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| Author: | Hearthly [ Fri Jan 28, 2011 0:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Who was the ass-kicker, and who got their ass kicked? |
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| Author: | Jon.J [ Fri Jan 28, 2011 0:50 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
I got my base destroyed, and then when I tried to hide in a corner of the map and rebuild, proceeded to get my base destroyed before it had even finished building. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Jon.J wrote: I got my base destroyed, and then when I tried to hide in a corner of the map and rebuild, proceeded to get my base destroyed before it had even finished building. Hai! Yeah, unfortunately you tried to land a base and 2 barracks where I'd just sent a scouting party of tanks and Thors. 
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| Author: | itsallwater [ Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Shame you guys played later I wouldn't have played poker! I also lost two games in a row... because I'm rubbish! |
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| Author: | WTB [ Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
I'm so shit at Starcraft. However! According to the stats at the end I think I had the best economy. Shame didn't know what to spend it on. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
You should spend it on YOUR FACE! |
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| Author: | itsallwater [ Fri Jan 28, 2011 11:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Did some reading last night and found that you have to arrange your economy so that you maximise gathering and decide on your build tree before you start. It's the only way to sort it. So either massive ground or air. Then build shit loads while having an army large enough to take on a few small attacks. Terran have the weakest economy and you require the mule to get it going in comparison to the other guys. Also block the entrance to your base with supply depots and barracks. ... that's all I managed to figure out last night before still getting spanked! |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Jon.J wrote: I finished off the campaign last night ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! I'm having a tough time once I get half way through, maybe it's because I took out their air support. Also I've just realised I'm not building any of those Zerg-slower-downer-things   That should help LOADS when I try again.
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| Author: | Jon.J [ Fri Jan 28, 2011 15:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Zardoz wrote: Jon.J wrote: I finished off the campaign last night ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! I'm having a tough time once I get half way through, maybe it's because I took out their air support. Also I've just realised I'm not building any of those Zerg-slower-downer-things That should help LOADS when I try again.I didn't bother. I'd researched the Zerg-taking-over-thing and didn't end up building very many at all. |
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| Author: | Ramsea [ Fri Jan 28, 2011 21:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Me also now haz this...now I just need a pc that works 
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Campaign finished. Multiplayer ahoy! Not won a game against a random yet. |
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| Author: | romanista [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
there was going to be a mac version, wasn't there? |
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| Author: | WTB [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 12:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
It works on both - all Blizzard stuff does these days! |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 17:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
romanista wrote: there was going to be a mac version, wasn't there? Yeah, they made it too.  I'm playing it on my MacBook Pro. |
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| Author: | WTB [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 20:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
How is it on the Pro Z? How recent is your system? I intend to purchase a Macbook Pro as soon as I have more than a fiver in the bank on a regular basis, and I was hoping to do a bit of the old "mobile" gaming on it. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 20:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
It runs perfectly. The only thing is I have to have the graphic settings on low, but that's only due to my graphics card and processor, it's a two year old machine. It still looks great as Blizzard did a grand job with the scalability. |
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| Author: | WTB [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 21:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Ah cool, so it's safe to assume that on a new machine with a beefier card, I can run it on at least medium. I run it on ULTRA!!!! on this PC. 
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 21:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
I'm more interested in the purity of the gaming experience than the smoke and mirrors.  Yeah, it would be fine turning it up a notch on a newer machine. Shame they're all glossy displays and built in batteries these days.
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| Author: | itsallwater [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 21:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Lost 5 out of 5 games!!! boooooo! |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 22:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Only lost 2 out of 2. |
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| Author: | romanista [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 22:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Zardoz wrote: romanista wrote: there was going to be a mac version, wasn't there? Yeah, they made it too. I'm playing it on my MacBook Pro. ah that sounbds good, i just created an account, but isn't there a demo somewhere?\ |
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| Author: | WTB [ Sun Jan 30, 2011 22:49 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Yeah there's a demo! edit: https://us.battle.net/account/sc2-demo.html Pretty sure it's only the campaign though rather than multiplayer/skirmish mode, but that's not necessarily a bad thing! |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 2:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
3 defeats out of 3 now, but that last game ran the longest and I had the upper hand at one point.  
