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.
I think its interesting to see tvz evolve with the latest GSTL matches (talking specifically about Alive's games).
Even tho I feel the latest zerg buffs unbalanced the matchup, it is nice to see some pros making the best of it.
The KR scene in general seems lively, with KESPA joining the sc2 scene, many teams getting new sponsors, and ST getting whole new teams. I seemed to have missed the "crossover" games that people keep talking about, anyone got a link?
On July 14 2012 20:06 Toastie.NL wrote: Something just jumped my mind,
Ghost Snipe was nerfed way to hard because it countered both T3 options Zerg has.
High Templar Feedback/Storm counters both T3 options as well as T1 options from Terran.
How would TvP lategame look with Feedback not working vs Massive?
I don't know that Feedback would change much versus Battlecruisers, given that I rarely see anyone make them - and when I do, they're usually pretty crap anyway. Sometimes they can accomplish things in TvT but even then the last time I saw anyone make them it was in a GOMTV game and they got jacked by mass vikings.
Thors, on the other hand, might be a lot more useful if they couldn't get instagibbed by Feedback, but you're still dealing with the whole, "Mech isn't great vs P" problem where you have to split upgrades. So... I guess the answer is that I don't see this nerf doing much.
I have a question myself. I keep hearing about the KESPA players doing SC2 games, but when I see their games half the time they're in super poor quality YouTube videos, such as this one (Jaedong holding a 10 pool from Soulkey - which actually hurt my eyes to try and watch. Is there a subscription like GSL that I can get to find good quality Kespa vids - or for that matter, is there even a Kespa equivalent to Gomtv's website? A large part of the value I get from my GSL subs is the fact that it's very very easy to pull up vods in order on their site, in [decent, not great] video quality.
Feedback not instagibbing Thors could create a dynamic of Thor meatshields (take no splash, Immortals suck vs barracks units lategame, etcetc) in which MMMGhostThor would be the lategame mix this the MMM dps'ing behind massive Thor HP.
500HP thors could do this, 300HP Thors, not so much... And dont forget you cna get up to +3 vehicle Plating this way!
Anyone know who is the current EU rank1 gm? His account does look like its smurf and he has insane improvement rate troughout seasons. He never plays custom games only ladder. Its so strange account :X. Any ideas?
lategame terran with MMMVG+tanks does not equal the other races maxed T3 armies but we still get forced into playing it. mostly because mech is not viable during the early game, due to its imense gas cost, thus forcing bio play which doesn´t transition smoothly into mech play since you need separate upgrades and production facilities.
-to efficiently play mech on 2 bases you need atleast 3 factories with 3 addons and an armory. that is 500 gas just for infrastructure and you havent even gotten any units out at this point.
-you dont have an appropriate mineral dump. hellions are nice to have but they dont win battles. getting marines to support your mech play does only work for the very early stages of the game when marines can be effective without any upgrades. after that, they become a liability because upgrading them does cut into our gas.
if there is a patch coming, I would like to see it, either slightly reducing the gas cost and build time of factories, or greatly reducing the gas cost of armories.
Is anyone else not able to log in or find match right now?
I got out of a ladder game and then I got that swirling thing in the middle of the screen, and it wouldnt go away. So I logged out and now I cant get past the screen where it says enter.
Hope I`m not the only one or you guys know how to fix it.
Edit*** So apparently its only on my main account. Does this mean I am banned or something? I cant think of a reason I should be banned.
On July 14 2012 20:06 Toastie.NL wrote: I have a question myself. I keep hearing about the KESPA players doing SC2 games, but when I see their games half the time they're in super poor quality YouTube videos.....
I have this doubt too. I don't know if Kespa really cares about us, but i would like to see one quality english casting of their sc2 tournaments. Any1 knows something about it?
On July 14 2012 20:06 Toastie.NL wrote: I have a question myself. I keep hearing about the KESPA players doing SC2 games, but when I see their games half the time they're in super poor quality YouTube videos.....
I have this doubt too. I don't know if Kespa really cares about us, but i would like to see one quality english casting of their sc2 tournaments. Any1 knows something about it?
I think the only tournament with KeSPA players so far was the 8-man MLG KeSPA Invitational back at MLG Anaheim. Besides that, they've so far only played Proleague, and will play the upcoming (not sure if there'll be a stream) OSL Qualifiers.
Is anyone else not able to log in or find match right now?
I got out of a ladder game and then I got that swirling thing in the middle of the screen, and it wouldnt go away. So I logged out and now I cant get past the screen where it says enter.
Hope I`m not the only one or you guys know how to fix it.
Edit*** So apparently its only on my main account. Does this mean I am banned or something? I cant think of a reason I should be banned.
Have you tried logging into battle.net (the actual site)? It should tell you there if your account is banned.
This seems relevant for you vvv
On July 15 2012 23:24 Scorevath wrote: I think Blizz is having issues right now. A lot of people are complaining about this or a similar issue where your SC2 account seemingly doesn't exist. Right now when I log in it shows a blank portrait and won't let me get past the log in. I also can't view my account on b.net. It just errors.
I called Tech Support and they said they hadn't hear about it but based on how the forums were blowing up they expected a fix soon.
Is anyone else not able to log in or find match right now?
I got out of a ladder game and then I got that swirling thing in the middle of the screen, and it wouldnt go away. So I logged out and now I cant get past the screen where it says enter.
Hope I`m not the only one or you guys know how to fix it.
Edit*** So apparently its only on my main account. Does this mean I am banned or something? I cant think of a reason I should be banned.
Have you tried logging into battle.net (the actual site)? It should tell you there if your account is banned.
On July 15 2012 23:24 Scorevath wrote: I think Blizz is having issues right now. A lot of people are complaining about this or a similar issue where your SC2 account seemingly doesn't exist. Right now when I log in it shows a blank portrait and won't let me get past the log in. I also can't view my account on b.net. It just errors.
I called Tech Support and they said they hadn't hear about it but based on how the forums were blowing up they expected a fix soon.
Thanks for the info. No I`m not banned I`m in the same boat as everyone else is apparently.
On July 16 2012 08:56 M7Jagger wrote: How come there are no black progamers?
Dunno for black ones, but I've seen mixed race ones. I think MaximusBlack is kinda a recent example. Well, I don't know how he exactly thinks of his ethnicity, but his skin is much darker than mine, so I just assumed that.
On July 16 2012 08:56 M7Jagger wrote: How come there are no black progamers?
I've always been curious about the demographics of different gaming communities. The fighting game community always seems a lot more diverse than the RTS community, but I'm not sure why. Accessibility? Culture? Does BM language drive people away? I wish I could see a study on this.
On July 16 2012 08:56 M7Jagger wrote: How come there are no black progamers?
I've always been curious about the demographics of different gaming communities. The fighting game community always seems a lot more diverse than the RTS community, but I'm not sure why. Accessibility? Culture? Does BM language drive people away? I wish I could see a study on this.
