10 Beginner's Tips to Getting Out of Bronze - Page 2

On August 23 2010 04:44 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
The word Bronze in the title is pretty much interchangeable with D or D+ in a Brood War sense, in that all of the advice is essentially the same

On August 22 2010 23:55 ThunderGod wrote:
2a: Use the minimap to see incoming attacks etc and keep tabs on your armies.

On August 23 2010 00:07 setanta wrote:
okay so if you do 1 and 2 (and perhaps 6) properly you're easily in diamond league

On August 23 2010 00:17 dcberkeley wrote:
There's a copper league?

I thought it was bronze - diamond?

On August 23 2010 00:20 Inzek wrote:
mostly agree...
have a gameplan when game is loading... (for this need to know match up, etc)
keep building scv, probes (tricky with zerg)
try to keep resources down
upgrade
do something

On August 23 2010 01:08 N3rV[Green] wrote:
a little fix to your micro part though....one of the biggest steps of learning is learning that your units will take care of themselves for the few seconds you need to go back to base and make more shit.

NEVER baby sit and watch an ENTIRE battle. Hop back and forth, doing what little things can be done.

For example, you need to split and run away roaches so they dont take too much damage. so after you split one or two off use some hotkeys or jump back to the base, do some things, and then come back to the split up roaches and do what is needed.

On August 23 2010 01:26 Impervious wrote:
As a struggling Terran player, I suggest you look at Trump's stream and VODs (if you haven't already). He is really, really good, and offers a really in-depth view on the games he's commentated.

Congrats on getting out of Copper. It won't take long to get Platinum, and from there, Diamond.

PS - I also think you need mention that you need to make sure you have some kind of plan. IE - I want to go for a 1/1/1 build into expand, then get a 2nd starport and more factories and go for a mech/air style of play. Sure, there will be adjustments needed, but having that plan in your mind will make it much easier to execute and make those decisions take less time. It definitely fits in with the "scout with a purpose" part, but is not quite the same. It's more like "scouting is part of the plan" imo.....

On August 23 2010 03:04 Lemonwalrus wrote:
So I bought sc2 a week ago and played my placement matches without ever having watched a stream or played the missions or the a.i. I went 2-3 and placed bronze.

Since then I have started to learn what some of the new units are/do and have laddered to high gold in ~30 games. (as zerg.)

I have learned that in order to beat bronze/silver/most gold players, you simply need to scout for cheese and expand like a greedy whore.

No amount of micro is going to give a 1 base turtle the win over a 4 base zerg with modest macro. And bronze/silver/gold players seem completely content to sit in their base and tech to vikings/voids/something else they think will win them the game while you take your natural and 2 more expos. As long as you scout enough to avoid losing on tech alone and to keep them from taking an expansion themselves you should be fine.

On August 23 2010 03:21 Loser777 wrote:
random question @ OP, are you from norcal O_o?

On August 23 2010 04:44 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
The word Bronze in the title is pretty much interchangeable with D or D+ in a Brood War sense, in that all of the advice is essentially the same

On August 23 2010 08:42 Djzapz wrote:

A bronze player could never even get close to D+... To get D+ you have to beat a couple of people who can play - sort of... If you're actually a bronze player, you have no understanding of the game at all, which is fine because it's basically the learning league.

If you just have a semi decent build order and you know to make workers constantly you get in Gold+ right away.

On August 24 2010 18:35 CurZed wrote:
Nice post, expanding is my downfall, i just always forget to do it O_O
I also forget to macro when I get involved with micro, although i'm getting better at that..