Starcraft 2: Mothership Connection

My work situation cleared up yet Ive only played like 1/2 of a mission since. My priorities are all rong.

this game is great but the singleplayer missions are stressing me out something fierce. Im bad enough with issuing commands and keeping things straight when theres no time limit for impending doom but seems like half the campaign missions are timed. =\

My brother bought this for me for my birthday. Awesome. So, let's set up some matches, shall we? Who's who on battlenet? My email here is the same as my login there.

kingfish, sent you a connect

done and done

I have been playing some random FFA games for fun and have twice won because two guys each decided the other was the only threat, spent all their time countering just that one person, and then ignored me while I gathered a bajillion resources and made a magically refreshing army.

Nothing like having someone say "I scouted you and you were a noob!" as you stomp them

Finally made it into Silver League 1v1 after languishing forever in Bronze

Done with this...multiplayer is so frustrating

How so? The auto matching multiplayer seems to do a reasonable job, skills-wise.

what 'bout we just set up our own thing? there's maybe 5-10 of us spread across the planet, of course, but still...

i dig 1v1, 2v2 is pretty fun, but more than that i just get destroyed by two or more people rushing me (i play zerg, btw)

my b.net email is also the same as my email here, btw, if anyone wants to add me. i usually play with some irl friends and none of us are all that good, so its pretty fun.

i basically prefer this as a spectator sport (all the youtube channels of high level players) than playing myself. I get waaaay to stressed out playing 1v1.

hahah I went through a few days of watching nothing but high level replays on youtube

i know! they can be really entertaining, some of the casters are really good, too. best one's i know of are day9, who casted the recent MLG tourney in Dallas, and then Husky and HD who have youtube channels. day9 is the most prolific and does really great instructional casts, he seems to be able to articulate how to play the game better than anyone else i've seen.

i used to get too stressed out playing 1v1, but if you just get used to losing and just try to get the basics down you get over that. i also think sticking to one race to get the basics down is key.

I cannot stand husky and HD! tried watching a Day9 vid but mostly he just talks about build orders? haven't seen any livecasting yet.

I would so get this game but remembering my SC days I know I would just spend all my time memorizing build orders. :(

they are definitely all dorks, so you have to get over that. but day9 is actually not at all focused on specific build orders, he talks about strategy a lot, though. memorizing build orders isn't as important as just understanding the basic technique of how to be time/resource efficient. he doesn't seem to do just normal casts of replays that much, but when he casted the MLG Dallas tournament it was live and it was really fun to watch.

I'm back...can't stay away.

Day9 is my favorite caster. You can watch and d/l archives here: http://day9tv.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc

Recently been going 3-4 rax with stim, combat shields, concussive shells, single factory and port. Seems pretty effective. Ebay for quick upgrades and to enable PF on expansions.

Uh, is it just me or does this day9 guy spend 2/3 of his video talking into the camera instead of showing gameplay? Maybe I just picked the wrong videos?

most of his videos are set up like a lecturer talking to you about how to play SC2, so yeah, a lot of it is just his face while he talks to you. from what i've seen at least half of it is him talking over gameplay, though.

As expressive as he is, and as great as his points are, his camera presence does not convince me that this technique is one he has mastered.

lol

hahah I went through a few days of watching nothing but high level replays on youtube

i am never going to play this game, but have watched several hours of high level replays. what the hell is wrong with me??

It's a pro sport in uh, korea, y'know. I'm kind of amused by how much this stuff resembles sports call-in shows and fan analysis.

have the koreans taken to this one as much as they did with the original?

I think they're still doing Brood War tournaments constantly, but yeah, the adoption rate is definitely fairly high.

man I am glad I didn't get this game, I don't need to renew yet another addiction to a Blizzard franchise

HD really annoys me because of the constant malapropisms and whatever it is you call it when people mix up two different cliches.

Husky is kinda endearing in a nerdy way, but that mute button is handy too.

yeah, that is kind of annoying, i find it pretty easy to forgive, though. i don't really know of any other good casters. there are two guys that cast Korean tournaments that are okay, Artosis and Tasteless, one of them is Day9's brother iirc.

I read a thing about the pro circuit in Korea not taking to SC2 because theyre fighting tooth and nail with Blizzard over rights issues and whatnot. So everything thats televised is still sc1.

They're also having issues where Blizzard is trying to shut down some of those broadcasts since they're unlicensed. It's kind of a clusterfuck.

finally got into this game after months of not being able to cos of work. completed the single player last night and started doing some multiplayer today. jesus christ it's stressful my heart feels like it's about to explode.

That's why I play!

you totally need to slam a 4loko before your next match

whenever i'm drunk i always wanna play cause i feel like i can kick tons of ass but that is never what happens

have played while loko btw, it gets cuh-rayzyyy

anyone keeping up with GSL? LiquidJinro playing in the semi-finals in an hour. so exciting to see a westerner getting so far. i've really grown to like Artosis and Tasteless as casters, they're good dudes. you can watch it as gomtv.net... if you pay twenty bucks :/

on gomtv.net*

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/for-the-swarm-inside-the-world-of-professional-starcraft-players.ars/1

cool article. i saw the Boxer vs Rain match he talks about...it was well over an hour long i think.

anyone else still playing this? i've worked my way up from bronze to diamond and i play teams pretty regularly with friends while on skype, fun times. its easily the most difficult and gratifying game i've ever played--referring to multiplayer, btw, i never played the campaign.

i saw that Boxer-Rain match, too, pretty crazy

diamond, wow! i am barely hanging on in Gold, but i just started again after about a 9 month break. keep losing because i get over confident and just wanna walk my army into their front door.

i think one reason i enjoy the pro matches is because im just in awe at the tactics and control, but as i improve myself i notice that you have to be aware of like 100 different things at once. if my opponent just harasses me a little i get all out of sorts and forget to do all kinds of things. and on lower level games you can pretty much dictate how your opponent plays through psychological means, make them over-commit to defense, etc.

I have played only a handful of actual ranked matches here and there and tend to play FFA for random fun when I have free time. Yet, somehow, battle.net thinks I should be in 1v1 platinum? 4v4 I get since it's less-trafficked and I am decent at coordinating when I have a team to watch my back. I think if I play a few more times it'll bump me down to a more sensible league.

im overmatched at Gold i think, so it's only a matter of time. frankly it would be a relief!

i've been watch the MLG events, but just now discovered gomtv so it'll be fun to see more GSL.

ryan otm.

I think the main thing I've noticed is that there are parts of the game that are very race-specific that you have to get good at to compete with anyone who knows their shit. I play protoss mostly, and the game changes incredibly if you can do sentry force field micromanagement.

the less you play the less accurate your ranking is, so if you play more it should start matching you up against people at a similar level to you pretty quickly.

up to around gold-plat, the number one thing to pay attention to is your macro (i.e. worker production, not getting supply blocked, spending your resources constantly), the second most important thing is to keep your eye on the mini-map so you don't miss important stuff or get caught out of position, then third is scouting and engaging correctly.

ryan, i used to have the same problem (keep losing because i get over confident and just wanna walk my army into their front door,) but if you start constantly poking at them and scouting them to keep tabs on what their army is looking like and where its positioned you'll be able to find more effective times/places to engage. it took me a long time to stop underestimating everyone i played against, the general level of skill in sc2 is pretty amazing.

yeah another big problem is macro--i get tons of money but dont build enough production. and not the best at scouting yet...i can either do that OR macro, but not both at the same time yet. im basically trying to add one skill at a time.

I really hope Boxer pulls out a tournament victory in the near future.