thinking about giving up as terran

On December 03 2011 07:16 IlIlIlIl wrote:
terran at this level is so fucking hard compared to the other 2 races it's almost stupid. If you don't have perfect micro vs. banes/fungals or vs. temps/colossi you lose. you have to constantly harass the other player, which I cannot do with my limited apm. on the other hand protoss and zerg are free to just mass up their fucking armies and roll me over. It's such a fucking joke. I could have been masters by now if I used a different race because they don't die because of a fucking micro mistake or because they don't harass effectively. Idk what to do, because I like playing as terran, i love their units (siege tanks esp. <3) but it's so much harder to win games right now. and the worst part is people bming me because i'm terran, even tohugh it's probably harder than p/z... Idk just needed to vent.

On December 03 2011 07:27 SeRenExZerg wrote:
put yourself in the other two races shoes. dont just ASSUME terran is harder. so many terrans do this, and i really dont know why. I've played both terran/zerg for a very long time, and i will give you that playing terran at a high level is VERY hard, but zerg is too. each race is hard in their own right, i challenge you to try fighting off allins or defending multiple drops with zerg while keeping your macro up. i cannot comment on which race is truly the hardest, though, because i do not play the game perfectly and neither do you.

everyone always wants to say their race is the hardest to play thereby making themselves look like they have more skill. play all 3 races an equal amount, play them to their fullest potential, and maybe then you will have an idea of what is truly hardest.

On December 03 2011 07:50 MapleLeafSirup wrote:
maybe you should try to work on another style!
you say you have limited apm and dont want to play too multitask-heavy. especially in TvZ you can adapt to your strengths and weaknesses. goody is really succesful and i doubt he has higher APM than you.
play with more tanks so you have to micro a lot less (just run away with your marines and let the tanks do the work).
maybe you can use the thorzain style of leapfrogging slooooooooooowly but surely around the map.
turtle more. play macro heavier. you can do it!

On December 03 2011 07:31 IlIlIlIl wrote:

there was a thread awhile back that had polls where people voted for which race was hardest at each level. Zerg was voted hardest at lower levels, and then terran was hardest in the diamond/masters range while protoss was hardest at pro level. Once you know how to macro decently, terran becomes significantly weaker because you also have to have really good micro because of all the splash damage the other races have.

On December 03 2011 08:09 Deadlyfish wrote:


As a masters random player i agree with this. Terran is hard right around top dia/low masters where games start being decided on micro and builds. Up until that point it was all about macroing, so you really have to start figuring micro and decision making at that point. Once you're over that hill terran becomes a lot easier.

Each of the races have their own sort of barrier at different levels. Personally i think the zerg one is right around platinum where mechanics and macro is very important, terran is around dia/low masters, and protoss is probably around mid masters. In my experience at least.

On December 03 2011 07:59 liberal wrote:
"I could have been masters if I chose a different race!"

lol, ok dude. That makes perfect sense because there are so few terrans in master. Maybe instead of blaming the game for your losses, you could blame yourself. And then maybe you would, like, actually improve.

Unless you just like to take credit for your wins and make excuses for your losses, because you play to stroke your ego. Then keep it up.

On December 03 2011 08:21 IlIlIlIl wrote:

I do blame myself, and I also blame me choosing terran instead of p/z. It takes much much more practice if you want to play macro games vs. the other races compared to zerg/protoss.

On December 03 2011 08:13 liberal wrote:

I'm also a master random, and I say you can easily reach masters with terran just going 1-1-1 every game, with gold level micro. The real barrier with terran is learning the marine micro/splitting or multi-dropping which is necessary to get high masters.

Low masters can be achieved with pure macro with any race.

On December 03 2011 08:23 KhAmun wrote:

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Stay in diamond league, stay blaming your race, stay bad.

On December 03 2011 08:27 topschutter wrote:
Late game zerg is really easy, you just have to get perfect injects on 6 hatcherys while using creep spread and doing stuff with ur army/defending stuff.....

Dude, its not ur race its you....