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Originally Posted by Willd
The difference is that those games are almost entirely about those fast reactions and micro and being good at that is what makes you a high level player. Because macro is such a huge part of starcraft the elite reactions and micro, whilst obviously helpful, isn't actually necessary to be near the top of the game.
For example with the Snute one, just doing the basic of making sure only the one drone gets hit would be more than good enough for anyone up to GM level, the extra bit just isn't important enough relative to other aspects to make any significant difference before then.
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Originally Posted by gamboneee
i played cs for like 10 years, up to invite, not any of the other 2 games, but cs isnt comparable to sc2 at all imo.. only thing that cs would help in that spot is to be reactive instantly. cs doesnt have the constant distraction of sc2; your screen is always exactly where its supposed to be, whereas in starcraft you could basically always be looking in 1 of 3-5 places in any instant and it wouldnt be right or wrong necessarily.
if you have to wait 4 seconds (3 burrow 1 to shoot), waiting to save a drone, you could argue that your lack of attention to other things in that time frame is going to be more expensive than the net loss of 1 worker - the spore cancellation
so to compare something so much more minor with games with much much less drawing away your attention seems pretty flawed
Yes, I never said it was comparable 1:1 or whatever, but just the fact that people make a huge deal about something that is basically about reacting within 1 second to do something you know is coming, is pretty amusing to me. He was already there, looking at the drones, splitting them, then doing a relatively basic move of saving the last drone since he was there already. It doesn't even take much practice at all. It's about the same difficulty as building a spore with a drone that's being attacked by a reaper, right before the drone is about to die(which 100% of my zerg opponents do already). And yes in sc2 it's probably better to macro than save the drone(in mid-late game). Unless maybe you will get a ton of attention/fame for it
might be +ev careerwise.
Now don't get me wrong, Snute's a nice guy and a great player and it was a nice move, but it's not really worthy of the reddit threads and forum threads all over the place praising him to the heavens for a relatively basic move. To take an example that's clearly more difficult:
As an example of what a wc3 player can do