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I want to record some of my thoughts here since I basically forget and have the same thoughts over and over again. Since improvement is a long term goal, it would be good to use proven memory techniques to learn and recall information that is important to how the game is played.
Broadly, I want to record several different things:
1. Lessons I've learned from practice so I don't have to lose many times to learn them again.
2. Lessons I've learned from watching pros so I don't have to make the same mistakes or wonder how to beat a given build.
3. Some untested strategies that I've been wondering about that nobody ever does. Why not just try them?
An example of a lesson from practice is I never do the big drop strategy when facing a late Terran mech switch so my drops are always weak zergling bombs and that never really stops a meching Terran completely. So I need to either take out a base with a huge drop or the factories. I do prefer the hydra/queen switch vs. mech late in the game, but maybe it's because my drop game sucks.
An example of a lesson I've learned from watching Soulkey is he tried to kill a bunker with one marine in it with just drones and lost too much. If he just went past the bunker with the drones and waited ~15s for lings he would have lost much less, maybe a couple of lings only instead of a couple of drones
An example of an untested strategy is to just put defilers into overlords. For 200 gas you can keep them safe from irradiate. Wonder why nobody has ever tried it defensively and keeps losing defilers. Pays for itself after stopping 2 irradiates.
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There's actually been some players who do the overlord drop with defilers to avoid irradiate. As a Terran, it's the most annoying thing in the world. But usually the first few vessels will kill the defilers no matter what, all your gas is being used for upgrades, defilers, and lurkers, so it's hard to justify the 200 gas spend on it for those first few moments when Terran has vessels with irradiate as you scramble to set up and transition into the late game. After that though, I think it's a legitimate play and should be utilized more, and also gives you the option to do doom drops into their main later on.
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losing a defiler is 150 gas already, hard to justify constantly making new ones
my idea is not to doom drop, but just to walk into their base and instead of just fighting, popping out and dropping swarms everywhere
like take an overlord and just put two defilers in it, cast swarm and just pop them back into the overlord
I've never seen this done
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I forgot to mention, I've been working on my mouse accuracy and speed. I settled on 1200 DPI which might be a little high for accuracy (maybe 1000 DPI is optimal for 1080p) but it's better for scrolling around like when you're trying to catch fleeing zealots with mutalisks or trying to run away from scourge doing backshots
My splits are noticeably better vs. 1600 DPI so I'm definitely closer to optimal
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On June 09 2025 03:19 iopq wrote:
I forgot to mention, I've been working on my mouse accuracy and speed. I settled on 1200 DPI which might be a little high for accuracy (maybe 1000 DPI is optimal for 1080p) but it's better for scrolling around like when you're trying to catch fleeing zealots with mutalisks or trying to run away from scourge doing backshots
My splits are noticeably better vs. 1600 DPI so I'm definitely closer to optimal
why not 800 like 90%+++ of pros?
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On June 10 2025 04:00 XenOsky wrote:Show nested quote +On June 09 2025 03:19 iopq wrote:
I forgot to mention, I've been working on my mouse accuracy and speed. I settled on 1200 DPI which might be a little high for accuracy (maybe 1000 DPI is optimal for 1080p) but it's better for scrolling around like when you're trying to catch fleeing zealots with mutalisks or trying to run away from scourge doing backshots
My splits are noticeably better vs. 1600 DPI so I'm definitely closer to optimal
why not 800 like 90%+++ of pros?
Because I want to decrease wrist strain. Many of pros experience wrist pain because they all do the same thing
EDIT: besides, I'm already at a decent level
https://mission-red.com/reflexte/
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Are those pros getting significantly higher scores than me?
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this is where I am in grid shot on aimlabs
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On June 09 2025 03:19 iopq wrote:
I forgot to mention, I've been working on my mouse accuracy and speed. I settled on 1200 DPI which might be a little high for accuracy (maybe 1000 DPI is optimal for 1080p) but it's better for scrolling around like when you're trying to catch fleeing zealots with mutalisks or trying to run away from scourge doing backshots
My splits are noticeably better vs. 1600 DPI so I'm definitely closer to optimal
Hey IOPQ, would you happen to know what happens when the resolution changes for both a good dpi and also impact on the magic box?
