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UnS)DeathTrap
Profile Joined February 2008
Canada150 Posts
January 06 2009 23:42 GMT
#81
How bout goons micro?
Load/Unload Dropship?

Maybe they could be usefull for videos
Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27180 Posts
January 07 2009 00:04 GMT
#82
Great work. This was my first time to see this thread.
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JaZz
Profile Joined December 2008
United States23 Posts
January 07 2009 03:52 GMT
#83
I'd like to see a video of d-web usage
Gustav_Wind
Profile Joined July 2008
United States646 Posts
January 07 2009 05:49 GMT
#84
Good work, but the title seems a little off. These are more like useful tricks than essentials. >.>
alphafuzard
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1610 Posts
January 07 2009 06:12 GMT
#85
Wow I really like that use of irradiate to kill of the zerg attack at the natural
Nice vid, fairly basic stuff, but things every player should have in their arsenal
more weight
SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-07 06:42:17
January 07 2009 06:40 GMT
#86
On January 07 2009 14:49 Gustav_Wind wrote:
Good work, but the title seems a little off. These are more like useful tricks than essentials. >.>

i called it the essentials because i believe these are tricks that every player should know. they are very common and some can be used on a game to game basis.

edit: which is why there won't be a video on dweb usage (sorry jazz). if sair reaver were still a common pvz build i'd have considered it but its more or less obsolete now.
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SecondComing
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States30 Posts
January 07 2009 06:51 GMT
#87
On January 07 2009 15:40 SoMuchBetter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 07 2009 14:49 Gustav_Wind wrote:
Good work, but the title seems a little off. These are more like useful tricks than essentials. >.>

i called it the essentials because i believe these are tricks that every player should know. they are very common and some can be used on a game to game basis.

edit: which is why there won't be a video on dweb usage (sorry jazz). if sair reaver were still a common pvz build i'd have considered it but its more or less obsolete now.


wait sair reaver isn't common now?
I love Boxer
Tensai176
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Canada2061 Posts
January 07 2009 06:56 GMT
#88
Fast expanding against every race, with every race would be pretty essential?

Or I guess its more detailed details and such i guess. Very nice video though if you need help with anything, i would be willing to help =).
We see things they'll never see
SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
January 07 2009 06:58 GMT
#89
On January 07 2009 15:51 SecondComing wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 07 2009 15:40 SoMuchBetter wrote:
On January 07 2009 14:49 Gustav_Wind wrote:
Good work, but the title seems a little off. These are more like useful tricks than essentials. >.>

i called it the essentials because i believe these are tricks that every player should know. they are very common and some can be used on a game to game basis.

edit: which is why there won't be a video on dweb usage (sorry jazz). if sair reaver were still a common pvz build i'd have considered it but its more or less obsolete now.


wait sair reaver isn't common now?

not in the traditional sense, unless its made a resurgence in the past couple of months since i stopped following progaming. sair reaver used to be a build used for an entire game, then it became a mid game build used to take islands/expansions before transitioning into another build for lategame and even that eventually died off.
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Doso
Profile Joined March 2008
Germany769 Posts
January 09 2009 09:39 GMT
#90
Thanks. This is pretty useful!
I've always wondered how vulture patrol micro and could't figure it out with the help of guides. Now with the video i finally understood how it works.

Thanks again.
Gustav_Wind
Profile Joined July 2008
United States646 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-11 12:58:23
January 11 2009 12:56 GMT
#91
On January 07 2009 15:40 SoMuchBetter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 07 2009 14:49 Gustav_Wind wrote:
Good work, but the title seems a little off. These are more like useful tricks than essentials. >.>

i called it the essentials because i believe these are tricks that every player should know. they are very common and some can be used on a game to game basis.


Haha, I understand. I just mentioned it because I had just watched TL Attack with Chill and he kept mentioning how some players knew lots of fancy micro tricks but didn't know build orders/mechanics.

Sair/Reaver is still common as a transitional strategy. Protosses often open Sair/Reaver and force the Zerg to deal with it, then switch to ground.

