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speakerbox
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada453 Posts
September 28 2012 05:58 GMT
#14201
just switched to terran from zerg.. what builds should i do for just good standard play in the matchups? or just current builds in general?
twin anchors houseboats
Disarmed
Profile Joined April 2012
Austria721 Posts
September 28 2012 19:33 GMT
#14202
Question:

Why do you see so many pros not build any vikings but only medivacs in TvT?
AnachronisticAnarchy
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States2957 Posts
September 29 2012 00:02 GMT
#14203
Is it normal to have your brain basically shut down while playing? As in, all higher thought just stops and you just play like a machine, merely going through the rhythms?
If so, when you become good enough, does it stop happening as much and you start thinking more?
"How are you?" "I am fine, because it is not normal to scream in pain."
Artline
Profile Joined September 2011
177 Posts
September 29 2012 01:06 GMT
#14204
On September 29 2012 04:33 Disarmed wrote:
Question:

Why do you see so many pros not build any vikings but only medivacs in TvT?


If its marine vs marine there is little advantage in having air superiority.
ligand
Profile Joined February 2011
United States53 Posts
September 29 2012 07:34 GMT
#14205
On September 28 2012 14:58 speakerbox wrote:
just switched to terran from zerg.. what builds should i do for just good standard play in the matchups? or just current builds in general?


Learn to 1 rax FE into double gas/3 rax. It's not ideal in TvZ but it can work and it's the basis for understanding the concepts behind fast expanding as Terran.
guitarizt
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1492 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-29 09:01:00
September 29 2012 08:00 GMT
#14206
Why aren't more pros using all queens on one hotkey to inject faster late game? It seems like a lot of them still put hatches on 4 and queens on 5+ which I still do. I'm wondering if I should switch or use some hybrid where I put all queens on 0 as well and bind that to tilde or something.
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Hemingway
GWBuffalo
Profile Joined January 2011
United States234 Posts
September 29 2012 17:58 GMT
#14207
On September 29 2012 17:00 guitarizt wrote:
Why aren't more pros using all queens on one hotkey to inject faster late game? It seems like a lot of them still put hatches on 4 and queens on 5+ which I still do. I'm wondering if I should switch or use some hybrid where I put all queens on 0 as well and bind that to tilde or something.


All queens on the same hotkey is very nice early game, but as you get more bases, and you quickly use backspace method to inject, the queens have a tendency to roam all over the place. I see more pros just using backspace (rebound I assume) and box/click selecting each queen to injected as they cycle through bases. This is much safer. As for queens on individual hotkeys, I've never understood why anyone would want to do that. It seems broodwaresque (I never played BW), so maybe that's why. But base cycle and quickly box/inject queens is probably the best and safest inject method late game.
Dragnmn
Profile Joined May 2011
Netherlands52 Posts
September 29 2012 18:07 GMT
#14208
On September 30 2012 02:58 GWBuffalo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 29 2012 17:00 guitarizt wrote:
Why aren't more pros using all queens on one hotkey to inject faster late game? It seems like a lot of them still put hatches on 4 and queens on 5+ which I still do. I'm wondering if I should switch or use some hybrid where I put all queens on 0 as well and bind that to tilde or something.


All queens on the same hotkey is very nice early game, but as you get more bases, and you quickly use backspace method to inject, the queens have a tendency to roam all over the place. I see more pros just using backspace (rebound I assume) and box/click selecting each queen to injected as they cycle through bases. This is much safer. As for queens on individual hotkeys, I've never understood why anyone would want to do that. It seems broodwaresque (I never played BW), so maybe that's why. But base cycle and quickly box/inject queens is probably the best and safest inject method late game.


Another option is to put all injecting queens on one hotkey and use camera hotkeys to cycle through your bases.
Durmaz21
Profile Joined September 2012
Sweden52 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-29 21:08:16
September 29 2012 21:03 GMT
#14209
So far I have only been utilizing the few first control group keys (1-5) but I want to start utilizing all 10. I figure I should rebind keys 6 to 0 so I don't have to move my hand all the way to the right side of the keyboard when I play, any suggestions on where I should bind them?

I'm right-handed, lol, if that wasn't obvious and I'm open to any suggestions, I am in the process of making a new hotkey layout and would much appreciate any input.
GWBuffalo
Profile Joined January 2011
United States234 Posts
September 29 2012 21:31 GMT
#14210
On September 30 2012 06:03 Durmaz21 wrote:
So far I have only been utilizing the few first control group keys (1-5) but I want to start utilizing all 10. I figure I should rebind keys 6 to 0 so I don't have to move my hand all the way to the right side of the keyboard when I play, any suggestions on where I should bind them?

I'm right-handed, lol, if that wasn't obvious and I'm open to any suggestions, I am in the process of making a new hotkey layout and would much appreciate any input.


tilde (~) and W are two good spots. I rebind those to 9 and 0.

If you are going to do an overhaul of your hotkeys, you might want to check out The Core. I haven't really investigated it since I'm too lazy to relearn all my keys, but I've heard good things.
guitarizt
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1492 Posts
September 29 2012 23:18 GMT
#14211
Mid game zvp if I'm going roach and he's going stalker immortal do I focus the stalkers or immortals with my roaches?
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Hemingway
GWBuffalo
Profile Joined January 2011
United States234 Posts
September 30 2012 05:51 GMT
#14212
On September 30 2012 08:18 guitarizt wrote:
Mid game zvp if I'm going roach and he's going stalker immortal do I focus the stalkers or immortals with my roaches?