Without any hard evidence to support it, I've always felt as though console FPS's had the worst BM mainly because of the demographic they attract. I have certainly seen some pretty serious DOTA BM's/Rages though
So, with both NASL, Dreamhack and Homestory won by foreigners, do you think that we're seeing a more level playing field between the foreign scene and the Korean one?
On July 16 2012 08:56 M7Jagger wrote: How come there are no black progamers?
I've always been curious about the demographics of different gaming communities. The fighting game community always seems a lot more diverse than the RTS community, but I'm not sure why. Accessibility? Culture? Does BM language drive people away? I wish I could see a study on this.
I would like to know if spam queuing the harvesters to return cargo will increase their efficiency by 7% ish as before? I tried this and watched it closely in an AI match to check if it hasn't been changed in anyway and am not seeing much of a difference. I watch the pro replays and notice the 100+ APM with a lot of harvester interaction so I am wondering... Thank you in advance for any responses! -Repent from Vegas
On July 16 2012 08:56 M7Jagger wrote: How come there are no black progamers?
Aphromoo is a professional LoL player who is also in the top 0.01% of League ladder, and the fighting game community also has a lot of famous black professionals. As far as SC2 Devo is the only famous black SC2 player I know of, but he's not a pro.
Something like this has been purposed in the past but not discussed enough I think.
Basically I'd like fungal to be changed so that it requires more micro from the zerg and his enemy. Here's a video of a fungal being a missile + Show Spoiler +
( not my video) Note that in the video, where the fungal is targetted the missile will explode, in essence it can actually pass marines. I would change this missile to hit on impact. This would first, make zerg aim the fungals and second his enemy would have to dodge. The speed of the missile could be changed, I think it's quite alright in the video shown.
Imagine MKP invididually sending his marines to block the fungals from hitting all of his marines, while moving the bulk of the army away from the infestors..would be glorious. Evenly for the zerg as he would have to predict where the enemy is moving and try to hit in such a way that most of the units are hit by fungal.
I don't see many flaws in this change, you can argue that it's a nerf, which it is but it can be neglected by player's skill. It would add an interesting dynamic of aiming/dodging, rearranging armies to block fungals etc.
The only negative I can think of it is that is too similiar to EMP, and this is quite big I think because we want races to be different.
So my next purposal would be to maybe make Fungal like a delayed aoe-spell. Like green moss would sprout from the ground and then after X seconds( 0,5 perhaps?), the FG goes into effect. This could be interesting as well, zerg would force the enemy into moving, the fungals wouldn't neccessarily even have to hit as forcing the enemy into unfavorable positions could be better for flanks.
Also I'd like to make EMP a bit slower so as to add more in-battle micro/reaction based moves.
I don't really think FG or EMP or anything else is imba, but I think they should require more skill to use and give the enemy to react(which has been mentioned a million times i know).
Any thoughts? Would Blizzard add something like this? Why wouldn't they? Is it changing the gameplay too much? Is it too "arcade-ish" and not enough RTS-ish?
On July 16 2012 08:56 M7Jagger wrote: How come there are no black progamers?
Aphromoo is a professional LoL player who is also in the top 0.01% of League ladder, and the fighting game community also has a lot of famous black professionals. As far as SC2 Devo is the only famous black SC2 player I know of, but he's not a pro.
Hey there, I lurk a lot and was looking for a thread on HotS to comment on some ideas but couldn't find one. I hope this is the right place.
I had an idea regarding the proposed Ultralisk changes in the multiplayer. Now, of course we haven't as a community had a chance to play the game yet, but as I understand things the burrow-charge ability is being considered as a means of allowing Ultralisks to close in on kiting units (esp: Terran). As an added effect, it disrupts positioning and randomly moves the units it erupts under within a certain radius of the eruption point. The last part of the ability I think is potentially problematic, but I'm going to ignore it as no one has really had a chance to play it yet.
If the problem is that the Ultralisk has issues with pathing and being able to close on units wouldn't a simpler solution be to alter the pathing of the Ultralisk in a manner similar to the way the Colossus is able to move over units? If the Ultralisk were able to walk over/through units such as Zerglings/Banelings and possibly Roaches and Hydras it would allow the unit not to get stuck on smaller units, fit better with it being as massive as it is supposed to be, and it would still be able to hit given it has a range of 1 so that it can attack over other melee units. It wouldn't entirely solve the issue of kiting but it would help the Ultralisk gain positioning on armies if the Zerglings/Banelings were able to swarm over their feet and not block the Ultralisk or vice-versa.
I'd like to get some thoughts on this, especially if it's been proposed before, or to have it moved to its own topic if it warrants.
Give ultralisks a charge move like zealots (with an upgrade) that paths through units. Ultralisks would be really OP if they could walk over everything. Right now really the only bad thing about them is that they can't chase at all and their pathing is horrible. When they actually connect it's devastating. Leenock VS. MKP in the IGN team league I think? He was wiping out swathes of marines!
On July 16 2012 08:56 M7Jagger wrote: How come there are no black progamers?
I've always been curious about the demographics of different gaming communities. The fighting game community always seems a lot more diverse than the RTS community, but I'm not sure why. Accessibility? Culture? Does BM language drive people away? I wish I could see a study on this.
This is a question that has probably been asked a hundred times before, but I've searched on the forum, Liquipedia and Battle.net without finding an answer, and I hope you can be patient with another noob. I'm in Silver league and my division name is Colossus Beta. I've heard that divisions of a league are "harder" and "easier", with more skilled players in some. According to Liquipedia, divisions are ranked with numbers, but mine has a name. Liquipedia also shows tiers in Diamond league with different letters, but I can't find anything like that. I'm just curious, is there a way to find out whether or not I'm in a higher or lower silver division? Does it actually mean something?
And I'm really happy that I just hit silver. It probably doesn't seem like much for you experienced players but I finally feel like I have some sort of progress
On July 17 2012 21:00 Vei wrote: Someone should make a hardcover, really nicely-bound, publishing of all of Liquipedia II
I was just thinking that would be really sick, and perhaps a new edition annually or diannually is that a word
Diannually isn't a word, I think you mean biannually. It really depends on whether you mean twice a year (biannually, semiannually) or once every two years (biennial).
On July 17 2012 21:00 Vei wrote: Someone should make a hardcover, really nicely-bound, publishing of all of Liquipedia II
I was just thinking that would be really sick, and perhaps a new edition annually or diannually is that a word
Diannually isn't a word, I think you mean biannually. It really depends on whether you mean twice a year (biannually, semiannually) or once every two years (biennial).
do you guys remember the sc2 custom map that is called world of starcraft , and was forced to be renamed? Is that UMS published yet and what is it called
On July 16 2012 08:56 M7Jagger wrote: How come there are no black progamers?
