Get some tanks, or haven't the silly clowns figured that technology yet :P
I hear they still gather their vespene gas with robots instead of teleporting it directly to thier CC/nexus.
Protoss space is basically a fly-over sector, full of militant religious zealots still clinging to their Psi blades and their Khalas.
On a related note, depending on how many cannons there are, hallucinate can be a good early way of breaking a contain, if you're sticking with warpgate units. Immortals do pretty darn well too.
Hey man, we're still trying to make a unit that shoots more than 5 distance. Did somebody misplace that upgrade at the Core for the Dragoons? Yes, yes, 9 distance collosus. still does shit against a 12 distance tank.
or air.
this race can be so frustrating at times - the original premises was that terran were "normal" zerg was "swarmy" and protoss was "expensive, but very strong individual units".
who made a wrong turn?
To be fair, Protoss are strong individual units. 1 on 1 the units are good, but they don't have the chemistry like a MMM army does, so they fall and feel weak when in larger armies. For example, zealots are damn scary against zerg early on (numbers and tech are low), and a zlot/stalker/sentry mix is pretty powerful vs early terran as well. It's just later things get a bit fuzzy...
Get some tanks, or haven't the silly clowns figured that technology yet :P
I hear they still gather their vespene gas with robots instead of teleporting it directly to thier CC/nexus.
Protoss space is basically a fly-over sector, full of militant religious zealots still clinging to their Psi blades and their Khalas.
On a related note, depending on how many cannons there are, hallucinate can be a good early way of breaking a contain, if you're sticking with warpgate units. Immortals do pretty darn well too.
Hey man, we're still trying to make a unit that shoots more than 5 distance. Did somebody misplace that upgrade at the Core for the Dragoons? Yes, yes, 9 distance collosus. still does shit against a 12 distance tank.
or air.
this race can be so frustrating at times - the original premises was that terran were "normal" zerg was "swarmy" and protoss was "expensive, but very strong individual units".
who made a wrong turn?
To be fair, Protoss are strong individual units. 1 on 1 the units are good, but they don't have the chemistry like a MMM army does, so they fall and feel weak when in larger armies. For example, zealots are damn scary against zerg early on (numbers and tech are low), and a zlot/stalker/sentry mix is pretty powerful vs early terran as well. It's just later things get a bit fuzzy...
And I think terran are/were the "adaptable" race.
i'm beginning to think that the toss composition needs a kicker to play duct tape to hold the gate ball together. something like VRs, or Immortals...
Jaedong is playing some dude who knocked out Whitera in BW.
Oh, don't cannons like counter hallucinate?
counter as in - the units are there, but they're now in black and white. Its obvious to everyone except the AI that they're halluciantions, you have to micro around it.
Even playing as a Toss who will Hallucinate - I think they should explode or at least have the AI drop firing on hallucinations when they're detected.
Otherwise, unless you are micro'ing your ass off, they may as well be real units that don't do damage. The AI doesnt know the difference, and will fire on them.
i dont think this is actually true. im pretty sure if you have detection, the ai will priority target non-hallucinations.
that hasnt been my experience, but i never outright tested it, I would HOPE that the AI would target non-hallcinations. that would have been a good decision by the AI team :-)
Jaedong is playing some dude who knocked out Whitera in BW.
Oh, don't cannons like counter hallucinate?
counter as in - the units are there, but they're now in black and white. Its obvious to everyone except the AI that they're halluciantions, you have to micro around it.
Even playing as a Toss who will Hallucinate - I think they should explode or at least have the AI drop firing on hallucinations when they're detected.
Otherwise, unless you are micro'ing your ass off, they may as well be real units that don't do damage. The AI doesnt know the difference, and will fire on them.
i dont think this is actually true. im pretty sure if you have detection, the ai will priority target non-hallucinations.
Correct—the AI will attack known hallucinations only if there's nothing else known to be "real" within range.
Using hallucinate when your opponent has detection just means that half of your front is clogged with useless dummy units, while your opponent continues to fire at full strength.
So Morrow is playing Zerg and Boxer may be playing in the next GSL. This be mad times.
Morrow isn't really switching to zerg though, he is just testing the waters.
Gonna be interesting to see though.
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So for people who payed for the premium gom.tv service...are the VODs decent quality? Or are they as bad as the free stream? B/c I would pay for the next one if the VODs are high quality.
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So for people who payed for the premium gom.tv service...are the VODs decent quality? Or are they as bad as the free stream? B/c I would pay for the next one if the VODs are high quality.
