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

I'm a Protoss player, they're the one race which I've somewhat gotten the grips of decently. I haven't tried Zerg yet but I know for a fact after getting the shit beaten out of me several times, I am terrible with the Terrans.

[QUOTE=Simples;23732594]I'm gonna learn Zerg, they seem fun. Any tips?[/QUOTE] hatcherys and birth queens everywhere...

[QUOTE=Simples;23732594]I'm gonna learn Zerg, they seem fun. Any tips?[/QUOTE] Banelings, learn to love banelings they can rip apart any defence/ attack force en masse in mere seconds then send in roaches or mutalisks to clean up survivors and use birth queen's spawn larvae at every chance.

[QUOTE=Simples;23732594]I'm gonna learn Zerg, they seem fun. Any tips?[/QUOTE] Make your first overlord at 9 supply, then your spawning pool at 14, and after the spawning pool make your second overlord, then pump in a few zerglings while you keep making drones. Your first extractor should go up at 15-16. At around 20-22 supply you should wanna expand to your closest expansion and expand there. When you expand, use 1 queen and use her Inject Larva all the time on both hives, by the time she gets to the other hive she'll have 25 energy. Mutalisks are great harassment units early on, and can be REALLY deadly if you have around 10-12 of them in the early game. They however can't do anything against units like Thors and so on. (Thors are the hard counter to them, 2 shots can kill like 5-6 close mutalisks.) If you play against zerg and he blocks his choke point off like any decent terran will do, get 7 banelings and around 15 zerglings (for a total of 22 zergs at first, or 550 minerals.) 7 banelings will destroy the blocking barracks and supply depots, then you can rush in with the lings (should be speedlings optimally) and destroy his economy line. This is however an all in move and if you fail at it you pretty much lose. Zerg are a bit hard to defend with at first, but they are the most cost-efficient race, also having very early and cheap anti-air units which are not too bad against ground units either, and their mobile cannons are great.

Does anyone else think the adjutant has a real nice rack?

Hold on I just finished the campaign yet it says I've done 25/26 missions, is there a secret mission or something that I've missed?

[QUOTE=Fusilero1;23733251]Hold on I just finished the campaign yet it says I've done 25/26 missions, is there a secret mission or something that I've missed?[/QUOTE] Yes. On a certain city planet involving a crazy fucker in a mech there is a science facility in the bottom right corner, kill it.

I'm loads of fun with the editor, even though progress isn't rapid (I managed to enable Lurkers, Brutalisks and Lurker Den). Also I can't wait for Heart of the Swarm, Zerg are my favourite race, plus we will get more content. [editline]07:07PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Penguin-Man;23733084]Does anyone else think the adjutant has a real nice rack?[/QUOTE] I don't know, I was too busy looking at Nova. [editline]07:27PM[/editline] Come on guys, 22 people reading and no-one posting. [editline]07:27PM[/editline] Come on guys, 22 people reading and no-one posting. FP has been a bit fucked since the last downtime, it's slow and sometimes gives me doubleposts.

[QUOTE=Sickle;23728306]For fuck's sake Blizzard Downloader gets stuck on 66% and says Multiple problems saving data. Can anyone help?[/QUOTE] Fucking this.

screw adjutant and nova kate lockwell lol [editline]07:33PM[/editline] anyone else think that the protosses music is the best

[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;23734417]screw adjutant and nova kate lockwell lol [editline]07:33PM[/editline] anyone else think that the protosses music is the best[/QUOTE] Nah Terran music all the way. I can't get that shit out of my head either, every time I lay down or relax I hear it :tinfoil: Also for the people having problems with the installer and have their key, you can always try torrenting the installer

[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;23734417]screw adjutant and nova kate lockwell lol [editline]07:33PM[/editline] anyone else think that the protosses music is the best[/QUOTE] The Zerg reminds me of SC1. Terran is completely new and almost out of place. Protoss, not entirely sure what I think of it.

Dear Lord, the writing in the campaign is ...terrible. I don't remember Blizzard having such bad writers before. Every line of dialog that I've heard so far has been cheesy beyond belief and the story itself seems very very generic. Typical revenge story.

Yeah some of the dialog was pretty corny

Yeah I loved the campaign, but while the story wasn't horrible, what the fuck happened? The story didn't feel Blizzard at all.