Aphromoo is a professional LoL player who is also in the top 0.01% of League ladder, and the fighting game community also has a lot of famous black professionals. As far as SC2 Devo is the only famous black SC2 player I know of, but he's not a pro.
On July 16 2012 22:03 M7Jagger wrote: Why is it so that Terran has to stutter step while protoss only has to a-move with their units?
User was temp banned for this post.
Because while terrans seek to avoid confrontation with protoss melee units they have to move backwards, the only way to still do dmg while doing this is when you stutterstep, or simply move backwards inbetween volleys. Protoss however is seeking the head on battle, because their melee unit, the zealot, is very powerfull if it can reach its target.
In later battles however you will often see the terran prefering to spreading rather than stutterstepping. This is to negate aoe dmg and maximize dps as terran ranged units benefit alot from a good concave.
On July 16 2012 08:56 M7Jagger wrote: How come there are no black progamers?
I've always been curious about the demographics of different gaming communities. The fighting game community always seems a lot more diverse than the RTS community, but I'm not sure why. Accessibility? Culture? Does BM language drive people away? I wish I could see a study on this.
Without any hard evidence to support it, I've always felt as though console FPS's had the worst BM mainly because of the demographic they attract. I have certainly seen some pretty serious DOTA BM's/Rages though
While i've never gotten into online console fps, that seems pretty believable when you take into account your point heh. From my own personal experience, i'd have to say the MOBA community can definitely be harsh at times. No tolerance for beginners which stems from the fact it is designed to be a heavily team based game I guess.
I don't play a heap of ladder, but when I do, I generally find most people to be mannered or simply lack any bm (SEA). Also a few days ago, I had a guy compliment me when I won a game fairly convincingly on the NA server, maybe I just attract friendly people..
So does anyone know why DRG just completely fell apart in the semi-finals last night? They were some of the saddest games I've seen in a while :\
My best theory I can think of is that Genius's absence is making him weaker against Protoss and may also contribute to a lack of friendly but competitive motivation...
I have been following SC2 for a while now, but still do not understand how GSL works...and yes, I have read many times the TL wiki and still don't get it.
Ok, basically my knowledge of GSL is this.
-Its the biggest/most prestigious tournamentin SC2. Biggest prize pool also. -the Seasons...I dont understand this, I checked TL wiki and it says from january to june 2012 alone, there are 3 seasons... how long is each season? And how long is the break between each season? -I thought MKP was in Code A? So, I checked the wiki and it says he is still in code S? WOw confusing ><
- How does one get promoted/demoted to code S/A respectively? - I am just confused with how GSL works.......I see the past winners of GSL like Nestea, MVP, DRG, etc. When is this? If there are 3 seasons in january to june alone, so the winner of each season can be declared "the winner of GSL"?
I have been following SC2 for a while now, but still do not understand how GSL works...and yes, I have read many times the TL wiki and still don't get it.
Ok, basically my knowledge of GSL is this.
-Its the biggest/most prestigious tournamentin SC2. Biggest prize pool also. -the Seasons...I dont understand this, I checked TL wiki and it says from january to june 2012 alone, there are 3 seasons... how long is each season? And how long is the break between each season? -I thought MKP was in Code A? So, I checked the wiki and it says he is still in code S? WOw confusing ><
- How does one get promoted/demoted to code S/A respectively? - I am just confused with how GSL works.......I see the past winners of GSL like Nestea, MVP, DRG, etc. When is this? If there are 3 seasons in january to june alone, so the winner of each season can be declared "the winner of GSL"?
Thank you so much. I hope to understand soon.
1. The seasons run about 2 months long. The break between seasons is only usually a week long or so.
2. A player is considered Code A or S depending on where they end the season. Since Marineking began the season in Code S, he isn't considered to be in Code A unless he ends the season in Code A, by failing in the up and down matches.
3. Think of Code A and Code S in the GSL as one big tournament as opposed to two separate ones. They are very similar to winner's and loser's brackets in foreign tournaments, the difference is that someone who begins a season in Code A can never win the Code S championship that same season, the highest reward that a Code A player can earn is being promoted to Code S. You can be promoted in two ways.
The first way is that you win all of your matches in Code A and advance past the round of 24. The 12 winners from the round of 24 in Code A automatically advance to Code S.
The second way to get promoted to Code S is by placing first or second in the up and down match groups. To qualify for the up and down matches you need to simply make it past the first round of Code A. Your position in the tournament prior to making it to the up and down matches determines your seeding for grouping purposes.
As far as demotions go, the only people guaranteed a spot in Code S in consecutive seasons are those who make it to the round of 8. Everyone else that is eliminated from the Code S tournament falls to varying levels of the Code A tournament depending on where in the tournament they were eliminated.
It is possible to fall from Code S to Code B if someone loses in the first round of both tournaments back to back.
It is a pretty confusing format at first but you get used to it. This flow chart helps a lot to understand it.
4. We are currently in Season 3 of GSL 2012. GSL ran all through 2011 and late 2010 also. The seasons were shorter back then as the tournament followed a different format from the one currently in use. Despite the format changes, the rule still follows that once you are a champion of GSL you are always a champion of GSL. the format changes don't diminish your accomplishment.
So, when fruitdealer, nestea, MC (?), MVP, DRG, all won their GSL titles, what does it mean? IS it just simply them winning a season, does not matter which one? Each season is just as prestigious as the other seasons right? There is no one big season where the winner can be declared GSL champion? Basically to be called GSL champion you just need to win Code S in any season, right? if that is the case, there can be many many GSL winners in 1 year?
On July 21 2012 01:51 dynwar7 wrote: Thank you very much for detailed answers.
So, when fruitdealer, nestea, MC (?), MVP, DRG, all won their GSL titles, what does it mean? IS it just simply them winning a season, does not matter which one? Each season is just as prestigious as the other seasons right? There is no one big season where the winner can be declared GSL champion? Basically to be called GSL champion you just need to win Code S in any season, right? if that is the case, there can be many many GSL winners in 1 year?
Correct.
The community doesn't usually attach more prestige to different seasons, although most of us consider recent championships more relevant than older ones when comparing the skill level of current players.
But like I said before, once a Code S champion, always a Code S champion. There are multiple GSL winners in 1 year the same with every major tournament event.
It helps just for conversation purposes to know which GSL season a player won their title, but it isn't really all that important. The achievement is such a huge accomplishment that the title of champ or former champ follows the players wherever they go.
I am wondering where I can find large quantities of replays featuring protoss players. These need to be masters or above from this patch. As a recent unemployed college graduate it is definitely time to start playing starcraft II again, and I want to get a feel of what is going on in this game without playing a shitload of games first. If anyone wants to send me a pack that is cool too
On July 21 2012 01:51 dynwar7 wrote: Thank you very much for detailed answers.
