I have returned: StarCraft II

[Julian]

this alone probably just jumped my reaction times up by ten-fold, much obliged friendo

admittedly terrible (still using arrow keys for example to pan around on the screen HURRRRR, feel free to guess what league with this mentioned), but still, whenever a game would get heavily macro, that's when i'd begin to lose my shit due to not being able to get over to see what i need to see

Using this method for larva inject over the minimap click I used to use, was easily enough to push me from platinum to diamond, because it helped my macro so fucking much.

[Salodin]

Any one for some games?

[Serra]

I've just finished doing my 4v4 placement matches and really quite enjoyed them. It's fun to be able to play less seriously compared to the 1v1 league where I'm playing 100% silver now and so will be getting that promotion with season 4. It means I can dick around without worrying about any hit to my MMR that losses will give.

My favourite build is currently Chargelot Archon. Using HTs for the Archons means I have a huge amount of minerals that I dump into Chargelots and just run over the enemy bases... assuming my allies aren't playing like plebs, of course. Like the game where a Zerg ally fast expand to all of our naturals... that game didn't go very well.

What sort of unit comps do you guys normally go for when doing team games? And what's a decent strat for Protoss in 2v2 which isn't cheese?

I've gotten better at building things based on what I see my enemies going, or what I'll perceive them going recently, so nothing really set in stone. I've only been playing random 4v4 and 2v2 with a friend lately, so with the 4v4, I'll base it on what my teammates are doing/what the enemy is doing or their races. For instance, if there are 2 or 3 toss on the enemy team, it's safe to say at least one of them will go mass stalker, so I do mass immortal to counter that. Similarly, if there are a lot of terran, at least one of them will mass marines or mmm, so colossi. As has been stressed here, scouting and knowing what your enemy is doing is critical. When I do 2v2, my friend plays as terran, so between his scans and me scattering observers, we can see what the other side is doing and adjust to that. Early game I do zealots and sentries to work with his marines and marauders, and then we adjust accordingly.

[SubzeroDiabolos]

Salo ima probably be on tonight for some games. I have to go to school now but it's only going to take an hour max.

[stewie]

You can bind unit to F1 and F2? Fuck...

I changed it in the hotkey menu and use my own custom profile.

[Kaylia]

I changed it in the hotkey menu and use my own custom profile.

Were you always able to do that? I dont remember hotkey being that customizable.

[stewie]

Were you always able to do that? I dont remember hotkey being that customizable.

For a while now, at least a year I'd say?

[Salodin]

Was the new protoss unit for hots posted?

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...ZGkTrdOjQCJKdg

I think it's obviously air, and if it's a kick ass unit only makes me less inclined to want to build that robo bay when I should be making high templar for storm cause colossus are so easily countered nowadays.

[Eanae]

Incoming post dump

http://imgur.com/qZR1c.jpg

[Eanae]

[Eanae]

[Deejay]

Protoss gets all the cute shit

[Eanae]

Rumors are that marauder and Thor are removed from game now.

[Maguspk]

Defiler and some sort of burrowed zergling maker.

FUCK YES.

Fuck no at Protoss getting Corsair that can hit ground and what looks like a cheap AA Thor for Terrans.

[Thunder]

Rumors are that marauder and Thor are removed from game now.

That'd be alright with me considering the new units.

I'm curious what'll happen with zerg/toss units. I thought for sure corruptor would be taken out but I'm not sure the viper takes its role.. seems like viper is a T3 unit and corruptor is supposed to be a bit easier to get out against air tech/collosus. Although if viper can pull massive units it can instantly take collosus out of the battle.

As for toss.. will the observer be taken out? And I'm assuming the new capital ship means no more carriers - which is good imo. But depending on the ratio of range/movespeed on this thing protoss could be a real contender for strongest air race and PvTs could conclude in mass air vs new goliaths + air(viking/raven) and call forth some sick micro because of all of the auto attacking AoEs. It'd be nice if PvT developed into a match like TvT where two good players will usually take the game to an hour where late game is a huge tech shift of mech into air.

Replicant seems weird though. If you copy a unit you get its abilities or only the auto-toggled stuff like cloak/healing? Depending on how fast you can get them you can copy siege tanks for those timing attacks! Or medivacs? Banshees? Pretty cool stuff imo. Wonder how energy works with them - and if cloaking works does that mean they have energy and can use FG and EMP?

[Serra]

First thing that came to mind when I read the description of the new toss flyer: FU Mutas.

Hope Capital Ship doesn't mean it's the new Mothership though..

[Eanae]

Blink stalkers already raped mutas.

And no, capitals are battle cruiser, carrier, brood lord at the moment.

[Eanae]

Carrier and mother ship gone.

[Thunder]

Carrier and mother ship gone.

what! mother ship? Even though it had pretty much 0 application in real games I liked seeing it in games like hero vs painuser for the lulz

Don't mean to sound rude, but where are you getting this from?

Edit: actually, I found the sources within the minute of leaving BG lol XD

[Eanae]

Banelings can now move burrowed.

Rumor that hydra speed increased.

New mechanic called collapsible rocks. Think opposite of current rocks. Attack them to close paths.