EPTBest way to begin getting into Brood War? - Page 3
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disqMt
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infinity2k9
United Kingdom2397 Posts
If you're totally new though i suggest playing through the SP, and playing some games against CPU on iccup maps to get used to the game first. With no matchmaking most people on the ladder are going to be decent at the game and looking to win so it won't be much fun starting out unless you play the game quite a bit first. | ||
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Xenocide_Knight
Korea (South)2625 Posts
A lot of people say that it will give you bad habits but it's tons of fun and will get you aquainted with all of the units/races. Unless you've already done that in which case just watch progames and find friends to play with. Op Teamliquid usually has a some people chillin in it. (most are afk though). On May 02 2011 09:01 disqMt wrote: Hey can anyone help me out? I just got Starcraft BW, and i am having a hard time figuring out how to 1v1. All i see is custom games. How do i ladder? If you are talking about iCCup, you want to go under the "one vs one" tab or the "top vs bottom" tabs. Those are the ranked games. | ||
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infinity2k9
United Kingdom2397 Posts
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MageKirby
United States535 Posts
Also, when any of my friends wanna start StarCraft, I always start them off with protoss, even if they want to learn zerg or terran. Protoss is easier to handle from start due to it's less micro intensive and more durable units, and by slowly learning ProtossvsDesiredRace, you learn some in's and out's of the game. After you are somewhat comfortable with the game, then you can move to the race you want. | ||
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funnybananaman
United States830 Posts
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kainzero
United States5211 Posts
also if you can, watch proleague streams with chat, you learn a bit since it's more like live commentary and most people are pretty educated when they watch. most people. | ||
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_Quasar_
Russian Federation4405 Posts
- Podolsk server. It's a russian server that's joked about in russian community (like, if u play bad, they call you "podolsk noob" XDDDD ). That's an exaggeration, but yeah, there's much lower level than on Iccup. You can get your first 1v1 win there  - Garena. Need to install garena launcher, then enter garena system, choose the room, run the game and play in the menu option of "UDP game" (as Garena emulates LAN). Probably the place with the lowest skill of players, not all have even 1.16.1 version... so there're probably many people like you, who just started SC or play veeery casually. If you want to have fun with just your present level, you can go there | ||
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Requisition
United States97 Posts
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kainzero
United States5211 Posts
i quit because i went 11-42 on iccup 2 years ago, and i think all my wins were against D- players or TvTs. also i think my TvZ record was like 1-18, with my lone win coming off a guy who did 1 hatch lurkers. i really would love a place where i can relax and play BW without having to practice build orders and building placement for weeks, just to eke out a win. then i can finally kiss SC2 goodbye. | ||
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BYAHH
United States20 Posts
But getting good at bw? It takes a lot of deep thought and understanding. Once you have a build order figured out and everything and you think you know a lot from all the pro VODs you have watched, don't ever forget to watch your own replays - especially the games you lost. Sometimes why you lost may be very apparant (i.e. vs some sort of cheese you didn't scout) but it's still important to confirm why you lost and reflect on what you should have done, given the limited information you had. You should also make sure you understand what your goal is whenever you play. When you learn a BO, usually there's some sort of goal behind it - whether it is to set you up for a big late game or some sort of timing push. I think Ver may have mentioned this in his guide to get better, but you should watch pro vods and stop the video at crucial moments and guess what the player is going to do. Then you unpause and see if he did what you thought he'd do, and then think about why. Making the correct decisions is make or break when you're trying to win games on iccup. | ||
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Coraz
United States252 Posts
On May 01 2011 03:29 maybenexttime wrote: http://www.teamliquid.net/vods/ http://www.youtube.com/user/nevake http://sc.plu.cn/vod/ ;] Hi!!! How do I navigate the chinese site? when I click on a VOD i get a black flash applet and nothing loads. Do I need an account to view vods? | ||
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.AK
United States561 Posts
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knyttym
United States5797 Posts
Learning terran is like smashing your head against a brick wall in hopes that the wall will crumble. About a month in your head will harden ever so slightly. A year in, you develop a helmet. But the pain.... the pain is always present. *Flashback to all those DT drops* Seriously though, build refinement is absolutely key. Executing a simple build order is going to be harder then you first anticipate. Terran at low ranks is all about defending the gimmick whether it be bulldog, DT drop, or 2 hatch lurkers. | ||
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Sawamura
Malaysia7602 Posts
On May 01 2011 05:32 IntoTheheart wrote: I'm not sure if anyone else's said this,but units are really really REALLY stupid in BW. In SC2 they're not as bad so they'll move wherever you need them to without extra clicks, but BW units don't have this intelligence. Also, tanks/lurkers/units in general won't have the smart-fire which means that they'll focus-fire everything. If it's been said before, I'm really sorry, haha. Just bear that in mind. The thing is with sc2 players they want everything to be automated in terms of micro and macro that they only want to make decision how damn boring if i can't control my unit and my units will just micro themselves out of battle and not user dependent probably for you guys they are smart and because of that the players get lazy he doesn't watch his unit properly he just 1a2a and gg compared to broodwar you have to babysit unit and macro at the same time . . Bw is much more lively compared to boring sc2 unit which has no live or any interesting skill. Seriously that is my opinion with units so bland every time i watch a sc2 game i fall asleep. | ||
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buhhy
United States1113 Posts
On May 03 2011 13:44 Coraz wrote: Hi!!! How do I navigate the chinese site? when I click on a VOD i get a black flash applet and nothing loads. Do I need an account to view vods? You don't need an account. It should load though, is noscript blocking the flash player or something? | ||
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Requisition
United States97 Posts
On May 03 2011 14:04 kNyTTyM wrote: Do you want to play casually and win some of the time? Choose protoss Learning terran is like smashing your head against a brick wall in hopes that the wall will crumble. About a month in your head will harden ever so slightly. A year in, you develop a helmet. But the pain.... the pain is always present. *Flashback to all those DT drops* Seriously though, build refinement is absolutely key. Executing a simple build order is going to be harder then you first anticipate. Terran at low ranks is all about defending the gimmick whether it be bulldog, DT drop, or 2 hatch lurkers. Any gimmicks to fear from my fellow Terrans? | ||
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aimaimaim
Philippines2167 Posts
Thats the 1st time I became addicted to BW and stopped following Dota and WC3. :D | ||
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Requisition
United States97 Posts
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Snipinpanda
United States1227 Posts
On May 07 2011 08:33 Requisition wrote: aimaimaim, do you have any recommendations of progames that helped you get into BW? http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=190074 are all very good games. If you want want english commentated games, there should be vods on the gomtv site of gom classic? Also I believe nukethestars on youtube does them,or if back in 2007-08 there were also a bunch. | ||
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