[H] Sorry, but its an SC2 -> BW thread - Page 2

On October 02 2011 02:54 snowroller1 wrote:


hi, im also a SC2 player, grandmaster. I read all you wrote and isn't all those things signs of BW beeing a better game? meaning it takes more skill to play? but we all have different opinions i guess~!hf

On October 02 2011 04:28 ThugTerran wrote:
stop sending him on iccup lol... he can't hotkey or even separate/move units he has no place in iccup...read guides watch replays/vods then start 1v1 vs comp to exercise your mechanics whatever..
hf gl you will need it!
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Well you can always jump onto iCCup and sink or swim, mostly sink, then lose the will to play BW online like I did because you have no chance of winning. I swear that's a good way to do it!

But seriously if you do go on iCCup, just play people on op teamliquid who will help you get better before you actually try laddering.

On October 02 2011 16:23 sabas123 wrote:
^^ awsome cuzz iccup is realy though for new players unless your gm in eu u will be d+:D but go to ww.iccup.com download the antie hack laucher (for wc3 and sc:bw have the same laucher) and use open the laucher, direct it to your bw and you can use start playing off the lacuher:D

On October 01 2011 22:14 Afmug wrote:
Use the F1 through F5 keys to select locations.

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On October 02 2011 10:19 HystericaLaughter wrote:


I didn't mean to imply that either game was better =/, I was just asking for help because BW is sooo much more challenging. I am trying though haha and it is a lot of fun for that very reason.



I dont mind the sink or swim mentality, you improve much faster getting crushed than playing against the ai. I did the same thing with SC2, just started playing without any guidance only watching streams and stuff to improve. Lost my first 15 games in a row in bronze, but now I'm diamond so I have improved :D

On October 01 2011 23:38 Termit wrote:
Damn, a ton of peeps from Australia picking up BW here at TL right now. O_O

On October 02 2011 10:19 HystericaLaughter wrote:


I didn't mean to imply that either game was better =/, I was just asking for help because BW is sooo much more challenging. I am trying though haha and it is a lot of fun for that very reason.



I dont mind the sink or swim mentality, you improve much faster getting crushed than playing against the ai. I did the same thing with SC2, just started playing without any guidance only watching streams and stuff to improve. Lost my first 15 games in a row in bronze, but now I'm diamond so I have improved :D

On October 02 2011 20:11 Angra wrote:


Just keep in mind that when you start laddering on iccup, you're going to most likely be losing many more than just 15 games in a row to people much much better than bronze level, even though they are only D/D+ level on iccup.

BW is an amazing game though and I still love it more than SC2. So good luck!

On October 02 2011 23:27 fabiano wrote:
just be prepared to go 2-85 :D

it is normal, don't get discouraged

On October 03 2011 17:16 Phyrigian wrote:


whats your name on iccup? i lag like a mofo on it so i play on fish, but i'll try help and play a few games with you. hystericallaughter? i'll check now.

On October 03 2011 17:00 HystericaLaughter wrote:


Finally got around to downloading iccup and playing a game, got proxy rax/bunker rushed. Ah, the nostalgia from my bronze league days. Had a massive OH SHIT moment and had zero idea how to deal with it.

I'm gonna go play a few more games now :D

On October 01 2011 22:23 Garrl wrote:
Firstly, you can hotkey buildings, just not multiple buildings. This means if you're, say, terran in early game, you'd want to hotkey your ccs and raxes. Most people keep all their raxes and faxes on one screen so they can just quickly double tap a rax hotkey (or a screen hotkey) then quickly click on their raxes and do a production cycle then go back to their army.

Regarding army control, it's really down to personal preference how you hotkey all your army; I'm zerg so I tend to just loosely hotkey clusters of units together then drag select mid-battle if I want to micro my lurkers or defilers or such.

To log in and play on iCCup, you'll first want to register on iccup.com, then download the antihack launcher and the reg file. Then add the reg to your register (double clicking it should normally just work if you're on Windows), then the iCCup server should be on your server list. Then you can just login with your site username and password.

If you don't have the correct ports forwarded for BW, you won't be able to host games - people will just get latency too high messages. Basically you need to forward port 6112-6119 TCP and UDP, both out and in. Doing this will be specific to your router - most have web interfaces but they're different from brand to brand.

On October 04 2011 02:47 sluggaslamoo wrote:



Just don't do what every SC2 player does and use hydras against marines, lurkers and lings are 100x better.

On October 02 2011 02:54 snowroller1 wrote:


hi, im also a SC2 player, grandmaster. I read all you wrote and isn't all those things signs of BW beeing a better game? meaning it takes more skill to play? but we all have different opinions i guess~!hf