The StarCraft II thread

Gammagooey · Post Post #44 (isolation #0) » Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:28 pm

Oh hay, names Gamma code is 853, play as protoss for ladder matches and random for uuuuuuusually everything else.

Gammagooey · Post Post #401 (isolation #1) » Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:09 am

So somehow I just beat a zergz that was diamond in everything except 1vs1, and he was platinum in that. And I'm just gold.

(yaaaay void rayssss)

Gammagooey · Post Post #410 (isolation #2) » Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:15 pm

Why you hatin' on Artosis. HE IS A COOL GUY and an awesome caster.

Gammagooey · Post Post #420 (isolation #3) » Thu Feb 03, 2011 8:24 am

But wait more than 30% of people play Terran.

So that would probably be technically accurate?

Gammagooey · Post Post #424 (isolation #4) » Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:03 am

Personally I think Zerg is the hardest to play at around my skill level, they have the slowest anti-air and similarly slow invis detection so it's easy to cheese them, and in addition they have to know how to use queens well and manage their larva so they're both getting drones and not getting completely overrun.

At pro level i really want to say that terran's easiest and protoss+zerg are about the same given the number of different races in GSL spots and such butttttt it takes so much work to get up there as ANY race that that I don't think it matters which is easiest when it's going to take hundreds or thousands of hours of practice to get that good as any race at all.

Gammagooey · Post Post #426 (isolation #5) » Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:16 am

No, this is insane. Friggen crazy GSL zergs.

And I THINK low-level diamond would be a lot lot different than higher level diamond, even with the masters league now it's basically 80th percentile to around 98th, which is a gigantic difference skill-wise.

Gammagooey · Post Post #428 (isolation #6) » Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:18 pm

So apparently the matchmaking system DESPISES me and Fate.

Me+Fate: 2VS2BRONZELEAGUELETSGOWINZ
Matchmaking: Lol, nope.

Match 1: vs two platinum 2vs2 players
Match 2: vs one platinum and one DIAMOND 2vs2 players
Match 3: vs a gold group of 2 players

What is this I mean really now.

Gammagooey · Post Post #462 (isolation #7) » Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:40 pm

I can't believe that I just won this o.o
Force fields and a mothership saved my assssss.
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/r ... &id=188970

Gammagooey · Post Post #470 (isolation #8) » Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:36 am

Everyone enjoys micro more than macro, why do you think there are so many games like Zealot Frenzy and Star Battle and Bunker Wars where the only macro is choosing which units to get?

Gammagooey · Post Post #473 (isolation #9) » Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:33 pm

Personal experience+the number of people that play custom games in WC3/Starcraft but completely ignore the actual Ladder part of it.
I have absolutely no factual evidence for it whatsoever if that's what you're asking.

Gammagooey · Post Post #475 (isolation #10) » Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:45 pm

*checks time*
Kay.

Gammagooey · Post Post #476 (isolation #11) » Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:54 pm

WHAT'S TAKIN' YA SO LONG

FOX

FATE

Gammagooey · Post Post #478 (isolation #12) » Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:39 pm

And then nobody showed up again so me and Fate played 2vs2.

Got to silver league, then BEAT TWO PEOPLE WHO WERE BOTH DIAMOND IN 1VS1 IT WAS THE MOST MAGICAL THING I'VE EVER EXPERIENCED.

http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/r ... &id=193011

Gammagooey · Post Post #481 (isolation #13) » Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:12 pm

You know RC sometimes I exaggerate awesome things to make them seem slightly more awesome.

And I don't have an Xbox for Halos.

Gammagooey · Post Post #484 (isolation #14) » Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:15 pm

I KNOW.

I found another site with links to GSL vids for anyone who wants to see one they missed, throw me a PM if you want the link.

...I really should buy a season ticket sometime to support them but I wind up not watching a lot of the matches : /

Hopefully they'll keep up all the tournaments during summer when I won't have to worry about 8:30 classes I need to wake up for and get to.

Gammagooey · Post Post #487 (isolation #15) » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:53 am

So Tonights/this mornings GSL matches were pretty awesome IMO, watching both terran players do nothing except mass barracks units and get their faces stomped in because of it felt pretty amazing. Zenith has absolutely no chance of beating oGsMC though, I'm hoping for MC vs. July finals.

