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Steelflight-Rx
United States1389 Posts
Some of the comments are funny, but it's still cool that HD made it to the front page. Way to go! It's nice to see this game is already attracting a casual viewer fanbase, it says a lot about this game's potential in e-sports Also, sorry if this was posted. Didn't see it in search. | ||
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PhiliBiRD
United States2643 Posts
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Jyvblamo
Canada13788 Posts
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Husky
United States3362 Posts
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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HDstarcraft
United States577 Posts
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Slayer91
Ireland23342 Posts
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JiYan
United States3668 Posts
On April 13 2010 15:47 HDstarcraft wrote: Commentator sounds noob, it's definitely Husky i had a serious face until i read the author PP | ||
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agorist
United States115 Posts
starcraft subreddit TBH, it's mostly teamliquid links and various replays. | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9110 Posts
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Steelflight-Rx
United States1389 Posts
On April 13 2010 15:53 agorist wrote: One should use the starcraft subreddit. r/gaming is full of dysfunctional idiots who could hardly fucking touch their toes. starcraft subreddit TBH, it's mostly teamliquid links and various replays. i guess this wouldn't be teamliquid without any elitism in the first 10 posts. But yeah, seems to be mostly true, from looking at the reddit comments. | ||
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ZenDeX
Philippines2916 Posts
On April 13 2010 15:47 HDstarcraft wrote: Commentator sounds noob, it's definitely Husky LOL Both of you are ballers anyway | ||
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DrivE
United States2554 Posts
On April 13 2010 15:47 HDstarcraft wrote: Commentator sounds noob, it's definitely Husky congrats on you and husky for getting a lot of subscribers to your youtube channel ^^ | ||
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moopie
12605 Posts
On April 13 2010 15:53 agorist wrote: One should use the starcraft subreddit. r/gaming is full of dysfunctional idiots who could hardly fucking touch their toes. starcraft subreddit TBH, it's mostly teamliquid links and various replays. Would be true if it wasnt for the fact that most of the r/starcraft community are a bunch of idiots. | ||
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Zapdos_Smithh
Canada2620 Posts
Smart. | ||
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0neder
United States3733 Posts
On April 13 2010 16:18 Zapdos_Smithh wrote: I find it hilarious how this HDstarcraft guy just discovered the BW scene in like less than a year (I'm assuming based on the content of his BW commentaries) before beta came out , makes a name that will appeal to new sc2 players, and now he has 44,000 subscribers. Smart. Well, he also acknowledges that fans want HD content for entertainment, as opposed to low-res 'competitive parsing' settings. =) | ||
Zelniq
United States7166 Posts
reeeeeeeeally strong vs roaches and synergizes very very well with protoss's new way of quickly regenerating shields | ||
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NET
United States703 Posts
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metaldragon
United States251 Posts
So simple but so impressive. | ||
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danl9rm
United States3111 Posts
On April 13 2010 16:26 Zelniq wrote: finally someone does this..when they first showed blink like 2 years ago i think people thought about this but apparently everyone forgot cus i've like never seen anyone do this in beta reeeeeeeeally strong vs roaches and synergizes very very well with protoss's new way of quickly regenerating shields blizz even showed everyone how to do it, and still tosses complained the stalker was too weak. now stalkers are too strong(thought this way before the video), but i'll keep that opinion to myself. edit: what i mean by "too strong," is that their utility was very high before, but now they're 'too' versatile. | ||
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Promises
Netherlands1821 Posts
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DrainX
Sweden3187 Posts
On April 13 2010 15:53 agorist wrote: One should use the starcraft subreddit. r/gaming is full of dysfunctional idiots who could hardly fucking touch their toes. starcraft subreddit TBH, it's mostly teamliquid links and various replays. I think it's more important to get links upvoted in /r/gaming/. Posting links and trying to create hype in /r/starcraft/ would be like preaching to the choir. /r/gaming has 135.000 registered readers but is also part of the reddit front page for non registered users which means a lot more than that will potentially see it. Redditors fit the demographic of e-sports fans well and a good video on the front page can make thousands of those people experience watching a commentated game of starcraft 2 for the first time. | ||
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Azarkon
United States21060 Posts
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amoxicilline
France1124 Posts
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zomgzergrush
United States923 Posts
imagine korean progamers doing that all day. The ones not paid to lose, that is. | ||
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Bear4188
United States1797 Posts
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Zoler
Sweden6339 Posts
yawn | ||
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Black Octopi
187 Posts
On April 13 2010 17:26 Zoler wrote: How did he use blink 2 years ago?That was nothing special at all, it's what Yellow did 2 years ago. yawn And I don't understand all the hate. HD and Husky are streaming and also posting on youtube in HD or at least fairly reasonable quality. Yeah I understand and agree with how using low settings helps when playing but its makes no sense whatsoever when casting replays or games. And yes I'm pretty sure everyone with half a brain knows its on low because technology is bad as-is anyway we don't need settings on Ultra getting in the way when streaming. There's no reason to lie to us. | ||
