Colossi are nice in that they have a pretty brutal "critical mass" threshold. Once you have about 4-6+ colossi with some support, the only thing on the ground that can touch is hordes and hordes of siege tanks. Otherwise your opponent best go air.
Colossi much like siege tanks have that ugh-factor to them, a full on punch up becomes so much less appealing once they make an appearance.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
This is the kind of stuff I am looking for from Day9, he has so many videos that it's hard to sort through to find his training stuff that is hidden between his high level commentary stuff.
Colossi are nice in that they have a pretty brutal "critical mass" threshold. Once you have about 4-6+ colossi with some support, the only thing on the ground that can touch is hordes and hordes of siege tanks. Otherwise your opponent best go air.
Colossi much like siege tanks have that ugh-factor to them, a full on punch up becomes so much less appealing once they make an appearance.
Siege tanks are much much less annoying to fight though.
Colossi are nice in that they have a pretty brutal "critical mass" threshold. Once you have about 4-6+ colossi with some support, the only thing on the ground that can touch is hordes and hordes of siege tanks. Otherwise your opponent best go air.
Colossi much like siege tanks have that ugh-factor to them, a full on punch up becomes so much less appealing once they make an appearance.
I like when I'm going up against an army that I'm outnumbering and I'm winning, and then one colossi comes out and is all "I AM KING OF THE WORLD I WILL BURN EVERY HYDRA" and then it falls in about half a second.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
Colossi are nice in that they have a pretty brutal "critical mass" threshold. Once you have about 4-6+ colossi with some support, the only thing on the ground that can touch is hordes and hordes of siege tanks. Otherwise your opponent best go air.
Colossi much like siege tanks have that ugh-factor to them, a full on punch up becomes so much less appealing once they make an appearance.
Siege tanks are much much less annoying to fight though.
I dunno...microed correctly, with good air control for vision range, siege tanks can be a bitch.
I'm feeling sort of okay in my PvT and PvP, as most of my opponents so far have been Terran or Protoss. However I get destroyed much more frequently when up against Zerg. Maybe it's just my inexperience with them but I often just don't know what to do. Guess it's stuff like this that's keeping me in bronze league.
In a recent game on Scrap Station I went for a usual 3 gate + robo opening. My opponent stayed in one base and teched up to mutas. He then got a bunch of mutas and just went around my main and expansion harassing probes. My ground force of stalkers/sentries was too slow to keep up with the mutas: their hit and run style destroyed a lot of my probes. So I went for a base trade; I destroyed his natural that he had just started, and started attacking the main, but he was just able to bring the mutas back really quickly to defend. Those plus spine crawlers / queens destroyed my army and it was gg.
I'm not really sure what I should have done against that. I probably needed to scout more; but there's a noticeable gap between the first scouting probe and when i can get an observer out in which I don't know anything about his base. I could have gotten more cannons, but it felt like those didn't really do too much against mutas.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
edited August 2010
Did your stalkers have blink? Because blink stalkers destroy mutas, especially if you get the attack upgrades and your ball starts one shotting them.
Had a 33 minute game, damn Planetary Fortress kicks some ass. 33 minutes he massed Thors and I had an assortment of siege tanks and vikings, and 3 expansions when he had maybe 1 as I had him contained so I could safely expand, then I roll out some BCs First game I've had go beyond maybe 3 of 4 skirmishes.
Colossi are nice in that they have a pretty brutal "critical mass" threshold. Once you have about 4-6+ colossi with some support, the only thing on the ground that can touch is hordes and hordes of siege tanks. Otherwise your opponent best go air.
Colossi much like siege tanks have that ugh-factor to them, a full on punch up becomes so much less appealing once they make an appearance.
Siege tanks are much much less annoying to fight though.
I dunno...microed correctly, with good air control for vision range, siege tanks can be a bitch.
Less annoying can still be very very annoying. At least the siege tanks can't straddle a cliff while they roast my zerglings/hydras.
