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Shrug. They're funny enough. Got no problems with them (at least with their cheese vods).
This could actually be a pretty cool thing. Not to replace commentated full games, but to be an ESPN-like highlight reel through which you could catch up on both the gist and the cool moments of tourney games you missed or don't have time to watch all of.
Yilias is right that context is missing though, and to pick up marty's point about sports highlight reels, context is provided in those. In a two-minute game recap/highlight reel on ESPN or wherever, there are always commentators providing brief overview context for how the game's been proceeding to help make sense of the significance of the highlighted moments. That's what this SC2 highlight reel really needs. That, and it needs to be just plain shorter; it actually gets numbing watching intense battle scene after intense battle scene from one game for five minutes straight.
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it's fucking ridiculous
they are a bit grating sometimes.
i get it though. they do their hype thing, throw in some catch phrases and generally successfully entertain.
As terran?
Hmmmm... I'm no terran expert but if you're expanding and they're not, you should expect some form of aggression to where your tier3 unit (marines) would need to be ready.
All-ins are tough to hold if you're not ready though.
wra
Fuck it
Bunkers and Marines works for me. If you hold it, your economy is so far ahead you typically win. Don't be afraid to pull SCV's for repair/walling. Scouting and watchtowers couldn't hurt either.
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As soon as you see the all-in coming, lift your natural CC and run back inside your main. Build a bunker at the top of your ramp. If they warp inside your main, pull SCVs and kill the units. As long as you hold the all-in you are in great shape, and can usually win right away with a stim counter-attack.
This saves on mules and is super economic. A good tell of what they're up to as well.
Nexus cancels are so passé.
wra
Going over my replays of it, though, I scouted it one game and still lost, and the second game it hit me by surprise. Both times I actually lost to the high ground warp-ins and not the actual void rays themselves. I should be able to handle it next time If I don't let those pylons go up. Just have to live until stim.
thanks mmmig, dover, meeks : )
Yeah it's a tough sell.... especially when one puts a lot of value in being able to improve or keep up with the status quo of the ever-changing metagame... even more so if one constantly plays to win.
What keeps it going for me are the stress-free nights of drunken team games (I don't condone underage drinking!) or scary team zombie matches. Pictionary's also fun and there's recent mention of starcraft poker.
In short, it's the community that keeps me here, not the game.
I remember in the 11 years of Broodwar going from competitive 1n1s to UMS maps, back to competitive 1n1s and then finally to not playing as much at all. For community, I'd hop from clan channel to clan channel, as each died down or became too serious for their own good.
Heh, I remember Clan -17X. Filled with the elitist wannabe pros, but a good place to find an iCCup C+ or above challenge.
It was the Tatooine cantina of Starcraft.
/lawn, off
wra
Damn it Mig, you beat me to it. I was just about to say the last time I had a ton of fun with this game was last Friday night, hurling deadly discs of doom down a straightaway at some flag carrying zealot bent on scoring a winning flag cap. Fun times.
Until you get to the end and have no idea what you're supposed to do to win.
FPS SC2?
wra
edit: also photon discs isn't technically an FPS
there's an end?
depends on if we're talking about the same zombie game or not. If we are, then yes.
the 5 player one. i just figured it got harder and harder until you lost.
No. It's supposed to end. The first time it ended right after killing that alex guy. Not sure why it didn't end when we played it on Friday.
wins are awesome, losses are rough but plenty of them are fun too.
I guess I have to try photon discs I don't even know what it is. if it's as fun as photon cycles I'll enjoy it.
Personally photon cycles is my favorite custom game, but I think I'm part of a rare minority. It's dropped out of rotation on drunken friday night customs as no one ever wants to play it. But photon discs is a lot of fun. Easy to get into, too.
I think the triggers are based on clearing waves of monsters. So if you were just eternally kiting them, then that would explain it.
Also, do any pros use the extra buttons on their mice and is there a reason for this?
Yes please
Just recently came back to SC2 after a long ME jag, it's a lot of fun at the minute, even when I lose.
Should point out I'm only a Gold player, so I never feel I MUST win.
might only be code a but who caaaressss
gonna miss the first couple at least which is sad (gogo boxer) but def. wanna see polt vs sound, hopefully killer does well, and the other matches look p.good too
a lot of people use their mouse buttons for keystrokes. my side buttons are 0(zero) and S, and I keep my hatcheries on 0, so selecting them, and selecting larvae area twitch of my thumb. I've remapped ` to be 8, and W to be 9. W is my queens, and i've remapped E to inject. There are some other zerg-specific changes i've made, but this way, i get to use 3 more control groups easily, and my injects are FAST.
Some people remap their Mouse4+5 (the scroll wheel up and down) to do something special. before the ghost nerf, a lot of terrans used it for ultra fast snipes.
After you've played the game a while, you really need to remap parts of your keyboard, both traditional and grid have things goofy in certain places, the camera keys suck, and reaching more than 6 or 7 is a huge hand move, limiting the number of control groups you can effectively use.
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Okay, wow, that is a great idea.
Thanks
I never even thought of doing that. I have those two buttons bound to control group 9 and 0 and I always forget to use those for useful things anyway
Changing right now
i'm glad i don't care about anyone playing TvP (except maybe choya) so i can't do other things while those games are going on and not feel guilty at all
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