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On November 13 2011 02:40 salvagebar wrote:Show nested quote +On November 13 2011 01:03 HeaDStrong wrote:On November 12 2011 00:59 salvagebar wrote:
Now that the contempt for Bronze players is gone, these entries are much better.
Protip: The reason why an inexperienced player shits his pants when he's worker-rushed (I did when I was first worker-rushed), is because everything in the game, implicit in every part, is the idea that you collect resources to increase your supply and make an army. Fighters fight, suppliers supply, workers work.
Sure, they do token damage, but until you see it happen, the idea of using workers as your main and only unit is completely counterintuitive, like sending pickup trucks to a tank battle. How can you shit pants when you see workers? It's not like you are "OMG He has workers out already? I don't even have detection or anti-air omg omg...". Once you see your opponent attack with workers I don't think you need to be a strategic genius to come up with "What if I could use my WORKERS to defend against his WORKERS, it sounds crazy but him having to send the workers all over the map might even give me a slight home field advantage.." It is one of those things that, in retrospect, seems obvious. In the moment when it first happens to an inexperienced player, who is barely used to the rhythm of the game? Hearing "YOUR PROBES ARE BEING ATTACKED!" is confusing. I haven't met anyone who keeps dying to this over and over. Today, I know to box, a-move, keep making SCV's, and I'll come out ahead a couple of workers.
My point was actually that you exactly do not need any retrospective look on the situation. It's not like it's a highly complex and elaborate rush. workers on workers. By doing this rush you opponent is actually explicitly showing that workers can be used to attack :>
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your Country52798 Posts
What if you got promoted to silver?
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=D dude thats awesome!
love your post =D
awesome writing =D
15/10 =D
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Dear Gheed
You have truly inspired me, ive run through 80 games now, and after i was lowered to mid silver, i finally started to win, i think currently i have a win percent on about 40 or, so this means i will have to delve deeper into the pits of bronze. I must say i have never heard so much rage and at the same time, so much laughter at the same time
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After reading this, I did the 11/10 drone rush and won 6 games in a row with a bronze account. One of them was very sincere, stating that it was his first multiplayer match and asking how to defend against it. I felt so bad LOL.
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This was a hilarious read. I actually got worker ruhed yesterday and was shocked because I'm currently in 1st place of my gold league playing against platinum opponents. I remember my dark days as a bronzie loosing to worker rushes and wanting to smash my keyboard. Still probably the most frustrating way I've lost games.
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I would say that this is a sick social experiment, but these blogs are just far too entertaining.
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A few weeks ago my Bronze girlfriend was the unfortunate victim of a worker rush. Immediately I asked her "Was the player called Gheed"? Turns out no, it was a higher-level troll. Remembering your posts, I told her to simply A-move her workers. She was not confident, so that night we played a few customs where I worker rushed. I played a game with every race and she held it off every time. Sure, she was upset after losing, but she never lost to it again!
Turns out my training against worker rushes is not finished. I was playing a 4v4 this weekend with my girlfriend and two younger brothers. A zerg foe opened the game by saying he would worker rush one of us. Immediately I told them all to a-move their workers over skype. A minute later 12 drones made their way up my brother's ramp. My build stopped as I started yelling "A-MOVE YOUR PROBES" over and over. He started by acting like a "tryhard" and do fancy micro and stacking. Finally he listened, A-moved, and won the battle with 5 probes left over. Our unsuccessful foe left the game saying he was going to uninstall. The team pooled some resources to help rebuild the probe line and the rest of our opponents BM'd their partner for the next 30 seconds.
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please make more of these, I'd say you're a terrible person, but you're too good of a writer for me to care
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Not only were these blog posts ridiculously entertaining, they inspired me to purchase a second copy of Starcraft to embark on the same journey. While I haven't worker rushed nearly as much as Gheed, I can say the following: I went through all of the same stages. Amusement, playful bad manner, hate, amusement, and more hate. Eventually after about a hundred or so of these rushes I was still surprised that I ever won. It is also surprising how many other worker rushers you meet, often in the middle of the map.
I decided to abandon worker rushing after a short while, because I'm just too mature for that ;-). I started raising the mmr on my worker rush account by executing various one base all ins. But there was always a nagging urge to worker rush. As it turns out I found that you can even win some games with platinum mmr by worker rushing.
This may seem surprising, but I guess it doesn't matter how good you are if you shit your pants as Gheed says.
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