EPTI was in bronze for like 8 seasons( I played like 3 1v1 a season back then) I was just a casual player playing monobattles and team games mostly. I got tired of getting "the league card" pulled on me so I decided to take 1v1s seriously and the next season I got to silver(i stayed there for a few seasons). Then HotS beta got released so looking for some gameplay I found this guy streaming by the name of "TheJaKaTaK" I figured I'll watch this n00b play and see the new units in action. while watching him he kept speaking of mechanics, macro, the core, and the levels. I watched and learned then a week or so passed I figured I'll give this "levels" thing a try(it was the levels back then before it was the staircase). At first it was hard to win with nothing but zealots, soon however I found my self winning games once I got the pylon timings and macro down. 2 seasons later I'm diamond and so close to masters that I can taste it. I have beaten thestaircase, and I'm using thecore hotkey layout aswell. I'm positive if it wasn't for you JaK I wouldn't be at the skill level that I am currently at. It's ashamed that there won't be "another year of TheJaKaTaK". I would like to thank you JaK for all that you've done for me ,and the rest sc2 community. I'll miss ya JaK and it looks like I have to find another stream to troll now.
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SouthernGamer
United States5 Posts
I was in bronze for like 8 seasons( I played like 3 1v1 a season back then) I was just a casual player playing monobattles and team games mostly. I got tired of getting "the league card" pulled on me so I decided to take 1v1s seriously and the next season I got to silver(i stayed there for a few seasons). Then HotS beta got released so looking for some gameplay I found this guy streaming by the name of "TheJaKaTaK" I figured I'll watch this n00b play and see the new units in action. while watching him he kept speaking of mechanics, macro, the core, and the levels. I watched and learned then a week or so passed I figured I'll give this "levels" thing a try(it was the levels back then before it was the staircase). At first it was hard to win with nothing but zealots, soon however I found my self winning games once I got the pylon timings and macro down. 2 seasons later I'm diamond and so close to masters that I can taste it. I have beaten thestaircase, and I'm using thecore hotkey layout aswell. I'm positive if it wasn't for you JaK I wouldn't be at the skill level that I am currently at. It's ashamed that there won't be "another year of TheJaKaTaK". I would like to thank you JaK for all that you've done for me ,and the rest sc2 community. I'll miss ya JaK and it looks like I have to find another stream to troll now. | ||
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Antylamon
United States1981 Posts
On May 05 2013 15:29 SouthernGamer wrote: It's ashamed that there won't be "another year of TheJaKaTaK". I would like to thank you JaK for all that you've done for me ,and the rest sc2 community. I'll miss ya JaK and it looks like I have to find another stream to troll now. Wut | ||
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JaKaTaKSc2
United States2787 Posts
On May 05 2013 12:06 Mesha wrote: After all this time messing with sc2 and making all the noobs help tools you are talking about gold and platinum. It just makes no sense that you haven't improved one tiny bit over this time. I don't want to be mean or whatever, but come on - when are you finally start playing the game Jak? I mean - everyday i see this threads of yours getting a few new pages but somehow you are all missing the point about playing a game. You actually have to play the game not just get ready to play the game...eventually...maybe one day.. I think you misunderstood me about "I might be able to snag platinum now" I meant with the test accounts, playing step 1. Not with my personal ladder account. I've been "playing the game" for quite some time now.  @Southerngamer There will be another year of TheJaKaTaK. It just won't be an every single day stream anymore, that's all. Streaming is not really for me. YouTube is a much more appropriate medium for the content I'm creating. It's also "write" and not "wright"  | ||
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colonelvirus
United Kingdom42 Posts
 I've managed one game so far, and it was pointless because I couldn't afford Utralisks and upgrades for them, so they were basically just walking targets. If anyone has managed and could throw me some pointers would appreciate it. I'll keep messing around, see what I can do. Maybe I just need to produce more lings, tanks/collosus/mmm kinda makes them useless at buying me time atm though. Thanks. | ||
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JaKaTaKSc2
United States2787 Posts
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colonelvirus
United Kingdom42 Posts
Aslong as no one hits me within the 12-14 minute mark I can normally defend with 3/3 zerlings plus a a few spines. This is my best game using it so far: http://www.ggtracker.com/matches/3005341 (I practised a little against A.I). | ||
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JaKaTaKSc2
United States2787 Posts
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Crugio
Australia45 Posts
On May 05 2013 03:54 Spaceboy wrote: Really? Maybe I'm just a horrible player but I'm not convinced this is the case for Zerg. On the minerals only stage I only managed to get to the top of bronze (in the HotS beta) before passing the benchmarks and moving on (although I feel like I could have done it indefinitely and not got promoted). I was going for Masters benchmarks so I don't think I was macroing THAT horribly either. I mean to beat mass slowlings all the other person has to do is wall themselves in and tech to any AoE .. it doesn't matter if you take 8 bases, 3 colossi will kill infinite slowlings. I should point out I was only ever attacking after getting saturated on at least 2 bases though (I mean this is a macro exercise).. so maybe that's why. Any zerg out there manage to make Gold without taking a gas? (and without early pooling, obviously it's already been demonstrated you can make GM if you do well enough that but that hardly helps your macro) I have to agree with Spaceboy (step 1: no gas). For Zerg, mass slowlings -outside of an early allin ala. 6-pool - are very weak. You have to be really lucky for this to work or have a very bad opponent, it might have some limited success vs a zerg opponent if they don't send a ovie outside your ramp. Zerglings are especially vulnerable to any wall off (e.g. a bunker or two) would shut this down completely, followed up with hellion expand which is quite standard for terran. But if the intent is to practise mechanics, then you could do Step 1 Zerg:
