Be Excellent To Each Other

didn't expect that those matches on you tube would be actually fun to watch.. it's just sports i guess..

I won a game!

Other guy left half way through.

got enthusiastic by watching the reports on the you tube films, and then wnated to know some more about things like the creep, googled for it, and then came into a wiki..

that background story is rather 2nd rate science fiction isn't it , kind a alienated me, better stick to the game itself..

which is even more Dune II like than i thought previously, not that much has changed in 18! years..

oh, and congrats Zardoz!

Thanks man!

Pretty hollow victory really though, I want to hulk smash someone off the map.

As for the story... just get playing the game.

Don't set the SCV waypoint to just off the crystal. Also don't set your waypoint to mine gas and then create 1000 SCV for 1 mine!!!!

FAIL! Although I still managed to beat the computer!

Yeah, I've done that.

played some more mission, slowly getting faster with the ui which i suppose i'l need to..

I won 2 games because the other player timed out!

Also I've spent far too long playing one side... I suck at playing Zerg

thats exactly what i did when i started, i just played Terran and then realised that i had no idea how Zerg and Toss worked, so i decided to play with them for a bit just so i could get a good understanding to beat them, i am now totaly hooked on Zerg and am useless with the Terrans

I want to get my tactics past the base defence and build up until either getting poked by the enemy and needing to retaliate or reaching critical mass with my units and swamping the poor enemy, i tend to expand very quickly early on which can mean a very quick game if the enemy does a early push but most of the time they don't so i end up with a economy that is able to batter them even with heavy losses on my side. Another thing i really need practice with is the unit control i have a nasty habit of just mass selecting units and sending them on an attack spree with the [Shift A] command, need to get practising on my micro management i think.

Although I do use ctrl+'n' to group more now.

Played 12, won 6. Decided to "skip" the rest of the noob league. Played one game in the proper league, lost. I'm playing as Protoss now. They're good!

Not touched it for a while now, I want to finish the challenge modes first before more multi-player.

In case anybody is confused, I've changed my name to Minge now. So that's why there's a Minge on your friends list. I wanted Mangina but it wasn't allowed. Minge was.

Does anyone fancy a few skirmishes this week sometime?

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUU!

Come on nerds! Someone must fancy a few games?

If I'm online hit me up! I've been travelling and concentrating on some of the training battle which I must say seem to have helped me a little. Now it's time for WAR! Wmhahaha!

I'm getting good now! Won the last five games in a row, and I'm now at 23 wins, 30 losses, so closing in on a 1:1 ratio after losing a shitload when I first entered the proper leagues. Exciting times!

http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/1897267/1/Minge/

Because I was a SCII "early adopter", Blizzard have just given me a free copy of WoW and sixty days to play it.

Anyone else get that?

Yes...

I got one in the SCII DVD Case when I bought it.

Don't do it, Grim...!

I started playing again in January. Played it solid for a month and then realised (for probably the fifth time since it came out), that not only was it cannibalising all of my other game playing time, but that it was totally pointless and boring. But also addictive. Mmmmm, WoW.

ANYWAY, since I got SCII, I haven't touched WoW. SCII is awesome. As is playing other games.

I've played this for a few hours today, only on the campaign mode on normal mind. I didnt play the first game nor have I really played any of the other Blizzard RTS games such as Warhammer DOW so I guess Im pretty rubbish at it. Whilst I am doing ok and working my way through the missions, its taking quite a long time and becoming a bit of a grind. The day/night mission probably took me a good hour and a half.

Anyway, my main reason for buying this game, as with any other RTS or game for that matter, is to play it with people online, preferable bezzie chums.

Ive had a few alcoholic beverages tonight so Im probably just being useless, but is there anywhere where I can find all your gamertags or whatever its called in Blizzard world? (I'll obviously add mine whenever I figure out what it is. Its probably just "ramsea" with a bit of luck)

If not, can everyone add them here and if Zardoz is in a good mood and isnt too busy taking photos of the texture of his skidmarks, could perhaps add them to the opening post?

You lazy bastard, get trawling for the names yourself.

Bloody Ramsea.

You only need WTBs tag anyway as everyone has ditched this game now

ffs, in that case, Im ditching it too...

i'm still wanting to play this only too, so don't ditch it yet!

I'm still playing (badly)

Quiet, Zardoz. You can't "ditch" SCII. It's eternally awesome. You can play as many other games as you like, but you can always come back for a few skirmishes. It's aces. Even if I did get spanked repeatedly last night when I played.

Wow, I officially suck at this game. I cannot even beat the computer AI on medium, (other than the obvious) what is wrong with me ?

I was up until the early hours this morning trying different tactics to win but kept failing. Any tips you guys (or gals) can offer will be much appreciated. So far, I have only played with Teran.

So it is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.
If you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or may lose.
If you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.

I know your mum well enough that I 'win' most of the time.

