Can you also comment on the graphic settings?

I know many pros play on lowest settings - however I found it hard to spot cloak units and also force fields on lowest setting

CecilSunkure

United States2829 Posts

April 05 2011 23:17 GMT

#245

On April 06 2011 07:29 Neosta2 wrote:
Can you also comment on the graphic settings?

I know many pros play on lowest settings - however I found it hard to spot cloak units and also force fields on lowest setting

I play with everyone on lowest! :O

oGm`REM

United States870 Posts

April 05 2011 23:19 GMT

#246

Wow, great read. I can tell it took awhile to create this.
Keep it up ~~

BisuDagger

Bisutopia19327 Posts

April 05 2011 23:29 GMT

#247

Minerals being mined... Great article. Thanks for putting in all the effort. I hope this will help lots of people including myself. There is always so much to learn.

ChineseWife

United States373 Posts

April 05 2011 23:30 GMT

#248

I only wish this guide had been written in September (lol)! I started in platinum and hit diamond after two months of intense perseverance, and shortly got to master ending season 1 above 3k. I have very few games played compared to you (around 300ish wins on ladder, who knows how many customs ^^) so I felt as though really analyzing every game and truly learning from my losses and victories really helped me become a better player. I was truly fortunate to have better players to look up to and just grind out games with. Anyway, great job Cecil. I imagine those who take this to heart will become MUCH better players.

<3

TL;DR - It took me about 6 months (since release) of hard work to learn this stuff, so all you noobies and aspiring gosus please thank Cecile for condensing his knowledge and sharing it with the community!

BenKen

United States860 Posts

April 05 2011 23:35 GMT

#249

On April 06 2011 05:37 CecilSunkure wrote:

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Yeah I feel the same way :/

He does too much goofing off, and I just don't have time to watch 30 minutes of teaching and 30 minutes of goofing off.

Well Day 9 did something similar to this for BW, but now it's kinda obvious he's milking his show for all it's worth these days. I mean, it's not like anyone has 300+ hours worth of unique and useful knowledge to dish out all the time. I'm not trying to bash Day 9 though, I still love the guy. Day 9's old BW podcasts on improving really were can't miss stuff though.

More importantly, THANK YOU so much CecilSunkure! I've seen most of this information in bits and pieces over the past year or so (including in Day 9 dailies) but to have it all in one well written document is solid gold.

ChineseWife

United States373 Posts

April 05 2011 23:38 GMT

#250

Yeah day9 is great and all but everytime he cuts away from the game/analysis and to his face, i feel like he is wasting my time

Leeoku

1617 Posts

April 06 2011 00:45 GMT

#251

great guide gona read more througly later =)

Ursadon-n-Pals

United States928 Posts

April 06 2011 02:08 GMT

#252

Learned so much! Thanks for writing this Cecil :D !

Irave

United States9965 Posts

April 06 2011 02:30 GMT

#253

Fantastic write up, thanks for taking the time to write this, learning quite a lot.

SpiritAshura

United States1271 Posts

April 06 2011 03:09 GMT

#254

I usually don't post on things like this but this deserves it you put a lot of good work into it. I'm a high diamond player currently and I found that I was mostly on the right track I already did a lot of the things you mention, but learning about YABOT and a few other key factors should help me progress

Very nice and detailed guide sir, I imagine anyone diamond and below could follow this and make large strides in their play quickly!

FrodaN

754 Posts

April 06 2011 03:29 GMT

#255

To all the people ragging on Day[9] for cutting to his face, blabbering about w/e, etc: get this straight. The Daily is a TV show. It's a television SHOW. Day[9] needs to be educational as well as entertaining. I feel like 30 minutes of education and 30 minutes of "nonsense" is actually a perfect balance.

Give Day[9] a break, especially considering how much content people demand out of him with how young SC2 is. After all, Sean had 10 years of BW to talk about in his dailies.

As for the OP, great post and guide. You are contributing a ton to the community by doing this and I hope you will be rewarded one day.

Minzy

Australia387 Posts

April 06 2011 03:49 GMT

#256

On April 06 2011 08:17 CecilSunkure wrote:

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I play with everyone on lowest! :O

i play with everything on low, but textures on extreme or high, whatever is the highest, its very easy to spot cloak like this i think.

Tiazi

Netherlands761 Posts

April 06 2011 05:49 GMT

#257

Wow! Thanks

zatic

Zurich15365 Posts

April 06 2011 06:03 GMT

#258

So much <3 . You just made a worn mod happy :-)

Mintastic

United States166 Posts

April 06 2011 06:19 GMT

#259

Epic OP, my hats off to you.

Maieu_san

Belgium6 Posts

April 06 2011 07:26 GMT

#260

very very nice guide!
I'm only a low level Bronze player, trying to get better. And this guide is going to help me greatly with that!

Thanks a million for this! Allready made a pdf of this for myself