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[Starcraft 2] Beta End Postponed to June 7! The dancing worked!

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  • rehtonAesoohCrehtonAesoohC Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    So I just fought idra.

    Apparently 1 marine can't kill 1 reaper. Stupid.

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  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I believe a reaper can kill two marines as long as he engages them one at a time. He gains the +light damage bonus on them you see.

    Also, what? You most likely played an imposter.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    its possible given that the identifier system is gone. If I was a pro-gamer I'd make damn sure I logged on asap to get my name back, but someone could have nabbed the name.

    Remember the pro-gamers are in the same ladders as we are. I've played TLO on his US account.

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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    its possible given that the identifier system is gone. If I was a pro-gamer I'd make damn sure I logged on asap to get my name back, but someone could have nabbed the name.

    Remember the pro-gamers are in the same ladders as we are. I've played TLO on his US account.

    Multiple names are allowed.

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  • SuMa.LustreSuMa.Lustre Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    it is pretty amazing how fast marines can kill brood lords when the marines are in position

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    TheStig wrote: »
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    its possible given that the identifier system is gone. If I was a pro-gamer I'd make damn sure I logged on asap to get my name back, but someone could have nabbed the name.

    Remember the pro-gamers are in the same ladders as we are. I've played TLO on his US account.

    Multiple names are allowed.

    Oh.

    I suppose having two people with the same name in the same game isn't often an issue that would come up and when it does...I mean its not like you're going to confuse the two.

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  • FuriousJodoFuriousJodo Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Maybe it only requires an identifier if multiple people have your name now?

    I dunno, I kind of liked the identifier system.

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  • rehtonAesoohCrehtonAesoohC Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Talith wrote: »
    I believe a reaper can kill two marines as long as he engages them one at a time. He gains the +light damage bonus on them you see.

    Also, what? You most likely played an imposter.

    Yeah I know, I was just irritated because he got his reaper to my base at the same time that I got 1 marine. He 1 rax reaper rushed, I 3 rax tech'd. Oh well.

    I'm pretty sure it was the real idra - name was capitalized correctly and all that, and he had ridiculously good micro with his reaper. I couldn't kill it with my SCV's.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Didn't you scout the reaper?

    Also it doesn't take much micro to keep a reaper alive against workers.

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  • stimtokolosstimtokolos Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Doesn't Idra play zerg?

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  • TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I can't play this until Tuesday. Is it fixed yet?

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Doesn't Idra play zerg?

    In tournaments sure, but he quite possibly would play offraces. When you're *that* good, basic macro and micro skills would carry you over to more than sufficient levels of skill to win with the other races in the normal leagues.

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  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Doesn't Idra play zerg?

    And prefer to macro... do you really think he would be messing around with reaper rushes on the ladder?

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    It is more than likely to have been an imposter, but its not out of the realm of possibility that you could have genuinely played IdrA when he was just playing and messing around on ladder.

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  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Idra slumming the ladder, practicing "cheese" builds.



    edit: I get off in 5 minutes. It sounds like at least some people have had some mild success in finishing games. Does that mean I can get my hopes up a little bit and look forward to playing a game or two?

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    its basically the same as its been since Friday. Bit iffy, sometimes you can get a game completed.

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  • projectmayhemprojectmayhem Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Hm. I made Diamond. Taking bets on fast I fall to gold!

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    You won't fall to gold. Platinum is a pretty easy division now. I'm winning pretty consistently when I play. I've lost only one game in the 8-9 matches i've done since my placements, and that was to a diamond league player anyway.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I played a placement match the other day and ended up with a TvT. We were playing on Desert Oasis and both had the same idea of Reaper harass since those blocks are all over the place in placement matches. Just as I got to move out with my two Reapers, his two Reapers appear in my money line. He got a few SCV's before I stopped him. I changed tech to go for Dropships instead and low and behold, two more Reapers appear in my money line.

    I took more losses before getting everything locked down again. I loaded up my Dropships with Marines, 2 Hellions, and a Siege Tanks and went for broke. Arrived and saw next to nothing in his base. Mopped up and won the game. Checking the results, this guy actually went 6 Rax, gas, and tech lab without building any SCV's.

    Wow. I mean, I had the same number of Reapers in the same amount of time, but a stronger economy. No wonder I won. Weird strats for Beta, huh?

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  • Bruce ForsythBruce Forsyth Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I'm predicting that Dangerisk will come in sometime tonight and say he was cheesed by Idra in SC1.

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  • TheLawinatorTheLawinator Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I played a placement match the other day and ended up with a TvT. We were playing on Desert Oasis and both had the same idea of Reaper harass since those blocks are all over the place in placement matches. Just as I got to move out with my two Reapers, his two Reapers appear in my money line. He got a few SCV's before I stopped him. I changed tech to go for Dropships instead and low and behold, two more Reapers appear in my money line.

