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

[QUOTE=Godrek;23796884]Delay can't be reduced? There were delay reducers for WC3 and there was almost 0 delay if the host was good.[/QUOTE] Warcraft had a lan delay of 100 ms, and that's what you got with a delay reducer.

I just passed the first three challenges with gold. Fuck yea. 1st challenge: 10 2nd challenge: 10 3rd challenge: 9

[QUOTE=Krepps;23797057]Warcraft had a lan delay of 100 ms, and that's what you got with a delay reducer.[/QUOTE] Yup. The B.net delay was 250ms [editline]05:15AM[/editline] [QUOTE=onox37;23797076]I just passed the first three challenges with gold. Fuck yea. 1st challenge: 10 2nd challenge: 10 3rd challenge: 9[/QUOTE] [url]http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/389403/1/Warchamp/achievements/category/4325401[/url] :smug:

I'm going to take a guess and say that you just loaded someone elses saved game.

"Oh no, someone got gold on all the challenges. He must have cheated" You're cute. If you could view it in-game, you'd see I got them all the second day the game was out. Thanks for being a jackass though. :fuckoff: Edit: Why the [i]fuck[/i] am I getting boxes when he called me a cheater.

Thanks, you can leave my thread now.

[QUOTE=Warchamp7;23797188]"Oh no, someone got gold on all the challenges. He must have cheated" You're cute. If you could view it in-game, you'd see I got them all the second day the game was out. Thanks for being a jackass though. :fuckoff:[/QUOTE] uh

[QUOTE=X-Neon;23784014]On "The Gates of Hell", do you have to rescue all of the drop-pods for it to count as completing all the mission objectives?[/QUOTE] Anyone? This is the only mission I haven't completed all the objectives for and I want my General Warfield portrait.

[QUOTE=X-Neon;23797483]Anyone? This is the only mission I haven't completed all the objectives for and I want my General Warfield portrait.[/QUOTE] Yes.

I hate how you can't get the secret mission without starting a new campaign. Oh well, I'll speed through it on Casual then do the mission on something else. [editline]11:00AM[/editline] If I have finished the campaign already on normal, and I play through it again on casual but switch to normal for the secret mission, it will count as if I have finished the whole campaign on normal, right?

[QUOTE=Crimor;23793985]This is a good strategy but you REALLY want to get an observer out asap, those immortals won't do a thing if the guy specs for air.[/QUOTE] That's actually a good point, quite silly of me to mix that up. In fact, if anyone wants this strategy as a replay, [B]PM me[/B] and I'll upload a pretty good replay showing you it. I get attacked pretty early on with a Medivak+Thor rush, then I get attacked with around 4-5 Thors and some other units when I have 1 Colossus, it's a pretty good game even though I end up using Dark Templars because I ntoiced my observer wasn't dying, I still had the normal 4 gateway force out though with 3 colossi (iirc). Eh, here, someone asked for it: [url]http://rapidshare.com/files/410759842/EarlyThorHarass.SC2Replay[/url] [QUOTE=Kendra;23784418]I personally put up my pylon at 9 supply, then my gateway at 12. Then my cybernetics at 15-16, depending how much supply I have when my gateway finishes (can't think of the exact number). I put up the assimilator at 13 supply while coming back from the gateway, and my second one around 18-19. When my gateway finishes I chrono boost out a zealot to kill any scout inside or one that may come, then make another zealot. Then, my cybernetics will have finished and I'll make 2 stalkers, and then a sentry, and I'd have started researching warp gate at the same time I made my Stalkers. At around 25 supply I'll put up my robotics, make an observer first, then an immortal, then another immortal. By now I'll be making my r.bay, and I'll be pumping out a few (2-3) colossi out, together with it's Thermal Lance range upgrade (really important!). While doing this, you will also want to build 3 more gateways and make them warp gates, and have researched into Blink. If you have spare gas, also get Charge for your zealots. By now I'll be quite advanced in minerals compared to gas, and I'll be expanding to the closest expansion, putting down a pylon and two assimilators next to the new expansion, and putting half my drones from my main there, this all while my colossi are building. You can chose to get upgrades from your Forge if you have the spare resources, but I havn't seen it be that necessary in placement and low leagues. When I have 2 or 3 colossi, I'd have warped in a good force too of mostly stalkers. If my observer hasn't been shot down, to play it safe I'll make a Dark Shrine, put up a proxy pylon somewhere near his base (prefereably on higher or lower ground, and somewhere where he won't scout past), and warp in 4-8 dark templars, and soften up his army (go for his army especially if he's terran, most in placement matches won't even have hotkeys and will click on their base to use their scan, and by then your templars will have ripped through your opponents army. If you have the 1 attack upgrade for ground units, you'll also one-shot gatherers, which is also a great thing.) While I'm doing this, I'm moving in my main army in, and if he's a terran or a zerg, he'll be wasting resources on missile launchers or overseers, which just means your main army will eat through your enemies base. I've been doing this in all 3 placement 1v1 games I've played, and won all 3 of them. (Not really into 1v1 at the moment.) You should also check out [url]http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Protoss_Strategy[/url] to see if you like another strategy, although the wiki is nowhere near close to finished though.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=MuTAnT;23797583]Yes.[/QUOTE] Ok, so I redid that mission and rescued all the drop-pods and killed all the spore cannons just to make sure I got it. I got neither the "Complete all mission objectives" or the "Kill all Spore Cannons", even though on the stats next to it, it clearly said I had done both of those. And yes, I was logged in to Battle.NET. Can anyone help?

