Just recently switched over to toss, I was wondering if there is a good micromap good for practicing forcefields similar to the one good for splitting marines?

Thanks in advance!

PS. I tried searching in advance and couldn't find anything, so sorry if its bad to start a thread just for this purpose.

GreEny K

Germany7312 Posts

October 28 2012 21:04 GMT

I don't know of any, the closest I can think of is SC Master... But there's hardly any ff challenges.

cvgHuShang

Canada95 Posts

October 28 2012 21:05 GMT

Personally I would just use a unit tester when i wanted to practice ff's. Although, dargliens micro trainer or something close to that is good. It has an event where you have stalker sentry vs roach. GL

WCH

Canada239 Posts

October 28 2012 21:06 GMT

I'm pretty terrible at toss, maybe like plat-diamond level while my zerg is masters level. I think its just microing issues with the army so trying to find a good map to practice FF on since it seems so crucial.

ZAiNs

United Kingdom6525 Posts

October 28 2012 21:07 GMT

The best way is to just play normally. Forcefield placement changes a lot depending on exactly where you are on the map and exactly where your opponent's army is.

cvgHuShang

Canada95 Posts

October 28 2012 21:08 GMT

message me on bnet na and ill find it for you. paqman.311

Gyaru

Sweden16 Posts

October 28 2012 21:10 GMT

there is a custom called darleighs microtrainer or something like that, has a few ff maps as well which are pretty good

OnFiRe888

United States629 Posts

October 28 2012 21:11 GMT

blink-forcefield challenge.

freerolll

Belgium1056 Posts

October 28 2012 21:14 GMT

yeah some UMS micro maps have it! Pimp My Micro has a forcefield challenge you can play how many time you like!
4 rounds with zealot/centrie vs zerglings, stalker/centrie vs zerglings, zealot/stalker/centrie vs roach/ling and zealot/stalker/centrie vs ling/roach/hydra

Corsica

Ukraine1854 Posts

October 28 2012 21:16 GMT

#10

Check Darglein micro trainer. It has many forcefields exercises.

Thank me later

Cyro

United Kingdom20340 Posts

October 28 2012 21:17 GMT

#11

There's a blink micro trainer that gives you a certain amount of stalkers and sentries vs an increasing amount of roaches every wave you beat with units reset, i cant remember the name though. Its good practical training

WombaT

Northern Ireland27083 Posts

October 28 2012 21:36 GMT

#12

Wish I could find the MC video where he shows him practicing his forcefields and his approach to them.

For me it was pretty helpful, he likes to hit F + click F+ click for each forcefield to avoid overlap and I feel this is handier than holding it and spamming. There's a real rhythmic kind of feel to it

Equity213

Canada873 Posts

October 28 2012 21:38 GMT

#13

Dargliens micro trainer. Search for it. It has a few different forcefield challenges along with blink and zealot micro trainers.

Belha

Italy2850 Posts

October 28 2012 21:43 GMT

#14

I used to play a lot a map i found searching for "Blink forcefield", it was basically you with stalkers and some sentries, being surrounded by a shitload of roaches in an open field. Sick map for blink and efficient ff micro.

vAtAZz

France250 Posts

October 28 2012 21:44 GMT

#15

You'll see that toss is not that imba as say the rumors

HoMM

Estonia636 Posts

October 28 2012 21:51 GMT

#16

On October 29 2012 06:11 OnFiRe888 wrote:
blink-forcefield challenge.

I was stalking Quantic.SaSe's EU acc and from his match history that he liked that map too! :D

Corsica

Ukraine1854 Posts

October 28 2012 21:51 GMT

#17

On October 29 2012 06:36 Wombat_NI wrote:
Wish I could find the MC video where he shows him practicing his forcefields and his approach to them.

For me it was pretty helpful, he likes to hit F + click F+ click for each forcefield to avoid overlap and I feel this is handier than holding it and spamming. There's a real rhythmic kind of feel to it

here you go

WombaT

Northern Ireland27083 Posts

October 28 2012 21:51 GMT

#18

On October 29 2012 06:51 Corsica wrote:

Show nested quote +

I love you, had the old upload bookmarked but it got taken off for terms of service violations

fezvez

France3021 Posts

October 28 2012 21:54 GMT

#19

Darglein micro trainer

DarkPlasmaBall

United States46154 Posts

October 28 2012 21:56 GMT

#20

I hope you find a custom map for your forcefields if that's what you're looking for, but what I did to practice my sentry micro is start up a 1player custom game as Protoss, build a bunch of sentries and then other ground units, and then queue the ground units to run towards my sentries (in whatever patterns and timings I wanted to practice) and then work on holding them off with my sentries. It was a really simple and primitive thing for me to set up (and there was no attacking involved), but I didn't care about killing off the army- just placing down forcefields properly. And that ended up working just fine- I improved a lot

MShaw006

United States74 Posts

October 28 2012 22:18 GMT

#21

Putting in my vote for Darglein's Micro Trainer. It's seriously great. Just try it, trust me.

Grimmyman123

Canada939 Posts

October 28 2012 22:57 GMT

#22

Just take your time with the practice. "Initially your FF's will overlap. In time, they'll barely touch. My biggest recommendation would be to really get good at single FF single FF width ramps. When this type of FF is needed in a pinch, it needs to be 100%, or its game losing. Really do practice this one.

You will find that protoss generally is VERY individualisticly micro intensive, and in the early game that small errors will cost you the game, and that a lop sided composition, even if barely so, may cost you the battle or the match. Try and forget the mass roaches, ling, muta (insert mass unit type here) mentality, its all about the blend of composition, each unit supporting each other so that 1 type of unit can deal 1 type of damage, and so on and so on.