    I took more losses before getting everything locked down again. I loaded up my Dropships with Marines, 2 Hellions, and a Siege Tanks and went for broke. Arrived and saw next to nothing in his base. Mopped up and won the game. Checking the results, this guy actually went 6 Rax, gas, and tech lab without building any SCV's.

    Wow. I mean, I had the same number of Reapers in the same amount of time, but a stronger economy. No wonder I won. Weird strats for Beta, huh?

    That's not a strat. That's bad.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I played a placement match the other day and ended up with a TvT. We were playing on Desert Oasis and both had the same idea of Reaper harass since those blocks are all over the place in placement matches. Just as I got to move out with my two Reapers, his two Reapers appear in my money line. He got a few SCV's before I stopped him. I changed tech to go for Dropships instead and low and behold, two more Reapers appear in my money line.

    I took more losses before getting everything locked down again. I loaded up my Dropships with Marines, 2 Hellions, and a Siege Tanks and went for broke. Arrived and saw next to nothing in his base. Mopped up and won the game. Checking the results, this guy actually went 6 Rax, gas, and tech lab without building any SCV's.

    Wow. I mean, I had the same number of Reapers in the same amount of time, but a stronger economy. No wonder I won. Weird strats for Beta, huh?

    That's not a strat. That's bad.

    Also I think you're confusing practice matches with placement matches.

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    A guy tried to 5 pool me.

    I realize, I'm only in silver, but still... 5 pool?

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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Raslin wrote: »
    A guy tried to 5 pool me.

    I realize, I'm only in silver, but still... 5 pool?

    did he... kill off one of his own drones before throwing down a pool?

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    thats some serious cheese

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Ohh wait, this is sc2, you start with six.

    I guess it was a 6 pool then, he was at 5/whatever supply when he built it.

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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Exin wrote: »
    I'm predicting that Dangerisk will come in sometime tonight and say he was cheesed by Idra in SC1.

    Like this one time in SC1 right? Well like. Like it was on Bluestorm, right? And like it was Idra!!! And it was ZvT and I went 12hatch like standard right? But when I scouted I saw an 8rax so I was like oh shitt!! Like so I pulled my drones but a bunker was up and I lost.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    liek omg

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  • LemmingLemming Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    One time I played dagner and he tried to kill me with lings after he fast expanded but I held it off then kept up pressure with zealots until I killed his expansion then I slowly wore him down until I won!

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    is the emphasis on "one time"?

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  • LemmingLemming Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    is the emphasis on "one time"?

    It sure is.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I bet you have the end score screen from that match framed.

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  • LemmingLemming Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I think I still have the replay saved, somewhere. I hope I do, it was pretty sweet. I was like, kapow! And he was like, ugh! And then he was dead.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    he probably took a big bite of a jelly donut and got jelly all over the screen

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  • xtaxta Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    it is pretty amazing how fast marines can kill brood lords when the marines are in position

    on the contrary, when broods are holding a choke and marines cant get past it, a few broods can wipe out a whole army

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  • TalithTalith 変態という名の紳士 Miami, FLRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Just sweeped my placement matches and got placed in Diamond.

    My last match was against a toss that wanted to cannon rush on blistering sands. Scouted it, killed it off with scvs before the forge warped in, then went MMG. I arrived just as two voidrays finish and razed the base along with the chumprays in glorious retribution.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Talith wrote: »
    Just sweeped my placement matches and got placed in Diamond.

    My last match was against a toss that wanted to cannon rush on blistering sands. Scouted it, killed it off with scvs before the forge warped in, then went MMG. I arrived just as two voidrays finish and razed the base along with the chumprays in glorious retribution.

    I've not been cannon rushed once but one time I just lifted to my natural. not ideal, and obviously the guy wasn't too good but it felt great.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Cannon rushing really just doesn't work against anyone but the newest or worst players.

    Also do we have any timeline on when this "shutdown for a few days" is going to happen?

    Its gotta happen soon (like today or tomorrow) or else by the time they bring it back up it'll be time to shut it down again for the 31st.

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  • JamesKeenanJamesKeenan Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I'd put two cannons outside their base, and then start rushing from within, so that when they try to escape?


    Boom!

    Headshot.

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Alright, I'm starting to get the hang of this, winning most games I play in silver.

    One funny thing, playing against a zerg player. I go pretty standard MMM, scout him teching. I got a nice fat army of marauders and marines, bust through the rocks between us(forget the map name, the 1v1 thats shaped like a U). He knew I was coming because of overlords. So, he hits my clump of dudes with a bunch of banelings as I'm trying to break through, but only kills a few. Heal heal heal, break through the rocks, more banelings, same thing.

    As I'm obliterating his base, he just says "lawl i shoulda won" and leaves.

    Sorry your uber baneling strat didn't work, mr pro silver zerg player.

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