They are awesome, but I find that I underuse them along with hellions in favour of MMM balls, which is a shame, because they are awesome.
In fact, I beat a diamond zerg once with nothing but infernal preigniter hellions and a small MM ball.
If I gun for the offensive MMM, (I noob out and forget to expand due to just basking in the glory of not falling to initial rushes), I won’t have resources for tanks or the siege upgrade since I want to keep my marines alive longer with the shield 
FUCK LOST VIKINGS
You have to leave your vikings standing in places where the enemies cannot reach them or protect them with the fat viking’s shield while you counter attack with the viking with the blade. gg kekeke
Does anyone else think the new shortcuts for building/special abilities are often bollocks? They are far from intuitive and I’ve found myself thinking this often even about shortcuts that I’ve memorised.
Yeah , I’m not fond of the fact pylon and probe are both e.It took some getting used to. Its not THAT bad overall though. I can see why they did some things.
95% of the shortcuts are placed so that you don’t have to move your left hand from the left side of the keyboard. No more pressing B and then moving your hand all the way to the other side of the keyboard for P to build a pylon.
I can see why they did it, I just need to break old habits.
My left hand is also usually close to the arrows on the bottom right of my keyboard, leaving the p for pylon would’ve been fine for me.
GOTTA INCREASE MY BUTTON PRESSES FROM 260 / MINUTE TO 275 / MINUTE OR I WON’T BE ABLE TO COMPETE IN FIRST TIER PROFESSIONAL ONLINE TOURNAMENTS AND MY GF WILL LEAVE ME FOR A BETTER PLAYER ;; ;; ;_; - literally some kid in korea
Actually SC2 is doing terribly in Korea
How come?
Well, there’s a bunch of reasons, but basically:
a) Not everyone in Korea is gonna run out to buy a new computer just to play Starcraft 2. Starcraft 1 could run on any computer. Starcraft 2 can’t.
b) It’s not as good or as balanced as Brood War (when adjusted for period it came out) - there’s a real reason for this, which is that Blizzard put “e-sports” first and game quality second, and it really does show. Maybe Brood War was an accidental masterpiece or whatever, but they didn’t even try for this one.
c) They pissed off KeSPA, which is an organization that holds all the cards when it comes to televised gaming, by shutting them out and signing an exclusive contract with their (smaller) competitor, GomTV, which, despite the name, doesn’t actually hold any broadcasting rights but is a streaming service.
d) No LAN; internet cafes are not going to pay $3000 for their 50 computers just so their customers can play 1 game. All the Korean kids who are forced to study for 10 hours a day are not going to convince their parents to buy them a new computer plus Starcraft 2 so they can bring shame to the family or whatever, so the only other place where they could possibly play won’t have it.
Blizzard’s not releasing their sales figures in South Korea. Unless it’s embarrassingly low, I don’t see any reason why they would hide it.
I’ve watched Warcraft 3 on chinese TV before…the commentators sound just as excited as if they are covering a football game.
That’s another thing KeSPA has over GomTV: they have announcers with TV personalities whereas GomTV doesn’t.
Blizzard was freaking out about intellectual property rights or something.
I’m probably in the minority here (someone who even cares about this, is what I mean), but I fucking hate “announcers,” especially those who really don’t know what they are talking about. I’d much rather have a calm “commentator” who has an inkling of whats going on. I think I watched 30 seconds of one of the BlizzCon WoW Arena tournaments before I unzipped my pants and vomited onto my genitals. A good current example would be HDStarcraft vs. Huskystarcraft. I guess I just don’t want the pro-gaming community to “sell out” or something, which is pretty lame of me I guess. I don’t know maybe it is cause of my “humble beginnings” at SSBM tournaments, though the commentary was always a joke, literally (wombo combo is a good example) and kind of goes against one of the points I was trying to make
I use them kind of synonymously - KeSPA is the one with all the good commentators.
HD and Husky are very low-level commentators who only give you a play-by-play of what is happening (like if a football commentator had no idea what the popular plays were, or what the history of each team was, but knew the basic rules and the names of all the players), but they’re not too bad.
I’d rather have Artosis but HD was the one invited to Raleigh, which might be a joke anyway
I’m surviving in the gold league, even though my w/l ratio isn’t that great. Look me up on b.net if you want a game sometime (my handle there is cdn)
Figured I’d share an interesting replay from a rather lulzy game earlier today.
I also have some good team games with Sin saved if anyone’s interested.
Oh man, I’ve still got ways to go before I get back to how good I was at SC1/BW. I’m improving though! I’m getting better with the transitions and I’m getting comfortable with more and more builds. Playing random slows me down too.