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BroodKingEXE
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States829 Posts
August 05 2012 00:16 GMT
#1821
Thanks. I was talking about proxy, my bad on descriptiveness.
Playing Protoss = Opponent owned
CaffeineFree-_-
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States712 Posts
August 05 2012 06:37 GMT
#1822
What's the name of when protoss builds gateways at other expos and is able to just pump units from them even if he loses his original base? Distinct name I can't remember now :/
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved
Bakuryu
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Germany1065 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-05 08:13:27
August 05 2012 08:08 GMT
#1823
i think your talking about refugee toss ^^
CaffeineFree-_-
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States712 Posts
August 05 2012 17:18 GMT
#1824
There it is thank you mate :D
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved
Jukado
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
805 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-21 14:54:07
August 06 2012 22:39 GMT
#1825
@puppykiller, I was in the middle of writing a reply and refreshed the page by mistake, so this new reply is now quite a lot shorter Im afraid.
2012 OSL Final Spoiler

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Fantasy made fac, cc, 2nd fac then ebay. However he had not scv scouted a nexus. If you open factory cc, and you arent sure P has expanded then it is normally wise to make an ebay before 2nd factory (even if you open with mines and even if cross position etc).


Later at 7.10 Fantasys vulture scouts no nexus and sees 2 zeals. These clues heavily suggest a bulldog or dt attack ofcourse, and obviously he knows this. However, Fantasy takes the short term risk that he can hold with mines only for a solid advantage later on. He already had two massive advantages by killing one goon with a mine and heavily damaging another with rines. These facts make his decision to skip ebay much safer but its evidently still not safe enough.

Additional stuff for those interested, Fantasy initially made tank, 2 vults then 2 more tanks. These 5 units all came from his first factory. The second factory immediately got machineshop and by the time the dt attack hit, the 2nd factory hadnt made a single unit.
Jangbi made gate gas core, then 2nd gate and range all before his 2nd pylon.
P made 6 goons then 2 zeals, 2 dts, nexus, 2 more dts, goons and 3rd nexus.

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CaffeineFree-_-
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States712 Posts
August 07 2012 07:56 GMT
#1826
Does anyone have a link to the thread discussing this build


It was called the subzero build but for some unknown reason it's not pulling up on search :/
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved
fold
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia665 Posts
August 07 2012 08:13 GMT
#1827
On August 07 2012 16:56 CaffeineFree-_- wrote:
Does anyone have a link to the thread discussing this build http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_p8EHcFRM

It was called the subzero build but for some unknown reason it's not pulling up on search :/

Here you go: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=220358
t.t
CaffeineFree-_-
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States712 Posts
August 07 2012 08:46 GMT
#1828
On August 07 2012 17:13 fold wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 07 2012 16:56 CaffeineFree-_- wrote:
Does anyone have a link to the thread discussing this build http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_p8EHcFRM

It was called the subzero build but for some unknown reason it's not pulling up on search :/

Here you go: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=220358

Bookmarked. Many thanks kind sir
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved
stambe
Profile Joined May 2005
Bulgaria499 Posts
August 07 2012 09:24 GMT
#1829
LoL the sub zero build I almost forgot it existed.
Valks rulzz
CoughingHydra
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
177 Posts
August 08 2012 21:01 GMT
#1830
I have a simple question / issue that isn't strategy related, but didn't know where should I post it so I posted it here. ( Sorry about that )

My internet often disconnects and when it happens during a game on iccup an issue arises - I cannot host games anymore for some time. Interestingly, when I type commands such as /latency or /stats in the lobby, It writes not only my stats but the stats of the last opponent that I played against (from the game where the disconnect happened ). I guess the server didn't register that I got disconnected and I'm "stuck" in that game. Does anybody know how to fix that? It's really annoying.
Puyi
Profile Joined November 2011
United States175 Posts
August 09 2012 01:29 GMT
#1831
i think going into a room with a different name as your last game should fix it. its also why you cant host if you host with the same name
c3rberUs
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Japan11886 Posts
August 12 2012 13:57 GMT
#1832
I don't know if this is a simple question but does anyone knew about this before? I was searching for ancient GhemTV VODs and info when I stumbled upon this in youtube.

