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Moved up a division, loving sc2 now

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BROotogy
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Eritrea149 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-24 03:46:02
December 24 2010 03:44 GMT
#1
Well I'm out of Bronze, that was the first league I was placed at and I'm now in Silver, and I've got to say this game is getting quite fun now. I played BW most of my gaming life and I think that contributes to my SC2 play style a bit.

I found SC2 boring in Bronze because every game I played was just me fending off cheese, and winning in a macro war.

Now I just got in Silver and am about to start mass gaming for about 4 hours. wish me luck!

p.s I would like to thank everyone in this thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=178803

for all the help and especially Arisen for teaching me that you can hotkey all your gates and you don't individually have to click them all, my macro is crazy now and I'm actually using chrono boost now!!

**
da_head
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3350 Posts
December 24 2010 04:01 GMT
#2
Hotkey all ur gates? You do know that warpgates are automatically binded to w so i dont see why u were clicking em one by one in the first place.
When they see MC Probe, all the ladies disrobe.
BROotogy
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Eritrea149 Posts
December 24 2010 04:05 GMT
#3
On December 24 2010 13:01 da_head wrote:
Hotkey all ur gates? You do know that warpgates are automatically binded to w so i dont see why u were clicking em one by one in the first place.

I was going like this.. 5s6s7s8z9z etc
XXGeneration
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States625 Posts
December 24 2010 04:11 GMT
#4
Congratulations on moving up!
"I was so surprised when I first played StarCraft 2. I couldn't believe that such an easy game exists... I guess the best way to attract people these days is to make things easy and simple." -Midas
mainerd
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States347 Posts
December 24 2010 04:11 GMT
#5
On December 24 2010 13:05 BROotogy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 24 2010 13:01 da_head wrote:
Hotkey all ur gates? You do know that warpgates are automatically binded to w so i dont see why u were clicking em one by one in the first place.

I was going like this.. 5s6s7s8z9z etc

just hit W and do s click s click s click z click z click, no need to individually hotkey warpgates
or add the shift key in to make it even easier, shift-s click click click shift-z click click
done ;D
"Let me tell you, in eSTRO we had some circle jerks, straight up. It wasn't pretty." -NonY
Alou
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States3748 Posts
December 24 2010 04:12 GMT
#6
Just keep it up. Eventually you get to people who have an idea of what they are doing
Life is Good.
OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6592 Posts
December 24 2010 04:17 GMT
#7
Yeah... just use "w" for gates, don't bother to hotkey any of them lol ^^ grats for getting out of bronze though.
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djcube
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States985 Posts
December 24 2010 04:18 GMT
#8
Did your begin "gaming life" recently or something? lol how were you in bronze if you've played bw for that time?
Ack1027
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States7873 Posts
December 24 2010 04:27 GMT
#9
Fending off cheese and winning in a macro war doesn't change as you go up in divisions. Sorry if this crushes your dreams.
SlayerS_BunkiE
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada1707 Posts
December 24 2010 04:32 GMT
#10
I find that hotkeying your "warpgate pylon" is very helpful as well. Sort of like sc2's f2-f4 key
iloveby.SlayerS_BunkiE[Shield]
nalho
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States351 Posts
December 24 2010 05:56 GMT
#11
On December 24 2010 13:27 Ack1027 wrote:
Fending off cheese and winning in a macro war doesn't change as you go up in divisions. Sorry if this crushes your dreams.


This exactly.
In silver, it doesn't differ much from bronze, but around gold - platinum you'll start to see a lot more early pressure and all-ins.
i'm jung/i translate bw sometimes
Servius_Fulvius
Profile Joined August 2009
United States947 Posts
December 24 2010 06:16 GMT
#12
On December 24 2010 12:44 BROotogy wrote:
I found SC2 boring in Bronze because every game I played was just me fending off cheese, and winning in a macro war.


I only have about 60 games logged in gold and that's all I really see too. You see all this awesome play at the upper levels and plan on a great, tested and true macro strategy only to get hit with a continuous line of cheese. Blizzard initiation? Maybe...

Glad it's fun, though!
BROotogy
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Eritrea149 Posts
December 24 2010 06:26 GMT
#13
On December 24 2010 13:18 djcube wrote:
Did your begin "gaming life" recently or something? lol how were you in bronze if you've played bw for that time?

Well I was Bronze because I didn't know about how SC2's macro mechanics worked and I didn't have a solid build down.

Now every game I go:
PvP 2 Gates, add robo, then add another gate to fend off 4gate --> into macro game
PvT 2 gate robo --> macro game/timing push
PvZ 2 gate robo --> macro game

Eventually I'm going to start adding in other strats because when I get to the higher levels people will rush/timing push.
Z3kk
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
4099 Posts
December 24 2010 06:36 GMT
#14
I've been in silver forever (I think because I haven't played much): I was silver until beta ended, and now that I have a trial key (expiring in just a few hours or so), I'm still in silver after about 8 games including placements. I'd like to be able to actually play SC2 with a copy, but from beta and the few hours I've played on a trial, I go 3 gate robo vs zerg (it hits a nice timing with several immortals, I think), 4gate vs toss, and DT expand vs terran (if I can).

I'd like to be able to experiment and play out some more...the game just feels as if every time I move out, I'll get raped by mass void rays/mutas/cloaked banshees or something. I just fall apart to harass >\\\<

GLHF on your exploits!
Failure is not falling down over and over again. Failure is refusing to get back up.
BROotogy
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Eritrea149 Posts
December 24 2010 06:44 GMT
#15
On December 24 2010 15:36 Z3kk wrote:
I've been in silver forever (I think because I haven't played much): I was silver until beta ended, and now that I have a trial key (expiring in just a few hours or so), I'm still in silver after about 8 games including placements. I'd like to be able to actually play SC2 with a copy, but from beta and the few hours I've played on a trial, I go 3 gate robo vs zerg (it hits a nice timing with several immortals, I think), 4gate vs toss, and DT expand vs terran (if I can).

I'd like to be able to experiment and play out some more...the game just feels as if every time I move out, I'll get raped by mass void rays/mutas/cloaked banshees or something. I just fall apart to harass >\\\<

GLHF on your exploits!


Buy the game man! I wish I bought it earlier, but then again I didn't have a computer that could run it.

Also, your quote made me lol quite hard :D
Z3kk
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
4099 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-24 08:22:14
December 24 2010 08:10 GMT
#16
Haha I'm not allowed to buy sc2, at least for the time being >___<; I might be getting it soon though :3

And XP I think it's pretty quirky/funny too :> first time someone mentioned it~
Failure is not falling down over and over again. Failure is refusing to get back up.
BROotogy
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Eritrea149 Posts
December 24 2010 08:21 GMT
#17
On December 24 2010 17:10 Z3kk wrote:
Haha I'm not allowed to buy sc2, at least for the tinge being >___<; I might be getting it soon though :3

And XP I think it's pretty quirky/funny too :> first time someone mentioned it~


Oh well, that sucks. Do you want another trial key? I was in your situation not too long ago so I know how it feels like, msg me if you want the key or not. I believe its in Asia though... so...
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