GLHF Magazine - First real SC 2 magazine - Page 7

Pausing

CombatEx is also a firm believer in using the Pause
feature to ruin his opponent’s micro during a fight.
While this may be frowned upon as poor conduct in
tournament, CombatEx is happy enough to do it dur-
ing ladder matches—if only for a laugh. The Pausing
Game begins simply enough. You Pause the game in
the middle of a huge fight. Your opponent hesitates,
his finger poised precariously over Neural Para-
site. He doesn’t want to type, for fear that you will
immediately unpause. He doesn’t want to unpause
because—well, he’s too damn nice. A few moments
pass, and a baneling tumbles across the Mar Sara
desert, before you say “sec”. Your opponent starts
to relax and moves his finger away from his Neural
Parasite hotkey to respond
.
You unpause.

According to CombatEx, the best “counter” to the
Pausing Game is to employ the tactic yourself, creat-
ing a ten second Pause Metagame, in which both
player attempt to throw one another off by pausing
and unpausing at opportune points during the fight.
While CombatEx is quite proud of his own expertise
in this area, he also jokingly saluted a certain RatZ-
Deezer for his mastery of the Pausing Game.

On April 26 2012 20:24 VoirDire wrote:


Fucking hilarious :D

On April 26 2012 03:44 GoSuChicken wrote:

In my opinion, it would be cool, if TL and that magazine would maybe coorporate

On April 26 2012 20:24 VoirDire wrote:


Fucking hilarious :D

On April 26 2012 22:03 RolleMcKnolle wrote:
I don't know if you have read what they wrote in the editorial, but they were saying that their aim is independent E-sports journalism. So they are trying to bring the stories that are not told on the forums but instead they are trying to further investigate into matters noone else tries to dig into. If this is helping us understanding the reactions of Koreans or following storylines a volatile online community would just forget about after some time and so on. I think they have their place in a gaming community but I don't know whether SC2 is big enough to maintain this.

On April 26 2012 21:52 Emix_Squall wrote:
I really don't mean to kill the mood but since I'm working in a PR agency specialized in online games communication (in Europe), I'm quite aware of how medias interact in this sector and I must say I'm doubting a little the viability of such a product.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great idea, the magazine actually looks amazing and so professional, that's exactly the kind of image e-sports need right now in order to broaden it's audience.
Nevertheless, I'm really wondering what new content this magazine will bring to the table. I mean e-Sports is something that mostly appeals to computer online-gamers. Most of which (especially in the Starcraft community) spend a lot of time on forums, or different online platforms where they can talk about the game. Why would any of these people buy a magazine that basically says the same thing you can find on pretty much every Starcraft Forums? Moreover,without the possibility of interaction that the internet provides.

Even though the product you worked on looks amazing and probably is, I don't know if anyone will feel the need to use it to get this kind of informations. You're basically posting on the platform of your biggest "competitor" ...