Original Starcraft 2 Thread

frankmcg · 14 Jan 2011 at 09:23

Alex74 said:
OcUK chat channel's bugged, so people should go to OcUKTEST for now instead.

does ingame mic work at all?

How's it bugged? Seemed to be working ok last night but only about 10 people on and no one saying anything except me!

Alex74 · 14 Jan 2011 at 10:38

frankmcg said:
How's it bugged? Seemed to be working ok last night but only about 10 people on and no one saying anything except me!

yea, says people are in there that arent, some people cant get in etc.

just Scott · 14 Jan 2011 at 11:48

That happened to all the channels when b.net went down. You have to remake it. Just make one called OverclockersUK or something.

iamtheoneneo · 14 Jan 2011 at 11:53

uk chat is stupid. people in channels but nobody bothering to talk! whats the point?

just Scott · 14 Jan 2011 at 11:53

iamtheoneneo said:
uk chat is stupid. people in channels but nobody bothering to talk! whats the point?

What channel are you talking about

Try joining teamliquid

Alex74 · 14 Jan 2011 at 12:03

H2F Scott said:
That happened to all the channels when b.net went down. You have to remake it. Just make one called OverclockersUK or something.

Ahh, shall we call that our new home then?

OverclockersUK chat channel

welshdragon · 14 Jan 2011 at 16:41

Fair play, cannot seem to win any 4v4 at the moment. Dropped form gold to silver and now rank 3 and losing game after game. When I check profiles i find my team mostly bronze and their team with diamond/plat players.. Extremely frustrating!

Th3D0n · 14 Jan 2011 at 19:02

Alex74 said:
does ingame mic work at all?

not sure but its no where near as good as ts

Nerusy · 14 Jan 2011 at 19:20

Just to clear things up

OcUK channel is bugged

OverclockersUK is the main channel for now.

I'll also put it in my sig

mynamewontfi · 14 Jan 2011 at 19:39

f'in rushers ALL DAY today... DT rushes, siege tank rushes, proxy rax, 4 gate, med drops with marines.. on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on........

do people realise the game does actually go past the 10 minute mark?????

sigh.

Nerusy · 14 Jan 2011 at 20:06

Got to be good enough to survive past the 10min mark

Fenris · 14 Jan 2011 at 20:12

mynamewontfi said:
do people realise the game does actually go past the 10 minute mark?????

I imagine they probably do yes, however many people don't want every game to be 20+ minutes long.

Scout and prepare for common rushes, defeat a rush and you will always be at an advantage unless you sacrificed econ to do it.

MikeHunt79 · 14 Jan 2011 at 21:27

I can't seem to join 'OverclockersUK', it says 'Private Channel'...

mynamewontfi said:
f'in rushers ALL DAY today... DT rushes, siege tank rushes, proxy rax, 4 gate, med drops with marines.. on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on........

do people realise the game does actually go past the 10 minute mark?????

sigh.

People tend to rush quite a bit in 2v2... During a recent game I got rushed with zealots and my partner lost his base and I just managed to hold mine after I had a just got a PF at my natural. My main was destroyed though...

I then managed to just about hold my PF while I got enough maruders to kill thier staplers and bases

ordinaryjoe · 15 Jan 2011 at 18:18

I just got a win streak of 7 or 8 then a lose streak of 3

mynamewontfi · 15 Jan 2011 at 19:08

happens to me all the time:

win loads, loose loads.

hornett · 15 Jan 2011 at 19:24

I have been watching a lot of HD Starcraft and Husky vids, then working hard on my Macro and some Micro (still struggle with that side)

But it has meant that my win streak has gone up a lot. Currently 4th in Silver but my last Win was against a 3rd place platinum zerg after 34min match

Watching better players play is defiantly the way to go to improve.

MikeHunt79 · 15 Jan 2011 at 20:04

hornett said:
I have been watching a lot of HD Starcraft and Husky vids, then working hard on my Macro and some Micro (still struggle with that side)

But it has meant that my win streak has gone up a lot. Currently 4th in Silver but my last Win was against a 3rd place platinum zerg after 34min match

Watching better players play is defiantly the way to go to improve.

I find this too, I'm STILL in bronze, mainly because I've not played that many games, but watching lots of Day9 casts gives you an idea of what the better players can pull off... I've been counterattacking a lot more lately, and it's suprising how often it wins games...

Revolution6000 · 15 Jan 2011 at 20:39

I wouldn't worry too much about micro at all to be honest, you'll beat far more people with good macro than you will with good micro. I've won plenty of games by attacking into an army with pretty much no micro and just rallying units into the battle.

Obviously as you progress through the leagues micro becomes more and more important.

MikeHunt79 · 15 Jan 2011 at 20:53

Revolution6000 said:
I wouldn't worry too much about micro at all to be honest, you'll beat far more people with good macro than you will with good micro. I've won plenty of games by attacking into an army with pretty much no micro and just rallying units into the battle.

Yep, I've found unit numbers help more than trying to keep your units alive for longer, and long as you don't so stupid stuff like suicide loads of marines into a wall of siege tanks!

This guy won a game by just sending he units to attack... just before he phoned an ambulance for his wife:

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/czbz9/my_awesome_sc2_story_aka_the_day_i_won_a_match/

So you can't get less micro intensive than that!

hornett · 15 Jan 2011 at 21:12

Tab is my new friend, cant believe I never knew you could tab through abilities when selecting multiple units.

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