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Pyrrhuloxia
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States6700 Posts
May 02 2010 12:19 GMT
#1
I finally got a key today. I pre-ordered from Amazon and checked my email, finding that I had received a key from that guy that was giving hundreds of them out to people who subscribed to his Youtube account. It worked, so I cancelled my Amazon pre-order. I don't know where I'm gonna be living when SC2 comes out, so I don't want to risk it going to the wrong address yet. Also, I don't want to wait the 5-9 days after launch day for it to arrive in the mail with free shipping. I might want the collectors edition instead, as well.

Anyhoo, I am 7-1 so far.I said I was a "new player" so it gave me 5 practice games before placement games. I chose random for the placement games. First practice game was a PvT, and the terran surrendered in the first few seconds, or got disconnected or something. I kept playing so I could explore the tech tree (did the same thing for the first games with the other races as well). Then I won a ZvZ with Ling/Roach/Muta mostly. Then I won a TvZ with Marauder/Thor (I really like that combo so far ). Lost a TvP to a Void Ray rush, and that build became my PvT strat . I then won another TvZ with Marauder/Thor. Before going into placement matches, I played a PvZ against the computer to practice a few things (mainly Void Ray rushing). So far in placement matches, I've gone 3-0. All of them were PvT with Void Ray / Zealot. The first game, Void Ray / Zealot won on the first push. After that game, the first push has always failed and I've had to macro back up and mix in Immortals. I have about 30 APM. I have 40 in Brood War usually... Doesn't stop me from beating ~180 APM Terrans in BW .

My handle is Touched.pyrrhuloxia

Anyway, since I hope to be a game designer soon, I'll probably mess around with the editor a ton. I have the start for a game design document for a mod I'd like to make.

The game scales beautifully; I'm playing it on my four-year-old laptop with no probs. I think the game looked better when I turned a few things down in options. I believe turning the shaders to the lowest settings made the Protoss buildings look a lot more "Protossy" or at least "Brood Warry" because they looked more Yellow and more matte. They also seemed to make everything "pop" more.

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JohnColtrane
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Australia4813 Posts
May 02 2010 12:33 GMT
#2
40apm? really? xC thats like what my friend had when he first played brood war when we played a 2v2. do you use hotkeys? i dont remember being that slow even without hotkeys, how do you beat 200 apm players?

lol sorry to derail/flame :C
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Pyrrhuloxia
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States6700 Posts
May 02 2010 12:46 GMT
#3
I use hotkeys lol. I'd have more APM if I didn't...

Just finished my placement matches. I lost a PvZ in game 4, won a PvZ in game 5. I am in Gold now.
Pyrrhuloxia
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States6700 Posts
May 02 2010 12:47 GMT
#4
On May 02 2010 21:33 JohnColtrane wrote:
40apm? really? xC thats like what my friend had when he first played brood war when we played a 2v2. do you use hotkeys? i dont remember being that slow even without hotkeys, how do you beat 200 apm players?

lol sorry to derail/flame :C

Yeah 40 APM. Toss is easy mode. I guess those Terrans were spamming a lot...
TwilightStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States649 Posts
May 02 2010 13:11 GMT
#5
On May 02 2010 21:47 Pyrrhuloxia wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2010 21:33 JohnColtrane wrote:
40apm? really? xC thats like what my friend had when he first played brood war when we played a 2v2. do you use hotkeys? i dont remember being that slow even without hotkeys, how do you beat 200 apm players?

lol sorry to derail/flame :C

Yeah 40 APM. Toss is easy mode. I guess those Terrans were spamming a lot...


Wait till ya see Zerg. They are the true easy mode now xD!

40 APM shouldn't be beating anyone above 100 apm. (Which has been happening alot in Sc2)
(5)Twilight Star.scx --------- AdmiralHoth: There was one week when I didn't shave for a month.
Trumpet
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States1936 Posts
May 02 2010 13:25 GMT
#6
There's something inherently cooler about watching some guy with horrifically low APM winning. And something hilariously dumb about 300 APM D level players =P

Stealing strategies that beat me is how I learn mirror matches, glad to see I'm not the only one who does it heheh
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
May 02 2010 15:28 GMT
#7
On May 02 2010 22:11 TwilightStar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2010 21:47 Pyrrhuloxia wrote:
On May 02 2010 21:33 JohnColtrane wrote:
40apm? really? xC thats like what my friend had when he first played brood war when we played a 2v2. do you use hotkeys? i dont remember being that slow even without hotkeys, how do you beat 200 apm players?

lol sorry to derail/flame :C

Yeah 40 APM. Toss is easy mode. I guess those Terrans were spamming a lot...


Wait till ya see Zerg. They are the true easy mode now xD!

40 APM shouldn't be beating anyone above 100 apm. (Which has been happening alot in Sc2)

so true, im 40-50 average and #1 in my plat div
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
Shrine
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Australia107 Posts
May 02 2010 15:32 GMT
#8
Needlessly spamming 20 times to move 1 unit is what most people do.

Spamming at the start is one of the better things to do because your used to going fast later on ingame.
Hell is empty, All the devils are here.
Ikiron
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States88 Posts
May 02 2010 16:09 GMT
#9
On May 03 2010 00:32 Shrine wrote:
Needlessly spamming 20 times to move 1 unit is what most people do.

Spamming at the start is one of the better things to do because your used to going fast later on ingame.

Agreed if you don't keep your fingers limber your gonna freeze up when you need them the most.
Why be the best when you can die like the rest.
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