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Mora
Canada5235 Posts
immortal is only counter to roaches~~ | ||
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twoc
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Lemure
189 Posts
I believe he means the stalker micro technique was shown quite a while back by Blizzard themselves, might have been during Blizzcon gameplay. | ||
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HDstarcraft
United States577 Posts
On April 13 2010 18:05 Lemure wrote: I believe he means the stalker micro technique was shown quite a while back by Blizzard themselves. I think he was talking about a player named Sonic who used that. IIRC hes a WC3 player but I could be mistaken. It was broadcasted by dustin browder and robert simpson. | ||
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FREEloss_ca
Canada603 Posts
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Marradron
Netherlands1586 Posts
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HDstarcraft
United States577 Posts
On April 13 2010 18:25 Marradron wrote: Idra just overdroned without knowing what his opponent was doing He had the drone in for quite a while, unfortunately didn't see the fast citadel. But I think he left because that tactic really caught him offguard Good play by bobby either way. | ||
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Acies
Australia196 Posts
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Mios
United States686 Posts
early rushes are hard to stop if ur going fast stalker/council though | ||
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FarGleinaD
Germany15 Posts
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SevenAteNine
126 Posts
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Deleted User 55994
949 Posts
On April 13 2010 18:27 HDstarcraft wrote: He had the drone in for quite a while, unfortunately didn't see the fast citadel. But I think he left because that tactic really caught him offguard Good play by bobby either way. I think he left because the game was over and leaving the game when you can't possibly come back is something that most people do. I feel sorry for idra, he can't leave a game without people saying he "ragequit" or something | ||
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roemy
Germany432 Posts
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SiDX
New Zealand1975 Posts
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onmach
United States1241 Posts
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kickinhead
Switzerland2069 Posts
Most Z go for very fast Lair for Hydras anyways to counter Immortal-pushes, so I wouldn't recommend going 1-base Stalkers with Blink. Although they're okay to defend against Mutas when you are on two bases and they're decent on certain Maps, like Kulas ravine.. | ||
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PokePill
United States1048 Posts
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IndecisivePenguin
United States771 Posts
On April 13 2010 21:57 faction123 wrote: I think he left because the game was over and leaving the game when you can't possibly come back is something that most people do. I feel sorry for idra, he can't leave a game without people saying he "ragequit" or something Well yeah, but gm players would throw up a "gg" at least, and Idra is known for not doing much of that haha. Anyways, I wonder why everyone is so negative in this thread. It was a good display of Stalker control, blinking units that virtually were about to die if left for a fraction of a second. It's not even like this was being overhyped or anything. | ||
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ShivaN
United States933 Posts
On April 13 2010 18:07 HDstarcraft wrote: I think he was talking about a player named Sonic who used that. IIRC hes a WC3 player but I could be mistaken. It was broadcasted by dustin browder and robert simpson. It was SonKie vs Yellow showmatch at one of the previous Blizzcons where Yellow showed this exact micro technique. | ||
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Olorin.SVK
Slovakia136 Posts
And the thing is, it was fun now, but will it be fun after a few years or will it be more like boring standard routine micro to maximize the use of stalkers? Both for players and fans. | ||
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
On April 13 2010 17:51 Mora wrote: this video is fake immortal is only counter to roaches~~ hahahah | ||
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Amber[LighT]
United States5078 Posts
You should feel honored by some of those posts. You are apparently a very talented caster and you're sparking interest in people who have never even heard of the game: For some reason I can't stop watching Husky and HD's casts, I even downloaded and setup the single player SCII just to give it a try, you know, that looks like fun I could do that. Oh wait I suck horribly and watching these videos is more fun than playing. I just recently got SC1 and WC3 after watching maybe 5 hours of H to the Usky Husky and HD's commentary I really want to get into starcraft it looks like so much fun. Moving around the map and keeping track of everything for a nub is fucking hard. | ||
LuDwig-
Italy1143 Posts
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LuDwig-
Italy1143 Posts
On April 13 2010 22:18 PokePill wrote: was hoping to see some actual micro, P wasn't even focus firing Which replay have you seen man? the p was in fact focusing fire -.- EDIT: i agree husky! it is a pleasure to hear you! | ||
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haaduken
United States41 Posts
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gogogadgetflow
United States2583 Posts
Protoss have super awesome and strong and engaging blink micro. (it sparkles) Zerg have super awesome and strong and (less) engaging burrow micro Terran have... reaper/maurader/helion kiting? LAME. maybe stim+run counts for something. maybe NOT. | ||