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colonelvirus
United Kingdom42 Posts
Btw the bit that caused me to believe each unit, every combination, every step was this line: "When you have passed a step with each unit at least once, you have ascended TheStaircase." As it says every unit at least once to pass the ladder. I took that as meaning at step 2 as well. Which was obviously wrong lol. | ||
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JaKaTaKSc2
United States2787 Posts
On May 06 2013 11:37 Crugio wrote: I have to agree with Spaceboy (step 1: no gas). For Zerg, mass slowlings -outside of an early allin ala. 6-pool - are very weak. You have to be really lucky for this to work or have a very bad opponent, it might have some limited success vs a zerg opponent if they don't send a ovie outside your ramp. Zerglings are especially vulnerable to any wall off (e.g. a bunker or two) would shut this down completely, followed up with hellion expand which is quite standard for terran. But if the intent is to practise mechanics, then you could do Step 1 Zerg:
Absolutely. The mode of play is restricted to melee only, but any of the steps can be against AI or friends, or unranked, or ranked. w/e the player wants as long as it isn't an arcade game The intent is to practice mechanics, but its pretty easy to get into gold league with any of the step 1's (at long as you're hitting the GM benchmarks, which aren't too hard since you've only got one unit to macro) @virus Yea, I had a hard time trying to word that clearly. Looks like I need to go back to the drawing board on that one | ||
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Antylamon
United States1981 Posts
On May 05 2013 20:13 JaKaTaK wrote: It's also "write" and not "wright" Evidence: TV Tropes Page Bad puns reign supreme! | ||
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Ammoth
Sweden391 Posts
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JaKaTaKSc2
United States2787 Posts
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Ammoth
Sweden391 Posts
On May 08 2013 00:04 JaKaTaK wrote: Just go to ggtracker.com and upload your game. A league badge will appear in the spending skill column. As long as you meet or exceed your league goal, it's a pass for spending skill Ah, seems I didn't setup my account properly | ||
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JaKaTaKSc2
United States2787 Posts
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fengshaun
149 Posts
What can we expect (with the new enhancements) from the new ggtracker?? :O wtf! So much awesome! I request ggtracker guy to speak up! Shaded regions + inject timings = win! "near-instant display of your Spending Skill data" -> oh yes! "we've open-sourced our Python s2protocol" -> WUT is this world coming to? *grabs vim to start poking* Also, how about double-clicking on a graph makes it full-screen? Makes it easier to analyze the new awesome charts! | ||
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JaKaTaKSc2
United States2787 Posts
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dsjoerg
United States384 Posts
On May 08 2013 10:39 fengshaun wrote: :O wtf! So much awesome! I request ggtracker guy to speak up! Hi, here I am yeah there's all kinds of crazy new madness we can do with the new replay file format. Honestly it's a bit overwhelming. Enjoy the new charts and toys and we can talk about what's next | ||
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fengshaun
149 Posts
On May 08 2013 11:59 dsjoerg wrote: Hi, here I am yeah there's all kinds of crazy new madness we can do with the new replay file format. Honestly it's a bit overwhelming. Enjoy the new charts and toys and we can talk about what's next Awesome, so, what is going to be next? What do you think you can do beyond what's already there? Anything in mind? What do you think of (semi-)full-screen charts? The current charts are too small and although they give a good feeling of what's going on (especially on the x-axis), the y-axis seems to be left out! Also, for the x-axis, how about changing the x-axis from numbers to in-game time? For example, if you zoom in a lot, you can see scales 0.2 (10.8 <-> 11 <-> 11.2) and such. How about changing that to in-game time like 10:48 <-> 11 <-> 11:12 ? This would also go really nicely with enlarged graphs! By the way, did they add any extra information about supply? Since you're talking to them about metrics/replays, you might want to suggest that too! amazing job, by the way! :D | ||
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dsjoerg
United States384 Posts
On May 08 2013 12:45 fengshaun wrote: What do you think of (semi-)full-screen charts? The current charts are too small and although they give a good feeling of what's going on (especially on the x-axis), the y-axis seems to be left out! Would be cool, if you register the idea on ggtracker.uservoice.com other people can vote on it. Also, for the x-axis, how about changing the x-axis from numbers to in-game time? For example, if you zoom in a lot, you can see scales 0.2 (10.8 <-> 11 <-> 11.2) and such. How about changing that to in-game time like 10:48 <-> 11 <-> 11:12 ? This would also go really nicely with enlarged graphs! Yes I consider it a bug that it doesn't already work that way By the way, did they add any extra information about supply? Yep it's in there!  | ||
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