So, when fruitdealer, nestea, MC (?), MVP, DRG, all won their GSL titles, what does it mean? IS it just simply them winning a season, does not matter which one? Each season is just as prestigious as the other seasons right? There is no one big season where the winner can be declared GSL champion? Basically to be called GSL champion you just need to win Code S in any season, right? if that is the case, there can be many many GSL winners in 1 year?
Correct.
The community doesn't usually attach more prestige to different seasons, although most of us consider recent championships more relevant than older ones when comparing the skill level of current players.
But like I said before, once a Code S champion, always a Code S champion. There are multiple GSL winners in 1 year the same with every major tournament event.
It helps just for conversation purposes to know which GSL season a player won their title, but it isn't really all that important. The achievement is such a huge accomplishment that the title of champ or former champ follows the players wherever they go.
ahhh...haha thank you vindicare. All this time I thought that GSL was like football world cup.....held once in 1 year (i know football is 4, but i mean i thought it was held once in a while, not every season).
i use to watch sc2 matches as my personal hobbie since last year. a week ago, i was thinking in the extractor trick when i realize that is possible to being oversupply, that in fact was a tech i have never seen in my sc2 watching experience but two day later i saw ret using it and this was my face ._________________.
Hi. Does anyone know where to start looking if I want a replay pack from a pro protoss? Replays from the last month would be preferable.
I'm planning on doing some research, but I havn't really ever downloaded replays before, so I wouldn't know where to start looking. Any advise? And if a protoss pro recently released a replay pack, I would be immensely grateful to take a look at them.
Hoping someone can point me in the right direction
Hi. Does anyone know where to start looking if I want a replay pack from a pro protoss? Replays from the last month would be preferable.
I'm planning on doing some research, but I havn't really ever downloaded replays before, so I wouldn't know where to start looking. Any advise? And if a protoss pro recently released a replay pack, I would be immensely grateful to take a look at them.
Hoping someone can point me in the right direction
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On July 16 2012 23:27 Andr3 wrote: Something like this has been purposed in the past but not discussed enough I think.
Basically I'd like fungal to be changed so that it requires more micro from the zerg and his enemy. Here's a video of a fungal being a missile + Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PjfJQ04H9I
( not my video) Note that in the video, where the fungal is targetted the missile will explode, in essence it can actually pass marines. I would change this missile to hit on impact. This would first, make zerg aim the fungals and second his enemy would have to dodge. The speed of the missile could be changed, I think it's quite alright in the video shown.
Imagine MKP invididually sending his marines to block the fungals from hitting all of his marines, while moving the bulk of the army away from the infestors..would be glorious. Evenly for the zerg as he would have to predict where the enemy is moving and try to hit in such a way that most of the units are hit by fungal.
I don't see many flaws in this change, you can argue that it's a nerf, which it is but it can be neglected by player's skill. It would add an interesting dynamic of aiming/dodging, rearranging armies to block fungals etc.
The only negative I can think of it is that is too similiar to EMP, and this is quite big I think because we want races to be different.
So my next purposal would be to maybe make Fungal like a delayed aoe-spell. Like green moss would sprout from the ground and then after X seconds( 0,5 perhaps?), the FG goes into effect. This could be interesting as well, zerg would force the enemy into moving, the fungals wouldn't neccessarily even have to hit as forcing the enemy into unfavorable positions could be better for flanks.
Also I'd like to make EMP a bit slower so as to add more in-battle micro/reaction based moves.
I don't really think FG or EMP or anything else is imba, but I think they should require more skill to use and give the enemy to react(which has been mentioned a million times i know).
Any thoughts? Would Blizzard add something like this? Why wouldn't they? Is it changing the gameplay too much? Is it too "arcade-ish" and not enough RTS-ish?
Any comments would be welcome.
I don't know why people aren't talking about this, but I think its pretty awesome. Makes broodlord infestor less strong in ZvT and ZvP lategame, but the dynamic of being able to negate that through skill is pretty awesome. I do play terran though.. ^^ Any Z have any comment on this?
Sorry but still dont understand why USA players get 16 seeds, but countries like Ukraine and Sweden have 2 and 3 respectively, If we want the best players shouldnt we give chance for THE best players. I mean Kas is not in WCS, but some guy Tubbythefat is. Where is the logic?
Anyone want to take bets on how long until there's a big shake up in the EG team? Nothing against anyone on the team but their results have been nothing short of awful for the last couple of months. Add that Huk and Idra have clearly regressed and there's no one else ready to step up (demuslim hasn't really panned out as hyped)... I'm giving it another 2 months before there's a big shake up and iNcontrol is shown the door as captain/coach.
On July 24 2012 11:21 mysteriousbox wrote: Anyone want to take bets on how long until there's a big shake up in the EG team? Nothing against anyone on the team but their results have been nothing short of awful for the last couple of months. Add that Huk and Idra have clearly regressed and there's no one else ready to step up (demuslim hasn't really panned out as hyped)... I'm giving it another 2 months before there's a big shake up and iNcontrol is shown the door as captain/coach.
Any takers?
I really doubt it. What Incontrol might lack as a player he more than compensates as a caster/personality. It'll be a long time before Incontrol is cut from EG. Plus, EG's results haven't been phenomenal, but they've still been quite good. Not to mention players are supposed to have dips in performance -- nobody can play great forever (Flash excluded).
Please can somone help me? i need to know where could i get the replay of this game and if i download the replay file where do i put it in sc2 folder so i can watch it?
On July 24 2012 01:28 NeWeNiyaLord wrote: Does anyone know if their's Grandmaster for 2v2 on Korea server?? Seems like it but not anywhere else :O http://sc2ranks.com/kr/3185730/llllllllllll
Looks like a bug... Notice how he has the exact same amount of points/wins/losses on both 1v1 and 2v2.
I would like a GM for 2v2 though. I could actually get in ^_^
On another note: My liquibet seems bugged. Sometimes it votes for the player in the next match. For instance, today I wanted to vote for Curious against Creator, but ended up voting for MMA O.o Has anyone else experienced this?
How come there is no countdown to the TSL on liquipedia like other tournaments have paid to have there. Can liquid not afford to advertise on it's own site? Discuss amongst yourselves..
I'm trolling with the speculation, but seriously I think it would look pretty up there..I see no reason for TSL not to be up there :-/
On July 24 2012 19:39 omen.dead wrote: Please can somone help me? i need to know where could i get the replay of this game [removed] and if i download the replay file where do i put it in sc2 folder so i can watch it?
Day 9 puts that on his site for new dailies. day9.tv Looks like he didnt do it for all his old ones (i don't blame him, most of those replays are probably long gone) Basically you should watch more recent dailies, the metagame was a lot different for daily 399. It's already daily 483 tonight i think.. anyway
Once you download a replay, if you haven't changed your default folder for replays. put it into documents/starcraft 2/accounts/######/1-S2-######/Replays
On July 25 2012 08:28 courtpanda wrote: i was just wondering:
does the G in GSL stand for "Global" or "GOM"?