[QUOTE=Kendra;23798136]That's actually a good point, quite silly of me to mix that up. In fact, if anyone wants this strategy as a replay, [B]PM me[/B] and I'll upload a pretty good replay showing you it. I get attacked pretty early on with a Medivak+Thor rush, then I get attacked with around 4-5 Thors and some other units when I have 1 Colossus, it's a pretty good game even though I end up using Dark Templars because I ntoiced my observer wasn't dying, I still had the normal 4 gateway force out though with 3 colossi (iirc). Eh, here, someone asked for it: [URL]http://rapidshare.com/files/410759842/EarlyThorHarass.SC2Replay[/URL][/QUOTE] Are you on the EU or US servers? could use a good 2v2 partner.

[QUOTE=Crimor;23798463]Are you on the EU or US servers? could use a good 2v2 partner.[/QUOTE] Eu.

[QUOTE=Warchamp7;23797085]Yup. The B.net delay was 250ms [editline]05:15AM[/editline] [url]http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/389403/1/Warchamp/achievements/category/4325401[/url] :smug:[/QUOTE] [url]http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/612580/1/Vee/achievements/[/url] :smug: Eh no wait. :smith:

How do you get a trial key? I desperately need one.

Why are so many units cut off from Multiplayer? Like Diamondback & Medic?

terran would probably dominate with the diamondbacks so yeah, balance

Science Vessel is the only unit I want online from the SP.

[QUOTE=Joppari;23798841]Why are so many units cut off from Multiplayer? Like Diamondback & Medic?[/QUOTE] 20+ year old equipment.

[QUOTE=LtBubbles;23789318]I don't really play terran, what's with the lifting off and landing with tech labs? Can't starports build their own techlabs? Or is that to trick the enemy into thinking you're not doing that kind of units?[/QUOTE] No, the tech tree is Barracks>Factory>Starport so while the starports are taking time being built, you build the tech labs on other buildings so the tech labs are done at the same time as the starports, then uplift your buildings and put the starport down on the techlabs. This way you don't have to wait to build the starport, and then wait more to build the techlab onto it. That's a lot of wasted time you don't get units.

Check can have my manbabies :3: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vm3Zb7vZbo[/media]

Solid Gold, bitches. [img]http://a.imageshack.us/img831/1493/solidgold.jpg[/img] Opening Gambit is a fucking bitch. Barely made it with less than a second before my final marine came out.

I picked ghosts during the storyline, but I wonder if I should pick spectres next time. Was something like that: Spectres: 80 HP permacloaked AOE Stun: stuns, duh Psionic Lash: 200 damage to a single target Ghosts: 100 HP permacloaked Snipe: 45 damage, ignores armour Ocular Implants (Increased Range) What did you guys pick?

Man, gold 2vs2 is too hard for me. Me and a friend got into gold after the 5 pre-matches thingy.. IT WAS NOT OUR INTENTION.

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;23796000]That's a pretty late pool[/QUOTE] Actually 14 pool is pretty standard.

[QUOTE=Crimor;23799870]Check can have my manbabies :3:[/QUOTE] Wow, i just watched all of HD's check videos. That is absolutely amazing. None of the koreans seem to be making tanks vs zerg though, anyone know what is up with that?

just played first multiplayer match. 2v2. we won, but barely. apparently when my teammate told me to "get air" he didn't mean get air units. he meant get stalkers and immortals. I look over at his base and he has made 200 zerglings. then he gets scared because the enemy has 3 photon cannons guarding his base.

Just bought SC2 online. Downloading it right now.

After my 5 placement matches, 4 wins, 1 loss, I've been put in the platinum league :buddy: