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[Game On] Starcraft: Broodwar NOW with picture Battle Reports! BR1: The Stove

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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I'm having trouble loading GOM games as well, but it might be due to my shitty connection.

    Did you know Incontrol's gf is Miss Oregon? What the hell. She baked him an ultralisk cake too. I guess that's enough to make you miss Oregon on that alone.

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  • DragDrag Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    way to not come on at all today, you punks

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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Progaming fitness class!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAGxSw2VkjA
    Idra makes an appearance at the 7:35 mark! His comments on the class:
    Idra wrote:
    i wanted to die
    5 hours of motivational talks in korean + 1 hour of that + a mediocre lunch

    and the only thing in english was a little clip about that guy with no limbs who thanked god for putting him into that situation so he could become a stronger person
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    .

    I like how they don't do the class in a gym, but instead in a their seats. Just like how you'd play SC I guess. Not sure if that girl was Tossgirl. God that looks so awful hahah. I see Flash and Jaedong tho!

    Man check out Savior turning around to look at Idra and the other dude behind him hahahah. That plus the music is too much oh god hahaha.

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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    s_86 wrote: »
    What is that guy wearing at 1:25, and yes that is toss girl at 1:35, she is cuter than i remember!, and flash is cute too!

    According to the youtube description, I assume that's Ganzi D: A lot of Korean guys seem to like dressing up very feminine.

    WHAT ABOUT YOU S?

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  • Bruce ForsythBruce Forsyth Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    You're a girl.

    Tasteless just called it 'meleestorm'. Seriously.

    Edit: Three times now.
    Edit: Daniel pronounced it correctly though.

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  • CapuanoCapuano Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Stop being afk in channel, you losers!

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  • DamascusxieDamascusxie Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Ah well, I think I saw something about hamachi in an older thread.

    Anyways, I'd like to ask if anyone has any strategies focusing on Zerg late game. How fast should I tech for ultras and dark swarm? How do I use dark swarm properly? Should I even bother about greater spire?

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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Ah well, I think I saw something about hamachi in an older thread.

    Anyways, I'd like to ask if anyone has any strategies focusing on Zerg late game. How fast should I tech for ultras and dark swarm? How do I use dark swarm properly? Should I even bother about greater spire?

    We used to use Hamachi awhile back.

    Against Terran you should be getting Hive tech a bit after you hit 3 gas. Get defilers before ultralisks and research consume asap. When consume is 1/2 complete is when you start building defilers. If you time this right defilers will pop out just as consume finishes. Continue securing bases and transitioning into ultraling with defiler and scourge support. Upgrade ultralisk speed/armor asap. Lurkers are very strong with swarm so occasionally mixing them in is pretty effective (lurker spines do damage under swarm even though they're kinda a ranged attack so it's pretty sweet).

    Swarm is pretty difficult to use but essential in ZvT. The Terran is going to be irradiating your defilers constantly so you have to keep them in the back of your army unless you go offensive. Tricks you can use to hide defilers are to burrow them or use overlords to pick them up. Also if you have nydus canals you can pop defilers between two bases to quickly cast swarm or plague before popping back out the other side to avoid an irradiate.

    Hotkey your defilers and right click them onto your ultralisk so they just follow them around. Keep those scourges between the science vessels and your defilers. A final trick for consuming is to select many defilers at once instead of just one. Each defiler will try to consume the zergling you select but the closest defiler will be the one that actually consumes the zergling. Keep on consuming, this method is a lot faster then selecting each defiler individually. Just be careful about allowing a defiler that is maxed on energy to consume. You could also do shift-deselecting with this method.

    Against protoss, get ultralisks first and defilers if he's archon heavy.

    As for greater spire, that's pretty map dependent I think. Guardians have great range but they're pretty fragile so you need to either support them with ground units or abuse map terrain. There are certain builds that let you get Hive off two base and transition into guardians. If your opponent has scouted the greater spire then it probably won't be too effective if he has the time/resources to counter it.

    e: So, tossgirl has a pretty good Starcraft wrist going on (bruise)
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    And an extra bonus pic for Gnome! Apparently the girl on the left is Jongmi, a retired SC progamer who used to play in the female tournaments they had way back (which tossgirl dominated in). Jongmi just does some SC show now. According to TLPD she was in the Qoo) clan which Tasteless used to be a part of (or still is, not sure).
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  • CapuanoCapuano Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42ozRPO6vP4&feature=player_embedded

    The music coupled with the look on Idra's face and the stupid shoulder curl thing was hilarious to me.
    He's right behind Savior and in front of Iris :O

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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Idra making then quickly breaking eye contact with Savior is the best haha.