I would assume global; GOMTV is just the sponsor. I'm basing this off of mostly Liquipedia's page for GSL.
Also, I'd like to ask a pretty simple question, if anyone knows: has ActionJesuz officially retired from Starcraft? Even if he 6/7-pooled every game at DH Winter 2010, he still had to fight through a 64-man BYOC qualifier to get to group stages, so I assume he was at least decent at the game; yet he appears in neither of the brackets for the WCS Denmark Qualifiers.
This leads me to believe he either (a) did not want to try for WCS or (b) had quit.
On July 25 2012 08:28 courtpanda wrote: i was just wondering:
does the G in GSL stand for "Global" or "GOM"?
I would assume global; GOMTV is just the sponsor. I'm basing this off of mostly Liquipedia's page for GSL.
Also, I'd like to ask a pretty simple question, if anyone knows: has ActionJesuz officially retired from Starcraft? Even if he 6/7-pooled every game at DH Winter 2010, he still had to fight through a 64-man BYOC qualifier to get to group stages, so I assume he was at least decent at the game; yet he appears in neither of the brackets for the WCS Denmark Qualifiers.
This leads me to believe he either (a) did not want to try for WCS or (b) had quit.
Thanks in advance!
he either quit or plays at an extremely low level now. last time I saw him play was like 8 months ago
I have one question which doesent suit any thread. How much leagues are lwft in bw to be olayed? I meant to ask when we can expect bw pros to train sc2 fulltime?
On July 26 2012 00:04 Nawe wrote: I have one question which doesent suit any thread. How much leagues are lwft in bw to be olayed? I meant to ask when we can expect bw pros to train sc2 fulltime?
I think October is when everybody switches to SC2 fulltime IIRC.
I might finally start playing SC2. I played a few games with a diamond(?) league friend, almost won 2 or 3 of them.
So I kinda know how to use Terran. I heard T is considered imba now. Should i just learn+mass game on just one build? Or is this practice method less effective than it was in BW?
Hey guys, I'm not really sure where to put this, so I guess I'll put it here. Sorry if it's wrong.
The GSL sponsor, Monsieur J, is a skin and hair company. I want to buy their soft wax hair product to support the company that supports StarCraft, but the entire website is in Korean and I don't really know how to go about navigating the site, or if they will even ship to me in California.
Hey, it's my first post and i'm really excited after playing the starter edition. I want to buy it immediately. But i wonder if i should wait for the expansion pack (heart of swarm) for a price drop. Will there be a significant price drop? I'll be really glad if anyone answer. Thanks in advance.
On July 28 2012 08:12 emrextreme wrote: Hey, it's my first post and i'm really excited after playing the starter edition. I want to buy it immediately. But i wonder if i should wait for the expansion pack (heart of swarm) for a price drop. Will there be a significant price drop? I'll be really glad if anyone answer. Thanks in advance.
The way I see it, if you pay around 40 dollars for SC2 now and (hypothetically) 30 dollars for HOTS when it comes out, that's only 10 dollars more than the bundle will likely cost. Even if it's 20 dollars more... twenty extra dollars for a couple extra months of sc2 is definitely worth it imo. Also will increase your odds of getting in on the HOTS beta.
And, knowing blizzard, it could definitely be a while before HOTS even comes out
On July 28 2012 09:20 clever_us wrote: The way I see it, if you pay around 40 dollars for SC2 now and (hypothetically) 30 dollars for HOTS when it comes out, that's only 10 dollars more than the bundle will likely cost. Even if it's 20 dollars more... twenty extra dollars for a couple extra months of sc2 is definitely worth it imo. Also will increase your odds of getting in on the HOTS beta.And, knowing blizzard, it could definitely be a while before HOTS even comes out
On July 29 2012 06:26 NVRLand wrote: What is Jinro up to atm? I know that he streams a lot but has he quit playing seriously? Disappointed to not see him in the Nordic Nationals :/
Isn't jinny still in korea so how could he be in the nordic wcs?
On July 29 2012 06:26 NVRLand wrote: What is Jinro up to atm? I know that he streams a lot but has he quit playing seriously? Disappointed to not see him in the Nordic Nationals :/
Isn't jinny still in korea so how could he be in the nordic wcs?
Naniwa is also still in Korea and he is participating the WCS for Sweden. It doesn't matter where you live afaik, just your nationality.
On July 29 2012 06:26 NVRLand wrote: What is Jinro up to atm? I know that he streams a lot but has he quit playing seriously? Disappointed to not see him in the Nordic Nationals :/
Isn't jinny still in korea so how could he be in the nordic wcs?
Both Naniwa and Sase were in Korea but went to Sweden for the Nordic Nationals so I can't see why it would be a problem. Even if he had chosen to skip Nordic Nationals, what has he done as a player in 2012? Has he played any major tournaments?
I was at MLG Columbus, IPL in Vegas and in Anaheim - just did not do well in any of them (did.... "OK" at IPL I guess). Not worth going to WCS if you aren't likely to win.
If you played Terraria and gotten to hardmode, and go the the corruption, you'll find monsters called "Corruptors". The way they attack is really similar to our zerg corruptors. I wouldn't say the two look alike but see for yourself:
On July 30 2012 10:52 Liquid`Jinro wrote: I was at MLG Columbus, IPL in Vegas and in Anaheim - just did not do well in any of them (did.... "OK" at IPL I guess). Not worth going to WCS if you aren't likely to win.
Correct me if I'm wrong though but aren't you the only foreigner to ever make it to Ro4? (I'm sure you did, didn't you?)
On July 30 2012 10:52 Liquid`Jinro wrote: I was at MLG Columbus, IPL in Vegas and in Anaheim - just did not do well in any of them (did.... "OK" at IPL I guess). Not worth going to WCS if you aren't likely to win.
I think you're much better than you give yourself credit for, truly.
I haven't kept up with it but the paid name change was never implemented right? You can change your name once for free but not at all afterwards correct?
On July 31 2012 20:51 Penecks wrote: I haven't kept up with it but the paid name change was never implemented right? You can change your name once for free but not at all afterwards correct?
Blizzard still hasn't implemented paid name changes, but I think that the official word is that it's coming Soon™. IIRC there have been two free name changes, but I don't think that they stacked. Meaning, if you've never used a free name change, you only have one. If you used the first free name change, you get another.
Is there any estimate on when Heart of the Swarm is due? Why would they tease us with being able to play at MLG and see all the new units (prior to probably some being nerfed or eliminated, etc) and stuff and not announce the beta soon after? I haven't seen any public news on like IGN or something like that about it, but I wondered if anyone else maybe had an idea of when the beta might happen?
