Official Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 thread

I enjoy SC2, mainly watching streams tho.

I got placed into Bronze back when I didn't know what the hell I was doing, don't think I'll ever get out.

I generally have great macro (better than a lot of diamond players I have seen) as a Protoss I'm always disciplined into probes + pylon production, upgrades and base saturation. However my micro, building placement and unit composition generally completely sucks, and I get beat by every cheese possible even if I scout it.

I usually like to watch whoever out of Whitera, Huk or Axslav is streaming, I try to watch the tournaments but cannot stand many of the casters.

[QUOTE=Irish]I enjoy SC2, mainly watching streams tho.

I got placed into Bronze back when I didn't know what the hell I was doing, don't think I'll ever get out.

I generally have great macro (better than a lot of diamond players I have seen) as a Protoss I'm always disciplined into probes + pylon production, upgrades and base saturation. However my micro, building placement and unit composition generally completely sucks, and I get beat by every cheese possible even if I scout it.

I usually like to watch whoever out of Whitera, Huk or Axslav is streaming, I try to watch the tournaments but cannot stand many of the casters.[/QUOTE]

If you play you will get out of it. Since you have good macro you should improve on what you lack. It's strange that you watch streams yet cannot do well such things as building placement, just pay attention as the ones you watch do. While WhiteRa's stream is like most entertaining stream to watch ever it's not that useful for learning reasons because he plays so non standart also the stuff he does won't work for you because it requires extremely good mechanics.

Strange about the casters, people just love most sc2 casters. Don't tell me you have problem with someone like Artosis/Tasteless/Day9...

[QUOTE=Sakkreth]If you play you will get out of it. Since you have good macro you should improve on what you lack. It's strange that you watch streams yet cannot do well such things as building placement, just pay attention as the ones you watch do. While WhiteRa's stream is like most entertaining stream to watch ever it's not that useful for learning reasons because he plays so non standart also the stuff he does won't work for you because it requires extremely good mechanics.

Strange about the casters, people just love most sc2 casters. Don't tell me you have problem with someone like Artosis/Tasteless/Day9...[/QUOTE]

Its the simple stuff I struggle with sometimes, like efficient wall offs and cannon placement.

I like the Tasteless/Artosis combo, and Day9 even though he talks out of his ass sometimes. Apollo is another good caster who knows his stuff.

On the other hand when Gretorp and Orb come on I immediately go for mute.

TotalBiscuit even though I'm from the UK I don't 'get' him casting SC2, he is an asset for the gaming community in general but not in this role i believe.

[QUOTE=Irish]Its the simple stuff I struggle with sometimes, like efficient wall offs and cannon placement.

I like the Tasteless/Artosis combo, and Day9 even though he talks out of his ass sometimes. Apollo is another good caster who knows his stuff.

On the other hand when Gretorp and Orb come on I immediately go for mute.

TotalBiscuit even though I'm from the UK I don't 'get' him casting SC2, he is an asset for the gaming community in general but not in this role i believe.[/QUOTE]

Agree on Gretorp and Orb, TotalBiscuit is fine if he's paired with knowledgeable caster. Apollo is in high masters so ofc he knows his stuff, but he's good caster not only because he's good player aswell. Look at Gretorp for example, he's GM I think (well atleast he played in NASL so he gotta be somewhat good) yet he's awful to listen to as caster.

lol @ naniwa
nice way to get more haters, like he really needed anymore...

[QUOTE=jaydacris]lol @ naniwa
nice way to get more haters, like he really needed anymore...[/QUOTE]

I laughed my ass off when he did that.

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All I've seen related to starcraft today is the Naniwa thing.

Why start a tournament at this time of the week anyways

blizzard has confirmed that diablo 3 will be coming to consoles

will be interesting to see how this works out

so i can assume people will be able to use microsoft points to buy gear and stuff... but will people be able to sell their stuff for points? :p

[QUOTE=jaydacris]blizzard has confirmed that diablo 3 will be coming to consoles

will be interesting to see how this works out

so i can assume people will be able to use microsoft points to buy gear and stuff... but will people be able to sell their stuff for points? :p[/QUOTE]
That's pretty weird. Wonder how the item system will work on the consoles.

That must be activision's fault... Hate that company.

[QUOTE=Irish]I enjoy SC2, mainly watching streams tho.

I got placed into Bronze back when I didn't know what the hell I was doing, don't think I'll ever get out.

I generally have great macro (better than a lot of diamond players I have seen) as a Protoss I'm always disciplined into probes + pylon production, upgrades and base saturation. However my micro, building placement and unit composition generally completely sucks, and I get beat by every cheese possible even if I scout it.