    ESWC Americas is almost finished up.
    http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=90693

    Finals are Idra against the winner of Chosen vs Fenix. Lot of big names in this, JF got eliminated! Too bad, would've been awesome to see JF go to Korea. Oh and Nony forgot to show up.

    So, for the the four players to go to Korea we have
    Americas: Idra, Chosen or Fenix
    Europe: White-Ra
    China: Super
    Korea: ??? (mystery invite progamer)

    Should be good!

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  • CapuanoCapuano Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
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  • DragDrag Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Well yeah, you'd start out with your hand on that side initially (assuming you use 0 and 9 as nex hotkeys) but I'm pretty sure you don't maintain them there unless you're doing nothing but building pylons and probes.

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  • CapuanoCapuano Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Yeah, I was thinking that reading over it again. I guess you would just shift your hand back to normal position (ie index finger around 4-5)?

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  • Bruce ForsythBruce Forsyth Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I likes me some short skirts.

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  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Watching Fantasy vs Jeadong now. Just started game 4. Game 2 was my favourite in the series so far.

    Is that Jeadong's mom?

    Also, excessive crowds shots are excessive. :/ Picture in picture is not a new technology, Korea.

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  • FugaFuga Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I loved the crowd going wild when the overlord kept going back and forth when it was about to spot the starports in game 4.

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  • Page-Page- Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    It was a good series. Jeadong's mutas are too strong, though. :/

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  • CapuanoCapuano Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    This not being able to host bullshit is pretty annoying.

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  • DamascusxieDamascusxie Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I'm having quite a big problem getting my units to work properly with defilers. For example I want to send my army in for the kill, it's late game and I've macro'ed hard to max out supply. I've got this super huge army of hydra-ultra-ling that I'm sending in groups of twelve. This takes forever. By the time I've finished telling all of my units to attack and move over to cast dark swarm with my defilers, the battle is already half-finished and my initial units are already dead due to lack of swarm. I've tried throwing out swarm before attacking, but that makes my defilers run in first to cast it, making them very vulnerable.

    Basically, I'm wondering if I can get some advice on how to move a giant army around properly and timing dark swarm well with low APM. Do I just need to practice more and more to increase my APM or is there something obvious I'm missing here? Control groups seem the obvious answer, but with giant late game macro what it is, there's just too much stuff for me to throw into groups.

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  • FugaFuga Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    ctrl group 3/4 of your units and after the battle re-bind the keys to whatever buildings you had bound them to I guess.

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  • Osiris5217daOsiris5217da Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I'm having quite a big problem getting my units to work properly with defilers. For example I want to send my army in for the kill, it's late game and I've macro'ed hard to max out supply. I've got this super huge army of hydra-ultra-ling that I'm sending in groups of twelve. This takes forever. By the time I've finished telling all of my units to attack and move over to cast dark swarm with my defilers, the battle is already half-finished and my initial units are already dead due to lack of swarm. I've tried throwing out swarm before attacking, but that makes my defilers run in first to cast it, making them very vulnerable.

    Basically, I'm wondering if I can get some advice on how to move a giant army around properly and timing dark swarm well with low APM. Do I just need to practice more and more to increase my APM or is there something obvious I'm missing here? Control groups seem the obvious answer, but with giant late game macro what it is, there's just too much stuff for me to throw into groups.

    Just hotkey your defilers and tell them to move forward as you tell the rest of your army.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Hey, has anyone paid for the premium GOMTV nonsense? Are the downloaded VODs any better quality? Are they better ENOUGH quality to warrant $50?

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2009
    Well that was my first and last random starcraft match. I joined and the game instantly started before I could pick my race and then my team mate walled himself in his base and never did anything else. I got fucking demolished by a mass of zealots, goons and corsairs.

    gg I guess.

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  • CapuanoCapuano Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    It doesn't count against your iccup rank if you leave within the first two minutes of the game, yo.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2009
    I do not really care about rank, I do not plan to have a good rank until I learn the game anyways.

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  • CapuanoCapuano Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Ret's at it again. http://www.mogulus.com/retje

    edit: Nevermind. He just went off :(

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  • DoomninjaDoomninja Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Fuga wrote: »
    I loved the crowd going wild when the overlord kept going back and forth when it was about to spot the starports in game 4.

