On February 03 2011 19:17 srikanth94 wrote: hey all i live in india. i wanted to know whether the latency is good/bad for NA and SEA servers. i would like to buy that regions game whose latency is less.
i am not able to find out how to check my latency without the game... please tell me which regions starcraft 2 will give me better gameplay........
thx...
Just from location I'm gonna say SEA, and if you buy a SEA copy you get an NA account as well anyway, so you may as well.
In another thread an otherwise poor post made a mention of Ret using infestors against protoss. Is there anywhere that I can find information on how he does this?
A question I was half-considering grave-digging a related thread to ask, until I realized I'd likely receive as much flaming for that as I would for making an entirely new thread. That being said, I discovered this thread's existence and figured I'd give it a go here;
After playing World of Warcraft for numerous years, I decided to get into SC2 when it came out (I played BW for six years). While playing WoW, I bought the first gaming mouse I've ever owned, a Razer Naga. Let me just say flat out that this is easily the best mouse I have ever used.
Why? The size and design of the Naga and my prolonged use with it have made it both extremely comfortable and EXTREMELY difficult to change from. I recently acquired an Imperator and a DeathAdder after reading about some of the issues regarding macro-clicks and their legality in SC2. However, my play became so God-awful even after trying to switch mice for over a week.
To wind down this long explanation and dive into the actual question; If I'm interested in doing LAN's and other tournaments can I be penalized (or prevented from playing) for using a Naga?
In addition, I ask this here not because I haven't searched the other threads regarding the issue, indeed I have. I ask because the information in those threads is so horribly contradicting the further you go along, with self-proclaimed experts in the field consistently and constantly arguing with other.... self proclaimed experts.
Clarification: I do not, and never have used the side buttons to actually DO anything. I just love how the mouse feels in my hand.
A question I was half-considering grave-digging a related thread to ask, until I realized I'd likely receive as much flaming for that as I would for making an entirely new thread. That being said, I discovered this thread's existence and figured I'd give it a go here;
After playing World of Warcraft for numerous years, I decided to get into SC2 when it came out (I played BW for six years). While playing WoW, I bought the first gaming mouse I've ever owned, a Razer Naga. Let me just say flat out that this is easily the best mouse I have ever used.
Why? The size and design of the Naga and my prolonged use with it have made it both extremely comfortable and EXTREMELY difficult to change from. I recently acquired an Imperator and a DeathAdder after reading about some of the issues regarding macro-clicks and their legality in SC2. However, my play became so God-awful even after trying to switch mice for over a week.
To wind down this long explanation and dive into the actual question; If I'm interested in doing LAN's and other tournaments can I be penalized (or prevented from playing) for using a Naga?
In addition, I ask this here not because I haven't searched the other threads regarding the issue, indeed I have. I ask because the information in those threads is so horribly contradicting the further you go along, with self-proclaimed experts in the field consistently and constantly arguing with other.... self proclaimed experts.
Clarification: I do not, and never have used the side buttons to actually DO anything. I just love how the mouse feels in my hand.
It is my understanding that using macros in tourneys is forbidden but that having a keyboard or mouse capable of macros is completely ok. I myself (and a fairly large part of the community from my understanding) use Black Widow keyboards that have macro keys off to the side. A pro who actually attends LANs may be a able to give you a more concrete first-hand answer.
A question I was half-considering grave-digging a related thread to ask, until I realized I'd likely receive as much flaming for that as I would for making an entirely new thread. That being said, I discovered this thread's existence and figured I'd give it a go here;
After playing World of Warcraft for numerous years, I decided to get into SC2 when it came out (I played BW for six years). While playing WoW, I bought the first gaming mouse I've ever owned, a Razer Naga. Let me just say flat out that this is easily the best mouse I have ever used.
Why? The size and design of the Naga and my prolonged use with it have made it both extremely comfortable and EXTREMELY difficult to change from. I recently acquired an Imperator and a DeathAdder after reading about some of the issues regarding macro-clicks and their legality in SC2. However, my play became so God-awful even after trying to switch mice for over a week.
To wind down this long explanation and dive into the actual question; If I'm interested in doing LAN's and other tournaments can I be penalized (or prevented from playing) for using a Naga?
In addition, I ask this here not because I haven't searched the other threads regarding the issue, indeed I have. I ask because the information in those threads is so horribly contradicting the further you go along, with self-proclaimed experts in the field consistently and constantly arguing with other.... self proclaimed experts.
Clarification: I do not, and never have used the side buttons to actually DO anything. I just love how the mouse feels in my hand.
It is my understanding that using macros in tourneys is forbidden but that having a keyboard or mouse capable of macros is completely ok. I myself (and a fairly large part of the community from my understanding) use Black Widow keyboards that have macro keys off to the side. A pro who actually attends LANs may be a able to give you a more concrete first-hand answer.
That makes sense and I hope that's how it works. I know most people think the Naga looks like a monstrosity but having that be your norm it makes it awful hard to switch anywhere else. Appreciate the assistance and if anyone has any other information on the subject, let me know.
I am not sure if this warrants its own thread so I'll post it here. Recently I tried to rebind some of my binds in sc2 but a really strange error occurred. Rather then try to describe it I made a very short video showcasing it.
In short binding a key will unbind a ton of other keys. In case you can't tell from the video the key I tried there was '§' which is the one next to 1 on Swedish keyboards though the same thing happened when I tried to bind caps lock to 'base camera'.
