The StarCraft II thread

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just bought this.

time to improve my mashing abilities.

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what BA said.

This game is fun as shit.

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but PEG, all you do is build shit that does absolutely nothing, and then they all go away 14-30 minutes later. And then they want you to do it again. How can you find such a thing fun?

cause I win?

There's a predetermined victory condition? You're playing other people? There's strategy?

The list can go on, and on.

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577

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I am interested.

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yeeeeeah. long ass battles with strategies half assed on the fly. woo., cause who plans for 42 minutes?

http://uploading.com/files/1fbfmdba/Nov ... SC2Replay/

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we should cast this.

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also i'm such a lonely asshat

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won't be available today; between checking tapes, and clearing shit up.

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What are some good mid-to-late toss game strategies after 4gating?

depends on if you can pinpoint your opponents build, which I doubt anyone can legitimately do without tons of practice.

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http://uploading.com/files/ad9e46a6/jun ... SC2Replay/

what a boring game.

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Wow, that guy was kind of a twat. Hiding your orbital in the corner and defend it with vikings. Its like he wants to tie...

He happened to put it in the one place I looked last

It's kinda my fault.

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So, I've never played a single SC game, but I wanna. Where do I start?

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/

demo

or find someone who has guest passes and ask for one.

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Watch it. Love it

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interested in 2v2'ing with some people.

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sorry bout not responding Fate.

I was doing a few things in campaign since when I finished it the first time I wasn't logged in, and either the message never popped up, or I just flat out missed it.

Will 2v2 tomorrow. (well later today)

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This has to go down in price soon... right?

nope.

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And Idra complains about almost anything that can kill him in game. At least in that video they had a balanced discussion on the Collossus.

Idras got a bad rep but he doesn't really call other races units overpowered much instead he generally calls zerg underpowered and laments it's inability to scout.

whoawhoawhoawhoawhoa


he laments their ability to scout???

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Too bad nobody is on to 2v2 right now, we could totally play SlayerSCella and Destiny when they're epic dicking around in placement matches for 2v2s




1st placement game they 12 drone rushed. Epic lulz.

Next game Cella wanted to 13 gate, and more lulz happened. They're in game 3 right now, but this shit is hilarious.

3rd game they mothership/ghos/ nuke rushed. Mothership vortex+nuke bringing the lulz. This is so much win.

They are currently 0-4 in placement matches. So great.


Oh my god... epic 40 minute nuke/mothership/planetary fortress all over the map fest earns SlayersS/Destiny a win and they're in bronze!!


That would have been less interesting if Cella wasn't ridic Korean.


Oh fuck they're playing Bronze games and 12 drone rushing more.


Someone has to Mothership/Nuke with me later today in 2v2's.

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Too bad nobody is on to 2v2 right now, we could totally play SlayerSCella and Destiny when they're epic dicking around in placement matches for 2v2s




1st placement game they 12 drone rushed. Epic lulz.

Next game Cella wanted to 13 gate, and more lulz happened. They're in game 3 right now, but this shit is hilarious.

3rd game they mothership/ghos/ nuke rushed. Mothership vortex+nuke bringing the lulz. This is so much win.

They are currently 0-4 in placement matches. So great.


Oh my god... epic 40 minute nuke/mothership/planetary fortress all over the map fest earns SlayersS/Destiny a win and they're in bronze!!


That would have been less interesting if Cella wasn't ridic Korean.


Oh fuck they're playing Bronze games and 12 drone rushing more.


Someone has to Mothership/Nuke with me later today in 2v2's.

Where can I find this?

Sometimes Destiny puts up huge chunks of stuff as a VOD, but this one isn't up yet.

http://www.justin.tv/steven_bonnell_ii#/w/855328864 is the normal stream(which is usually pretty lulz)

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http://www.justin.tv/steven_bonnell_ii/b/279384248

1 hour 13 minutes in. +part two.

ENJOY

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Has anyone else had a problem where the loading screen says teams even, then afterward(idk if this happens if you lose)when you win it says you were favored?


http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/1392 ... ga-caverns

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Has anyone else had a problem where the loading screen says teams even, then afterward(idk if this happens if you lose)when you win it says you were favored?


http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/1392 ... ga-caverns

Your MMR changes before pts are rewarded, so what happened there was going into it you were ranked evenly but afterwards you were the favoured party.

That seems dumb.


Also no shit I should be favored after I won. herp derp herp derp I won. grr.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKirM6am7OI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z83jmDat9dQ


T:IMBA

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rage@ptrdown.

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I just played a 2 and a half hour game against someone.

I mean I couldve beaten him with brute force much earlier and shit, but I was watching a movie often times.

It was hilarious.

Also he was #1 in his division with like 2400 pts, and im like 30something with like 50 points but I WAS SLIGHTLY FAVORED.

although tbf I did win.

ITS JUST SO CONFUSING..??!??!!! I'll upload shit tomorrow.

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SC vs San was awesome, the second set was a bit weak though.

+ infinity.

2 and a half hours for a 4 game set???


SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANZENITH!

[pickemgenius]

I just played a 2 and a half hour game against someone.

I mean I couldve beaten him with brute force much earlier and shit, but I was watching a movie often times.

It was hilarious.

Also he was #1 in his division with like 2400 pts, and im like 30something with like 50 points but I WAS SLIGHTLY FAVORED.

although tbf I did win.

ITS JUST SO CONFUSING..??!??!!! I'll upload shit tomorrow.

It's something to do with Blizz's background hidden MMR that "favors" people.

Gamma: How much is the season ticket for GSL?

yeah Ive seen the MMR thread on TL before hand. And if you want to be picky I'd won like 10 of 12 over a 3 week or so span.


bleh whatever.

