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Northern Ireland27305 Posts
On April 08 2022 05:59 teamfrolic wrote:I was curious if I could find anything about fps_daniel and his quake prowess, and all I could turn up was a script, dedicated to him, for muting players in quake live. Seeing his posts, I think this makes a lot of sense. https://gist.github.com/MinoMino/002a6438f5b1fde7249d
Hahahahaha
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Northern Ireland27305 Posts
On April 08 2022 04:35 Kelberot wrote:what a great thread, I didn't expect the community to react this kindly, then turns out the guy isn't the most appreciative of this miracle. Goes to show that BMing new players sometimes makes sense if we were caring about that, we wouldn't be here playing bw/sc2 quake is quite a great game regardless
Quake is the tits, it’s a shame that not just Quake but that entire genre is borderline dead these days.
I’d give one of my testicles for an arena shooter to really hit it big again.
Much as I love the genre I also get destroyed dipping in again as the entire game population seems to be mostly veterans who’ve been actively playing forever.
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If I may have some across a bit holstiel to you guys, then im sry ok. I also have real life problems to deal with and im only human after all. Im thankful for all the tips and posts everybody gave me, they kept me motivated to keep trying and actually start playing on the ladder and to get more insight about the meta. And with that being said i am proud to announce to you guys that i am now a ........... Bronze 1 on the ladder!!!
But yea only people pull off nasty tricks which i have to deal with now. Like yesterday I had a whole solid army in front of my base and was rdy to attack but he dropped a nuke on my army and then attacked me instead, so ye ....
But Ill keep you guys posted and If there arte more tips they are always welcome ofc!
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Oh yea and what I wanted to add is - and this was also alrdy in pig and inter guide - but for some reason i changed path from this build probably cause also still watching too much other dudes but is ... That after I have build my first barrack at the stairs Ill make sure to have around 450 saved up is to then make the 2nd command center and the oribital upgrade AND then 2 extra barracks with teck labs. And with this as solid start now and having some hotkeys and a bit more experience its going a lot better so yea. Wanted to add that.
The biggest problem i still have is that when I have more units and tanks and stuff than my opponent and I just attack straight into them - people say it can be done with more units - but a row of lined up sieged tanks up a ramp vs a bigger army comming from below kills me hard. But sometimes I can lurr them out and then they walk into me and then its fine but yea. Oke but thats for later.
Cya on the ladder friends!
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But yea its a complicated game, not gonna lie ...
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Congratz on the ladder ranking! Bronze is a cesspool where every player is pulling out the most foul tricks, just for the sake of getting out of Bronze. It's pretty awesome 
Yes, walking marines into siege tanks might be one example where "bigger army can attack-move into smaller army" does not apply.
You have to dislodge their siege tanks. One trick is to rely on your vision outranging the opponents vision. Siege tanks vision range is smaller than their attack range. If you bring vikings with your siege tanks, the vikings will provide vision for your tanks, allowing your tanks to fire on the opponents tanks without their tanks firing back. This also solves the high ground issue, since flying units will reveil what is up the ramp.
(This is why TvT often revolves about air superiority, aka "the viking war". Winner of that air battle gets free shots with their tanks)
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On April 10 2022 03:34 fps_daniel AKA Xpert wrote:
If I may have some across a bit holstiel to you guys, then im sry ok. I also have real life problems to deal with and im only human after all. Im thankful for all the tips and posts everybody gave me, they kept me motivated to keep trying and actually start playing on the ladder and to get more insight about the meta. And with that being said i am proud to announce to you guys that i am now a ........... Bronze 1 on the ladder!!!
But yea only people pull off nasty tricks which i have to deal with now. Like yesterday I had a whole solid army in front of my base and was rdy to attack but he dropped a nuke on my army and then attacked me instead, so ye ....
But Ill keep you guys posted and If there arte more tips they are always welcome ofc!
I't's great to see that you had a change in attitude and I'm very glad to hear that you'll continue trying to improve.
You mentioned that you disagree micro is not important at low level. For some easy micro tricks that won't take much of your attention I can recommend watching this from the linked timestamp and then around 10 minutes forward.
Once you start getting better and have a deeper understanding of the game I'm gonna recommend following the pro scene because in my opinion Starcraft 2 (and SC:BW) are the most interesting e-Sports games to watch.
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I just want to say that PIG's Bronze2GM guide encouraged me to get back into the game after 7 years and I am currently in Gold 3 league. Now I know what basics I was missing last time.
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Alright friends, it are too many replies to thank you all personally but im looking into everything thats being told and send and keeping it in mind and thanks for all the info!
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Alright friends, its been 1 month to the day I made this post. Back then very hard difficulty was just too hard for me, so hard that I coudnt resist making a post about it here. I told you I would keep you guys updated, I told you guys i woudnt give up and my promises are golden.
