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Worker Rush Part 6: At a Loss - Page 3
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HackBenjamin
Canada1094 Posts
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UmbraaeternuS
Chile476 Posts
On January 20 2012 07:54 rebuffering wrote: am i the only who thinks this is pointless? why are you playing sc2 if your doing this, this defeats the whole purpose of playing the game. Instead of trying to improve, you just sit there and learn nothing, while at the same time preventing another player from learning anything. No, you aren't. I think so too. Dude, the bronze social experiment might seem interesting and fun but ultimately you aren't learning shit from the game, and in the process, you're stopping a lot of bronze league players short of the learning process. Many bronze players must be new, and facing such a tactic ingame must be discouraging. Level your MMR up and begin learning, bro. I was once like you, making 3.5 minute mark zealot rushes to EVERYTHING. Then I realized I had to learn something... And that changed my perspective and gameplay forever. Now I cast, teach and play... All thanks to that silly decision of "wth, I'm not learning squat from this, even though it's super effective." You should try it too. | ||
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Xiron
Germany1233 Posts
On January 28 2012 03:24 UmbraaeternuS wrote: No, you aren't. I think so too. Dude, the bronze social experiment might seem interesting and fun but ultimately you aren't learning shit from the game, and in the process, you're stopping a lot of bronze league players short of the learning process. Many bronze players must be new, and facing such a tactic ingame must be discouraging. Level your MMR up and begin learning, bro. I was once like you, making 3.5 minute mark zealot rushes to EVERYTHING. Then I realized I had to learn something... And that changed my perspective and gameplay forever. Now I cast, teach and play... All thanks to that silly decision of "wth, I'm not learning squat from this, even though it's super effective." You should try it too. In the end it's a game. A game's purpose is to have fun. If Gheed has fun doing what he does, there is no point for him to 'learn'. | ||
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netherh
United Kingdom333 Posts
The first time this happened to me I won (no SCVs lost, all drones killed). The second time I lost (all SCVs lost, no drones killed). Both times I a-moved. The first time I randomly clicked auto-repair, then panicked and a-moved again because my SCVs weren't attacking. The second time I just a-moved. So for me it appears that just a-moving will lose... some other parameter is required to ensure victory - from 2 data points, I can't extrapolate what. Given that it's happened twice, I don't care, so it's entirely possible a worker rush would kill me again. As for ties - certain casters of popular videos (lagtv) don't know how that works - it's not hard to pick up misinformation. Or the guy's smarter than you give him credit for and was just trying to get you to leave. My money's on the latter. Anyhoo... "when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you". Good luck getting out of bronze. | ||
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Gheed
United States972 Posts
On January 28 2012 08:30 netherh wrote: So for me it appears that just a-moving will lose... Nope. Make a mirror match versus a medium AI on Steppes of War. You will show up with your workers at the earliest possible time, and what will the computer do? It will attack move. How will that turn out? You will lose. There is no trickery I am executing; there is no skill involved. I lost to a guy who said it was his second match, and his history confirmed it. You only need the ability to a-click on the ground. There is no debate. Edit: Also, I've played people 3, 4 times in a row. I've heard people say "I hate when I get worker rushed." This is happening and it's fairly commonplace. I got matched twice the other day against a fellow worker rusher. Anybody defending these people is wrong, end of story. | ||
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Zombo Joe
Canada850 Posts
If they just a-move they win. | ||
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Aqo[il]
Israel183 Posts
This blog, although humorous, brings up a serious point about people in low leagues. Like, sometimes I meet people who play Starcraft 2 and tell me they're "stuck in silver". I'm not very good in SC2 myself, but I played some BW (as well as other RTSs) in the past and got to diamond in the first 30 matches on ladder in this game without even having basic knowledge on the level of "how much life does a marine have". So I always had this naive assumption is that in lower leagues, people simply have bad mechanics - they lack hand speed, and knowledge of basic macro principles such as "build workers whenever you can" and "actively prioritize watching your bank and spending all your money". I thought that they're not necessarily stupid, they might just be uninformed, and not realize how RTS works. That if you just tell them this much, they'd get to at least plat in under two weeks. Hell even my 13 year old sister, who's too scared to play Dead Space 2, managed to learn to macro up from 3 bases and micro vultures in BW good enough to destroy infinite speedzea effortlessly in just a few hours from a starting point of having trouble of moving the screen in BW, and all it took is me telling her to think about her own mistakes every time something goes wrong and then not repeat those mistakes when the same situation occurs. But no. Apparently some people are really stupid. If what you're saying is true that you played the same people, worker rushed them, and they lost to it again and again, then I'm honestly looking forward to you worker rushing them again. And then again. And to see what they'd say about it. If those people lack the basic brain function of checking the replay of a match lost (as if that's even necessary in this specific situation), thinking what should've been done differently, and then not repeating an incorrect course of action - and yet at the same time they play on a competitive 1v1 ladder in a game that defines clear winning conditions, then those people's process of thinking (or lack thereof) is a complete mystery that deserves to be uncovered publicly for the entertainment of bored netizens. Keep it up. | ||
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Iyerbeth
England2410 Posts
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CaptainCrush
United States785 Posts
Keep up the good work sir, your ambition and wit is unmatched. | ||
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Kabras
Romania3508 Posts
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Maxtor
United Kingdom273 Posts
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