StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

By Yusuf M.
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  1. 1. What race do you play as (the most)?

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Nagisan

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Yeah... he would have beat me, had he warped in something other than cannons. He only used cannons which are easy to avoid. By the time he figured out the cannons weren't working I had my army built up enough to kill off the 5 or so zealots he had. I bet he was really proud of himself at first.

Like Sikh said, if you were not prepared for that rush and he failed to kill you, he did it horribly wrong. Unless you are Terran, he would have blocked you in your base before you knew he was there (and if you were terran, you would have to still relocate by flying your CC away due to him blocking any proper expansion).

In short, the guy was a noob or made a mistake by not blocking off the entrances to your base before pushing in on you. If he had done that, he would have been able to close in on you slowly, keeping your expansion to a minimum and backing you into a corner.

But, I haven't played SC2 multiplayer, so I have no idea how effect cannons are anymore.

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Pft.....I use to fight 3-4 Zerg at a time as protoss in SC....granted I never turned the difficulty above Easy for each one of them, it wasn't that bad...

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Matt

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Well not always. If we play I'll show you a true toss proxy. Learned by myself and from the best.

If done properly, army assistance isn't needed as a proxy shouldn't let you build at all.

id like to see that. whats your bnet id? im always looking to better myself.

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trag3dy

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Like Sikh said, if you were not prepared for that rush and he failed to kill you, he did it horribly wrong. Unless you are Terran, he would have blocked you in your base before you knew he was there (and if you were terran, you would have to still relocate by flying your CC away due to him blocking any proper expansion).

In short, the guy was a noob or made a mistake by not blocking off the entrances to your base before pushing in on you. If he had done that, he would have been able to close in on you slowly, keeping your expansion to a minimum and backing you into a corner.

But, I haven't played SC2 multiplayer, so I have no idea how effect cannons are anymore.

Pft.....I use to fight 3-4 Zerg at a time as protoss in SC....granted I never turned the difficulty above Easy for each one of them, it wasn't that bad...

Well he started by putting his pylon in the far corner of my base behind the smoke. And then proceded to slowly move outwards with his cannons. By the time he got anywhere near my command center I had 2 barracks up and at that point he should have GG'd out. But he wanted to be an ******* about it by making cannons all over the map so I had to clear them out to get the win. And yeah, he was a noob. Even more than me. :laugh:

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ViperAFK

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Ok I agree with the previous post. Even if you are a noob.

DO NOT DO PRACTICE LEAGUE. Its so ****ing lame. Actual strategy is no use. Its all about who amasses the biggest army of thors first. Lost every practice league match(only won one purely because of a teammate in 2v2), then skipped it into placement and won a couple 1v1 handily with only far less units units. Practice league is lame.

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max84

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On a 2009 Mbp 15" with a 9400 it plays well at 1024 with low/med settings balanced.

Razor LMAO

What? That's pretty lame. On my my Vaio FW it plays great at 1920x1080 and medium settings.

Would have thought the "most advanced laptop in the world" would be more powerful :shiftyninja:

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lalalawawawa

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Ok I agree with the previous post. Even if you are a noob.

DO NOT DO PRACTICE LEAGUE. Its so ****ing lame. Actual strategy is no use. Its all about who amasses the biggest army of thors first. Lost every practice league match(only won one purely because of a teammate in 2v2), then skipped it into placement and won a couple 1v1 handily with only far less units units. Practice league is lame.

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killmaster84

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If you're in the Edmonton Alberta area there's a SC2 1v1 tourney coming up on Aug.28 at Absolute Power.

Yeah... he would have beat me, had he warped in something other than cannons. He only used cannons which are easy to avoid. By the time he figured out the cannons weren't working I had my army built up enough to kill off the 5 or so zealots he had. I bet he was really proud of himself at first.

That's how I cheese'd my way out of bronze for 1v1 was to do quick proxy cannon rush. Laugh people try and do it to me and fail.

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Argote

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Do you guys think there is any chance my laptop will be able to run starcraft 2? Here are the specs:

Intel? Core?2 Duo CPU P9600??@ 2.53GHz

4GB System Memory

Intel X4500MHD Graphics Card <--- the problem?

120GB Intel SSD

To be honest it only may be able to do so on the lowest settings.

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Another Canuck

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I'm getting absolutely raped online, and in the Practice League at that :pinch: I'm 5 and 23 right now in 1v1.

StarCraft is the only RTS I've ever played, and I haven't touched the game in 8 years. I'm finding it really difficult to compete against others who have a lot more experience. Kinda irks me that some people, who clearly aren't beginners, stick to playing in the Practice League.

The game is great (I'm enjoying the campaign), but it's hard to have fun when you spend 30 minutes playing only to have your entire army decimated in 2 minutes... over and over again.

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drbobiii

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To those looking for ways to improve, you should check out Day[9]'s videos. He casts replays from various players and analyzes the strategies involved. There is a large archive of videos and he casts new ones every few days. Some of them do get a little in depth, but helpful if you can follow.

Day[9] Archived Videos

Husky and/or HDStarcraft (both found on YouTube) are other popular casters, but mainly exist for entertainment purposes and don't discuss game tactics too much.

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trag3dy

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To those looking for ways to improve, you should check out Day[9]'s videos. He casts replays from various players and analyzes the strategies involved. There is a large archive of videos and he casts new ones every few days. Some of them do get a little in depth, but helpful if you can follow.

Day[9] Archived Videos

Husky and/or HDStarcraft (both found on YouTube) are other popular casters, but mainly exist for entertainment purposes and don't discuss game tactics too much.

They do some.. they comment on what units work against what units and stuff.

http://www.youtube.c...ser/HDstarcraft

http://www.youtube.c.../HuskyStarcraft

http://www.youtube.c...er/PsyStarcraft

It might be a nerdy thing to do but if you're playing Starcraft 2 isn't that already nerdy enough as it is? :laugh:

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LOC Veteran

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So I just found out about the ending to WoL (no, didn't play through the game quite yet heh) and yowza.

Did Blizz jump the gun on that already or what? I mean, if you look at it one way, it's only been one game so far. But it's also been 12 years between said first game. But Raynor saving Kerrigan and her changing back to Human seems a bit quick don't it? Reading some of the comments for the next two...uh expansions? most people seem to think that Kerrigan will keep her link to the Zerg and control them and use them to help save the Universe from the Xalnaga or whatever they are called. Especially when one of the two...games coming out...is called Heart of the Swarm and is directly about the Zerg no? But without Kerrigan running things? Or will she still be the Queen of Blades, since the "prophecy" doesn't specify whether the Queen of Blades HAS to be Zerg, right?

OK, confused. Done. Oy.

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Roberticus

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My temps are fine. I'm running a 3870 with a zalman cooler.

The thing is, it never happens during the game. It only happens when I leave the game in the menu/console.

I finish a b.net battle, go for a smoke, and come back 2 minutes later (too early for my windows sleep setting to kick in) only to find my PC in permanent state of non-responsiveness :D

Overheating problem:

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/925122-blizzard-confirms-starcraft-ii-overheating-bug/

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