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- Sarah Kerrigan, Queen of blades
- Purity & Industry will be removed instead of Eternal Empire next season.
- Jim Raynor Cosplay X-Post from r/gaming
- I was bored so I made a BC out of dominos
- Baneling by Tamas Gyerman
- TY is a mastermind
- "Who called in the fleet?" The Dark Horse Battlecruiser model came in today, and my armada grows.
- Artosis up to his old tricks again.
- Blizzard doesn't care(Not balance complaint)
- What actually happened during TY vs PartinG Game 6 (gif taken by GSL staff, uploaded in kr community)
- Fully functional Battlecruiser created with LEGO parts! Maybe it can also fly? Amazing work, just sharing.
- [LEGO Fan Art] Terran SCV
- Moletrap is back casting Brood war!
- No matter how hard I micro, I'm still a mvoe race
- New SC1 Tournament Casted by Tastosis
- Congratulations to the first GSL finalist!
- This is impressive
- Best play I’ve ever done
- Legacy of the Void: Terran Edition will be released is less than a week. AMA! I'm here to answer any questions you have.
- Send in your GSL Cheers signs! If they like it, it will be shown during the finals itself. These are those normally drawn or written and displayed in the crowd, now can be sent online.
- Attention - Tychus Findlay was spotted in Russia, if you find him retrieve only the suit��
- Comments on the last game from GSL this morning from FPVOD
- The Final Regular Season Tournament of The Pizza Pie is live now! Who is going to get some last minute Pizza Points!
- Viewer strats day ! I'm playing any strat with Terran on my ranked MMR. Follow and you can ask one !
- GSL Code S 2020 S1 | Ro4 | Day 1 | Rundown
Sarah Kerrigan, Queen of blades Posted: 27 May 2020 09:38 PM PDT
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Purity & Industry will be removed instead of Eternal Empire next season. Posted: 27 May 2020 04:03 PM PDT
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Jim Raynor Cosplay X-Post from r/gaming Posted: 27 May 2020 02:27 PM PDT
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I was bored so I made a BC out of dominos Posted: 27 May 2020 01:47 PM PDT
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Posted: 27 May 2020 03:55 PM PDT Warning: long text post ahead, I'm a big TY fanboy and I don't think many people truly appreciated the strategic genius of TY vs PartinG game 6 due to how futile it looked. This post has nothing to do with balance, simply a fanalysis on one of the greatest strategic mindgame in my opinion in recent televised matches. </warning> There's been a bit of talk about the 6th game of TY vs PartinG in the recent GSL semifinals, but I don't think anyone has highlighted the strategic ingenuity that TY put into this game, drawing not only on how the series was currently going, but also with how PartinG's previous series versus Maru went, potentially even reaching back to PartinG vs Bunny in Ro16. PartinG's macro playstyle roughly breaks down into 3 stages:
PartinG's lategame is best summarized as having a mobile army that heavily exploits any time terran is out of position, either via warp prism in mains (Maru G4), catching Terran drops (Maru G5), and spamming blink DTs (Bunny G2). All of these work off of a strong 70-80 probe economy with 10-15 gateways. This style has served PartinG so well that he has not lost a TvP beyond 11 minutes this entire GSL. Not versus Dream ro32 (twice), not versus Bunny ro16, and not versus Maru ro8. However, there is one distinct weakness to this approach- PartinG's stubbornness to go stargate. Even in the face of ranged Liberators in PartinG vs Bunny game 2, he continued to rely on gateway based counterattacks to catch Libs out of position. TY's game plan in game 6 is designed to bait PartinG into doing this strategy that he has already shown effectiveness vs all the other Terrans in GSL so far, then counter it in using the weakness mentioned before regarding PartinG's refusal to go Stargate by focusing entirely on an absurdly powerful anti-ground composition. First, he opens with a 3 tank 1 raven opener, which defends blink stalker pressure very well (and it did), at the cost of having essential no map presence or harassment option until the stalker pressure is over. However, this is often the goal of PartinG's first phase- if the blink stalkers don't straight up kill the Terran like it did to TY in game 5 or to Maru in game 1, it at least kept Terran home for the protoss economy and tech to grow. When the stalker phase ended and both sides stabilized at ~7min, PartinG's third is finishing, he is up 11 workers (53-42), thermal lance is ~1/4 done with the first colossus almost out, as well as charge at ~1/3 done. TY does a discrete scan on the protoss 3rd at 7:10 to confirm this is indeed going according to plan as the nexus is finishing with plenty of probes already ready to mine. The next series of moves from Terran looks stupid on paper, but given TY's caliber I'm tempted to think this was fully intentional to keep PartinG's plan on track. TY lifts his factory for a production round, and produces 2 widow mines, then lifts his factory again to go back into continuous tank production for the rest of the game. He then loads the mines into 2 medivacs full of bio units, and makes the silliest drop play on the Protoss natural. Why is this silly? 