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I've never had much luck with mech. What's your typical mid-game composition? How do you put on aggression and when do you push and expand?
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I've never had much luck with mech. What's your typical mid-game composition? How do you put on aggression and when do you push and expand?
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Getting a bit frustrated with cheesing protoss at Diamond masters level. I'm only in plat but getting placed vs these a lot and they're nearly always proxy 2 gating me or cannon rushing. The time I scout my first gate is nearly done. Do I build a second gate and try and get as many zealots out vs proxy? and on cannon rushes do I pull 8 probes, as they nearly always have 2 probes building cannons at 2 locations...
I play Thor/Hellbat/Raven but if I get weary due to mass-Roach I'll throw in tanks as a precaution.
Hellbat drops really do wipe out mineral lines and also Hellion runbys aren't too shabby.
I expand once to my third after I've figured out what the Zerg is doing. Mutas require more Thors/Turrets and roaches require Tanks. There isn't really much else you'll see.
Try and block your ramp then deny higher ground vision with a quick stalker if you can.
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no widow mines?
Sprinkling in a few to gain vision on attack paths and popular zergling runby locations is good but using them in mass is very hit/miss depending on the Zerg's skill.
A lot of Zergs spam 5/6 Overseers these days due to mines.
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finally had a chance to play this game for several hours today. (previously only managed short sessions). result: 3 promotions 
plat -> diamond 1v1
gold -> plat 3v3
plat -> diamond 4v4
im already master 2v2. just need to get 3v3 and 4v4 up to master as well then ill focus my full attention on 1v1. wanna reach master before LoV which should be too hard given it'll be probably 18months minimum before that comes out.
plat -> diamond 1v1
gold -> plat 3v3
plat -> diamond 4v4
im already master 2v2. just need to get 3v3 and 4v4 up to master as well then ill focus my full attention on 1v1. wanna reach master before LoV which should be too hard given it'll be probably 18months minimum before that comes out.
I've got two ways to go here.
One - stop playing this game all together due to lack of time to practise/improve and then be able to relax!
Two - give up work/kids/wife etc and become better
What do you think?
Another annoying couple of days where I felt that I scouted better and had better map control but my micro was awful. Even had one guy comment that I had awful micro as I should have won with my early push but made some terrible micro and lost about 3 mins later!
Hugely frustrating as I just don't have the time to spend at the moment working/improving etc.
One - stop playing this game all together due to lack of time to practise/improve and then be able to relax!
Two - give up work/kids/wife etc and become better
What do you think?
Another annoying couple of days where I felt that I scouted better and had better map control but my micro was awful. Even had one guy comment that I had awful micro as I should have won with my early push but made some terrible micro and lost about 3 mins later!
Hugely frustrating as I just don't have the time to spend at the moment working/improving etc.
I've got two ways to go here.
One - stop playing this game all together due to lack of time to practise/improve and then be able to relax!
Two - give up work/kids/wife etc and become better
What do you think?
Another annoying couple of days where I felt that I scouted better and had better map control but my micro was awful. Even had one guy comment that I had awful micro as I should have won with my early push but made some terrible micro and lost about 3 mins later!
Hugely frustrating as I just don't have the time to spend at the moment working/improving etc.
As I'm sure you're well aware SC2 has a very high skill cap (much like Quake et al), and therefore there will inevitably be a lot of people that are a lot better at it than you. There will also be a limit to how good you can get with the time you have available (and most probably even if you had unlimited time). To you all I can say is that it's only a game, and therefore probably not worth you getting too frustrated over it! Hopefully the matching system (which is one of the better ones I've come across) will have you winning 50% of games eventually and you'll be having fun
Haha I know what you mean, I never actually played the first Starcraft properly (was more of a C&C and TA player) but when I picked up SC2 on release I regretted not playing the first one! I do find the ranked games can get stressful though, I had more fun playing with all my friends at work at lunch times (though they've stopped playing now
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I know what you mean booyaka, I'm a full time third year uni student with an almost full time job and everytime I go on a losing streak I realise how poor I am in many aspects of my game. I just shrug it off, as I don't have time to play every hour of every day to get better. So I just enjoy when I do get some things right, go on sort of a winning streak and gain promotions etc.
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The game has been quite choppy for me recently as well.
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nice haha. what do the keys actually do?
Also is anyone watching the GSL atm? If not I highly recommend you check it out, every game's been awesome so far
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nice haha. what do the keys actually do?
Also is anyone watching the GSL atm? If not I highly recommend you check it out, every game's been awesome so far
The look like your typical f1,f2&f3 keys with a different symbol nothing more!