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| Author: | itsallwater [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
I actually won one because someone's connection died. Everything else apart from one I lost within 5 minutes! |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
5 minutes? Did you get attacked by a rush of SCV's? The game I had last night was about 1.5 hours long. Pretty enjoyable too until I lost. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
I'm finding the Challenge levels quite helpful. The beginner set is good for understanding the scissor/paper/stone aspect of some of the units. I'll defo play through the rest of them too, inbetween getting slaughtered in multiplayer. |
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| Author: | itsallwater [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Zardoz wrote: 5 minutes? Did you get attacked by a rush of SCV's? The game I had last night was about 1.5 hours long. Pretty enjoyable too until I lost. Actually 5 minutes! Everyone sends in their probes and builds photon cannons in my base! I spend most the time chasing them out before getting taken out by 2 of what ever they build first units. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
 I'll have to watch out for that if I'm up against Protoss, only ever seem to get games against Zerg though.Are Terrans just shit? |
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| Author: | itsallwater [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Terrans are ok if you can last long enough to get the big guns out and decide on a tech tree from what I can see, although I need to get there yet. It seems to be very difficult using the building blocking at the entrance to your base technique that you can do with the Terrans. Every time a unit has managed to get in and pester my SCV's. |
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| Author: | WTB [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Most of the "pro" matches I've been watching on YouTube are between 15 and 20 minutes long. If you're playing for 1.5 hours, all you're doing is amassing a giant army until one of you finally decides to attack the other, then it's basically down to luck (whoever built the best units for dealing with the other guy's units). Sometimes that's fun, but it's not really very tactical, and it only works if both of you are happy to sit back and build for ages. I imagine if you sat back and built whilst playing a better player, they'd be rushing in at the 15 minute mark and spunking in your eyes. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
WTB wrote: If you're playing for 1.5 hours, all you're doing is amassing a giant army until one of you finally decides to attack the other, then it's basically down to luck (whoever built the best units for dealing with the other guy's units). Nope, wasn't like that really, he attacked early on with a small group but I'd decided to fortify my base, I then countered and it carried on like that for some time. My undoing was branching out to the middle of the map which at first went well, until I was discovered and got swamped. |
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| Author: | WTB [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
I'll let you off then! Seriously though - 1.5 hours of nibbling at each other is a pretty cool scenario. I love how any game can go in so many different directions. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
I'd like my Wraiths back for multiplayer too please. |
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| Author: | markg [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
WTB wrote: I'll let you off then! Seriously though - 1.5 hours of nibbling at each other is a pretty cool scenario. 
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
I'm still sore now. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 13:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
It appears that my thoughts today about producing Hellions instead of tanks against the Zerg is a good strategy. Plenty of places online say it's a great way to deal with those pesky Zerglings. |
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| Author: | romanista [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 13:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
WTB wrote: Yeah there's a demo! edit: https://us.battle.net/account/sc2-demo.html Pretty sure it's only the campaign though rather than multiplayer/skirmish mode, but that's not necessarily a bad thing! ah thanks, couldn't, find it, not sure why.. i just want to get a bit of feeling about it before deciding if to buy and confront you guys, it seems to have a lot of longevity though, so that's good.. why are you guysstarting to play it now, wasn't it released last june? |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 13:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Did you play the first Star Craft? It's basically just more of that, with a sprinkle of ZOMFG. Most BEEXers are shit at the Multiplayer so jump in now, before we start learning. 
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 13:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
romanista wrote: why are you guysstarting to play it now, wasn't it released last june? Pinball FX2 happened. |
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| Author: | romanista [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 21:49 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
waiting for payment to confirm..\ |
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| Author: | itsallwater [ Mon Jan 31, 2011 22:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
romanista wrote: waiting for payment to confirm..\ Woot|! |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 0:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Yay! United in defeat I'm off for a game now. |
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| Author: | WTB [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 0:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
AWWWW YEAHHH I might jump on for a pre-bed game. Gonna make a drink of some sort first. A hot beverage. Perhaps a cocoa. Or a cup of tea. You get the picture. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 0:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Another close call! Terran v Teran... but I lost out just at the end. |
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| Author: | WTB [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Just had a T v T myself and won. Played 3, won 2. In the Practice League. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
Yeah, the games I'm playing are in the practice league. Last night was another long tit for tat battle, ultimately I was the tit in tatters. At least now I'm realising what I should have done and how to improve the next time. |
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| Author: | romanista [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:39 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
got it now and installed it, learining korean and pming people for their emailadressess.. \ |
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| Author: | Slightly Green [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 13:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
finished moving house and have given up on unpacking boxes for now, PC is all set up and working thats all that really matters  should be online if anyone fancies a game later
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| Author: | Slightly Green [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 13:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
romanista wrote: got it now and installed it, learining korean and pming people for their emailadressess.. \ welcome to SC2 although i think you may be patching the bastard for a while, as with all Bliz games its a nightmare wait.If you fancy a game my user name is - Decardo and the magic user id number is 114. Look forward to seeing you in game |
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| Author: | romanista [ Tue Feb 01, 2011 21:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Star Craft II |
romanista - 969 |
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