EPTto answer the question, practice heaps and you will understand why theyre that fast. when all they do is play starcraft everyday stretching their hands across the keyboard becomes as easy as a pianist playing beginner pieces.
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evilfatsh1t
Australia8913 Posts
to answer the question, practice heaps and you will understand why theyre that fast. when all they do is play starcraft everyday stretching their hands across the keyboard becomes as easy as a pianist playing beginner pieces. | ||
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herozour
142 Posts
On October 20 2013 23:33 icystorage wrote: he's referring to how fast they can hotkey with only using your left hand. the sequence is f2 -> ctrl + 0 he's asking how do they do it so fast (since your thumb should be reaching accross the keyboard) im thinking is they're using the right hand side ctrl? They do. I seen boxer do it in a video as well as day9 talked about it. Thumb on right CTRL and point finger on 8,9,0 But you could just hotkey it in a more peaceful time so they are already bound to the hotkeys so when there is battle you just click 0 and then left click on scan button. It is big distance between 0 and S so it's faster to actually press sweeper with a mouse. To speed things up you can position camera above the scanning area so that it takes less time to reach scanning area from scan button with a mouse. Or you can just press 0 and then move left hand to S and press it while keeping mouse above scanning area and be ready to scan once hotkey is pressed. Whatever makes your party going. | ||
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juvenal
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herozour
142 Posts
On October 21 2013 00:38 juvenal wrote: Thank you everyone! Basically the rule 'when you see something unbelievable being performed by a men - it's all about 10000hrs practice' applies. Just practice is not enough. You need to optimize things and look for smart solutions. | ||
sabas123
Netherlands3122 Posts
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herozour
142 Posts
On October 22 2013 05:08 sabas123 wrote: what is a proper way to deny cannon contain when going 3hatch vs 2gate Get bunch of Zerglings and hydras and pwn those cannons?  | ||
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sabas123
Netherlands3122 Posts
On October 22 2013 05:17 herozour wrote: Get bunch of Zerglings and hydras and pwn those cannons? you have to remember that you will most likely have something like 16 lings against 7 zeals at maxs when he starts to cannons and you don't have any hydras | ||
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traceurling
United States1240 Posts
On October 22 2013 06:02 sabas123 wrote: you have to remember that you will most likely have something like 16 lings against 7 zeals at maxs when he starts to cannons and you don't have any hydras Do you have replay? Micro like a mofo and try to whittle down his zealot number keep pumping speedlings as necessary and dash into to snipe any cannon that starts building...to be honest I've never dealt with a 2 gate -> cannon contain so I'd need to watch a replay... | ||
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herozour
142 Posts
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Dead9
United States4725 Posts
youre on 2 bases and 3hat the p is on 1base with 2gates and a forge cannon contain. watch for when he gasses with your overlord so you know his tech timing, keep making sunks if he doesnt gas for a while | ||
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Qikz
United Kingdom12043 Posts
What's the best way/quickest way to change the rally points of all my factories late game so I can rally closer to my army? It takes me forever and I'm sure there must be a quicker way, it's just when I watch Sea/Ssak/Mind and Mong they seem to do it instantaniously and I can't work out how :p | ||
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Dead9
United States4725 Posts
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Qikz
United Kingdom12043 Posts
On October 23 2013 05:57 Dead9 wrote: location hotkeys, shift+f2~f4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e18ancDxBUE Thanks, I need to practice that. ^^ | ||
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ninazerg
United States7291 Posts
On October 22 2013 05:08 sabas123 wrote: what is a proper way to deny cannon contain when going 3hatch vs 2gate If you see this happening, here's what you need to do: First, get a couple of sunken colonies at your front. Don't worry if there is a cannon warping in range of the morphing sunken, because a sunken colony will definitely kill a cannon. You want to gradually add sunken colonies to your front as the game progresses, but not all at once. Second, don't get your gas right away. Get a fourth hatchery and an evolution chamber. This is because you will be spending a lot of money powering drones and getting zerglings/sunkens as needed. The evolution chamber is to make a spore colony, and eventually to get your +1 whatever upgrade. If he sees you are turtling up, his most likely course of action will be to go mass corsair to stop you from dropping or going mutalisks. Step three (this is optional, because if he does a cannon contain like that, he will be behind in economy if you drone up): get your gas, then get +1 ranged attack, then get lair. When the lair is finished, start researching your drop tech and get a hydralisk den. You should start pumping out a lot of hydralisks, and getting upgrades for speed/range/lurker, in that order. Actually, you get lurker first, but if he sees a huge bunch of slow hydras for awhile, he might get suspicious. I really recommend hydra first, especially for if he does something gay like building a robotics facility at the cannon line to make reavers to siege down your sunken colonies. Once the overlord drop is done, wait until the corsairs are away, and load up the hydralisks, then drop them over your wall to the outside. Then run over and kill his natural. Once you do this, he should end up pulling all of the zealots back to defend, and once that happens, you can knock down his cannon contain. | ||
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greatnoob
Hungary50 Posts
Could someone give me some tips what to do? I've forwarded some ports on my router config page (6112,6115,6119), added brood war as an exception to the windows firewall, but still nothing. | ||
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doubleupgradeobbies!