1- there are blink stalkers sharking around the map (although this is partially alleviated by the simultaneous fake moveout of the ground bio units from the terran natural), 2- there is nothing else happening on the map to distract Protoss attention, 3- the blink stalker aggression phase just ended, meaning protoss is powering with his army *at home*, the defense will be there. TY knows this, which is why he committed so little to trying to make it work. He flies in, drops not even 4 units, lifts up and gtfo's back to his own base. You can tell even PartinG was expecting a little more effort when he warps in 5 defensive chargelots on the 3rd base to preempt the two prong. So why do it? Why risk Maru G5 with such a move? I think it's to convince PartinG to take his 4th base and continue his macro plan. Ask any Terran player who knows a cahoot about the current TvP meta: what do you do when you're stuck turtling in your base with tank bio while Protoss has been unhindered the entire game harassing you with blink stalkers? A large majority would likely say- PULL THE BOIS (unless you're Innovation, in which case you might double ninja expo in opposite corners of the map). And for good reason, SCV pulls have been so prevalent in abruptly ending games that blizzard is actually putting it in their patch notes. So going back to why the drop was important- what do you *not* do when you're SCV pulling? You don't send drops, because why risk losing 16 supply of an army when its true power comes from having everything in a deathball burrito wrapped by SCVs? By sending this drop, TY signals to PartinG that he intends to go a "normal" game with bio mine, and for PartinG to continue with his macro plan. Of course, the drop could've also been simply to bring Protoss home so TY can take the 3rd, TY's army should've already been big enough to simply push the stalkers back. At 10 minutes is when PartinG's stronger economy kicks into full gear, and when the game often snowballs out of Terran control. Protoss is up 36 supply, 30 of which is army supply. Protoss has 2 colossi while Terran doesn't even have a single viking. Honestly, even though TY intentionally took an extremely late 4th in preparation for this, I still feel like PartinG had potential to break the army if the raven wasn't used well. However, due to PartinG's miscontrol moreso than TY's brilliancy, the attack was piecewise and easily held. After this attack, TY continues making the most insane anti-ground composition ever. Not just with double tank production, but with PFs surrounded by turrets and orbitals, as well as full sensor tower coverage of his base. At this point, PartinG makes his transition into his 7 base 89 probe stage and begins warping in chargelots and blink DTs everywhere. And this is where things go south for the returning Protoss. TY's approach to the remainder of the game is similar to how Protosses traditionally play PvT- take donations sent by the Terran and just wait. TY had zero interest in moving out on the map, or even scouting any transitions PartinG may do, because PartinG is busy dumping all his money into pointless warp prisms and chargelot-dt squads. In committing to these attacks, PartinG sacrifices his own transition into more powerful anti-tank compositions like stargate, which then leads him to continuously wash up against the wall of PF and tanks until eventually he exhausts himself out more than TY's doing. Over the course of multiple failed expensive attacks:
After the 17:25 giant blunder by PartinG, the game effectively swings into the Terran's favor- Terran now has a bank despite being on fewer bases, a stronger ground-to-ground army, and ghosts dropping nukes on various Protoss bases. PartinG struggles to remax for the rest of the game as he continues bad trades with gateway units all the while dropping lower and lower in worker and base count. And the saddest part of all? PartinG did this to himself. All TY had to do was look at his minimap for sensor tower dots and move some units around. PartinG did all the hard work of being active and flashy, while TY reaped the benefits. Yes, at the end of the day, game 6 looks like a simple game of "wow no skill turtle Terran does nothing but sit back and defend fuck Terran", and of course strategy was not the only thing that won TY the game, since he was already very strong at this style of defensive play. And yes, even if PartinG were to deviate from his stubborn ways and transition to stargate and play a more passive game, that no way guarantees a win or even an advantage. But TY knew PartinG wouldn't. Why would he? He's riding off a 2 game high, he's comfortably settled into the same type of game that he's strong at, and with one more he would have erased all the embarrassment of games 1-3 to even the score up at 3-3. For TY to take PartinG's momentum, both from his previous successes versus Dream, Bunny, Maru, as well as his current momentum coming back from 0-3 to 2-3, and make PartinG lose his own game... that, in my opinion, is peak SC2. ggwp [link] [comments] | ||
"Who called in the fleet?" The Dark Horse Battlecruiser model came in today, and my armada grows. Posted: 27 May 2020 02:30 PM PDT
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Artosis up to his old tricks again. Posted: 27 May 2020 08:40 PM PDT
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Blizzard doesn't care(Not balance complaint) Posted: 27 May 2020 07:45 PM PDT I've played this game for more than 3 years. I haven't encountered this issue before a couple months ago. My friend sent me a link to a guy streaming on YouTube with maphack playing archon ranked. The video got removed by the user and I had idea of who it could be(The Russian sc2 community is pretty well known for me). A couple weeks ago me and my friend were playing archon we play a guy that we call out for maphacks because we suspected it was him that streamed. He pings in the fog of war on units. replay . I did some research turns out there are a lot of players that played with map hack. Some tournament players too. This is where the fun begins. I haven't downloaded it and am not going to because I think it will ruin the game for me so I'm going to be honest with the information I found out. Me the same friend are snipping streamers in 2v2. We play with our smurfs and meet 2 other guys that are trying to snipe them. Mid game they spam something like "thanks to Alex007 for the advertisement, buy map hack or get a trial version website link". We go through with the link with a vpn obviously it doesn't even have https in the URL. It's a redirect to a discord server. Fucking hell this is a whole community. Over 100 members. Previews of the maphack/discord details of the owner. I message the owner and pretend to be a customer. I ask for the price. For the curious ones here is the price but I'm not sharing the discord server because I don't want these people to ruin the game for everyone else. prices in USD. Interesting. Today I'm on a discord call with my friend and I bring this up. He's a gm player and he played around with it in HOTS for a couple weeks but hasn't used it since. Apparently it makes your game run slower and you drop about half the frames. And he thinks about a fifth of gm are people with map hack or people that have used it. I don't know how true this is but they definitely exist. Blizzard please do something. [link] [comments] | ||
