-in qwert asdfg zxcvb hotkeys according to the unit's place in the right side GUI. Which would, again, be uncomfortable to me (judging by the limited experience I had with SoaSE), but still. I demand a "t" hotkey for the Immortal!
Complete the cycle!
Ranix
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States666 Posts
April 15 2010 23:39 GMT
#11
Ahh.. I remember my first day of beta.. TvP so I went mech and was like "OMG WAT" when it failed hard.
Legends never gg
Osmoses
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Sweden5302 Posts
April 15 2010 23:50 GMT
#12
Dunno about easiest matchup, depends on who you play, but the most fun is definitely TvZ.

But I wish they'd cheapen the zerg units. Die faster, cost less, swarm like the insects you're supposed to be, dammit.
Excuse me hun, but what is your name? Vivian? I woke up next to you naked and, uh, did we, um?
Megalisk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States6095 Posts
April 16 2010 00:02 GMT
#13
I lost my first placement match zvt because I didn't know overlords couldn't detect anymore, I was SO mad. The hotkeys only took a few games to get used to, wasn't really a big deal, although I have yet to use MBS as zerg, I just use one hotkey per hatch..feels better that way for me. I'm back to Bw though, cause I just can't quite "get into" sc2, though I still watch most of the tournies.

GLHF~
Tear stained american saints and dirty guitar dreams across a universe of desert and blue sky , gas station coffee love letters and two dollar pistol kisses from thirty five dollar hotel room stationary .
krndandaman
Profile Joined August 2009
Mozambique16569 Posts
April 16 2010 00:15 GMT
#14
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Orome
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Switzerland11984 Posts
April 16 2010 00:16 GMT
#15
I still haven't really gotten into T/P, they feel and play pretty differently. Z, my main race, is incredibly similar though, hotkeys, units and play style are almost the same.
On a purely personal note, I'd like to show Yellow the beauty of infinitely repeating Starcraft 2 bunkers. -Boxer
Rice
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1332 Posts
April 16 2010 00:43 GMT
#16
when i try to play scbw i will try for like 15 seconds to make an overlord with the sc2 hotkey

or accidentally build 3 units with 1 press of the button
Freedom will be defended at the cost of civil liberties.
DrivE
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States2554 Posts
April 16 2010 01:05 GMT
#17
My first time playing sc2 was when I borrowed my friend's laptop while he just joined a game. but I was in a novice map and was like wtf when rocks were blocking my way lol... but sc2 is really easy to pick up and i instantly got the feel of it
LUCK IS NO EXCUSE
GeMicles
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada307 Posts
April 16 2010 02:09 GMT
#18
man i find it so hard to macro in sc2. or maybe its just me getting distracted by the graphics. i find myself always using the zoom function
i pikachu in the shower
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