Now one month later I have the ability/build order to win vs the very hard elite pretty convincing. So yea, so this a big milestone and we all togheter made this happen!
https://drop.sc/replay/21330101
Thats how i do it.
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I didn't check the replay (on phone). But I like your perseverance. Keep us posted!
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I dont know if people are still reading this thread but like ..
I have an APM of like max 60. One of the bigger troubles im encountering is at the beginning I always selects all my suv's and hotkey them under key 1. This was I can just press 1 and have workers selected and just build pretty fast some stuff left and right and with holding shift like multiple same buildings. The problem I encounter is that usually workers who are working on my gas are taking these tasks on them and that then at some point I all of a sudden realise none of my workers are gettings gas anymore. And this selected group of workers are also always still the 12 first workers.
Ive tried to just make camera positions on all bases and then fastly selecting a bunch of wokersd with my mouse and then let them build something and with this route I keep my workers at gas but it doesnt feel good. I miss having that "1" hotkey to press and to just statt building.
How do i solve this problem? How do those good guys do that?
Also I use the grid layout and there is "t" the attack button but i want shift to be the attack button, but i cant find this attack thing in the option menu. Does anyone know how to solve this as well?
Cya on the ladder!
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Of all the things to call about about their Terran advice I don't think it not beating AI is it. My least favorite things that PiG tells Terrans:
1) Play Mech until Masters
2) Don't make ghosts until Masters
I didn't even know Winter gave advice for Terran but I'm not surprised it's not very good given his not-really-concealed babyrage at Terran in general.
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On April 18 2022 10:06 fps_daniel AKA Xpert wrote:
Also I use the grid layout and there is "t" the attack button but i want shift to be the attack button, but i cant find this attack thing in the option menu. Does anyone know how to solve this as well?
With Grid Layout you use buttons for grid slots, so you need to change key for the top-right slot from T to what you want. But Shift is also modifier key, so I wouldn't recommend it for attack command.
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Getting rid of old habits (your 1 key for SCVs) can be difficult. But the longer you wait, the harder it gets. So break that habit
I'd recommend having hotkeys for:
- your CC's, for building SCVs (without looking at the CCs!)
- your production buildings, for building army (without looking at your production buildings)
- your army
With those hotkeys you dont need to spend a lot of time making SCVs and army. It will be like "4 s s 5 a a a a d d", and you've spent a nice 500/50 of resources (hotkey 4 being CC in this case) without even looking. So you have time for non-automated things like building things, and running your army around.
Pressing the CC hotkey twice (so 4-4) will take you to the nearest CC. Pressing space cycles through all your bases. So either way, with a few key presses, you have your screen focused on a bunch of SCVs. Box-select a handfull of SCVs, give them building orders (b-b, or b-s, or whatever you need), shift-click them back on minerals so they continue mining after their building is done. And... back to 4ss5aaaadd 4ss5aaaadd. Whenever you have 1000+ minerals, build extra barracks, and supply stations when needed.
This will leave your 1 key available for a metric ton of marine marauder.
Edit: with grid layout, the exact keys would be different but the principle remains the same
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Alright thx good tips.
Yea with the grid layout cycling through your cc's was binded to backspace; i never knew of this command and caur it was at backspace also never found out by accident or something.
Now with it binded to spacebar - and scv's no longer binded anymore - it is managable thx.
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I echo that it is best to break bad habits as soon as possible and replace them with better habits. The earlier you can do this the better, before it gets too ingrained. Theres a lot of techniques to get to base but even just scrolling at 60 apm till you can grab an scv off a mineral patch instead is better than not having enough gas when you need the gas.
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On April 18 2022 23:17 honorablemacroterran wrote:
Of all the things to call about about their Terran advice I don't think it not beating AI is it. My least favorite things that PiG tells Terrans:
1) Play Mech until Masters
2) Don't make ghosts until Masters
I didn't even know Winter gave advice for Terran but I'm not surprised it's not very good given his not-really-concealed babyrage at Terran in general.
Play mech until masters!?!? I literally just did a bronze to GM with only 1 league where I showed full mech play just for variety. It's SC2, a strategy game. I've always encouraged people to play whatever they think is fun.
The reason I don't encourage people to make ghosts is most players make ghosts and use them like ass. If you aren't actively trying to get better at using fancy units it's not an effective strategy.
I've seen you in my chat a LOT lately so surprised you're making this stuff up
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On April 29 2022 19:13 PiGStarcraft wrote:
The reason I don't encourage people to make ghosts is most players make ghosts and use them like ass. If you aren't actively trying to get better at using fancy units it's not an effective strategy.
PiG, you just made me realize I use vipers "like ass". Basically I use them as very expensive suicide units, which is sub-optimal. Maybe I should stop making them
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