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wonderwall
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
New Zealand695 Posts
October 06 2010 23:46 GMT
#321
On the second to last mission of the campaign on normal a friend was having a go at it and he showed me a magical feature. You could press V to open the advanced buildings tab and get factories and starports and all those other amazing things. I felt a little bit silly afterwards and suddenly realised why the campaign was a bit more difficult than it should be.
Kyandid
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada124 Posts
October 07 2010 03:14 GMT
#322
You should (almost never) unsiege or siege up all of your tanks at once.

And you can stim marines in bunkers.

goddamn
Jacobs Ladder
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1705 Posts
October 07 2010 03:19 GMT
#323
On October 06 2010 17:21 Shrewmy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 06 2010 07:00 erulabs wrote:
This is outside of SC directly but... Maintain your health!

The only activity where I notice my recent eating/health habits as much as in SC is off road mountain bike riding. If I'm caffeinated up and low on protein my skill level drops wildly. My mother came into town and cooked me good food that lasted about a week, I jumped something like 300 points up from 1200->1500 diamond Z.

Of course, now that she went back home and I'm back to Ramen and Redbull, i'm back to my normal losing streaks

But yes, it's a bit weird for a video game, but I force myself not to ladder when I'm drunk/stoned/tired/hungry etc. Eat well, maintain your health and keep a good mood and you'll be -amazed- at how much better you play.

This really applies to everything in life, but let's be honest. No one wants to be in peak condition all day long. The couch and the TV have a sacred place in every westerners life

A poor diet will typically impair cognitive function.

Try adding in more meat into your ramen or something

To tie into this, I've noticed a general trend. I spend the first half of my day pretty hungry because I generally do class work/go to class/study before about 4pm. After then, I'll come back and play a game or two before dinner (usually my first proper meal). I WILL LOSE THESE GAMES. Then after dinner I go 4/0.

The moral, EAT BEFORE YOU PLAY. If you're starving, you'll play badly.
fusihunter
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia208 Posts
October 07 2010 04:18 GMT
#324
On October 06 2010 12:10 instantdry wrote:
If you borrow a roach and double tap unborrow at a cliff, it will go up or down the cliff.


Why has there been a page ignoring this one!

Do you have a video of this?

Are you saying you can actually scale cliffs with burrowed roaches?
"I actually don't like games. I just like beating people." - Idra
paranoiax
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany3 Posts
October 07 2010 10:19 GMT
#325
On October 07 2010 07:14 nanoscorp wrote:
Zergling + Baneling easy micro:
1. Put them in one group.
2. Identify target, and issue a move command BEHIND it.
3. Once your speedlings have moved past the target, a-move for the win.

This works because your speedlings are faster than the banelings. The banelings get dragged behind like a deadly kite, while the speedlings soak up fire and form a wall behind your target. Clearing out a mineral line can be hilarious: you run the speedlings to the far entrance, he panics and moves all the harvesters out the other entrance... into the banelings.


wow, sounds useful
HuK: nothing suspicious going on here
Daveoo2
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia19 Posts
October 07 2010 11:42 GMT
#326
I've been right click to attack-move. I spent a while yelling at my computer until I realized.
Good Gaming!
iPoLL
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany30 Posts
October 07 2010 12:34 GMT
#327
Storms and guardian shield do not stack ...

Sentries do pretty well against every non-tier-3 air unit
freshjive
Profile Joined August 2010
United States32 Posts
October 07 2010 12:42 GMT
#328
You can almost non-stop chrono boost probes out of 1 nexus minus a few seconds delay here or there. This is unreal for fast expansions. You just need to chrono the nex and nothing else.
If I'm going to bet on anyone, I'm going to bet on myself
Kyandid
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada124 Posts
October 07 2010 12:49 GMT
#329
One more thing I forgot to mention - splash damage takes weapon/armour types into consideration.

If a marine and a marauder are standing right ontop of eachother, and a tank attacks one, the marauder will invariably be hit for (99% of) the full 50 damage, from the tank's 35+15, whereas the marine will take his 35, no matter which one is targeted.
Metaspace
Profile Joined November 2006
Austria670 Posts
October 07 2010 12:56 GMT
#330
On September 25 2010 02:17 Alpina wrote:
That when casting Fungal Growth on flying units, you need to target not a unit itself but a flier helper. I didn't know this thing before and I missed ton of FG because of this.