A question I was half-considering grave-digging a related thread to ask, until I realized I'd likely receive as much flaming for that as I would for making an entirely new thread. That being said, I discovered this thread's existence and figured I'd give it a go here;
After playing World of Warcraft for numerous years, I decided to get into SC2 when it came out (I played BW for six years). While playing WoW, I bought the first gaming mouse I've ever owned, a Razer Naga. Let me just say flat out that this is easily the best mouse I have ever used.
Why? The size and design of the Naga and my prolonged use with it have made it both extremely comfortable and EXTREMELY difficult to change from. I recently acquired an Imperator and a DeathAdder after reading about some of the issues regarding macro-clicks and their legality in SC2. However, my play became so God-awful even after trying to switch mice for over a week.
To wind down this long explanation and dive into the actual question; If I'm interested in doing LAN's and other tournaments can I be penalized (or prevented from playing) for using a Naga?
In addition, I ask this here not because I haven't searched the other threads regarding the issue, indeed I have. I ask because the information in those threads is so horribly contradicting the further you go along, with self-proclaimed experts in the field consistently and constantly arguing with other.... self proclaimed experts.
Clarification: I do not, and never have used the side buttons to actually DO anything. I just love how the mouse feels in my hand.
It is my understanding that using macros in tourneys is forbidden but that having a keyboard or mouse capable of macros is completely ok. I myself (and a fairly large part of the community from my understanding) use Black Widow keyboards that have macro keys off to the side. A pro who actually attends LANs may be a able to give you a more concrete first-hand answer.
That makes sense and I hope that's how it works. I know most people think the Naga looks like a monstrosity but having that be your norm it makes it awful hard to switch anywhere else. Appreciate the assistance and if anyone has any other information on the subject, let me know.
Assuming you don't actually use the macros on the mouse, it would be completely ludicrous for someone to ban you from a tournament for "using the wrong equipment".
What do people think of this game in comparison to BW? I'm really starting to find that I like BW much better. This game is just to noob friendly (not that I'm a pro in either BW or SC2, but decent). If the top players in the world are averaging slightly better than 50% then something is wrong. I know that this isn't true for all players, but it is for the vast majority. It feels as though this game is trying to do too much. I think when it comes down to it, the simpler strategy games are the ones with a greater shelf life. Do I think SC2 is a bad game? No. But I don't see this game having nearly close to the reign that SC:BW did. Is this because the game is still in it's infant stages? Maybe. Is this because I've been 2 rax bunker rushed and 4 gated in my last 15 games? Probably. But what does the TL community feel about SC2 vs BW? (in a general sense, of course these are different games)
How do you change what color you appear as in ladder matches? I noticed in Idra's game vs MVP he was green, but on the game loading screen it showed him as red, and MVP blue, except MVP was the one who was red in-game. It was quite odd :o
I assume there's some way to mess with the default colors?
Does teamliquid forum has a place where I can whine and do some CAPS about imbalance? I play sc2 a lot (2000 games + few hundred hours of videos/streams) and I have ~10% winrate tvp and I feel sooooooo bad. Many keyboards broken after frustrating losses etc. There is no way to get top200 with that awful tvp.
On February 05 2011 13:12 Tachion wrote: How do you change what color you appear as in ladder matches? I noticed in Idra's game vs MVP he was green, but on the game loading screen it showed him as red, and MVP blue, except MVP was the one who was red in-game. It was quite odd :o
I assume there's some way to mess with the default colors?
If you do shift+tab it will change your color to teal and your enemy's color to red I believe (same as SC1 I think). It should be a one time thing and should save the setting for all future games. Just be aware in team games that your allies are always yellow and all enemies are red.
Just a little side note about the theory of it: the theory is that because your enemy is red (bright color) that you will be able to react quicker to your mini map.
On February 05 2011 20:38 Methnos wrote: I would like to ask about detection systems.
Is it slightly unfair that both T and P have 2 detection systems; 1 static and the other mobile. (Photon, Turrent- Raven, Obs)
Whilst zerg only have overlords which are 200m and 100g each.
What do you think about this?
I dont mean to be whining about imbalance, but this just really sticks out to me.
Anyone?
Zerg have spore crawlers for detection... Without can also be mobile seeing as they can uproot and move somewhere.
=o. I did not know that......... How did I not know that????
I am a 2k pure zerg player with a good win/lose ratio.
And I did not know that. :o
Thank you!
They don't detect unless they are actually IN the ground, so don't think that you can make a spore crawler and bring it with you to a terran's base and see their cloaked units
On February 05 2011 20:38 Methnos wrote: I would like to ask about detection systems.
Is it slightly unfair that both T and P have 2 detection systems; 1 static and the other mobile. (Photon, Turrent- Raven, Obs)
Whilst zerg only have overlords which are 200m and 100g each.
What do you think about this?
I dont mean to be whining about imbalance, but this just really sticks out to me.
Anyone?
Zerg have spore crawlers for detection... Without can also be mobile seeing as they can uproot and move somewhere.
=o. I did not know that......... How did I not know that????
I am a 2k pure zerg player with a good win/lose ratio.
And I did not know that. :o
Thank you!
They don't detect unless they are actually IN the ground, so don't think that you can make a spore crawler and bring it with you to a terran's base and see their cloaked units
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