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I WAS THE ONLY ONE MAKING SHIT AGGGGGGGGGGGGH

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funday monday attempt #1
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/1555 ... m-altar-le



tl;dw

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jd and I are in the same division now.

woo

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build a base in ur base for supply drops obvobv. 400 mins for never having to be supply blocked(or basically never) is pretty tits.

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game 2 notes for claus. from what I see. ^_^

The game started off on a bad note as our red terran said gf hl!
An obvious flaw in ones game plan

ok your scv scout really doesn't need to leave until a stalker comes out. just make sure it cant get cornered.
oh and when you scout, i dont think you clicked on anything to know what it was.
I think your scouting scv was on an island. idk if this is to rescout or not?? better to put at watch tower maybe?
Your orbital is going up sooooooooo late, holy crap you have both gasses already!!!
oh hey scv at tower niiiiiice
ok scouting scv sees 3 gate robo. *idk how he let that scout in but cool*
holy fuck all your shit at the watch tower. it was like a small tiny group unsieged dying to get picked off.
And it did. with some stalkers and an immortal. YOU REALLY need to target the immortal???
You absolutely needed to be sieged at the watch tower. you could have seen and probably would have owned that attack?
Stalkers don't cost us(P) that much. Especially on two bases(which you didnt know about) and we can get like 4 instantly whereas immortals take like 40 seconds for one(real time)
Ok your initial push had 3 marauders. you left one behind at the ramp. Im not sure why, but you did
The protoss target fired down all of your gas units first. mhm.
Getting +1 attack before combat shield ehhhh?
Ok im getting to the root of your problem this game.
You're making another

super weak

push. The protoss literally needs almost the same exact amount of units as last time to kill all of your shit again.
I think your scan was in a super weird position, and only revealed a partial army, which im not totally sure you can take with instant reinforcements anyway.
When you scan maybe click on a zealot and stalker to see if they have blink/charge. You could have recognized zealot charge was up for the protoss and turned back. charge basically owns your weak little attack.
oh yeah zealot charge did indeed own the fuck out of that army. so few losses. wow.
he's basically seen what you're going to do, since you've done it twice, maybe is a good time to go with a few banshees since hes going robo/zealot? force an observer out, harrass some shit?
Im not sure why youre building a missile turret randomly...afraid of dt??? you're t you got scans, <3
I would like to note I am SHOCKED this P doesnt have his gas running at his natural yet. whoa.
oh god zealots with charge just tank and kill your unit combo so quickly. after all your bio is dead there is nothing saving dem siege tanks. so more bio maybe?
all of your raxes have tech labs. throw some reactors on dem bitches so you can make more marines. You ended the game with 800 mins. 2 tech labs is cool really.
You also didnt take your gasses at your nat(well it was up a lot later than your opponents so less time it was up)
Yeah that's all I got.

[pickemgenius]

yeah we're basically going to own shit up

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we should play This map sometime since its sc1+sc2 essentially ^_^

[pickemgenius]

jd and i just played a pretty epic 2v2

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jd' and i's best game apm

[pickemgenius]

yeah yeah lets do this sometime today(saturday)

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BUMP


*lets do this sometime tonight yes?*

[pickemgenius]

oh yeah a bunch of scers lol'd instead >_>

time flies etc

[pickemgenius]

indeed.

[pickemgenius]

im #1 GM.

nbd

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did you guys bm them? if not why the shit not?

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im p bad.

also jd and i prob need a new imba build for 2v2 since we won a kazillion games in a row and never got promoted, but now wg is longer.

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I made carriers ^_^ 3/3 carriers. my early game hombres got pwnt tho, whereas my 1 cannon saved me from a 7rr.

then the next game i forgot lolcannons so i got pwnt and had 3 phoenix go into the mass air rush and one lived til the end. great success.

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1-4 production buildings(1 nexus-2 gateways-3 robo/stargates-4 robo/stargates whichever i build first)
5-stalkers
6-whole army
7- air units


if i actually do what i tell myself to do which is every now and then. im usually ok at stalkers on one group though.

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yeah good times.

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we had instalock bob like ffs whoever instalocks bob is like insta feeder. fucking jeez.
ugh for real.

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cruncher and destiny aren't garbage just because dde and vibe are slightly better(cruncher beat vibe, destiny lost to dde 2-1, with his internet being under constant attack and shit.)


^_^

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Bronze leaguers we should do season 3 placement matches at same time so we might be in same division(like jd and I played placement matches around same time last season and got placed in same division.)

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id like to get some sort of practice(legit get better practice) between msers a few days a week for a few hours each day.

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a lot of it has to do with not playing all that often.

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im fine with both things of course. a few hours a few days a week of srs business practice along with trying to get in same division. seems good.

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I'd say for low level player, Protoss is the easiest race. Deathball is too strong if you don't prevent it. I have huge problems against Protoss as zerg. I am always failing against either timing push (which aren't really timed in my level >>) or death ball. I need to scout moar.

PS : Mass banshee is so funny.

I feel like at very low levels, Toss is basically just coming down to macroing. If you macro well, you can create that deathball. Except in PvP. I hate it so much, that's why I stay with T right now (which is again, the same mass marine deathball, but much more vulnerable to collossus).

So you're saying low level protoss players macro well. I see no problems here.

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No, I'm saying I feel like if the toss player outmacros the other player (or has a better macro), unit composition doesn't matter.

Which is wrong. (on the unit comp)

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if you guys need a wtfomgwehave5minstofindareplacement dude and have nobody else around yell at me. otherwise glglgl ^_^

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got mah tsl 4 poster for (mostly) free today woo!

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NOT GONNA SPEND THAT MUCH ON AN EXPANSION.

GG