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Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
May 01 2010 15:14 GMT
#1
Note: I completely forgot to make an April edition of this.

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Q: What is this thread?

A: General purpose, SC2 discussion thread.

Q: What should I be posting about?
A: Basically, anything you want to talk about but aren't sure if it warrants a topic of its own. Heard a rumour you want to share? A new video? A question you are sure is super common but can't find the answer to via searching? A brilliant new idea that you want to vet, to make sure it's really as brilliant as you think it is?

This is the place.


Note:
Posting standards will not be as high as if you were to make a new thread, but pointless spam will still not be tolerated. I have seen threads like these work out alright on other sites (for other games) so I figured, why not give it a shot? It's possible there's not really enough content for something like this to exist at this point in time, but no harm then, it will just die on its own.

Moderatortell the guy that interplanatar interaction is pivotal to terrans variety of optionitudals in the pre-midgame preperatories as well as the protosstinal deterriggation of elite zergling strikes - Stimey n | Formerly FrozenArbiter
Erucious
Profile Joined March 2010
Norway393 Posts
May 01 2010 15:31 GMT
#2
Anyone know an alternative program to VHS Scr Cap program that u use together with FME to stream? Mine is acting weird :x
I'm Norwegian/Dutch. Just the awesome parts of them though :D
Uhh Negative
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1090 Posts
May 01 2010 15:59 GMT
#3
Hey, I've lurked these forums a decent amount but I've finally joined now that I have a beta key and can actually play the game. I've watched TONS of games of SC2 on Husky and HDs youtube channels and I've watched a lot of live streams here. Anyway, I am searching for kind of a basic guide to playing zerg. Last night was my first time playing the beta and I'm starting to get the hang of it but I don't really know specific build orders and things like how to effectively hotkey queens/hatches.

I got placed into gold after my placement matches. Wow, so people are really bad. One game I was messing around with terran and just teched straight to BCs and won haha.
Vexx
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States462 Posts
May 01 2010 16:02 GMT
#4
On May 02 2010 00:59 Uhh Negative wrote:
Hey, I've lurked these forums a decent amount but I've finally joined now that I have a beta key and can actually play the game. I've watched TONS of games of SC2 on Husky and HDs youtube channels and I've watched a lot of live streams here. Anyway, I am searching for kind of a basic guide to playing zerg. Last night was my first time playing the beta and I'm starting to get the hang of it but I don't really know specific build orders and things like how to effectively hotkey queens/hatches.

I got placed into gold after my placement matches. Wow, so people are really bad. One game I was messing around with terran and just teched straight to BCs and won haha.


There's an active zerg build order thread in the strategy section and you can search for the hotkey thread.

The general consensus seems to be to hotkey all your hatcheries on one key and then hotkey each of your queens individually.

So if 4 is hatcheries, you can use 4 to build and rally your units while being away from your base and you can use 5 to center on your queen and larva the hatchery, 6 to center on your expo queen and larva that hatchery...
I am not nice.
fabiano
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Brazil4644 Posts
May 01 2010 16:15 GMT
#5
Is there a way to disable those 'hotkeys tabs' in the lower part of the screen? I find myself switching hotkeys groups accidentally by clicking them a lot...
"When the geyser died, a probe came out" - SirJolt
Crisium
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States1618 Posts
May 01 2010 16:20 GMT
#6
Tanks should be changed from 150/125/3 to 175/100/3. If you disagree, admit what race you main.
Broodwar and Stork forever! List of BW players with most Ro16, Ro8: http://tinyurl.com/BWRo16-Ro8
wanderer
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States641 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-01 16:33:50
May 01 2010 16:21 GMT
#7
I am very much for a nerf of any kind on the Force Fields. The reasons are obvious.

[quote=Chill, on djwheat's Weapon of Choice show when I called in to ask about this stuff after the ZOTAC Cup where the Z was holed up in his base for a good 5 minutes, to watch his natural get raped by a few stalkers — to be fair, the Z won the match because of macro and the Nydus Worm that he made later on was like 5-minutes into the lock-in and required a lot of time to transition to it... something that I don't think should be necessary against such a Tier 1 tactic]

NONSENSE! YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY THAT THE MECHANIC EVEN EXISTS IN THIS WONDERFUL GAME!

