**** Original Starcraft 2 Thread ****

Bloomfield said:
And the most useless unit in the game is the carrier, by far.
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It's a pity really, the only really viable end game t3 air unit is the Broodlord and that's only air to ground, I would love to see changes that made the carrier and Battlecruiser get fielded more often, they are awesome units, it's just unfortunate that their weaknesses so greatly outweigh any potential benefit, one of my favourite examples for the carrier is Day9's Funday Monday on carrier rushing, carrier vs squad of ~10 stimmed marines, carrier launches interceptors, interceptors evaporate, carrier floats off home with it's tail between it's legs.
 
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Fenris said:
It's a pity really, the only really viable end game t3 air unit is the Broodlord and that's only air to ground, I would love to see changes that made the carrier and Battlecruiser get fielded more often, they are awesome units, it's just unfortunate that their weaknesses so greatly outweigh any potential benefit, one of my favourite examples for the carrier is Day9's Funday Monday on carrier rushing, carrier vs squad of ~10 stimmed marines, carrier launches interceptors, interceptors evaporate, carrier floats off home with it's tail between it's legs.
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Yeah, some stimmed marines or some hydras make carriers uselss in about half a second :(.
 
Curio said:
Noob question for y'all. Are there any units/upgrades that are useless? Ones that good players never bother with? I'm talking about all races.
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For terran, newsteel frame (adds bunker capacity) is never used. I built it once when I was at a stalemate 200/200 army and had built bunkers all over the map just for a laugh, but never seen it in a serious game. Others v rarely used are:

moebius reactor - since ghosts aren't built a lot and even if they are don't really need this extra energy
hi sec auto tracking - useful but rarely built
building armour - only really useful vs mutas or possibly baneling busts, but rarely built
nitro packs - comes too late to be useful for your reapers now
corvid reactor - fairly useless
seeker missile - too slow to be useful and too expensive
medivac energy upgrade

So quite a few actually! Generally for high level terran focus is on attack upgrades, then defence, for both infantry and mech. The above are all too expensive, take too long or just generally not key enough to be worth the effort of getting. eg instead of medivac upgrade, just get another 2 medivacs!
 
Note that I did not say they were useless, just that a lot of people don't bother using them :)

I love making an archon toilet reinforced with carriers, nothing more satisfying than destroying AN ENTIRE enemy force without losing a unit ;)
 
Nice one... Love beating them diamonds. :) the only games Ive won recently is with terran and I hate terran. protoss which I love I keep loosing with. what to do, what to do.
 
Mine started lagging a bit in gameplay and it doesnt matter what my settings are. Same for a friend of mine. Dont know what is causing it.
 
Just got promoted to platinum league :) Have been since playing some 2v2 which I am in the silver league for and despite consistently being the best player, only winning maybe 60% of games... Keep being teamed up with noobs who build their 10th probe before the pylon :-/
 
opethdisciple said:
I probably would have picked this up by now, but the price hasnt dropped!
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and it wont. not as if the game is crying out for new players (infact it needs less of them :rolleyes:)

just buy it, it will be the same price in dec as it is now the only way it will drop a lot is when HOTS comes out, the games constantly getting updated with new features etc .... so it never gets stale.
 
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