On November 12 2010 19:56 mofisto wrote: been happening a few times recently and has started to bug the hell out of me. Game starts, rush arrives, but my teammate does nothing. doesnt move his probes/drones/scvs, just sits there and lets the enemy destroy his whole resource gathering operation.
Last night my protoss teammate decides that an army of observers (except the one stalker he made at the start) is the best tactic against zerg. "now we see everything they do", yes ok but you dot need 50 fucking observers to do that
Oh come on, mass observer sounds awesome! I'd rather my team mates do that then the usual "RUSH!!!!!!!" at the beginning of the game.
trust me it really isnt. it was funny yes, but when you have 2 150 food zerg armies baring down on you, and all your partner is doing is floating invisible fucking eyes everywhere it gets annoying pretty quickly
My "good ally" made a bad atack, started to get atacked by one void ray and pulled all his scvs out of mineral line and went off (he had 3 rax with 2 reactor 1 lab). Took me 7 minutes to realize that his scvs were not in the mineral line since i was pressuring them to win. After 14 minutes, thou 1 mistake clearly costed me the game that i made, with that extra income would be a piece of cake :D.
On November 12 2010 19:56 mofisto wrote: been happening a few times recently and has started to bug the hell out of me. Game starts, rush arrives, but my teammate does nothing. doesnt move his probes/drones/scvs, just sits there and lets the enemy destroy his whole resource gathering operation.
Last night my protoss teammate decides that an army of observers (except the one stalker he made at the start) is the best tactic against zerg. "now we see everything they do", yes ok but you dot need 50 fucking observers to do that
Oh come on, mass observer sounds awesome! I'd rather my team mates do that then the usual "RUSH!!!!!!!" at the beginning of the game.
trust me it really isnt. it was funny yes, but when you have 2 150 food zerg armies baring down on you, and all your partner is doing is floating invisible fucking eyes everywhere it gets annoying pretty quickly
I wasn't really serious, but if I had to choose between my allies rushing and failing miserable (happens quite a lot for me) and my ally doing something semi-funny while we are getting rolled, I'll take the later one.
As for the topic, my own noob mistakes I've done a few times is sending my drones to the mineral line, click the hatch and sd while I go away from my base to check up on my allies and maybe chat for a while until I return to my base only to see my drones paused half-way to the mineral line. (having missed the hatch in the beginning and giving the drones the stop command instead of making a drone). Now I always make the drone first.
I think it was a TT v PP game. Both teams had shared bases and I was the only one that scouted in my team. Anyways I scout the other army and they have walled off there ramp, got about 8 gateways combined and pumping out lots and lots of zealots/stalkers. I tell my teammate to help bunker up as we are about to be rushed. He just says 'How do you know that?', to which I reply 'trust me'. Needless to say he didn't help defend, we got stomped and i've never played 2v2 random again.
Him:"Hold them off me, I'm going DTs" Me: Alright, I'll try.
*15 minutes later*
Me: Wtf? You're just not getting you're twilight council? Him: I hate to get gateways first! Me: Why do you have 10 gateways? You only need a few to make tons of DTs >< Him; Stop being bad and just keep me alive and we win. Me: Fine.
*5 minutes later, 20 minutes in the game he sends about 6 DTs out, and they all get picked off with a scan*
Him: DUDE WTF Me: What? Him: Why didn't you kill the terran? I don't have any DTs now! Me: I was trying to just survive! You havn't done anything to help at all. Him: <Long list of mean, and inappropriate words> Him; fine, Hold them off, I'll go Carriers...
One time I played a 3v3 on one of the big maps with a very long rush distance. A few minutes into the game, I look to see what my partners are doing, and one of them has built nothing but a Refinery and an Engineering Bay. After loading his SCVs into the Command Center, he exclaims, "Wish me luck!" and starts floating across the map. Well, about 7 minutes into the game he finally lands in the other team's base, unloads, and starts upgrading to Planetary Fortress...
20 Marines and 10 Zealots were awaiting his arrival.
My friend made his pylon at 9/9 with 300 minerals and 4 probes queued up in his nexus.
Edit: And got cannon rushed with the first cannon up before his pylon completed.
Double Edit: And then pulled all 9 probes off of minerals and chased around the building probe through the range of his cannons never managing to kill it and losing all 9 probes.
On November 13 2010 03:31 Pooka wrote: One time I played a 3v3 on one of the big maps with a very long rush distance. A few minutes into the game, I look to see what my partners are doing, and one of them has built nothing but a Refinery and an Engineering Bay. After loading his SCVs into the Command Center, he exclaims, "Wish me luck!" and starts floating across the map. Well, about 7 minutes into the game he finally lands in the other team's base, unloads, and starts upgrading to Planetary Fortress...
20 Marines and 10 Zealots were awaiting his arrival.
On November 13 2010 02:31 Seam wrote: Him:"Hold them off me, I'm going DTs" Me: Alright, I'll try.
*15 minutes later*
Me: Wtf? You're just not getting you're twilight council? Him: I hate to get gateways first! Me: Why do you have 10 gateways? You only need a few to make tons of DTs >< Him; Stop being bad and just keep me alive and we win. Me: Fine.
*5 minutes later, 20 minutes in the game he sends about 6 DTs out, and they all get picked off with a scan*
Him: DUDE WTF Me: What? Him: Why didn't you kill the terran? I don't have any DTs now! Me: I was trying to just survive! You havn't done anything to help at all. Him: <Long list of mean, and inappropriate words> Him; fine, Hold them off, I'll go Carriers...
Needless to say, we lost that game =(
i would of insulted him and left. how did u put up with that.
On October 21 2010 05:59 chadissilent wrote: My two teammates in a 3v3 decided to only make ONE type of unit. Even worse, they told our enemies what they were making. Learn2Play noobs.
This is a joke right?
that could have possibly been me and my mate... we were doing it for funday monday
On November 12 2010 19:56 mofisto wrote: been happening a few times recently and has started to bug the hell out of me. Game starts, rush arrives, but my teammate does nothing. doesnt move his probes/drones/scvs, just sits there and lets the enemy destroy his whole resource gathering operation.
Last night my protoss teammate decides that an army of observers (except the one stalker he made at the start) is the best tactic against zerg. "now we see everything they do", yes ok but you dot need 50 fucking observers to do that
Oh come on, mass observer sounds awesome! I'd rather my team mates do that then the usual "RUSH!!!!!!!" at the beginning of the game.
You get teammates that want to rush? Lucky. I get teammates that tell me they're going to mass Battlecruisers and get crushed by triple 4gate.
On October 21 2010 05:59 chadissilent wrote: My two teammates in a 3v3 decided to only make ONE type of unit. Even worse, they told our enemies what they were making. Learn2Play noobs.
This is a joke right?
that could have possibly been me and my mate... we were doing it for funday monday
Learn Day9 noob.
I maintain that there should be a special font for sarcasm/parody on the internet. It just doesn't work with plain text and no voice inflections.
Altough im an fan of team games...there is an section that i despise.That is 2v2 random.... I still have the chills when i remember my first games.It was the first time i was placed in bronze(in 1v1 i got into plat and in 3v3 also in plat...not bragging...just stating it..to compare it with the 2v2 stuff) So..in like the second match after the placement ones...thats like the 7 game....i was playing random at that time..in team games...i got terran..and my ally was toss,against an toss and terran.So mostly an mirror match TPvsTP.I started doing the 3 rax build..and getting also tanks and medivacs.I didnt really looked in my allys base until like the 8 min....all he had like 3 gates and like 3 zeals.When i ask him "what are u doing?",he said"im going for DT...so pls try to defend me"...i go like "ok....hope ur right". I mass an good amount of marine/marauders/medivacs with some tanks. Our oponents went MM and voids.I managed to hold them..with heavy casualties,while my ally was taking heavy hits from cloacked banshees(he didnt had robo).I managed to kill those banshees and i managed to expo meanwhile.And we managed to make an desperation push...and he used his DTs....We ended up winning cause theyr terran didnt scaned,altought he had an full energy OC.....my ally just slipped his 7 DTs into the terrans base and started killing every building in sight.They left....but i managed to get an glimpse of the toss forces...he already teched to carriers..and if he would stayed..he might had posed an threat....cause i only had like 10 marines..as anti air..and my ally had like only DTs.
From then i abandoned 2v2...not forever..but until one of my best buddies starts playing sc2.
I had a partner that didnt built a single scv the whole game I was so speechless that i didnt say anything game ended pretty soon (12 minutes mark) after watching replay i could hold up but just gave up ...
EPT
I'd rather my team mates do that then the usual "RUSH!!!!!!!" at the beginning of the game. 
