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The protoss cannon is brutally effective if used properly. If I have a large choke to defend I use cannons to narrow the gap, if I decide to be going with a macro build I'll build up like 4-5 cannons at my main choke with a few zealots, generally the zealots will die but Cannons will hold them off.
Although I hate it when people build tons of them. And stalkers are great, I use them in conjuction with Zealots, 10 or so zealots w ill huge back the army as my stalkers pound on them.
I have early reaver rushes pretty much perfected, and I'm starting to get used to hotkeying all of my buildings so I can keep my economy going while I'm microing the attack. However it obviously only works on maps where the base is accessible from many angles. The great thing about Reapers is that Zerglings and Reavers have no chance against 2 well-microed Reapers that abuse a cliff. And I don't think I have to mention that it's an automatic win if you take out all of the other guy's workers.
One problem with the game right now is that most of the maps are pretty bad, and almost all of them favor Terran. Unit balance is very well-done considering how new the game is, but map balance is awful. Not a big deal though, after all hardly anybody played Blizzard maps in Brood War once the game got going.
Also I recently saw a Terran guy do a fun strategy: build 2 command centers with guns on them near the enemy's base, then just fly them in and let them destroy everything. Each of them fits 5 SCVs which is more than enough to repair the buildings while they're wrecking the base.
Command centers can not be moved once planetory fortress is made. You would have to move it then make planetory fortress. The game you saw must have been an early beta one. What's a reavor?Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven P Jobs
I haven't played many online RTS'es, but what I am quickly figuring out is that Starcraft 2 is won by who counters better. If you see your opponent building lots of ground units, then cannons work. If your opponent builds lots of cannons at a choke point, then air works. If they build air defenses to go with their choke point defense, then they are stretching their resources too thin on static defenses, and you can beat them by building out your economy more than them. If they overstretch their economy, you can beat them with cheap fast ground units.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nik00117
The two most important lessons I have learned in the past 2 weeks is to scout early and often, and to learn the counters to whatever you see.
NUKES NUKES! You will rarely see nukes used in the high levels of the game, so this game is worth watching.
Game featuring the best player in Europe IMHO TheLittleOne with lots of nukes.
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/user/HuskySta.../3/0pHQ6NE0Z4w
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/user/HuskySta.../2/DK1025uIUnY
That was fun to watch, post some more good ones when you come across them.Quote:
Originally Posted by senorgotti
Hah, I found that out the hard way yesterday. Thought I'd try it on a game where I had the upper hand, then they didn't lift off. Somehow still managed to win.Quote:
Originally Posted by senorgotti
Huk (P) vs Silver (T)
Intense game that stays pretty close the whole time. Silver is an unknown player that has been beating some of the top pro's in the Intel Extreme Masters Tournament.
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/user/HuskySta.../1/oOClfhF5oGU
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/user/HuskySta.../0/E8WmOCYQgzA
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/426266 Top 200 Players
Damn, look how balanced the races are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
Ha Battle.net is blocked at work. Too many WoW nerds I guess.
I've seen a number of videos with Huk and I'm impressed at the amount of multi-tasking these guys do.Quote:
Originally Posted by senorgotti
Huk must play allot of games. He is good but he's not better than Idra or Silver so far.
Edit: it's the North American top 200. Allot of those guys play multiple regions
www.sc2ranks.com has the worldwide ranking. HuK is still #1.Quote:
Originally Posted by senorgotti
Interesting he must not do well in tourneys.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/HuKQuote:
Originally Posted by senorgotti
He does very well in tourneys.
You must've seen the few times he's lost o Idra and Silver :D. The guy is good and probably plays way too much SC2 :p.Quote:
Originally Posted by senorgotti
Yeah according to the link the tournaments I watched he lost. Not that loosing a tournament makes you a bad player, but I never thought of him as the top player. Better him than Idra though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nabby
Mind blowing revelation, HuK apparently started off playing Starcraft on N64. D:
Is there a good site besides teamliquid's too see videos or get replay files of the top players matches? I would prefer these with commentary. I was hoping for something simple like a youtube channel too.
http://www.youtube.com/user/HuskyStarcraftQuote:
Originally Posted by Schmunkel98
Husky is a pretty annoying commentator, but he posts a lot of videos.
Found this one as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHkknLJ7L8E
I would love to get a hold of some of the actual replay files to watch the games from the point of view of the players. I would like to see how blazing fast they are compared to my slow clicks.
So today was funny I really pissed off this guy, we are doing Co-op game vs Hard PC. This guy in our group is a total nooblet I can tell because by the time I had my first gateway up he was just getting his first pylon up.
So I went "If you get attacked first niehter one of us are going come to your recuse" he was in the rush spot too :)
So he got rushed and I went "let him die, build up your army and we'll back each other up when the time comes" The other player said it was rude and that we should save him and I went all that will accomplish is waste
So he got owned, I looked at his build order when the enemy attacked at about the 5-6 min mark he had 3 zealots and 2 stalkers. And the PC was dumb enough of course after destroying this guy to destroy all his buildings. Granted I suspect this will happen a lot.
Well the enemy came to by this point, I had a army of about 27 units with 4 photons on my choke I had about 12 zealots and the rest stalkers. My buddy came in to back me up, of course the PC tosses everything it has at you at the first rush so we immediately counter and win hands down :)
My korean friend has a AKPM of triple of what I had, I still own him in SC2...We played today and because I knew the tech tree I was jumping around him.
Also my man stat in game is build army, with a few ds wait for enemy to strike first because D always has the advantage I will destory their army and counter rush them. It generally works.
Ha, I like Husky but I can understand him annoying some. I like HD, Day9, Makh, and Psy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazie
Psy is great is great if you like sarcasm. He casts his own games, and plays nothing but zerg.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PsyStarcraft
http://www.sc2replayed.com/Quote:
Originally Posted by Schmunkel98
You can sort by players, and other options. Have not used it yet, but it seems pretty good.