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ccesssu
United States19 Posts
right now, it is between 12 and 14 seconds, i'm silver league what is a decent delay i should try to aim for? what is your delay (just curious for comparison)? and what is the best way to improve? does using an audio loop reminder help, or simply makes one worse at remembering? | ||
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emc
United States3088 Posts
Hotkey everything and cycle through them, the more you do that the more your apm will rise. | ||
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coriamon
244 Posts
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SoKHo
Korea (South)1081 Posts
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FindMuck
63 Posts
If you could achieve an average of 15 seconds delay like that, just macroing roach hydra into plat would be a breezer. My macro is not the best, but when i play 15-20 min macro games vs toss (speciall when i go muta harass centric), my injections are around 20 second gaps ;_; Goes to show you dont even need macro to get into diamond O.O EDIT: Generally to remember to inject, you should be constantly making units. That way, when you sudenlly make 20 lings instead of 5, you know its time to inject your 5 bases. On November 10 2011 10:22 coriamon wrote: My delay is generally 2-3 seconds and I'm in plat. SO JEALOUS OF YOUR MACRO when did plats get so good ? T_______T | ||
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Cerpher
United States37 Posts
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prowala
United States147 Posts
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FindMuck
63 Posts
On November 10 2011 10:44 prowala wrote: I recommend the strategy known as "tapping" coined by day9 I think. For me, I hotkey my main hatch on 4 and all my hatches on 5. I tap 45454545 all game, watching the HUGE inject duration bar on the 4. This helps me keep an eye on injects, and is good to get a feel of the timing. It's gotten to the point where I can sort of "feel" it, and hop over and inject without having to check constantly. Now if only I could micro... =( I used to do this, until i needed more hotkeys for units (1 main army (sometimes split into 2 for flanking), 2 for banes/infestors, 3 for mutas 4 for harass, more flank hotkey, etc) What you can do (what I do) is keep all hatches on 5, have 1-4 for units, and i remap f1 f2 f3 f4 as 7 8 9 0, and thats where i keep my queens ( you gerneally dont need more than 4 injecting queens) that way, you have more room for units, and to check, you can just double tap f1 , which will center to the queen, with the hatch right near by. | ||
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ccesssu
United States19 Posts
On November 10 2011 10:44 prowala wrote: I recommend the strategy known as "tapping" coined by day9 I think. For me, I hotkey my main hatch on 4 and all my hatches on 5. I tap 45454545 all game, watching the HUGE inject duration bar on the 4. This helps me keep an eye on injects, and is good to get a feel of the timing. It's gotten to the point where I can sort of "feel" it, and hop over and inject without having to check constantly. Now if only I could micro... =( hmm i'll try the 4545 trick next game..i use the backspace method, so i can't do the separate queen hotkey method how do people have enough hotkeys for each queen? my set up right now: *hatches *queens *whole army *lings (or unit type 1/2/3) *blings *infestors *rest of the jazz if i need another unit group, usually ranged units / corruptors etc *scouting ol *scouting ling at their nat or tower *mutas | ||
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Rafael
Venezuela182 Posts
Is the tap method as above poster said. Hotkey every hatch indivodualy. i.e First Hatch - 4 Second Hatch - 5 Third Hatch - 6 Tap your 3 hatchs regularly. Then double press the hotkey to go to the location , select a queen , inject. Also all your hatcheries hotkey to 0 that can be remapped to 'W' Many pros do it this way to. And its was made public by day9 | ||
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AngelLock
New Zealand54 Posts
I then am always spending any extra amp I have on checking my larva on 5. If suddenly I have a bunch of larva I know its time to inject. The only issue with this is if you get supply blocked it suddenly becomes unreliable, but that's an easy fix (don't get supply blocked =P) Hope this helps! | ||
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Chutoro
New Zealand95 Posts
I think it's more useful to look at the overall pattern of the graph. If you consistently see gaps of 5-10+ seconds on every inject, your basic mechanics need work. If you go for long periods with very small gaps, but then see occasional large gaps where you don't inject at all, then your mechanics are probably fine but you might need to improve your multitasking. If you have big gaps because your queens got sniped due to harassment or a push, then you might need to work on your scouting and reactions. I find SC2Gears most useful for finding out what actually happened macro-wise, as opposed to what I think happened. It's easy to forget injects during a big battle without ever realizing you've done it, but it will stick out like a sore thumb in replay analysis. | ||
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Silidons
United States2813 Posts
just tabbing through the through the game makes it 10x easier to hit injects. bind each camera position to a different expand etc. the backspace method is very bad because it only works the most efficiently if ALL queens inject at the same time and that is not going to happen in pretty much any game. | ||
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Fishgle
United States2174 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/QCxgN.jpg) Now, always look at that side of screen. Never look at center. never. Look at top right, bottom left, or left of screen. Now, when you see the little wormy come out, you do whatever nonsense you normally do to inject. for me, 55(LC)F(LC) 6(LC)F(LC) etc. So. look at left, when wormy (or queen) shows up, stop what you're doing and inject. (you can push spacebar when you see it and your camera will auto move to the location btw, but you gotta be fast. or you can click on orange square, but that's kinda dumb) and that is how you inject on time, like a boss, without any outside help like that one guy that has a 45 sec loop of himself saying inject or the darn inject overlay and a multitude of nonsensical stuff. | ||
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iKuMoonSa
Korea (South)5 Posts
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SpoR
United States1542 Posts
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zylog
Canada943 Posts
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Hairy
United Kingdom1169 Posts
--Constantly macro. If you spot you have a burst of larvae, it's time to inject --Watch for the notifications on the left side of the screen --Listen for the sound effect --Try finding a single hatchery to a hotkey and 'tapping' it occasionally to see the inject progress bar --Use camera hotkeys to occasionally pop back to a hatchery to see the progress bar (unit healthbars always on!) --Use 'cycle town hall' button (default backspace) to pop back to a hatchery to see the progress bar (unit healthbars always on!) --Double tap hatchery hotkey to to pop back to a hatchery to see the progress bar (unit healthbars always on!) --Note the clock time you need to inject next SC2Gears is great. If your injects are always sloppy you need to decide on and use a reliable method that works for you. If your injects are generally good, but have gaps, you need to go look at that point in the replay and find out what was distracting you, and try not to let it pull your attention away next time. | ||
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tuestresfat
2555 Posts
Personally my injects are around 7-10s for macro games and around 5s for short ones. I have never, never, never, never ever met a zerg with 2-3 second injects unless they only injected like twice before the game ended. OP, 12-14 seconds will get you to diamond lol. It's not great, but it's not keeping you in silver. | ||
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
On November 10 2011 22:50 tuestresfat wrote: You guys must be the best plat players in sc2, I check the larva inject of almost every zerg I play at masters and rarely are they <5s for a <10min game and rarely are they <10s for a >15min game. Personally my injects are around 7-10s for macro games and around 5s for short ones. I have never, never, never, never ever met a zerg with 2-3 second injects unless they only injected like twice before the game ended. OP, 12-14 seconds will get you to diamond lol. It's not great, but it's not keeping you in silver. Inject timing is pretty important for aggressive openings (like in 2s for example). You have to be pretty much on the dot with your injection in low econ vs low econ scenarios in team games. | ||
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