I usually like to watch whoever out of Whitera, Huk or Axslav is streaming, I try to watch the tournaments but cannot stand many of the casters.[/QUOTE]

do you use hotkeys? I'm only in silver but I just started and I'm realizing now that it's hard for me to manage my economy/expansion while maintaining my units and combating with them at the same time if i just use my mouse so I'm trying to get use to playing with hotkeys.

[QUOTE=heyhey]do you use hotkeys? I'm only in silver but I just started and I'm realizing now that it's hard for me to manage my economy/expansion while maintaining my units and combating with them at the same time if i just use my mouse so I'm trying to get use to playing with hotkeys.[/QUOTE]
How do you not be in Bronze not using hotkeys?

[QUOTE=Maniak]How do you not be in Bronze not using hotkeys?[/QUOTE]

I use it a little but when i get involved in a battle i kind of forget about it, that's kinda what i mean, in mid-late game I don't build as many units as I should/can because I'm so involved with the battles. other than that I followed the build orders on teamliquid really well? :oldlol:

Took a jaunt over to Sweden for the weekend to see Dreamhack, fantastic event. Wish I brought a better camera, only took very few photos using my phone.

Horrible lo-res picture of me and EgPuma
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Monster and Genius playing Fifa on the Xbox, which I had to set up for them as they couldnt speak enough English to work the Menus

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View from my seat in the 7th row, right beside the interview couch

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Amazing tournament, well set up obviously a lot of money and work went into it and it showed.

i watched most of the games and the finals

pretty sick win for thorzain, great story book ending to a great event

Thorzain was so happy to win, really nice to see. He really dominated the series from what I saw.

I thought Nerchio might do a bit better. His ZvZ is really good and thought he'd make it past monster, but he lost on some coinflips. He needs more experience at LANs and I think team acer needs to send their players out to america for the MLG's and IPL's.

Ret's win over Genius was awesome as well. I kind of assumed Genius would just win it all.

Speaking of Koreans, Puma continues to struggle a bit at LAN's, something I'm not used to.

Terrible results in his groups at IPL 4 and DH. I really like his play and I hope he picks it up.

Love StarCraft 2, but i refuse to play it online anymore...

There is just to many god damn ultra 1337 no-life 10 hours a day playing kicking your butt 24-7 players, it is extremly stressful, constant pressure, every second counts........ i accidentaly with luck won a couple of games in a row at the start and am now stuck in the best league, where i keep getting murdered, im basically just padding those peoples stats there... lol...

..and i am way to competitive, this game is forcing me to either go in

Oh so you're in grandmasters?

I've played d2 since like 2002...Been a cycle of playing/ quiting. I saw how d3 looked and i'm really disapointed. D2 was so freaking original and awesome at the time but now it looks just like War craft...I started d2 again and probably will still play it over d3...

[QUOTE=pauk]Love StarCraft 2, but i refuse to play it online anymore...

There is just to many god damn ultra 1337 no-life 10 hours a day playing kicking your butt 24-7 players, it is extremly stressful, constant pressure, every second counts........ i accidentaly with luck won a couple of games in a row at the start and am now stuck in the best league, where i keep getting murdered, im basically just padding those peoples stats there... lol...

..and i am way to competitive, this game is forcing me to either go in

damn.. eg gets thorzain!

Anyone going to buy D3? I'm heavily considering it. I bought this nice laptop without anything to test its specs on!

Plus, I was huge a D2 fan.

[QUOTE=jaydacris]damn.. eg gets thorzain![/QUOTE]
Big pickup for sure. He's doing quite well in the SCAN invitational today from what I've seen as well.

Next week is huge. MLG spring arena 2(won't watch), proleague with SC2 begins, and GSL finals.

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gfLo-1Sjkr8"]i am ready for tuesday[/URL]

Damn..... I'm hearing some REALLY bad things. Supposedly it only takes 6 freaking hours to beat on average. People are PISSED. Here's a comment on review.

"Diablo 3 is out. It took 11 years to make. The graphics look 10 years old and its only 6 hours long. But don't worry kids you can buy hats with moms credit card!"

[QUOTE=Clippersfan86]Damn..... I'm hearing some REALLY bad things. Supposedly it only takes 6 freaking hours to beat on average. People are PISSED. Here's a comment on review.

"Diablo 3 is out. It took 11 years to make. The graphics look 10 years old and its only 6 hours long. But don't worry kids you can buy hats with moms credit card!"[/QUOTE]

The rage i am hearing is people who cant get past the login servers. It definitely takes more than 6 hours to beat the game. Ive been playing for 10 hours and my guy is only level 22. That quote you posted sounds like its just from some random hater, the graphics and physics are great, definitely not 10 years old.

btw, the game is incredible. I have been anticipating this game for a decade and I think blizzard delivered.