So for people who payed for the premium gom.tv service...are the VODs decent quality? Or are they as bad as the free stream? B/c I would pay for the next one if the VODs are high quality.
They aren't amazing, but definitely better quality than the stream. They seem to load really slow though.
So for people who payed for the premium gom.tv service...are the VODs decent quality? Or are they as bad as the free stream? B/c I would pay for the next one if the VODs are high quality.
They aren't amazing, but definitely better quality than the stream. They seem to load really slow though.
So for people who payed for the premium gom.tv service...are the VODs decent quality? Or are they as bad as the free stream? B/c I would pay for the next one if the VODs are high quality.
They aren't amazing, but definitely better quality than the stream. They seem to load really slow though.
why cant they just release the actual replays?
Releasing pro replays is srs business, it's why people make such huge deals about the match history thing. It lets you analyze a players build/tactics in extreme detail, and they don't want others to be able to do that.
So for people who payed for the premium gom.tv service...are the VODs decent quality? Or are they as bad as the free stream? B/c I would pay for the next one if the VODs are high quality.
They aren't amazing, but definitely better quality than the stream. They seem to load really slow though.
why cant they just release the actual replays?
Releasing pro replays is srs business, it's why people make such huge deals about the match history thing. It lets you analyze a players build/tactics in extreme detail, and they don't want others to be able to do that.
I think that's the reason at least.
there are pros replays up on gamereplays and alike sites... I mean, most of their tricks are already out of the bag... Replays are everywhere.
So for people who payed for the premium gom.tv service...are the VODs decent quality? Or are they as bad as the free stream? B/c I would pay for the next one if the VODs are high quality.
They aren't amazing, but definitely better quality than the stream. They seem to load really slow though.
why cant they just release the actual replays?
Releasing pro replays is srs business, it's why people make such huge deals about the match history thing. It lets you analyze a players build/tactics in extreme detail, and they don't want others to be able to do that.
I think that's the reason at least.
there are pros replays up on gamereplays and alike sites... I mean, most of their tricks are already out of the bag... Replays are everywhere.
Most of the time in BW there weren't. There isn't quite as hardcore a pro scene for SC2 yet.
Sometimes people can bust out builds noone has ever see before and just change things around, that would be a lot easier to counter with replays being freely available, and is with match history being around. At this point I'd say tradition is the main reason for SC2, even though the pro scene is growing fairly fast.
Yeah, we don't release the iCCup replays for the most part - it's just the way the community works. Especially in a huge tournament like GOMtv - players are potentially doing things that no one has ever seen before. Yes, you can see a ton with the production tab and such during the cast and you will maybe be able to piece all of it together, but a replay shows everything straight up and a lot of professional players really don't want that information out there.
Except for Day9 probably lol. He's also the only person who can break our "no obs" rule because seriously it's Day9.
I go from winning streak to losing streak and back again, always stuck in silver.
Today; No matter what I try and no matter how much I improve my macro AND micro, I lose. I use hotkeys, I hardly ever get supply-blocked (once per game atm, and not every game). My timings have improved. I've tried attacking on two fronts.
All result in losses.
And after all these losses, all I have to show for it is feeling miserable and shaky.
How the hell do I stop caring so much? It's got to be affecting me negatively to always be so...scared of playing and losing?
Most of the time in BW there weren't. There isn't quite as hardcore a pro scene for SC2 yet.
Sometimes people can bust out builds noone has ever see before and just change things around, that would be a lot easier to counter with replays being freely available, and is with match history being around. At this point I'd say tradition is the main reason for SC2, even though the pro scene is growing fairly fast.
i can see the reason. a trick like building a high tech building, before researching warpgates, is brilliant, if not well known. there are all sorts of builds that are still yet to be discoverred, and the tricks behind them are hard to find.
i'd throw the whole thing through some Linear Algebra Analysis, but I'm lazy, and there are SOOOooOOOo many variables.
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edited October 2010
Anyone have the details for the IEM tournament at NY Comic Con this weekend? The NYCC website has nothing as far as I can tell, and IEM's site isn't much better. All I've been able to determine is that it's happening.
What software do you guys use to comment on games and/or replays?
FRAPs is the standard app for recording game video + audio, and mic audio. Then you have to edit/encode. VirtualDub is fine if you just need to piece the clips together.
Note that if you record at 1920x1080 you must resize to 1920x1072 or else it will look bad on YouTube. This does not affect the upsizing method in that blog post.