You need to concentrate on constantly making workers until your minerals/gas are saturated, then expand. Or you can expand earlier. Just try to get a good couple of bases going and build your economy. Never have more than a few hundred minerals sitting in the bank - always build more units - but DON'T queue the units. That's wasted money. Build more barracks/unit making buildings so you can build lots of units at the same time. But most importantly, you want to be always creating more workers so the cash is rolling in, then just build your army up. Tech up in one area - don't try to explore the whole tech tree and spread yourself thinly. Build units that counter what your enemy is producing - always scout your enemy's base. There's a load of stuff on YouTube, tutorials and stuff. Also, read this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comme ... questions/

There are shit loads of newbie guides out there.

Team Liquid is an excellent resource:

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

I always charge your Mum from high ground and with the sun behind me.

I always take your mum right up the middle with overwhelming force.

Once I'm deeply within her trenches I call for reinforcements to keep the upper hand.

She's well positioned to handle advances on multiple fronts.

Woohoo, I managed to beat medium last night, bring on the hard!

The main thing I did differently, other than building more structures and expanding which helped me train units faster (thanks WTB) I started harassing the enemy using my Banshees forcing them to return to base to defend rather than attack my base. Cloaking Banshees is ace.

I still only struggled to win as my base was pretty much flatterned near the end of the game and if the AI wasnt stupid, it couldve destroyed my base easily before my few remaining Banshees managed to destroy its base.

I still fear that even Zardoz would give me a whooping so plenty more practise is required....unfortunately, my pc keeps blue screening since Ive had the motherboard RMA'd. Right pain in the hoop.

Urgh! Cloaked Banshees are the bane of my life! Keep up the work and get your ass on the ladder!

Dunno really, I get leathered on multiplayer and I've only gone through the campaign on normal.

I don't have the time for SC2 atm.

I had a game as Zerg today because I realised I have absolutely no idea what I'm up against when I come across a Zerg player in the wild. It's very different!

Season 2 has started by the way chaps, which means the ladder has been reset*. Also, in the most recent patch, Blizzard removed your "loss" count from your profile, which is something of a thorny issue within the community. Personally, I think it's great because I'm no longer worried about my win/loss ratio and I'm more eager to play matchmade games now that I don't get an ugly red strike on my record if I lose.

I know it's lame, but it did genuinely put me off just jumping in and playing if I ever didn't feel I could give 100% concentration to a game. Now I'm more relaxed about just playing the game regardless.

*Your historical record still remains in your profile as "total wins", and your Season 1 ladder position is visible, but you start on a fresh ladder for Season 2.

I need to get back playing. I found medium AI hard work. I could win if I hand some way of building up a decent force but most times they run right in and spank me.


Although one thing I noticed after watching the replays are that after their first attack sending in anything you have built can most the time cause some good damage as they normally have few or no troops.

Yeah it's a basic "timing push". They build up in such a way that at a certain time they'll have a precise number of troops, at which point the go in with some early aggression. If you can hold it off and build up a few troops of your own, you can easily counter it. The Medium AI does the same thing every time. Wall your base off and try to funnel the AI's push into your base through an enclosed area, then pick them off with the appropriate troops.

I like to play this game cause its by strategy to win , but how could it be that something error in this exe. file

Of course!

Problem solved.

lmao, i find that exact same error in this exe. file

I am still playing this also, but finding myself languishing in the Bronze league with the new season...oh well

if anyone wants a game it is Decardo with magic user code 114

Excellent we can try getting spanked at 2v2! Loooooose!

It's what you make of it I think.

I'll grant you it does encroach on 'other games' time, but I have the mobile gaming/PC gaming split for that.

As for pointless and boring, if you distil any game down to its core, what is the 'point' of it? If we're saying that games should be fun, then there's no reason WoW can't deliver, if you get locked into a soulless level/gear grind then yes it can be dull I guess (same as grim cheevo whoring on 360 games IMO), but playing a variety of characters/roles/levels in a friendly guild with IRL connections is as good as gaming gets to my mind.

I was being a little harsh calling it pointless and boring - I was in the hate stage of love/hate! I'll undoubtedly play it again at some point, but yeah, it cannibalises my other game playing time, which is both a good thing (saves you money) and a bad thing (you miss out on loads of great stuff). So yeah, I'll likely be back one day, but for now I've had more than my fill again!

In case anyone is wondering, I play Star Craft every day still. It's awesome. I'm also still in stupid Bronze League, even though I've won the majority of my games this season.

We'll have to have a game sometime, I haven't played for months though, so you'll wipe the floor with me I'm sure, I can't even remember the basic Terran build order. (And I haven't delved into the Zerg or Protoss in SC2, although I was pretty darned handy with the Protoss in SC1. I never did like the Zerg, horrible slimy things.)

It all means LESS WOW TIME though, which is a Very Bad Thing.