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On March 18 2011 14:10 Musiq wrote:
Its great that you are picking up BW, but i feel you are doing it for the wrong reason. If you want to improve mechanics for sc2, then play more sc2 (practice makes perfect). BW will be hard at first, but once you get the basics, you will experience a whole new level of awesomeness.
sometimes the difference is refreshing
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you just made the best decision in your life.
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Speaking of unit AI, wait 'til you see the Zergling conga line, or Dragoon-minefield soup, or dud scarabs lol
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FREEAGLELAND26782 Posts
Good luck with this 
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It's definitely an excellent way to improve your mechanics. Your mouse accuracy will increase ridiculously, as will your finger speed on your left hand.
Also, take full advantage of location hotkeys. Go anywhere, and shit Shift + F(2 or 3 or 4 here). Then, even if you move your screen away, by hitting the respective F key, you can instantly jump back to that screen. Whatever units you have selected will remain selected. It doesn't change anything but where your screen focus is. I don't know why they got rid of it in SC2. It's a ridiculously useful feature.
Keep your main mineral line binded to F2, your natural binded to F3, and your third binded to F4. Then, if any one of those bases is getting harassed, you hit F2, select 12 workers, F3 right click on a patch, F2, select the rest of the workers, F3, right click on a patch. You can transfer all your workers between bases in less than two seconds.
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Good luck! You're going to be in for a shock whether you expect it or not!
The 12 (?) unit control group, no MBS, no automine, worker splitting, dragoon/lurker/goliath AI, imba storms/dark swarm/lurkers, mineral sliding bug, weird-ass wall-off technicalities and fixed unit spawning might possibly just seem a little overwhelming at first
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On March 18 2011 15:27 TryThis wrote:Show nested quote +On March 18 2011 14:15 DanceCommander wrote:
yea going from BW to sc2 was weird because of all the shortcuts.
can i get an amen if anyone remembers splitting probes? 1a2a3a? 5sh6sh7sh? AMEN 0p9p0p9p09p09p0p9p0p
oh yes :D
good luck bro, you're gonna need it. bw is like man vs. machine, you gotta fight not only the opponent, but tame the retarded unit ai as well, and you're gonna learn a lot working on the skills to do that
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United Kingdom3685 Posts
On March 18 2011 18:11 anatem wrote:good luck bro, you're gonna need it. bw is like man vs. machine, you gotta fight not only the opponent, but tame the retarded unit ai as well, and you're gonna learn a lot working on the skills to do that
On the other hand, it's so rewarding when you do tame them. In SC2, you celebrate when you win. In BW, you celebrate when your dragoon goes where you tell it to.
<3 dragoons
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Play BW because its an awesome game rather than just for practice. I am sure you'll love it!
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Croatia9532 Posts
Dragoons are my favorite unit, I never understood why they get so much hate
Have fun OP!
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lol Good choice
Remember that Firebat rush I was going to do?
I tried to do it today.
I got owned by 1hatch lurker. 
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United Kingdom3685 Posts
On March 18 2011 22:02 Zergneedsfood wrote:I got owned by 1hatch lurker.
You and Ret both.
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http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/korean/games/?only_vods=on&no_spoiler=on&action=Update
i've found the TLPD vod archive is insanely useful for learning BW (especially compared to trying to muddle through liquipedia or forum posts) since you can sort everything. for example, i can look at all Light and Flash games vZ on fighting spirit if i'm trying to learn that matchup and map, and likewise for other matchups and proleague maps.
it's a convenience that doesn't really exist in sc2.
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Give it a month and i guarantee you wont come back to sc2, i know i couldnt even touch sc2 again after a month of BW.
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Man why does everyone hate goons. I find them fun to micro. Move, hold, move, hold...
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On March 18 2011 17:19 byFd wrote:
you just made the best decision in your life.
or worst depending on you look at it LOL
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Have fun :D You can call the graphics of BW ancient, but in my eyes they look better than 3D does right now.
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Yey, nice to hear. Good luck and more important have fun ;P
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On March 18 2011 17:50 DTK-m2 wrote:
It's definitely an excellent way to improve your mechanics. Your mouse accuracy will increase ridiculously, as will your finger speed on your left hand.
Also, take full advantage of location hotkeys. Go anywhere, and shit Shift + F(2 or 3 or 4 here). Then, even if you move your screen away, by hitting the respective F key, you can instantly jump back to that screen. Whatever units you have selected will remain selected. It doesn't change anything but where your screen focus is. I don't know why they got rid of it in SC2. It's a ridiculously useful feature.
Keep your main mineral line binded to F2, your natural binded to F3, and your third binded to F4. Then, if any one of those bases is getting harassed, you hit F2, select 12 workers, F3 right click on a patch, F2, select the rest of the workers, F3, right click on a patch. You can transfer all your workers between bases in less than two seconds.
They didn't. It's there and you can assign even more than three screens.
Good luck, definitely try protoss first, it's the easiest to get used to 1a2a3a.
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On March 19 2011 00:07 infinity2k9 wrote:
Man why does everyone hate goons. I find them fun to micro. Move, hold, move, hold...
Yeah goon micro is fun and pretty intuitive. Playing on a map like Blue Storm is still pretty rough though. Dragoons hate Blue Storm
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