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K9
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I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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Malakili
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 I SEE A GATEWAY
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slog
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I've gotten much better at spreading Poop Creamers.
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Friends don't let Friends vote for Boomers
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Pagz
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I AM GOING TO WRESTLE THIS BEAR WITH MY BARE HANDS!
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I SEE A GATEWAY LETS GET THREE GUMMYWORMS  |
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slog
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Friends don't let Friends vote for Boomers
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bhodi
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Woot!
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Malakili
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What the hell is it with everyone playing zerg lately, I swear I'm against zerg at least 50% of the time, and its my worst matchup, driving me absolutely crazy. Anyone else experiencing this?
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Yoru
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What the hell is it with everyone playing zerg lately, I swear I'm against zerg at least 50% of the time, and its my worst matchup, driving me absolutely crazy. Anyone else experiencing this?
If they're using nyduses, it'd be because that's this week's Day9 Funday Monday. |
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Fordel
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Malakili
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What the hell is it with everyone playing zerg lately, I swear I'm against zerg at least 50% of the time, and its my worst matchup, driving me absolutely crazy. Anyone else experiencing this?
If they're using nyduses, it'd be because that's this week's Day9 Funday Monday. Hmm, I did lose to a nydus today, although there were never two morphing in at once, and it was a decent choice against what I was doing (and I missed scouting it like a noob, it was in my vision). Either way, that could explain it though. |
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Malakili
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Starcraft Reddit Invitational is on this evening, lots of the usual foreigner suspects playing, fun stuff to watch so far. KiwiKaki has been giving me lots of protoss ideas www.screddit.com |
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« Last Edit: January 09, 2011, 02:27:20 PM by Yoru »
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Yoru
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the y master, king of bourbon
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Your link was broken. Fixed.
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Abagadro
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
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Malakili
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Yeah, that link was for the tournament in general, there was a link to the stream from there. In any event, it looks like the finals was postponed until tomorrow due to lag issues, so anyone who didn't get to see it, I believe its white ra v. morrow |
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Yoru
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Yeah, that link was for the tournament in general, there was a link to the stream from there. In any event, it looks like the finals was postponed until tomorrow due to lag issues, so anyone who didn't get to see it, I believe its white ra v. morrow Oh excellent; I caught the bronze match but passed out before the final. Now perhaps I'll get to watch this before bed tonight. Any word on what time it's scheduled for? 7 PM EST again? |
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Abagadro
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Latest patch has juiced Protoss air pretty good. Don't know that it needed the help really. Balance
GENERAL
Players can no longer block off ramps with two 2x2 buildings.
PROTOSS
Hallucination research time decreased from 110 to 80.
Observer Cost decreased from 50/100 to 25/75.
Phoenix Build time decreased from 45 to 35.
Void Ray Now deals 20% more damage to massive targets.
Flux Vanes speed upgrade removed.
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Repairing SCVs now assume the same threat priority as the unit they’re repairing.
SCV construction movement has been made more consistent.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
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Malakili
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I started a chat channel on NA called "Bat Country" if people want to hang out in there while they are playing, not sure how many people left from here still play regularly, but I figure it can't hurt.
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bhodi
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I LOVE the new hotkey changes that allow me to vomit larvae with ease.
If you play zerg, you should try it too! Bind zoom-to-base which is by default backspace to `
Then, with your queens hotkeyed, hit v, hold shift, and hit ` click ` click ` click in the center of the screen. It stops the hunt n peck with minimap or the horrible hand shuffle on the keyboard. I just gained about 5 seconds every 45 seconds and it's amazing. You need to try it.
I still wish they'd make it autocast, but it's so much better than what it was before.
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« Last Edit: January 12, 2011, 11:33:09 AM by bhodi »
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Yoru
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Oh excellent; I caught the bronze match but passed out before the final. Now perhaps I'll get to watch this before bed tonight. Any word on what time it's scheduled for? 7 PM EST again?
To answer my own question, they just announced that they'll be casting the finals this Sunday (the 16th) at 6 PM EST/11 PM GMT. I'll be makin' popcorn. |
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Malakili
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Oh excellent; I caught the bronze match but passed out before the final. Now perhaps I'll get to watch this before bed tonight. Any word on what time it's scheduled for? 7 PM EST again?
To answer my own question, they just announced that they'll be casting the finals this Sunday (the 16th) at 6 PM EST/11 PM GMT. I'll be makin' popcorn. Cool stuff, definitely going to watch as well. |
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slog
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I LOVE the new hotkey changes that allow me to vomit larvae with ease.
If you play zerg, you should try it too! Bind zoom-to-base which is by default backspace to `
Then, with your queens hotkeyed, hit v, hold shift, and hit ` click ` click ` click in the center of the screen. It stops the hunt n peck with minimap or the horrible hand shuffle on the keyboard. I just gained about 5 seconds every 45 seconds and it's amazing. You need to try it.
I still wish they'd make it autocast, but it's so much better than what it was before.
This doesn't work. Are you sure you are holding down Shift the entire time? |
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bhodi
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Yes. Hold shift after you hit v and before you hit `. Otherwise, you have to hit v once for every hatchery.
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slog
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Edit: NM, it's something about the hotkeys I was using.
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« Last Edit: January 12, 2011, 07:31:12 PM by slog »
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bhodi
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No, because you're in spell cast mode, not select mode.
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slog
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I was trying it using the \ as the homebase key and ] as the inject larva key. It doesn't work with those, but it works when i use your hotkeys. no idea why
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birdsguts
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Yes. Hold shift after you hit v and before you hit `. Otherwise, you have to hit v once for every hatchery.
Actually they put back in the "hold" option on keys now so you don't even need shift. Just hit: Queen hotkey Hold V ` click ` click I just always had backspace bound to one of my mouse keys so I just do it that way. Not having to hold shift though made it lazy brain mode. |
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K9
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I love the smell of facepalm in the morning
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Malakili
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I saw that over on Team Liquid and thought to myself - but so what? It feels to me a little like Half Life 2 coming out. Mods MADE Half Life 1. HL2 was supposed to be insanely modable and amazing, and yet we've seen very few great mods in over 5 years now (Garry's Mod and....?). Granted, there are valve made source engine games like L4D and TF2, but something about more recent games just seems to mean awesome mods are less viable. Lots of awesome tech demo stuff, not lots of awesome actual games. EDIT: Reading this again I think it sounds overly harsh. I guess my real point is, I hope we start seeing some real nice mods, and not just "oooh neat look what I can do with this editor" stuff. |
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« Last Edit: January 18, 2011, 06:12:56 AM by Malakili »
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Fordel
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I didn't realize Ghosts are left handed.
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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bhodi
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"Real" mods aren't going to be created until they remove the 150ms fiat latency "correction".
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Fordel
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I have no idea what that means.
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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bhodi
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In custom games, there is an arbitrary and flat minimal 150ms latency. Which means that you'll never be able to do something like a FPS, and that when you click fire, it takes 150ms for the game engine to respond.
This was placed there to "even the field" for people using different connections with different latencies, but it ends up really limiting what you can do with the engine. There's no way to disable it.
It's why that contra remake and every FPS is awful and laggy. It's not the coder's fault, it's the artificially imposed restriction. You can't reproduce anything that might require 'twitch' reflexes, so fighting games, action games, anything but a point n click strategy-type stuff is out.
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Fordel
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That smells then. :(
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Malakili
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nevermind
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