[/quote]

I am actually very happy that the mechanic exists in the game — the Protoss have a lot of sneaky tactics compared to T and Z in my opinion and I am all for stuff like that — but I think that the things that are necessary in order to circumvent this Tier 1 tactic of Force Field "lock ins" (particularly at the ramps) take far too much time to overcome. Furthermore, I think that what is necessary to overcome these things requires you to reach too far beyond Tier 1 on your own side. I don't think that makes it fair.

I think that its completely fine for a higher Tier to have a lower Tier weakness, but when a lower Tier has a tactic that requires a higher Tier in order to overcome it... I think that it at the very least borders on imba.

Ideas that I've heard talked about and of which I approve:
- Making the area of the Force Field one hex larger so that it cannot sit on a ramp
- Making the area of the Force Field one hex smaller so that it takes 2 to completely lock a ramp
- Making the Force Fields last for a shorter amount of time, so that it takes more attention for a player to continuously lock someone inside an area.
- Making the Force Fields destructible
- Making the Force Fields require more energy, so that lock ins are more rare
- Making the Force Fields have a cooldown (this idea here is the one I support the least, but its a solution)
Fuck you, I have a degree in mathematics and I speak 12 languages. (I called the World Cup final in 2008 btw)
Uhh Negative
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1090 Posts
May 01 2010 16:24 GMT
#8
On May 02 2010 01:02 Vexx wrote:
There's an active zerg build order thread in the strategy section and you can search for the hotkey thread.

The general consensus seems to be to hotkey all your hatcheries on one key and then hotkey each of your queens individually.

So if 4 is hatcheries, you can use 4 to build and rally your units while being away from your base and you can use 5 to center on your queen and larva the hatchery, 6 to center on your expo queen and larva that hatchery...

Yeah I toyed around with hotkeying like that yesterday but I didn't know it was the general consensus for the best way. Thanks!
Sentient
Profile Joined April 2010
United States437 Posts
May 01 2010 16:24 GMT
#9
I would gladly take a Psi Storm radius buff for a damage nerf. I feel like its role overlaps too much with the Colossus right now. In SC1 you could do effective worker raiding with it, but the radius is so pitiful now that you only hit 3-4 SCVs and probably won't even kill them.
guitarizt
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1492 Posts
May 02 2010 22:08 GMT
#10
Would it be possible to make the computer execute a specific build order to practice against? Like maybe I could play a game and then save that to a file and I could play against myself to experiment against certain bo's?
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Hemingway
Paperscraps
Profile Joined March 2010
United States639 Posts
May 02 2010 22:34 GMT
#11
On May 03 2010 07:08 guitarizt wrote:
Would it be possible to make the computer execute a specific build order to practice against? Like maybe I could play a game and then save that to a file and I could play against myself to experiment against certain bo's?


If you are handy with the map editor this wouldn't be to hard to construct, plus you would have the added benefit of everything being executed perfectly and exact.
"Because in the end, the only way we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.” - David Gale
dthree
Profile Joined March 2010
Australia150 Posts
May 02 2010 22:41 GMT
#12
My current ZvT strategy is where my goal is to fast expand and use speedlings early to stop hellions then transition into muta/infestor with lings. My problem is whether to get muta or infestors first. I generally try and scout to see if he is going heavy mech or heavy infantry and decide from there but now im thinking its probably best to go straight muta in-case they go starport and to abuse the poor mobility of most terran unit compositions?
Erucious
Profile Joined March 2010
Norway393 Posts
May 02 2010 22:52 GMT
#13
On May 02 2010 01:24 Uhh Negative wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2010 01:02 Vexx wrote:
There's an active zerg build order thread in the strategy section and you can search for the hotkey thread.

The general consensus seems to be to hotkey all your hatcheries on one key and then hotkey each of your queens individually.

