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Irri
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden41 Posts
September 18 2012 13:00 GMT
#1041
I just found this thread! This is the sort of thing I have been looking for. Pretty much all guides say work on your macro, hit the injects, do not get supply capped, but how do you know when you are doing it good enough to start work on other parts of your game? The benchmark thing is really really good!! I'll tell how it goes, it would be nice to get out of silver league.

THANKS FILTER!!
Kronen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States732 Posts
September 19 2012 03:06 GMT
#1042
As a zerg working on these benchmarks, I keep running into terrans on the ladder that tell me that this 1/1 with speed roach push is an all-in... Would you guys characterize it as such? I am able to transition and populate my third quite quickly and hitting the benchmarks gives me a nice cushion. I definitely push hard at 11min if I scout a meching (heavy hellion and 1-2 banshee) terran and delay populating my third at that point.

thoughts?
Salivanth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia1071 Posts
September 19 2012 03:28 GMT
#1043
At higher levels, it's pretty all-in, yes. You're on 2 bases for a very long time against a 2 base T/P, and so if your opponent is macroing well, you really need to do a lot of damage to even out. At lower levels however, you can get away with it by simply macroing better than them, which you almost certainly will with these benchmarks. In ZvZ, it's less all-in because of the nature of the matchup.
<@Wikt> so you are one of those nega-fans <@Wikt> that hates the company that makes a game and everything they stand for <@Wikt> but still plays the game <@Wikt> (like roughly 30% of blizzard's player base, maybe much more...)
Autofire2
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Pakistan290 Posts
September 20 2012 22:52 GMT
#1044
lol thanks everyone who gave me shit for having 49 scvs rather than 50. Turns out I was building a depot on 9 instead of 10 because I had literally forgotten. Messing up the whole build.

Hit 51 every practice now.

Now for that damned starport timing

Autofire2
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Pakistan290 Posts
September 20 2012 23:42 GMT
#1045
Just got cannon rushed lol. Totally my fault, I had all the time in the world to react, I had just forgotten how exactly to react to a cannon rush and my marine died to a cannon a second before he wouldve killed the probe. Lol oh well.

My question is, can I send out the SCV at 11 to scout without hurting my macro timings? Just to scout for cheese and such

Irri
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden41 Posts
September 28 2012 10:11 GMT
#1046
I just went from silver to gold as Zerg thanks to this guide and I am very happy about that (soon to be Plat I hope)!

After hitting the benchmarks in the first episode regularly I started with the build in the second. Those benchmarks are much harder especially on ladder. ;-) I have managed to hit all but one during about 20 games (around 5 against the AI). The one I haven't managed to hit is the 60 drones @ 8:00 benchmark. Now I am wondering if I am doing the build wrong, the other possibility is that I am just bad (which is perfectly possible). ;-) Since I have extracted the build from the videos where filter
don't hit that benchmark either I feel I need a better source. Does someone have a replay or something when doing the silver level Zerg build and hitting that benchmark?
absone
Profile Joined March 2012
Belgium11 Posts
September 28 2012 10:16 GMT
#1047
ty Filter! After 2 years of hard practice, i've finally found your threat and increase my skill from 1 to 20! this is THE method! thx so much!
nereme
Profile Joined July 2012
United Kingdom32 Posts
October 04 2012 09:07 GMT
#1048
I love the guide I just want to say again

I switched race to Terran at the end of the last season placed into bronze and am now upto gold the only trouble I have really is TvZ I just ruined by lings and banelings no matter how much i try to split or micro against the lings I just feel like there is nothing I can do
http://sc2ranks.com/eu/2511690/Nereme
dribYLrae
Profile Joined September 2012
Germany19 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-05 07:23:53
October 04 2012 09:22 GMT
#1049
Thank you for this useful video series. I really appreciate your work!

As soon as I have enough time, I will work on my zerg macro.
dribYLrae
Profile Joined September 2012
Germany19 Posts
October 05 2012 07:23 GMT
#1050
Amazing! I played two games yesterday and won easily. Now I need to improve the injects and the overlord timings better.

You can find filters build order for zerg here.

Thanks again for the great tuts!
FrogOfWar
Profile Joined March 2010
Germany1406 Posts
October 05 2012 08:23 GMT
#1051
I'm a platinum zerg and currently working on hitting the zerg episode 3 benchmarks reliably. My game is improving already, even in areas you don't even directly touch in that video, like doing stuff quicker in general, scrolling less and using location hotkeys more.

So I wanted to say: great job, Filter, this was really needed. It's exactly as you said in the Terran series. I've heard a thousand times that macro is important and that I need to hit injects and make a lot of drones and so on, but what was missing is something that shows how to make it happen on a practical level.

I'll report back when I've finished the zerg tutorial. My goal is to get to diamond (wouldn't mind masters though ^^), and I think I will. Thanks a bunch!

