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

You can't download an executable for 1.5, you have to get it by letting it stream itself when you click into the client.

The patching itself was hitch-free for me, the issues came afterwards with bugs in the game.

Blizz really screwed this one up, even by their standards.

I will have a look at games 2&3 spenncerr

Edit: SC2 screwed up, wont let me log in so I can't watch sorry.
 
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SheepBeast said:
You can't download an executable for 1.5, you have to get it by letting it stream itself when you click into the client.

The patching itself was hitch-free for me, the issues came afterwards with bugs in the game.

Blizz really screwed this one up, even by their standards.

I will have a look at games 2&3 spenncerr

Edit: SC2 screwed up, wont let me log in so I can't watch sorry.
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Thanks SheepBeast
 
spenncerr said:
http://drop.sc/232440

http://drop.sc/232439

http://drop.sc/232438

http://drop.sc/232442

Check over these for me? Where am I going wrong? The last game against Zerg was pretty terrible, but had no idea what I could do.
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Had a look at the second last game and points I note:

lol he cannon rushed you... Words of advice from someone who has cannon rushed against terran many times:

First priority is always to kill the probes. Without probes, he has no vision of the high ground (so the cannons can't shoot up) and can't place more buildings. Make sure the probe can't place any buildings up the ramp too. You can also build a bunker on the high ground so that he can't snipe your marine with the cannons by running the probe up the ramp then target firing the marine - just make sure that it has enough range to shoot the probe when it's half way up the ramp.
lol that the game lasted 20 minutes though :-/

Notes from 2nd replay:
Get more SCVs. Just keep producing them non stop. At 17 minutes, you had 17 SCVs... You should have that many at 4 minutes. In other words, you have the economy at 17 minutes which you could have had at 4 minutes. By 17 minutes, you could have 3 bases with over 20 SCVs at each base - that's over 3 times the income.
Also, upgrade your command centre early to get MULEs... for 150 minerals, you can get the equivalent of 6 SCVs mining, and have the option to scan.
You have like... 5 barracks, yet most of the time are producing nothing out of them. This is mainly because you don't have enough SCVs... more income -> more units. Upgrades are also good, but prioritise remembering to get income, then focus on getting upgrades.
You also expanded at 15 minutes... You should really be expanding as early as it is safe to do so... i.e. as soon as you can know that he won't be crushing into your base.
He had collosus, you only had marines and a few marauders and medivacs... with a mostly marine composition against 4 collosus, you were doomed anyway, but also consider that his army was worth over 8000, while yours was worth just under 6000, and was lower tech, and had less upgrades. If you had attacked before collosus came out, you could have attacked as pure stalker dies to mass infantry but you didn't. You then scanned and saw collosus then attacked into it. If he controlled his army, he could've won that without even losing a collosus. You need vikings to kill collosus when they are with an army, and you want a lot more marauders as marines die just too quickly to collosus. Against 4 collosus, you want maybe 10 vikings... Try to take them out or at least damage them before you engage your ground army (but it's not always possible)... Don't just throw all your vikings away to kill 1 collosus though.

But first priority is getting more workers and from that, more units.
 
From OrdinaryJoe's comments I can probably guess that me looking through the replays isn't going to help.

You should go on Liquipedia and look at a few of the builds. Some of them are marked as Bronze Proof meaning if executed correctly you'll mostly always win in Bronze.
 
Thanks for looking at the replays Joe. Not sure what happened in that 2nd replay.

Gonna go over some builds and just keep practising I guess.
 
So my SC2 install shrunk by 2gb? Went from 10.4gb to 8.15gb. :S What did they do?

Oh, this menu looks messy. Theme looks ok and some of the channel additions should have been there from the start.
 
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Hey guys. Just installed SC2 last night after getting bored of FPS games and the fact that FPS in esport is dying. I've seen a few streams and stuff and watched some last time I was at dreamhack. I understand the focus of the game (I think) but i need a REALLY noob guide. Like a guide for someone who aint touched any RTS before, which goes from noob to advanced.

Gonna start playing online this eve and weekend. Gonna get owned I think? Does it skillmatch? lol.
 
unp|dissy said:
Hey guys. Just installed SC2 last night after getting bored of FPS games and the fact that FPS in esport is dying. I've seen a few streams and stuff and watched some last time I was at dreamhack. I understand the focus of the game (I think) but i need a REALLY noob guide. Like a guide for someone who aint touched any RTS before, which goes from noob to advanced.

Gonna start playing online this eve and weekend. Gonna get owned I think? Does it skillmatch? lol.
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Tbh if you've never really played RTS before then I'd suggest playing through the campaign. It's a fun story and well worth a play imho. Fundamentals first and all that :). Otherwise you'll find some good stuff on liquipedia I'm sure. Most important thing with Starcraft is to just get stuck in and start playing. Explore the mechanics, the tech and the units and get comfortable with the basic structure of the game.

Yes you're going to get owned a lot on the ladder, but when you do decide to start playing on the matchmaking you'll quickly settle at a point where you're playing against people of the same standard and winning ~50% of games.

Not sure how busy it still is these days really but join the OcUK chat channel in game, there's usually a couple people in there who are up for some practice games and happy to offer helpful advice. I certainly am if I'm ever online.
 
Alex74 said:
Tbh if you've never really played RTS before then I'd suggest playing through the campaign. It's a fun story and well worth a play imho. Fundamentals first and all that :). Otherwise you'll find some good stuff on liquipedia I'm sure. Most important thing with Starcraft is to just get stuck in and start playing. Explore the mechanics, the tech and the units and get comfortable with the basic structure of the game.

Yes you're going to get owned a lot on the ladder, but when you do decide to start playing on the matchmaking you'll quickly settle at a point where you're playing against people of the same standard and winning ~50% of games.

Not sure how busy it still is these days really but join the OcUK chat channel in game, there's usually a couple people in there who are up for some practice games and happy to offer helpful advice. I certainly am if I'm ever online.
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That's awesome. It would seem that the community is a lot more friendlier than the communities I'm used too (winning a duel game usually results in a lot of swearing and a disconnect in most games.. mentioning no game names :))

I wont lie, I hate working through single player campaigns! I'd rather get stuck in online, and completely ignore the single player aspect. Maybe that's not the right way to go. How big is the campaign? Maybe I should just work through it on easy mode to get a little experience so I know what's going on!
 
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