So if 4 is hatcheries, you can use 4 to build and rally your units while being away from your base and you can use 5 to center on your queen and larva the hatchery, 6 to center on your expo queen and larva that hatchery...

Yeah I toyed around with hotkeying like that yesterday but I didn't know it was the general consensus for the best way. Thanks!


I've been trying something else:

Hatcheries on 6, queens on 5. Bind main at Ctrl+F5, nat at ctrl+F6, etc etc.

What u do to inject is:
5, F5, V, F6, V, F7, V

What do u think about this?
I'm Norwegian/Dutch. Just the awesome parts of them though :D
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
May 02 2010 22:56 GMT
#14
On May 02 2010 01:20 Crisium wrote:
Tanks should be changed from 150/125/3 to 175/100/3. If you disagree, admit what race you main.

i agree on gas atleast..idk why youd raise the cost mineral wise though.
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
BabaBlackSheep
Profile Joined April 2010
United States29 Posts
May 02 2010 23:00 GMT
#15
I'm relatively new to the beta, so this is mostly conjecture on my behalf so I'd like someone to set me straight if I'm off the ball.

Terran tier 1: Marine = anti air
Protoss tier 1 (or 1.5? Do decimal tiers count?): Stalker/sentry = anti air
Zerg tier 1: Roaches = ...whoops?
What does this field mean?
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
May 02 2010 23:09 GMT
#16
On May 03 2010 08:00 BabaBlackSheep wrote:
I'm relatively new to the beta, so this is mostly conjecture on my behalf so I'd like someone to set me straight if I'm off the ball.

Terran tier 1: Marine = anti air
Protoss tier 1 (or 1.5? Do decimal tiers count?): Stalker/sentry = anti air
Zerg tier 1: Roaches = ...whoops?

Zerg gets hydras which by themselves are pretty strong, and most of the time you go lair tech with your first 100 gas anyway so you'll have hydras out in plenty of time to stop them(unless going for a mass baneling/roach allin or something)
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
Fruscainte
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
4596 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-02 23:15:47
May 02 2010 23:15 GMT
#17
What's peoples opinions on the Nydus Worm? I can't get enough of it, when you get your natural and double up the gas and start saturating the minerals you'll have plenty of money to spend on one measly building that gives such a tactical advantage. Think about it from the enemies point of view, in two big scenarios. You do you first big push, and while you're doing that an overlord on the side of his base allows a Nydus worm up, and 16 speedlings burst out of it and start ravaging his main. Then, what does he think? He knows you got a worm, and you can potentially put one ANYWHERE on the map. Heck, you can use a speed overlord, fly into the main, start a nydus and even if your Ovie dies the Nydus will finish unless it's killed as normal. And that will a significant psycological advantage, as well as one of two scenarios again:

1) He overloads on static defense and turtles up, allowing you to expand and out macro him

2) He gets no defense, and you continue to harass him into submission
Tone_
Profile Joined May 2009
United Kingdom554 Posts
May 02 2010 23:21 GMT
#18
On May 03 2010 08:15 Fruscainte wrote:
What's peoples opinions on the Nydus Worm? I can't get enough of it, when you get your natural and double up the gas and start saturating the minerals you'll have plenty of money to spend on one measly building that gives such a tactical advantage. Think about it from the enemies point of view, in two big scenarios. You do you first big push, and while you're doing that an overlord on the side of his base allows a Nydus worm up, and 16 speedlings burst out of it and start ravaging his main. Then, what does he think? He knows you got a worm, and you can potentially put one ANYWHERE on the map. Heck, you can use a speed overlord, fly into the main, start a nydus and even if your Ovie dies the Nydus will finish unless it's killed as normal. And that will a significant psycological advantage, as well as one of two scenarios again:

1) He overloads on static defense and turtles up, allowing you to expand and out macro him

2) He gets no defense, and you continue to harass him into submission


My ideas for the nydus worm (initially from how I thought it worked) would be for it to only be placeable on creep. This would mean that you wouldn't need to just get overlord sight, but you'd need to dart in there and shit some creep. Not saying nydus's really need a nerf, but thought that would be a fun way to use the overlord shitting mechanic more. It would fit nicely with the cheap overlord speed and ofc lair for creep shitting and nydus tech all works together well.
Hasta La Victoria Siempre | 톤
Badjas
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Netherlands2038 Posts
May 02 2010 23:21 GMT
#19
On May 03 2010 07:34 Paperscraps wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 03 2010 07:08 guitarizt wrote:
Would it be possible to make the computer execute a specific build order to practice against? Like maybe I could play a game and then save that to a file and I could play against myself to experiment against certain bo's?


