Starcraft II Megathread V.1 'Hell, It's About Time' - Games

[QUOTE=raccoon12;24118714]you don't understand what he meant it could kill that many mutas one at a time, after giving time for its shields to recharge[/QUOTE] Of course, one at a time never happens though. [editline]06:13PM[/editline] I've got 2 replays ripe for tearing apart: [B]PvT[/B] [url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/PvTLostTemple-GaLm_win_stormsavesday.SC2Replay[/url] [B]ZvT[/B] [url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/ZvTKulasRavine-GaLmwinSneaky_zerg.SC2Replay[/url] I'll just shut up and take criticism like a man this time, no matter how bad or wrong it is. I think I'll post some losses later.

No actually thats not what I meant :v: if you tell a phoenix to attack a muta then tell it to go the other way it will fire backwards and you can kite them like that because they have shorter range.

[QUOTE=Godrek;24119291]No actually thats not what I meant :v: if you tell a phoenix to attack a muta then tell it to go the other way it will fire backwards and you can kite them like that because they have shorter range.[/QUOTE] If the player with the 100,000 Mutas is smart, then he'll just split his force and utterly dominate that Phoenix. But if he gets kited the whole time, obviously the Phoenix wins.

Oh man Galm, I just watched the first 2 minutes of both and they were absolutely horrible. I mean, you were slipping in macro, and what with the pointless spawning pool and gateway? wtf

Me and my friend invented this super rush tactic ( probably has been done before ) And with it I was able to defeat insane difficulty AI under 5minutes. Got achievement.

Thanks for sharing this super rush tactic.

hah. I was even playing protss like you obviously like. I'll share it tomorrow or something. I can't right now.

I would also like to know.

Probably a proxy 2 gate or something.

I need some help, I bought this game last night, and I get the program I need to download it and I get the error message "There was a problem authenticating your download, please go to Blizzard.com/account to start a new download." I already have been googling for the past day and I emailed blizz, anyone know why this is happening? To show I did buy it. [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/2gud3q9.png[/IMG] Error. [IMG]http://i37.tinypic.com/2z9e45g.png[/IMG]

Anyone in EU for some/any game(s)?

[QUOTE=sonicrjk;24120546]I need some help, I bought this game last night, and I get the program I need to download it and I get the error message "There was a problem authenticating your download, please go to Blizzard.com/account to start a new download." I already have been googling for the past day and I emailed blizz, anyone know why this is happening? To show I did buy it.[/QUOTE] You have to run the downloader as administrator. Just right click on the icon and it should be the second option.

[QUOTE=DigiTech;24120193]Oh man Galm, I just watched the first 2 minutes of both and they were absolutely horrible. I mean, you were slipping in macro, and what with the pointless spawning pool and gateway? wtf[/QUOTE] Thanks, that helped a lot! I'm sure to improve with your great advice, maybe I'll be even as good as the pros! When they ask who helped me become so great, I can reply "Digitech, from Facepunch."

[QUOTE=Evilan;24121282]You have to run the downloader as administrator. Just right click on the icon and it should be the second option.[/QUOTE] I've done that.

Am I the only one who can't see or make custom games?

I just want to play :( Do you think I could get a refund?

try downloading the downloader again and then start it again.

[QUOTE=Strikebango;24121536]try downloading the downloader again and then start it again.[/QUOTE] Bro I've been trying all day, I've done that at least 20 times now.

[QUOTE=StratoVirus;24121311]Am I the only one who can't see or make custom games?[/QUOTE] Same, I can't do anything :saddowns:

So, doesn't the collectors edition come with alternate in-game voices and sounds?

[QUOTE=GaLm121;24121294]Thanks, that helped a lot! I'm sure to improve with your great advice, maybe I'll be even as good as the pros! When they ask who helped me become so great, I can reply "Digitech, from Facepunch."[/QUOTE] Less sarcasm, and people will help you. Since I generally play Toss and I'm in Gold for 1's, 2's, 3's and 4's I can throw you some pointers for the first match you linked. 1. Block your ramp with a pylon at 9 supply and then a gateway at 12 or 13 supply. Make sure to leave one space open, and once you get a zealot out, block that space with a hold position until you get more units out behind it. 2. Quit randomly clicking units for the fun of it in the beginning. It may just be nit picky, but in the beginning, just watch your mini-map, scout and build with all the resources at your disposal. I've noticed that when I play I lose focus on the greater scale of the game when I randomly go off to do things. In one game I didn't even see a probe get onto my cliff because I was messing with the camera and he built up a good sized zealot force supported by cannons right next to me. 3. That was a waste of a pylon to block his ramp. You would have been better off attacking his SCV building the racks, and scouting inside rather than giving the Terran player more opportunities to turtle, which happens to be their specialty. And since he killed it and your probe right away, your down 200 minerals in the early game and you lost supply for no logical reason. I could understand if you were going for a proxy and failed, but you didn't even attempt that. 4. When you go Zealot heavy like you were, it's more advisable to get their Charge upgrade over the HTs Psi Storm first, especially when fighting Terran. Marines+Marauders(or ghosts) will just kite your Zealots to their grave, but charge negates any of their speed benefits. Again, maybe a little nit-picky, but I've never seen HTs do all that well with a small defense screen since most people focus target them first. And since he had Ghosts, I'm a little shocked he didn't snipe it right away and blow your force right on out with EMPs. 5. Built a late forge. Generally you should get the forge up pretty early so you can have cheap extra defense guarding your ramp behind the block mentioned above. But since you were on offense for most of the game, this really doesn't apply too much. Overall a decent game, but your build was helped by the fact that your opponent was oblivious to your HT and for not kiting that mass of Zealots away while building up in his base.