Ugh, registering another complaint for the clunky character friend system. I'm trying to friend up some coworkers today, so I'm giving them my name/#, and then they only know their name and not number (which is fair since if you haven't tried to friend anyone you wouldn't even be aware of it). And they're like "can't you just add me after I add you?" And I have to tell them "no" because Blizzard can't get simple things right.
Come on guys, the Xbox has been doing this for like half a decade.
Just give them your e-mail address, it's much less of a hassle and it will do the mutual friend thing.
I'm anti-realID, especially with coworkers I don't want seeing me on WoW.
Sooo... why do you want to play with these people?
you can enjoy playing with people and not want to integrate them completely into your habit eh?
Exactly. I want to play SC2 with them, not let them see whatever I'm doing on WoW.
Why this is the most confusing idea in the universe to people in this thread and apparently the Battle.net designers, I will never know.
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This is why Day[9] is the absolute bestest of everything ever.
It was either that or the split second headnod to one of his opening songs before the cast started that competes with the RAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWRRRRRRR as the best Day[9] moment.
Colossi are nice in that they have a pretty brutal "critical mass" threshold. Once you have about 4-6+ colossi with some support, the only thing on the ground that can touch is hordes and hordes of siege tanks. Otherwise your opponent best go air.
Colossi much like siege tanks have that ugh-factor to them, a full on punch up becomes so much less appealing once they make an appearance.
Siege tanks are much much less annoying to fight though.
lolwut? Siege tanks are currently my most hated unit in this game. Mainly because I haven't gotten good enough at exploiting their weaknesses. I still mostly 1a with a giant mass of units = DO NOT DO THIS. I'll have better macro and more units, but they just melt in the grinder. Obviously the solution is to not engage directly, but it's difficult when they force an engagement as they push across the map. You better catch them unseiged as the move out cause if you don't you're hosed.
Ugh, registering another complaint for the clunky character friend system. I'm trying to friend up some coworkers today, so I'm giving them my name/#, and then they only know their name and not number (which is fair since if you haven't tried to friend anyone you wouldn't even be aware of it). And they're like "can't you just add me after I add you?" And I have to tell them "no" because Blizzard can't get simple things right.
Come on guys, the Xbox has been doing this for like half a decade.
Just give them your e-mail address, it's much less of a hassle and it will do the mutual friend thing.
I'm anti-realID, especially with coworkers I don't want seeing me on WoW.
Sooo... why do you want to play with these people?
you can enjoy playing with people and not want to integrate them completely into your habit eh?
Exactly. I want to play SC2 with them, not let them see whatever I'm doing on WoW.
Why this is the most confusing idea in the universe to people in this thread and apparently the Battle.net designers, I will never know.
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW. Are there any actual real, tangible negative consequences of this happening?
Colossi are nice in that they have a pretty brutal "critical mass" threshold. Once you have about 4-6+ colossi with some support, the only thing on the ground that can touch is hordes and hordes of siege tanks. Otherwise your opponent best go air.
Colossi much like siege tanks have that ugh-factor to them, a full on punch up becomes so much less appealing once they make an appearance.
I like when I'm going up against an army that I'm outnumbering and I'm winning, and then one colossi comes out and is all "I AM KING OF THE WORLD I WILL BURN EVERY HYDRA" and then it falls in about half a second.
i guess i'm just gonna have get used to this as zerg
also earlier on twilight fortress turtlefest 2010 when we went to push out with mass hydras, marines, and tanks we realized they were sieged up and i kind of just wanted to give up right there
so we sit outside their base for a while, i start making some mutalisks to try and break it, massing hydras still as well, and i wasn't really putting my heart into it because i was like "welp tanks"
look over at my partner
he has about 25 tanks now.
he sieges up outside their base
scans
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops their tanks are gone
guess i've never witnessed TvT firsthand considering how much my partner complains
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
edited August 2010
Yeah, what exactly is a good counter to siege tanks? I was doing a FFA the other day and it came down to me (Terran) vs. another guy (Terran) and he had his base lined with Siege Tanks, Bunkers and Missile Turrets (like an insane number of missile turrets). Best strategy I could come up with was to nuke the hell out of him, which worked when he didn't get his Raven in range fast enough to stop my Ghost, but otherwise was a very slow process :P Eventually I started bringing some vikings with the ghost to blow the raven out of the sky :P Nukes are pretty damn cheap in this game afterall (I still can't believe how cheap they are compared to SC1, but then again they aren't as good either :P)
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW.