If you are handy with the map editor this wouldn't be to hard to construct, plus you would have the added benefit of everything being executed perfectly and exact.

I am not familiar with the new map editor, only SC1's, but it it would be extremely helpful if a build order could be programmed in an easy fashion like a decision graph rather than via a bunch of triggers. The decision graph in this case would be for the early game phase of course with leave nodes like 'continue with computer AI pattern X'. Perhaps specific triggers could be implemented with the help of such decision graphs too if you want more control over counter choices. Such as a trigger that is programmed to activate if an expand is detected before the four minute mark, a decision graph becomes active. The decision graph will start at a test node counting offense points. If 10 supply of offensive units or more is detected at this point, follow up with building 4 supply defensive units and go expand. If less than 10 supply of offensive units are scouted, initialize 'computer AI pattern bunker rush' or such. Just as an example here. Implementing build orders in a simplified way such as this would be awesome imo.
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BabaBlackSheep
Profile Joined April 2010
United States29 Posts
May 02 2010 23:54 GMT
#20
On May 03 2010 08:09 arb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 03 2010 08:00 BabaBlackSheep wrote:
I'm relatively new to the beta, so this is mostly conjecture on my behalf so I'd like someone to set me straight if I'm off the ball.

Terran tier 1: Marine = anti air
Protoss tier 1 (or 1.5? Do decimal tiers count?): Stalker/sentry = anti air
Zerg tier 1: Roaches = ...whoops?

Zerg gets hydras which by themselves are pretty strong, and most of the time you go lair tech with your first 100 gas anyway so you'll have hydras out in plenty of time to stop them(unless going for a mass baneling/roach allin or something)

No problem with that, I suppose. I just feel like in sc2 units are designed with a specific purpose whereas in sc1 they're designed with general purposes. Allow me to demonstrate with sc1:

zling=marine=zealot -> basic ground troops. Zling = 2 for 50 to give zerg that swarm feel. Zealot = 100 but also is the sturdiest of the lot. Marine = 50 and is basically a guy with a gun, nothing particularly fancy for a starting unit..

Hydralisk=Dragoon=Firebat -> supplements basic ground troops, and Z and P now get anti air/range as well. Terran gets a unit that can more effectively repel ground units...with fire!

Then you get to mechanize with those cool "advanced" units from advanced structures, or in Zerg's case just go air. The game opens up as players are now generally offered "skills" to use, like cloak, parasite, sci-storm. It's up to the player's discretion as to what they will pair those skills with. When Brood War finally came out it added units with intended purposes to supplement each race: Lurker = Zerg answer to ground armies (because the other races had cool bros like tanks and reavers). Medic = heal and blind, because other races had regenerative abilities for all of their units, not just mech. Corsair = Protoss' answer for an air unit that doesn't require an incredible investment, because Terran had decently cheap wraiths, and Mutas at 100/100 were also cheap relatively. I suppose the Devourer was thrown in to be fair and give Zerg an extra air unit like the other races.

Now in SC2 you have your basic ground units. Then with Terran you get an ad hoc unit to harass, and a buff bro. With Zerg you get mini-bombs and (surprise) buff bros because mini-bombs and Zerglings are relatively temporal. Then with Protoss you get early spells, shields from buff bros (who are incidentally ranged). Only the Stalker feels like it fits a more general role by the time you get it.