What if siege tanks could attack while moving? It's just an idea I came up with some time. It makes sense from a realism perspective and I think it might make mech more viable in TvP because tanks would be able to kite immortals and back away from chargelots. It would also make being caught unsieged less of a big deal because you could retreat while attacking at the same time. I'm not sure how this might affect balance but I'm curious on any opinions.
My 1v1 rank is actually silver but it is saying platinum on my profile summary?? When I search for a 1v1 match I do play against silver opponents. Just wondering if this may be a bug or if its some new way of placement? Also note that this is my first season playing sc2.
What the hell do people do in TvZ nowadays? Is being aggressive before you have a third really all-in vs queenspam hiverush builds? Have there been some recent development in Korea that has made the matchup better, or are Terrans winning games because of horrible decisions by the Zerg?
Why do I keep seeing replays of zergs delaying their third in favor of faster speed / evos? If 6 minute thirds with queenspam are perfectly safe, why bother doing anything other than that or roachbane?
Am I the only person not having problems with my SC2? Played probably 20 2v2's yesterday, and besides the occasional frame lag (during major battles) I haven't really noticed a problem.
if somebody has a sc2 account and he does not use it anymore or he does not need it send the email and the password at the ishouldnotbedoingthis@gmarshalcensorship.net (i need an europa account). thx for helping.
Unfortunately, there isn't really a cookie-cutter opening to do that specifically, but there is an all-in by ROOTDestiny that is pretty good at denying initial damage...but it's an all-in, so haha not the best macro opener. I'd say the best opener (assuming economy is still important) would be a 15 hatch defensive bane opening. It requires good micro but it puts you far ahead if he does pressure you early.
Make sure you are using all your overlords to make a line across the map to scout quickly and have an overlord that can scout his natural timing. This should give you a pretty good headstart to knowing what he's up to. If you want more specifics, check out Apollo's Zerg tutorial on youtube.com where he goes into more detail about various builds.
On July 16 2012 18:19 Heartland wrote: So, with both NASL, Dreamhack and Homestory won by foreigners, do you think that we're seeing a more level playing field between the foreign scene and the Korean one?
I think that foreigners might actually be catching up to Koreans now. But thats only because they put in the time to
Hi guys.. I got a question about upcoming tournament ESL Cologne 2012. Do the stream from this event will be available in TeamLiquid or I have to search the web to get the stream?
Was just checking out (former Slayers) Crank Stream and this guy is pretty good and happens to look for a foreign team, Been a fan of Crank for a while now so I'm thinking Liquid_Crank! Seems like a nice addition to the Team and this guy is only getting better. Team liquid usually seems to have a good eye for up and coming talent and personally I think this might be one of those up and comers. So I was wondering or u guys agreed and if so let the peeps and Team Liquid know and lets see what they think !
hello TL forum, this is my very first post, so please forgive me if I posted on the wrong thread or something, but if that's the case I'd appreciate some help and guidance rather than insults.
The main reason for opening an account on this forum is because I am looking for a partner who would like to invest in e-sports, for example, I would like to collectively make a tournament where we the organizers chip in for a prize pool, I could put $150 the first time, and if I get one or two more guys to do the same, I think we could have a decent prize pool of approx $500. It does not mean this is the only thing we can do, if you have any specific good ideas on something else that could be done Starcraft-related, I could invest even more. Please let me know. Thanks.
I don't really know where to put it, so I put it here. I switched back to Protoss (Gold league) about a week ago and right now, I won against a top 16 diamond player in a PvP while having a hidden pylon in my base. It just feels so damn good.
Anyway, does anyone know when the Up&Downs for the next GSL will be announced/played? Will it be right after the Korean WCS?
On July 15 2012 10:17 alpenrahm wrote: no feedback on thors would be pretty cool.
here is what i think:
lategame terran with MMMVG+tanks does not equal the other races maxed T3 armies but we still get forced into playing it. mostly because mech is not viable during the early game, due to its imense gas cost, thus forcing bio play which doesn´t transition smoothly into mech play since you need separate upgrades and production facilities.
-to efficiently play mech on 2 bases you need atleast 3 factories with 3 addons and an armory. that is 500 gas just for infrastructure and you havent even gotten any units out at this point.
-you dont have an appropriate mineral dump. hellions are nice to have but they dont win battles. getting marines to support your mech play does only work for the very early stages of the game when marines can be effective without any upgrades. after that, they become a liability because upgrading them does cut into our gas.
if there is a patch coming, I would like to see it, either slightly reducing the gas cost and build time of factories, or greatly reducing the gas cost of armories.
Lategame MMMVG does equal other races maxed T3. You're just wrong. maxe protoss army vs maxed terran army with ghosts to EMP. If you want to talk about Splash dmg, ghost EMP is far better than hightemplar storm. Hightemplar storm does 80 dmg at a maximum. Ghost EMP dmg 100 sheild instanly and is an AoE spell.
As for mech not being viable on 2 base.. well its a 3base strategy so whats you point. They way you play mech is that you go for hellion harrassment while you take a quick third base and then vamp up the prodction.
Trying to find some ling/festor guides for ZvP/T, but I can't find much. Belial wrote a guide on ZvP, but I'm looking for more of a "by-supply/clock" type build order I can practice. Anyone got some place to start?
On August 11 2012 00:24 Jojo131 wrote: Trying to find some ling/festor guides for ZvP/T, but I can't find much. Belial wrote a guide on ZvP, but I'm looking for more of a "by-supply/clock" type build order I can practice. Anyone got some place to start?
Terran player here hoping you don't find any... my poor poor bio ball. 0_o
On August 11 2012 14:41 Creegz wrote: Will anyone keep up with creating these threads when Jinro is done? Or will the community just start making them?
Hey quick question. How come the WCS qualifier results aren't in TLPD? Is it just that no-one has put them in, there's a reason we aren't putting them in or am I just missing them?
Hey guys just a heads up if anyone is in the new haven ct area we are trying to get people in for a barcraft in east haven ct. Amazing korean restaraunt with extremly friendly employees. im trying to get it going in the next few weeks please respond if intrested thanks....
Oh and another question: Was just watching the TvP HotS battle report. Is there a way to turn off fog of war in spectator mode? They were walking me through the map and all I could think was "Can't see much of what you're talking about"
I sense a disturbance in the force. It just struck me that there might there be a HoTS Beta starting very soon. Like this week. What do you guys think?
On August 15 2012 11:02 Dancken wrote: I sense a disturbance in the force. It just struck me that there might there be a HoTS Beta starting very soon. Like this week. What do you guys think?
Been waiting for Beta information since post MLG when it was slated to come out "soon" after.
Anyway, if there's no Beta soon they're going to scrap a christmas release, if that was their intention, and be looking something more along the lines of early year 2013 imo. Any later than that and they're just holding onto a finished game. That doesn't make you money.
i just started playing recently (currently silver leage v__v), but one of the huge factors that got me from just spectating to actually playing was watching Destiny's ridiculous videos on youtube.