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Moletrap is back casting Brood war! Posted: 28 May 2020 12:07 AM PDT
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No matter how hard I micro, I'm still a mvoe race Posted: 28 May 2020 03:05 AM PDT
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New SC1 Tournament Casted by Tastosis Posted: 27 May 2020 09:36 AM PDT Not sure if this has been posted on this sub, but I just found out about this today and I feel like it hasn't been advertised considering the first video only has ~2k views. It's called Starcraft Remastered Racewar and it is hosted by The Esports Night (T.E.N). It features some of the best players in the world casted by Tastosis. There are 3 players for each race (3t/3p/3z) and one of each gets put into a group to duke it out. Here's the channel with the videos, they're in round 3 now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg09K8v8qVY https://www.twitch.tv/theesportsnight_en/ I think there is a lot of interest for this sort of content, so let's advertise it as a community so that we can continue to have tournaments like this in the future. [link] [comments] | ||
Congratulations to the first GSL finalist! Posted: 27 May 2020 04:11 AM PDT TY takes it over PartinG 4-2! Rocky start to the match for PartinG but he started pulling it back before losing a drawn-out game 6. [link] [comments] | ||
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Posted: 27 May 2020 12:59 PM PDT If there are no unexpected delays, LOTVTE will be out in less than a week. It will feature a difficulty choosing system, Lab Research (which you can also choose before each mission), Armory upgrades and Mercenaries. Feel free to ask any questions regarding LOTVTE or any of my other projects. [link] [comments] | ||
Posted: 27 May 2020 04:23 AM PDT
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Attention - Tychus Findlay was spotted in Russia, if you find him retrieve only the suit�� Posted: 27 May 2020 05:54 AM PDT
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Comments on the last game from GSL this morning from FPVOD Posted: 27 May 2020 03:16 PM PDT I was watching Parting's FPVOD for last night's 6th game vs TY (http://vod.afreecatv.com/PLAYER/STATION/57070961), to see what happened during two key moments: the messed up big army engagement at TY's third, where half the army didn't attack, and the 50 army supply donation already clipped on the front page (missed by the observer during the live cast). tl;dr - first one seems to be a hotkey mistake, second one maybe a super brief lapse in multitasking
If PartinG had just used Alt to split the army for the first fight, rather than manually grouping (probably muscle memory from before the steal hotkey was introduced), it would have gone much better: at worst, the army doesn't split properly, but still fights all at once. Anyway, was just skimming the VOD for fun and thought I'd check these two moments out! I think the FPVOD streams are really cool to watch. [link] [comments] | ||
Posted: 27 May 2020 05:36 PM PDT
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Viewer strats day ! I'm playing any strat with Terran on my ranked MMR. Follow and you can ask one ! Posted: 28 May 2020 12:18 AM PDT
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GSL Code S 2020 S1 | Ro4 | Day 1 | Rundown Posted: 27 May 2020 05:52 AM PDT Has there ever been a time when the anticipation for a Semifinal was on this level? Lets get right into the thick of things with our first Ro4 match: TY vs PartinGAlthough these two have duked it out it out in relatively close series over the course of their recent history, a lot was going in favor of TY here, getting to watch PartinG bring out everything he had in PvT to even make it to this Round was certainly a big factor heading into the series, couple that with the change in the tides as Terran Season has become undeniable and even the return to form for the big brain player caster hybrid himself... the expected result could certainly start feeling undeniable. Still, counting out someone going through a career renaissance is more than a little silly - especially when it's a player who's lifted trophies on the biggest stages and been under tremendous pressure a hundred times over - and not to mention PartinG certainly had one significant advantage going for him skill-wise, namely his ridiculous ability to micro out of seemingly any trouble he might have put himself in i.e. essentially what brought him to the dance. Ultimately, this match - in my mind at least - would come down to the key element that separates Code S from every other tournament i.e. who has the better preparation, because both these players had already shown to be more than capable of winning when they "weren't supposed to" in the previous Round. Warning: Spoilers Ahead, Obviously From taking complete control of the series by bringing the fire from the start to closing things out by putting on a true masterclass performance in the lategame, this day belongs to TY. M1 | TY [ 4 : 2 ] |
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