The Sc2 Scene-Everything you should know
  • Eterna1Eterna1 September 2011
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    Or vs. Z: 
  • TheMightyPeonTheMightyPeon September 2011
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    am i the only one that read the first guy's name as "white rape"?
  • The+Dunwich+HorrorThe Dunwich Horror September 2011
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    Yes.
  • fusi0nfusi0n September 2011
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    Had to stop PvZ video; cannot handle that guy' accent.

    WhiteRa is super gangster; does he still play as random or did he pick a race?
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    As far as I know he's been playing only protoss
  • fusi0nfusi0n September 2011
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    Oh my bad TLO was random, Ra has always been Protoss.
  • RanksRanks September 2011
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    Eternal are you gosu at Sc2 now?
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    PLEASE TELL ME I AM NOT A MICRO KING


  • The+Dunwich+HorrorThe Dunwich Horror September 2011
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    Nice Caz.
  • TheMightyPeonTheMightyPeon September 2011
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    what just happened.
  • fusi0nfusi0n September 2011
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    I don't understand what you did there Caz...
  • RanksRanks September 2011
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    He dropped a thor and it happened to kill the colossus before it died lol
  • fusi0nfusi0n September 2011
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    Caz doesn't play Terran because they're overpowered
  • RanksRanks September 2011
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    Is terran actually overpowered now or are zerg players still riding the wave from the release patch?
  • fusi0nfusi0n September 2011
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    Terran's alleged balance issues have been a main focal point of this thread; I don't really think we resolved the argument.
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    Ranks said:

    He dropped a thor and it happened to kill the colossus before it died lol



    Did it on purpose, earlier in the fight the colossus barely got away
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    fusi0n said:

    Caz doesn't play Terran because they're overpowered



    I play random now
  • hfswjyrhfswjyr September 2011
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    WHAT DO THE NUMBERS IN THE VIDEO MEAN?

    LOST?
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    been getting into some 3v3 and 4v4 randoms but half the time my team is absolutely useless and 90% of all players cheese or tech to dts or something gay like that, so it's impossible to defend yourself against air units, invisible units, mass x and y, and drops or whatever with no help from your team.
  • The+Dunwich+HorrorThe Dunwich Horror September 2011
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    I have yet to play a single team game with people I don't know.
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    I don't have friends
  • The+Cheshire+CatThe Cheshire Cat September 2011
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    I found this group of really cool guys yesterday that play custom RPGs with one another. They have the same type of humour we do, it felt like I found wcom x or something. Only that they were 4 people, not ~20.
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    LOL I JUST GOT CHEESED BY IDRA IN A 3V3. I'm going to upload the replay
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    AND SPANISHIWA LOL
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    noooooooo now the world sees how much of a noob I am
  • The+Cheshire+CatThe Cheshire Cat September 2011
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    where can we see it?
    also the zerg strategy chat in EU is amazing. Hint: they never talk about actual zerg strategy.
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    i noobed up and didnt save the replay but i'm going to keep an eye on youtube, some people from his stream were telling me he thought it was funny. as soon as i saw the lings I said "FUCKING CHEESERS" and quit. I didn't even notice it was idrz and spanishiwa until the last second
  • Eterna1Eterna1 September 2011
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    Ranks said:

    Eternal are you gosu at Sc2 now?



    Nah, and I've stopped playing now. For the last three weeks of summer I played a ton but I couldn't get out of platinum. I hovered in the top 8 the entire time. Shortly before I stopped playing I calculated my recent win percentage and it was around 60%, so I thought diamond was around the corner. But then I got on a 14 game loss streak which made it very easy to quit for the school term. 
  • Eterna1Eterna1 September 2011
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    Also, note "lordofninepaths" as caz's youtube username. Did I miss that big unveiling? 
  • hfswjyrhfswjyr September 2011
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    replays may be autosaved i think
  • hfswjyrhfswjyr September 2011
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    Caz on SC2: "OMG THIS GAME IS SO STUPID!!!" *continues playing*