So if you're able to get past my colloquialisms, you see that I'm getting too large of a sense of predetermination for units in Starcraft 2. It's hardly to say that units with predetermined objectives cannot also fulfill other rolls, and expanded rolls are great because they add dynamics to make Starcraft something beyond RTS Rock Paper Scissors, which Starcraft 2 is not. But I can't shake the feeling that the development of SC2 had to evolve from predetermined Rock Paper Scissors whereas Starcraft 1 was built from the ground up.

Maybe that was its fate as a sequel. It's not like SC2 devs could have said "Okay, let's make the warrior a Zerg can produce first a mash-up of a Zergling and a Hydralisk, then call it a Roach." From the mere fact that Blizzard have something upon which to base their work means that a role has been identified for some of their units. Or maybe I should just shut up and accept SC2, because it's already a better RTS than most others.
What does this field mean?
beetlelisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Poland2276 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-03 00:09:57
May 03 2010 00:08 GMT
#21
On May 03 2010 07:52 Erucious wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 02 2010 01:24 Uhh Negative wrote:
On May 02 2010 01:02 Vexx wrote:
There's an active zerg build order thread in the strategy section and you can search for the hotkey thread.

The general consensus seems to be to hotkey all your hatcheries on one key and then hotkey each of your queens individually.

So if 4 is hatcheries, you can use 4 to build and rally your units while being away from your base and you can use 5 to center on your queen and larva the hatchery, 6 to center on your expo queen and larva that hatchery...

Yeah I toyed around with hotkeying like that yesterday but I didn't know it was the general consensus for the best way. Thanks!


I've been trying something else:

Hatcheries on 6, queens on 5. Bind main at Ctrl+F5, nat at ctrl+F6, etc etc.

What u do to inject is:
5, F5, V, F6, V, F7, V

What do u think about this?

Doesn't it make all of your Queens to go to one place in the end?

On May 02 2010 01:21 wanderer wrote:
I am very much for a nerf of any kind on the Force Fields. The reasons are obvious.

Show nested quote +
=Chill, on djwheat's Weapon of Choice show when I called in to ask about this stuff after the ZOTAC Cup where the Z was holed up in his base for a good 5 minutes, to watch his natural get raped by a few stalkers — to be fair, the Z won the match because of macro and the Nydus Worm that he made later on was like 5-minutes into the lock-in and required a lot of time to transition to it... something that I don't think should be necessary against such a Tier 1 tactic]

NONSENSE! YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY THAT THE MECHANIC EVEN EXISTS IN THIS WONDERFUL GAME!



I am actually very happy that the mechanic exists in the game — the Protoss have a lot of sneaky tactics compared to T and Z in my opinion and I am all for stuff like that — but I think that the things that are necessary in order to circumvent this Tier 1 tactic of Force Field "lock ins" (particularly at the ramps) take far too much time to overcome. Furthermore, I think that what is necessary to overcome these things requires you to reach too far beyond Tier 1 on your own side. I don't think that makes it fair.

I think that its completely fine for a higher Tier to have a lower Tier weakness, but when a lower Tier has a tactic that requires a higher Tier in order to overcome it... I think that it at the very least borders on imba.

Ideas that I've heard talked about and of which I approve:
- Making the area of the Force Field one hex larger so that it cannot sit on a ramp
- Making the area of the Force Field one hex smaller so that it takes 2 to completely lock a ramp
- Making the Force Fields last for a shorter amount of time, so that it takes more attention for a player to continuously lock someone inside an area.
- Making the Force Fields destructible
- Making the Force Fields require more energy, so that lock ins are more rare
- Making the Force Fields have a cooldown (this idea here is the one I support the least, but its a solution)

It's kind of like a Dark Swarm in such situations... would you nerf Dark Swarm?
It touches something that is bothering me a bit though - how to do drops properly? I don't know if magic boxes work here, all transports tend to try to unload in the same spot and interrupt each other?
I'm not sure if I remember it correctly but I think I tried clicking unload on my ovies but it didn't work
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t3tsubo
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada682 Posts
May 03 2010 01:45 GMT
#22
FUUUUUU you know how day 9 talks about practicing a build over and over and over again until you perfect it? I just started trying the void ray build after the reset and my record was something like

WWWWLWWWLWWWLWWWLWWWLWWWLLLLLLLLLL

epic slump makes me sad, should I give up on the build (which ive done all 30 games, unless cheesed) or should keep hammering away on this build?
jamesr12
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1549 Posts
May 03 2010 01:47 GMT
#23
2 noob questions

can you change colors or is it always red vs blue some videos show other colors?
how do you change to all chat in a 2v2?