FRAPs is what most people use for YouTube and it works pretty well (make sure you have more than one hard drive though, it's a TON of data that needs to be written and running a game off the same drive can cause some stuttering/issues sometimes.
As for streaming, that's a lot more work and there are a ton of different ways you can do it.
I actually just use my streaming program to record my VODs if I am doing them straight to YouTube - but the quality isn't that great since I only stream at like 360p.
I go from winning streak to losing streak and back again, always stuck in silver.
Today; No matter what I try and no matter how much I improve my macro AND micro, I lose. I use hotkeys, I hardly ever get supply-blocked (once per game atm, and not every game). My timings have improved. I've tried attacking on two fronts.
All result in losses.
And after all these losses, all I have to show for it is feeling miserable and shaky.
How the hell do I stop caring so much? It's got to be affecting me negatively to always be so...scared of playing and losing?
I go from winning streak to losing streak and back again, always stuck in silver.
Today; No matter what I try and no matter how much I improve my macro AND micro, I lose. I use hotkeys, I hardly ever get supply-blocked (once per game atm, and not every game). My timings have improved. I've tried attacking on two fronts.
All result in losses.
And after all these losses, all I have to show for it is feeling miserable and shaky.
How the hell do I stop caring so much? It's got to be affecting me negatively to always be so...scared of playing and losing?
Don't do it Cups! Keep trying, you'll get better!
You need to practice cheese builds.
Once you lose 20 times like that and by being aggressive, losing wont feel so bad. Just have fun and do ridiculous things like make people chase around your marine while your other marine owns them and hops into a bunker you built at their mineral line lol.
Seriously - i had to force myself to look at it that way, but focusing on aggression all the time and losing because of it is okay, and it gets you into the habit of microing better and keeping tabs on your opponent.
I always recommend early aggression builds for new players, because it's more simplified way of approaching the game in the beginning. It also involves builds, hotkeys, and all that jazz.
I go from winning streak to losing streak and back again, always stuck in silver.
Today; No matter what I try and no matter how much I improve my macro AND micro, I lose. I use hotkeys, I hardly ever get supply-blocked (once per game atm, and not every game). My timings have improved. I've tried attacking on two fronts.
All result in losses.
And after all these losses, all I have to show for it is feeling miserable and shaky.
How the hell do I stop caring so much? It's got to be affecting me negatively to always be so...scared of playing and losing?
first, remember that the matchmaker wants you to play at 50%.
next, stay off the ladders for a couple days, play some customs, hit people up in here. maybe you can stomp me, the lowly bronzer to get you back on track.
i'd also suggest taking bouts with the ladder in "series" like fashion - I'm playing a 5 game series, how did i do? I'm playing a 7 game series, etc.
Looking at this replay, it seemed like you had a pretty good idea what you wanted to do, (3gateRobo) but you're still lacking a bit in terms of fundamentals. For example, around 5:00, you just stop building workers for a good minute and half. On top of that, you threw down chronoboost onto your nexus which wasn't building anything. It was especially awkward because you started to let your money get pretty high at this point, so you could have been building more workers and units.
You also seemed to panic when you realized you were floating so much money, because you tried to throw down like, 8 gateways at one time.
Other than that though, those immortals wrecked that guy. I thought for sure his tanks had you because of their better positioning, but I always under-estimate immortals.
I go from winning streak to losing streak and back again, always stuck in silver.
Today; No matter what I try and no matter how much I improve my macro AND micro, I lose. I use hotkeys, I hardly ever get supply-blocked (once per game atm, and not every game). My timings have improved. I've tried attacking on two fronts.
All result in losses.
And after all these losses, all I have to show for it is feeling miserable and shaky.
How the hell do I stop caring so much? It's got to be affecting me negatively to always be so...scared of playing and losing?
Don't do it Cups! Keep trying, you'll get better!
You need to practice cheese builds.
Once you lose 20 times like that and by being aggressive, losing wont feel so bad. Just have fun and do ridiculous things like make people chase around your marine while your other marine owns them and hops into a bunker you built at their mineral line lol.
Seriously - i had to force myself to look at it that way, but focusing on aggression all the time and losing because of it is okay, and it gets you into the habit of microing better and keeping tabs on your opponent.
I always recommend early aggression builds for new players, because it's more simplified way of approaching the game in the beginning. It also involves builds, hotkeys, and all that jazz.
