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- Selecting my Infestors, holding 'Z' (grid keys awwwe yeah), clicking a bunch near the enemy. Result: I have selected a Colossus and 0-1 fungals land
- Selecting my Infestors, spamming 'Z' while clicking a bunch near the enemy. Result: I have selected a Void Ray and 0 fungals land
- Screaming through my teeth in a high-pitched tone, occasionally cursing. Result: All my Infestors die to Thermal Lance fire.
- Attacking with my roach/ling "stopgap force", then building some Corruptors to take out air units. Result: I win!
Is there like a Youtube video or something that shows you how to do any kind of caster micro? It's really frustrating to me to just throw away a dozen of "the best caster unit in the game". As Apollo would say, "verrrry frustratin' fer Callow here. Verrrrry frustratin'."
XBL: Steampunk Ninja | iOS: hlprmnky | Hero Academy: Callow | SC2: Callow.126
They are trying to make mech play viable, which is why they made a mech unit that can kill lots of light units (the battle hellion) and why they need a mech AA unit (because the Thor is being taken out). And the reason they are going with a failed idea is because it is a good idea but they failed with the execution of it.
Enter Control Panel and set your keyboard repeat rate to maximum
Select Infestor
Hold Z
DO NOT HOLD SHIFT
Click on units
DotaBuff
Twitch
yeh, BW had useless units... the firebat was rarely used, ultras were about as prevalent as today, scouts were fairly useless, wraiths and BC's as well.
as for complaining, there were obvious holes in SC(plain), and mostly the BW expansion was a welcome change.
Joe's Stream.
For non-spamming spells (e.g., fungals, storms), you can keep all your casters on one hotkey. Then simply:
(1) Select your casters.
(2) Right-click the direction that you want the rest of your casters to move in. Generally you want to move your clump in range to cast the spells. Then before you cast the spells, start moving them back.
(2) e.g., with fungal, hit 'F', click the first place you want to fungal, hit 'F', click the second place you want to fungal
(3) Don't issue any other commands until the two fungals are cast otherwise you will overwrite those commands and they will not happen.
(4) After they are cast, issue additional move commands to group up your casters again.
Note that no shift-queueing occurs here because you don't want the spell cast to get queued behind a move command.
For spamming spells (e.g., forcefields, ITs) you can do a similar thing except that you can either quickly alternate the hotkey and clicking which you can see me demonstrate here:
You can also hold down the hotkey and abuse keyboard repeating although you need to get into your fingers how long the delay is before the keystroke is repeated. Finally, you can shift-queue the clicks which works particularly well for ITs but you need to be mindful of where you click so that the casters can actually get in range to cast stuff without getting stuck behind each other.
they've already got firebats on wheels. a vulture/firebat hybrid without spider mines.
what purpose could a hardened firebat serve? It screams of duplication of function.
Joe's Stream.
The problem is when the other options are objectively worse.
DotaBuff
Twitch
mutalisks
seige tanks
blink stalkers
banshees
less:
marauders
roaches
colossi
corruptors
is all i could ask for
It gives Hellions use beyond the early game. It makes them a useful screen unit for late game mech armies. That's why battle hellions exist, purely to make mech more viable.
Diablo 1, 2, sc:bw, sc2 are even more incredible examples. Blizzard isn't accidentally creating incredibly diverse, balanced, fun, immersible games over and over. They have incredible foresight and testers and imagination. Obviously it's not infallible and they do make mistakes, cause they produce tons of content and mistakes always do happen, but they listen to the community, continue to test and develop and improve things they find bad.
I love sc2 and will love Hots no mather what. I play no games that comes even close to being as satisfying. If that is blizzard as a former shell of a company, they are doing pretty great.
People rarely realize how polished WoW is as an MMO until they go play something else. Even SW:TOR has a long way to go to match WoW's level of polish.
As an aside, your Zynga-related quote makes me chuckle.
3clipse: The key to any successful marriage is a good mid-game transition.
This is a beautiful post.
