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  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    i still think TheStC has the best progamer name

    literally just

    The Starcraft

    kedinikDhalphir
  • TheBogTheBog Registered User regular
    Most non-BW Koreans have godawful names. MC, DRG, MKP, TheSTC, MVP, TNT, CBC, NBC, FOX, ABC, FML. How about you take your acronyms and shove em.

  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    edited December 2012
    nestea angers me the most

    best player ever

    names himself after a thing he happened to have next to him when he had to come up with a name

    he easily could have been named chair or desk

    815165 on
    skyknyt
  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2012
    to be fair, when it comes to DRG and MKP they didn't choose those acronyms and I don't believe even acknowledge them.

    Dhalphir on
  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
  • EuphemonEuphemon itsudemo sagashiteiruyo dokka ni kimi no sugata woRegistered User regular
    815165 wrote: »
    nestea angers me the most

    best player ever

    names himself after a thing he happened to have next to him when he had to come up with a name

    he easily could have been named chair or desk

    1) MVP best player ever
    2) Desk is a famous fighting game combo wizard.

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    Dhalphir
  • 815165815165 Registered User regular
    nestea will forever be the best player ever for defending that attack on scrap station with one ling and a spine crawler

    VariableDhalphir
  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    key changes

    1 void ray can beat 2 stalkers
    1 void ray can comfortably beat a queen, instead of just barely
    1 voidray can beat 3 vikings with the charge ability
    1 voidray can beat any of - photon cannon, missile turret, spore crawler, all of which used to beat 1 void.

  • MMMigMMMig Registered User regular
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    Witty signature comment goes here...

    wra
  • RedOneRedOne Registered User regular
    Left my league and did a placement.

    Now I'm in bronze. Lol. Well, that certainly is a blow to the ego.

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  • interrobanginterrobang kawaii as  hellRegistered User regular
    i could never be a progamer

    having to stick with one handle for the majority of my career would drive me insane

    i change my steam name like every two days

  • RedOneRedOne Registered User regular
    i could never be a progamer

    having to stick with one handle for the majority of my career would drive me insane

    i change my steam name like every two days

    i can be like this

    in the case of pro-gamers, i think they just get stuck with a name not by choice, but because that's how they're known. If you check pro-gamer pages on liquipedia, many of them have alternate handles

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    I've had mine for so long


    for FPL, I picked stephano based on clutch team league style performance this last weekend. I didn't realize he'd be playing less.

    gumiho coming up on gstl... I'm excited to watch him with new ravens, hope he uses them.

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    Must be nice to be able to watch two streams t.t

  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    I gotta start playing hots now

    keep having questions... how many seeker missiles kills a swarm host, or a medivac

    inquiring minds want to know

    I'm planning to make nothing but ravens and siege tanks for a few years

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  • RedOneRedOne Registered User regular
    apparently other beta users are experiencing the same thing. Couple guys in the general chat say they're diamond in WoL but for whatever reason, everyone is stuck in gold league on HotS.

    Unless you're bad like me. Does this mean I can do rumble in the bronze now? :D

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  • RedOneRedOne Registered User regular
    Really starting to dislike the swarmhost. I'm sure they're a good unit and that I just suck with using them, but the locusts are so slow and there's never enough of them for it to matter

    also
    fucking terrans and their mech

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2012
    RedOne wrote: »
    Really starting to dislike the swarmhost. I'm sure they're a good unit and that I just suck with using them, but the locusts are so slow and there's never enough of them for it to matter

    also
    fucking terrans and their mech

    a) you probably aren't making enough swarmhosts. They aren't relevant until you have at least 8-10.

    b) You might not be syncing up the spawn of the locusts

    c) they really REALLY benefit from upgrades

    Dhalphir on
  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    So, how bout that forcefield... Days till that's reworked?

    Looking forward to seeing Arkanoid played. Looks interesting.

  • RedOneRedOne Registered User regular
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    RedOne wrote: »
    Really starting to dislike the swarmhost. I'm sure they're a good unit and that I just suck with using them, but the locusts are so slow and there's never enough of them for it to matter

    also
    fucking terrans and their mech

    a) you probably aren't making enough swarmhosts. They aren't relevant until you have at least 8-10.

    b) You might not be syncing up the spawn of the locusts

    c) they really REALLY benefit from upgrades

    a) even 30supply of Swarmhosts is just 10 of them, which in turn is only 20 locusts. I feel like if I want a tough ground unit, I might as well mass roaches. The same supply of roaches gives me 15 of them and they are hardier and more dangerous than 20 locusts

    b) what's that?

    c) carapace and melee, I assume?

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    hots ui is great

    is anyone on to get me into whatever clan or group we haveA?

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  • SeguerSeguer of the Void Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    RedOne wrote: »
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    RedOne wrote: »
    Really starting to dislike the swarmhost. I'm sure they're a good unit and that I just suck with using them, but the locusts are so slow and there's never enough of them for it to matter

    also
    fucking terrans and their mech

    a) you probably aren't making enough swarmhosts. They aren't relevant until you have at least 8-10.

    b) You might not be syncing up the spawn of the locusts

    c) they really REALLY benefit from upgrades

    a) even 30supply of Swarmhosts is just 10 of them, which in turn is only 20 locusts. I feel like if I want a tough ground unit, I might as well mass roaches. The same supply of roaches gives me 15 of them and they are hardier and more dangerous than 20 locusts

    b) what's that?

    c) carapace and melee, I assume?

    b) Uh oh, you haven't played Nexus Wars obviously

    Syncing spawns is when you set all of the producer to make the unit at the same time, resulting in a wave of x (where x is the amount of producers you have) of the unit