誓死幹倒爛遊戲SC II. To annihilate all SC II in the world. Lol at the channel name.

Also was the 4th GhemTV discontinued? There's only a preliminaries for it in TLPD.
WriterMovie, 진영화 : "StarCraft will never die".
wcr.4fun
Profile Joined April 2012
Belgium686 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-13 19:25:48
August 13 2012 19:24 GMT
#1833
Scenario: mid game in zvp. You have 40+ hydras and one control group of mutalisks. Map is for example fighting spirit. You took your natural and then another natural as your third so you can easily take a fourth behind it.

Most often I only have 2 sunkens at my third and my natural. I have a bunch of overlords over my third and natural.

I'm relatively new to this game and I seem to have troubles with the following:

- I can't seem to stop protoss players from taking a third/fourth. They place a ton of cannons and from there on it's pretty much impossible to take them down without defilers and drop. (But I'm still only at hydralisks/mutalisks).
Even if I scout them a lot, they seem to get it up. It's really hard to stop because their army is most of the times in the center of the map. I can't rush to the other side of the map since if I get too hastly storm rapes my entire army.

How do I stop them from getting up expansions? And how should I react if I scout the corner of a map and suddenly spot 8 cannons for example.

- How do I defend my expansions versus dt drops? Is it ok for me to make some spores and sunkens at 'all my bases'? I don't see this often in pro games. My opponents sometimes get tons of corsairs, quickly rape the overlords at one of my bases and then send in the dt's (when my army is at the opposite side of the map). I'm a fairly low level player so I'm not quick enough to stop all shuttles with scourges.

Flip9
Profile Joined June 2012
Germany151 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-14 00:47:12
August 13 2012 21:46 GMT
#1834
On August 14 2012 04:24 wcr.4fun wrote:
Scenario: mid game in zvp. You have 40+ hydras and one control group of mutalisks. Map is for example fighting spirit. You took your natural and then another natural as your third so you can easily take a fourth behind it.

Most often I only have 2 sunkens at my third and my natural. I have a bunch of overlords over my third and natural.

I'm relatively new to this game and I seem to have troubles with the following:

- I can't seem to stop protoss players from taking a third/fourth. They place a ton of cannons and from there on it's pretty much impossible to take them down without defilers and drop. (But I'm still only at hydralisks/mutalisks).
Even if I scout them a lot, they seem to get it up. It's really hard to stop because their army is most of the times in the center of the map. I can't rush to the other side of the map since if I get too hastly storm rapes my entire army.

How do I stop them from getting up expansions? And how should I react if I scout the corner of a map and suddenly spot 8 cannons for example.

- How do I defend my expansions versus dt drops? Is it ok for me to make some spores and sunkens at 'all my bases'? I don't see this often in pro games. My opponents sometimes get tons of corsairs, quickly rape the overlords at one of my bases and then send in the dt's (when my army is at the opposite side of the map). I'm a fairly low level player so I'm not quick enough to stop all shuttles with scourges.


short answer because I'm not that good:
scout much (every expansion) to be able to attack it while it still builds. Just sending 1 group of lings to deny expanding is useful later in the game.

If he gets a fast 3rd and has too strong defense you can take your 4th.

Also with the 3 hatch spire in 5 hatch hydra build you don't need to build mutas if he has too many corsair.

Against corsair DT get overlord speed and some scourges, if he masses corsair a spore at the entrance helps, and I think air carapace is common too. If he drops, quickly pull your probes to the other base (the F-keys are helpful for that) and defend with enough hydras + OL. A sunken in your main is ok imo, I always place one if I'm ahead, however a spore I don't know since pros don't do it but on lowlevel it may help.

