Day is the prettiest man

OnTheLastCastle

I don't practice builds. I play intuitively! With the FORCE.

Spoiler:

I feel like I was really slow in this game and would've died to one zealot.

edit to say: I was trying out gretorp's (?) gas before barracks play for fast hellions. I liked it.

and ugh. i know. supply blocked soooooo badly.

TheStig

The only thing you lacked in that game was good scouting. He could have done some 2 gate pressure and beat you easily, but if you had been scouting with an scv and then sitting on that tower when he got zealots out, you could start building a bunker when he moves out, or if you suspect an early attack.

Also you could have positioned your barracks to make them cozy around a possible bunker, you were like, 1 grid away from that I think.

That game got me thinking, have you considered marauders into hellions for tvp? Like go 2 rax with tech labs, get out 4 marauders and push. A 3rd rax would be working on a reactor and when your factory finished you would put in on that and start pumping hellions.

OnTheLastCastle

TheStig wrote: »

The only thing you lacked in that game was good scouting. He could have done some 2 gate pressure and beat you easily, but if you had been scouting with an scv and then sitting on that tower when he got zealots out, you could start building a bunker when he moves out, or if you suspect an early attack.

Also you could have positioned your barracks to make them cozy around a possible bunker, you were like, 1 grid away from that I think.

That game got me thinking, have you considered marauders into hellions for tvp? Like go 2 rax with tech labs, get out 4 marauders and push. A 3rd rax would be working on a reactor and when your factory finished you would put in on that and start pumping hellions.

Yeah, I can be really lazy on the scouting. In 2v2 I normally send the guy who makes the depot but I think I put him into making a refinery.

In my mind when the game was loading up, my plan was 2 rax, factory, 3rd rax w/ reactor. I didn't get to the reactor part of the plan. Marauders are just so good vs. zealot/stalker. My plan all along was to abuse immobility and get 2 hellions in there. edit: and marines are just useless vs. zealots early on so fuck them.

We should practice 1v1s sometime... that goes for anyone. I am free most nights if you PM me here or on SC2. Though it's about time for the True Blood finale.

TheStig

You mean it's about time for Day[9]

Lordaen

Hmm FundayMonday thing might be fun to try.

animal companion

animal companion wrote: »

FrylockHolmes wrote: »

compared to the other "wars" games, roundabout war is especially frustrating for me because I always do pretty well to start with, and then it turns out someone else has been planning some crazy shit all along

one game, a guy built about 15 of the structures that just give a bunch of income, and then he spawned a bunch of mind-controlling novas and jacked their armor up to 10

I just went and tried this

I lost, but I had a lot of fun trying it

I think the creator must read these forums, because this exact tactic just got nerfed a matter of hours ago

they made upgrades way more expensive, and basically made nova pretty terrible

animal companion

wow

this was made in galaxy edit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAZVEWP621k

Tossrock

i am mad at video games

Zen Vulgarity

Who is this day 9 fellow

Beef Avenger

Zen Vulgarity wrote: »

Who is this day 9 fellow

the most lovable neckbeard around

he is unnaturally likeable

TheStig

And one sexy beast.

Vivixenne

blue-dottin this

Tossrock

so whenever I'm matched with a Plat player, i stomp them, but like 3/5 times I'm matched with a Diamond player, I lose (albeit they're usually close games)

♪ not a girl, not yet a womaaan ♫

TheStig

Tosscock, we should play tomorrow and try to fix that.

Viv: get on our server already.

Vivixenne

can I do that yet

has access been granted

oh god

Beef Avenger

haha viv got her hopes up

Vivixenne

awwwwwwwww

Fallout

add me

Fallout.276

Tossrock

TheStig wrote: »

Tosscock, we should play tomorrow and try to fix that.

Viv: get on our server already.

I always hoped you'd be the one to make a real woman out of me, Stig

SabreMau

A completely contrived situation that'll never happen in a real match, but I wonder. TvT, have one player build a ghost academy and stock it with a nuke, have the other player build a supply depot right next to it. Kill off every other unit and building on the map except the ghost and one unit from the other player. Stand them together, bring the ghost academy down low enough that it just starts on fire, and then nuke where you stand, destroying the academy, the ghost, the other player's depot, and the other player's unit. Both players instantly have no units and no buildings. Who gets the win?

1. The nuker, who finished the game with an attack, or
2. Player 1 every time, or Player 2 every time, if it checks win conditions in a certain order, or
3. Neither player, since you broke the game?

Munkus Beaver

You can have games end in a draw, I think.

Maybe.