I can sort of understand this. I really don't want my co-workers knowing what games I am playing, and when. I can think of one co-worker I know/like well enough to have this info, and we are already RealID friends to play SC2 together...but I wouldn't want the whole office knowing. Same reason no one from work is in my Facebook friend list.
I like to (mostly) keep my professional and personal lives separate.
Colossi are nice in that they have a pretty brutal "critical mass" threshold. Once you have about 4-6+ colossi with some support, the only thing on the ground that can touch is hordes and hordes of siege tanks. Otherwise your opponent best go air.
Colossi much like siege tanks have that ugh-factor to them, a full on punch up becomes so much less appealing once they make an appearance.
Siege tanks are much much less annoying to fight though.
lolwut? Siege tanks are currently my most hated unit in this game. Mainly because I haven't gotten good enough at exploiting their weaknesses. I still mostly 1a with a giant mass of units = DO NOT DO THIS. I'll have better macro and more units, but they just melt in the grinder. Obviously the solution is to not engage directly, but it's difficult when they force an engagement as they push across the map. You better catch them unseiged as the move out cause if you don't you're hosed.
I'm only a Gold player but my trick is to show them that I have Immortals while also teching to Phoenix when they start slowly crawling across the map. Immortals means they want their marines up in the front, so I sneak in behind with my Phoenixes and Gravitron Beam his tanks up, then swoop in with my main army.
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW.
I can sort of understand this. I really don't want my co-workers knowing what games I am playing, and when. I can think of one co-worker I know/like well enough to have this info, and we are already RealID friends to play SC2 together...but I wouldn't want the whole office knowing. Same reason no one from work is in my Facebook friend list.
I like to (mostly) keep my professional and personal lives separate.
I just don't understand why this information is even worth hiding, and why you would care about them knowing. Like, is Joe from accounting knowing you played Mass Effect 2 last night going to matter in any way?
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW.
I can sort of understand this. I really don't want my co-workers knowing what games I am playing, and when. I can think of one co-worker I know/like well enough to have this info, and we are already RealID friends to play SC2 together...but I wouldn't want the whole office knowing. Same reason no one from work is in my Facebook friend list.
I like to (mostly) keep my professional and personal lives separate.
I just don't understand why this information is even worth hiding, and why you would care about them knowing. Like, is Joe from accounting knowing you played Mass Effect 2 last night going to matter in any way?
I can think of several scenarios where yes, it could matter that Joe in accounting sees me online playing a video game.
But even if it doesn't matter, that's not what it's about. It's about professional boundaries.
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW.
I can sort of understand this. I really don't want my co-workers knowing what games I am playing, and when. I can think of one co-worker I know/like well enough to have this info, and we are already RealID friends to play SC2 together...but I wouldn't want the whole office knowing. Same reason no one from work is in my Facebook friend list.
I like to (mostly) keep my professional and personal lives separate.
I just don't understand why this information is even worth hiding, and why you would care about them knowing. Like, is Joe from accounting knowing you played Mass Effect 2 last night going to matter in any way?
If you were suppose to be working over time, it does.
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AegisFear My DanceOvershot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered Userregular
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW.
I can sort of understand this. I really don't want my co-workers knowing what games I am playing, and when. I can think of one co-worker I know/like well enough to have this info, and we are already RealID friends to play SC2 together...but I wouldn't want the whole office knowing. Same reason no one from work is in my Facebook friend list.
