Starcraft II beta

[Sampson]

Re: Starcraft II beta

Yes. And what did I learn?

Building Battle Cruisers is for losers. Seriously. They are never worth it.

[Caciss]

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I watched the replay, and those little spurts of time he did get to mine the north gold min base were the only thing keeping him afloat. Totally wasted all his money on BC's that my stalkers and your vikings wiped up.

[DK]

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Whelp, just got killed by a zergling rush four minutes in.

I give up forever.

[Caciss]

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don't be a baby!

[Caciss]

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I wanna play more 2v2s TODAY

[Sampson]

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I have to work tonight and tomorrow, but I'll be game Thursday.

Anyway, I spent pretty much all of last night playing Terran matches. Here are my further thoughts:

-Thors and BCs are useless. Thors less so, but I rarely see the need for them. Their lack of mobility really kills them. The only time I think they should ever be used is as a meatwall when charging into a large scale battle, and then only have 3-4. BCs are far too expensive for how powerful they are.

-Do reapers have any purpose other than harassment? They seem completely useless mid and late game.

-The ideal Terran army is something like: 50% marines, 10% tanks, 10% marauders, a couple ravens and the other 30% composed of a mix of helions, vikings, and banshees (more helions when facing light infantry, more vikings when facing air, more banshees when facing heavy ground forces).

-I think that the Medvac has a lot of potential, but I haven't bothered to use them as anything other than a dropship so far. I haven't seen them used by any other players effectively either.

-Ditto for ghosts. I feel like they have a lot to offer but I haven't seen the need to use them and no one has used them against me.

[Caciss]

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Ghost are really mostly effective in TvP because of EMP, which depletes all mana and shields.
A few well placed EMPs can really change the flow of the battle, though I'll admit I generally
forget to build a ghost academy. But I imagine they can be very useful.

Thor are really useful for their, I forget what it's called, but their siege attack. It can make
short work of buildings. But, yeah, BC's are pretty much useless as always. I think BCs make
better meat shields than Thors, actually, which I find rather fragile.

Reapers really only have a very brief window of effectiveness, and otherwise are pretty much
useless. Though they can be pretty decent scouts, if you keep your early ones alive, but I
don't think I'd ever build another one into the mid-game.

Also, I don't know how you aren't using the Medivac? Without the medivac, stim actually hinders
your army. They just make your infantry that much harder to kill. Keep them a little bit behind your
infantry line so they can't easily be focus fired.

In TvZ I've been opening quick starport. If I see he opted for roach warren, I'll plop down another
star, and rush two banshees into his main. I also build my second cc behind my wall as I move my
banshees out. Kill his queen, and if he's building a spire or hydra den, rape that. Then it's pretty much
gg. If he goes den instead of warren, I'll just build medivacs. Spire, you'll need marines so get an
ebay up and a barracks with reactor.

[DK]

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Um.

So I still can't win a game, even after being placed in retard league.

I go immortals, I get flattened.

I go void rays, they have MORE void rays.

I actually live for more than a few minutes and can pull some DT/warp prism attacks, my partner ****ing blows and costs us the game.

What am I doing wrong pavilion?

Really, 2v2 is just bull****. I don't think there's been a single game where I've had a partner who was any good either.

"Oh I'll go void rays"

*doesn't make cybernetics core for 5 minutes :B*

I just feel like...playing this game is like getting sand blown in your face for 10 minutes at a time.

[Sivart the Sloth Trencher]

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I got this thing yesterday. I've played 1.5 games against the AI.

...This is going to take some getting used to.

[Caciss]

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Um.

So I still can't win a game, even after being placed in retard league.

I go immortals, I get flattened.

I go void rays, they have MORE void rays.

I actually live for more than a few minutes and can pull some DT/warp prism attacks, my partner ****ing blows and costs us the game.

What am I doing wrong pavilion?

Really, 2v2 is just bull****. I don't think there's been a single game where I've had a partner who was any good either.

"Oh I'll go void rays"

*doesn't make cybernetics core for 5 minutes :B*

I just feel like...playing this game is like getting sand blown in your face for 10 minutes at a time.

you guy suck I GUESS

[Sivart the Sloth Trencher]

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Oh, yeah, here's this thingy for whenever I feel like I don't suck total ass.

TubePowered.tube

[Alzar]

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man, i blow, but i can win a game or two

i guess there's levels of blow

Akira.Akira r me

[Caciss]

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Akira is platinum, you're sure that's your id!?

[Caciss]

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I hate how like 7 of my losses are retarded disconnect, especially since this latest patch.

Especially since I'm 27-21

[Sivart the Sloth Trencher]

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I tried to talk to Akira and he was all "What's a Pav?"