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GeckoVOD
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
Germany814 Posts
March 06 2013 17:46 GMT
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Epoxide
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Magic Woods9326 Posts
March 06 2013 17:50 GMT
#2
I can't get over the fact how good the bakuryu hydra is

Thanks for the guide!~
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meowmasta85
Profile Joined January 2013
721 Posts
March 06 2013 17:56 GMT
#3
This is a great minefield of information for the budding gosu bwer. Thanks for doing this!
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
March 06 2013 18:02 GMT
#4
Cool portal, great contribution !

Silly question as it seems quite obvious, but is this account an alt account of Gecko[xp] ?
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2Pacalypse-
Profile Joined October 2006
Croatia9538 Posts
March 06 2013 18:12 GMT
#5
sick sick sick guide!

On March 07 2013 03:02 endy wrote:
Cool portal, great contribution !

Silly question as it seems quite obvious, but is this account an alt account of Gecko[xp] ?

Nope, he changed his name from Gecko[Xp] to GeckoVOD.
Moderator"We're a community of geniuses because we've found how to extract 95% of the feeling of doing something amazing without actually doing anything." - Chill
GeckoVOD
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
Germany814 Posts
March 06 2013 18:16 GMT
#6
On March 07 2013 03:02 endy wrote:
Cool portal, great contribution !

Silly question as it seems quite obvious, but is this account an alt account of Gecko[xp] ?


He is my evil clone, who wants to destroy the world and replace all that is good and holy with Garena and destructible rocks. No relation to me.

Also, if there are spelling errors, typos, or whatever, or if you disagree with parts of the portal, it's on the Wiki. That means you can contribute.
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thezanursic
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
5499 Posts
March 06 2013 18:22 GMT
#7
I think these things are way to basic. It's a good intiative, but most of the "beginners" are already SC2 players and they already understand most of these basic things. When I read the thread name I assumed that drilling, muta micro, vulture micro, efficient ways of rerallying and keeping up with production, unit compositions, etc, etc.

While SC2 isn't the hardest of games it still has some depth and almost any player knows everything from the mechanics and strategy section that was displayed above. I think it's a good idea and the server listings, gateways and other non-ingame things are pretty useful for somebody that doesn't know how to even start playing.

Ohh and I never knew that you can rally your buildings with F, I never knew that although it's kkind of useless
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BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19350 Posts
March 06 2013 18:26 GMT
#8
This is awesome. I will read even with my experience. Always something to be gained.
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GeckoVOD
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
Germany814 Posts
March 06 2013 18:32 GMT
#9
On March 07 2013 03:22 thezanursic wrote:
I think these things are way to basic. It's a good intiative, but most of the "beginners" are already SC2 players and they already understand most of these basic things. When I read the thread name I assumed that drilling, muta micro, vulture micro, efficient ways of rerallying and keeping up with production, unit compositions, etc, etc.

While SC2 isn't the hardest of games it still has some depth and almost any player knows everything from the mechanics and strategy section that was displayed above. I think it's a good idea and the server listings, gateways and other non-ingame things are pretty useful for somebody that doesn't know how to even start playing.

Ohh and I never knew that you can rally your buildings with F, I never knew that although it's kkind of useless


The thing is, you never know. Way before I started to actively post at this page, I used to be a staff member at broodwar.de. We had some sort of beginner's help with an own server. You'd be surprised of how little some people knew when they first registered and tried to learn BW. So you can never be "too basic" with helps. A lot of the things that are summarized in this portal are nowhere else on Liquipedia, or at least very hard to find. The idea is to give a total rookie a glimpse and link him to the stuff you mentioned; which is already there.

I started that a year ago and a lot of people had a look over it, like Pholon, Bakuryu, 2pac, Epoxide, Tank and pPingu. However, I didn't publish it, never, because I kind of lost the interest and was caught up. The only reason I posted that now is that 2pac had a similar idea and pretty much made me post it. I hope it helps somebody someday, even though I can see your point here and I admit I had similar feelings.
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2Pacalypse-
Profile Joined October 2006
Croatia9538 Posts
March 06 2013 18:41 GMT
#10
Yeah, this is meant for absolute beginners and it's quite sad that this kind of info wasn't available anywhere before, even though it might seem like common knowledge to you.

And besides, since this is on Liquipedia anyone can start improving it and expanding it to maybe add more intermediate stuff about BW.
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TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28100 Posts
March 06 2013 18:49 GMT
#11
wow, this is great, thx Gecko
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pebble444
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Italy2503 Posts
March 06 2013 19:16 GMT
#12
I like the Sir worm, all the other images are realy cute too
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GeckoVOD
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
Germany814 Posts
March 06 2013 19:23 GMT
#13
It's a hydralisk
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TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10717 Posts
March 06 2013 19:41 GMT
#14
Good job, thanks alot for this, I think this should be spotlighted because it is a very good guide for someone who is just coming to BW from SC2, and has never played BW, which is a lot of people.
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thezanursic
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
5499 Posts
March 06 2013 19:52 GMT
#15
On March 07 2013 03:41 2Pacalypse- wrote:
Yeah, this is meant for absolute beginners and it's quite sad that this kind of info wasn't available anywhere before, even though it might seem like common knowledge to you.

And besides, since this is on Liquipedia anyone can start improving it and expanding it to maybe add more intermediate stuff about BW.

After I started the playing Bw the first problem that arose was getting my SCV out of my mineral line without bumping into others for an hour, but since I knew you could drill I quickly came to the logical conclusion that I should drill through to the gas to efficiently leave the mineral line without having to wait for the top or bottom SCV to stop mining.

These were the kinds of things that I personally struggled with properly microing my vultures and such would also have been a problem if I didn't know of liquipedia. In my opinion these are the kind of things that should be added to the ressource. If I didn't play SC2 beforehand and I didn't know that you could save screens I wouldn't save screen m production to quickly rerally and even a lot of the SC2 playerbase doesn't know that you can do this.

Personally I think that a video guide showing click by click how these things are done would be a lot of help for somebody new to BW and especially somebody who hasn't played SC2 before trying BW. I actually thought about recording these things myself, but I feel to intimidated to actually try and make something usefull not subpar content that is so often found on yt.
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sabas123
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands3122 Posts
March 06 2013 20:54 GMT
#16
wow this is really great

The harder it becomes, the more you should focus on the basics.
Stratos
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Czech Republic6104 Posts
March 06 2013 21:27 GMT
#17
Sweet. Let's all bookmark this and remember to link the newbies. GJ Gecko!
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dRaW
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada5744 Posts
March 06 2013 21:47 GMT
#18
gecko really appreciate it, but why didn't you do my chemistry homework?
I don't need luck, luck is for noobs, good luck to you though
hydrogg
Profile Joined September 2011
United States377 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-03-06 22:55:52
March 06 2013 22:55 GMT
#19
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Portal:Beginners/Gateways#PVPGN_Realms

"The currently biggest portals using this system are ICCup, the Korean FISH Server and the Chinese VS platform."

Isn't VS platform Simulated LAN and not a PVPGN Realm? Or am I wrong?
amatoer
Profile Joined January 2008
Germany212 Posts
March 06 2013 23:36 GMT
#20
the concept looks familiar...
I'm a little surprised that I never heard of the hidden replay commands before. And they work without any additional tool? Were they implemented with some patch or have they been there since the beginning of time?
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