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StarCraft II

Discussion in 'Gaming and PC Discussion' started by Chaoticblues, Feb 19, 2010.

  1. Solomon

    Solomon Heir

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    I do a lot of multitasking while I'm browsing the internet. Just open another tab or window or something and occasionally tab back when his face comes on.
     
  2. Chaoticblues

    Chaoticblues Professor

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    I'm sure he knows all that. He was talking about an ffa game we played amongst DLP members that he ended up winning, not a normal ladder match.
     
  3. Jormungandr

    Jormungandr Prisoner

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    Ah, I see!

    I was thinking that it was a 1v1 match.
     
  4. TSN

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    in 1v1 i play terran or zerg, fuck the toss they arenot my type at all
     
  5. Solomon

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    Toss is fun to play, but I am probably doing it extremely wrong. They're all about mobility now (warp gates, warp prisms, charge/blink, etc.) and I just have not been doing that at all. :D
     
  6. Ched

    Ched Da Trek Moderator DLP Supporter ⭐⭐

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    Yeah, I tend to not even research Warp Gates half the time. Feels like it's harder to warp in 12 units from 12 gates than to just have 12 gateways make 12 units while I'm off micro'ing elsewhere.

    I should really get better at it.

    I suck with Terran I think. There aren't really any units I like a lot until you get to Thors and Battleships, but those are too late in the game for early strat.
     
  7. Zarent

    Zarent Seventh Year

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    What.

    Fast reapers are *amazing* early game for economy harassment. Get 1 asap and send it out- Further Reading.

    MarineMarauderMedivac bioball is one of [if not the] easiest and most effective armies in the game right now. A1 + gogogo. What's really great about it is that you can decide to rush OR just tech up and continue - if the enemy doesn't scout you out and realize what you're doing and then softcounter it [because there are no hard counters] and significantly out play you, then you win.

    Personally MMM is the strategy that I'm getting frustrated with in low Plat / High gold play. It's not necessarily difficult to beat if the enemy isn't smart, but its just so freakin annoying to do so.

    As a Toss player, you have to completely outmicro the other person on every level. Its available counters are High Templars and storm or Colossi, which can't both be supported on one base. I have to try to expand reasonably quickly, but I can't play containment on the enemy, as his units are much more versatile than mine with Stim+Kiting+Marauder's Slow. So I have to just hope that he won't find my expansion, which, in it of itself, is marked bad play. Add this to the fact that Marine+Marauder rush is exceptionally strong and needs to be countered by a wall supplemented by forcefields and cannons... Every level of the game is a challenge. Although I'm rising reasonably quickly.

    HUGE POST END
    tl;dr version - Go Marine Marauder Medivac off of 3 barracks, win game easy. Or play a different race and stress about it.
     
  8. Ched

    Ched Da Trek Moderator DLP Supporter ⭐⭐

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    Yes, they are amazing. And I do that. But what I said was that there aren't any units I like. There's a difference. The same goes for the Marine/Maruader/Medivac bioball -- I use that every damn game that Random gives me terran, and often toss in a tank or two, but I despise playing it.

    I think you took my statement to mean something different than it did. I didn't mean to say that Terran sucked and there weren't any good units early on -- there are. I just don't like them.

    For Toss I like Stalkers, DTs, Void Rays, and Photon Cannons. For Zerg I'm a fan of lings early on, Mutas, and sometimes Hydras. For Terran... there aren't really any units in the early tiers that I enjoy playing, hence my dislike of Terran. So since I don't like what I am usually doing, I don't do it that well and tend to suck at it compared to others.

    But also consider that I play in and around the Gold League (on a good day). I'm not a Platinum or Diamond player where things are tighter on control and micro. Yet ;)

    Cheers
     
  9. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

    Rahkesh Asmodaeus THUNDAH Bawd Admin DLP Supporter

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    So... we should get another massive game going! Last one was balls fun even though we (read: Poobah) let the 15 year old win. Sometime this weekend? :D

    Also, I'm renaming this thread to just Starcraft II.
     
  10. Chaoticblues

    Chaoticblues Professor

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    Was that the game where Poobah massed ravens and killed people by dropping those sentry guns?
     
  11. Solomon

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    I'd be down with that. I haven't played SC2 in months so I'm probably (more) awful, but whatever.
     
  12. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

    Rahkesh Asmodaeus THUNDAH Bawd Admin DLP Supporter

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    Yeah probably. It was on that map where there were only islands. I turtled hard so I'm not sure what happened until the mid-end game.
     
  13. Zennith

    Zennith Pebble Wrestler ~ Prestige ~

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    I'm definitely in. When's this going down?
     
  14. JohnThePyro

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    I'd be up for it. Sounds like fun.
     
  15. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

    Rahkesh Asmodaeus THUNDAH Bawd Admin DLP Supporter

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    Mm, how about tomorrow at around... 3 P.M. PST?
     
  16. Zennith

    Zennith Pebble Wrestler ~ Prestige ~

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    I could be up for it if it was just an hour earlier...
     
  17. Rahkesh Asmodaeus

    Rahkesh Asmodaeus THUNDAH Bawd Admin DLP Supporter

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    2 PST then? :p
     
  18. Zennith

    Zennith Pebble Wrestler ~ Prestige ~

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    Perfect!


    ...wordcount
     
  19. Rehio

    Rehio Bad Dragon ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    As long as it's not on a damn island map this time.

    Though that game was hilarious. So much turtle.
     
  20. TSN

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    I'm not 15 year old... I'm 21 damnit,
     
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