[Official] Starcraft 2 Strategy & Discussion Thread - Page 1980

In BW, the speed upgrade made microing your zealots more beneficial. In SC2, the charge upgrade makes microing zealots LESS beneficial. This is a widespread problem with SC2 unit balance, everything needs less micro to do full damage, other good examples are reaver vs colossus, lurker vs baneling, muta/scourge vs mutalisk, and vultures vs hellion. Then there are some abilities that should not exist, like forcefield and fungal.

Just thought I would share this with you guys Tell me how you like the quality please and the gameplay, and sorry for the random black outs (Fraps is just stupid I am going to just use DXtory for now on.) Also I am high gold/low plat vs a diamond player.
I will also take any criticism on my play gratefully
Edited by General123 - 8/18/12 at 4:44pm

Hard to tell because it's too dark, but it looks like the z had no idea what he was doing.

Crazy way to expo. The zerg could've ended the game with your building placements

Dark? Its probably just the map, and I think we was trying to go for those speedy hydras, vs toss lol Yeah I messed up my gas timing I should of had my mothership core up earlier and the lings would of not done nearly as much damage.

Actually a 7 pool or even a roach all in would've killed you. If he had of bypassed your expo with the mothership core and went into your main he could've done massive econo damage. Or at least destroyed your main and gate and cybernetics

Bad placement in PvZ is a quick way to lose

When you say gold/plat are you referring to 1v1 or team games?

Cause team rank doesn't mean anything. I've been masters in 2v2 with a good build, but have never been higher than mid platinum in 1v1.

So I say i'm high gold/low plat. I don't claim to be masters cause 2v2 isn't what YOUR league is

From the video I would guess Toss is low silver/bronze and zerg is bronze. 18 min roach no corrupter vs colo? Let you have that third with no harassment.




Also your recording is TOO DARK, its from whatever you used to encode fraps to a smaller format, the settings you used. Compared to mine (and mine still needs tweaking)
Edited by CravinR1 - 8/18/12 at 6:02pm

It's not the map, look at the minimap in the video, all the dark grays are washed out to pure black. Turn your gamma up a bit.

Its his encoding settings. Here is another encoding I did when I was bronze and first learning

First ever fraps video from when I was bronze:

Last fraps video
I still have problems, in that last video the game sounds didn't come on (audio mixer didn't pick up my headset sounds)

Yes of course I was talking about to 1v1
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/3050800/1/Protoss/
You can defiantly tell from my video that I am not like bronze lol, and placement was bad because I have not seen the map before, ever, and I was a bit nervous going against someone 2 ties ahead of me.
And thank you for the gama tip + rep to you both.
Edited by General123 - 8/18/12 at 6:33pm

Still wouldn't call Gold 61 a high gold/low plat player

I'm 50's plat and say low plat/high gold
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/1855111/1/ChadStrife/ladder/leagues#current-rank
Edited by CravinR1 - 8/18/12 at 6:45pm