Hell, it's about time!

sarukun · July 2010

On July 27th, 2010, StarCraft II Launched.

Marine divisions from all over the Dominion are already on the ground, holding back the ravenous Zerg and thwarting the machinations of the inscrutable Protoss all across the Sector.

Now it's your turn.

Know Thy Enemy
http://www.teamliquid.net/ -- A rad place for all things starcraft, including forums, news, strategy, and a wiki

Support the Troops
http://www.youtube.com/user/HDstarcraft -- HD Starcraft's channel. He is not nearly as cool or handsome as Day[9], but he and Husky have lots of tournaments and comment on a lot of videos

Lrn 2 Ply
http://day9tv.blip.tv/ -- The Day[9] daily! Everyone loves our favorite teddy bear pro SC player. His streams and videos are the best, and a great way for new players to learn cool stuff.

ROLLCALL

ANIMAL COMPANION: animal.696
AS7: Vivus.971

BAHAMUTZERO: BahamutZERO.348
BAIDOL: Baidol.376
BEEF AVENGER: BeefAvenger.553
BUTTERS: Butters.340

CORNELL: Cornell.931
CORPORATELOGO: CorpLogo.631
CRUNKMCGRUNK: Kancho.704 you are a very naughty boy, Crunk
CYMRIL: Cymril.381

DRAGONICITY: Dragonicity.275
DRUHIM: Druhim.756

END : End.165

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HUNTER: Hunter.107

ISOLDAE: Isolate.252

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KHAVALL: EightyEight.517
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KWOARU: Kwoaru.855

LORD DAVE: Monty.324
LORDAEN: Gillis.462

MR FUZZBUTT: MrFuzzbutt.953 (currently stuck on South East Asian servers)

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NEVILLE: Neville.137

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PROJECK: Projeck.251

REDTIDE: RedTide.115
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THESTIG: Stiggy.886
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URIEL: Jarofmayo.250
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DIRTY EU PLAYERS
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SUPERHOT ASIAN-ON-ASIAN ACTION
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Uriel · July 2010

Okay I have a terrible time sense. Especially when playing a game.

Naphtali · July 2010

That's why replays are your friend

Aphostile · July 2010

Naphtali wrote: »

Aphostile wrote: »

Well... cut it out.

Dave Coulier, everybody.

You oughta know.

But seriously, play Protoss for a while. Then go back to zerg, then go WAGH ZERG EVERYWHERE BUTTONS.

Isoldae · July 2010

There are already too many Protoss around here.

We need more Zerg. When we did PA games in Phase 1 and 2 of the beta we only had 2 or 3 Zerg players.

Naphtali · July 2010

But Protoss are so fun

I honestly feel intimidated playing Zerg. Is there a trick or a standard on how you should hotkey your hatcheries & queens?

edit: I think I miss tier 1 hydras the most, that used to be the backbone of how I played zerg in SC1, early hydras.

Druhim · July 2010

so I was able to get out of work early because my throat's getting pretty raw (no, really! I know what it looks like but I really do have a sore throat!) from being sore and working on the phones

so I'm playing the campaign and so far this is pretty aces
normal difficulty is pretty easy, but I figure I'll play on normal to see how everything plays out and then replay on hard for achievements

but top notch game, and I don't get the people that are complaining the campaign is too "cliche"
I mean, it's not super original but it's very well executed and loads of fun

sarukun · July 2010

Naphtali wrote: »

But Protoss are so fun

I honestly feel intimidated playing Zerg. Is there a trick or a standard on how you should hotkey your hatcheries & queens?

My system is generally to hotkey only my queens.

Each hatchery gets a queen. Whenever I want to look at my hatchery, I double-click the hotkey for the queen associated with that hatchery. This makes it a lot easier to remember to Spawn Larvae; the first thing I do if the Hatchery doesn't have eggs already on it is spawn larvae. Then I click-select the hatchery and go from there.

Naphtali · July 2010

That makes sense, I guess I was over-thinking it since I'm used to hot keying production buildings for Terrans/Protoss.

Isoldae · July 2010

There used to be videos on youtude showing hotkey tricks for hatcheries, but I can't seem to find them anymore.

Aphostile · July 2010

sarukun wrote: »

My system is generally to hotkey only my queens.

Each hatchery gets a queen. Whenever I want to look at my hatchery, I double-click the hotkey for the queen associated with that hatchery. This makes it a lot easier to remember to Spawn Larvae; the first thing I do if the Hatchery doesn't have eggs already on it is spawn larvae. Then I click-select the hatchery and go from there.

I miss wireframe spawn larvae.

I MISS IT.

Naphtali · July 2010

I miss Tier 1 Hydras.

Der Waffle Mous · July 2010

Druhim wrote: »

but top notch game, and I don't get the people that are complaining the campaign is too "cliche"
I mean, it's not super original but it's very well executed and loads of fun

Its a cliche-storm but I'll be damned if it isn't an entertaining and well presented one.

FrylockHolmes · July 2010

I put all my hatcheries into one hotkey, usually 6, but I should probably switch to a way that lets me get to each hatch quickly for spawning larva. having them all on one key makes it really easy to make a shitload of units quick though

animal companion · July 2010

all of these campaign missions for collecting credits and minerals to pay people off

it's like an extended metaphor for bobby kotick's new direction for the company

Uriel · July 2010

Sonofa bitch.