I like to (mostly) keep my professional and personal lives separate.
I just don't understand why this information is even worth hiding, and why you would care about them knowing. Like, is Joe from accounting knowing you played Mass Effect 2 last night going to matter in any way?
I can think of several scenarios where yes, it could matter that Joe in accounting sees me online playing a video game.
But even if it doesn't matter, that's not what it's about. It's about professional boundaries.
Or just different valuations of privacy. There's no inherent right to know every minute detail about friends, coworkers, or family and if someone wants to maintain a separation between their activities and other people, then that's their prerogative.
Bahahahaha. Totally made up for my last "CANNON RUSH NOOB" forgetting about VR game today.
Desert Oasis, He tries to cannon rush, I take it down. I run into his base and stop all his mining for a good 30 seconds just picking off probes, 'till he build like 5 more cannons. At this point I'm feeling good so I take 2 expansions, but remember to get Hydras in case of VRs. Well he continues to turtle so hey... broodlords. He ends up going 1 base VR, and the game goes on long enough that he actually gets a reasonable amount. Not enough to break my hydras, but he takes out one of my gold expos twice, actually. He also built about 5 zealots. And tried to put more cannons everywhere on the map. Finally I get broodlords and with about 6 just decimate the crap out of his base and he ragequits.
It was wonderful.
I kept on thinking "Something fishy's going on here" and checking the map, I had speedlings pretty much doing nothing but circling around the map, but nope. No expansion anywhere.
Maaaan i always get all innd when i play as toss and my micro always slips for a loss. Ive been going either 2gate robo expand or 3 gate expand lately and it seems like ill always lose against colossus. I fuckin hate colossus pvp and everyone uses them. I think im just going to go zealot, sentry phoenix from now on. Fuck em.
Oh and im damn pissed that my crappy video card doesnt support "cloak blur" so i can never know when theres an observer or dt running around. 8(
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I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW.
I can sort of understand this. I really don't want my co-workers knowing what games I am playing, and when. I can think of one co-worker I know/like well enough to have this info, and we are already RealID friends to play SC2 together...but I wouldn't want the whole office knowing. Same reason no one from work is in my Facebook friend list.
I like to (mostly) keep my professional and personal lives separate.
I just don't understand why this information is even worth hiding, and why you would care about them knowing. Like, is Joe from accounting knowing you played Mass Effect 2 last night going to matter in any way?
I can think of several scenarios where yes, it could matter that Joe in accounting sees me online playing a video game.
But even if it doesn't matter, that's not what it's about. It's about professional boundaries.
Okay, what kind of scenarios?
And can't you just set your status to away so no one sees you online anyway?
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW.
I can sort of understand this. I really don't want my co-workers knowing what games I am playing, and when. I can think of one co-worker I know/like well enough to have this info, and we are already RealID friends to play SC2 together...but I wouldn't want the whole office knowing. Same reason no one from work is in my Facebook friend list.
I like to (mostly) keep my professional and personal lives separate.
I just don't understand why this information is even worth hiding, and why you would care about them knowing. Like, is Joe from accounting knowing you played Mass Effect 2 last night going to matter in any way?
I can think of several scenarios where yes, it could matter that Joe in accounting sees me online playing a video game.
But even if it doesn't matter, that's not what it's about. It's about professional boundaries.
Okay, what kind of scenarios?
And can't you just set your status to away so no one sees you online anyway?
*sighs* Why are we even arguing about this? Obviously some of us value our privacy more than others.
But, here's a scenario: Lets say I stay home sick one day, and a co-worker goes home for lunch and sees me online playing StarCraft. My boss gets wind of it, and he starts to wonder: If he's not too sick to play StarCraft, why couldn't he come to work?
Here's another one: I'm working from home one day, and decided to play StarCraft for 30 minutes while I eat lunch. A co-worker sees me online playing StarCraft, but knows I'm supposed to be working from home. It looks bad.
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW.