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ZenDeX
Philippines2916 Posts
On April 13 2010 23:28 gogogadgetflow wrote: So: Protoss have super awesome and strong and engaging blink micro. (it sparkles) Zerg have super awesome and strong and (less) engaging burrow micro Terran have... reaper/maurader/helion kiting? LAME. maybe stim+run counts for something. maybe NOT. Where's your manliness now? | ||
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
when I lose for stupid reasons I ragequit =o | ||
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FarbrorAbavna
Sweden4856 Posts
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hyst.eric.al
United States2332 Posts
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towerranger
Austria134 Posts
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Squallcloud
France466 Posts
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StayFrosty
Canada743 Posts
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Kylig
Sweden41 Posts
I mean come on we are so used of fighting a-clickers that when a Protoss actually doing some kind of micro. MIND YOU HE WAS NOT FOCUS FIREING JUST BLINKING THE LOW HP which tbh I could do that. Ofc great play, idra needs to scout better thats what SC2 is all about. Scouting and countering because no high ground atvantage you cannot defend if you read your opponent wrong. ofc I am no pro and idra beat me 10/10 but then I havent played as many games as Idra did his first day of beta yet and I had it for almost a month. | ||
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QueueQueue
Canada1000 Posts
On top of being useful in battle situations as highlighted in the video vs Idra, it can also be used effectively in harass situations as well. Really strong ability. | ||
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Zoler
Sweden6339 Posts
On April 14 2010 01:22 QueueQueue wrote: Incredible blink control. Oddly enough, I still don't see blink used all that often, even when my Protoss opponents have stalkers in the mix. It's just so strong, and in my opinion, can pay for itself very quickly. On top of being useful in battle situations as highlighted in the video vs Idra, it can also be used effectively in harass situations as well. Really strong ability. Anyone could do that, that was nothing special at all. Just saying. | ||
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Clow
Brazil880 Posts
It's just a matter of time before people start controlling their units the way they're supposed to. | ||
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Squallcloud
France466 Posts
On April 14 2010 01:23 Zoler wrote: Anyone could do that, that was nothing special at all. Just saying. That may be so but why don't we see this more often then? | ||
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Trapist
Canada46 Posts
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LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
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Kylig
Sweden41 Posts
On April 14 2010 01:36 Squallcloud wrote: That may be so but why don't we see this more often then? Simply because its not needed. The zealot-sentry build requires practicly zero skill and same thing with immortal push. | ||
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Amber[LighT]
United States5078 Posts
On April 14 2010 01:36 Squallcloud wrote: That may be so but why don't we see this more often then? Because what he did was not as "easy" as Zoler is suggesting. Look at the stalkers HP and see how well he picked the weakest ones ONE AT A TIME. | ||
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Alexc26
United Kingdom222 Posts
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NonY
8751 Posts
I'm glad that the micro looks impressive and cool to the casual viewer. That is a huge plus for SC2. It's absolutely not a bad thing that micro looks more impressive than it actually is. The Stalker micro is a perfect counter-example to the people saying "battles in SC2 are too boring and it's not possible to tell what's going on." | ||
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gogogadgetflow
United States2583 Posts
I think we all know kiting is strong as hell and certainly doesnt make the terran unmanly. But because they dont glitter and go *poof* like the androgynous "cool kid" protoss or pop up and down like a plush toy diglett like the no-identity zerg, the Terrans are currently too brutish and straightforward for e-sports. I'm sure they will find a way to maintain the manliness while putting on a show - we'll just have to wait and see | ||
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whaTITdoz
United States92 Posts
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TheHof
United States92 Posts
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pyrogenetix
China5098 Posts
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Jibba
United States22883 Posts
On April 14 2010 02:46 TheHof wrote: If you're no reddit, subscribe to /r/starcraft, there's lots of good stuff there. reddit.com/r/starcraft Reading those comments made me never want to become a part of reddit. | ||
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Zeke50100
United States2220 Posts
How effective it is, I don't know; certainly better than non-Blink. How cool it is? For me, it's a 10 out of 10 :D | ||
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PanzerDragoon
United States822 Posts
Idra will never be the top SC2 player, though he will be very good, because smart players will know that they can throw him off with cheese and play with his head a bit, just like Nony did in TSL. | ||
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PanzerDragoon
United States822 Posts
On April 14 2010 01:23 Zoler wrote: Anyone could do that, that was nothing special at all. Just saying. Sure, you can do it. Can you do it while maintaining unit production at that warp-in pylon, while building in base, and while making sure to come back and blink out the damaged stalkers like this player did. | ||
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cyberspace
Canada955 Posts
