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MShaw006
United States74 Posts
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SlapMySalami
United States1060 Posts
On April 13 2011 14:40 CrayAB wrote: Why do people save up minerals to throw down, say, 3 barracks at once, instead of putting them up as soon as they get 150 minerals? i think the most common case is for 4 warp gates (PvP matchup) where you see the players put down 1 gate and then put down 3 gateways like kaboooom if you watch the replays it's because they dont want the scouting probe to see it and also because the gateways finish at the same time as the warp gate research no matter what the only reason you would throw down the gateways earlier is if you were actually producing out of them before the warp gates but any extra units out of a 2nd gateway would actually delay the 3rd/4th gateways by that much gold edit: oh also i'm pretty sure you get the 3 gateways before you even place a 3rd pylon so you would be behind the cost of a zealot + a pylon | ||
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CookieMaker
Canada880 Posts
On April 13 2011 15:47 MShaw006 wrote: Does anybody have a good resource for (or just know) the spawn position limitations of the current map pool? I know that on Shakura's Plateau, your opponent never spawns above or below you. Are there weird spawn rules for other maps, too? Thanks in advance. No. That is the only one with limitations. The rest are anything goes (*bangs head) | ||
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ZedraC
South Africa109 Posts
1. Are there any pro gamers playing random in tournies? 2. If there is, what is/are their name(s)? (I would like to follow some of their games/replays to study their builds in the different matchups.) 3. Is there a link or replay of TLO playing with protoss? (I have seen him playing Terran and Zerg but never protoss) | ||
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kor0na
Sweden28 Posts
 I've already set the top buttons to be unclickable (actually I went all the way and hid them, as I prefer a cleaner screen) but that doesn't seem to help. | ||
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mothergoose729
United States666 Posts
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ftl
28 Posts
On April 13 2011 17:52 mothergoose729 wrote: I often see the pros desect units from a group with a keyboard shorcut. Specificallly zerg players will send out 4 lings, and send them to 4 different locations deselect them one at a time so that they each all go to a different location. What is that keyboard shortcut? Well, if you have a group selected, and you shift-click on one unit (either on the map or on the bottom of the screen) that deselects it. | ||
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mothergoose729
United States666 Posts
On April 13 2011 17:58 ftl wrote: Well, if you have a group selected, and you shift-click on one unit (either on the map or on the bottom of the screen) that deselects it. The way I see them do it seems like on the fly. No clicking at all. | ||
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CatNzHat
United States1599 Posts
I've tried a lot of methods of micro, and I seem to always manage to kill my own units (because I launch the missle right under the raven to prevent them from running). This makes them very cost in-efficient and do a bad job at stacking, if they didn't do friendly splash, I think that TvP might be balanced... | ||
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-Zoda-
France3578 Posts
On April 13 2011 17:02 ZedraC wrote: Three questions: 1. Are there any pro gamers playing random in tournies? 2. If there is, what is/are their name(s)? (I would like to follow some of their games/replays to study their builds in the different matchups.) 3. Is there a link or replay of TLO playing with protoss? (I have seen him playing Terran and Zerg but never protoss) 1. I think there are yes. But they seem to not be very successful/known. 2. I know Elky did play as random, but he's no more active. Edit: Nerchio played random also. (I heard that most of the random players go usually for some all-in, but I don't know if it's really true.) 3. http://www.sc2rep.com/replays?page=1&s_race=&search=liquidtlo You'll find some here. | ||
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Scip
Czech Republic11293 Posts
On April 13 2011 17:21 kor0na wrote: Is it possible to disable clicking on notifications on the left edge of the screen? I'm talking about the ones with stuff like "construction complete". When I'm microing frantically, I sometimes click them by accident, which moves my camera waaaay off from what I was doing I've already set the top buttons to be unclickable (actually I went all the way and hid them, as I prefer a cleaner screen) but that doesn't seem to help.In game, go options -> gameplay and in User Interface disable "show alerts". On question of my own, is it possible to change hotkey for "queue command" (what is by default shift)? I absolutely can not find it in the "Global" section of hotkeys, is it somewhere else? | ||
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nerdragewow
Czech Republic1 Post
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-Zoda-
France3578 Posts