I can sort of understand this. I really don't want my co-workers knowing what games I am playing, and when. I can think of one co-worker I know/like well enough to have this info, and we are already RealID friends to play SC2 together...but I wouldn't want the whole office knowing. Same reason no one from work is in my Facebook friend list.
I like to (mostly) keep my professional and personal lives separate.
I just don't understand why this information is even worth hiding, and why you would care about them knowing. Like, is Joe from accounting knowing you played Mass Effect 2 last night going to matter in any way?
I can think of several scenarios where yes, it could matter that Joe in accounting sees me online playing a video game.
But even if it doesn't matter, that's not what it's about. It's about professional boundaries.
Okay, what kind of scenarios?
And can't you just set your status to away so no one sees you online anyway?
Call out sick because you have the flu, boss sees you are playing SC2 all day, gets furious you werent resting in bed?
Ugh, registering another complaint for the clunky character friend system. I'm trying to friend up some coworkers today, so I'm giving them my name/#, and then they only know their name and not number (which is fair since if you haven't tried to friend anyone you wouldn't even be aware of it). And they're like "can't you just add me after I add you?" And I have to tell them "no" because Blizzard can't get simple things right.
Come on guys, the Xbox has been doing this for like half a decade.
Just give them your e-mail address, it's much less of a hassle and it will do the mutual friend thing.
I'm anti-realID, especially with coworkers I don't want seeing me on WoW.
Sooo... why do you want to play with these people?
you can enjoy playing with people and not want to integrate them completely into your habit eh?
Exactly. I want to play SC2 with them, not let them see whatever I'm doing on WoW.
Why this is the most confusing idea in the universe to people in this thread and apparently the Battle.net designers, I will never know.
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW. Are there any actual real, tangible negative consequences of this happening?
I'll give you an answer if you can tell me a good design rationale behind not allowing simple friend-backs on character friends.
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ZarathustraEckUbermenschnow with stripes!Registered Userregular
edited August 2010
There is a certain stigma that, though often untrue, holds firm regarding gamers. The stereotype of the unambitious, antisocial video gamer living in his mom's basement is alive and well. Though I may be anything but, there's an association that can be formed and I don't care for that to spill over into my professional life.
A good example is my best friend from college who just picked up Starcraft 2. When I logged on, he was on my Friends List along with the information that he was playing the singleplayer campaign. But then it specified further: "6 hours". Now, he may have left the computer on while stepping out, might have been actually playing the game for only three of those hours, or hell, he could have been there chomping merrily through the campaign for the entire time. Regardless of the case, that information is plastered up there for all to see.
Will that have any impact? Nah, probably not. But I also know I wouldn't want my boss (or my boss's boss) privy to details about how much time I spend on the computer. It's none of his business.
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW.
I can sort of understand this. I really don't want my co-workers knowing what games I am playing, and when. I can think of one co-worker I know/like well enough to have this info, and we are already RealID friends to play SC2 together...but I wouldn't want the whole office knowing. Same reason no one from work is in my Facebook friend list.
I like to (mostly) keep my professional and personal lives separate.
I just don't understand why this information is even worth hiding, and why you would care about them knowing. Like, is Joe from accounting knowing you played Mass Effect 2 last night going to matter in any way?
I can think of several scenarios where yes, it could matter that Joe in accounting sees me online playing a video game.
But even if it doesn't matter, that's not what it's about. It's about professional boundaries.
Okay, what kind of scenarios?
And can't you just set your status to away so no one sees you online anyway?
*sighs* Why are we even arguing about this? Obviously some of us value our privacy more than others.
But, here's a scenario: Lets say I stay home sick one day, and a co-worker goes home for lunch and sees me online playing StarCraft. My boss gets wind of it, and he starts to wonder: If he's not too sick to play StarCraft, why couldn't he come to work?
Here's another one: I'm working from home one day, and decided to play StarCraft for 30 minutes while I eat lunch. A co-worker sees me online playing StarCraft, but knows I'm supposed to be working from home. It looks bad.