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=306479
t3tsubo
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada682 Posts
May 03 2010 02:01 GMT
#24
2 noob questions

can you change colors or is it always red vs blue some videos show other colors?
how do you change to all chat in a 2v2?

you can only change colors in custom games
you hold down shift when you click enter
beetlelisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Poland2276 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-04 23:30:08
May 04 2010 23:25 GMT
#25
Do you think changing Corruptors so they could cast sort of (I guess weakened?) Scourge would make any sense?
Imagine this for example as an ability draining energy over time but making Corruptors shoot Scourge every 3rd hit and Koreans screaming ONE! TWO! THREEE! like a public in a volleyball match ;-D
(those Scourge would be microable of course but maybe with limited time like Broodling so it would be justified to give them reasonable amount of damage to deal; this would also make sense since Corruptors morph into Broodlord that cast units...)
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CyberPitz
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States428 Posts
May 04 2010 23:46 GMT
#26
On May 03 2010 10:47 jamesr12 wrote:
2 noob questions

can you change colors or is it always red vs blue some videos show other colors?
how do you change to all chat in a 2v2?


To change color, I believe it's Ctrl + F. You can't pick your own, but it won't be Red and Blue! As was stated, in Custom Games you can pick your color.

All Chat is Shift+Enter.
shinosai
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1577 Posts
May 05 2010 00:00 GMT
#27
On May 03 2010 10:45 t3tsubo wrote:
FUUUUUU you know how day 9 talks about practicing a build over and over and over again until you perfect it? I just started trying the void ray build after the reset and my record was something like

WWWWLWWWLWWWLWWWLWWWLWWWLLLLLLLLLL

epic slump makes me sad, should I give up on the build (which ive done all 30 games, unless cheesed) or should keep hammering away on this build?


Sticking with a build doesn't mean you can't adapt. If someone starts directly countering your void ray build, you need to make adjustments. There is a reason that you lost the games that you did - find the reason and adjust.
Be versatile, know when to retreat, and carry a big gun.
LodiDodi
Profile Joined April 2010
United States30 Posts
May 05 2010 00:42 GMT
#28
i have 2 questions. i'm in gold and i have a pretty strong record vs other gold and even platinum players but my micro is definitely my weak point.

1) how do top players get their APM so high? my APM is only around 50 and i'm not sure how i can get it higher. it seems like the only way to get it higher is to be spammy with my commands where as right now i tend to time it and only have to hit the correct key once. with the new way of calculating that does not take into account clicking (i'm pretty sure that's how it's done) it seems like they must be just spamming the command keys. when i move my groups i use right click a lot more than anything else so it keeps my APM low.

2) this might be the answer to my previous question but i'm wondering how people do the "scoot and shoot" technique. especially as terran the way they shoot then run with mara to kite my zealots etc. is this done with a-move, or right click then hold position?
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sk`
Profile Joined November 2008
Japan442 Posts
May 05 2010 00:50 GMT
#29
On May 03 2010 08:00 BabaBlackSheep wrote:
I'm relatively new to the beta, so this is mostly conjecture on my behalf so I'd like someone to set me straight if I'm off the ball.

Terran tier 1: Marine = anti air
Protoss tier 1 (or 1.5? Do decimal tiers count?): Stalker/sentry = anti air
Zerg tier 1: Roaches = ...whoops?
I don't think anyone else got it... Z gets to AA until tier 2.
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WorkersOfTheWorld
Profile Joined April 2010
United States619 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-05 00:52:22
May 05 2010 00:51 GMT
#30
My broadest complaint: game length. What is to be done about the fact most games being so short? As a toss player, i'm compelled to timing push my T opponents or tangle with emp spam and masses of air units I can't handle. I'm compelled to pressure my Z opponents and end the game before brood lords come out.

