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On September 21 2010 23:19 Myrlin wrote:
- You can drop MULEs anywhere you have vision. You can drop MULEs on the enemy base after a scan to force sieged tanks to attack them, damaging buildings by the splash.
LOL wow thats amazing im gonna try that my next tvt cause usually in tvt in late game ur like 5000k minerals and 0 gas. Lol seems fun cool find 
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Love this thread , learned lots from it =DDD
My tip , holding shift down lets you do multiple things , like adding units to a group or building buildings. Also works for spells like Storm and fungal i think.
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Just thought I'd clarify on a Zerg point - larvae on hatcheries caps at 19.
The obvious thing that I learned were hotkeys, and back when I played Protoss, to have my builder probe on a control group.
Instead of moving my view to my nexus, selecting a probe, clicking "build" then clicking "pylon", I just go 7-B-E. Much faster.
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Day9's coaching stream with DJwheat actually had quite a few little obvious things that i just never did or realized. Actually that stream was the most helpful thing of all time in my RTS life. Just the little things of tapping back and forth, seperating the eyes and the hands. Checking food, checking money, checking queens, and glancing at minimap constantly and having that mental checklist. And also just not freaking out in battles. It was so eye opening to see how day9 was instructing wheat during the heat of battles. "ignore that, it doesn't matter, vomit larve, vomit larve!!" etc. I practiced those things for a day vs. very hard ai, and by the end of the day i went from always losing to VH Ai to beating them pretty handledly. I also went from low gold to platnium in the same day. Yeah i'm still a newb, but this has me on the right track of not completely sucking anymore lol.
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Overseers dropping changelings *behind* buildings (in my case a factory) makes the changeling all but invisible unless you see it go down. Even then I'm not sure if you can even force your guys to attack him since the attack command will select the building.
I normally try to detect them by double clicking my marines and looking for the odd man out, but this hides the changeling from view.
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That drones could a move..... lol i swear to god i never knew this till i was like 1500 platinum around ~100 games. I lost to 6 pool alot before then ....
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Up until I was around ~1600 zerg I thought spine crawlers cost 150 + the drone.. So I never made them because I thought it was so lame that I had to actually pay 200 (I figured it cost more because it could move). When I found out they "only" cost 100... :O
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Windows key can be disabled. I'm having less nervous breakdowns now...
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If you have your buildings (rax/warpgate etc) rallied to a unit and that unit dies, you lose your rally point and your stream of reinforments stop....Im 2000 T and i could never figure out wtf i was doing because half my units would still be at my base.
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If you change to windowed mode and select maximized it will not freeze your game if you have an incoming aim message that takes focus.
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Would be nice if someone else could test it, but a few days ago i got owned pretty hard as i destroyed the main of a terran and he got to the Island on ScrapStation which i couldnt reach anymore with my blink stalker.....and i did it a few patches ago with zero problems.
got me owned pretty hard and embarrassing (he safed 2 starports and turtled like crazy while building Towers all over the place while i teched blink stalker and massed hardcore....and then couldnt blink in.....after another neccessary tech switch on my side his BattleCruiser Battalion crushed me and i was so embarassed that i wouldnt want to try to fight back...)
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Yo boogy, try a Mothership bust. Once it has enough energy just float it in and Mass Recall. Even try it before getting all the way in as it'll move units to the nearest safe landing zone.
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On November 16 2010 17:06 hongster wrote:
Overseers dropping changelings *behind* buildings (in my case a factory) makes the changeling all but invisible unless you see it go down. Even then I'm not sure if you can even force your guys to attack him since the attack command will select the building.
I normally try to detect them by double clicking my marines and looking for the odd man out, but this hides the changeling from view.
Delete and Insert rotate the camera to the sides, so you can snipe the changeling. Still a good tip though.
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Listening to music when I play.
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I have a question. Say you trade armies with your opponent in front of his base, only you have a few units leftover.
Should you:
A)Retreat those units
B)Sprint to the mineral line and try to pick off a few workers before his next batch of units pop
C)Try to take down a key building
D)???
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On November 17 2010 02:14 crescendo111 wrote:
I have a question. Say you trade armies with your opponent in front of his base, only you have a few units leftover.
Should you:
A)Retreat those units
B)Sprint to the mineral line and try to pick off a few workers before his next batch of units pop
C)Try to take down a key building
D)???
It depends. Usually if you only have like 3 or 4 or a similar small number of units left over, just go and pick off his workers. If they happen to be expensive units, then send them back home. Most of the time, with so few units left over though it's not a good idea to take down a key building, since you most likely won't be able to kill it.
A terran tip: When dealing with banes with rines, it is better to leave a very small amount of rines behind to be sacrificed, while the rest moves behind and fires, rather than running and firing with the whole group.
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On November 16 2010 21:46 djtopa wrote:
Windows key can be disabled. I'm having less nervous breakdowns now...
For some reason the disable windows key option didn't work for me, I'm not sure why.
Anyway, I just disabled it the old fashioned way, with a screwdriver =D.
Hate that damn button...
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On November 17 2010 05:53 HarryHood wrote:Show nested quote +On November 16 2010 21:46 djtopa wrote:
Windows key can be disabled. I'm having less nervous breakdowns now... For some reason the disable windows key option didn't work for me, I'm not sure why. Anyway, I just disabled it the old fashioned way, with a screwdriver =D. Hate that damn button...
A lot of BW players used to remove the windows key from there computer. I'm sure quite a few(including me) still do.
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Spacebar will center you on your base.
Not true. Why still not fixed?
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