Okay, then. But my other question still stands: can't you set it so people don't see you come online anyway?
Ugh, registering another complaint for the clunky character friend system. I'm trying to friend up some coworkers today, so I'm giving them my name/#, and then they only know their name and not number (which is fair since if you haven't tried to friend anyone you wouldn't even be aware of it). And they're like "can't you just add me after I add you?" And I have to tell them "no" because Blizzard can't get simple things right.
Come on guys, the Xbox has been doing this for like half a decade.
Just give them your e-mail address, it's much less of a hassle and it will do the mutual friend thing.
I'm anti-realID, especially with coworkers I don't want seeing me on WoW.
Sooo... why do you want to play with these people?
you can enjoy playing with people and not want to integrate them completely into your habit eh?
Exactly. I want to play SC2 with them, not let them see whatever I'm doing on WoW.
Why this is the most confusing idea in the universe to people in this thread and apparently the Battle.net designers, I will never know.
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW. Are there any actual real, tangible negative consequences of this happening?
how about you accept the fact that everyone's not you?
I FINALLY did my placement matches and ended up in gold. I was crazy surprised by that (as I expect silver or bronze for sure).
Afterward I decided to place in 2v2. So I played and I'm not gonna lie, I got teamed up with some HORRIBLE players. I only managed to win 2 of the 5 games. 1 of those wins came with a teammate that had only 9 probes the entire game. Seriously, I'm at almost 50 scvs with two expansion bases and hes got 9 probes, pumping out stalkers at a crazy slow rate. We almost lost when the other team came at us with battle cruisers and thors but I just barely managed to hold on out with bcs of my own (thank god I had yamato cannon and he didn't).
I felt really good about that game, but it kept happening. I kept getting teamed up with guys who were afraid to even build a second base, and although I felt like I played really well and at least made the games close, I just couldn't outproduce two opponents and lost three other games.
So I got placed in bronze league. Doesn't the ranking at least try to determine how well you performed in the games, or is it just based on win/loss. I really felt like I was playing incredibly despite my retarded teammates. I was very disappointed to see all my hard work rewarded with "bronze league".
Woo, I feel awesome right now because I just scouted a early pool in ZvT and went 2 Gates instead of early CyCore. Repelled the attack, got Warp Gates, massed a small force, scouted his expansion, and moved in for the kill. Feels great after losing to early cheese a few times already today.
Ugh, registering another complaint for the clunky character friend system. I'm trying to friend up some coworkers today, so I'm giving them my name/#, and then they only know their name and not number (which is fair since if you haven't tried to friend anyone you wouldn't even be aware of it). And they're like "can't you just add me after I add you?" And I have to tell them "no" because Blizzard can't get simple things right.
Come on guys, the Xbox has been doing this for like half a decade.
Just give them your e-mail address, it's much less of a hassle and it will do the mutual friend thing.
I'm anti-realID, especially with coworkers I don't want seeing me on WoW.
Sooo... why do you want to play with these people?
you can enjoy playing with people and not want to integrate them completely into your habit eh?
Exactly. I want to play SC2 with them, not let them see whatever I'm doing on WoW.
Why this is the most confusing idea in the universe to people in this thread and apparently the Battle.net designers, I will never know.
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW. Are there any actual real, tangible negative consequences of this happening?
I'll give you an answer if you can tell me a good design rationale behind not allowing simple friend-backs on character friends.
I agree that no friend-backs is pretty dumb.
I don't really get why it's okay for them to see you on SC2 but not on WoW, though.
Okay, then. But my other question still stands: can't you set it so people don't see you come online anyway?
No. If someone is a RealID friend they'll see me no matter what Blizzard game I log into. I just want some people to be Starcraft 2 friends and only Starcraft 2 friends.
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Colossi much like siege tanks have that ugh-factor to them, a full on punch up becomes so much less appealing once they make an appearance.
This is another great one to watch:
http://day9.blip.tv/file/3651794/
Siege tanks are much much less annoying to fight though.