Perhaps i'm getting a skewed viewpoint playing most of my games as toss (admittedly, we're probably the most prone to ending games early), but i just hate the fact i rarely get to truly experience a long game without ample punishment. I've got about a dozen hour long games in my career this reset and none of them are wins. I personally think there needs to be more high-ground advantage, more potent defensive capacity for players, something to extend the life of the average game beyond t2 agression.

I don't think the game is going to arrive at any semblance of balance until we actually see the full macro game of every race play out consistantly at a competetive level, and that just isn't happening right now.
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LodiDodi
Profile Joined April 2010
United States30 Posts
May 05 2010 00:53 GMT
#31
On May 05 2010 09:50 sk` wrote:
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On May 03 2010 08:00 BabaBlackSheep wrote:
I'm relatively new to the beta, so this is mostly conjecture on my behalf so I'd like someone to set me straight if I'm off the ball.

Terran tier 1: Marine = anti air
Protoss tier 1 (or 1.5? Do decimal tiers count?): Stalker/sentry = anti air
Zerg tier 1: Roaches = ...whoops?
I don't think anyone else got it... Z gets to AA until tier 2.



zerg can get queens at tier 1 which can be good enough anti air and spore crawlers only require a evo chamber these are more than enough to stop any air rush until you get hydras up.
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iCCup.Nove
Profile Joined March 2010
United States260 Posts
May 05 2010 01:08 GMT
#32
On May 05 2010 09:51 WorkersOfTheWorld wrote:
My broadest complaint: game length. What is to be done about the fact most games being so short? As a toss player, i'm compelled to timing push my T opponents or tangle with emp spam and masses of air units I can't handle. I'm compelled to pressure my Z opponents and end the game before brood lords come out.

Perhaps i'm getting a skewed viewpoint playing most of my games as toss (admittedly, we're probably the most prone to ending games early), but i just hate the fact i rarely get to truly experience a long game without ample punishment. I've got about a dozen hour long games in my career this reset and none of them are wins. I personally think there needs to be more high-ground advantage, more potent defensive capacity for players, something to extend the life of the average game beyond t2 agression.

I don't think the game is going to arrive at any semblance of balance until we actually see the full macro game of every race play out consistantly at a competetive level, and that just isn't happening right now.


Time will extend games. It is easier to come up with an aggressive strategy than a defensive build.

WorkersOfTheWorld
Profile Joined April 2010
United States619 Posts
May 05 2010 01:23 GMT
#33
On May 05 2010 10:08 Mufasaah wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 05 2010 09:51 WorkersOfTheWorld wrote:
My broadest complaint: game length. What is to be done about the fact most games being so short? As a toss player, i'm compelled to timing push my T opponents or tangle with emp spam and masses of air units I can't handle. I'm compelled to pressure my Z opponents and end the game before brood lords come out.

Perhaps i'm getting a skewed viewpoint playing most of my games as toss (admittedly, we're probably the most prone to ending games early), but i just hate the fact i rarely get to truly experience a long game without ample punishment. I've got about a dozen hour long games in my career this reset and none of them are wins. I personally think there needs to be more high-ground advantage, more potent defensive capacity for players, something to extend the life of the average game beyond t2 agression.

I don't think the game is going to arrive at any semblance of balance until we actually see the full macro game of every race play out consistantly at a competetive level, and that just isn't happening right now.


Time will extend games. It is easier to come up with an aggressive strategy than a defensive build.



I'm not too sure about that. The mediocre high ground advantage seems to give agression a lot more leeway than it used to. Blind agression is still punished if you run into counter-units, but just being agressive with a proper unit mix is often more fruitful (ie. you destroy some supply structures or some drones while sustaining relatively equal losses) than defending that agression. Perhaps you're right, and i hope you are, but I just don't see where it's going to come from.
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Shaithis
Profile Joined March 2010
United States383 Posts
May 05 2010 02:26 GMT
#34
Thors need +1 armor and a smaller size.