Gammagooey · Post Post #495 (isolation #16) » Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:00 pm

I was planning to get the season ticket for whatever season starts after the semester is over but last week my computer just completely stopped working with gomplayer streams, and there's pretty much no tech support for the english version of gomplayer : /. Recently I've been using the VLC media player and rearranging the SQ link to make it work, but it's a pain in the ass and I don't know if it would even work with the HQ stream.

Gammagooey · Post Post #500 (isolation #17) » Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:33 am

Aaaaaaaand gom decides to fuck me over and make it so the VLC links don't work either as of last night. Seriously, why would they fix that when the people using it PRETTY OBVIOUSLY can't get their shitty player to work, or they'd be using it instead of using ridiculous workarounds to try and watch the matches.

Gammagooey · Post Post #502 (isolation #18) » Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:47 am

Was it working before then? I was trying for the first 3 matches of Zenith vs. Mc before giving up and watching it on my friends computer

Gammagooey · Post Post #508 (isolation #19) » Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:16 pm

Force fields everywhereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

So yeah Mc wins by a margin a lot of people expected, although the games were all crazy fast.

Gammagooey · Post Post #516 (isolation #20) » Fri Mar 25, 2011 10:18 pm

Heeeeeeeells yeah.

Although they kind of did touch the Very Easy computer out of existence with dark templar.

We kicked ass after that though >_>

Gammagooey · Post Post #519 (isolation #21) » Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:38 pm

So I've been messing around with other races since it can't demote me with the ladder about to end, and have discovered that I am terrrrrible at zerg.
Anyone play zerg and have some advice for spending minerals faster? I've been massing speedlings with my extra larva but it would probably be better to get a few extra queens and take risky expansions for the extra gas, maybe even get another hatch or two in my main/natural. Any suggestions?

Gammagooey · Post Post #528 (isolation #22) » Mon Mar 28, 2011 10:58 pm

THE WHITERA VS. OGSMC MATCH WAS SO GOOD.
SO.
GOOD.

Gammagooey · Post Post #530 (isolation #23) » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:04 am

TheButtonmen wrote:
Fifteen minutes and 30,000 more resources worth of units killed the enemy protoss transitioned into the fabeled fifty three minutes Bitbybit.Prime timing attack.

Gammagooey · Post Post #535 (isolation #24) » Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:35 pm

So apparently placement matches count even if you leave under the normal 2 minute mark- I just got promoted to platinum because a diamond league guy didn't want to play a PvP :3

Gammagooey · Post Post #537 (isolation #25) » Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:17 pm

Just 1 unless you're starting a new team/didn't get placed into one last season

Gammagooey · Post Post #541 (isolation #26) » Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:36 pm

I blarged on your blorg.

My blad.

Gammagooey · Post Post #565 (isolation #27) » Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:20 pm

I will totally join you, whisper me if you see me online. (or post here)

(P.S. SC2 finals for whatever tournament this is is just starting now)

Gammagooey · Post Post #572 (isolation #28) » Sat Apr 09, 2011 3:31 pm

I WILL GET ON RITE NAOS.

Gammagooey · Post Post #573 (isolation #29) » Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:32 pm

So the mafias went from seriously the worst game ever all the way up to a one-man-standing town win over the course of 4 games. Would have been even MORE fun with more people but I'm pretty okay with how it went down.
PZ and kerrigan get all the <3s.

Gammagooey · Post Post #582 (isolation #30) » Tue May 17, 2011 8:20 pm

Bumping for team leaaaague GSL. The last game of Prime vs. MVP was awesome.

Gammagooey · Post Post #588 (isolation #31) » Sat May 21, 2011 8:38 pm

IS IT YOU?
I'M TOTALLY RIGHT AREN'T I.

Gammagooey · Post Post #597 (isolation #32) » Sun May 22, 2011 7:09 am

I'll probably be on after I go and get lunch (so about 30 minutes)

Gammagooey · Post Post #598 (isolation #33) » Sun May 22, 2011 8:01 am

I'm a bit late but getting on now.

edit:Would have probably helped if I wrote down your # first so I didn't have to close SC2 and come back here.
Whooooops.