I am a freaking nerd.
I like when I'm going up against an army that I'm outnumbering and I'm winning, and then one colossi comes out and is all "I AM KING OF THE WORLD I WILL BURN EVERY HYDRA" and then it falls in about half a second.
I dunno...microed correctly, with good air control for vision range, siege tanks can be a bitch.
In a recent game on Scrap Station I went for a usual 3 gate + robo opening. My opponent stayed in one base and teched up to mutas. He then got a bunch of mutas and just went around my main and expansion harassing probes. My ground force of stalkers/sentries was too slow to keep up with the mutas: their hit and run style destroyed a lot of my probes. So I went for a base trade; I destroyed his natural that he had just started, and started attacking the main, but he was just able to bring the mutas back really quickly to defend. Those plus spine crawlers / queens destroyed my army and it was gg.
I'm not really sure what I should have done against that. I probably needed to scout more; but there's a noticeable gap between the first scouting probe and when i can get an observer out in which I don't know anything about his base. I could have gotten more cannons, but it felt like those didn't really do too much against mutas.
Have a replay, just need to know where to put it.
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Less annoying can still be very very annoying. At least the siege tanks can't straddle a cliff while they roast my zerglings/hydras.
I am a freaking nerd.
"I like took off my pants and I was like YES!"
This is why Day[9] is the absolute bestest of everything ever.
Because of dick jokes?
Why this is the most confusing idea in the universe to people in this thread and apparently the Battle.net designers, I will never know.
It was either that or the split second headnod to one of his opening songs before the cast started that competes with the RAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWRRRRRRR as the best Day[9] moment.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
lolwut? Siege tanks are currently my most hated unit in this game. Mainly because I haven't gotten good enough at exploiting their weaknesses. I still mostly 1a with a giant mass of units = DO NOT DO THIS. I'll have better macro and more units, but they just melt in the grinder. Obviously the solution is to not engage directly, but it's difficult when they force an engagement as they push across the map. You better catch them unseiged as the move out cause if you don't you're hosed.
I honestly don't understand why you would even give a shit that they can see you log in to WoW. Are there any actual real, tangible negative consequences of this happening?
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i guess i'm just gonna have get used to this as zerg
also earlier on twilight fortress turtlefest 2010 when we went to push out with mass hydras, marines, and tanks we realized they were sieged up and i kind of just wanted to give up right there
so we sit outside their base for a while, i start making some mutalisks to try and break it, massing hydras still as well, and i wasn't really putting my heart into it because i was like "welp tanks"
look over at my partner
he has about 25 tanks now.
he sieges up outside their base
scans
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops their tanks are gone
guess i've never witnessed TvT firsthand considering how much my partner complains
I can sort of understand this. I really don't want my co-workers knowing what games I am playing, and when. I can think of one co-worker I know/like well enough to have this info, and we are already RealID friends to play SC2 together...but I wouldn't want the whole office knowing. Same reason no one from work is in my Facebook friend list.
I like to (mostly) keep my professional and personal lives separate.
I'm only a Gold player but my trick is to show them that I have Immortals while also teching to Phoenix when they start slowly crawling across the map. Immortals means they want their marines up in the front, so I sneak in behind with my Phoenixes and Gravitron Beam his tanks up, then swoop in with my main army.
I just don't understand why this information is even worth hiding, and why you would care about them knowing. Like, is Joe from accounting knowing you played Mass Effect 2 last night going to matter in any way?
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I can think of several scenarios where yes, it could matter that Joe in accounting sees me online playing a video game.
But even if it doesn't matter, that's not what it's about. It's about professional boundaries.
If he plays WoW, he's a hardcore lamer.
It's like wearing Affliction, or lame Wal-Mart Faded Glory knock-offs.
PSN: Beltaine-77 | Steam: beltane77 | Battle.net BadHaggis#1433
If you were suppose to be working over time, it does.