Reapers should be redesigned - more life, swap pistols for GtA attack and keep a high dmg anti-building attack, require Armory to build.
HeavyArmZ
Profile Joined May 2010
Brazil28 Posts
May 05 2010 02:48 GMT
#35
Reapers requiring Armory would delay their early harassing purpose, imo.. all they need probably is some sort of buff, cause it's not like they're never used (like Carriers and Ultralisks for instance), they're just not fulfilling their role effectively.. are reapers considered useless units? cause i've seen lots of players complaining about how weak they are that i don't know anymore..

yes, first post.. will I get some warm welcome?
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maybe if I post a funny fact about a funny thread that was recently closed (after we had a lot of fun - yes, we, I was a lurker before registering)
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=122514

boxcuttr has been a crying baby for a long time..
http://boardsus.playstation.com/t5/SOCOM-II-US-Navy-Seals/damn-cheaters/td-p/12725487/page/3
quote from him: "I am simply trying to make a point that Cheating is a very serious accusation and it should not be thrown around lightly." funny as hell if you followed the whole thread!

MorroW
Profile Joined August 2008
Sweden3522 Posts
May 06 2010 16:56 GMT
#36
ive got a question ive been thinking of for a while. didnt have time to test it out yet tho maybe someone could help me test it.
my question is if units can attack while they r getting moved by the forcefield?
if no
does their cooldown reset?
if no
does it still "lower" the cooldown like if u were idle on the ground? (id assume its this option)

maybe doesnt make that big of a difference vs rines or marauders but vs roaches i could imagine it being pretty ridiculous if their cooldown reset after they get moved by the ff
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kspree
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada22 Posts
May 06 2010 17:09 GMT
#37
Something that I've found strange about the ladder system is that you rarely play people that are in the same league as you. I'm in Bronze of my 22 games, I've only played someone in Bronze 4 times. My other matches were against 3 plat , 8 gold, and 7 silver. I'm not really sure why someone in the Bronze league is having to play someone in plat.
deth2munkies
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4051 Posts
May 06 2010 18:04 GMT
#38
This may have gone overlooked, but Blizzard posted their response to the survey here:

End result, looks like Hellions and Phoenixes are receiving slight buffs. Thors are possibly receiving a size reduction or move speed increase, and Overseers and Infestors might get new abilities.
Fruscainte
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
4596 Posts
May 10 2010 03:02 GMT
#39
Hey guys, quick question. How do I keybind all of my Hatcheries together?
Jadix
Profile Joined September 2004
United States134 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-10 04:36:07
May 10 2010 04:35 GMT
#40
Using fungal growth to get a surround is awesome. that is all.
BladeRunner
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States407 Posts
May 19 2010 06:13 GMT
#41
I'm not sure if it's a bug or not but seems like one:

When the game's paused, you can bounce your view around to your bases using the Backspace key, when you otherwise are unable to move the view. Is this expected?
Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
May 26 2010 19:23 GMT
#42
Has anyone had their ladder games not counting? I just played 2 games on asia and they were added to my profile, but when I check the ladder rank, they don't show up o_O
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Zoltan
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States656 Posts
May 26 2010 19:24 GMT
#43
On May 27 2010 04:23 FrozenArbiter wrote:
Has anyone had their ladder games not counting? I just played 2 games on asia and they were added to my profile, but when I check the ladder rank, they don't show up o_O


yes. and also the replays dont show minimap. Its very frustrating. Bnet is a mess right now.
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Liquid`Jinro
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Sweden33719 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-26 19:35:37
May 26 2010 19:35 GMT
#44
Does the game show up in your match history etc for you, or does it flat out just not count at all? I can see the game listed everywhere except the ladder page / game search ;/
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givemefive
Profile Joined April 2010
United States300 Posts
May 26 2010 19:37 GMT
#45
This happened to me a month ago. I had to resign in and that fixed it.

I don't' really remember the details. I'm pretty sure the game disappeared completely though.
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