StarCraft II Beta

[Wolf]

anyone from EU up for some 2v2? I got greeted into a random 2v2 with "I MAKE BATTLECRUISER"... we actually won :)

bioball is the oposite of mech :))) Marines and Marauders

[Rasix]

Bioball also know sometimes as MMM: marine/marauder/medivac.

Very quick, deadly, and effective way (at least at lower levels) to play with Terran.  Not really as common as mech nowadays.

[K9]

I thought the friend system was still 

[Mosesandstick]

I was thinking MMM but then medics aren't very biological 

[Fordel]

Toss in a few Ghosts and the MMM ball has legs well into the late game.

[Samwise]

Back in the Iron Age we called it "M&M" or "medirine".

[Rasix]

The ranking promotion code seems to be completely hosed at the moment.

I was at #4 bronze, won a game and am now #7 in silver... after beating a rank 50 bronze. 

[Wolf]

it's always worked like that - your promotion is based on a bunch of games, you might lose and still get promoted. They tweaked platinum/diamond though. I'm 8-0 in platinum right now, guess I won't be bumped up to diamond any time soon. Awesome :)

[Abagadro]

In my recent placement matches 2 of my games had my partners just leave so they could apparently intentionally be down in Bronze to gank noobs. 

[Rasix]

In my recent placement matches 2 of my games had my partners just leave so they could apparently intentionally be down in Bronze to gank noobs. 

Yah, I had a recent match with someone where they left the second it started. I've had to quit out a few unfinished games, but something that quick probably means a troll.

[Polysorbate80]

I lagged out of two placement matches, had to leave one before it was done (because I was, uh, playing at work...), lost one due to being way outskilled, and the last one....

To be honest, I *was* losing the fight, but when he popped up in chat with "GG.  Please leave the game now" I got annoyed.  "No, you'll have to work for it," I reply. 

"I did.  I won.  Leave now."

Nope, he was going to have to it the hard way.  Which should have only taken him a couple of minutes at most, but at least I could keep him locked up in the match for that long.  He tracks down the buildings & troops I had moving around (I play Terran), then after a couple more minutes locates my last SCV.  That left just a refinery at my former main that he'd forgotten to destroy yet.

I spend a few minutes wondering what's taking so long, also playing with the "pause" feature to piss him off more (quick question:  how long can you pause for?).  Next thing I see is a bunch of sensor towers slowly going up to cover the entire map.

In this time, he's built a command center and a ghost academy right next to my last refinery, and has SCVs mining next to it.  Yet he's apparently convinced I still have units hiding on the map somewhere?

Almost forty minutes later, he sends a couple of SCVs over to the refinery like he's going to collect vespene from it.  I could just imagine the light switching on over his head at that point.  Finally, a minute later, 4 nukes land on the refinery, game over.

Honestly, that's been the most fun I've had in the beta to date 

[Malakili]

he popped up in chat with "GG.  Please leave the game now"

This makes me RAGE like almost nothing else video game related.  It is SO incredibly cocky, rude and such an asshole move.  Saying "gg" is really saying "Well played, I concede."  When someone else says it firs they are saying "I played well, you concede" and it just makes me so made, no sportsmanship at all.

[Fordel]

In my recent placement matches 2 of my games had my partners just leave so they could apparently intentionally be down in Bronze to gank noobs. 

Portrait farming sir! The achievements don't care WHERE you get those 5/10/etc wins 

[Rasix]

stuff

I pretty much had the reverse happen to me.  I beat a guy pretty bad and he GGs.  Then he proceeds to hide pylons all over the map on scrap station.  And plops down a nexus to make probes, mine, and hide more pylons. "I gotta spend the monies!"

He was red protoss on scrap station.  Being red/green color blind I couldn't see the small red blips against the gray of scrap station.  I explained this to him. "ohh that sucks".  And proceeds to stay in the game until I find an assimmilator and a few pylons he hid.

What an asshole.

[Malakili]

stuff

I pretty much had the reverse happen to me.  I beat a guy pretty bad and he GGs.  Then he proceeds to hide pylons all over the map on scrap station.  And plops down a nexus to make probes, mine, and hide more pylons. "I gotta spend the monies!"

