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MMMig

The dong lives on...

http://www.esportsearnings.com/players

MMMig

theSquid wrote: »

Hey guys, this is going to sound a bit weird, but could somebody please do me a favor and tell me what's my name?

* in battle.net
** pm answer plz
*** if you even still have me as a friend there I understand that I've not been on, on a timescale of years

arg I can't recall what it was...

You can go to battle.net and log in from there with your pass, and I think from there you can see what your profiles are.

MMMig

@theSquid ^

theSquid

Thanks man, I finally got it all sorted out.

Blizz customer support resolving and fixing a problem in an hour, I will be alerting the presses.

It was for disabling my authenticator because it was on a phone that got wiped, so I couldn't actually log in.

Dhalphir

Starcrafts season 3 episode one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzccCLaLMmw

jaziek

Didn't even realise there was another series on the go. Cool!

kime

Haha looks like TLO just did a proxy hatch in this invitational. TLO

MMMig

If you're watching the Vasacast invitational right now, and know spanish, I highly recommend you watch it through the this guy's stream. He's so damn funny. ^^



way funny than the Khaldor stream :P

kime

How long is the invitational going on? I can maybe watch later today...

MMMig

bm

kime

Well, this is a nice reminder of how horrible my Spanish has gotten recently

PantsB

Watching Major vs Jjakji. Major changes names between game 1 and 2.

Its partially because its EU vs KR server but still pretty funny

Variable

wow mma lost to vortix apparently

I like tourneys like this, smaller, online, really spices up who wins. tvz final already guaranteed, for example.

DarkMecha

In my ongoing effort to actually play this game instead of watch it, did my placement match. Bronze once more but that's ok with me. Though I felt kinda bad after watching the replay. My opponent built like 5 starports (because reasons?) and didn't try to expand until 10min into the game.

Now it's time to earn my way into Silver...

theSquid

Hey man, 5 starports really pay off at the 90 minute mark

If you hadn't cheesed him like that you would've seen

Variable

my tvz is fairly solid (mech 24/7)

my bio tvp is starting to work. stole 4 variations of bio openers (2 reaper, 2 cc first) and it's just way better than faking it haha. also dropping more and such. finally gave up whining about it and trying to find a way around it and just started doing what has to be done and I'm getting wins for it. still imba imba OP OP toss.

my tvt is a train wreck noooooooooooooooooooooooo. but that's okay, if I had all 3 matchups working for me at once I'd have to move to Korea and show them how it's done.

MMMig

How often do you see them go swarm hosts in mech tvz?

Raslin

Hey thread. I'm interested in trying to get into sc2 multiplayer, but I'm in a weird spot. Tl;dr at the bottom. I played a lot of brood war. Like, thousands of hours when I was younger, though mostly ums. I was decent at regular games though.

I played the sc2 beta, and actually placed platinum, but fell into gold pretty quick. I didn't play it much though, and didn't play at all when it released. I only recently bought HotS.

So, I have no idea what the meta is like. I still need to play the single player and relearn some of the new units. But I was wondering if you guys knew of any good ways for me to learn some of the basics. I'm not a total noob, I just don't know what the landscape is like.

TL;DR: Old brood war player with next to no SC2 experience looking for ways to learn the game.

MMMig

Have you chosen a race yet by way of sacrificial offering?



Or are you one of those jobless hippie weirdos that plays random?

Raslin

Well, I played terran in beta, and got decent at bio balling back then. But I'm not too set on anything. I liked terran and zerg back in brood war, got decent at mutalisks. My macro is a lot better than my micro(unless my LoL playing has improved it... I doubt it though).

Lorahalo

MMMig's guide to SC2

1. Play Zerg
2. Proxy hatch
3. Proxy hatch is a goal unto itself.

kime

Don't diss the proxy hatch. It legitimately won me an AHGL game a couple weeks ago

MMMig wrote: »

How often do you see them go swarm hosts in mech tvz?

I consider mech to be the Terran forfeiting, since Swarm Hosts wreck it so well.

Raslin wrote: »

Hey thread. I'm interested in trying to get into sc2 multiplayer, but I'm in a weird spot. Tl;dr at the bottom. I played a lot of brood war. Like, thousands of hours when I was younger, though mostly ums. I was decent at regular games though.

I played the sc2 beta, and actually placed platinum, but fell into gold pretty quick. I didn't play it much though, and didn't play at all when it released. I only recently bought HotS.

So, I have no idea what the meta is like. I still need to play the single player and relearn some of the new units. But I was wondering if you guys knew of any good ways for me to learn some of the basics. I'm not a total noob, I just don't know what the landscape is like.

TL;DR: Old brood war player with next to no SC2 experience looking for ways to learn the game.

Honestly? My suggestion is to play the game. Play it, get a bit more familiar with it, then we can show you lots of good resources, etc. I think you are too early to be looking up outside stuff now. I'm not fully convinced, though, so others may disagree.