Husky played the largest influence on getting me interested, but i think individual players and their respective streams/commentaries are really what gets people engaged in actually playing the game.
i love seeing the players' personalities and how their personality affects their play style.
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i just started playing recently (currently silver leage v__v), but one of the huge factors that got me from just spectating to actually playing was watching Destiny's ridiculous videos on youtube.
Husky played the largest influence on getting me interested, but i think individual players and their respective streams/commentaries are really what gets people engaged in actually playing the game.
i love seeing the players' personalities and how their personality affects their play style.
So i just realized that Morrow is playing TvZ and ZvT, can anyone link some recent replays of Morrow's TvZ? I wonder what does he think is the correct way to play that matchup from Terran perspective.
i just started playing recently (currently silver leage v__v), but one of the huge factors that got me from just spectating to actually playing was watching Destiny's ridiculous videos on youtube.
Husky played the largest influence on getting me interested, but i think individual players and their respective streams/commentaries are really what gets people engaged in actually playing the game.
i love seeing the players' personalities and how their personality affects their play style.
That picture is awesome!
original video, even better now with sound
I was drawn first by the beta battle report, never was a fan of rts except mugging around in red alert 2. That was the first time I watch a match commentated and was really impressed by the excitement that it brought to me.
after the game is released, I found HD and husky, liked them both quite a lot but you know, you can get bored of them.
Day9 daily taught me a tonnes of stuff, I began to ladder more and eventually started to watch random featured player's stream.
Then I found Destiny. He obviously is not the best player in the world but his games are really fun to watch, he just produce some really close epic long games, unlike the other progamers who usually just win/lose with a timing push, add in fancy micro etcetc.
guys,i just figure out a way to fix the oracle in hots oracle now requires a building to build its caled oracle tribunol 200mins/150gas 60s build time 400shield/400hp new oracle data 100mins/250gas 75s build time 40shield/80hp same speed attack speed:2.5,dmg:5 ability tal'darin crystal 75en create a tal'darin crystal at the target location, block all the mins in the range so that workers cannot harvest them, 500hp,same range as the entomb, the cast range is same as raven's auto-turret. pre-ordain same optic flare need to be researched at oracle tribunol 110s, 200mins/200gas cost 100en/125en blind all the units in a 4x4 area, reduce their sight to one. the energy upgrate moves to oracle tribunol too.
On August 22 2012 03:29 oracleisbroken wrote: guys,i just figure out a way to fix the oracle in hots oracle now requires a building to build its caled oracle tribunol 200mins/150gas 60s build time 400shield/400hp new oracle data 100mins/250gas 75s build time 40shield/80hp same speed attack speed:2.5,dmg:5 ability tal'darin crystal 75en create a tal'darin crystal at the target location, block all the mins in the range so that workers cannot harvest them, 500hp,same range as the entomb, the cast range is same as raven's auto-turret. pre-ordain same optic flare need to be researched at oracle tribunol 110s, 200mins/200gas cost 100en/125en blind all the units in a 4x4 area, reduce their sight to one. the energy upgrate moves to oracle tribunol too.
There are guides on how to get one all over the place. You need to buy a Taiwanese copy(they're on the same server) because for a Korean one you need a Korean social security number. If you just google "how to get a Korean Starcraft 2 account" the TL thread on it should be one of the first things on the list.
But I have a question regarding a KR account, too. How can I determine if I'll have latency issues or not? Can anyone tell me if the Midwest (Minnesota to be exact) has bad latency or not?
On August 13 2012 20:13 GolemMadness wrote: Just got into masters playing only random. :D
Congrats man! as a fellow random player who has been trying to break into masters for maybe over a year now I know how happy you must feel. I kind of feel my timing window is gone as when I get to put the games in and focus I can stay in top 8 diamond and occasionally hit masters players (and actually play really nice macro games with them if I get a MU I'm good at). But since school is going to be starting soon my play time will be reduced drastically
On August 22 2012 20:30 Rebmesed wrote: Hey. guys. Im wondering about Korean Starcraft 2 version... anyone got ideas on how to get.. or is it just to install in korean?
Search for threads on purchasing a Taiwan account. Then you can play on KR.
Can anyone please help me find that English subtitled korean cast of a GSL game on Daybreak? It was a PvZ. It was posted here somewhere, but I can't find it ;;
Even Mr Chae posted in the thread and said it was cool. He even put it on his twitter to share with others.
On August 23 2012 15:17 Yoshi Kirishima wrote: Can anyone please help me find that English subtitled korean cast of a GSL game on Daybreak? It was a PvZ. It was posted here somewhere, but I can't find it ;;
Even Mr Chae posted in the thread and said it was cool. He even put it on his twitter to share with others.
Thanks in advance!
The quality (even with it set to 480p) is horrible, but it works.
subtitles don't show up till after the in-game player announcements
On August 23 2012 15:17 Yoshi Kirishima wrote: Can anyone please help me find that English subtitled korean cast of a GSL game on Daybreak? It was a PvZ. It was posted here somewhere, but I can't find it ;;
Even Mr Chae posted in the thread and said it was cool. He even put it on his twitter to share with others.
Anybody know of any good info / videos regarding warp prism micro? I feel like a heavy handed fool whenever I try and pick up and drop my immortals quickly from a warp prism. I know it's in SC master too, and I haven't completed that level. I think it's the final one. Thanks.
does anyone know why all the koreans drink so strange out of their water/juicebottels...while i don t want to be rude i have to admit that they look like fucking retards when they drink.....whats up with that strange behavior? (sry but retarded is the word that describes it best, im not trying to be offensive)
First i thought it is maybe because they disgust each other, but then i noticed they also do it when they have a bottle on their own, or a new bottle..i have seen this from a lot of koreans, basicly i have never seen one of them simple drink out of a bottle like normal.
Hi TL ! I was laddering this morning , everything's going well won 2 games in a row , and when i was searching for my third game , this message appear.Does anyone know what is wrong , is that me ? is it the server ?.
I won a ladder game and then my whole game got corrupted after the guy said he hacked me. Does anyone know of any exploits in the game that would allow someone to do this or is this just a coincidence like i think it is? Pm me if you have any clue as to what is going on
Hi TL ! I was laddering this morning , everything's going well won 2 games in a row , and when i was searching for my third game , this message appear.Does anyone know what is wrong , is that me ? is it the server ?.
I got that message also :O! hope to find some help with this if not i'm turning my way to the support or the battle.net forums.
So, I just had an idea about the warhound that I wanted to share for the heck of it. I've seen several complaints, most of which I agree with, that the warhound is a boring unit that makes the siege tank a bit redundant and serves a very similar role to a marauder in that it just walks around and shoots stuff. I've also seen it argued very effectively that the warhound doesn't really bring out the best that mech has to offer (Falling's thread "In Defense of Mech" is largely about this).
