The cool thing about the rankings and so on (outside of the actual leagues) is that they are all just eye candy and a "clever" way of keeping the scrubs happy.
As the Elitists at TeamLiquid like to say "Anybody under 1200 points Diamond just exists to fund the game,everyone above 'actually' plays it."
how many people are above 1200 diamond? like 2?
Yeah, but 1200 is just the number because the guy who made that post is like 1242.. When the 1020 guy who thinks he's the shit makes that post it will be 1000. When the mid ranked platinum guy makes his post...
Everyone who thinks they have a deep understanding of this game because they just pulled off a sweet 4 gate likes to pretend that they're some sort of special breed capable of strategic mastery that common players aren't.
Basically, people who play a lot to grind point like to feel like tough guys online.
Has there been any speculation about when the forthcoming balance patch might occur? (ie month.. before 2011.. late 2020)
Supposed to be mid september.
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Stig,only the people who play in those tournaments on those livestreams actually play StarCraft. When you "play" StarCraft you are actually in the Matrix and your bodies electrical energy is used to fuel the PCs of those real players.
Stig,only the people who play in those tournaments on those livestreams actually play StarCraft. When you "play" StarCraft you are actually in the Matrix and your bodies electrical energy is used to fuel the PCs of those real players.
Stig,only the people who play in those tournaments on those livestreams actually play StarCraft. When you "play" StarCraft you are actually in the Matrix and your bodies electrical energy is used to fuel the PCs of those real players.
It makes so much sense. Day9...is Morpheus.
If that's true, then day9 better have a long talk with his whore daughter.
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Stig,only the people who play in those tournaments on those livestreams actually play StarCraft. When you "play" StarCraft you are actually in the Matrix and your bodies electrical energy is used to fuel the PCs of those real players.
It makes so much sense. Day9...is Morpheus.
If that's true, then day9 better have a long talk with his whore daughter.
What ARE those things on her ass????
Also, Day9 totally is Morpheus. He shows us how deep the rabbit hole goes,every day.
This caster on Ragequit.tv is talking about how he expects this Terran to get +2 attack for vehicles because it lets you 2-shot lings with Hellions just like Pre-igniter would. Only... he has like 3 Hellions and the rest of his army is a MMM ball. Pretty clear this guy just heard Artosis talking about TLO's build in the GSL and thought it applied here.
edit: also they have like 10 spectators in each match and there are only 4 casters for the entire tournament on TL
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He basically makes fun of the players the entire time in R-rated fashion. It's a highlight reel from a 3 game match but it actually doesn't skip around much.
Didn't day 9 say that complaining about OPness is just an excuse not to get better, or something. The fact is that if you outplay someone, you'll win at least 90% of the time. If you lost to cheese, you should have checked. If he had more units, you should have macrod better. If he micros better, you should have microd better. 4gate is not infallible. Harass, scout and play well, if you're a better player you'll win.
I have a hard time against terran wall ins with siegetanks, but that's not an issue with terran, I just need to learn how to get better against that. Every strategy has a weakness. You just need to find the weakness and exploit it.
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Didn't day 9 say that complaining about OPness is just an excuse not to get better, or something. The fact is that if you outplay someone, you'll win at least 90% of the time. If you lost to cheese, you should have checked. If he had more units, you should have macrod better. If he micros better, you should have microd better. 4gate is not infallible. Harass, scout and play well, if you're a better player you'll win.
I have a hard time against terran wall ins with siegetanks, but that's not an issue with terran, I just need to learn how to get better against that. Every strategy has a weakness. You just need to find the weakness and exploit it.
he says that because having everyone whining and nobody playing sucks.
HOWEVER
when you lose to someone that you feel is of equal skill because of something in the game I'm sure that's frustrating. I can't really relate cause I play terran
Didn't day 9 say that complaining about OPness is just an excuse not to get better, or something. The fact is that if you outplay someone, you'll win at least 90% of the time. If you lost to cheese, you should have checked. If he had more units, you should have macrod better. If he micros better, you should have microd better. 4gate is not infallible. Harass, scout and play well, if you're a better player you'll win.
I have a hard time against terran wall ins with siegetanks, but that's not an issue with terran, I just need to learn how to get better against that. Every strategy has a weakness. You just need to find the weakness and exploit it.
yeah, he said that you should worry about smoothing out your play before talking about balance
on one daily the other day he was complaining that every protoss he has faced in the past week or so has 4gated though
Just watch replays, can you honestly say there was no place of realistic improvement? Even if he made a mistake, did you exploit it? I think it's very difficult to say "this player is certainly as good as I am" Any imbalances, in my opinion, are minor. If any race was completely weak then wouldn't you see none of them on the top? I'm pretty sure that the percent of zerg at the top is comparable to the percent of zerg players
Didn't day 9 say that complaining about OPness is just an excuse not to get better, or something. The fact is that if you outplay someone, you'll win at least 90% of the time. If you lost to cheese, you should have checked. If he had more units, you should have macrod better. If he micros better, you should have microd better. 4gate is not infallible. Harass, scout and play well, if you're a better player you'll win.
I have a hard time against terran wall ins with siegetanks, but that's not an issue with terran, I just need to learn how to get better against that. Every strategy has a weakness. You just need to find the weakness and exploit it.
yeah, he said that you should worry about smoothing out your play before talking about balance
on one daily the other day he was complaining that every protoss he has faced in the past week or so has 4gated though
And I rarely see anything other than MMM. Zerg is a bit diverse where people usually either go roach before going muta or bling before they go muta.
there are popular builds, I don't think that says much. The fact is 4gate and MMM are easy to do and don't leave you open like teching to complex things does. The fact is, if you early expand or tech to colossi/banshees, you're often open to attack during that period
And we always hear about macro. Macro macro macro. However, if you throw 30 food at a 20food army and they micro better than you, you very well may lose that battle. MAybe your zealots are stuck behind your stalkers or you didn't separate your banelings or you ran into a choke. In all of these cases, micro matters, plain and simple.
