Starcraft II - NASL going strong, thread going strong

**Akaleth** · Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 915 Location: Saratoga, NY

First time logging into SH in probably a year now, so I figured I'd stop by and throw my info here so I have more people to play with.

Akaleth.516, mainly protoss, probably going to practice more with zerg and evolve into a random player. I'm in silver league, but probably belong in gold, maybe low platinum (stress on the maybe). I'm just not in the mood to deal with/implement cannon rushing on my way to the next league, and I've been enjoying custom games.

And to add on to what fenster said, your rank in your division/league doesn't mean anything in regards to whether you're eligible to jump up a league. If you're rank 1 in silver, that means you're the best of silver; nothing else. The placement system puts you in a place that gets you the closest to a 50-50 W/L ratio as it can, so the more games you have played, the closer and closer you get to your rightful place. That's why many rank 1 players in divisions have a high number of games played.

Also, for anyone who is looking to get better at the game, I wish to direct you to two places

http://www.teamliquid.net/
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Main_Page

TeamLiquid is in many ways the SH of Starcraft, and has many sources of help for new players and experienced alike. Liquipedia is their *pedia, containing information on build orders, unit details, unit uses in specific matchups, information on pro SC players and much more. I would also suggest subscribing to people such as HuskyStarcraft, HDStarcraft and ArtosisTV, all of whom are respected members in the Starcraft community in different ways and post videos of professional games between some of the best, in addition to having some tutorial videos on basic strategies that can be of great help to new players.

I didn't play SC1 a whole lot, I played it with friends often enough to know the basics but I never became all that great. My usual strategy was to abuse our infinite-resource edited maps and turtle in my base with photon cannons and DTs and mass carriers into a win. As someone whose strategy was as simple as that, I can say that all of the aforementioned sources were what really helped me become a player who actually knows how to play the game.
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**Adsee** · Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 606 Location: Somewhere in NJ

**bjwdestroyer** · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 6:43 am Post subject:

**Akaleth** · Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 915 Location: Saratoga, NY

**suspectfenster** · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 1771 Location: Portland, OR

**Akaleth** · Joined: 22 Dec 2007 Posts: 915 Location: Saratoga, NY

**Adsee** · Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 606 Location: Somewhere in NJ

I haven't seen the MLG games, but the reaction I get from Teamliquid was that they were pretty meh. Still, I may check them out when I'm bored one day.

I'm looking forward to the GSL though, looks to be awesome, and Tasteless and Artosis casting it must be good.
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**Sarg338** · Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 5143

I watched part of a game, and it would've been interesting... had I known what was going on.

**ravagetalon** · Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 2130 Location: KY

**suspectfenster** · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 1771 Location: Portland, OR

**ravagetalon** · Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 2130 Location: KY

**suspectfenster** · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 1771 Location: Portland, OR

So....anybody still playing Starcraft?

I know I am. I will update the OP later today with some videos from the GSL (some AMAZING games) and patch 1.1 stuff.

For those who don't know patch 1.1 came out this week and addresses a few balance issues. lolpinions, but for a patch that's been a month and a half in the making I would have liked to have seen some bolder changes. I think somebody said it best on TeamLiquid when they said that they respect Blizzard's decision to make subtle changes and test the waters but at some point zerg is going to need a pretty substantial change or buff. I just hope they don't wait until Heart of the Swarm to do it.

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EDIT: Cleaned up OP a bit and added in details about GSL and the new patch.

GSL - Right Now!

GSL is going on right now for those who aren't aware. It's basically the biggest SC2 tourney in the world and season 1 is well under way in Korea. The round of 64 and 32 have already completed and it's currently in the round of 16. I won't post spoilers here but there have been some absolutely epic matches, I will links to videos once I can. Unfortunately to watch more than game 1 of any set you need to pay for a season pass...which I did but I'm sure most people have not.

http://www.gomtv.net/

Patch 1.1 Released This Week

A new patch came out this week which addresses a bunch of bugs and adds some map editor features. Balance changes were also made, most notably repear and zealot build times were increased by 5 seconds, and warp gate cooldown was also increased by 5 seconds. Seige tank damage to light units was nerfed as was battlecruiser damage to ground units.

Ultralisks were supposed to be nerfed a bit in their effectiveness against armor but they botched the splash damage so that it is a function of the unit size being attacked. This implies when you attack a command center, the splash is HUGE and everything in the surrounding area will get obliterated. Pretty hilarious, beware of ultras for now!
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**Unpur3** · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 12:03 pm Post subject:

I've added my SC2 rank sig to my sig on this forum too, yes I'm in bronze, but its only because of how bad I was when I started. I've been playing a lot of customs recently and beat a few golds, one or 2 plats and held my own against some diamonds. Its just a shame that all the silvers I play in ladder cheese to no end so its 50/50 usually if I hold off their initial cheese then win.

I think I'm going to try to make the move to protoss soon, I've been playing them in customs and 2v2's and I just seem to be able to use them a lot better than terran. I like how many different things they can do like blink stalkers, DTs, void rays, high temps, collosus, etc.

Oh yeh, ultras really are stupidly powerful now, I don't know if anyones seen PsyStarcrafts patch update video, but he shows the new splash damage effect with SCVs repairing a planitary fortress, and one ultra on its own literally hits every SCV repairing it all around the fortress. Its got to be a bug or glitch or something like that. Even Psy who is all out zerg admits its pretty stupid and wants it changing.
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**Adsee** · Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 606 Location: Somewhere in NJ

The patch was nice, but I'd like to see more changes in terms of Zerg being buffed up a little. While its not as extreme as some may say, its hard to deny that they are the weakest of the three races atm.
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