EDIT: Found a good example of how to delay expansions and against lots of corsair.
Dead9
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States4725 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-14 03:19:54
August 14 2012 03:16 GMT
#1835
On August 14 2012 04:24 wcr.4fun wrote:
Scenario: mid game in zvp. You have 40+ hydras and one control group of mutalisks. Map is for example fighting spirit. You took your natural and then another natural as your third so you can easily take a fourth behind it.

Most often I only have 2 sunkens at my third and my natural. I have a bunch of overlords over my third and natural.

I'm relatively new to this game and I seem to have troubles with the following:

- I can't seem to stop protoss players from taking a third/fourth. They place a ton of cannons and from there on it's pretty much impossible to take them down without defilers and drop. (But I'm still only at hydralisks/mutalisks).
Even if I scout them a lot, they seem to get it up. It's really hard to stop because their army is most of the times in the center of the map. I can't rush to the other side of the map since if I get too hastly storm rapes my entire army.

How do I stop them from getting up expansions? And how should I react if I scout the corner of a map and suddenly spot 8 cannons for example.

- How do I defend my expansions versus dt drops? Is it ok for me to make some spores and sunkens at 'all my bases'? I don't see this often in pro games. My opponents sometimes get tons of corsairs, quickly rape the overlords at one of my bases and then send in the dt's (when my army is at the opposite side of the map). I'm a fairly low level player so I'm not quick enough to stop all shuttles with scourges.

you should be taking your 4th and transitioning into hydra/lurker/ling if you have 40+ hydras and ~12 mutas

if you open hydra/muta your army should be stronger than the Ps if he plans to take a quick 3rd; pick off templars if he tries to move out too early (before he gets 10~15+ goons and maybe an archon or two) and delay as much as possible while your 4th goes up
if you aren't comfortable with your muta micro, hydra/lurker/ling is a little easier to play

to deny expos you need to stop them before cannons go up; if you let them get cannons up the base is going to be very difficult to break until hive tech. leave 1 ling at each expo so you can see when they want to take the base

it's fine to make sunken/spore at all your bases if they're dedicated to dt/sair. against smaller numbers you can generally just leave a sunken and an overlord

against shuttles, leaving overlords or pairs of scourge on patrol over common shuttle routes helps a lot. a group or two of speedlings can shut down smaller drops
Black[CAT]
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Malaysia2589 Posts
August 15 2012 05:06 GMT
#1836
Why isnt Ver's God of the Battlefield: Part 2 released yet???
You mean ESPORTS isnt a synonym for SC2? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -Proud owner of a Filco Majestouch 2 with Cherry Blue Switches- BW or SC2? Why not both?
dynwar7
Profile Joined May 2011
1983 Posts
August 16 2012 08:01 GMT
#1837
Should I play Brood War to improve my SC2? Who knows, maybe I will learn many things from BW? What do you guys think?
Regarding the imbalance, hilarious to see Zergs defending themselves....
Dead9
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States4725 Posts
August 16 2012 08:57 GMT
#1838
if you're trying to learn sc2 you're better off just playing sc2
bw will help a little but it's not as efficient
bw is pretty fun though you should play anyway
fold
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia665 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-16 10:37:36
August 16 2012 10:36 GMT
#1839
What are your methods for making window mode work with iccup launcher? I can get it to work with mini/wlauncher but iccup launcher just refuses to load BW in window mode. It gives the usual "RT Error!". Tried reinstalling, restarting, going into fullscreen then trying wmode again.
t.t
Forcewater
Profile Joined July 2011
United Kingdom206 Posts
August 16 2012 13:23 GMT
#1840
On August 16 2012 19:36 fold wrote:
What are your methods for making window mode work with iccup launcher? I can get it to work with mini/wlauncher but iccup launcher just refuses to load BW in window mode. It gives the usual "RT Error!". Tried reinstalling, restarting, going into fullscreen then trying wmode again.


Usually it gives me the RT error the first time, but launches fine the second time. I think you can also ignore the error message, right click the icon in the system tray and click "Run Starcraft".
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