THIS.
nothing wrong with a slice of cheese to get the train back on track.
Looking at this replay, it seemed like you had a pretty good idea what you wanted to do, (3gateRobo) but you're still lacking a bit in terms of fundamentals. For example, around 5:00, you just stop building workers for a good minute and half. On top of that, you threw down chronoboost onto your nexus which wasn't building anything. It was especially awkward because you started to let your money get pretty high at this point, so you could have been building more workers and units.
You also seemed to panic when you realized you were floating so much money, because you tried to throw down like, 8 gateways at one time.
Other than that though, those immortals wrecked that guy. I thought for sure his tanks had you because of their better positioning, but I always under-estimate immortals.
still working on the fundamentals. arent we all. on edit: without looking, i'm betting on a supply block when you're talking about.
the immortals worked only because i had sight from my obs on the tanks. of course, had i not pushed out, he would have been in trouble coming in with marauders and medivacs and tanks, and abut 4 immortals (plus normal mix of gateway) to meet him.
although, as soon as i saw him floating out an expansion and dropping an academy, it was time to make a move. EMP and Protoss are not good friends.
I throw down a ton of gateways (and other production structures) when i have a saturated 2nd. It may be better to slowly roll them up, but i usually get caught up in microing, and when i go for a building spree, i drop whatever i need at once. usually my economy is fine, and can continue building from existing structures, and will have a little surplus when the new prod facilities are up.
So for people who payed for the premium gom.tv service...are the VODs decent quality? Or are they as bad as the free stream? B/c I would pay for the next one if the VODs are high quality.
They aren't amazing, but definitely better quality than the stream. They seem to load really slow though.
The VoD's have steadily gotten better in quality with the finals being pretty nice. I've never seen the live stream though.
They load pretty quickly for me also, maybe like 4-5 seconds of buffer time in the beginning if that.
So my usual habit of listening to VODs of my casts to see where I am messing up is getting a lot harder to do. Been casting a ton lately and didn't even really realize it. No way I can watch it all reasonably lol.
So I'm abit last minute with this, but wow that was fun. It's so hard to play this way, atleast for me. It feels very awkward without those 'core' units to rely on. I now have new appreciation for hellions though.
I think for the skill levels involved (both plat i think), it was a pretty well played game. My micro still sucks, and I had too much unspent $ at times (should have threw down a few more production buildings later on), but I think I held it together relatively well.
Either way, I'm stoked I won a game with that crazy build, lol.
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I go from winning streak to losing streak and back again, always stuck in silver.
Today; No matter what I try and no matter how much I improve my macro AND micro, I lose. I use hotkeys, I hardly ever get supply-blocked (once per game atm, and not every game). My timings have improved. I've tried attacking on two fronts.
All result in losses.
And after all these losses, all I have to show for it is feeling miserable and shaky.
How the hell do I stop caring so much? It's got to be affecting me negatively to always be so...scared of playing and losing?
Welcome to the big leagues. Getting the shakes is all part of it.
Next step, unless you quit, is to learn how to turn the shakes into another emotion.
I go from winning streak to losing streak and back again, always stuck in silver.
Today; No matter what I try and no matter how much I improve my macro AND micro, I lose. I use hotkeys, I hardly ever get supply-blocked (once per game atm, and not every game). My timings have improved. I've tried attacking on two fronts.
All result in losses.
And after all these losses, all I have to show for it is feeling miserable and shaky.
How the hell do I stop caring so much? It's got to be affecting me negatively to always be so...scared of playing and losing?
Welcome to the big leagues. Getting the shakes is all part of it.
Next step, unless you quit, is to learn how to turn the shakes into another emotion.
Playing music in the background helps me not get so nervous and I actually play better.
I go from winning streak to losing streak and back again, always stuck in silver.
Today; No matter what I try and no matter how much I improve my macro AND micro, I lose. I use hotkeys, I hardly ever get supply-blocked (once per game atm, and not every game). My timings have improved. I've tried attacking on two fronts.
All result in losses.
And after all these losses, all I have to show for it is feeling miserable and shaky.
How the hell do I stop caring so much? It's got to be affecting me negatively to always be so...scared of playing and losing?
Welcome to the big leagues. Getting the shakes is all part of it.
Next step, unless you quit, is to learn how to turn the shakes into another emotion.
Playing music in the background helps me not get so nervous and I actually play better.
I totally feel this way until the first humiliating loss of the day usually. Then, I just shrug and go "oh man, that sucked - I should have done X better" and then feel energized to jump into the next game.
