[G]Getting Friends into SC:BW - Page 2

TechniQ.UK

United Kingdom391 Posts

February 24 2009 18:30 GMT

#21

What UMS maps would you guys recommend I play with him.

It will need to be something fun that won't really require much apm because this was my first day playing with him and he was like..........soooooo slow and didnt spend at all however he got 8 pylon 10 gateway whilst constantly pumping probes down.

So I guess it went quite well and he knows how to hotkey.

s.a.y

Croatia3840 Posts

February 24 2009 19:20 GMT

#22

i got my girlfriend to play also.

she has a lot of motivation, but also, lack of time.

she thought it was cool because:

1. SC is totally underground
2. Speed in which pro players play
3. SC superstars
4. Me constantly bringing up Korea

to bring a player into SC, they have to have some kind of a competitive spirit. its all it takes.

JWD

United States12607 Posts

February 24 2009 19:34 GMT

#23

Grobyc, you are one of my favorite TL.net posters. Serious. It's not like every post you make blows me away, but you always have something sensible to say and you write in complete sentences.

Intervigilium

5 Posts

February 24 2009 21:37 GMT

#24

actually, you need to know if your friend is a casual or hardcore player. I had one casual player friend who I needed to show him all the basics, and play a lot of comp-stomp and UMS for him to start to enjoy the game. and I also had one hardcore player, I tried the same method but he wasn't enjoying, so I show him some FPVODs and told him about all the korean progaming stuff and he started to download replays, play agains people on bnet, and in the end he enjoyed even more than the casual player friend.

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

February 25 2009 00:33 GMT

#25

On February 25 2009 04:34 JWD wrote:
Grobyc, you are one of my favorite TL.net posters. Serious. It's not like every post you make blows me away, but you always have something sensible to say and you write in complete sentences.

Thank you

And yeah, once in a while I gotta do a little trolling or something haha.

On February 25 2009 03:30 TechniQ.UK wrote:
What UMS maps would you guys recommend I play with him.

It will need to be something fun that won't really require much apm because this was my first day playing with him and he was like..........soooooo slow and didnt spend at all however he got 8 pylon 10 gateway whilst constantly pumping probes down.

So I guess it went quite well and he knows how to hotkey.

It sounds like it's going good then. My friend really enjoys 'Special Forces(Legends usually)', defenses are pretty good, he likes random micro, ive told him about builders and fighters but he hasn't yet tried them so I don't know about that quite too much. Mostly games where he doesn't have to concentrate on a bunch of things going on in the map or multitask too much(like diplomacy or golems for example; In Special forces he just focuses on his one powerful unit, rarely has to do anything else other than upgrade and build more units(which are easy to do with the click of a hotkey), With random micro he is able to learn the various uses and abilities of units and doesn't have to take his eyes off the screen for anything else, etc. You could also try 'Evolves', an RPG, or a bound.

Choros

Australia530 Posts

February 25 2009 01:06 GMT

#26

My advice, throw games to them. Noobs are not clever enough to notice how rediculously stupid it was for you to suicide your entire army, and they sure do appreciate the win and it encourages them to play on. Getting pwned just makes you give up. This is what I did and it worked to get a friend of mine into it, now I dont throw games I need to work hard to get the win.

And do some 2v2 3v3 or whatever against the AI, use entropy 2 from broodwar ai which is stronger than the stock ai and doesnt do lame things like 4 pool and zelot rush, this also helped get my friends into it. When your noob friends can defeat entropy 2 then use Ahzz as it cheats but is not too hard to beat. After this they should have enough skill to atleast have some idea what there doing in 1v1 games against a person.

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