Gammagooey · Post Post #603 (isolation #34) » Mon May 23, 2011 8:13 pm

I'd say we should have a WORST OF THE WORST tournament but we never even finished the actual one >.>

Gammagooey · Post Post #605 (isolation #35) » Mon May 23, 2011 9:03 pm

Of course it would be unreliable, the point is to have a very silly tournament with builds and attacks that make no sense whatsoever.

Gammagooey · Post Post #628 (isolation #36) » Wed May 25, 2011 6:29 am

STAWCWAFTS

Gammagooey · Post Post #631 (isolation #37) » Wed May 25, 2011 8:23 am

It was more hilarrrrrious than glorious but YEP

Gammagooey · Post Post #659 (isolation #38) » Fri May 27, 2011 7:59 pm

Man the last FFA I played I got attacked by all three other players consecutively on Metalopolis.
I held off the first attack (from terran) and went and murdered half his base, then got attacked by zerg and barely held it off (and he left the game right afterwards), then less than a minute afterwards the final player (protoss) comes in with a 150+ supply army and decimates my main, and then I just hopped around with expansions for 10 minutes before he killed them all.
I was sad.

Gammagooey · Post Post #728 (isolation #39) » Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:34 am

I would totally be in for either playing with ridiculous strategies or spectating/commentary-ing on the matches.

Gammagooey · Post Post #730 (isolation #40) » Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:38 am

But But I could just not attack for like 20 minutes >.>

Gammagooey · Post Post #855 (isolation #41) » Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:16 pm

I demand to know when these matches are so I can make cheesy comments in observer chat.

Gammagooey · Post Post #920 (isolation #42) » Sat Jun 18, 2011 9:20 pm

BSL game+ridiculous FFA+all of us as a team in a tower defense=FUN TIMES.
Also they're doing Night of the living dead too but my laptop exploded when it tried to load it.

Gammagooey · Post Post #926 (isolation #43) » Sun Jun 19, 2011 7:27 am

I had like 6 super stalkers and a full food army but it wasn't enough >_>

Gammagooey · Post Post #932 (isolation #44) » Sun Jun 19, 2011 1:12 pm

WE REQUIRE MORE METHANE GAS

Gammagooey · Post Post #942 (isolation #45) » Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:55 am

Yeah the only real thing that lower levels can do to mindgames is fake expand and hope that their opponent expands too or doesn't make as many units so you can cancel it and just make a bunch more units out of nowhere, and that only works if they're scouting a lot- not mining gas after building it or making a fake tech structure won't actually affect what most people do until you're up pretty high on the ladder. (im not that high up as plat for instance)

Gammagooey · Post Post #993 (isolation #46) » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:23 pm

I haven't been online for a week because my laptop's adapter broke and ebay sent the replacement to 321 <my address> instead of 1321. And I just found this out today. I'll be back on more once I get home from vacation on the 6th or 7th.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1023 (isolation #47) » Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:16 pm

Why do I still not have an adapter aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Gammagooey · Post Post #1049 (isolation #48) » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:23 am

I FINALLY GOT MY LAPTOP ADAPTER IN THE MAIL.

Anyone want to play tonight?

Gammagooey · Post Post #1050 (isolation #49) » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:37 am

OH WHAT IN THE FUCK THE BRAND NEW ADAPTER JUST SPARKED AND STARTED SMOKING.

AUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Gammagooey · Post Post #1052 (isolation #50) » Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:27 am

;_;
I shouldn't have bought the cheap one from ebay but I'm getting a not-shitty one from amazon with free 2-day shipping now so hopefully I can play tomorrow.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1055 (isolation #51) » Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:13 pm

Beating Terratron and getting the first score achievement was worth it for me, it was pretty fun- There are actually 3 levels of the Lost Viking score achievement though (which I didn't know until after I got the first one) and I'm not nearly good enough at it to get those.

Gammagooey · Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:17 pm

It took me a while but I eventually beat that on Brutal with a fairly mixed army (decent number of carriers+void rays+ dark templars, stalkers, and about 6 colossi) and tons of photon cannons, when the nydus things appear make sure you target them down first, they'll absolutely maim any photon cannon defenses with never-ending broodlings if you don't.

