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Valnus
South Africa17 Posts
Today I want to ask for a little help. I am doing something critically wrong in my games and because of it. I cant seem to take a game in the ladder even against the A.I Below is a replay of me VS a Terran A.I on very hard mode. Please have a look and give me your opinion. This is one of those times where me watching my own replays does not help at all http://drop.sc/125927 Please help Bob kill some people Thanks  | ||
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divito
Canada1213 Posts
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MysteryMeat1
United States3292 Posts
if you play standard vs very hard or insane A.I. you will lose | ||
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phiinix
United States1169 Posts
I would recommend getting the extra 2 gateways a little later. int his game, they started at 4:15, finished by 5:20, and you got 2 zealots out at around 6:10. If you had built those extra gateways as late as 5:10 or 5:20, you would have gotten out those 2 zealots at nearly the same time, since warp ins are instant and that's around when warp gate finishes. by delaying them, you can build more units and probes in the early game, which helps you defend. In general, try to have at least 6-8 gateways, 3 nexi, and 60 probes by 15:00. The easiest way to check your probe count is to box all the ones at your main, then hold shift and box all the probes at your natural, and then hit ctrl+2, and it'll tell you how many units are in that control group in the tab. Forgetting the logistics and build orders and junk, if you aim for that infrastructure, you should be winning more games. Also, don't listen to mystery meat, he's misinformed. Only insane AI gets additional minerals, very hard AI still gets 5 minerals per mineral trip | ||
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G_G
Canada178 Posts
On March 04 2012 15:46 MysteryMeat1 wrote: ai on very hard mode and up get extra minerals for each so while you get 5 they get 7. if you play standard vs very hard or insane A.I. you will lose Only the insane AI gets 7, not very hard. Also, that AI was a badass. I wouldn't feel too bad losing to an opponent that is consantly balancing SCVs distribution between mainland and island expansions with medivacs while attacking your natural and not really missing a beat in any other aspect either. The main way to beat the AI is basic unit counters, which you did, and out produce it on workers early on (AIs cap out at certain worker numbers per base, you don't have to). Seriously though, you need to significantly improve your Probe production. Play a bunch of games, vs AI is fine, and focus 100% on keeping your Probe production concious. This means that even when placing a gateway you should be thinking "my probes are probably about half way done by now, I have time for one more thing" and then maybe do a round of warp-ins or something. While doing that think, "that was the one thing, now I need to queue up some more Probes. Okay, now I can do a few things before needing more Probes." So do a few more things, while thinking about how much time you have until you need to make Probes again etc, etc, etc. Don't worry about build or even winning, just always be concious of the progress of your Probes. By forcing it to be concious under all circumstances you begin to not have to think about it conciously and all of a sudden you will be doing something like pulling back a hurt immortal and you'll just get the urge to build probes just before the last ones finish. There are always many things you can improve on, like that first attack you did at his ramp that seemed like a random decision. What were you going to gain from winning that battle? Even if you won it, you would die to the reinforcements coming straight outta his base, and you will have accomplished nothing. One of the most important decision making aspects of SC is to avoid fights you gain little or nothing from, and to force fights where you can gain something from especially in the form of your opponent losing something valueble. Just focus on Probe production though, and then change the exercise to constant concious thought under all circumstances for army unit production, and so on and so on. | ||
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Alacast
United States205 Posts
But really important stuff=don't stop making shit. You can literally get to platinum by making sure you keep making probes, don't get supply blocked, and keep your money low. You could a-click huge armies at your opponent's base in a lot of scenarios and still win because you, because of your better production, simply have more stuff. | ||
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Valnus
South Africa17 Posts
Thanks for the info, I will make sure my probe production stays on par. And my follow up question was pretty much answered by Phiinix How do I know when I have enough probes ? Thanks for the feedback guys. I am going to line up a few games and work strictly on my probe production and unit deployment | ||
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SockArms
United States591 Posts
On March 04 2012 20:30 Valnus wrote: Alacast , G_G , Phiinix Thanks for the info, I will make sure my probe production stays on par. And my follow up question was pretty much answered by Phiinix How do I know when I have enough probes ? Thanks for the feedback guys. I am going to line up a few games and work strictly on my probe production and unit deployment If I want to know my approx worker count i just box each mineral line and count in my head just don't click anywhere when you have them boxed XD I've done that with every single one of my workers once  but once you get a enough experience you can get a good idea of how many you have just by looking at your mineral lines as you have 6 in gas and about 20 looks saturated | ||
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