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Demonace34
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2493 Posts
September 01 2011 05:29 GMT
#21
On September 01 2011 06:13 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
You might just be experiencing a lack of focus. Take a more active approach to gameplay and practice. In BW I would often get in this zombie mode where I wouldn't really be all there when playing, just kinda going through the motions of it, and I'd get supply blocked a lot or let my minerals rocket up to 1800-2300 maybe even more and it was only when I was actively participating in the game (checking my supply, looking at the minimap, thinking and asking myself questions sometimes outloud about what my opponent is doing) did all of that improve greatly.

It's like reading when you go through a sentence four times and never process it. You need to sharpen your focus and really take in every detail. Don't ever let a single moment of monotony occur.


This is actually so true it hurts. I would get that frustrating feeling after floating minerals and getting supply blocked that I started realizing that I went into zombie mode and never looked at the top right for most of the game. Another bad habit I have is to be so focused on creating one unit (stalker in PvZ) that I will only make that unit and stop expanding because I'm OCD about keeping my warpgates always on refresh.

Thanks for reminding me of what happens whenever you get so used to the game that you stop actually going through all the motions.
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Xyik
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada728 Posts
September 01 2011 14:01 GMT
#22
you fool. You've played so much you've engrained terrible habits into yourself. Take an active approach to always be on the look out for improving your play, not just playing. What did you do well that game? What did you not do well? Look at games you've won as well as the games you've lost. Mentally make a check-list of things to do and avoid and go over it every game. Decrease the size of the map-pool to make it easier for yourself to promote good habits without worrying about extra maps.
Malyce
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Switzerland112 Posts
September 01 2011 14:06 GMT
#23

Perhaps just focus on one thing at a time?

Like "this game I'm gonna make SCVs and depots non-stop". Play a custom game against a scrub and focus on just that. Don't care about minerals, unit prod, hell not even about expos.

Then do that 10 times.

Then the same for your build order and unit production. Then same for expo. Don't try to focus on everything at once, or else it becomes overwhelming.
Salivanth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia1071 Posts
September 08 2011 23:56 GMT
#24
Yeah, I definitely agree with Malyce here. And SC2 is very hard: Even by staying in Plat, you're better than most players out there. Also don't worry about the people who just seem to coast into Masters on natural ability, I spent 300 games in Bronze, 200 in Silver, and now 200 in Gold, and I've yet to reach Plat, but I know I'll get there, it'll just take longer. Focus on what you can control, which is your ability to improve. If your macro is that bad, load up a build order tester and hammer out your build again and again, or check out this post:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=246676

Good luck mate, hopefully you start progressing soon.
<@Wikt> so you are one of those nega-fans <@Wikt> that hates the company that makes a game and everything they stand for <@Wikt> but still plays the game <@Wikt> (like roughly 30% of blizzard's player base, maybe much more...)
Kid-Fox
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada400 Posts
September 09 2011 01:18 GMT
#25
Sometimes when my macro starts slipping in diamond I think "forget scouting, micro, minimap awareness.... it's macro time". I'll legit allow banelings to kill every marine I have and still win because I spend every mineral I earn.
If it's something else that's putting you in a slump, I don't really recommend taking a break because you'll be worse off than before, but if it's an attitude problem then by all means stop laddering for a few weeks.
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