EPTBronze Part 3: Casually Cruel - Page 10
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Mazaire
Australia217 Posts
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kabar
United States616 Posts
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LagT_T
Argentina535 Posts
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Vronti
United States111 Posts
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Gheed
United States972 Posts
On March 13 2012 08:12 Vronti wrote: I love the conversation with Randiss in the bonus pictures, hope he gets out of bronze soon haha. He's in silver now. | ||
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
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Arisen
United States2382 Posts
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Umpteen
United Kingdom1570 Posts
I mean, I love these blogs purely because they're funny and well-written, but at the same time I can't help feeling that if someone could understand and cure the permabronze layer, humanity as a whole would benefit. I mean, what if I'm bronze at something in my life, and don't even realise it? What if we all are? The problem is, snapshots of individual play - even the occasional accidental rematch - can only take the study of bronze so far. Which has inspired me to offer the following challenge: I want 50-100 consecutive 1v1 replays from a *genuine* permabronze player. Someone who's played loads of games but still measures their progress by the number next to the symbol rather than the symbol itself. The kind of guy or girl who's offended by this blog because he/she genuinely thinks Gheed 'doesn't get it'. If this is you, or you know someone who fits the bill, get in touch. The best (and most honest) permabronze submission will receive - oh, let's say $50 via Paypal for their trouble. I'll then sit through the replays and see if I can glean anything useful, and report back here (or in my blog). | ||
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Ghin
United States2391 Posts
Naturally I probe rushed him for bringing it up | ||
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
On March 10 2012 17:10 sc2superfan101 wrote: i read the OP, unfortunately. i've read his other blogs too. and yes i'm mad. i'm pissed. i'm so angry i'm punching a wall right now in pure, uncontrollable rage. everytime i read a word on this thread i'm superfly TNT, i'm the guns of the navarone. i'm like a racecar in the red. i could blow. there is no real difference between skill and knowledge. he, by all accounts, provides them with "knowledge" that is completely unsolicited and does it in a relatively dick manner. and it's a big surprise that they don't necessarily take it to heart? There is a huge difference. Your inability to understand this difference is why you hate this blog. | ||
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OpticalShot
Canada6330 Posts
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
Those are far more interesting. Enjoyed it regardless, but your blog before this was much better IMO. The custom games with people who lose to worker rushes is the best part in this one, more of that would be more " original " I guess. Then again most people probably read these for the funny chat windows. | ||
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Synwave
United States2803 Posts
Reading through the pages of commentary I can almost feel the wrath of some of the posters as they probably die to worker rushes and bring their attempt at intelligent criticism to bear on your blog in some sort of misplaced defense of themselves and others that can't grasp a basic concept like a-move. So much enjoyment, thank you  | ||
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CrazyF1r3f0x
United States2120 Posts
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KillerSOS
United States4207 Posts
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Lotsa_Spaghetti
Germany50 Posts
I need your Blog, Gheed. I NEED IT!!! | ||
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Pandain
United States12979 Posts
It's getting to the point where your just being a dick. | ||
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Kyuukyuu
Canada6263 Posts
On March 14 2012 11:47 Pandain wrote: Theres only so many times you can make fun of someone being in bronze.... It's getting to the point where your just being a dick. I disagree. Genuinely stupid trash-talkers are the gift that keeps on giving. And the literate, nice guys bring a smile to my heart It really is hard to fathom what some truly terrible players are thinking. I remember playing some of my high friends at LANs. I'm talking about intelligent kids that are now attending pretty prestigious universities, and still some of them exhibit the same tendencies of doing absolutely fuck-all and not realizing it. You really have to wonder sometimes... | ||
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-Celestial-
United Kingdom3867 Posts
The encounter in question is the one against the Crystalline Entity and it becomes available from a surprisingly low level given how different to everything else it is. In brief, the vast, vast majority of combat, especially grouped combat, to this point has been a case of literally hammering on your opponent until they die. However the CE is different. It goes in three stages. To begin with it fires a beam and releases small shards which, if you aggro them, follow you until they impact your hull through the shields and you die. So you have to fly ahead of them and maintain sufficient engine speed to not get hit. The second stage (after it has lost a third of its health) simply releases more fragments. Fragments are aggrod and follow the closest destructible object (including fighter craft and high-yield torpedoes such as plasmas). The real killer is the third stage at a third health left. Then it releases large fragments. These act similar to the small ones but do a ton more damage and, more importantly, if destroyed they produce small fragments which head back to the CE and heal it for 1% of its health per fragment. In addition to an inherent heal rate of 3% per 40 seconds. So you shouldn't kill them and you definitely shouldn't use boarding parties, fighter craft, tricobalt devices or anything else that might set them off or you'll just heal it right back up. Its a simple enough kill in theory. People just need to draw the fragments off and kite whilst everyone blasts the hell out of it. In practice (because its a public area) people tended to end up suiciding into it and hitting a ton of large fragments, healing it and making it literally impossible to kill. Theres really nothing very difficult about tweaking your engine power settings and using appropriate abilities to just kite. But its slightly different from most other encounters and therefore requires knowledge and planning; if anyone at all doesn't know how to do this you'll never finish. And god help you if you've got someone actively griefing in your instance. | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
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