Really though, biggest way to play successful starcraft? Make workers and don't get supply blocked. BOOM Grand Master! :P

Raslin

Yeah, I know playing the game is gonna be the best way to learn. I've been reading up on some things, and it looks like there's more resources in the game to help get me going than I thought. Practice mode, etc.

kime

Nah, just go straight into it

Again, "build more mans" is the best advise for a long time. But we really like theorycrafting and helping and such, so as you go ask lots of questions here. It gives us something to talk about besides "Terran OP" or "Protoss OP" :P

GnomeTank

You can also add some of us on b.net (offering up myself here) who are in lower leagues and play us. Helpful for getting actual feedback.

I semi-regularly play PA'ers who are a league or two higher than me as well, just to get a handle on what I need to be working on.

kime

I'd be happy to play you some too. I want to get some practice in the off-races (instead of the best race, Zerg).

MMMig

Speaking of playing, did anyone else here get into the Heroes of the Storm alpha test?

I just got it a few days ago and spent a good bit on it yesterday.


Apparently my laptop doesn't overheat like with sc2 so yay!

and yes, Protoss still very op.
Tassadar turns into some freaking unstoppable undead archon or something.

kime

Archons are always strong

Yilias

I lost interest in Heroes of the Storm as soon as I heard I had to buy heroes for like 8 bucks each.

kime

"had to," of course, being relative

Dhalphir

Raslin wrote: »

Hey thread. I'm interested in trying to get into sc2 multiplayer, but I'm in a weird spot. Tl;dr at the bottom. I played a lot of brood war. Like, thousands of hours when I was younger, though mostly ums. I was decent at regular games though.

I played the sc2 beta, and actually placed platinum, but fell into gold pretty quick. I didn't play it much though, and didn't play at all when it released. I only recently bought HotS.

So, I have no idea what the meta is like. I still need to play the single player and relearn some of the new units. But I was wondering if you guys knew of any good ways for me to learn some of the basics. I'm not a total noob, I just don't know what the landscape is like.

TL;DR: Old brood war player with next to no SC2 experience looking for ways to learn the game.

@Raslin I think I remember you from the beta.

The meta has changed a lot, obviously. However, the meta isn't so important when you're just getting back into the game. The core units are all still there, and workers and pylons are still as important as ever. My suggestion would be jump into the Penny Arcade chat channel on the NA server and see who you run into. After the next couple of weeks go by, I'll be on much better Internet and playing with a lot less latency than I historically have, and when that happens I plan to seriously get back into SC2 in a big way, so I'll be playing a lot.

GnomeTank

MMMig wrote: »

Speaking of playing, did anyone else here get into the Heroes of the Storm alpha test?

I just got it a few days ago and spent a good bit on it yesterday.


Apparently my laptop doesn't overheat like with sc2 so yay!

and yes, Protoss still very op.
Tassadar turns into some freaking unstoppable undead archon or something.

No, but I might be willing to participate in some dark rituals for an alpha key.

GnomeTank

@Dhalphir When are you getting your new interwebs? a) so we can play Dota together, and b) so you can stomp me in SC2 and teach me the ways of the Brotoss.

Dhalphir

GnomeTank wrote: »

@Dhalphir When are you getting your new interwebs? a) so we can play Dota together, and b) so you can stomp me in SC2 and teach me the ways of the Brotoss.

its getting connected 31/3 and then we move into the house around april 12th

and yeah, we will definitely play sc2, and we will totes dotes

DarkMecha

Raslin wrote: »

Yeah, I know playing the game is gonna be the best way to learn. I've been reading up on some things, and it looks like there's more resources in the game to help get me going than I thought. Practice mode, etc.

Hey man, add me on bnet (DarkMecha#1533). I'm not very good and want to play! Perfect combination for you to boost your ego.

It would be really cool if we ended up say, having people regularly in a chat room on bnet so we could get some cool round-robin "I play winner" style rooms going. Sadly I think lack of interest and play times will prevent this. I remember back in the day there was a PA fighting game community irc chat room and we'd have round robin rooms like that in SFIV all the time. Was incredibly fun.

kime

Penny Arcade lobby games were the best. Would people be up for trying to plan those and such?

Edit: Like, would people be up to doing them more if they got scheduled or whatnot?

MMMig

Yilias wrote: »

I lost interest in Heroes of the Storm as soon as I heard I had to buy heroes for like 8 bucks each.

Or 5k gold. Haven't played the others so I can't compare.

And I'm waiting on confirmation if we get a full refund during alpha. Not spending a penny anyways.

kime

I heard it's the same as hearthstone. If they wipe stuff, and they probably will, you get a refund of gold equivalent to the amount of real money you spent

DarkMecha

@kime - I would be. Evenings like 6-11 EST on Sun - Fri would be best for me. I often endup doing stuff Saturday nights so that one is kinda random.

So anyone interested post what times are good and we can work something out.

MMMig

kime wrote: »

I heard it's the same as hearthstone. If they wipe stuff, and they probably will, you get a refund of gold equivalent to the amount of real money you spent

Confirmed just now that the money spent goes to your blizz account as blizz bucks. So if you're going to keep selling your soul it's not that bad.

Not 100% sure if this is default or only when it gets wiped. Assuming it's default at their price.

Still not spending anything.