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My computer would asplode.

Don't play terrible custom games sorry.

that looks AMAZING but my computer would literally melt.

Imagine how much a couple of thors would rape in that showdown with splash damage.

Haha it doesn't always go crazy like that, but my friends and I do crazy things like only playing the top lane. It becomes madness.
If you play it normally you won't lag anymore than normal starcraft. Ausgoons has 8 person games with everybody on vent so we have a lot of fun, might not be so great if you have to play it with pubbies.

Nexus Wars is about the only decent custom map out at the moment. Does anybody know any good ones?

ZERGLINGS ONLY
TOP LANE ONLY

http://i36.tinypic.com/mmaq0j.jpg

Playing customs with billions of units on the board at a time actually makes me want to play sc2 less, the units aren't nearly as cool when they're so massable. I don't find any interest in playing the custom games yet, and maybe I won't play them at all.. Except for custom ladder games.. I'm planning to make some cool FFA maps with custom portraits, teleporters, rising lava and other stuff like that.

aren't you just a wet blanket

I love Nexus Wars, it's all I fucking play. I always rock at it and am top player every time no matter what strat I decide to go with. My favorite start right now is massing zerglings (gotta cancel that if the other team masses banelings or something) and then straight teching to corruptors and massing the shit out of them. Basically I mass the shit out of any anti-air unit as early as possible. Once you make it so you have a ton of aa and it winds up breaking through all of their units and just hovers over the other team's base its gg because they can't get any air late in the game.

Also sometimes I get that protoss hero guy and since he's permanently cloaked and can blink you can easily get him right into the enemy base and attack their main nexus and they can't do shit if they don't have a unit that can unveil him spawning in the back of their base. GG.


The other game I like for a quick match is Battlecraft. Almost never takes more then a few minutes, but it's fun because it's just all about knowing what units counter each other. I need more good custom games though, there aren't many out yet.

let me know when they port DOTA...HoN isn't enough for me!

NOTD (night of the dead) is alright. Best one I've played so far.

Just got back from a match on Nexus.

I had a win streak of 3-4 rounds on Nexus, but then we started to face these guys who kept pushing us. Eventually I was down to just building thors, odins, and scientists to repair my units.
So things are getting intense (laggy) and we push them back after a couple of nukes from my odins, and they are denying their loss to the point where they sound like they are near our Nexus.
I'm so surprised we push back, and that we were about to attack their Nexus

But then my computer boots me for stressing it's capabilities with so many units on screen.

Warcraft Battleships. Can never get enough of that game. Recently went 24-1 with DACI. They may talk big, but they cant stand against a 13nA vet. You guys should play with me sometime.

no one plays that late 90s bullshit anymore ok

wc3 was awesome but I just can't play it anymore, I had 500 wins on my vanilla acc and had a 70% win ratio or so, add to that all of the custom games and all of the games I played on the expansion (probably more than the amount I played in vanilla) and you should see why.

I suggest at least checking out some of the new Custom Games. True Bnet was the victim of a Hostile Takeover of Bot hosts but there are a bunch of great games out there.

Copypasta'd from The Cheshire Cat:wc3 was awesome but I just can't play it anymore, I had 500 wins on my vanilla acc and had a 70% win ratio or so, add to that all of the custom games and all of the games I played on the expansion (probably more than the amount I played in vanilla) and you should see why.

IIRC I had something like 2500 games played by the time i was done across all my accounts...and a whole lotta DOTA

Desert Strike is awesome.

I don't like the new custom map display system. I prefer the wc3 style where new maps popped up for you to choose every 3 seconds and they all had lewd and crude names. New system with featured games and such is fail. Chaos is better.

Copypasta'd from Blaze: I prefer the wc3 style where new maps popped up for you to choose every 3 seconds and they all had lewd and crude names. New system with featured games and such is fail. Chaos is better.

Fuck yea, old gen: +1

Copypasta'd from Blaze:Desert Strike is awesome.

I don't like the new custom map display system. I prefer the wc3 style where new maps popped up for you to choose every 3 seconds and they all had lewd and crude names. New system with featured games and such is fail. Chaos is better.

Agreed

This game is awesome. Check this shiz I did.

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5429/nexuswarslol.jpg

lol what the crap. what map?

Sorry guys, this new custom game system is way better than the old one.
You can make a game with a map you don't have, that plus the other features make it really great.

Desert Strike owns.

Thats Nexus Wars.

And Desert Strike is kinda confusing.

are those immortals mixed in with the thors? lol

desert strike is p easy to work out ~

I've been getting pretty good at Nexus wars. Syncing your unit production is pretty essential (both you and your lane partner syncing up is pure ownage).

I've been going with 4-5 Marines, then alternating Helions and Marauders with some Medivacs. Then I usually try to save up and drop a whole bunch of Vikings to wipe out any air that the Marines can't kill.

One thing that's worked really well for me is building 10 to 15 Zerglings all at once and getting the speed boost for them. I am especially likely to do this if I see a lot of strong ground units (Immortals, Tanks, Thors, Ultralisks). It can be super deadly if the opposing players in your lane don't have specific Zergling counters (Hellions, Firebats, etc). I usually do it when i have 600 or so Minerals to spare and am already on a strong push. Since the 'lings are so cheap and fast (in build, move and attack speed), they can make it to the other side of the map quickly to help tear up buildings. It doesn't take long to have 40 Cracklings over in their base tearing shit up. They also make great meat shields since units auto-target and the Zerglings are usually out in front of your slower, stronger, more expensive units.

It frustrates me to see people not repairing their mechanical units when your base is in danger. Thors, tanks, etc can all be repaired by the SCV. I also hate when people fail at nuking... if a lot of your buildings are synced up (which they should be), the best time to drop it is right when a bunch of your units spawn so the next enemy wave doesn't just waltz right in behind the mushroom cloud.

My biggest problem in Nexus Wars is having to abandon my plans in my own row to bail out failbots in the other rows. Oh, and the constant lagging/dropping/disconnecting that plagues this map for some reason. That shit pisses me off.

Binny and I just had a shitty nexus session. Fuck that shit. Noobs errywhere.

Warcraft3 is dead.

i am sad.