[QUOTE=Sickle;23728306]For fuck's sake Blizzard Downloader gets stuck on 66% and says Multiple problems saving data. Can anyone help?[/QUOTE] Dear god this game is a fucking cunt.

[QUOTE=acds;23734922]Yeah I loved the campaign, but while the story wasn't horrible, what the fuck happened? The story didn't feel Blizzard at all.[/QUOTE] The story was good in my opinion. I just feel like they didn't finish it. With that said the other expansions will expand upon it to make it feel more complete. I just felt it wasn't finished which it definitely isn't.

[QUOTE=Sickle;23734954]Dear god this game is a fucking cunt.[/QUOTE] still got the problem yet?

[QUOTE=Murdoco;23735037]The story was good in my opinion. I just feel like they didn't finish it. With that said the other expansions will expand upon it to make it feel more complete. I just felt it wasn't finished which it definitely isn't.[/QUOTE] Yeah it might be that, I can't quite put my finger on it. Oh well, we'll see in the next two campaigns. Also is there any release date (even only rumoured) for Heart of the Swarm?

[QUOTE=acds;23735177]Yeah it might be that, I can't quite put my finger on it. Oh well, we'll see in the next two campaigns. Also is there any release date (even only rumoured) for Heart of the Swarm?[/QUOTE] No clue. I also didn't exactly love the ending of this one...I mean I guess it's only the end of the Terran campaign but... [sp]I really didn't want Tychus to die and the whole "Walk off into the sunset" kinda annoyed me...I did find it hilarious though that while the whole zerg base was exploding in the end the game said to me "UPGRADE COMPLETE"[/sp]

Anyone have the song from the credits? The "TERRAN' UP THE NIGHT!" song?

[QUOTE=Murdoco;23735272]No clue. I also didn't exactly love the ending of this one...I mean I guess it's only the end of the Terran campaign but... [sp]I really didn't want Tychus to die and the whole "Walk off into the sunset" kinda annoyed me...I did find it hilarious though that while the whole zerg base was exploding in the end the game said to me "UPGRADE COMPLETE"[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]Yeah what the hell where they thinking with Tychus? Not only was he awesome (so no matter how he died I would have been pissed), but he also died in a crappy way. Also the way they just entered the Hive and found Kerrigan (possibly the most important story character) suddenly human, sane and talking like that was fucking anti-climatic (yeah sure the artifact changed her back, but still they just walk in, find her, and carry her out). Oh yeah the walk into the sunset (on Char nonetheless) was a horrible way to end it.[/sp]

Thanks to MrJazzy who gave me a guest pass.

Np, man! Oh I love this game btw. I never really played SC1 or SC2 Beta, but I've seen HDstarcraft and Huskystarcraft ever since late Beta so I know the mechanics and I've beaten 3 out of 4 people in 1v1 as Protoss now!

If anyone has any tips/videos on how to get a proper banshee-rush going or any rush for early-game going, please do tell because I could sure need one. Terran only. Also; anyone from EU up for 2v2,3v3 or 4v4?

[QUOTE=LeonS;23736103]If anyone has any tips/videos on how to get a proper banshee-rush going or any rush for early-game going, please do tell because I could sure need one. Terran only. Also; anyone from EU up for 2v2,3v3 or 4v4?[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XUUpXPkfGY[/media] After getting a starport, get a tech lab, make a raven, research cloak for banshee and go destroy your opponents harvesters first. If he has any detectors, this will fail.

I never did get my answer, can EU play with US because I'm up for some 2v2 practice matches. I need to get my shit straight. These two guys wrecked my friend and I last night. He had reapers and harassed us but it was kind of surprising what happened. He went up the cliff, killed some SCVs and then when my marines chased him to the edge of the cliff, while moving, the guy put those mines down and all of my marines died.

Yay FP is up again. Also has anyone noticed what [sp]Dr.Narud spells backwards? Also Sarah Kerrigan's (so Ghost Kerrigan) portrait is the exact same as Nova's, only with the hair dyed red.[/sp]

Picking this up today, really wanted to get the limited edition, but theres nothing i can do, ill just go for normal.

Does anyone have any good protoss tips for surviving early game? If I can make it I can normally suicide rush detectors and send in dark templars to wipe out whatever remains but early on I normally get rushed since my zealots and stalkers can't hold rushes off.