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Gaming News o'the Day
- Puzzle Quest 2 dated for PC release: August 12.
- New Borderlands DLC data found in most recent patch.
- New Operation Flashpoint officially announced.
- Civilization V system requirements revealed.
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Starcraft 2!
I submit to you this graph of devastation : http://i37.tinypic.com/10ygy2b.png
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No luck with the 2v2's so far tonight.
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if you want to laugh at me, here is the replay.
http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33&show=download&id=136340
25 minutes in
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It's taken me a long time to figure it out, and I still dont think I really have. That said, I have learned a few things.
1. Zerglings are fast and you cant even pretend to wall off. So scout early. Put a zergling at the bottom of their ramp, hold the watch towers.
2. ALWAYS get zergling speed. They cant wall off either, so dart and deal what damage you can, whenever you can.
3. Pool slightly earlier than you otherwise would by 1 or 2 supply. Early zergling pressure is VERY likely.
3. Do NOT fast expand. You will get rushed and not have enough lings. Conversely use speedlings and overlords to punish any fast hatcheries you see go down.
4. Use spine crawlers. if it looks like they will be agressive, plunk one between your hatch and your minerals. If they keep it up, plunk 2 or 3. Later move them to your natural choke if at all possible.
5. Banelings are aewsome. Ling + hydra is common and banelings will rape them. If they go roach try to sneak some banelings into their mineral line during an attack
6. Infestors can be awesome. Rare detection means burrowed infestor harass can be very effective. And fungal growth is awesome against fast zerg balls. Frozen speedlings cant do squat against your ranged units.
But most importantly, pool slightly earlier, get ling speed at first 100 gas, pump lings, and expand when you can defend.
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I hated the matchmaking system at first, because despite being silver I was playing a majority of gold\platinum players. It frustrated me to no end losing over and over, but once I realized that I was massacring silver players it wasn't so bad. Now that I've settled into gold, it's much better.
now for me:
Games vs Silver are relatively easy
Games vs Gold are generally a decent match
Games vs Platinum are a challenge.
w/ a majority of matches being against Gold
I'm like 10 - 3 since moving to gold, so I assume I'll be in platinum before too long.-
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I've had limited experience with anyone above platinum, but when the rankings settle a bit, some of the lower tier of each ladder will probably be bumped down.
Me and a friend were playing 2v's and ran into a diamond team (who were both ranked diamond in 1v1 as well). They were probably better than me at 1v1, but I was surprised at some of the mistakes they were making. I was zergling going roach\hydra and my friend was protoss going colossi \ stalker initially. They were both zerg. We massacred their zergling\hydralisk army early. Instead of mixing it up to be able to do some damage to the colossi they just kept pumping zerglings and hydras the entire time challenging us to 1v1s and saying "scrubs just building random things". Anyway long digression\thinly veiled brag over, I can't imagine these guys really belong in diamond. I imagine these kind of players will eventually sort themselves out.
Unless you think there is a big skill gap between mid tier and top tier diamond players, in which case I could see them adding a new ladder.
I have the replay I should send it to the shackreplay thing-
2v2/3v3 are a bit weird, them being diamond doesn't say too much because as 2 zerg they might have just got there by doing a double 10 pool every game. I see this a lot with players just going for a mass zergling/marine/zealot rush without getting gas to take 1 player out right away. When you manage to hold them off or win 2v3 or something they'll start crying. :D
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Even though I'm only a mid-level Platinum player I'm really in the same boat. The more success I have the more I worry about playing and potentially losing my rank!
The competitive nature of playing is extremely addicting and fun though. Mostly I try to make sure I stay the highest rank 1v1 player out of all my friends. ;D
I wonder if they'll ever impliment any kind of attrition to the rankings. -
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Welp, I just played my first match in 10 years. Lost for sure, but with some gusto.
I was Terran, he was Protoss. Not a lot to it really. We traded blows at the start--I completely wiped his early void ray rush with Marines + Stim. Then marched on to destroy a expansion in the works. By then I had a fair size group of marines and murauders assembled, about 18 units total, with 1st level upgrades, and knocked on his front door.
Got him down to about 6 units and a few turrets before I finally wiped. A few short minutes later, he knocked on mine, and that was that.
I wish there was a better way to learn the units. Having separate units in the SP against the MP basically is like a battlecruiser-sized middle-finger to the newcomer--I was counting on the SP experience I had to help me out, even just a little, in the MP.
I take solace that if I had marched in with a few more murauders and marines, or had found his main base sooner (it was literally in the last of 3 possible places), I MIGHT have beaten him, though he had me outgunned in almost every way in the final stat sheet. It was both of our first matches. -
ugh, I just had like a 5 game losing streak in 2v2. I'm surely being too passive but basically any time zerg is involved (god forbid 2) I start like 10 gating to prevent a ling rush. I think I'm being too tentative but most of the time they actually were doing that rush and had I not done a quick wall with a 10 gate I think they'd have gotten in. But then I can't get out and the mutas/tanks arrive :(
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