Or just different valuations of privacy. There's no inherent right to know every minute detail about friends, coworkers, or family and if someone wants to maintain a separation between their activities and other people, then that's their prerogative.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
I did at first, but then I started getting Facebook messages from people wanting me to fix their computers at work.
PSN: Beltaine-77 | Steam: beltane77 | Battle.net BadHaggis#1433
Desert Oasis, He tries to cannon rush, I take it down. I run into his base and stop all his mining for a good 30 seconds just picking off probes, 'till he build like 5 more cannons. At this point I'm feeling good so I take 2 expansions, but remember to get Hydras in case of VRs. Well he continues to turtle so hey... broodlords. He ends up going 1 base VR, and the game goes on long enough that he actually gets a reasonable amount. Not enough to break my hydras, but he takes out one of my gold expos twice, actually. He also built about 5 zealots. And tried to put more cannons everywhere on the map. Finally I get broodlords and with about 6 just decimate the crap out of his base and he ragequits.
It was wonderful.
I kept on thinking "Something fishy's going on here" and checking the map, I had speedlings pretty much doing nothing but circling around the map, but nope. No expansion anywhere.
Somehow he was platinum.
Oh and im damn pissed that my crappy video card doesnt support "cloak blur" so i can never know when theres an observer or dt running around. 8(
Gamertag(SSF4/MW2)StokedAidzzzSC2 ID Stoked.655
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Okay, what kind of scenarios?
And can't you just set your status to away so no one sees you online anyway?
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*sighs* Why are we even arguing about this? Obviously some of us value our privacy more than others.
But, here's a scenario: Lets say I stay home sick one day, and a co-worker goes home for lunch and sees me online playing StarCraft. My boss gets wind of it, and he starts to wonder: If he's not too sick to play StarCraft, why couldn't he come to work?
Here's another one: I'm working from home one day, and decided to play StarCraft for 30 minutes while I eat lunch. A co-worker sees me online playing StarCraft, but knows I'm supposed to be working from home. It looks bad.
Call out sick because you have the flu, boss sees you are playing SC2 all day, gets furious you werent resting in bed?
I KISS YOU!
A good example is my best friend from college who just picked up Starcraft 2. When I logged on, he was on my Friends List along with the information that he was playing the singleplayer campaign. But then it specified further: "6 hours". Now, he may have left the computer on while stepping out, might have been actually playing the game for only three of those hours, or hell, he could have been there chomping merrily through the campaign for the entire time. Regardless of the case, that information is plastered up there for all to see.
Will that have any impact? Nah, probably not. But I also know I wouldn't want my boss (or my boss's boss) privy to details about how much time I spend on the computer. It's none of his business.
-Z
Okay, then. But my other question still stands: can't you set it so people don't see you come online anyway?
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how about you accept the fact that everyone's not you?
I FINALLY did my placement matches and ended up in gold. I was crazy surprised by that (as I expect silver or bronze for sure).
Afterward I decided to place in 2v2. So I played and I'm not gonna lie, I got teamed up with some HORRIBLE players. I only managed to win 2 of the 5 games. 1 of those wins came with a teammate that had only 9 probes the entire game. Seriously, I'm at almost 50 scvs with two expansion bases and hes got 9 probes, pumping out stalkers at a crazy slow rate. We almost lost when the other team came at us with battle cruisers and thors but I just barely managed to hold on out with bcs of my own (thank god I had yamato cannon and he didn't).
I felt really good about that game, but it kept happening. I kept getting teamed up with guys who were afraid to even build a second base, and although I felt like I played really well and at least made the games close, I just couldn't outproduce two opponents and lost three other games.
So I got placed in bronze league. Doesn't the ranking at least try to determine how well you performed in the games, or is it just based on win/loss. I really felt like I was playing incredibly despite my retarded teammates. I was very disappointed to see all my hard work rewarded with "bronze league".
I agree that no friend-backs is pretty dumb.
I don't really get why it's okay for them to see you on SC2 but not on WoW, though.
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