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Jurassic1
3 Posts
I played WOL when it came out and 2 base muta until Diamond in 2010. I got back last year after I randomly found out about Serral beating Koreans. I did mutas again and only got to Plat3...then found Vibe''s Bronze to GM guide and made it to Plat1. Hitting a wall right now with A move but learned about Macro. | ||
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brickrd
United States4894 Posts
choose a simple, conservative playstyle that doesn't involve too much heavy micro and culminates in a timing attack, perfect a build for each matchup. you'll get far | ||
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Jurassic1
3 Posts
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ShambhalaWar
United States930 Posts
On April 04 2019 04:39 Jurassic1 wrote: I am 34 and recently found joy in this game again. Do you think I am too old to make GM? I played WOL when it came out and 2 base muta until Diamond in 2010. I got back last year after I randomly found out about Serral beating Koreans. I did mutas again and only got to Plat3...then found Vibe''s Bronze to GM guide and made it to Plat1. Hitting a wall right now with A move but learned about Macro. It's never too late man. It's all a matter of dedication. If GM is really important to you, then practice a little every day, set smaller goals and work to achieve them, study, and you can make it there or really damn close I'm sure. The bigger question, is getting GM really important? ? ? I wanted to achieve an MMR that had me getting matched with at least some pro players... Eventually I realized there were other things in life I valued much more  And I became ok with hitting masters 1v1, and now only diamond 2v2 Edit: Now I want GM in guitar. | ||
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outscar
2832 Posts
All you need to do is to play, not to win, but to learn. Thus you can be consistent and achieve your goal. | ||
Nakajin
Canada8989 Posts
Around a year back there was a thread where 2 "older" guys with full time jobs who almost never played SC2 started a race to get GM in a year with some prize for the winner, they both burn out after a few months far from getting to GM. I would say trying to get into master is a more achievable goal and if you arrive there and want to continue there's nothing that stop you, but overall just take it slow and have fun. | ||
BisuDagger
Bisutopia19299 Posts
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StabiloBoss20
313 Posts
eventhough there might be a decline in reactiontime, doesnt mean you cannot compete on a high level. imo prioritising is what a great player separates form the good one. only few players over 35 in GM/M1? maybe... but i guess this has more to do with how much time you can spent on practicing. | ||
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WeakOwl
25 Posts
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Warcloud
United States97 Posts
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Dazed.
Canada3301 Posts
On April 04 2019 04:39 Jurassic1 wrote: been nearly black out drunk, or so high on acid im not sure im a person, and I can still casually, without watching or knowing any sc2 meta at all, make it to diamond. It is not a hard game. Your age is not a limiting factor---except obviously you cant dedicate your life to the game and go pro. If you are half way intelligent, and have the physical coordination to dress yourself without splitting your head open, you can make diamond too.I am 34 and recently found joy in this game again. Do you think I am too old to make GM? I played WOL when it came out and 2 base muta until Diamond in 2010. I got back last year after I randomly found out about Serral beating Koreans. I did mutas again and only got to Plat3...then found Vibe''s Bronze to GM guide and made it to Plat1. Hitting a wall right now with A move but learned about Macro. | ||
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NinjaNight
428 Posts
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Jan1997
Norway671 Posts
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Harris1st
Germany7021 Posts
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ShambhalaWar
United States930 Posts
On April 04 2019 05:27 outscar wrote: NaDa, the legend made it to ASL not long ago, he is 34 like you. Why wouldn't you? And I will say qualifying ASL is like 15x harder than hitting GM. All you need to do is to play, not to win, but to learn. Thus you can be consistent and achieve your goal. Such a good point, playing to learn! Great post. | ||
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ShambhalaWar
United States930 Posts
On April 05 2019 00:57 ShambhalaWar wrote: Such a good point, playing to learn! Great post. PS. If money isn't a big deal, hire a coach. In music, having a teacher is infinitely valuable. Mechanics are something you can learn online from forums and guides, but learning the way a better player sees the game is something you can only learn from that player. Which is actually really valuable. I thinks that's why day9's old shows were so valuable, I learned so much about how to think about the game... I was sooo bad when I started, no natural talent what so ever. Edit: Sorry double post I just woke up. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26223 Posts
If you can type fast and navigate your desktop accurately, you can play Starcraft well, that's all you're essentially doing, the rest is knowledge and making good reads based off that knowledge. Generalising a bit here, it's not always going to be the case but I would wager that older people are a bit more sanguine mentally and less prone to raging hard and tilting if they're laddering. At least I've found that to be the case for me anyway. I treat ladder at least initially as me just playing vs bots and with the sole goal of improving or executing a certain strat or style, at least until I get into some kind of shape after a hiatus and then maybe winning games starts to become a goal again. I was a pretty decent guitar player, have just come back to it recently after a borderline 3 year hiatus for various reasons. I'm not quite what I was, but 99% of that muscle memory baseline is still there, to a surprising degree actually. I'm 29 myself, I think it'd be verydifficult now to get as good as I was if I had never played, I just don't have the time to put in the hours I did as a teenager and a younger man to grind the mechanics out. I'm filling in the theory gaps I had way more effectively though, not having all that free time means I've structured practice a lot better, so that side has actually improved with the time constraints forcing me to be more efficient in my practice. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26223 Posts
On April 05 2019 01:02 ShambhalaWar wrote: PS. If money isn't a big deal, hire a coach. In music, having a teacher is infinitely valuable. Mechanics are something you can learn online from forums and guides, but learning the way a better player sees the game is something you can only learn from that player. Which is actually really valuable. I thinks that's why day9's old shows were so valuable, I learned so much about how to think about the game... I was sooo bad when I started, no natural talent what so ever. Edit: Sorry double post I just woke up. Yeah, 100%. For me at least the internet is a double-edged sword, it has all the information you could need, but that's a lot of information and I don't necessarily know what is good or not, sifting through it takes time and I find it a bit overwhelming. For guitar especially, which I play, it's full of 'hacks' to improve etc when you go looking online, which usually suck because they're teaching you to skirt around having to learn theory properly, and for me theory isn't difficult to learn if you learn it all because it's all interlinked and the picture becomes clearer the more you know, so avoiding doing so is counter-productive in the long run Hiring a coach/teacher is invaluable because you can cut through that really quickly. You also get feedback which is super useful to have, a tutorial can't talk back to you. You might have one small, weird question that you can't find an answer for online, but is cleared up in about a minute of talking to someone who is an expert in the area. Anyway best of luck OP, do let us know how your quest is going! | ||
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BlackLilium
Poland426 Posts
I am about your age. I managed to reach diamond 7 years ago, and I am able to reach diamond now (thus - no progress!). I have been playing - albeit with some pauses - all this time. Often I hit a point in game where I feel that I know what I want to do, but my fingers are not fast enough. Like - there is an intense micro fight, and I think "I should now look at my base and warp in some units. But then this battle is lost". Early game PvP with adepts is where I melt consistently for example. Probably I could train my fingers hard, but I feel I am at my limit assuming just casual play. | ||
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hiroshOne
Poland425 Posts
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