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Mythito
Canada230 Posts
On March 20 2011 09:53 thesideshow wrote: whats the ideal ZvT unit compo against marine/tank/thor? i like roaches with some infestors for fungal growthing marines and neural parasite on thors, you could add some banelings if there are extra marines or zerglings if there are extra thors | ||
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snow2.0
Germany2073 Posts
is there any reason zergs oftentimes puke creep with overlords on unoccupied bases, but i've never seen one fly a queen around to put a creeptumor there? | ||
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Terranoob
44 Posts
I ask this as i haven't played a totally new player for ages and i seem to be winning as much as i'm losing, which should mean the matchmaking is matching me with players around my skill level? And if i start winning it will match me against those who are higher, and if i start losing, lower? Thanks! | ||
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ftl
28 Posts
You are correct that, if you start winning more, it'll start matching you with better players and if you start losing more, it'll match you up with worse players, until you're back to a 50-50 winrate. It's sometimes a little too slow at doing this, so it is possible to get win streaks of 20-30 matches if you improve too fast for it to catch up, but it'll get there soon enough. I should also note that the "points" you see in your rating are NOT the same thing as the MMR, and are sort of separate. Detailed explanations can be found at http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=118212 and http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=142211 . The short explanation: Blizzard keeps a hidden "Matchmaking Rating" (MMR) which is its best guess for how good you are. It will try to match you with people who have close MMR. The points you see differ from the MMR in several important ways: 1) The points have a floor of 0, so it's possible to have lots of people near 0 with different skill levels. 2) The points have a bonus pool, meaning that even if you're going 50-50, it's possible to have a net gain of points over time. Together that means that until you and the people you're playing have exhausted their bonus pool and are far from 0, the points can differ wildly from your MMR. It also has introduced some weird behavior - at one point, there was a bug where people at 0 points and low mmr would constantly find themselves favored against all their opponents, due to the way MMR and points interacted. Due to this, it's not true that it'll match you up with other 0-pointers - it'll match you with people with similar MMR, which may be other 0-pointers but which may also be found higher up in the points. | ||
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junmkk
United States19 Posts
I couldn't tell in game but it seemed like it. Shift Drop -> Shift Phase Mode. vs. manually doing it. It seems as if it drops the units and switches to phase mode simultaneously. Also I've never gotten warp prism speed upgrade... maybe with shift drop/phase mode and the upgrade there could be a new harassment option? | ||
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MuffinCookie
China64 Posts
On March 21 2011 02:21 Mythito wrote: i think what he was actually asking is if it is better to do this (stealing your diagram) [pooped tumor] creep creep [tumor from tumor] creep creep [tumor from tumor] or this [pooped tumor] creep creep creep creep [tumor from tumor] creep creep creep creep [tumor from tumor] and the answer to that is the most efficient is to do it as soon as the cooldown on the tumor ceases Oh I see what you mean. Well, either way, by placing three creep tumors, creep spreads to its limit by the time the cooldown expires. I think. I'm gonna go test that. | ||
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tuestresfat
2555 Posts
Sorry dumb question and wrong place but I don't want to post it in the TSL thread because I don't want to read the spoilers (haven't watched the VODs yet and didn't watch the live stream) | ||
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0neder
United States3733 Posts
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MuffinCookie
China64 Posts
On March 21 2011 12:40 tuestresfat wrote: What does TSL (the tournament) stand for? I presume it's not The SCV Life... Sorry dumb question and wrong place but I don't want to post it in the TSL thread because I don't want to read the spoilers (haven't watched the VODs yet and didn't watch the live stream) The TeamLiquid Starleague. You know, if you looked in the Liquipedia, you could answer a lot of these kinds of questions on your own. ;D | ||
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tuestresfat
2555 Posts
On March 21 2011 13:39 MuffinCookie wrote: The TeamLiquid Starleague. You know, if you looked in the Liquipedia, you could answer a lot of these kinds of questions on your own. ;D sry, i used the search function but didn't use liquipedia. thanks  | ||
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alphafuzard
United States1610 Posts
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Kyamo
Canada129 Posts
On March 21 2011 06:59 snow2.0 wrote: Zerg mid to lategame question: is there any reason zergs oftentimes puke creep with overlords on unoccupied bases, but i've never seen one fly a queen around to put a creeptumor there? Not a zerg, so take my answer with a grain of salt. But I think the overlord hangs out at the base to watch when it is taken (and also map presence to catch sight of banshees or drops, etc). The creep is so that if the opponent wants to take that base, they have to kill the ovie AND wait for the creep to dissipate before they can build there, so it delays the opponents expansion a bit. They don't send a queen because she is needed in base for injects, and even if there is an extra queen, she is super slow and very vulnerable on the way there and back. (And you may have just used the wrong word, but queens don't fly.) | ||
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iamke55
United States2806 Posts
On March 21 2011 15:22 alphafuzard wrote: Whats a good unit tester/micro practice map where I can just spawn whatever units with whatever upgrades and either have them duke it out or me control one army? I tried a bunch through searching on sc2 but they were all terrible... Please search for Unit Tester Online on the create game list, then scroll down to the 8 player maps and find it written exactly as it is here. | ||
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MuffinCookie
China64 Posts
On March 21 2011 20:40 Kyamo wrote: Not a zerg, so take my answer with a grain of salt. But I think the overlord hangs out at the base to watch when it is taken (and also map presence to catch sight of banshees or drops, etc). The creep is so that if the opponent wants to take that base, they have to kill the ovie AND wait for the creep to dissipate before they can build there, so it delays the opponents expansion a bit. They don't send a queen because she is needed in base for injects, and even if there is an extra queen, she is super slow and very vulnerable on the way there and back. (And you may have just used the wrong word, but queens don't fly.) I think what he meant was why don't zerg players use overlords to DROP queens at the expansion locations and put creep tumors to prevent expanding. And researching drop for overlords is really expensive, and not worth it if it's not going to be used to drop armies in bases. :\ | ||
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Hero1
135 Posts
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shcKk
Chile71 Posts
On March 22 2011 01:46 Hero1 wrote: What can I conclude TvP if my protoss opponent takes his first gas before his first gate and what are appropriate answers? dark templar (turrets) void ray (marines) or some crazy high templar build anyways just fast expand and get some marines | ||
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Kaitlin
United States2958 Posts
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Fik-cz
Czech Republic43 Posts
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Kaitlin
United States2958 Posts
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MuffinCookie
China64 Posts
On March 22 2011 06:28 Kaitlin wrote: What, other than the pylon's blue circle vs. dotted perimeter does the "Model Quality" setting in Graphics -> Options affect ? I have been playing Protoss with this on low, thus the dotted perimeter, which I've gotten used to. I see some streams with the higher setting and I'm not sure which I prefer, but it's hard to tell what else this change affects, i.e., in other races, as well. Death animations. | ||
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