On September 21 2010 23:21 Tenks wrote:
Playing with HP bars always on makes micro a ton easier.

Also calling MULEs down right on a mineral patch. I think I went like 5 beta patches without knowing that.

How does this exactly works? I know you can hold the alt key but the bars disappear when you release the key. This tread is great btw I just learned some new zerg stuff.

Sabin010

United States1892 Posts

November 04 2010 13:43 GMT

#543

~420 BronzeLeagueDude here. I learned that if a Protoss goes for a forge Fast expand on LT, you can safely drone hard tech up to lair and drop a nydus in his main. Bringing two queens in the nydus can stuff the two void rays with transfuse. if he got them, but you may be in trouble if he got 3 pheonix.

whave

Hungary13 Posts

November 04 2010 13:55 GMT

#544

On November 04 2010 22:22 Day000 wrote:

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How does this exactly works? I know you can hold the alt key but the bars disappear when you release the key. This tread is great btw I just learned some new zerg stuff.

just turn hp bars on in Gameplay Options

powernapper

Italy21 Posts

November 04 2010 14:35 GMT

#545

realizing hatchery is 300 minerals and not 400 after having changed from terran to zerg.

Clamps

66 Posts

November 04 2010 15:16 GMT

#546

From day9 I learned to expand when I attack. That's something obvious in retrospect but was NOT obvious before. The best defense for a budding expansion is a good offense. Your new expo is defended by the mere fact that there's an army of units headed for his base that he has to go through or around to get to your expo and even if you trade armies at his front, your expo is still defended by the fact that he's got nothing left with which to attack. (Some exception apply) Coincidentally, it takes about as long to build an expo as it does to march across the map and engage in a skirmish, so when the attack is done your expo is up. I also learned that if you march across, find a bigger entrenched force and retreat that's ok too because you've lost nothing and still gained an expo.

Nazarid

United States445 Posts

November 04 2010 15:25 GMT

#547

Mass marines wins out over banelings! although im not as skilled as "Foxer" i actually have destroyed the last 9 zerg players ive fought with pure marines and medivacs

pxds

Brazil72 Posts

November 04 2010 15:56 GMT

#548

you can change the game speed of the campaing! i played for 3h hours on the normal game speed, it bugged me off how slow those scvs were moving... it's on the options gameplay tab.

Penke

Sweden346 Posts

November 04 2010 19:35 GMT

#549

On September 22 2010 00:05 slained wrote:
You can press ctrl + f1 to select all you idle workers at any time.

You can? awesome! I've always F1ned them seperately until now , thanks :D

tygar

United States1 Post

November 05 2010 15:54 GMT

#550

The best thing I've done to improve my gameplay has been to tweak my mouse. Tuning the acceleration and movement was one thing, but even more significant was binding the middle mouse button to one of the buttons on the side. That middle button is unnatural to press, and with a side button, it's just so much easier to grab and scroll the map view. The other way of scrolling (bumping my mouse up against the screen edge) is way too error prone.

archides

United States31 Posts

November 06 2010 12:47 GMT

#551

I just found the option to turn on the game time and health bars. I feel like I'm being cheap =P cuz I can micro so much better...I now always knowing which of his units are weak, and always knowing what time it is in the early game really helps my awareness. Up until a couple days ago I had to rely spidey sense.

neo_sporin

United States516 Posts

November 06 2010 13:10 GMT

#552

That mutas are actually kick-ass.

So in rising through the ranks I got to diamond with almost never using mutas, i just never really saw the point. During MLG DC i was watching idra who basically goes ling, bling, muta in ZvT and so i started fooling around with them in that matchup, but still in ZvP i went exclusively roach/hydra.

Now I've been practicing muta/ling on toss and have figured out the timings for when to expect that 4 gate. Since I finally got comfortable with it, I am currently on a 9 match win streak (i only play like 2 games every 3 days) and am currently 90-65. I almost fear playing and ending the streak.

iAmJeffReY

United States4262 Posts

November 06 2010 13:13 GMT

#553

I learned this isn't SCBW and factories cost 150/100 not 200/100. I made it to I think about 1500-1600 diamond before I realized I had 50 minerals left over after factory building -_-

Effect010

Germany89 Posts

November 06 2010 19:31 GMT

#554

zerg units heal themshelves on creep=)

Philip2110

Scotland798 Posts

November 06 2010 19:40 GMT

#555

Took me a while to learn you could attack move... yeh :s

Corvette

United States433 Posts

November 06 2010 19:55 GMT

#556

On November 07 2010 04:31 Effect010 wrote:
zerg units heal themshelves on creep=)

they heal themselves everywhere

Arisen

United States2382 Posts

November 06 2010 23:50 GMT

#557

As zerg after you build a creep tumor, that creep tumor can build one creep tumor in a radius. Never Realized this until watching some random replay in first person, and the only reason I caught it was he was being pretty slow about it. Should be obvious as it states it on the icon from the queen, but was always in too much of a rush to notice.

Effect010

Germany89 Posts

November 07 2010 10:20 GMT

#558

On November 07 2010 04:55 Corvette wrote:

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they heal themselves everywhere

yeah=) sry i got wrong informations

nanoscorp

United States1237 Posts

November 09 2010 23:20 GMT

#559

As zerg, you can use progress bars and simple math to figure out how many larva you'll have when the structure finishes. Say you want to have 3 larva available when your roach warren finishes, but it is at 10/55 when a second larva pops on your hatchery. You can safely make 2 drones and still have 3 larva when the warren finishes (15 game seconds between larva pops.) I use the same technique when forced to make an early pool in zvz (scouting a 7 pool for example).

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

November 09 2010 23:33 GMT

#560

On November 04 2010 01:56 ashaman771 wrote:
Couple pretty noob questions, so be gentle

I noticed while watching the GSL (totally worth the $20 without a doubt) that some players at the beginning of the game get a single worker on each hot key super quick, almost instantaneously. How are they doing this? They can't just be select each worker individually and assigning them their own hot key that quickly...?

Second, you have a pack of drop ships, and a pack of M&M, how do you get them in the pack of drop ships super fast? I select both packs together then have to keep clicking on the drop ships, but there's a better way I suspect.

I click nexus. Hit E, select workers , right click mineral, hit probe, shift + 1, hit probe shift + 2, hit probe shift + 3, hit nexus shift + 5, hit Y click on mineral patch. If you practice it a lot you can do it in under 1-2 seconds.