On April 14 2010 05:49 PanzerDragoon wrote: The best part about this is you know Idra probably sat there bitching about cheese, when he clearly got outplayed/microed BADLY. Idra will never be the top SC2 player, though he will be very good, because smart players will know that they can throw him off with cheese and play with his head a bit, just like Nony did in TSL. Why assume anything at all? How do you (or anybody) know that he didn't go "wow, that was weird never saw that before guess i know what NOT to do from now on"? Is it really necessary to post a new topic every time that somebody beats Idra and he doesn't GG. Who cares? Grow up. | ||
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Deleted User 55994
949 Posts
On April 14 2010 05:51 PanzerDragoon wrote: Sure, you can do it. Can you do it while maintaining unit production at that warp-in pylon, while building in base, and while making sure to come back and blink out the damaged stalkers like this player did. Yes, because he wasn't building in base. He was just warping in and blinking out low HP stalkers. All he had to do was scroll his screen to the nearby pylon, hit w S S S and spam click, then move to the stalkers, click one on low hp, and hit B and click behind the pack. Even the worst WC3 players have been doing that for years. It looks impressive, and it's cool of him to come up with the idea, but it's not difficult to pull off thanks to health bars. | ||
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TelesisGQ
United States83 Posts
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diehilde
Germany1596 Posts
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Deleted User 55994
949 Posts
On April 14 2010 08:34 TelesisGQ wrote: Why is Idra such an ass and doesn't gg before he quits? Acting like a whiny 8 year old is not cool, I don't care if he was pro in Korea. 90% of players don't gg when they leave games, how do you discern that he's a whiny 8 year old? | ||
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goswser
United States3548 Posts
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diehilde
Germany1596 Posts
On April 14 2010 08:58 faction123 wrote: 90% of players don't gg when they leave games, how do you discern that he's a whiny 8 year old? on eu server most ppl actually gg before they leave, even on ladder. in tourneys its really 90% or more who gg. | ||
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MeruFM
United States167 Posts
On April 14 2010 09:03 Newguy wrote: lol@the argument on cheese on the first page .lol @ arguments of everything else on the other pages. | ||
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Deleted User 55994
949 Posts
On April 14 2010 09:53 diehilde wrote: on eu server most ppl actually gg before they leave, even on ladder. in tourneys its really 90% or more who gg. Most people on US server don't, and this definitely wasn't a tourney. People need to just leave idra alone and stop assuming he has an aneurysm whenever he loses a game. | ||
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diehilde
Germany1596 Posts
On April 14 2010 11:38 faction123 wrote: Most people on US server don't, and this definitely wasn't a tourney. People need to just leave idra alone and stop assuming he has an aneurysm whenever he loses a game. im just saying, i dont care if idra ggs or doesnt. btw this was from zotac cup quarter finals, so yes, it was a tourney. Again, just saying. | ||
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G4MR
United States371 Posts
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ddk
United Kingdom38 Posts
Only in a tournament do you owe your opponent the respect to say good game. That is because the tournament games are the accumulations of all of your practice. So stop using it as an excuse to bash Idra. I'm not defending him but the zealous hatred towards anything he does which is perceived BM is so childish. | ||
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RotterdaM
Netherlands684 Posts
its like microing maradeurs with slow upgrade vs zealots/stalker or so, or to speak in wc3 terms dryads vs grunts or sorceress vs grunts etc, even though this was a bit harder, not really all that hard :D | ||
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beetlelisk
Poland2276 Posts
I guess this makes statements about lings being too easy to use untrue. IdrA rushed and lost too many but at the same time only attacked the closest Stalkers instead of going for the most weakened. I like how those Stalkers regain shields too | ||
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MSrabbiT
United States1 Post
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Hirmu
Finland850 Posts
On April 14 2010 23:21 RotterdaM wrote: Wouldnt really call this impressive micro, the only thing that would be impressive if is idra would actually be abble to beat this army, but stalkers much faster than roaches/zerglings and bigger range, don't have to be next bisu to click a few stalkers to the back, idra's army is handicapped vs this so simply not that impressive ;e its like microing maradeurs with slow upgrade vs zealots/stalker or so, or to speak in wc3 terms dryads vs grunts or sorceress vs grunts etc, even though this was a bit harder, not really all that hard :D lol obviusly its harder as u need to keep alt on to see ur hp's (if u dont have "show always " hp") and u have to actually press b click not just click a click a. | ||
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Vexx
United States462 Posts
On May 23 2010 01:30 MSrabbiT wrote: Personally, I consider calling "gg" a responsibility because it contributes and maintains the best gaming community in the world. If you have come to love the manners of this community (whether it's unofficial, competitive, or just plain leisure, show your respect and call gg. Excellent first post. This is the best gaming community in the world. I love manners to. I also love necroing threads. I think this is the end of our friendship MSrabbiT. I don't ever gl hf, I only gg if it was a gg and I hate forum necromancers. | ||
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AyJay
1515 Posts
On April 13 2010 20:42 SevenAteNine wrote: Lmfao, and players like Orb think zerg and terran are OP lol Because stalker blink micro is unbeatable strategy. | ||
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