Official Starcraft 2 Thread

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I've been watching some of these professionals play SC2 with their 300+ APM and I'm puzzled. What the hell are they doing? I see them rotating through like every single unit and structure... but what are they actually doing? I'd love to see a list of what the 300+ actions they are doing actually are. Anyone know where I can find this?

It kind of bothers me that the game can be played this way. I guess this is how it was with the original, but I never noticed, probably because I only played with people I knew and we'd always set our own engagement rules. Where is the strategy when it just becomes a competition of how quickly you can click things?

It would be interesting to see if the game becomes more strategic when played on the slowest setting.

you dont need an apm of 300+ to compete professionally.. if you watch interviews with pros, even thay say you only need an apm of about 75+ to compete professionally.

when you see apms of 300+ of ppl just clicking around its because the pros have practiced that way, learning not to waste time, if you constantly cycle through all your units and buildings even while idle, then you will keep yourself updated 24/7 on the situation. also it keeps your fingers "warm" for when you actually need to micro with that short burst of 100-300apm. when you are playing at the pro league, every little bit helps.




the reason you never see such a clickfest with games like Dow or C&C, is because they are not balanced enough to be played at such a competitive level. they are great games for casual/recreational gaming but if you bring money and multiplayer tournaments into the mix, then the really good players will figure out all the cheap tricks to those games and the game will resort to spamming cheap tricks. starcraft is a game of the players skill, so that why you see people with superhuman 300+ apm and excellent micro skills emerge at the top. any truly balanced competitive multiplayer game is like this: counterstrike (yes, its not realistic, but the top players are superhuman), street fighter 3rd strike, etc...