What gets me is the losing streaks of like 3+, just destroys your moral. Usually best to step away for an hour if that happens.
Anyways, the fact that you care about winning or losing and react like that? It's normal when you care about something your doing, so turn that into a feeling that is positive (as others have said) - like a drive to improve each time you play. If you do, wins will start to come naturally and more often, because your actually getting alittle better each time.
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I go from winning streak to losing streak and back again, always stuck in silver.
Today; No matter what I try and no matter how much I improve my macro AND micro, I lose. I use hotkeys, I hardly ever get supply-blocked (once per game atm, and not every game). My timings have improved. I've tried attacking on two fronts.
All result in losses.
And after all these losses, all I have to show for it is feeling miserable and shaky.
How the hell do I stop caring so much? It's got to be affecting me negatively to always be so...scared of playing and losing?
Welcome to the big leagues. Getting the shakes is all part of it.
Next step, unless you quit, is to learn how to turn the shakes into another emotion.
Playing music in the background helps me not get so nervous and I actually play better.
non-game music is a huge factor. i prefer non-lyrical music when i'm playing so there is less for my mind to cling to. I've been going with downtempo ambient lately, but hard goa trance or other HARD electronica are good choices. As are classical channels.
No singing channels for me, it gets to be a distraction.
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To be fair, Protoss are strong individual units. 1 on 1 the units are good, but they don't have the chemistry like a MMM army does, so they fall and feel weak when in larger armies. For example, zealots are damn scary against zerg early on (numbers and tech are low), and a zlot/stalker/sentry mix is pretty powerful vs early terran as well. It's just later things get a bit fuzzy...
And I think terran are/were the "adaptable" race.
dimaga is so awesome.
Tier3 zerg is fun to watch :P
i'm beginning to think that the toss composition needs a kicker to play duct tape to hold the gate ball together. something like VRs, or Immortals...
Joe's Stream.
that hasnt been my experience, but i never outright tested it, I would HOPE that the AI would target non-hallcinations. that would have been a good decision by the AI team :-)
Joe's Stream.
Using hallucinate when your opponent has detection just means that half of your front is clogged with useless dummy units, while your opponent continues to fire at full strength.
Morrow isn't really switching to zerg though, he is just testing the waters.
Gonna be interesting to see though.
They aren't amazing, but definitely better quality than the stream. They seem to load really slow though.
why cant they just release the actual replays?
Joe's Stream.
Releasing pro replays is srs business, it's why people make such huge deals about the match history thing. It lets you analyze a players build/tactics in extreme detail, and they don't want others to be able to do that.
I think that's the reason at least.
i gotta get out of bronze.
Joe's Stream.
I'm still pretty amazed that you aren't with over 700 games played and 1300 points
edit: and you're in the 100th percentile of bronze players both in-region and worldwide
there are pros replays up on gamereplays and alike sites... I mean, most of their tricks are already out of the bag... Replays are everywhere.
Joe's Stream.
lol, i just looked at your link, apparently i'm in the top 0.25% in bronze.
but you know the problem: being the best is bronze is like winning the special olympics.
JUST GET ME OUT!!!!
Joe's Stream.
Most of the time in BW there weren't. There isn't quite as hardcore a pro scene for SC2 yet.
Sometimes people can bust out builds noone has ever see before and just change things around, that would be a lot easier to counter with replays being freely available, and is with match history being around. At this point I'd say tradition is the main reason for SC2, even though the pro scene is growing fairly fast.
Except for Day9 probably lol. He's also the only person who can break our "no obs" rule because seriously it's Day9.
I go from winning streak to losing streak and back again, always stuck in silver.
Today; No matter what I try and no matter how much I improve my macro AND micro, I lose. I use hotkeys, I hardly ever get supply-blocked (once per game atm, and not every game). My timings have improved. I've tried attacking on two fronts.
All result in losses.
And after all these losses, all I have to show for it is feeling miserable and shaky.
How the hell do I stop caring so much? It's got to be affecting me negatively to always be so...scared of playing and losing?
i can see the reason. a trick like building a high tech building, before researching warpgates, is brilliant, if not well known. there are all sorts of builds that are still yet to be discoverred, and the tricks behind them are hard to find.
i'd throw the whole thing through some Linear Algebra Analysis, but I'm lazy, and there are SOOOooOOOo many variables.
Joe's Stream.