Bendery It Like Beckham

SabreMau wrote: »

A completely contrived situation that'll never happen in a real match, but I wonder. TvT, have one player build a ghost academy and stock it with a nuke, have the other player build a supply depot right next to it. Kill off every other unit and building on the map except the ghost and one unit from the other player. Stand them together, bring the ghost academy down low enough that it just starts on fire, and then nuke where you stand, destroying the academy, the ghost, the other player's depot, and the other player's unit. Both players instantly have no units and no buildings. Who gets the win?

1. The nuker, who finished the game with an attack, or
2. Player 1 every time, or Player 2 every time, if it checks win conditions in a certain order, or
3. Neither player, since you broke the game?

wanna test this out?

Bendery It Like Beckham

SabreMau wrote: »

A completely contrived situation that'll never happen in a real match, but I wonder. TvT, have one player build a ghost academy and stock it with a nuke, have the other player build a supply depot right next to it. Kill off every other unit and building on the map except the ghost and one unit from the other player. Stand them together, bring the ghost academy down low enough that it just starts on fire, and then nuke where you stand, destroying the academy, the ghost, the other player's depot, and the other player's unit. Both players instantly have no units and no buildings. Who gets the win?

1. The nuker, who finished the game with an attack, or
2. Player 1 every time, or Player 2 every time, if it checks win conditions in a certain order, or
3. Neither player, since you broke the game?

wanna test this out? My money is on the nuker.

if it's anything like the sc1 the nuke counts as a unit, and the nuke doesn't "die" until after the damage is done.

Docshifty

Bendery It Like Beckham wrote: »

SabreMau wrote: »

A completely contrived situation that'll never happen in a real match, but I wonder. TvT, have one player build a ghost academy and stock it with a nuke, have the other player build a supply depot right next to it. Kill off every other unit and building on the map except the ghost and one unit from the other player. Stand them together, bring the ghost academy down low enough that it just starts on fire, and then nuke where you stand, destroying the academy, the ghost, the other player's depot, and the other player's unit. Both players instantly have no units and no buildings. Who gets the win?

1. The nuker, who finished the game with an attack, or
2. Player 1 every time, or Player 2 every time, if it checks win conditions in a certain order, or
3. Neither player, since you broke the game?

wanna test this out? My money is on the nuker.

if it's anything like the sc1 the nuke counts as a unit, and the nuke doesn't "die" until after the damage is done.

Custom game, easy AI. Came out tied.

Bendery It Like Beckham

neat

Docshifty

They might do it differently for ladder, though, but I wouldn't think so.

SabreMau

Oh, custom match with 1 AI in Multiplayer mode? I had been trying custom single-player mode, and the AI went "gg" after they lost most their stuff, so the only way to continue was to force continue and go into that mode that never ends unless you manually quit. The other way worked fine and ended the game properly:



So the mythical Tied screen does exist. The question is, has that ever happened in a SC2 ladder match?

Isoldae

I guess you could theoretically reach a tie screen on the ladder. I'm not sure it has happened, though.

Tournament games have tied, but only because both players refused to attack. (Day9 did a daily on one such game)

KetBra

Aggh I have not had internet for the last two weeks. I need my SC2 fix!

Come on Bell, hook up my internet fasterrr

Lordaen

Alright. I think I have my idea for Funday Monday planned out. 20 Hatcheries making a creep highway!

Plan might still need some work.

TheStig

Does this game have to be a ladder game?

Lordaen

I don't think he specified, but I plan to have mine be a ladder match.

Docshifty

So who wants to do crazy lobbies where we all play for Funday Monday!

You know, at some point.

Lordaen

I would be down. as long as it's not sometime in the next 10-11 hours.

SoaL

dangit

I have been watching day9 for the last few days and pretending I have this game
good times


i am not familiar with EB Games, can I trade in stuff from a different system and get credit for starcraft??

Isoldae

Wh-what is Funday Monday?

TheStig

Pretty sure you can. Also you missed the $40 k-mart sale

Iso: send your replays of you playing zerg with no queens to day9
day9monday@gmail.com

Isoldae

Stig:

Let's play some stupid games of 2v2 with no queens today.

Double proxy hatch.

Mr Fuzzbutt

Isoldae wrote: »

Wh-what is Funday Monday?

It's a new thing Day9 is doing, wherein he suggests something crazy for people to try, which could possibly lead to awesome strategies, and he will do commentary on some of the games.

For the first one, the challenge is to play as Zerg without using any queens. :rotate:

TheStig

Isoldae wrote: »

Stig:

Let's play some stupid games of 2v2 with no queens today.

Double proxy hatch.

proxy hatch is a heavy queen build.

I do have a no queen 1v1 strat.... anyway, gotta go to school now.