It is true that that build doesn't use D-web, though.
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
January 11 2009 23:59 GMT
#92
I hope you have the videos saved somewhere in case youtube decides to ban your video/account for copyright issues. (Dropkick Murphey's song)
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
Shado.
Profile Joined February 2008
United States187 Posts
January 25 2009 02:08 GMT
#93
On September 08 2008 20:20 meRz wrote:
These are awesome!

Some suggestions that people might wonder about/haven't thought of;

- How to drop units while moving
- How to probe/scv/drone jump
- Mineral slide for scouting purposes/breaking chokes or early game contains. (Works to break stasised chokes as well)
- How to set rallypoints effectively (by using the F-keys)
- Using dmatrix vs lurkers (terran only)
- Eraser. Irradiate 2 vessles and put them on patrol over your opponents mineral line (terran only)


Those are the ones I could think of right now. Keep up the good work!



How do you set rally points effectively by using the F-Keys? (I play zerg)
Malongo
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Chile3479 Posts
January 25 2009 02:28 GMT
#94
On January 25 2009 11:08 Shado. wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 08 2008 20:20 meRz wrote:
These are awesome!

Some suggestions that people might wonder about/haven't thought of;

- How to drop units while moving
- How to probe/scv/drone jump
- Mineral slide for scouting purposes/breaking chokes or early game contains. (Works to break stasised chokes as well)
- How to set rallypoints effectively (by using the F-keys)
- Using dmatrix vs lurkers (terran only)
- Eraser. Irradiate 2 vessles and put them on patrol over your opponents mineral line (terran only)


Those are the ones I could think of right now. Keep up the good work!



How do you set rally points effectively by using the F-Keys? (I play zerg)

Next time use search first find on "rally points". This doesnt work that good for zerg.
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beyond.wudge
Profile Joined December 2007
Australia58 Posts
January 25 2009 07:38 GMT
#95
Really really good vids. Keep it up.
MiOB
Profile Joined January 2009
United States1 Post
January 28 2009 04:59 GMT
#96
very very new player who happened to find this thread. Registered just to post this. But I'll make a post about me if I want to later.

1) huge thank you for posting this stuff here. I've been practicing macro / micro etc against computers and this will give me some fun stuff to break things up and keep me engaged (and maybe break that 40 apm barrier).

2) I nominate this thread to be added to this thread under the beginner or possibly advanced section.

3) I might suggest that a lot of the things in the aforementioned thread, both in the beginner and advanced sections, could be explained much more clearly with a video.

4) Some people have suggested that magic box be covered. It is somewhat covered by this video although I think you would do a much better job actually explaining it. But just linking to that video with a 3 sentence description should work pretty well if you want to save some time.

5) A very easy way to practice some of these things, I've found/guessed, is to create a single player game against a computer, (possibly) use power overwhelming, tech to whichever units you need to perform the action, and save just before doing the technique. I could create some save files for the applicable techniques if you'd like to link to them from the videos for immediate newbie see, newbie do practice. I don't know where I'd host them though. I think it could possibly be pretty neat, actually, for later videos, if you could set up one of these saved games, play through it in your video, and then have the newb replicate the exact same technique from that saved game for, say, a quality reaver drop or a pro tvz micro battle.
SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
February 21 2009 15:26 GMT
#97
don't mind me just passing by.
whats that in my pocket? a new essentials video?
dont be silly
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Dgtl
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada889 Posts
February 21 2009 15:55 GMT
#98
nice work. I always wondered how you attack while moving and I never knew about that way of creating lurker traps; I always thought hold lurker was the only one.
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Tom Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
1114 Posts
February 21 2009 18:38 GMT
#99
SoMuchBetter, I really applaud your effort. The Essentials is an excellent video series and I enjoy each new installment. I hope it will have a long future and that I will indeed learn something.

That said, I was slightly dissapointed by the latest Essentials video. While you explained well how the technique is done, you did not include any examples of professional gamers doing it. Also, as a Protoss player, I would have appretiated a demonstration of Carrier stacking.

Nevertheless, I commend your good work. Keep it up.
You and your "5 years of competitive RTS experience" can take a hike. - FrozenArbiter
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33723 Posts
February 21 2009 18:47 GMT
#100
Carriers are usually not stacked in this way I don't think, they stack fairly well on their own anyway, and you need to be able to press I for interceptors.
Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
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