Very nice zergling micro against those helions
also it is terrifying watching all those queens chase you
watching here http://www.livestream.com/scworldit
I really like xelnaga by the way, great map
I think barracks scouting is so fucking weird. I mean it makes sense, but so weird
I seriously think I'm just going to stop playing multi until they nerf 4 gate, since Zerg can't fucking defend against it.
This simply isnt true, also you should be pretty much just expecting 4 gate vs protoss. It really isn't that hard to defend against and when it fails many protoss fall apart after that.
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If he's not a fucking idiot, it's pretty goddamn infallible against Zerg on larger maps.
You can't macro hard because you won't have enough units to stop the initial push. But you won't have enough money/larva to stop the second push if you can fend off the first. It's a joke. Your only hope is to take out their pylon before they can get Warpgate up, which, it turns out, is somewhat difficult if they hide it well.
I seriously think I'm just going to stop playing multi until they nerf 4 gate, since Zerg can't fucking defend against it.
This simply isnt true, also you should be pretty much just expecting 4 gate vs protoss. It really isn't that hard to defend against and when it fails many protoss fall apart after that.
YOU KILLED MY PUSH? TIME TO GO... 6GATE
what the hell you have mass muta no fair
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I really enjoy 3 gate + stargate against Zerg, it kinda takes a lot of them by surprise.
I seriously think I'm just going to stop playing multi until they nerf 4 gate, since Zerg can't fucking defend against it.
This simply isnt true, also you should be pretty much just expecting 4 gate vs protoss. It really isn't that hard to defend against and when it fails many protoss fall apart after that.
Just watch replays, can you honestly say there was no place of realistic improvement? Even if he made a mistake, did you exploit it? I think it's very difficult to say "this player is certainly as good as I am" Any imbalances, in my opinion, are minor. If any race was completely weak then wouldn't you see none of them on the top? I'm pretty sure that the percent of zerg at the top is comparable to the percent of zerg players
I can be wrong here
You won't see NONE of them, but you'll see fewer. I don't have the stats handy, but it's something like Toss 33%, Terran 32%, Zerg 20% and Random 15%.
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Yeah, but 1200 is just the number because the guy who made that post is like 1242.. When the 1020 guy who thinks he's the shit makes that post it will be 1000. When the mid ranked platinum guy makes his post...
Everyone who thinks they have a deep understanding of this game because they just pulled off a sweet 4 gate likes to pretend that they're some sort of special breed capable of strategic mastery that common players aren't.
Basically, people who play a lot to grind point like to feel like tough guys online.
http://www.livestream.com/scworldit
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Supposed to be mid september.
It makes so much sense. Day9...is Morpheus.
If that's true, then day9 better have a long talk with his whore daughter.
What ARE those things on her ass????
Also, Day9 totally is Morpheus. He shows us how deep the rabbit hole goes,every day.
edit: also they have like 10 spectators in each match and there are only 4 casters for the entire tournament on TL
He basically makes fun of the players the entire time in R-rated fashion. It's a highlight reel from a 3 game match but it actually doesn't skip around much.
mass vikings, mass queens, mules repairing bcs.
I have a hard time against terran wall ins with siegetanks, but that's not an issue with terran, I just need to learn how to get better against that. Every strategy has a weakness. You just need to find the weakness and exploit it.
he says that because having everyone whining and nobody playing sucks.
HOWEVER
when you lose to someone that you feel is of equal skill because of something in the game I'm sure that's frustrating. I can't really relate cause I play terran
bratok is playing on this one
http://www.teamliquid.net/video/userstream.php?user=AbyssV3
Edit: Crazy ass game!
yeah, he said that you should worry about smoothing out your play before talking about balance
on one daily the other day he was complaining that every protoss he has faced in the past week or so has 4gated though
I can be wrong here
there are popular builds, I don't think that says much. The fact is 4gate and MMM are easy to do and don't leave you open like teching to complex things does. The fact is, if you early expand or tech to colossi/banshees, you're often open to attack during that period
And we always hear about macro. Macro macro macro. However, if you throw 30 food at a 20food army and they micro better than you, you very well may lose that battle. MAybe your zealots are stuck behind your stalkers or you didn't separate your banelings or you ran into a choke. In all of these cases, micro matters, plain and simple.
also it is terrifying watching all those queens chase you
watching here http://www.livestream.com/scworldit
I really like xelnaga by the way, great map
I think barracks scouting is so fucking weird. I mean it makes sense, but so weird
This simply isnt true, also you should be pretty much just expecting 4 gate vs protoss. It really isn't that hard to defend against and when it fails many protoss fall apart after that.
You can't macro hard because you won't have enough units to stop the initial push. But you won't have enough money/larva to stop the second push if you can fend off the first. It's a joke. Your only hope is to take out their pylon before they can get Warpgate up, which, it turns out, is somewhat difficult if they hide it well.
what the hell you have mass muta no fair
Yes you can defend by 6-pooling
Woo
You won't see NONE of them, but you'll see fewer. I don't have the stats handy, but it's something like Toss 33%, Terran 32%, Zerg 20% and Random 15%.