I got dropped right at the end of my first match we were winning because my brother started up the patch process and they kicked me due to lag.

That Dave Fella · July 2010

animal companion wrote: »

all of these campaign missions for collecting credits and minerals to pay people off

it's like an extended metaphor for bobby kotick's new direction for the company

ah look, someone else who doesn't know what he's talking about.

animal companion · July 2010

man i'm just jokin' dang

Baidol · July 2010

The crafting of stars is serious business.

bongi · July 2010

Druhim wrote: »

so I was able to get out of work early because my throat's getting pretty raw (no, really! I know what it looks like but I really do have a sore throat!) from being sore and working on the phones

so I'm playing the campaign and so far this is pretty aces
normal difficulty is pretty easy, but I figure I'll play on normal to see how everything plays out and then replay on hard for achievements

but top notch game, and I don't get the people that are complaining the campaign is too "cliche"
I mean, it's not super original but it's very well executed and loads of fun

because pretty much everything that comes out of everyone's mouth is some kind of cliché?
it's not like a huge complaint, it's not like i was expecting Joyce

Hunter · July 2010

ZOMG ADD ME TO THE LIST!

Hunter.107

Staleghoti · July 2010

Campaign is really heating up!

I'm liking it!

Spoiler:

animal companion · July 2010

at one point Tosh says "Your boys sure know how to walk the walk, Raynor"

bongi · July 2010

you are going to have to divide the roll call into US/EU

undeinPirat · July 2010

i might go back to playing zerg

but playing the campaign makes me want to just fool around with all of the races for a while, thus random

gonna grind out the panda marine helmet once i finish the story

Baidol · July 2010

I would assume the choices you make now will be reflected in subsequent campaigns.

bongi · July 2010

animal companion wrote: »

at one point Tosh says "Your boys sure know how to walk the walk, Raynor"

"I believe that a man is what he chooses to be..."
"Then let us know when you've made your mind up..."

I'm expecting an "I was born ready!" any moment now

Staleghoti · July 2010

Whoa is there a list?

Clintown.740

Team US go go!

undeinPirat · July 2010

i too, undeinpirat.705, am on team us

usa usa usa

pyromaniac221 · July 2010

Fuck, why do games have to cost money

Money that I don't have

And won't for like two more days

Isoldae · July 2010

Naphtali wrote: »

I miss Tier 1 Hydras.

Teir 2 isn't bad.

You can usually get away with making about 3-4 sets of lings and 2-3 spine crawlers as defense while you tech up to hydras.

This is, of course, if the other team isn't going all in off of 2 gate pressure or fast marauder/reaper play.

Staleghoti · July 2010

pyromaniac221 wrote: »

Fuck, why do games have to cost money

Money that I don't have

And won't for like two more days

credit cards my good man

they allow you to access that money before you even have it

psyck0 · July 2010

sarukun wrote: »

Naphtali wrote: »

But Protoss are so fun

I honestly feel intimidated playing Zerg. Is there a trick or a standard on how you should hotkey your hatcheries & queens?

My system is generally to hotkey only my queens.

Each hatchery gets a queen. Whenever I want to look at my hatchery, I double-click the hotkey for the queen associated with that hatchery. This makes it a lot easier to remember to Spawn Larvae; the first thing I do if the Hatchery doesn't have eggs already on it is spawn larvae. Then I click-select the hatchery and go from there.

How in the eff do you macro during battle?

I do hatches 6, queens 7 and spawn larvae on the minimap. I want to work on making my newest hatch 5 as well to focus on making drones there, and then hitting 6 shhhhhhhhhhhhhh (I basically only mass hydras at this point, haha)

FrylockHolmes · July 2010

I'm Bainn.534 same as beta phase two conveniently enough

Kwoaru · July 2010

Kwoaru.855

Josiah_9 · July 2010

I am US Josiah.465

And I am going to play some more campaign, because it is fantastic.

animal companion · July 2010

i think someone tried to put a troll shaman in the game, but someone said no, so we ended up with Tosh

Burden of Proof · July 2010

vsove wrote: »

Gonna try and play some of this tonight! I don't know what my ID is yet - I suppose I should probably start up the game to find that out at some point. Would've played at lunch, but ended up grabbing lunch elsewhere.

you sure got over that not buying starcraft thing pretty quickly

vsove · July 2010

Burden of Proof wrote: »

vsove wrote: »

Gonna try and play some of this tonight! I don't know what my ID is yet - I suppose I should probably start up the game to find that out at some point. Would've played at lunch, but ended up grabbing lunch elsewhere.

you sure got over that not buying starcraft thing pretty quickly

I'm a consumer whore.

Khavall · July 2010

I originally wasn't going to play tomorrow, but I broke down and got 3 of my placements in, that is all I'll do before tomorrow though.

Oh my god that two week break from the beta was torture on my game. My first game I lost to a strat that I probably should've been able to beat with my eyes closed. Luckily, after that first one my macro still felt atrocious, but since I lost against a bronze(!) player, it put me against more bronze players, so I basically could just toy with them 'till I won.

End · July 2010

Fucccck.

I might break down and buy it tonight instead of waiting until the weekend or next week or whatever.

Obviously I had a clear plan on when I was going to buy it.

Penny Arcade

Hell, it's about time!

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