Official TBA StarCraft II Thread

[Sinitron]

i hope they fired their writing team

[rtil]

promoted to diamond >_< \m/

[Crabarms]

Not just diamond HIGH DIAMOND.
THATS LIKE MASTERS.

[rtil]

well it's a new division with like 15 people, i'm sure it wont last long haha

[Crabarms]

Its good that you got back to where you were when you stopped playing. Or do you still feel things still not the same.


http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/4519245/Season_7_GSL_Map_Poll-2_28_2012#blog

They are having a vote on tournament maps.

[rtil]

already voted, looking forward to it. and i am still not where i was when i used to ladder but i am improving and beating diamonds more often

[cipher]

Voted. Hopefully they'll go through with this

[Crabarms]

new blizzard custom map is now available "starcraft master"

[Sinitron]

the baneling ones are hard as fuck

[Crabarms]

Its not too bad of a custom. Some are stupidly easy but there are a few good ones that I thought were fun. It doesn't take long to get to the next challenge. Haven't completed it yet though.

[rtil]

you only need to beat 25 missions to get the portrait, and thank fuck because the last 4 are fucking impossible

[Crabarms]

Yeah I can't kite well with banshee at all. I always manage to hit the reset button while trying to move around the map. Got a bit better using the little rocks help keep the marines from clumping, the mountain in the middle is just for decoration though so many deaths trying to use it against the ai. They don't actually have those kind of structures on normal maps unless I have mistaken.

Barely managed to kill the stalkers with the tank and medivac.

[rtil]

i can do the banshee moving attack thing. but i cant do it 20 times in a row perfectly, while hoping that some marine on the side won't come around and shoot me

[Sinitron]

yeah that one is fucking horrible you can easily banshee rush and fuck up a terran going marines but like it requires you to abuse cliffs and funnel units between structures and shit

in almost open ground it's next to impossible

[Crabarms]

When protoss ever walls the ramp I get so frustrated. I know that I should just make queen, spread creep just make a couple spines. Also pissed when I can make lings and still can't really effectively kill it with them instead of using spines. I guess always preemptively have drone their to hopefully spot it in time? I usually have second overlord hanging around in the back to spot anything from them. Just one of those things I need to work on.

[rtil]

what do you mean? are you talking about ff on ramps?

[Crabarms]

No like they make 3 pylons to keep your units inside then make cannons. I don't think drone drill works any more.
So you would make queen, slowly spread creep to the ramp.
I guess having a drone down that area could help if a probe is still wandering around but I have had situations where they just build around it lol.

[rtil]

drone drill only works in certain locations on maps anyway

i've had this happen to me 2, maybe 3 times... if you're really worried about this, i would patrol a drone at the ramp, and perhaps use your scouting drone to make a proxy hatch if he somehow still pulls it off. i also recommend pooling before hatch to get lings out quickly to stop any proxy shit. 15 pool/15 hatch is safer in zvp because of the power of forge first openings

[Crabarms]

Yeah its not too common but I had it happen like 3 times yesterday didn't react the way I should of.

[rtil]

if you really wanna get them back, and think you can remember to macro while you do this, cheese them back like this:
Mouse.Mana v FXO.Lucky g3 [Assembly ASUS ROG Ro8]