    Do you think he heard that from his booth? Starting listening to the crowd... moving his overlord when they got louder?

    lolol, "warmer, WARMER!"

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  • Osiris5217daOsiris5217da Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Cmon guys, let's play!

    Btw doom


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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I'm having quite a big problem getting my units to work properly with defilers. For example I want to send my army in for the kill, it's late game and I've macro'ed hard to max out supply. I've got this super huge army of hydra-ultra-ling that I'm sending in groups of twelve. This takes forever. By the time I've finished telling all of my units to attack and move over to cast dark swarm with my defilers, the battle is already half-finished and my initial units are already dead due to lack of swarm. I've tried throwing out swarm before attacking, but that makes my defilers run in first to cast it, making them very vulnerable.

    Basically, I'm wondering if I can get some advice on how to move a giant army around properly and timing dark swarm well with low APM. Do I just need to practice more and more to increase my APM or is there something obvious I'm missing here? Control groups seem the obvious answer, but with giant late game macro what it is, there's just too much stuff for me to throw into groups.

    Pretty much you hotkey your most important units and manual select the rest. The only thing you can do is time it so all your units arrive at approximately the same time by first sending the units that are farther away where you want to engage and working towards your units that are closer to the battle.

    Time it so ultralisks are first, always. Everything else follows closely behind, most importantly being defilers and scourge. Also try to get a surround (or maximum surface area as Tasteles/Artosis like to say) so that your units aren't arriving in one big line and getting into a traffic jam. You do this by spreading out your nits before you attack.

    That's all you can really do.

    Or just wait for unlimited selection in SC2.

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  • <3<3 Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I wish I could play like these pros. >.<

    Jaedong's muta micro is absolutely sickening.

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  • BakerIsBoredBakerIsBored Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Working tonight, but will be attending another SC lan tomorrow night. If anyones on, I'd be down for some 1v1's or 2v2's :)

    I've been practicing my ICCup maps :)

    Once I feel I've improved my game abit, I'm gonna register and see how F- grade I am ;P

    e: I forgot you ppl play on West... :X

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  • DragDrag Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    we play on iccup, silly

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2009
    I can't find the iccup maps I installed...where are they or what are they called?

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  • BakerIsBoredBakerIsBored Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    I can't find the iccup maps I installed...where are they or what are they called?

    Couldn’t you always go to the StarCraft directory... sort folder by date modified... I bet you'll find your maps :)

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I bought a new computer and reinstalled SC on it, but for some reason I can't get it to play without the disc installed. I followed the instructions from the 1.15 patch and copied the "install.exe" file and renamed it "Broodwar.mpq", but it keeps giving me the disc needs to be in the drive error.

    It's really not that big of a deal, but I'd like to get it to work. Anyone else running into this problem yet?

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Man, I spent last night getting raped by my buddy in PvZ last night. Anyhone have any hawt tipz on how 'toss deals best with mutas, or worse with ultra/lings?

    For the record, I went very 'goon-heavy vs. the mutas, and tried to upgrade like a mofo. Against the ultra/lings, I just tried to have as many zealots as I could act as the front line. In both cases, I tried to have my templars put psi storm to maximum effect, but my templar control is AWFUL. (Read: needs much more practice.)

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  • DangeriskDangerisk Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    The answers to to both your questions is more archons.


    And maybe eventually reavers too for the second one.

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  • mastmanmastman Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    more archons is the answer to everything except "how do I combat an army of sci-vessels"

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  • BakerIsBoredBakerIsBored Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    I bought a new computer and reinstalled SC on it, but for some reason I can't get it to play without the disc installed. I followed the instructions from the 1.15 patch and copied the "install.exe" file and renamed it "Broodwar.mpq", but it keeps giving me the disc needs to be in the drive error.

    It's really not that big of a deal, but I'd like to get it to work. Anyone else running into this problem yet?

    Maybe because you renamed it .mpq, but did you check to see if it's actually that file type?

    Most folder options come default with extensions turned off. This means when you typed .mpq, its really .mpq.exe .

    Just go to your folder options, turn off hidden extensions and then rename it to "Broodwar.mpq".

    gg

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Man, I thought about Archons, but only as my base was being torn apart each time.

    And then promptly forgot about it in time for the next game.

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