Is this the same with corrupt? I have the feeling this might explain why I did hit a few times in some games
Wir haben zuwenig Vespingas!
oni_link
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany165 Posts
October 07 2010 13:10 GMT
#331
no,corrupt is no aoe spell and you can just click on the unit to apply it, while fg and storm only hit in their dedicated aoe on the ground(means the flyer helper has to be inside the ground aoe, not the unit itself)
?:O
Metaspace
Profile Joined November 2006
Austria670 Posts
October 07 2010 13:10 GMT
#332
Also:

You can Ctrl+right click to issue an A-move (instead of going A+left click)

Hard to adapt after years of BW...
Wir haben zuwenig Vespingas!
Mofisto
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom585 Posts
October 07 2010 14:37 GMT
#333
That sacrificing units can be beneficial. I used to get raped by banelings, until i realised that you could feed individual units to them as you retreat.
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you."
trm_
Profile Joined August 2010
France4 Posts
October 07 2010 15:03 GMT
#334
If you are spreading your creep and the new tumor is under attack, you can cancel it (by pressing escape) and you stil can spread the creap elsewhere/later. You just saved your creephighway. Very useful early game ZvT.
Wolf
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Korea (South)3290 Posts
October 07 2010 15:15 GMT
#335
On October 07 2010 22:10 Metaspace wrote:
Also:

You can Ctrl+right click to issue an A-move (instead of going A+left click)

Hard to adapt after years of BW...


Whoa. I wonder if I'll ever use this, but if I start... I'll probably never be able to play Brood War again. Scary thought.
Commentatorhttp://twitter.com/proxywolf
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Kikuichimonji
Profile Joined June 2010
United States102 Posts
October 07 2010 17:42 GMT
#336
On October 07 2010 21:56 Metaspace wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2010 02:17 Alpina wrote:
That when casting Fungal Growth on flying units, you need to target not a unit itself but a flier helper. I didn't know this thing before and I missed ton of FG because of this.

Is this the same with corrupt? I have the feeling this might explain why I did hit a few times in some games
Actually if you turn on the flying target help you can click on the unit itself too (for any spell). It automatically moves your target to where the flying unit really is.
Actionwaffle
Profile Joined August 2010
United States9 Posts
October 07 2010 17:47 GMT
#337
On September 21 2010 23:23 hEndO wrote:
as Zerg i just learned that once you have 1 lair but 2 hatches you can get Overlord speed on one and Overlord drop on the other. I always thought i could only research them at the Lair. =/


Oh shit seriously? I was used to back in the day BW when you have to have multi layer to multi research.
Im here to save lives, for a fee of course.
Laekoth
Profile Joined September 2010
United States45 Posts
October 07 2010 18:38 GMT
#338
You can press ctrl + f1 to select all you idle workers at any time.


...thats amazing
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary26003 Posts
October 07 2010 18:47 GMT
#339
I just wanna say this is a great thread. I always read it and learned so much from it.
Moderator
tehemperorer
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States2183 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-07 19:48:30
October 07 2010 19:26 GMT
#340
Is that Roach thing real? Someone please comment, that is the most interesting thing I have read here in a while

EDIT: I forgot my contribution: If you want to preform a concave, it is easiest to do it by moving your troops in a line to a certain direction, then hitting stop. When they stop they will all be in one giant line that should be at a right angle to where your opponent will come from.

EDIT: If you are under attack at your mineral line by lings or zealots early on, and have fewer units to defend, grab all of your probes and select attack, then mine, then attack, then mine, with a few game seconds in between each command. What you are doing is changing their priorities so that unless your opponent has queued attacked every single one of your workers, their attacking units will face your probes, then switch to your units, then to the probes, then to your units, effectively making them only hit your actual attackers about half the time. You can also trap units between the probes because they will ignore pathing to mine, then attack, then ignore pathing, then attack.
Knowing is half the battle... the other half is lasers.
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