Only focus immortals if you get a lucky opportunity to one or two shot them. Don't focus stalkers, just a-move. It's much more important to split your roaches and lings into two groups (with a mixture of roaches and lings in both groups) and try to position for flanks and get a good surround. After that, it's usually just a-move. You can focus small groups if you want to get fancy, but try not to focus fire too many roaches on something-- if you do, you are just going to over-dps and waste a lot of dps for nothing.
guitarizt
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1492 Posts
September 30 2012 07:01 GMT
#14213
That makes so much sense and is easier to do. I used to just a-move, but I thought focus firing stalkers with roaches would better for some reason. I guess it's probably different than zvz especially with blink. I always seem to get the short end of the stick since I've started focusing stalkers, but I wasn't sure if it was me screwing up the micro or my pc lagging. I haven't tried splitting my roaches mixed with lings in two separate groups either. Can't wait to try that too.
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Hemingway
guitarizt
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1492 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-30 23:20:47
September 30 2012 09:27 GMT
#14214
<edit> deleted because this was definitely not a simple question.
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Hemingway
Salomonster
Profile Joined August 2012
Sweden67 Posts
September 30 2012 09:29 GMT
#14215
On September 30 2012 02:58 GWBuffalo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 29 2012 17:00 guitarizt wrote:
Why aren't more pros using all queens on one hotkey to inject faster late game? It seems like a lot of them still put hatches on 4 and queens on 5+ which I still do. I'm wondering if I should switch or use some hybrid where I put all queens on 0 as well and bind that to tilde or something.


All queens on the same hotkey is very nice early game, but as you get more bases, and you quickly use backspace method to inject, the queens have a tendency to roam all over the place. I see more pros just using backspace (rebound I assume) and box/click selecting each queen to injected as they cycle through bases. This is much safer. As for queens on individual hotkeys, I've never understood why anyone would want to do that. It seems broodwaresque (I never played BW), so maybe that's why. But base cycle and quickly box/inject queens is probably the best and safest inject method late game.




I used to do the style with hatcheries on 4 and queens on 5,6,7 but since that first of all takes up alot of hotkeys, and also is a quite slow method when injecting all hatcheries at the same time I swapped to using hatheries on for and queens on 5 using the backspace method.
This is really fast when injecting all hatcheries simultanious but as stated above, as soon as you have more hatcheries than queens or any queen has insufficient energy they will start roaming around the map.
Lately I have been using queens on hatheries on 4 and queens on 5 and jumping between bases with camera hotkeys. This feels far superior to both previous mentioned methods, since its just as fast as backspace method (with the right hotkey setup) and much easier to navigate if you dont have syynced injects.
It do not have the same problems with queens running around the map since you will only jump to the hatcheries with a queen next to it.
It works really good whether you prefer manually selecting queens or using one hotkey for all injecting queens.

the way I have hotkeys setup for it o work with hotkeys is following:

recall camera is shift+key. therefore you can:
1. press queen hotkey
2. press inject
3. press and hold shift
4. cycle through your base cameras while holding shift and hitting basecam 1, click hatch, basecam 2, klick hatch, basecam 3 click hatch, etc etc...

btw I use the core layout.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=341878
twitch.tv/salomonster
guitarizt
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1492 Posts
September 30 2012 09:42 GMT
#14216
Thanks bwbuffalo and salmomonster it's about time I dive into the core layout. The camera inject thing makes sense and I've seen other people use what was probably that method on stream. I've been thinking about changing my unit hotkeys to 3-5 because it's much easier to hit 3a4a5a and I already have a hard enough time with unit control as it is. It's pretty much impossible for me to fluidly hit 1a2a3a. Old habits die hard and I was used to hatches on 5+ from broodwar.
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Hemingway
Salomonster
Profile Joined August 2012
Sweden67 Posts
September 30 2012 13:51 GMT
#14217
I was hessitant the first time I was thinkin about changeing my hotkeys. this is the third time I make major changes (read: changed everything) to my hotkey settup, but luckily it's actually much faster to get used to a new setup than people think, and I find the benefits from haveing an optimized setup are huge. the game flows i such a smooth way compared to when you struggle to consistantly be able to hit some combinations.
twitch.tv/salomonster
Pauliofish
Profile Joined September 2012
Canada1 Post
September 30 2012 19:46 GMT
#14218
Is there a thread like this one: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/6351885477

on the TL forums for zerg and terran?
BobTheSCV
Profile Joined May 2011
Sweden37 Posts
September 30 2012 21:21 GMT
#14219
Are there any tricks to playing in semi-laggy situations (like EU->NA)?

Pathing gets so stupid in these cases. Force fields are the worst. The pathing lags out and units try to run through them (and fail) instead of run around them. Worker harass is also a serious headache to deal with.
SCV ready!
monk
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States8476 Posts
October 01 2012 08:08 GMT
#14220
On October 01 2012 04:46 Pauliofish wrote:
Is there a thread like this one: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/6351885477

on the TL forums for zerg and terran?

Like this? I'll get to updating it soon.
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