[QUOTE=KeylessEntry]The rage i am hearing is people who cant get past the login servers. It definitely takes more than 6 hours to beat the game. Ive been playing for 10 hours and my guy is only level 22. That quote you posted sounds like its just from some random hater, the graphics and physics are great, definitely not 10 years old.

btw, the game is incredible. I have been anticipating this game for a decade and I think blizzard delivered.[/QUOTE]

Do I need a nice rig to run it? I can run Wow without problems for most part but I had serious issues with SWTOR.

Yea I think most of the negative reviews stem from frustrations with the servers than with the game itself.

I'll probably buy it sometime this weekend. Think I'm going to go Monk.

[QUOTE=Clippersfan86]Do I need a nice rig to run it? I can run Wow without problems for most part but I had serious issues with SWTOR.[/QUOTE]

It has higher requirements than wow, but I have been playing on my old macbook pro with a crappy 256mb video card and it runs fine on my comp.


[QUOTE=GatorKid117]Yea I think most of the negative reviews stem from frustrations with the servers than with the game itself.

I'll probably buy it sometime this weekend. Think I'm going to go Monk.[/QUOTE]

I have been loving my Monk, made it up to level 25 and act III so far. The physics engine in the game is suprisingly advanced, and monk really showcases the physics engine by letting you throw enemies all over the place, very fun.

Diablo III DRM :facepalm

[QUOTE=pauk]Diablo III DRM :facepalm[/QUOTE]
It's probably the main reason I won't play this game for a year or so. No point in getting frustrated over not being able to play a single-player game because the company's servers are broken. This is going overboard when it comes to piracy/hacking protection.

I wasn't anticipating Diablo 3 too much. I loved the first 2 games and especially played the hell out of Diablo 1 online even with item duping and constant hacking around. Then a couple days ago I got excited about this until all these reports.

I played some SCII last night.. first time in a few months. Had to do a qualification match. I got the shit knocked out of me. GG'd. Exited game :(

[QUOTE=Qwyjibo]It's probably the main reason I won't play this game for a year or so. No point in getting frustrated over not being able to play a single-player game because the company's servers are broken. This is going overboard when it comes to piracy/hacking protection.

I wasn't anticipating Diablo 3 too much. I loved the first 2 games and especially played the hell out of Diablo 1 online even with item duping and constant hacking around. Then a couple days ago I got excited about this until all these reports.[/QUOTE]

The servers are not that bad. Aside from a few hours on release day they have hardly been down at all. DRM is annoying, but the game is way better without hackers/spammers, and in diablo 2 you couldnt play your online characters when the servers were down anyway (and who actually played a single player char in diablo 2?). I think all the crying about the servers and DRM is totally overblown. All things considered I think the release went really well. Then again, I also liked the ending to Mass Effect 3. Some gamers will cry about anything/everything.

I just killed the last boss in the game and moved on to Nightmare difficulty on my Monk. My only gripe is that the game is too easy. I hear that it gets harder once you get to hell and inferno difficulty, but so far this game is pretty easy and forgiving compared to diablo 2.

I kinda want to play Witch Doctor. Too bad my computer passes req's with flying colors OUTSIDE OF graphics :mad: :mad: . It says I can run Wow or SWTOR with low-med settings but not diablo 3.

[QUOTE=Clippersfan86]I kinda want to play Witch Doctor. Too bad my computer passes req's with flying colors OUTSIDE OF graphics :mad: :mad: . It says I can run Wow or SWTOR with low-med settings but not diablo 3.[/QUOTE]

should be fine. any computer made within the past 5/6 years should be fine.

I suggest getting somebody to hook you up with a guest pass to try it.

mine is constantly getting 160 fps with a 7970

The servers have been operating more or less flawless for the past few days, but the game still has 2.5/5 stars on amazon because of people raging that they couldnt log in at 12:00 on release day :oldlol:

This game is an instant classic, 95/100 in my eyes. Little details like the soundtrack will blow you away. Playing this game in the dark at 2am with the sound turned way up was one of my best gaming experiences in a long time. The more that I play, the more it feels like a continuation of diablo 2 (with next gen graphics and stuff).

[QUOTE=KeylessEntry] Playing this game in the dark at 2am with the sound turned way up was one of my best gaming experiences in a long time. The more that I play, the more it feels like a continuation of diablo 2 (with next gen graphics and stuff).[/QUOTE]

Pants on or off?

Finished this on normal yesterday in about 15 hours on a Monk. Got to level 31. The detail in all the environments is really impressive. I wish it was longer though. But I still have 3 more modes to complete plus whatever they add in eventually. I wasn't even rushing either. Just playing with a friend and we explored every area in each section. Going to start over on a Barbarian in between playing Nightmare on the Monk.

Hopefully I can get the new laptop this week and play some D3. No monthly fee right? Just the initial game like D2?