I got WC3 and BW as a package when I was 14 and played through the campaigns atleast dozen times. I'd probably have done some multiplayer at the time but I didn't have an internet connection until I was 16. At that point I picked up WoW and logged a good 30 hours a week. Some of my best memories of high school are getting server firsts with my guild and getting Glad after putting tons of work into both. Blizzard games defined my teenage gaming experience.
DotaBuff
Twitch
While I agree the practice is somewhat annoying, Acitivsion is not the only company doing this. Google does it, Apple does it, Amazon does it. It's sort of the reality of cyber-business these days. You are being tracked, and your information and habits, even if anonymous, are probably being sold.
3clipse: The key to any successful marriage is a good mid-game transition.
These days most places do it through payment-method matching, as most people use the same payment method pretty regularly. This is how Target tracks your purchases without needing you to have a Target club card. They also run crazy complex analytics on your purchases to try and figure out better targeted ads. See: The girl who's parents found out she was pregnant because of targeted ads from Target.
3clipse: The key to any successful marriage is a good mid-game transition.
3clipse: The key to any successful marriage is a good mid-game transition.
Hey yeah how about maybe make it a nuclear missile while we're at it.
DotaBuff
Twitch
mandatory online connections are treating your custmers like everyone is a criminal. it's bad business, and to take this topic further off topic, since MSFT and SONY are removing the used game marketplace (aka the first sale doctrine, something that has literally been in contention for hundreds of years, and held up by the courts!), I feel like they're literally handing nextGen consoles to Nintendo. making it harder to sell a game that you're done with is an incredibly bad marketing move.
opt-out should be legislated to opt-in, and the legislation that permitted all the crazy info reselling to be opt-out was an industry blowjob.
Joe's Stream.
I could see the shredder being quite a bit more deadly at killing workers than other methods. But even if it isn't Yilias is probably right. They didn't want it used for that. They wanted area control
nice post
yeah I think people forget how amazing a game WoW is
and people forget that even though they spend 10 hours a day complaining about elements of sc2 (or like, 5 hours talking 5 hours complaining depending on the person) they are still talking about the game for that long and playing it equally as long.
... maybe slight exaggeration on time
That is a complete rumor about the Sony and Microsoft thing. You're assuming a bunch of shit again Joe, based purely on what you heard on the internet. Most actual industry analysts don't believe MS or Sony will actually do that.
And I really don't feel like I'm being treated like a criminal because I have to login to SC2 to play. That's pretty hyperbolic. If I had to go to jail or in front of a judge every time I played SC2, I might feel like a criminal.
What!? How did that happen? You were placed into plat last season right?
I read it as more like being the V2 rocket launcher from Red Alert.
IE - Just a longer ranged siege tank.
There's a difference between hitting worker lines with a 1.5 radius storm and hitting worker lines with a radius 7 storm (I say 7 because hydras couldn't hit shredders from outside the radiation range, so it's obviously more than 6). You are 100% guaranteed to kill every single worker 100% of the time, and will probably catch some other stuff in the periphery. It all dies instantly. In the blink of an eye.
For reference, a nuke has radius 8. You're essentially dropping a unit-only nuke.
They did match me against some platinums but I beat them all and are facing higher diamonds again now. You might get promoted back up pretty fast.
If the units have changed this much internally, you can bet they'll change this much and more by beta, and even more by release.
Bear in mind the matchmaking is different for this season and you can play against higher level opponents potentially - if you beat them you'lll be promoted quicker.
It's fun though. That's worth somethin', ain't it?
*glances askance at teamliquid*
eh
they loosened the strictness of the matchmaking, apparently, giving you more variable matchups from higher/lower elo. apparently it's an experiment of sorts, might just be for the current season.
Wait, did I miss something? Did they change the matchmaking system?
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a·skance/əˈskans/
Adverb:
With an attitude or look of suspicion or disapproval: "the reformers looked askance at the mystical tradition".
Just in case anyone else was hearing that word for the first time ever.