#goofymacro crossing borders!

Haha. I accumulated a bunch of money and didn't get any mercenaries or anything either, so fishy

Not sure I like MOBA's. Im 1-10 in Dota2 so far despite pretty much always having more kills than deaths and not doing anything obviously game losing personally. I go support heroes and just stay in lane most of the time. Meanwhile there's usually at least one disconnect and someone who goes 1-10 always on my team, never on opposition.

Meh **** it back to laddering SC2?

pretty sure 1 rax fe is probably the best/easiest for silver. reapers will prob actually win you a couple games overall, but i think its better to not get caught up over microing it and floating a ton of mins OR losing it because you arent paying enough attention and just do a really simple open

i still do it vT cause theres so many stupid opens imo, having marines out and just scv scout seems safer than bo gambling

So lets say i spot a 4-gate or similar heavy pressure. As a terran, I....

just start cranking out as many units as I can, maybe don't build an ebay right away and don't try to immediately tech to starport, etc? throw down a bunker? Although vs blink a bunker isn't that good

I mean v. zerg if i know ling pressure or a baneling bust is coming I've got that down pretty well; wall off, build a bunker, widow mines and a seige tank if possible. But if I lose to some early-medium heavy pressure it's almost always v. Protoss.

I'm gonna have to look up a 1Rax expand order. Figure I could wing it but I gotta figure out when to add on rax and more importantly when to get gas>techlab>stim because that's pretty critical obv. start teching from there

4gate isn't heavy pressure, it's all in.

You build lots of bunkers at your front, get SCVs ready to be pulled to repair.

semantics

also i have yet to see a legit 4gate at my level, besides that one matchup where the plat guy destroyed me.

1 rax fe you just 11 depot, 12 rax, 16 orbital then build cc on 400 mins. can either add 2 rax or 2 gas after and go from there

addons depend on matchup and factory. if i dont need a factory i usually reactor first rax tl 2nd, reactor third, but that could be suboptimal. you dont need to rush out stim really anyway

don't tech at all. assuming you've done the normal 1rax FE into 3rax + gas, you're probably starting your stim. it's fine to get this upgrade, because you're going to need it once you hold off his build.

you hold off his different all ins in different ways. generally, there are only a few protoss all ins. common themes are that it's okay to lift your CC and retreat into your main, because he's still on one base.

gateway pressure (usually four gates, rarely five, sometimes is similar):
get bunkers and as many units as you can. these all ins are usually only stalker/zealot, because they usually involve a single gas and sentries are too expensive. add a fourth or fifth barracks if you find yourself with too much money.

three bunkers is usually okay assuming you have SCVs to repair, but you can't have enough if you think you need to be safe. grab an ebay and a factory whenever you have the money, but these aren't priorities if you think you might die.

3 gate blink stalker:

this one is harder, because a perfectly executed blink stalker build is always a pain in the ass. marauders basically hard counter stalkers early on, so get as many of them as you can (out of one rax) while making marines with your other two-four barracks. build a bunker in your main where you think he might blink in and have two more at your natural. if you can kill the mothership core, his ability to blink into your main is gone. SCVs are surprisingly good vs stalkers, so pull them if you need the extra DPS/trapping power.

DTs

have to scout this. if he has really early gas, it's usually DTs or stargate. get an ebay and throw down a turret at your natural. maybe get one in your main too if you think he might be dropping/if you're not sure if it's stargate.

Oracle

lots of marines, a turret in your main and natural, and pull your SCVs fast as hell when you see the oracle. don't think "oh my marines will be there in 5 seconds; i can keep mining." i think you need five marines to kill an oracle (might be four).

void ray

bunkers, a turret is helpful, and as many marines as you can get. if you kill the void rays you win because they often have only zealots (and maybe a sentry and a few stalkers).

if for some reason you already have a factory, getting a widow mine or two is helpful. these all ins rarely come with detection and essentially grant you a free unit kill (+splash). plus they scare the **** out of protoss.

the advantage of a reaper opening in low levels is that no one denies scouts well so you can figure out exactly what they're doing. i even make two reapers before getting a factory in TvZ and TvP just so i can fully scout.

yeah kinda depends on the matchup, vs zerg going baneling bust i'll go 2 tl 1 reactor just to get more marauders early against ling bane, also go for the factory earlier (often will build 2 factories for my midgame since mines and tanks are pretty awesome TvZ.) So that obv means I'd take the gas. Once they start adding mutas then it's no problem to start making vikings and switch to making less marauders

may have to start making reapers. Another unit that I've made in like 2 games. Probably a huge leak, like when I never made widow mines

you don't really need marauders vs ling bane unless you just want things to sponge damage. not a terrible idea but adding in hellions is also a good thing

mostly to sponge damage, yes. Cuz my splitting micro is bad. I do try to use helions once i beat the initial bust and move out on the map

why you make vikings vs mutas? marauders are also pretty bad vs lings so its good to not overmake. hellions are good if you can control them separately from bio, but if you run them into your bio ball when lings overwhelm, it kinda defeats the purpose

bsball, i also reaper almost always, but even the first ~10 times maybe i was so concerned with not losing it i would end up with like 700 mins goofy style (have since gotten over that)

arent tanks better than mines vs blink stalker allin/pressures?

oh man the dota 2 finals... can say i dont even play or watch much dota anymore but it crushed every sc2 events ive ever seen :/.

Way to go valve, and sick finals. Vods would be worth it for those interested. Dat last game, holy ****.

yea but tanks are really expensive

idk if i ever make mines against toss besides as stationary annoying map scouts

because they fly and are anti air, idk, how do you defeat mutas, i just make marines and a few vikings

the meta is never stagnant because there are like 100 heroes to choose from and a small change to 5-10 heroes can have a huge impact on the metagame.

if sc2 had like 20 different races you wouldn't need so many maps.

yea the long run is going to come extremely slowly when you solo queue. especially if you're playing support for players who don't know what they're doing. best way to win in dota vs other noobs is to get a hero that can carry late game but is also useful early on like lifestealer/chaos knight/sven/juggernaut. the next best thing would be to get a high impact solo mid hero like queen of pain/pudge/puck/storm spirit and just dominate the entire map but you have to be quite a bit better than the other players to pull that off w/o much help from your team.

marines/medivacs gonna work out a lot better than vikings against any real amount of mutas

one of my friends was watchin so i watched a bit last 2 nights. actually was really sick despite having ~next to no idea what all the spells/w.e were. 1.4 mil 5 ways sounds pretty nice.

I am just a beginner. My record isn't 1-10 in my last 11 games, its 1-11 all time . Just frustrating not to get a few wins, some wins were decided by one player beasting, dunno what they were doing in the limited hero game, he was never on my team obv :P.

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/9628133352#1

Sorry if already posted couldnt find it, but testpatch with big buffs to overseer speed and vipers.

Which i think are two very precise and very good buffs.

Also, theyre trying out giving mech attack to air too. I guess theyre seeing a late game 3/3 hellbat+vikings +other air vs toss?

will never work because of feedback vs ravens and BCs but woteva. Buffed hellbats and vikings vs toss endgame could be nice.


ALso lol @making tanks vs full energy vipers .