    Rather than a few every now and then as a trickle

  • RedOneRedOne Registered User regular
    Variable wrote: »
    hots ui is great

    is anyone on to get me into whatever clan or group we haveA?

    our group is "Wangs in Space"

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    thanksssss

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  • RedOneRedOne Registered User regular
    Seguer wrote: »
    RedOne wrote: »
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    RedOne wrote: »
    Really starting to dislike the swarmhost. I'm sure they're a good unit and that I just suck with using them, but the locusts are so slow and there's never enough of them for it to matter

    also
    fucking terrans and their mech

    a) you probably aren't making enough swarmhosts. They aren't relevant until you have at least 8-10.

    b) You might not be syncing up the spawn of the locusts

    c) they really REALLY benefit from upgrades

    a) even 30supply of Swarmhosts is just 10 of them, which in turn is only 20 locusts. I feel like if I want a tough ground unit, I might as well mass roaches. The same supply of roaches gives me 15 of them and they are hardier and more dangerous than 20 locusts

    b) what's that?

    c) carapace and melee, I assume?


    b) Uh oh, you haven't played Nexus Wars obviously

    Syncing spawns is when you set all of the producer to make the unit at the same time, resulting in a wave of x (where x is the amount of producers you have) of the unit

    Rather than a few every now and then as a trickle


    oh, yeah, i figured you'd have to use them to make waves of units instead of trickling them. It's just that 20 or so locusts doesn't feel like it's doing very much for the supply it costs. I'd almost rather have infestors spam infested terrans (even with the nerf) or a bunch of roaches

    maybe you aren't supposed to use them as a part of your main army? Like mutalisks? I dunno, I am also horrendously bad with mutas

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  • SeguerSeguer of the Void Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    Think of it this way:

    How quickly could you remake those 15 roaches if they died, how much does it cost you, and how long will it take them to travel to the siege point?

    That's what makes swarm hosts a good addition to an army - unlimited (if weaker) units

  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    RedOne wrote: »
    RedOne wrote: »
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    RedOne wrote: »
    Really starting to dislike the swarmhost. I'm sure they're a good unit and that I just suck with using them, but the locusts are so slow and there's never enough of them for it to matter

    also
    fucking terrans and their mech

    a) you probably aren't making enough swarmhosts. They aren't relevant until you have at least 8-10.

    b) You might not be syncing up the spawn of the locusts

    c) they really REALLY benefit from upgrades

    a) even 30supply of Swarmhosts is just 10 of them, which in turn is only 20 locusts. I feel like if I want a tough ground unit, I might as well mass roaches. The same supply of roaches gives me 15 of them and they are hardier and more dangerous than 20 locusts

    b) what's that?

    c) carapace and melee, I assume?

    A locust does more DPS than a hydralisk.

    20 locusts is WAY better than 15 roaches.

  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    And you aren't meant to only have 10 of them ever. 10 is the point at which you start being able to do cool things with them. The goal is to get to 20ish, I've seen Kambing with 30 of them.

  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    There are no xelnaga watch towers on arkanoid

    i like that

  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    this is an amazing game

    that may be just because it's new and in a new=good phase with sc but

    it's good

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    this game looks like a brood war game, i dunno

  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    maybe its all the big open space.

  • RedOneRedOne Registered User regular
    I agree, I enjoy HotS a lot, despite my troubles with it.

    I love the new units and it definitely feels more "complete" while the various groups and chat rooms makes Bnet feel more social.

    @dhalphir

    But, a locust has 65 hp and travels very very slowly. They also have incredibly short range. They seem to die before they actually do anything. Though I will take note that maybe I'm simply not using enough of them and will shoot for 20-30 in my next game. What should I support them with? They cant hit air, so I feel like hydras? That's a very supply heavy army though

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2012
    HOLY SHIT IS THIS THE REAL LIFE

    Dhalphir on
  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    RedOne wrote: »
    RedOne wrote: »
    I agree, I enjoy HotS a lot, despite my troubles with it.

    I love the new units and it definitely feels more "complete" while the various groups and chat rooms makes Bnet feel more social.

    @dhalphir

    But, a locust has 65 hp and travels very very slowly. They also have incredibly short range. They seem to die before they actually do anything. Though I will take note that maybe I'm simply not using enough of them and will shoot for 20-30 in my next game. What should I support them with? They cant hit air, so I feel like hydras? That's a very supply heavy army though

    hydra host is one of the best ZvT compositions prior to the latest patch and I assume it can only be better now

  • RedOneRedOne Registered User regular
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    HOLY SHIT IS THIS THE REAL LIFE

    wat happn


    I will try swarmhost/hydra in my future ZvTs and I might try in ZvP as well, though I'm still adjusting a lot to the random meta. I've fought various 1gate expos, 1gate all ins and still some FFE. I keep forgetting Vipers exist so I never get them out in ZvP

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    Dhalphir wrote: »
    HOLY SHIT IS THIS THE REAL LIFE

    NOPE ITS JUST FANTASY

  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    arkanoid is an excellent map I really want to see a tvz or pvz on that map

  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    It was nice watching the players dealing with stuff they haven't practiced a billion times before.
    May just be me, but the more known a map gets, the less fun it is to watch. When the announcers can call the victor based on who gets the third peon out or whatever, just makes for a dull game.

  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited December 2012
    see317 wrote: »
    It was nice watching the players dealing with stuff they haven't practiced a billion times before.
    May just be me, but the more known a map gets, the less fun it is to watch. When the announcers can call the victor based on who gets the third peon out or whatever, just makes for a dull game.

    The players have known about this map setup for weeks - you can bet that the assigned players have been smashing out 40+ games per day on their specific map.

    I agree with you regarding the new stuff being exciting, but I think Arkanoid is a good map for more than just the newness.

    Dhalphir on
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