Reaching Grand Masters with the xbox360 controller - Page 6

On March 28 2013 04:34 hku wrote:


You're a racist and a liar.

On March 28 2013 00:11 emythrel wrote:


it also has some distinct disadvantages such as lack of buttons. How do you keep 7-8 control groups of units and buildings on a controller? you don't because it probably only has 8 buttons, all of which have to be bound to other things like the unit/building command card or using spells. There are always two sides to a story. Plus lets be honest here, no matter how good you got with a controller, there will always be people who plays with keyboard and mouse who stomp you because you are limited in ways they are not.

It's impressive that hes made it to master, I can't even do that with a mouse and keyboard but then perhaps it says more about the design of Protoss and their 1a deathball potential than his skill with a pad. I certainly couldn't imagine him having the same success with Terran or Zerg, you need too many hotkeys and control groups to play effectively with a pad.

On March 28 2013 11:33 Cress wrote:


Actually I have it set up in a way to expand the amount of buttons I have. If you are creative enough you will figure it out. It sounds like you've made a lot of assumptions. Which is fine, but I have vods of me winning against masters players using Zerg? Maybe they were just really bad masters players who knows. If I put time into any of the races I'm sure I could reach low masters with them. Protoss was my main race pick though

Setting up hotkeys is pretty effortless for me and the mouse precision is fine. The analog stick mouse speed however is far below what a normal mouse could do and its one of the first critiques people would probably notice.

Over the years of playing I'm noticed extremely sharp increases in my play both from changing how my controls work and from pratice I guess. I used to be so bad and chobo. I guess I still am. I would not be surprised if I had another increase in skill over the next year and was suddenly playing at 300 apm.

There's also another factor that this is not really a full time thing for me. Just something I've been working on in my free time.
Who really reachs GM playing star craft 2 part time^^;? This post is just a declaration of my dedication to improving. I'm just a lowly masters player at the moment though.

I respect your opinion though and thank you for posting.

I wish you would look over all the information next time though before making assumptions but its cool <3


Cress

On March 28 2013 14:29 imperator-xy wrote:
if you could actually get really good with this youd have high chances of getting a sponsorship... i dont know how good grand master on sea is, but if you got enough time you should maybe try to get good enough to be able to participate at mlg or something

On March 27 2013 16:29 thezanursic wrote:
Maybe you should just buy a keyboard and a mouse and EZ mode to a MLG championship, hahahaha.

Seriously though if you are that good at, I wonder how high you could get with a mouse (Did you ever try?)?

On March 28 2013 14:33 Kaitokid wrote:


you seem to have a wrong impression about the players in gm.. I would say around 20-25% are actual progamers and the rest are just people who play in their freetime

On March 28 2013 08:13 dacimvrl wrote:


racist? you serious? There is definitely a sizeable gap of skill between SEA and other servers.

On March 29 2013 18:33 gingerfluffmuff wrote:
Can we please all agree that being GM outside of Korea is no big deal? It can achieved with mass grinding and a few anti-meta builds.

OT: Playing with a 360 controller is awesome, huge props to the OP. But outside of getting people interested for your own stream its pointless. (Just send one of your workers at game start to the opponent, this should make the game also harder)