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Starshaped
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Sweden575 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-01 23:22:58
May 01 2012 23:19 GMT
#1
Yo!

I quit playing SC2 a while back, and apparently if you don't play any games at all during a season your MMR gets reset. Coincidentally, I had recently been itchin' to play some SC2, but I wanted to play a new race and I feared my old rank 1 master Terran MMR wouldn't let me enjoy the learning experience.

So I was quite happy to find 5 placement matches staring back at me as I entered battle.net. Zerg was chosen, because apparently during my absence a complete unknown had made some upsets at IPL 4 with Zerg and it really inspired me. Also because playing Protoss makes me want to stab myself repeatedly in the face. Anyway, games were played and platinum was achieved. I hadn't played Zerg since beta, and I didn't think my old 1base muta or 1base hydra builds would do me much good in today's SC2, so I just improvised every game and in that one day ended up rank 1 diamond. "Pretty good," I thought.

However, master league would probably require build orders and timings, I thought, so I looked into some top Zerg replays and streams and picked up some modern styles to base my play off of. My goal at the beginning was to abuse mutalisks and spine crawlers as much as possible. I can't really explain why, but I just wanted to. Sadly, I found out that mutalisks aren't used much these days, but I still use them every now and then in ZvT and the occasional base-race ZvP. I use them every ZvZ, though (at least the ones that reach mid-game), even though I rarely see anyone else do it. I think it's really strong and solid, but maybe I'll be proven wrong in the future.

I was massing games like crazy, day after day, but still I found myself struggling at certain points, and I found a tremendous help here on TL, specifically the Zerg "Help Me" thread. I also found out how much more taxing it was for my computer when I played Zerg. My computer is awful and lags/spikes like crazy beyond the very early stages of the game, so I had always played mech Terran to not only avoid lag (by having fewer units) but to also reduce the need for late-game micro. All those lings and all that creep really slowed down the game for me, and I can't tell you how many games I've lost simply because my computer can't handle it. I can't wait to get a new one and start playing properly... Let me tell you, dealing with Terran drops or Protoss storms or even baneling wars in ZvZ is so incredibly frustrating on this computer.

Anyway! I kept massing games, eventually meeting only masters, even being favoured against masters, but I never got promoted. Days went by and I started losing faith. Would Blizzard never give me back that shiny masters emblem? In the end I was kind of frustrated, and decided to just play Terran to more quickly get promoted (and to see how my Terran compared to my Zerg MMR).

A small Terran win-streak later and there it was: Promotion! I'm currently rank 4 master, and started off 2 weeks ago rank ~80 platinum.

Obviously this isn't all too impressive since I was top master previously, only with a different race, but I'm still kind of happy about it. Now the only question is what race I should stick to. Those few Terran games at the end really reminded me how much I miss my old mech units, and TvT is leaps and bounds ahead of ZvZ in my opinion. But Zerg is a lot of fun, too. Maybe I'll just switch between the two, at least for now.

Long, pointless rant over.

Oh, and I feel surprisingly cold and empty inside after getting promoted. I guess it's not the destination that matters, but rather the journey itself... Well, let's keep the journey going then; next stop: GM!

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My Starcraft 2, gaming and e-sports-related blog: http://starshapedthoughts.blogspot.com/
Zombo Joe
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada850 Posts
May 01 2012 23:35 GMT
#2
Good luck, I used to have the same issues as you with performance, only with bio your screen freezes for 5 seconds and your entire army is dead to Protoss/Banelings/Fungals. Good call for playing mech, its what goody does, I swear he plays at like 20 fps.
I am Terranfying.
MacroPLZ
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States63 Posts
May 01 2012 23:42 GMT
#3
I also went Terran to Zerg and have never looked back. However, in your case, and with your comp always giving out on you mid-game, Maybe moonlight as a terran til you get a machine capable of really trying em out. Eihther way, congrats and welcome back to SC2. If you have some terran game where you went mech, I would love to cast them.

Cheers!
No excuses, only excellence. check out my caster page here: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=331796
Coramoor
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Canada455 Posts
May 02 2012 00:17 GMT
#4
rank isn't important, it's points that are important, seeing as you would be in a new division and therefore probably a weak one, but other than that, good to see more players coming back
eourcs
Profile Joined February 2011
United States459 Posts
May 02 2012 00:20 GMT
#5
Not to rain on your parade, but usually when someone gets promoted in the middle of a season, they get promoted to a division that is either not full or substantially easier than other divisions so ranks are kind of meaningless.

Regardless, congrats!
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achristes
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Norway653 Posts
May 02 2012 02:06 GMT
#6
Grr, I want masters, been playing sc2 since S1 and have been Diamond for 3 consecutive seasons now.
BLIZZARD, GIVE THAT DAMN PROMOTION!

Congrats BTW
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Zealos
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United Kingdom3575 Posts
May 02 2012 10:41 GMT
#7
Getting masters is hard. And I kinda cheated, I was high diamond, then got a friend to use my account to get me into masters. Funnily enough, ever since, I've been beating masters perfectly easily, at around 60% winrate o,O
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