EPTThe new in-game APM. - Page 6
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BigFan
TLADT24920 Posts
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KaienFEMC
Canada127 Posts
On February 21 2013 11:05 LeafMeAlone wrote: What I really want to know is Jaedong's new apm 666 | ||
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Loxley
Netherlands2480 Posts
On February 21 2013 11:50 BigFan wrote: It's weird how a simple APM calculation can keep on changing every patch lol Well time isn't measured by a clock, a clock measures another clock. For time, a clock is only a reference for another clock. So we don't know what Blizzard is measuring with their APM but they use a really weird clock  | ||
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MachineGunPanda
Sweden14 Posts
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Omnidroid
New Zealand214 Posts
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JustTray
127 Posts
On February 21 2013 00:20 Technique wrote: It's just some fake apm to make everyone feel good. Because spamming useless clicks is "real" apm. | ||
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Nezgar
Germany535 Posts
For me the replays seem to just work fine. The scoreboard at the end of the game however is seriously fucked up. Although it is correct a fair amount of the time there are some matches for which it reports any number between 0 and 9000 APM regardless of what the game or replay showed. The average APM is bugged aswell, it's something above 1000 for me. But then again, I exclusively play the beta and haven't had the chance to take a look how it works for WoL so take anything I said with that in mind. | ||
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HornyHydra
Taiwan222 Posts
On February 21 2013 07:07 Buff345 wrote: I skimmed this thread and didnt see anyone posted this so I will. I dunno if it even matters, but I'm about a 250-270 apm player with terran. I basically only play terran lately and Im really only good with them. But I played a match as Zerg the other day against another master terran, and I had 400 apm with zerg. I have no idea why really. My opponent was playing pretty quickly with like 320 apm, but I had easily an extra 150 apm just for playing zerg. I dunno what it is that is taken into account for zerg as opposed to terran but I figured id mention it. If youre playing zerg then your apm is probably going to be higher. As terran my apm is about the same as it was in wol. I have higher APM count with Zerg than Terran (even when SC2Gears still worked, and Terran is my best race). I think it's just because of the macro mechanics of Zergs (larvae+cheaper units like Zerglings). Units can all be made in one go rather than with individual key presses or mouse clicks with Terran or Protoss respectively. I get about 450 with Zerg (in SC2 APM) in this patch too, and about 300 APM with the other races (in this new patch in SCII). It is weird though how your APM in this new patch is the same as the APM in the old patch according to SC2. | ||
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HolyExlxF
United States256 Posts
On February 21 2013 12:47 JustTray wrote: Because spamming useless clicks is "real" apm. It is. ACTIONS PER MINUTE. Take every action you have executed in a game, divide by number of minutes in said game, APM. It is much easier, statistically, to use binary systems (action/no action) than endlessly qualifying those actions as "real." | ||
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On February 21 2013 02:19 mau5mat wrote: Thanks very much, SC2 apm is slightly behind 'real-time' apm isn't it? Would it not just make sense to make everything real-time, as BW's apm counter was? Keep in mind that Blizzard never authored any code to measure APM for BW. | ||
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-_-
United States7081 Posts
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vNmMasterT
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ZenithM
France15952 Posts
On February 21 2013 12:25 Omnidroid wrote: If this is an actual change and not a bug, then it's such a useless and misleading change. They should just change it to a real life minute and never fiddle with it again. Well, I think that's what they did. Not give free extra APM like some pretend ;D | ||
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Lemure
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mrRoflpwn
United States2618 Posts
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
Whatever number it is will be consistent if you don't improve, and it will increase if you do approve. If it's higher than the fast players (Taeja, Hero, Stephano, etc...) then you're possibly spamming too much--or you've found a better way to play the game. But the actual number doesn't matter. If you're averaging 300 now--then just use that as a baseline and know that if you start going 350-450 that you're improving in your hand speed (assuming you're performing the same tasks without change) if you're 100-200 APM higher than the fastest pros, then maybe you're overdoing something. But the actual number is meaningless. It's a measure of progress, that's all. | ||
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MidnightZL
Sweden203 Posts
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ETisME
12906 Posts
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Kinon
Romania207 Posts
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Eatme
Switzerland3919 Posts
On February 21 2013 13:01 Mindcrime wrote: Keep in mind that Blizzard never authored any code to measure APM for BW. Just have to add that the in-game speed in SC/BW did have effect on the calculation. If you played on any of the slower settings the APM would increase by quite alot. Also spamming "P" was counted under a thing called "null" so you could se if you did alot of extremely useless spamming or not. I prided myself on trying to get below 10 "null" every game. Unless I build reavers or carriers it worked. | ||
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