Dont worry about it, it's a learning process. I started off not being able to beat very easy.. then you start grapsing concepts of the game and learn your timing. Learn how to deal with the pressure. Within a week I've got to normal but just currently struggling on keeping the probe alive but after my exams I'll give it a good whack

Thunderflesh

United States382 Posts

June 14 2010 16:52 GMT

#383

On June 12 2010 14:11 EnderPR wrote:
I am playing on Mac OS X and when I open it in mapcraft it says unable to open map. Is there something I can do about this or do I just need to get a life for the duration of the Beta's downtime?

Place the map file into the "Maps" folder. Filepath is something like "Documents/Blizzard/StarCraft2/Maps". Then open it with Mapcraft and it should run.

goswser

United States3548 Posts

June 14 2010 17:12 GMT

#384

I can beat it on normal as terran now and do fairly well on hard, I think once I play it a few more times I can win on hard as terran, but impossible might not even be possible as terran since they have too many tanks for marauder balls to fight, and slow pushing simply isn't an option.

Nielsje_8

Netherlands4 Posts

June 14 2010 17:36 GMT

#385

Newguy, could you tell me your strategy as Terran on Normal please? I can't seem to figure out how to amass an army to destroy the enemy Command Centre, or at least I can't do it within the time limit. I usually tech up to 3 tanks and 8 marines for the waves and drops (which are no problem at all), but after that it always ends up the same: my army gets destroyed and is too small to do enough damage to the enemy. Any advice?

dondake

25 Posts

June 14 2010 18:17 GMT

#386

Just saw Gomas' stream, he won it on hard with mass marauders and scvs infront of them, he didnt use tanks at all.

Ouga

Finland645 Posts

June 14 2010 18:47 GMT

#387

Indeed in theory it sounds like pure marauder might be the winning strat here. Tanks + mass vikings in air mode (in impossible there's actually ~10 vikings nullifying any air attempts) simply can't be beaten with any other units since I don't think you can accumulate enough tanks to overcome his armysize in that time (in hard+) and air is totally out of question due to amount of vikings/turrets. Marines are also too crappy dmg takers since you can't even bring medics to fight. Anyhow, while attacking, bringing drones to fight is definately good idea. You're usually attacking when there's 1:30 or less left of time, and you aren't going to do any good with the minerals gathered in the end, so just turn those ~30 collectors into decent meatshield for your marauders.

It's actually quite boring how no race has chance to think of using air units. Sure, it definately throws the suicide zerg drops out of the window but it also throws every possible air unit out of the mix. In impossible there's no chance in any theory to bring a single air unit to fight, so there really is no much strategic elements there when it's clear you're forced to do 1-3 basic ground units in masses with all races.

And I understand asking for complete diversity is stupid, sorry for another rant

SainT.Foreverr

19 Posts

June 14 2010 19:03 GMT

#388

ok here is my problem. I want to watch the replay of me playing on the UMS, for example lets say i just beat the UMS in normal, but i want to watch that replay, ok fine i do the procedure like i always do with all replays open directly or just drag to shortcut etc etc, but for some reason i cant watch the ums replays to check my APM because its saying some error about a mod.. i tried to place the map in the mod folder, map folder in pretty much every folder, tried to open the replay trough the editor and nothing, is there some way i can watch the replay of the UMS so i can check the apm plz? ty in advance

stet_tcl

Greece319 Posts

June 14 2010 21:48 GMT

#389

I've had a really hard time trying to make a function that calculates a difficulty factor for attack waves depending on the unit numbers and types and the time they occur...

So, after several hours of trying to remember how Mathematica works and tons of interpolations I think I finally have it!

Useless post, I know, I just had the need to tell someone, this has been giving me trouble for quite some time. :D

Lolger

Denmark2 Posts

June 14 2010 22:00 GMT

#390

"Unable to open map"

Anyone else experiencing problems opening the map?

Might be cause I am running the Mac client, but unsure... Anyone know a solution?

EDIT: Nevermind, posted too soon

NonY

8751 Posts

June 15 2010 03:04 GMT

#391

http://www.livestream.com/tylersc/video?clipId=pla_cce0d438-c8bd-4232-bb62-243d83ba959b&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb

ezly

Manlot

Mexico111 Posts

June 15 2010 03:09 GMT

#392

GJ NonY!

Vancebla_

29 Posts

June 15 2010 03:16 GMT

#393

how do i get this? kthx

Soulous

United States133 Posts

June 15 2010 03:17 GMT

#394

On June 15 2010 12:16 Vancebla_ wrote:
how do i get this? kthx

You click on the link that says download here.

bontez

United States165 Posts

June 15 2010 03:29 GMT

#395

omg NonY good job. Haha I had trouble beating normal.

Arcticc

United States203 Posts

June 15 2010 03:50 GMT

#396

On June 15 2010 12:04 Liquid`NonY wrote:
http://www.livestream.com/tylersc/video?clipId=pla_cce0d438-c8bd-4232-bb62-243d83ba959b&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb

ezly

Truly impressive. I just assumed that impossible was made to be unbeatable.

DalaiLameR

16 Posts

June 15 2010 13:04 GMT

#397

Just finished "impossible" as Terran

shiftY803

200 Posts

June 15 2010 13:10 GMT

#398

I only had time to try a couple runs last night - set to Hard. Is the "max macro energy" for queens on a "per queen" basis? Either I got really distracted in my second run, or it is adding the energy of the queens together. Can anyone confirm what it does for zerg?

If it is the combined energy for multiple queens, the max should not be set to 50, otherwise you insta-fail when your 2 queens are vomiting in sync.

NonY

8751 Posts

June 15 2010 13:18 GMT

#399

On June 15 2010 22:04 DalaiLameR wrote:
Just finished "impossible" as Terran

lol was it really close? since it gave you defeat message and your time has run out but you also get victory message

looks like you dropped tanks in back to kill the OC?

congrats

weird that macro energy is 75 for terran. afaik, there's no reason to save it beyond 50. but you get 25 energy of time in case you are slow. protoss has incentive to save energy, like after i build the number of probes i want, i'd rather save all my energy for robotics, but i have to waste two boosts on warp gate research or something, just to keep it below 35. and of course, there's only 10 energy worth of time as a buffer. imo the energy cap for terran should be 55-60. if using a boost asap every time was actually useful, i wouldn't mind a cap of 30 on nexus.

DalaiLameR

16 Posts

June 15 2010 13:25 GMT

#400

Yeah, i literally killed the OC in the very last second.

I teched to cloakbanshees while defending my main with 2 tanks, turrets and bunkers. Adding many Barracks and producing only banshees. Then floating the barracks first and sneaking the cloakbanshees in the back of the main and killing the OC.

Congrats to you too, just watched your VOD

I think terran has an easier time completing impossible due to their strong basedefense and their easy macromechanic. i really think it should be 65max or even lower (zerg and toss go +10 energylimit), since you really have so much more time.