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Allenssmart
Profile Joined March 2011
19 Posts
April 10 2011 02:50 GMT
#761
blue flame hellions > zealots
Ironsights
Profile Joined January 2011
United States196 Posts
April 10 2011 03:46 GMT
#762
One point in the OP is wrong:
Under the all races spoiler it says MULEs can be seen through Fog of War when they are called down. I forget which patch it was, but that has been corrected.

Aside from that, sweet thread. Didn't know about SCV's repairing from inside medivacs...thats pretty cool to know.
Pain, like any other emotion, can be turned off. // If there can be no victory, then I shall fight forever.
Turo
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada333 Posts
April 10 2011 03:55 GMT
#763
The obvious thing I learned was that you're playing a PERSON, who can only do a limited number of things at once...

The # of drops I do has now increased drastically ^_^
0neDose
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada14 Posts
April 10 2011 08:14 GMT
#764
-you can hotkey locations on the map, warp-in spots or hatcheries, etc (the buttons are inconvenient so go to hotkeys-> global hotkeys, and change the location hotkey)

Terren - you can hide and build ur expo inside ur base and make SCVs til u r ready to take your expo.

-if you have big hands you can use the F-keys for hotkey groups, go change hotkeys in the hotkey menu

-there are custom maps that help you practice SPLITS, MACRO, MICRO, Build Order testing

-having specific mouse sensitivity settings matter (go read a guide about 1:1 mouse to pixel ratio)

-turning off/on music in sounds can help you play better

-you can import/export hotkeys to a different account by moving the hotkey folder from 1 account to another (this is in the mydocuments/starcraft 2/112321323123 <------ each number is a different account) remember to actually load the hotkeys

- being #1 in your league doesn't guarantee league promotion. Hidden MMR rating and being considered an active player (low bonus pool) determine league promotion.

-being inactive (high bonus pool) but having high MMR means your opponents could always be from higher leagues.

- 1 bonus pool point is generated every hour

-having all your production on 1 hot-key will allow you to produce from all of them (press tab to cycle through production facilities)

-holding shift and highlighting (with your mouse) a unit that is in the group will deselect or select them out of OR into your group.

-shift-clicking on portraits will remove units from your selected group.

-use the above method to send 1 unit to scout the tower. (click to move your army to the tower, shift deselect 1 unit using the above method, and then click where you want your entire army -1 unit to be at) Also remember to make a new hotkey for the army.. so the unit doesn't get moved off from the tower.

The unexamined life is not worth living - Socratis
Charon1979
Profile Joined October 2010
Austria317 Posts
April 10 2011 11:25 GMT
#765
shift + [number] mgerges the selected unit/s with the unit/s hotkeyed on [number]
xJaCEx
Profile Joined August 2010
155 Posts
April 10 2011 11:35 GMT
#766
I just figured this one out the other day it wasn't really an issue for me because I rarely need to do it as terran but you can target flying units with spells by looking for the shadows as they are rather large for flying units. So this makes emp on void rays a bit easyer if your having problems clicking on one of them :/
First blood is as good as anything.
Chivalric
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom13 Posts
April 10 2011 11:49 GMT
#767
On April 10 2011 20:35 xJaCEx wrote:
I just figured this one out the other day it wasn't really an issue for me because I rarely need to do it as terran but you can target flying units with spells by looking for the shadows as they are rather large for flying units. So this makes emp on void rays a bit easyer if your having problems clicking on one of them :/


You could go in to the menu and turn on the flyer helper option which will colour the units when you're on top of them No need to look for shadows which can be quite difficult to see.
jacobdfs
Profile Joined February 2011
Korea (South)9 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-10 12:55:02
April 10 2011 12:49 GMT
#768
Terran: When you have an OC and a PF on the same hotkey, pressing S to queue up SCVs will max out the OC queue and won't queue up any on the PF. You have to press Tab to select the PF and then queue workers. Took me forever to figure this out while playing as Random.

Edit: Also if you have a regular CC in the mix, as well. When you have them all on one hotkey, it sorts it into OC -> CC -> PF. It'll select all the OCs by default (although all their portraits show up), so you have to tab through the CCs and PFs to get to them.
theorybiscuit
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada117 Posts
April 10 2011 12:50 GMT
#769
Just started doing the backspace inject:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=125725

Queens are now < 50 energy for the whole game. O.o
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. ~Jef Mallett
bennni
Profile Joined February 2011
Iceland27 Posts
May 01 2011 23:00 GMT
#770
I never knew Queens cost food...
Zergoratory
Dragom
Profile Joined December 2010
194 Posts
May 01 2011 23:05 GMT
#771
making worker continously
"The second thing to go is your memory...ergh, I can't remember what the first thing is..."
Yip12343
Profile Joined December 2010
120 Posts
May 01 2011 23:20 GMT
#772
cool thread

As of right now, probably playing with HP bars on. other than that probably nothing else ^^
AndAgain
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2621 Posts
May 01 2011 23:24 GMT
#773
When watching replays, the "spending" tab often has useful information. Sometimes I don't understand why I lost, but then I see that I got hugely outspent on technology (of course, useful if understood correctly.)
All your teeth should fall out and hair should grow in their place!
iNbluE
Profile Joined January 2011
Switzerland674 Posts
May 01 2011 23:25 GMT
#774
The ctrl+idle workers just blew my mind :D
ლ(╹◡╹ლ)
Kaitlin
Profile Joined December 2010
United States2958 Posts
May 02 2011 00:06 GMT
#775
On April 10 2011 11:16 Nate5911 wrote:
Is there a Mac equivalent command of hitting Control + F1 to select idle workers?


Whatever modifier you use to select an entire group of something by clicking on one of them is that button you need. Probably also the same button you use to create a new control group.
Kaitlin
Profile Joined December 2010
United States2958 Posts
May 02 2011 00:10 GMT
#776
On April 09 2011 07:47 darmousseh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 09 2011 06:06 Phlaim wrote:
On April 09 2011 05:52 vitaum88 wrote:
u can use enemy's techlabs and reactors as your own... just land on top of it


wat? that's cool to know in base trade situations. I mean, guess you shouldn´t kill the addons then.




What, is this for real? No way dude, I have to tell my terran friends. This is probably the best thing I've ever learned from this thread.


Yep it's true. What I'd really love to see is the completely unlikely scenario where a TvT is down to one player with a tech lab, the other with a barracks. Barracks simply lands on tech lab and wins. Now that would be something to see.
NoisyNinja
Profile Joined February 2011
United States991 Posts
May 02 2011 00:54 GMT
#777
I never knew what control groups were.
mikenet
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada5 Posts
May 02 2011 01:28 GMT
#778
Felt stupid when I used to a-move my blings at a group of marines instead of just moving at the ball and watching all the marines die instead of just half them dieing....Only works when the Terran doesn't split his army well of course.
"If you're not first your last"
Taxo
Profile Joined April 2011
Belgium23 Posts
June 04 2011 18:08 GMT
#779
An obvious one, but perhaps not everybody knows it:
When buildings are building you can already add them to a control group, in addition when the building is a production facility, you can already set your rally point during construction.

It really helped me, so I neve forgot about extra buildings I made and so that no units would just stand idle near their facility ^^
I'm from Belgium so I don't speak English really well. You can always correct me if it's done in a friendly manner ^^
Mitarohmar
Profile Joined February 2011
Belgium5 Posts
June 04 2011 19:11 GMT
#780
I realised getting 21 sentries before a robo wasn't too good of an idea... I got into platinum doing that... somehow. Almost instantly got into diamond once I stopped doing that.
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