too lazy to go out now :mad:
I’ll get it tomorrow :woot:
what are the best sites/forums/online places for starcraft players?
Just got this and fired up a game against a computer (Terran vs Terran) and got beat pretty bad. Lost in 12 minutes, only having 10 units compared to 45. Can anyone shoot some pointers and tip towards a SC noob?
The good thing about RTS games such as Starcraft is that it’s really easy to teach yourself how to play. Every loss is an opportunity to learn something new. It’s when you start winning all the time that it becomes hard to improve heh.
- Play a game.
- Lose.
- Watch the replay and learn how/why the opponent’s strategy was better than yours.
- Copy that strat (if begginner), or improve upon it (if intermediate+).
Repeat.
www.sc2gg.com is another good site to visit. there are some fpvods with commentary that are really helpful.
another site is www.gosugamers.net
If they didn’t take forever and a day to tech up to (barracks -> academy + factory -> starport -> science facility -> covert ops), didn’t require you to research all of their abilities, and didn’t take longer to build than a goliath, and didn’t have have a crappy damage type, and didn’t cost so much, and if you were using your barracks as anything other than a spotter in TvP… then they’d be pretty decent.
As it stands, it’s just too much micro to make ghosts worth it, and you’d still need like 1 ghost for every 2 dragoons/carriers to really get use out of them. Goliaths and wraiths are a better option against carriers, sieged up tanks are better against dragoons, vultures and mines are better against 'toss infantry (zeals, DTs, HTs).
About the only thing I can think of is locking down an arbiter before it recalls, but if you spot the arbiter you’d be better off intercepting it or planting mines in the recall zone. MAYBE locking down a few carriers to try to keep them from dancing over ridges but you’d probably be better off getting more goliaths or even wraiths with that money, it’s hard enough microing goliaths against carriers.
If you have a Boxer-esque combination of micro and balls, go for it. For normal human beings (and normal Korean SC progamers) it’s generally not worth the effort.
what that guy said
i understand what your saying but i’m lookin at ghost as an end game product. you need a science facility to up your armory past lvl 2. just put the ops add on and make some ghost in case your opp brings the carriers. i know ghost aren’t viable mid game but end game they can be useful… or atleast thats what i think… but then again… what do i know?
Live feed isn’t working for me anymore from the site. Anyone able to help me out or give me a direct link?
Don’t get me wrong, if you have insane APM you can make it work.
It’s just cost/benefit. Tank + goliath + vulture is EXPENSIVE. Tank/vult is great until carriers appear, then you add goliaths and have to micro like mad. Adding ghosts in there eats up so much money, for what? A possible lockdown or two on a carrier in the middle of a fight? Assuming you can split your attention like that while keeping the rest of your army alive, it might be worth it if you can lock down the carriers in a place where you can safely kill them without having the dragoons come up and shoot your goliaths to death…
Or you could scan + kill obs + cloaked Wraiths. Wraiths are also better at killing shuttles, harassing workers, etc.
So yeah, ghosts aren’t bad, they’re “specialized.”
I play it; ]
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Honestly in the last couple days its gotten really hard to find a game, last night the only game I could find was a ZvZ(Which im avoiding playing until I get to probably B or B+) after about 45 minutes… The only other dude who would play me wouldnt put on antihack or didnt know how;[
why do they wear earphones then on top regular headphones?
watching live shit is :lovin::lovin::lovin:
Earbuds = better for hearing the game
Headphones on top = noise cancellation, so a) they aren’t distracted by the crowd and b) so they can’t listen to the crowd and cheat
anyhow wtf my desktop just died right as Light v. GGPlay was about to start so now I can’t watch the matches or play SC for a while =[
gg play won, awesome match, crazy micro by ggplay with the mutalisk, had him surrounded, light couldn’t tech at all so he basically just sieged him in his base, good match though.
That sucks. :sad:
bisu lurv da recall
Ugh, I think I may get onto B.net or ICCup after matches finish even though I should be asleep. ~_~
this time woke up just in time to see Light lose from not preventing Bisu’s recall :(. I think if he woulda stopped at least one of those he woulda been ok. Ahh well.
I am so pissed that I am missing Bisu doing recalls (it’d be the first time in a while that I didn’t see him go carriers PvT lol)
Though I guess successful recalls aren’t that hype, need more recalls onto minefields lololol
The first recall was kind of on a minefield!
That double recall was sweeeeeeeeeet.