True, I just sort of assumed that only top 3 platinum players would be considered for Diamond. I didn't see the point of separating Copper and Bronze since to me there is no difference between them in terms of how people play.

 

Pre-Igniter Hellion into Hellion/Tank/Marine or Hellion/Banshee/Marine is stupidly hard to hold off as Zerg. I expect it to be used by all high level players as it's not only super effective, but also super flexible.

To beat it as Zerg you have to have some type of foresight to predict if they're going Tanks or Banshees, since it's impossible to scout since you don't have the resources to spare on a Lair until it's too late to react.

I had some success with Speedling/Roach into fast Nydus - while their army is extremely good at harass, they're not as strong as RoachLing at killing buildings. Hold your army back until they advance with their unsieged tanks - snipe them before they can go into pewpew mode.Sadly, that strat doesn't cover the Banshee variant. I'm honestly stumped how I'm supposed to hold it off.

 

Seeing as hellions and tanks can't hit air, I'd go muta/ling...Lings are cannon fodder for the marines (except they'll probably not get past the tanks and hellions, lol) while mutas tear up the non-air units. Also works for banshees because those only hit ground. If they counter your mutas with vikings, hydras are win.

 

Yeah ZvT is a hard game to play. It's important to have a group of lings hang back to flank and to control all the xelnaga towers. Banshees are easy to stop early imo. If after a certain amount of time I still only see one barracks, then I will automatically get evo chamber and some spore colonies. Also the only successful strat I've had against terran are to use speedlings, burrow banelings and burrow roaches. Transition into hydras and infestors.

 

They are letting custom maps be published. Possibly the most awesome thing about this patch.

 

Yeah, basically what you want is to go air. Maybe burrowed Roaches/Mutas. The only units in that composition that can hit air are the marines, which are certainly bad for mutalisks, but there probably won't be that many in his blob since he's pumping hellions.

EDIT: Patch 13 is go.

 

The North American servers are back up. Since they've removed the identifier system and done a database reset, everybody has to repost their names. So mine is still "Poobah". Anyone up for some crazy 4v4 action?

 

It says i am unable to download an authentication module...?

D:

 

So I logged into the updated BNet2.0, and...uh. How do I add people via normal means? They only have "right click name you see somewhere," Real ID, and Facebook. No normal system.

Also, just "Solomon" this time.

 

I've restarted SC2 several times and it still says that. <_< gonna try restarting computer.. <_<

 

I'm starting to think you outright can't add friends by their online name alone anymore. Lame.

May as well post your Battle.net email, I guess.

EDIT: If it works, it works. vvv

 

Yeah, I kinda figured something like that would happen. I found a couple games that fit, but it wasn't DLPers.

 

Woo, finally worked. Name is same as in here.

 

I wonder where I'll get placed this time.