Australia1344 Posts
On October 23 2013 12:03 greatnoob wrote: I am unable to connect to battle.net servers with brood war. Could someone give me some tips what to do? I've forwarded some ports on my router config page (6112,6115,6119), added brood war as an exception to the windows firewall, but still nothing. Do you have a legit copy of broodwar? The one you dl off iccup doesn't have a valid cd key, so doesn't work for official bnet servers. If you do have a legit copy, how exactly are you not able to connect? Do the servers not show up in the server list? Is there an error message when you try to connect? You havn't really given us enough information to work with. | ||
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greatnoob
Hungary50 Posts
On October 23 2013 17:28 doubleupgradeobbies! wrote: Do you have a legit copy of broodwar? The one you dl off iccup doesn't have a valid cd key, so doesn't work for official bnet servers. If you do have a legit copy, how exactly are you not able to connect? Do the servers not show up in the server list? Is there an error message when you try to connect? You havn't really given us enough information to work with. Well I'm not sure what I have to tell you. But here are the answers to your questions: - I have legit copy. - The servers show up in server list. - There is an error message when I try to connect. (forgot what it was sorry, could tell you later perhaps) - The extra information: brood war is not the only game that's unable to connect. So far other games also failed to connect to internet servers. | ||
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doubleupgradeobbies!
Australia1344 Posts
On October 23 2013 19:26 greatnoob wrote: Well I'm not sure what I have to tell you. But here are the answers to your questions: - I have legit copy. - The servers show up in server list. - There is an error message when I try to connect. (forgot what it was sorry, could tell you later perhaps) - The extra information: brood war is not the only game that's unable to connect. So far other games also failed to connect to internet servers. Are you using any other firewalls, or quasi-firewall software? If so, turn them off and try. If not, turn off windows firewall and try. If that allows you to connect, then turn them back on and try tweak further, but try to isolate where the problem is first. If it's other games also failing to connect then chances are it's either firewall or router related. So if turning off all firewalls doesn't work, chances are it's going be something to do with your router settings (incorrectly fowarded ports don't stop you from connecting to bnet usually, just hosting, so it's probably not that). But yeah, first make sure it's not firewall related, firewall problems are easier to fix. If it's router related, basically good luck, those are incredibly tricky to fix, and if it's a connection related problem, then completely can't be fixed. | ||
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greatnoob
Hungary50 Posts
On October 23 2013 20:25 doubleupgradeobbies! wrote: Are you using any other firewalls, or quasi-firewall software? If so, turn them off and try. If not, turn off windows firewall and try. If that allows you to connect, then turn them back on and try tweak further, but try to isolate where the problem is first. If it's other games also failing to connect then chances are it's either firewall or router related. So if turning off all firewalls doesn't work, chances are it's going be something to do with your router settings (incorrectly fowarded ports don't stop you from connecting to bnet usually, just hosting, so it's probably not that). But yeah, first make sure it's not firewall related, firewall problems are easier to fix. If it's router related, basically good luck, those are incredibly tricky to fix, and if it's a connection related problem, then completely can't be fixed. Thank you for the advices! If I'm not mistaken, I got some extra safety stuff or something on my router. Should I disable my router safety settings as well? | ||
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herozour
142 Posts
On October 23 2013 21:14 greatnoob wrote: Thank you for the advices! If I'm not mistaken, I got some extra safety stuff or something on my router. Should I disable my router safety settings as well? You should go into your router and investigate the settings and adjust them accordingly. But if you are blocked by your internet provider then fixing your router is not gonna do much. | ||
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