My main monitor is 1440p, should i just force it to 1080p for bw instead? If i keep 1440p, are you aware of some setting changes i d need to do? I m currently using a 1600dpi + 65% scaling. It "feels" somewhat similar to 800 dpi no scaling for some reason (in 1440p)
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On July 15 2025 00:20 WGT-Baal wrote:Show nested quote +On June 09 2025 03:19 iopq wrote:
I forgot to mention, I've been working on my mouse accuracy and speed. I settled on 1200 DPI which might be a little high for accuracy (maybe 1000 DPI is optimal for 1080p) but it's better for scrolling around like when you're trying to catch fleeing zealots with mutalisks or trying to run away from scourge doing backshots
My splits are noticeably better vs. 1600 DPI so I'm definitely closer to optimal
Hey IOPQ, would you happen to know what happens when the resolution changes for both a good dpi and also impact on the magic box? My main monitor is 1440p, should i just force it to 1080p for bw instead? If i keep 1440p, are you aware of some setting changes i d need to do? I m currently using a 1600dpi + 65% scaling. It "feels" somewhat similar to 800 dpi no scaling for some reason (in 1440p)
but what do you mean by 65% scaling? In game you should be using default settings with hardware cursor
set the DPI to be exactly to the value you want and don't mess with it (no windows sensitivity adjustments other than setting it to 1:1 [on windows 7 it was 6 ticks out of 11] and no enhanced pointer precision), so if you played at 800 DPI on 1080p you should use 1066 DPI on 1440p, you don't need to set the resolution of the game lower
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An example of an untested strategy is to just put defilers into overlords. For 200 gas you can keep them safe from irradiate. Wonder why nobody has ever tried it defensively and keeps losing defilers. Pays for itself after stopping 2 irradiates.
Actually seen EffOrt hide defilers in Overlords at least 5 years back... Seen others do it too but it stuck out to me when he did it because he was consistently doing it throughout the game. Not just 1-2 off and giving up later because too many other things to do.
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On July 16 2025 19:29 LUCKY_NOOB wrote:Show nested quote +[B]
An example of an untested strategy is to just put defilers into overlords. For 200 gas you can keep them safe from irradiate. Wonder why nobody has ever tried it defensively and keeps losing defilers. Pays for itself after stopping 2 irradiates. Actually seen EffOrt hide defilers in Overlords at least 5 years back... Seen others do it too but it stuck out to me when he did it because he was consistently doing it throughout the game. Not just 1-2 off and giving up later because too many other things to do.
If you can find the VOD/replay that would be amazing
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ah oops wrong iopq thread lol...
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one thing I thought of to work on are my keyboard fingerings
so for the 5dh6dh7dhg8dh9dh0dh hydra spam (I bound larva to d because smaller hands) I used to use two fingers, but I realized I could do index on the top row, pinky on d and middle finger on h
all I have to do is practice this exact fingering until it's effortless and improve my larva utilization all game long
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2 fingers user here. Tried the 3 fingers method but gave up. What i did was changing Hydra to S.
now i just press 5ss6ss7ss8ss9ss0ss . Conveniently was also a good change cuz u will make accidentally scourges. So i put scourges on E to avoid making them. Honestly there is a lot of good optimizations you can do. But is suicide to do all those changes at once lol.
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On August 02 2025 05:40 [sc1f]eonzerg wrote:
2 fingers user here. Tried the 3 fingers method but gave up. What i did was changing Hydra to S.
now i just press 5ss6ss7ss8ss9ss0ss . Conveniently was also a good change cuz u will make accidentally scourges. So i put scourges on E to avoid making them. Honestly there is a lot of good optimizations you can do. But is suicide to do all those changes at once lol.
I set scourge to u for this reason, but d is drone so I can spam drones at the start
But d for hydra might make more sense, since you make them longer and making drones on accident can be really bad when panic spamming
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