He was red protoss on scrap station.  Being red/green color blind I couldn't see the small red blips against the gray of scrap station.  I explained this to him. "ohh that sucks".  And proceeds to stay in the game until I find an assimmilator and a few pylons he hid.

What an asshole.

This, in general, is one of my problems with Star Craft's victory condition.  It really is designed around the assumption that the community will have to act in a reasonable way and concede when they've lost. The actual "kill all buildings" victory condition is almost never met in any game in which one of the players isn't intentionally being an asshole.  Yet another reason I went back to DoW2 so quickly from SC2 beta, in that game you can't grief like this because the victory condition is points.

[Polysorbate80]

I admit I was being an asshole...but he brought it on himself.  If he hadn't opened his pie-hole, I would have quit out.

[Abagadro]

It isn't all that hard to hunt down the entire map once it is really at the stage of whack-a-mole.

[ezrast]

Does your stuff not get revealed once you're without a command center? They added that to WC3 a long time ago; I assumed it'd be in here as well.

[Rasix]

It does.  I'm not joking though when I said I couldn't see it.  Take a gray mini-map and thrown down like 1-10 red dots. I couldn't give you a count.  You could spell out "FUCK YOU, RASIX" and I wouldn't see it.

Colorblind people are a special yet common enough case.  It's just particularly annoying when someone tries to grief you in a game of "hide the pylon".

[Ironwood]

You could spell out "FUCK YOU, RASIX" and I wouldn't see it.

I know, I know, I KNOW I shouldn't laugh.

God, that made me laugh.

[Mosesandstick]

I know what I'm doing when I play Rasix. Oh wait different continents 

[Lantyssa]

Dammit.  I couldn't find a color-blind text to image generator.

[bhodi]

There's always the generic

[Rasix]

Beta just went down.  Looks like we might be at the end of the beta (for now). 

I've had a lot of fun so far.  It feels like of weird that I'm going to pay for a competitive game I basically suck at.  At best I'll maybe be a decent gold level player. 

At least I've been learning, with probably the most benefit coming out of watching "day9 dailies" and the multitude of commented replays out there.  My APM is really hindering me at its current "old man with pained joints" speed.

[Ironwood]

Really ?  Shit.  There goes my plans for tonight...

[Rasix]

Maybe not.. downloading a patch.

edit:  Back up.  No idea what the patch actually is.

[Abagadro]

My prob playing terran right now is that I am schitzo on which tree to take and end up building some of everything.  I wish the game rewarded balanced unit production/coordinated attacks a bit more over the mass one thing strat.  It's better than in SC1 but still gets overwhelmed.

[Ironwood]

Marines.

Tons and tons of fucking marines.

[Rasix]

Patch "notes":

Technically Patch 16, yeah. We decided it didn't need notes being that it just fixed one crash, and beta is coming down today anyway.

On that note, by the way, it looks like the servers should be up until sometime late tonight or possibly early tomorrow morning (PDT). Still no exact time decided on yet.

[Fordel]

My prob playing terran right now is that I am schitzo on which tree to take and end up building some of everything.  I wish the game rewarded balanced unit production/coordinated attacks a bit more over the mass one thing strat.  It's better than in SC1 but still gets overwhelmed.

It does?

One of the better Terran openings is the 'Build one of everything' plan, and being able to hit multiple objectives at the same time is devastating to your opponent.

Even the classic BioBall is really a collection of complementing units.

[Ironwood]

Or you could just mass tanks and hope you get his base before he gets to air.

 

[Rasix]

Or you could just mass tanks and hope you get his base before he gets to air.

 

What is his air going to do about your 1000x cheap marines that can be completely replaced in seconds?

[Ironwood]

gg.



You do realise we're playing in this thread because we can't play online, right ?

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Fancy a rematch ?

[Rasix]

Hah.  This last night is making me want to cancel my pre-order.  Nothing but cheese.

[Thrawn]

One of the recent Day9 casts is a discussion/interview with The Little One.  Watching it now, seems interesting if you can get past how annoying Day9 can be sometimes. 

http://day9tv.blip.tv/file/3732380/