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Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
February 12 2009 22:42 GMT
#1
Hey!

At the moment I'm at a LAN in my school over the holiday. It's just a small LAN with around 50 people, anyway: They had a one vs one tournament in Dawn of War, which I had never played before. I thought why not participate? I got the game from a dude and got through the tutorial, and then played a few games vs some at the LAN. I won the most of my matches. Then the tournament started and I won every single one of my games. In the end I won the tournament, with the final match being a bo3 with commentator and the game showed on big screen.

And this was the day after I even started playing the game. I defeated people who had played the game for over a year. I noticed they didn't use hotkeys or sometimes not even the keyboard at all.

Starcraft skillz > all

***
Lim Yo Hwan forever!
TonyL2
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
England1953 Posts
February 12 2009 22:47 GMT
#2
Grats, good for showing them who's boss
besiger
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
Croatia2452 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-12 22:50:51
February 12 2009 22:50 GMT
#3
1v1 in DoW right now ! il show you whats what, space marine power \m/
I even use a keyboard.
A weak will coupled with delusions of grandeur
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
February 12 2009 22:55 GMT
#4
haha.
They are probably tools thinking that starcraft is a stupid ugly game with no strategy involved.
Glad you raped them with 0 experience and pure mechanics.

WE ARE THE ELITE OF GAMING
:D
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
February 12 2009 23:05 GMT
#5
yeah.. i rip up most of the other rts nerds too :D try playing company of heroes... wow people are so bad.
minus_human
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
4784 Posts
February 12 2009 23:08 GMT
#6
That's great. congrats.It would be so cool if you could explain to them just HOW to got such an upper hand, and use that as an argument to why Starcraft is sooo much better that any other crappy RTS.
minus_human
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
4784 Posts
February 12 2009 23:10 GMT
#7
Show them Starcraft, and show them at what blazing speeds this game is played. Then explain that you're actually a huge noob when it comes to comparing with the average A- Korean training on Iccup (of which there are hundreds!)
PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
February 12 2009 23:12 GMT
#8
haha...the importance of mechanics in SC really does make it that much more challenging and deep a game. You don't really need to nearly as technical as you do with SC...it just comes down to learning that game's balance (or imbalance) and the theory/strategy and whatnot.

I noticed that with other games I tried as well...

We SC players are the pretentious elitsts of the RTS world.
Hello
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
February 12 2009 23:14 GMT
#9
STARCRAFT 4 LYFFFFFFFFFFFF
Graphicssavior[gm] : What is a “yawn” rape ;; Masumune - It was the year of the pig for those fucking defilers. Chill - A clinic you say? okum: SC without Korean yelling is like porn without sex. konamix: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!
il0seonpurpose
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5638 Posts
February 12 2009 23:26 GMT
#10
NICE! Win any cash?
Atrioc
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States1865 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-12 23:31:59
February 12 2009 23:31 GMT
#11
Haha i've been doing this same thing on every single RTS game that has come out in years and I'm only D+/C- at Starcraft

I've got this trademark thing (among friends / at LANs) of making a "3 day promise" - you pick an RTS game and even though I've never played it I will beat you at it in 3 days guaranteed. Worked for cocky assholes at Age of Empires III, Company of Heroes, Dawn of War, Empire Earth, etc.

It even works on Warcraft III (though this one is by far the closest to SC in terms of depth and much more difficult to use) I gave my friend who had been playing the game for YEARS and had thousands of 1v1 wins a "1 month promise" to see if i could beat him by the end of the month. When the time came I won 2-1 in a Bo3 and then proceeded to beat him again 7-0 a month later.

SC is seriously the most skill intensive game basically ever made. Only some hardcore fighting games are of similiar depth.
Writerman what
emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
February 12 2009 23:34 GMT
#12
Exactly this, I played DoW online for about 3 days and lost my first game, then won nine in a row. I haven't played online again, it was just too easy- Starcraft is so much more fun.
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boesthius
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States11637 Posts
February 12 2009 23:36 GMT
#13
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Piy
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Scotland3152 Posts
February 12 2009 23:40 GMT
#14
Lol, i did the same thing with Rise of Nations a few years ago and Dawn of War a little while back at some local LANs.

Problem is I don't think I can find RTS games fun like the others anymore, always want to work out my build and make everything perfect until I don't need to think when I play

Oh wells, at least I'm shallow enough to enjoy winning
My. Copy. Is. Here.
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
February 12 2009 23:51 GMT
#15
On February 13 2009 08:31 Atrioc wrote:
Only some hardcore fighting games are of similiar depth.


Quake 3 has a insane skill level as well.
Lim Yo Hwan forever!
Piy
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Scotland3152 Posts
February 12 2009 23:51 GMT
#16
oh and unreal tournament, some of those vids on source-movies were mindblowing
My. Copy. Is. Here.
liger13
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1060 Posts
February 12 2009 23:52 GMT
#17
lol.. no hotkeys?...
i remember some1 brining DoW to class and us playing a few games...
it was sooooo slowwwww.... but stil fun for a few games....
glad you won imo
I feel like pwning noobs
PocketX
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
53 Posts
February 13 2009 00:03 GMT
#18
I don't completely agree that playing sc was the reason for your win. It is definitely your passion and influence from the pro scene that made you understand the importance of mechanics. I'm pretty sure a decent wc3 player who follows the pro scene can do the same in your situation, perhaps beating a player up to D+ after giving him 3 days of practice (like your scenario)

The thing is, there are many who play sc for years and remain noob (play lots of team match/ums without goal to improve). And sadly, these players should be accounted as sc players as well and ppl who have mechanics from other games can just steamroll over them too. Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about people who play hardcore on bgh/fastest (they have their own sets of skills), but I'm just saying you are simply the better player overall and sc was only helpful because there's a well established pro scene.

congrats of the win though
Zoler
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Sweden6339 Posts
February 13 2009 00:09 GMT
#19
On February 13 2009 09:03 PocketX wrote:
I don't completely agree that playing sc was the reason for your win. It is definitely your passion and influence from the pro scene that made you understand the importance of mechanics. I'm pretty sure a decent wc3 player who follows the pro scene can do the same in your situation, perhaps beating a player up to D+ after giving him 3 days of practice (like your scenario)

The thing is, there are many who play sc for years and remain noob (play lots of team match/ums without goal to improve). And sadly, these players should be accounted as sc players as well and ppl who have mechanics from other games can just steamroll over them too. Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about people who play hardcore on bgh/fastest (they have their own sets of skills), but I'm just saying you are simply the better player overall and sc was only helpful because there's a well established pro scene.

congrats of the win though


I don't agree. No game has even close to the mechanical skill requirement that SC has.
Lim Yo Hwan forever!
AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7474 Posts
February 13 2009 00:10 GMT
#20
The only games that broodwar doesn't help me are CS Quake and street fighter, Each of those I had to learn an entirely different set of mechanics and ... well everything to excell at.

I do find a very cordinated left hand can give you alot of cheesy options in fps.

Binding, double knife kills and sniper/Deagle/Sniper being the ones I can think of the most.

Good job.

I did the same with with aoe 1 and 2 at lans. I didn't even use hotkeys nearly as much as I just build like 20-30 farms -> pure scout -> wall people in.
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