So today while I was watching MLG I thought, what if they changed the warhound's heywire missile to a spell that costs energy, not sure how much, and that doesn't trigger automatically. What would happen? Could that make a difference? Players might have to save up for bursts of heywire missiles.
And then I figured, well but that still doesn't really make the warhound a good companion for the siege tank, because you could still just get a ton of warhounds and blast the protoss with heywire missiles. But then, high templar could feedback the warhounds. And maybe if they got rid of the warhound's standard attack and made it just a spellcaster, or just kept the standard attack something like the viking or goliath ground attack, that would be good. Siege tanks could clean up a smaller softened Protoss army, or act as a deterrent to that smaller softened Protoss army even if they don't actually do much shooting. The warhounds would then act as the "cannon fodder" that Falling talks about in his post.
Alright, when the new season actually starts? Its like we got almost 3 month season now. In game it says, that season ends 1.09, but today is already 28(27) of august and there's literally no info on battle.net and no season lock. And do metropolis come back in new season? miss it or maybe some new maps like atlantis? hope it will be there)
i tried to play 2 games in TW/KR (ladder) and after the load screen i got disc. i didnt lose/win any points but its really wierd... hmmm it looks that bnet have problems
On July 17 2012 05:29 Rudermensch wrote: Hey there, I lurk a lot and was looking for a thread on HotS to comment on some ideas but couldn't find one. I hope this is the right place.
I had an idea regarding the proposed Ultralisk changes in the multiplayer. Now, of course we haven't as a community had a chance to play the game yet, but as I understand things the burrow-charge ability is being considered as a means of allowing Ultralisks to close in on kiting units (esp: Terran). As an added effect, it disrupts positioning and randomly moves the units it erupts under within a certain radius of the eruption point. The last part of the ability I think is potentially problematic, but I'm going to ignore it as no one has really had a chance to play it yet.
If the problem is that the Ultralisk has issues with pathing and being able to close on units wouldn't a simpler solution be to alter the pathing of the Ultralisk in a manner similar to the way the Colossus is able to move over units? If the Ultralisk were able to walk over/through units such as Zerglings/Banelings and possibly Roaches and Hydras it would allow the unit not to get stuck on smaller units, fit better with it being as massive as it is supposed to be, and it would still be able to hit given it has a range of 1 so that it can attack over other melee units. It wouldn't entirely solve the issue of kiting but it would help the Ultralisk gain positioning on armies if the Zerglings/Banelings were able to swarm over their feet and not block the Ultralisk or vice-versa.
I'd like to get some thoughts on this, especially if it's been proposed before, or to have it moved to its own topic if it warrants.
I like this idea. I mean in honesty I liked the burrow thing but I have only had the chance to play around with it once and that was when I got to play the beta at Anaheim, but I like the idea of being able to move over units if you will. I might even make for more epic moments of ultra flanking and what not.
On July 14 2012 20:06 Toastie.NL wrote: Something just jumped my mind,
Ghost Snipe was nerfed way to hard because it countered both T3 options Zerg has.
High Templar Feedback/Storm counters both T3 options as well as T1 options from Terran.
How would TvP lategame look with Feedback not working vs Massive?
The chance that feedback would be removed from High Templar is very low. If they did that, they would have to give High Templar storm by default, and IMO, that is more better in all matchups late game, especially with a colossus. Protoss splash damage is just too good right now.
I want to share my sadness. I can't really play SC2 anymore. For some reason, I have started to get lower and lower FPS. When I bought SC2 a few months ago it ran fine on the same computer, right now, on the lowest settings and lowest resolution, I consistently get 1 FPS in the late game. If I aim a fungal, the army isn't there anymore when it hits. If I select my hatches, it sometimes takes a full second before I can select larvae. All I can do in late game is a-move and pray. I don't like cheesing or rushing, I want to learn the game and become good, but I can't. I keep laddering because sometimes it's tolerable, but then the lag hits and I lose. There must be some hardware fault since I've tried everything in the book, cleaning up the startup, closing all other programs while playing, defragmenting, virus scanning, even reinstalling the game. The battle.net support has answered with a few more tips but nothing has helped. I'm waiting for more replies from them but I think that my graphics card is simply broken. And I can't afford a new computer or a new graphics card.
I'm not asking for help here, I am in contact with the support. Just want to rant and be sad because I can't play my favourite game
On July 14 2012 20:06 Toastie.NL wrote: Something just jumped my mind,
Ghost Snipe was nerfed way to hard because it countered both T3 options Zerg has.
High Templar Feedback/Storm counters both T3 options as well as T1 options from Terran.
How would TvP lategame look with Feedback not working vs Massive?
The chance that feedback would be removed from High Templar is very low. If they did that, they would have to give High Templar storm by default, and IMO, that is more better in all matchups late game, especially with a colossus. Protoss splash damage is just too good right now.
It would be kinda funny if for no apparent reason ultralisks were given energy to cast their charge in hots, subsequently nerfing them out of existence in ZvP.
Hey im Ggiraffe and im looking for people to play some ladder, to have like an ladder enviorement via skype we are 2 right now master league. anyone interested pm me or talk to me on sc2 rGgiraffe.898
Hi Guys, High silver/gold toss looking for some tips on my macro/micro. If you have some spare time please come check out my stream: http://www.twitch.tv/jyn_sc2
Great for Madde, for Quantic, for Sweden and potentially for Flo if she decides to move over there I really think Madde has the potential to improve and compete at a high level.
I read somewhere at some time that the kespa players were forced to use a certain set of hotkeys and keyboard layouts. Does anybody know what they were?
I have been thinking about how to best practice the most basic of mechanics. In this post I would like to hear opinions and ideas about how to fastest learn to use hotkeys and to use them fast (I am thinking about touch) and how to enhance mouse pointer speed and precision.
This is very basic for all RTS, many jobs and life in general (last two with touch). So there are many reasons to practice this and I would believe that this is something even high masters would benefit from. Though there are probably better ways for them to improve.
I also have my keyboard preferences set to grid and I have reassigned all hotkeys to be as close to asdf as possible. Even in bronze league i newer used my mouse when i could use a hotkey. Now I will put some paper in front of the hotkeys to learn not to look at them at all.
If you know of better ways to faster practice these most basic of mechanics or if you know of some better (or more fun) games/touch typing exercises please tell me. It would also be nice with a discussion about this..
Hi guys can someone who knows alot about sc2 help me,here is my story. I just bought a copy of sc2 and its awesome,but i have a huge thing that is bugging me. Some time ago i damaged my computer screen(dont ask me how)so i cant see the top right corner very well,which means i cant see the resource bar. Is there something i can download that can relocate the resource bar when i play.Please guys i need this to play this game seriously.THX
I tried to make a new post but it says i need to wait 3 days.
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