That would be awesome if you could watch replays as a party. I always thought that would be a good idea.
you could watch replays as a group in the first Starcraft, the feature disappeared in warcraft 3 and so far hasnt returned in starcraft 2 
I have heard from a couple people that Blizzard has already talked about bringing this feature back for SC2 this year based on something they said at Blizzcon, but not sure how official or unofficial that is.
Really unfortunate that the OSL finals are on the same day as the GSL finals.
I have Stork and MVP.
The Blizzard mod betas are up; 3 of them are in (left 2 die, bejweled, and auir chef) and I wanna give l2die a shot. Gonna dig into the mod resources and see how easy it is to make a bigger version of it, or one where players control the special infected
I only watched a youtube video of it ( [media=youtube]fvlWc9rAd5Y&feature=feedu[/media] ) but it has all the special infected like hunters, boomers, smokers, and tanks in place. Easy on default difficulty but supposed to be better on harder
oh shiet left 2 die looks pretty good. gonna try it out right now!
EDIT: how do you play night 2 die? is it only when i create my own game and change the difficulty then?
hmmm actually the special infected dont really add anything =/
you still pretty much just bunker up and move out with your infantry.
holy shit OSL finals!
Even though I don’t understand the commentary or the game as much as sc2, I still find BW more exciting to watch.
GSL
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i frickin knew it! im pretty sure I posted wayyy earlier in this thread that MVP would be a beast! as of now it seems you need a strong foundation in BW to be great at SC2 lol [/details]
I’ve not been able to enjoy the latest games on GSL due to poor interenet connection where i’m located. Seems that the GSL finals were lackluster at best. Well, it looks like there is still plenty too learn and the ceiling for being good in SC2 hasn’t been reached yet.
For those of you who are slick with the key board, how do you access the 7,8,9 and 0 buttons for hot key usage? I know you don’t need them to be good and it all depends on your play style, but lately i’ve gotten into situations where I find it useful if I had some tech buildings on hot keys i.e. spawning pool, spire, etc. for upgrades… instead of looking all over the map for these structures.
Am I being to picky about this?
I actually suck at using anything past like 6. My hands just always rest in wasd, even though I know they don’t need to for SC2. I usually leave 1-3 for my army, 4 for my nexus, 5 for my tech choice (robo/stargate), and 6 if I need to get whatever I didn’t put on 5. I have started putting ugprade buildings on 7 but I suck at hitting them. 0 I sometimes use for my observer when it comes out.
Luckily I get to use W for my warpgates and save myself a hotkey, but that means I typically need to use a slot (3) for whatever pylon I’m warping in at
i use 1-3 for army, 4 for main, 5 for all army production, and 6 for all techs.
Just as an addon to this, 15 hatch can be dangerous in close positions vs toss… 15 hatch can be dangerous in general against toss unless you have really good game sense, and know how to razor edge defence (build just enough units to defend, so you can have a strong econ going).
14 pool
Drone til 16
If toss has pylon blocked Hatch:
Overlord/gas/21 hatch
If toss hasn’t blocked Hatch:
16 hatch
15 ovie
Gas etc
Is the advice my friend gave me, and it’s worked out really well so far.
As an addendum to them blocking your expo with a pylon/engi bay. Most people only do this in response to seeing the drone leave the base to make an extra hatch because they don’t want to waste the minerals early game if it proves to be unnecessary. The easiest counter to this to make sure you put down your hatch is at 11 supply do one of the following…
A) Pull a drone from your line and then leave it in the side of your base, when the scouting probe goes into your base, quietly leave with your drone to put down the hatch.
B) Put a drone behind the mineral line at your natural, unless they scout your natural thoroughly they won’t even see the drone.
Both ways tend to work well.
Thanks for the Zerg help guys. Up until now I’ve just been using 7RR, but I realized I won’t get any better that way so I’ve been sticking to the standard openings.
i’ve found 7RR to be successful in 2v2 games. when i pick up 1v1 again, i’m going to relearn 15 hatch. i need to know at least 3 build orders for my zerg play.
How to ZvZ?
Have you guys seen the even newer zerg all in of the month? 3 roach speedling, at like 5:30 or something? It really makes it super hard for toss to defend unless
- he sees the roach warren go down
and - he knows what the fuck to do
its like 3 roaches + a ton of speedlings, the roaches are to pick off the lone zealot that P uses to safely block and kill buildings while the speedlings just go nuts. It hits before warp gates are done which is awesome.
Big old thread on TL about it.
2shared - download how do i beat this pvz.SC2Replay
thats the replay
its basically early pool, then roach warren as soon as its done, then you get ling speed, pop 3 roaches when the warren is done and get a lot of speedlings. Toss needs to see it and get cannons, or chrono out sentries as fast as fucking possible and cross his fingers
So I wanna challenge a master’s player here to a series of me versus them with a caveat…
We start the first game with you at 50% handicap and me at regular. Each time I win, we up the handicap another 10%, until you finally beat me. If you’re a master’s league player that hasn’t played me before, I’m only a plat and I deserve to be there right now. If I laddered more I’m sure I’d be ranked high plat, but I’m certainly not beating the diamond players I play with any consistency at all.
If you’re not on my friends list I’m Irennicus.229. I think it would be a fun challenge for both me and you.
Thats the second time today I’ve seen a mention of handicap; what the hell is that and how does it work in SC2?
It just corresponds to the % of life all of your units have. 50% handicap = all units and buildings have half life