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FRAPs is the standard app for recording game video + audio, and mic audio. Then you have to edit/encode. VirtualDub is fine if you just need to piece the clips together.
Here is a decent guide I found:
http://www.donsalva.com/fraps-virtualdub-how-to-save-disk-space-and-enjoy-good-quality-small-filesize-video-clips/
Note that if you record at 1920x1080 you must resize to 1920x1072 or else it will look bad on YouTube. This does not affect the upsizing method in that blog post.
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As for streaming, that's a lot more work and there are a ton of different ways you can do it.
I actually just use my streaming program to record my VODs if I am doing them straight to YouTube - but the quality isn't that great since I only stream at like 360p.
Don't do it Cups! Keep trying, you'll get better!
You need to practice cheese builds.
Once you lose 20 times like that and by being aggressive, losing wont feel so bad. Just have fun and do ridiculous things like make people chase around your marine while your other marine owns them and hops into a bunker you built at their mineral line lol.
Seriously - i had to force myself to look at it that way, but focusing on aggression all the time and losing because of it is okay, and it gets you into the habit of microing better and keeping tabs on your opponent.
I always recommend early aggression builds for new players, because it's more simplified way of approaching the game in the beginning. It also involves builds, hotkeys, and all that jazz.
first, remember that the matchmaker wants you to play at 50%.
next, stay off the ladders for a couple days, play some customs, hit people up in here. maybe you can stomp me, the lowly bronzer to get you back on track.
i'd also suggest taking bouts with the ladder in "series" like fashion - I'm playing a 5 game series, how did i do? I'm playing a 7 game series, etc.
Joe's Stream.
Looking at this replay, it seemed like you had a pretty good idea what you wanted to do, (3gateRobo) but you're still lacking a bit in terms of fundamentals. For example, around 5:00, you just stop building workers for a good minute and half. On top of that, you threw down chronoboost onto your nexus which wasn't building anything. It was especially awkward because you started to let your money get pretty high at this point, so you could have been building more workers and units.
You also seemed to panic when you realized you were floating so much money, because you tried to throw down like, 8 gateways at one time.
Other than that though, those immortals wrecked that guy. I thought for sure his tanks had you because of their better positioning, but I always under-estimate immortals.
THIS.
nothing wrong with a slice of cheese to get the train back on track.
Joe's Stream.
still working on the fundamentals. arent we all. on edit: without looking, i'm betting on a supply block when you're talking about.
the immortals worked only because i had sight from my obs on the tanks. of course, had i not pushed out, he would have been in trouble coming in with marauders and medivacs and tanks, and abut 4 immortals (plus normal mix of gateway) to meet him.
although, as soon as i saw him floating out an expansion and dropping an academy, it was time to make a move. EMP and Protoss are not good friends.
I throw down a ton of gateways (and other production structures) when i have a saturated 2nd. It may be better to slowly roll them up, but i usually get caught up in microing, and when i go for a building spree, i drop whatever i need at once. usually my economy is fine, and can continue building from existing structures, and will have a little surplus when the new prod facilities are up.
Joe's Stream.
The VoD's have steadily gotten better in quality with the finals being pretty nice. I've never seen the live stream though.
They load pretty quickly for me also, maybe like 4-5 seconds of buffer time in the beginning if that.
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I think for the skill levels involved (both plat i think), it was a pretty well played game. My micro still sucks, and I had too much unspent $ at times (should have threw down a few more production buildings later on), but I think I held it together relatively well.
Either way, I'm stoked I won a game with that crazy build, lol.
Welcome to the big leagues. Getting the shakes is all part of it.
Next step, unless you quit, is to learn how to turn the shakes into another emotion.
Playing music in the background helps me not get so nervous and I actually play better.
I totally feel this way until the first humiliating loss of the day usually. Then, I just shrug and go "oh man, that sucked - I should have done X better" and then feel energized to jump into the next game.
What gets me is the losing streaks of like 3+, just destroys your moral. Usually best to step away for an hour if that happens.
Anyways, the fact that you care about winning or losing and react like that? It's normal when you care about something your doing, so turn that into a feeling that is positive (as others have said) - like a drive to improve each time you play. If you do, wins will start to come naturally and more often, because your actually getting alittle better each time.
non-game music is a huge factor. i prefer non-lyrical music when i'm playing so there is less for my mind to cling to. I've been going with downtempo ambient lately, but hard goa trance or other HARD electronica are good choices. As are classical channels.
No singing channels for me, it gets to be a distraction.
Joe's Stream.