I'm tired of losing to stupid fucking terran as zerg. Fix this fucking shit or the game will die.

[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;24122028]I'm tired of losing to stupid fucking terran as zerg. Fix this fucking shit or the game will die.[/QUOTE] Just give it awhile and it will fix itself.

Are high templers actually good at all?

[QUOTE=Strikebango;24122274]Are high templers actually good at all?[/QUOTE] They are very effective. Minus the fact that they're slow and have almost no health. Also, people love to target them first because they are a valuable trump card. I generally transport them around in Warp Prisms so I can just drop, storm, and load. Feedback does equal damage to the amount of energy that an enemy unit has. It basically 1 shots a Banshee, and does 200 damage to a Battlecruiser, and I think it 1 shots Ghosts. Psi Storm does huge amounts of damage in a small aoe area. It's good for taking out clumped up units like Marines, Zergs, Mutas, and sometimes Banes.

When i played 4vs4 in silver league the other team had 6 HT's and my teammates kept shooting the stalkers instead of them which is one of the reasons why we failed. Also 4vs4 sucks kinda i think 3vs3 and 2vs2 are much better and im also to scarred yet for 1vs1.

[QUOTE=Evilan;24121984]Less sarcasm, and people will help you. Since I generally play Toss and I'm in Gold for 1's, 2's, 3's and 4's I can throw you some pointers for the first match you linked. Overall a decent game, but your build was helped by the fact that your opponent was oblivious to your HT and for not kiting that mass of Zealots away while building up in his base.[/QUOTE] I made a sarcastic reply to a sarcastic quip, what's the matter with that? Anyways, those were some good tips, my replies: [B]1[/B]. Against Terran I generally don't block off, since it'll actually hamper my Zealots if they need to get down and they happen to be behind a few buildings (could be avoided by just making sure they're in front/on the ramp). If he was Zerg, I most definitely would've blocked. [B]2[/B]. That was APM Spam. Makes my e-penis bigger and also helps to always doing something while playing the macro game. [B]3[/B]. I built it there to prevent him from putting a supply depot down, I was gonna cancel it, but I came back too late (Not use to how fast Pylons deploy). It was a bit of a waste, but he never placed down a supply depot down there afterwards, allowing my zealots to come in later. So I figure it was worth it in the end. [B]4[/B]. My goal was to get a High Templar out as soon as possible to help against any pushes with the ghosts (was gonna feedback if I couldn't storm.) Unfortunately, I didn't realize how Gas heavy they were, so I only got 1 out. Since I was using the gas mostly for the Templars, I made sure to at least be producing Zealots to make up for my army (and then researched Charge so they wouldn't be useless, but you're right, I should've researched charge faster.) [B]5[/B]. Definitely. I built the forge after realizing I probably needed some cannons to help back up my base as I was about to expand, but after losing my scout probe at the Xel'Naga tower, I decided to push out and never used it. -- I normally do a 4gate build that's heavy with Stalkers when I get Protoss [reminder that I play Random], but after seeing that ghost academy I went straight for High Templars (to feedback/storm), as I wasn't used to the build I did make some glaring mistakes. If he had micro'd his units better, he would've probably been in a slightly better shape, but he went for an extremely marine + ghost heavy build (that's not that great against Charge Zealots)

I have two diamond league players as my friend, and they are in the top 10 in the world. I watched a match of them 1vs1ing and it was amazing, all the skill they showed. [url]http://anyhub.net/file/justinvsnick_1v1.sc2replay[/url]

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[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;24122028]I'm tired of losing to stupid fucking terran as zerg. Fix this fucking shit or the game will die.[/QUOTE] What seems to be the issue?