    Fusion on WoW: "OMG THIS GAME IS SO STUPID!!!" *continues playing*
  • The+Cheshire+CatThe Cheshire Cat September 2011
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    Caz, you should check the option that automatically saves replays
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    The last 25 are autosaved, but I kept playing games all night after and so it wasn't in the recent 25 when I went to look for it. Eternal, that's not my youtube, it's my friends. I'm surprised you remembered him, I tried to get him to post here but he didn't like how off-topic everything was.
  • The+Dunwich+HorrorThe Dunwich Horror September 2011
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    Caz.  You play far too much SC2.  Come play Rome with me and Creed.
  • ceoceo September 2011
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    who here has actually listened to the audio of the people of jonestown convincing one another to drink the koolaid while screaming children are heard in their death throes in the background? this is what a cult sounds like, and the organization cat is member to is spot on in terms of deranged indoctrination preceding a predictable mass suicide

  • The+Dunwich+HorrorThe Dunwich Horror September 2011
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    Wow.  He even posted it in the Starcraft thread.  The sacred thread, where the only debate is about which race is IMBA.
  • BlazeBlaze September 2011
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    Cults are IMBA.
  • fusi0nfusi0n September 2011
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    I'm scared to click on that.
  • The+Dunwich+HorrorThe Dunwich Horror September 2011
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    fusi0n said:

    I'm scared to click on that.




  • hfswjyrhfswjyr September 2011
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    The Dunwich Horror said:

    fusi0n said:

    I'm scared to click on that.







  • Eterna1Eterna1 September 2011
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    my GF was mad at me for listening to it. I didn't get to the suicide part before I decided to go to sleep. 
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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  • Eterna1Eterna1 September 2011
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    Yeah, nobody good at the game plays random team, which is why all your teammates suck. 
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    probably literally half of my losses are from teammates not walling off against zerg. then they sit there and say 'WHY DIDNT U HELP>????' when it's 4 minutes in game
  • The+Dunwich+HorrorThe Dunwich Horror September 2011
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    Caz, don't play team with strangers.  Just don't do it.
    At least if you lose in a 1v1 you can learn from it.
  • doug September 2011
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    kill the terran

    image




  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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  • RanksRanks September 2011
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    It's not a good idea to have a middle of the road strat like that. In team especially you want to either hit a massive early timing or play a relatively safe, quick tech route to force a later game where you have advantage. The reasoning being that while the 3 raxes allows you to stay alive, it doesn't provide enough offense to kill your opponent early game(since T can sustain up to 5 raxes early game). So what inevitably happens is that the game goes on until mid or late game, where you're behind on tech and more likely to lose.

    The only way the strat would win (on paper) is if they try to all-in you even after seeing 3 raxes, or if everyone on their team tries to tech early without proper defense. In higher leagues, though, a team that would have all-ined would just use their larger army to contain you while they expanded and got ahead in terms of sheer units, while a team that was planning on a mid-late game would shore up their defenses and deflect the 3 rax + whatever your teammates have pretty easily since it isn't an all-in and they have defensive advantage. After that, they have a tech advantage and will probably win the game.

    For zerg, the Spanishwa style works to some extent because they can convert their economy into units much quicker. So even if your tech is slower, you can pump out a bunch of whatevers at once and be in contention after a certain time. As terran, however, you can't afford to be behind on tech if you plan on teching at all. You simply won't be able to catch up in the number of tech units because your unit production is much more constrained by time.
  • Cazb0tCazb0t September 2011
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    I definitely am aware of all this, but terran is my worst race so I'm not even trying to play seriously, and I know this build wouldn't work at all in higher leagues or competitive play but I am in Gold league playing cheesefest team games, and guess what? 100% win rate with this strategy so far.

    Surprisingly it is quite easy for me to tech switch since I have so many minerals (I can drop a dozen production buildings), although it does take til about 9 minutes to get anything besides marines out. For example, last game at about 9 mins a lucky scan revealed that one of the enemy players took a high yield island expo and had 3 stargates. So I used all my gas to drop down 3 starports + reactors, meanwhile still pumping out marines, and then I just massed vikings which ended up winning us the game.

    If I used a standard build I would have had a more effective unit mix early on, but I definitely wouldn't have been able to afford 3 starports and all those vikings. This build really only works in team games where you are kinda free to do whatever, at least for a little bit. Having so many minerals also lets me feed my team mates, which certainly helps out.
  • RanksRanks September 2011
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    Oh, okay then
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