On April 13 2011 21:00 nerdragewow wrote: PvT whats deals best with marauder viking? sentry zealot immortal? You should have Colossus to deal with Marauders, Stalker to focus the vikings and avoid the Colossi to be killed, and some zealots (chargelots are better) to avoid your stalker to be killed. Very simple. | ||
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Kambing
United States1176 Posts
On April 13 2011 18:05 mothergoose729 wrote: The way I see them do it seems like on the fly. No clicking at all. There is no way to de-select individual units from a group with hotkeys alone. Virtually everyone shift-clicks the group wireframe to deselect a unit and clicks the minimap in order to split off lings to xel'nagas. It could be that the cases you are thinking of either 1) the player does the motion quick enough you don't see the wireframe clicks or 2) the player doesn't have their cursor displayed on the screen. | ||
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Kambing
United States1176 Posts
On April 13 2011 19:52 Scipaeus121212 wrote: In game, go options -> gameplay and in User Interface disable "show alerts". On question of my own, is it possible to change hotkey for "queue command" (what is by default shift)? I absolutely can not find it in the "Global" section of hotkeys, is it somewhere else? No. Core actions such as smart action (right-click) and queue (shift) currently cannot be rebound. | ||
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Quochobao
United States350 Posts
On April 13 2011 21:54 -Zoda- wrote: You should have Colossus to deal with Marauders, Stalker to focus the vikings and avoid the Colossi to be killed, and some zealots (chargelots are better) to avoid your stalker to be killed. Very simple. Bad advice. Against a heavy-marauder composition, colossi are not that effective. Marauders do not die quickly to colossi, and can snipe them very quickly. As a toss, do make more immortal and chargelot than you would normally do. Use Force Field to prevent kiting. | ||
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ZedraC
South Africa109 Posts
On April 13 2011 19:52 Scipaeus121212 wrote: On question of my own, is it possible to change hotkey for "queue command" (what is by default shift)? I absolutely can not find it in the "Global" section of hotkeys, is it somewhere else? I asked a similar question about this on Battle.net a while back, and it seem like you cannot change "shift" to something else. I wanted to change the "ctrl". I hope i am wrong by saying: You cannot change these buttons currently (V1.3). | ||
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opisska
Poland8852 Posts
To clarify - everyone and their grandmother recommend 3gate sentry expand and I can see its benefits, but I am just not able to pull off a strategy that's absolutely dependent on FF usage. Honestly, I have no idea what to even do with the sentries against speedlings. If I try 1base, I get overwhlemed, but I have a hard time defending expansions, because speedlings are just everywhere and I can't ever kill them. I do enjoy epic games with T and P, but with Z, I either 4gate and have some chance, or just loose to their mobility and economical advantage. I am a long term gold leaguer and the state of my PvZ is quite demotivational for me to even play 1v1, when 1/3 of the games is alomst a sure loss. | ||
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rsvp
United States2266 Posts
On April 13 2011 22:34 Quochobao wrote: Bad advice. Against a heavy-marauder composition, colossi are not that effective. Marauders do not die quickly to colossi, and can snipe them very quickly. As a toss, do make more immortal and chargelot than you would normally do. Use Force Field to prevent kiting. Bad advice. In smaller scale battles, on an open area, and when you have few available forcefields, then yes your colossus army is not going to fare well against a heavy marauder composition. In other cases although marauders are better than marines against colossus, colossus still do just fine. I really wouldn't say there is a "best" way to deal with marauder viking, it all depends on your preference. There are many styles out there that can work - immortal/sentry/zealot, mass gateway chargelot/blink stalker, colossus/phoenix, even going colossus/stalker can work if you can use forcefields well and choose your battles wisely. | ||
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rsvp
United States2266 Posts
On April 13 2011 23:00 opisska wrote: Is there a good strategy for PvZ if you are terrible at micro and have pretty low APM (60)? To clarify - everyone and their grandmother recommend 3gate sentry expand and I can see its benefits, but I am just not able to pull off a strategy that's absolutely dependent on FF usage. Honestly, I have no idea what to even do with the sentries against speedlings. If I try 1base, I get overwhlemed, but I have a hard time defending expansions, because speedlings are just everywhere and I can't ever kill them. I do enjoy epic games with T and P, but with Z, I either 4gate and have some chance, or just loose to their mobility and economical advantage. I am a long term gold leaguer and the state of my PvZ is quite demotivational for me to even play 1v1, when 1/3 of the games is alomst a sure loss. Having high APM is not a prerequisite for being able to use force fields well. Honestly force fields are just so powerful, and the easiest way to improve your PvZ is to just improve your force field usage. Keep practicing. | ||
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