A suggestion: You have a link to your Youtube in the OP, but you might want to update it so that people clearly see there is a zerg series as well. I watched three of the terran episodes before I found out by accident.
humblegar
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
Norway883 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-05 08:42:53
October 05 2012 08:42 GMT
#1052
On October 04 2012 18:07 nereme wrote:
I love the guide I just want to say again

I switched race to Terran at the end of the last season placed into bronze and am now upto gold the only trouble I have really is TvZ I just ruined by lings and banelings no matter how much i try to split or micro against the lings I just feel like there is nothing I can do


You are terran with floating buildings that can switch addons. Use this build to mix in your own stuff, like tanks or helions. Filter even has videos with variations. One variation includes helions.

When you know these builds you can easily steal similar builds from replays too, like from IEM. MVP has a similar fast expand but with earlier medivacs and push vs Protoss for instance. Builds like that are so easy to copy when you already know Filter's builds.

nereme
Profile Joined July 2012
United Kingdom32 Posts
October 05 2012 17:52 GMT
#1053
Just found the Hellion TvZ build will give that a shot
http://sc2ranks.com/eu/2511690/Nereme
Namelless
Profile Joined September 2012
Germany38 Posts
October 10 2012 11:48 GMT
#1054
filter, will you make any videos for hots beta/final?!
TaLuS
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany17 Posts
October 10 2012 21:45 GMT
#1055
Hey, I wanted to start learning Terran and watched the videos until episode 6 and it helped me a lot, I'm looking forward to play more and hit the benchmarks to dominate my opponents!
When do you stream?
Filter
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Canada620 Posts
October 10 2012 22:09 GMT
#1056
On October 10 2012 20:48 Namelless wrote:
filter, will you make any videos for hots beta/final?!


Beta, no. When it goes live I will do though. I don't really see the point in looking at the HoTS beta that in depth just yet, things are still changing rapidly.

As far as streaming goes, I'm pretty inconsistent with it right now but I will start to pick it up soon. I recently got diagnosed with ADHD. ADHD on it's own isn't that big of a deal, but when you're 28 it starts to put some pieces of the puzzle together as far as inconsistency and all that. Hopefully some treatment will help me be more consistent with how I play.
Live hard, live free.
Kronen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States732 Posts
October 10 2012 23:28 GMT
#1057
On October 11 2012 07:09 Filter wrote:
As far as streaming goes, I'm pretty inconsistent with it right now but I will start to pick it up soon. I recently got diagnosed with ADHD. ADHD on it's own isn't that big of a deal, but when you're 28 it starts to put some pieces of the puzzle together as far as inconsistency and all that. Hopefully some treatment will help me be more consistent with how I play.


Take it easy dude and be gentle with yourself as you adjust to whatever treatment you choose. It's a big transition and you should prioritize yourself before anything else... I'm glad to hear it and I wish you the best!
Siggen
Profile Joined November 2011
143 Posts
October 11 2012 20:24 GMT
#1058
On October 04 2012 18:07 nereme wrote:
I love the guide I just want to say again

I switched race to Terran at the end of the last season placed into bronze and am now upto gold the only trouble I have really is TvZ I just ruined by lings and banelings no matter how much i try to split or micro against the lings I just feel like there is nothing I can do


Have you tried putting marines on another hotkey as well as your main army? Then when banelings come you micro them back. If there is too many banelings you pick up with medivacs if your opponent does not have air.
TheSituasian
Profile Joined April 2011
United States8 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-10-12 05:44:50
October 12 2012 05:40 GMT
#1059
So what's a good counter to this PvT? Assuming similar skill levels and constant production I feel toss has difficulty fighting these 10 minute pushes simply because we can't early harass because we'll just get owned by range and number. I'm asking because as p I've used similar strategy, and noticed many many many terrans are using your "just macro and push at 10" strategy... Multiple times I've talked to t post game and they say they're using what they learned from you. Anyways as toss I feel I just have an extremely difficult time fending off so many marines and medivacs. If I try rushing colossi. I can't have many units and colossi will die quick. If I make too many units I won't be able to compete in macro... While I can win sometimes, its only because my opponent really took your videos to heart and made marines with no upgrades, but sucked at macro..

However against players who macro nearly perfectly I have a hell of a time against it often losing... On top of the fact that I don't want to do any sort of cheesy all ins which are probably the best solutions.
"We got ourselves a Situasian"
Siggen
Profile Joined November 2011
143 Posts
October 12 2012 05:54 GMT
#1060
On October 12 2012 14:40 TheSituasian wrote:
So what's a good counter to this PvT? Assuming similar skill levels and constant production I feel toss has difficulty fighting these 10 minute pushes simply because we can't early harass because we'll just get owned by range and number. I'm asking because as p I've used similar strategy, and noticed many many many terrans are using your "just macro and push at 10" strategy... Multiple times I've talked to t post game and they say they're using what they learned from you. Anyways as toss I feel I just have an extremely difficult time fending off so many marines and medivacs. If I try rushing colossi. I can't have many units and colossi will die quick. If I make too many units I won't be able to compete in macro... While I can win sometimes, its only because my opponent really took your videos to heart and made marines with no upgrades, but sucked at macro..

However against players who macro nearly perfectly I have a hell of a time against it often losing... On top of the fact that I don't want to do any sort of cheesy all ins which are probably the best solutions.


The counter to this build is Nexus. We can not punish you until 10 min either. P have chronoboost. Look at how Parting plays!
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