Game looks great. Running forced 4x MSAA with 60-100 FPS at highest in game settings, 1920x1200. I'm going to try some higher AA.
Play random 2v2s, 3v3s etc - you get to play against noobs and learn the race.
With protoss, I normally go
8 Supply
13 Gate
17 Cyber (pros go 15 but I'm noob lol)
25 Gas
Once cyber is finish, immediately research Warp Technology. Get 4 gates per expansion and convert them all to warpgates. Stalkers are an awesome unit, I use zealots mostly as a mineral sink (but they become effective once you get the charge upgrade).
Void ray openings are also quite common - the trick is to distract them so that the void ray doesn't get damaged - its weak, but if it can attack enough it will do heaps of damage.
I'm a gold league toss player (though probably should be silver/bronze, I lucked out in my placement matches lol).
Damn I get more and more nervous the more I win. I have like no self confidence in myself with this game.
It just seemed so "artificial". I know it is a game and everything is "artificial", but I mean that it just seemed so contrived and you were constantly running back and forth from the lava and moving from one ore field to the other. And I hated balancing building troops to defend with using up the ore I had collected. And why did it have to be 8000. Another contrived constraint. If you gather 7999 you fail and one more and you succeed???
And after you got the ore, so what?? The goal seemed so anticlimatic.
I wish now I had just built up an army and wiped everybody out like someone else suggested. It would have been much more satisfying.
OK, it happened again. I stomped my opponent in the practice league and he complained about spamming tier 1 units. Personally, I dont think me sending a handful of marines with a bunch of reapers against his armada of battlecruisers should qualify as cheap tactics. The guy quit before I even wiped out his satellite base.
Am I an asshole if I just use infantry?
I have the same problem. Won all my online matches so far and it just makes me paranoid. I dont know why I should be so scared of losing to a human, the computer beats me all the time.
OK, it happened again. I stomped my opponent in the practice league and he complained about spamming tier 1 units. Personally, I dont think me sending a handful of marines with a bunch of reapers against his armada of battlecruisers should qualify as cheap tactics. The guy quit before I even wiped out his satellite base.
Am I an asshole if I just use infantry?
lol no. sadly BCs in SC2 are but a shadow of their former selves
Yeah I noticed if you keep them spread out, 2000 minerals worth of marines can destroy 4000 minerals worth of battlecruisers. And one of them is much quicker to make than the other.
The dude tried to rush me with a dozen cruisers and my mass of towers held him off while my marines came back and nailed them. At the end I still had a solid force and was able to press forward and hit his base. He had no defenses and just used the standard 3 supply depots to cover his entrance, which never does anything.
Is there anything I could be overlooking to help performance? Maybe Vista settings or tweaks that could help it run faster. I mean his computer is 203 years old, which is not that bad, and I know there are people with older hardware running it fine. I'd like to figure this out because he will not be able to on his own and I like playing with friends.
People don't like you using mostly Marines because it's called "Cheesing." It's a term used for almost any video game where you simply do the same thing all the time. You know that one guy who plays Street Fighter and simply uses that one really annoying move almost all the time? That's a cheeser .
I can't really complain though... I use Marines+Medics in almost every single player campaign... only thing that can beat it is usually the toss-walkers .
once you leave practice league that shit won't run far (mass marines). 12 cruisers is not a rush, hahaha. Reminds me of 1v1NR30minutes games in sc1.
i wouldn't say guarantees an easy win. many times it's not an easy win, you have to try pretty hard at the cheesing lol. cheesing is more like doing cheap and dirty tactics outside of the norm for a quicker win. it prevents a really good game where skills really show.no, cheesing is where you do something that is cheesy - ie, guarantees a relatively easy win.
sorry dude, you're not gonna kill 8 battlecruisers with 40 marines. although judging from the unit composition of marines vs battlecuisers, both of you guys aren't very good (no offense)Yeah I noticed if you keep them spread out, 2000 minerals worth of marines can destroy 4000 minerals worth of battlecruisers. And one of them is much quicker to make than the other.
i wouldn't say guarantees an easy win. many times it's not an easy win, you have to try pretty hard at the cheesing lol. cheesing is more like doing cheap and dirty tactics outside of the norm for a quicker win. it prevents a really good game where skills really show.
sorry dude, you're not gonna kill 8 battlecruisers with 40 marines. although judging from the unit composition of marines vs battlecuisers, both of you guys aren't very good (no offense)
The point of the mission was to teach you how to macro an economy and micro units for maximum effectiveness and also to encourage not just turtling. In multiplayer you will rarely ever get to just wipe your opponents out so easily.
yup, i believe this too. do you get dropped to the main menu? it's happened to me twice.disconnect hack is out on SC 2
**SPOILER**
Plus, there is the whole "oh, the overmind wasn't evil! he was trying to save the universe!" which feels so contrived and not like what the original writers wanted.
Oooohhh that really pissed me off...I was really hoping the overmind dying was maybe all part of its grand plan for domination and it wasent really dead but no... it was a good guy all along... nah i dont like that at all, not one bit.