And my laptop is finally back up and running so STARCRAFT TONIGHT.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1060 (isolation #53) » Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:53 pm

So since nobody else showed up me and Zito 2vs2'd to PLATINUM LEVELS. AS IN WE'RE 2VS2 PLATINUM NOW.
We almost went 5 wins out of 5 games but the last one had two zerg that kicked our ass- it's a pretty nice consolation prize thouggh.

Gammagooey · Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:08 pm

There's definitely improvement, but also a lot of players still in bronze/silver.
And being hilariously bad and winning anyway is much more fun than being good.

Gammagooey · Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:57 am

The GSTL games "tonight" are awesome, one back and forth game with void ray colossi vs. infestors and a bunch of ultralisks and one void ray with 60 something kills, and the next with the same protoss making 5 nexuses at his opponents base for shits and giggles while murdering everything he had.

Gammagooey · Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:05 am

I made bad decisions beforehand (ground mission instead of air mission, no perdition turrets) and never beat All in on Brutal.
GOOD LUCK.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1213 (isolation #57) » Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:45 pm

OH YAY IT'S A PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE PROFESSIONAL STUNT QUEEEEEN

Gammagooey · Post Post #1217 (isolation #58) » Sun Jul 31, 2011 8:44 am

Oh wow this Boxer vs. Rain game.

It's like 45 minutes long half-map and still going.

Edit: PROFESSIONAL hiding-command-centers-in-the-corner-of-the-map

Gammagooey · Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:02 am

I enjoyed watching it why would I be raging >.>

Professionals doing things that typically happen at skill levels a million notches below them is always hilarious.

Also Boxer vs. MVP finalsssss. Should be pretty good games.

Gammagooey · Sun Jul 31, 2011 12:30 pm

Guys signs are ruining esports.

There was an awesome piratebird one too that I wasn't fast enough to get a screenshot of.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1247 (isolation #61) » Mon Aug 01, 2011 1:24 pm

I will proooobably be at MLG Raleigh considering that I'll be living in Raleigh and everything then.
Someone (Reck) should probably remind me about it a few days beforehand.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1249 (isolation #62) » Mon Aug 01, 2011 2:43 pm

euuuuaaaaaagggggggghhhhhhhh that vod quality

Gammagooey · Post Post #1251 (isolation #63) » Mon Aug 01, 2011 2:51 pm

Psh no.
But I'll GO to the MLG and SUPPORT ESPORTZ as said on the previous page.

And also I think I saw the match you're talking about and liked the ridiculous hour long 12 minute one better so Ha.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1257 (isolation #64) » Wed Aug 03, 2011 1:00 am

So I just turned on the gom stream to see if any games were still going on and some of the commentators are streaming them playing starfox 64 on it instead.
Which is pretty awesome really.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1267 (isolation #65) » Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:15 pm

Yeah I got my spectator pass today and will have a pretty decent couch in my apartment assuming it's like the one I had in the same apartment complex last year.
Reck kinda sounds like the better choice though considering he has 4 couches compared to my one.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1278 (isolation #66) » Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:08 pm

I'll be on SC2 later tonight, probably starting around 9:30-10 (est).

Gammagooey · Post Post #1318 (isolation #67) » Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:06 am

LIVE ACTION STARCRAFTS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4NsiMGW ... r_embedded

Gammagooey · Post Post #1341 (isolation #68) » Fri Aug 26, 2011 6:44 pm

GODAMN MLG RALEIGH DAY 1 WAS SO AWESOME.

I enjoyed every single game on the main stage. It was like Code S-Interesting games edition (none of that TvT drawn-out silliness)

Also yeah that's Reck.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1375 (isolation #69) » Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:48 pm

I'd like to but I'm fairly sure that trying to run teamspeak and a SC2 4vs4 at the same time would result in my computer comitting suicide.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1377 (isolation #70) » Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:56 pm

oh i kinda thought that you had to use teamspeak since it's the teamspeak tournament but it just says to please use it and that it isn't a requirement.

vent I think would work?

