Since there's a brand new season of CPL coming, I figured it was a good time to start working on super basic tutorial videos for players just starting out.
I realize I'm not an authority on much, but I'm hoping I'm hitting lessons that are pretty barebones and easy for people to process.
Let me know what you think, this is my first go at it:
I used to do a lot of these types of tutorials for Heroes and newer players reallllly liked them. Hopefully as the tutorials go on, it will jumpstart some players! Or attract new ones!
don't feel like i'm hijacking the thread, but i did something similar a few years ago on topics that aren't too intense rally pointing, larva moving and unit stacking. hopefully this can add to the video pool for scrubs.
Great vid, keep em coming! One trick I really like is box selecting scvs, shift right clicking to mine, that'll make only the idle selected scvs mine without disrupting any mining scvs in the selection.
People in BW are honest/straightforward, good content is good content. The stuff you talk about doesn't require you to be 3000 mmr but it's still really important nonetheless, they're foundation blocks. There's plenty of other stuff u can talk about as well, its def. good material for newer players.
Pretty good video. The only thing I noticed is that you say shift-clicking a couple of times which is ambiguous for new people. It would be more precise to say shift-right clicking.
Very nice. Condensed information, understandably presented.
My ideas for a follow-up video about advanced worker techniques:
- how to hold-position workers - how to use the mineral-walk to drill - how to use (shift+)mineral-walk to get past a unit-blocked path - how to use single workers to attack efficiently (chasing a scouting-worker) - why you should (almost) always only cue up one worker at a time - how to use the "glitching over a building"-behaviour when you tell an SCV to stop building something (get it past a full wall-off; "dodge" an attacking unit) - how to dance your workers like Boxer
Just a minor thing: As you chose to go over quite a lot of stuff to work with for newcomers in the last video (which I think is great for the really determined ones), you could also have covered the shift+number function. That one is so convenient for adding your current selection of units to an existing control-group, e.g. to quickly merge two groups of roaming vultures that caught up to each other.
Yeah my next videos probably will go over cool micro things just to keep people interested, but i will eventually go over "improving your macro" (remember, again, targeted towards newbs)