Gammagooey · Post Post #1380 (isolation #71) » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:55 am

AGar I'm protoss not zerg what you doin with that signup silliness

Gammagooey · Post Post #1428 (isolation #72) » Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:30 am

man i'm not a dude who cannon rushes.
I AM a dude that proxy gateways though so if you wanna go FAST MURDER ALL DAY EVERY DAY then i can do that.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1430 (isolation #73) » Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:39 am

Also- GSL finals party tonight y/n?

Gammagooey · Post Post #1432 (isolation #74) » Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:46 am

but tastosis.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1436 (isolation #75) » Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:14 pm

=D JINROOOOOOOO
(i got his autograph at MLG)

also JOHN COMMENTATING?!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

edit: HOLY BALLS JINRO JUST STOMPED FRUITDEALER'S FACE IN GODAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

Gammagooey · Post Post #1440 (isolation #76) » Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:44 am

Soooooo I kind of passed out during the show matches.

Recorded some of the finals though.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1451 (isolation #77) » Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:39 am

In post 1446, AGar wrote:I'll upload the replay lol give me a sec.

14cc in 4v4 is not viable.

I told you bro.
I told you about making units.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1532 (isolation #78) » Sun Oct 16, 2011 7:31 am

DAT BOXER

Gammagooey · Post Post #1538 (isolation #79) » Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:24 pm

why is this not linked yet

HEART OF THE SWARM UNITS/CHANGES: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmes ... _id=277762

hydras (with shiny new speeeed upgrade)>tempests>zerg air (vipers)>protoss ground>zerg ground (including hydras) is going to be particularly interesting I think.

Battle hellions look ridiculous too.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1567 (isolation #80) » Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:04 pm

Hmm so i finally have a night without homework worries and I'm a bit tired of LoL. Anyone up for stawcwafts?

Gammagooey · Post Post #1595 (isolation #81) » Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:58 am

Get a few maruaders. Stimmed marauders can kill ultras retarded fast given how much easier they are to get.

Ghosts are also good but maruaders will make the zerg call terran op before leaving.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1629 (isolation #82) » Sat Nov 19, 2011 4:55 pm

If I have learned one thing from MLG games it is that forcefielding zerg ramps is preeeetty good guys.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1666 (isolation #83) » Sat Nov 26, 2011 9:22 pm

I miss the interviews with ridiculous username'd people asking questions and john doing stuff.
And the old match intro music.

nostaaaalgiaaaaaa

Gammagooey · Post Post #1851 (isolation #84) » Wed Mar 13, 2013 1:24 pm

Considered not buying this until I actually buy+make my new computer buuuut this is one of the only games I've been looking forward to in a while so screw that. Plus taking 5 minutes to load something will PROBABLY motivate me to hurry up with choosing parts for it.

if anyone wants to play then bug me by PM or with the ingame messaging, I'll probably be just playing through the campaign for a while.

Gammagooey · Post Post #1880 (isolation #85) » Sun Mar 17, 2013 3:54 pm

yeah finished the campaign earlier today and it was pretty meh. The later missions were pretty fun but it felt a lot easier than the WoL campaign, the primal zerg could have been done better and probably still kept to the lore of the original starcraft stuff (say they break off from the swarm after the overmind dies and evolve as individuals on Zerus, only real thing you'd have to change is getting a replacement for the ancient one) and kerrigan went from dumb lovebird to BETTER GO BE QUEEN OF THE ZERG AGAIN with pretty much no thinking it through or internal conflict.

Don't really recommend it unless you're going to play at least a little multiplayer (which will probably be worth it but I haven't bothered yet) until the price drops a bit.

Gammagooey · Post Post #2226 (isolation #86) » Sat Oct 19, 2013 1:37 am

Dear wins the GSL finals! woooo protoss

Gammagooey · Post Post #2234 (isolation #87) » Thu Jan 15, 2015 9:31 pm

So I'm actually excited about this again, a bunch of the old great korean players came back from another league to the GSL so MC and MarineKing and Soulkey are all around so far and apparently San dates all the way back to Season 1 of pre-HoTS SC2 too!

If you want to watch the full vods I got this current season so PM me =3