Official Star Craft 2 Beta Thread

[The_vagabond7]

aragod said:

The_vagabond7 said:
Son of a...just learned a very important thing about zerg. OVERLORDS DON'T HAVE DETECTION ANYMORE. I mean what the fuck? Learned that the hard way. Playing a game against a grade A turtler, a toss with five hundred cannon on top of his ramp and teched to collosi with thermal lance just to make sure nothing could walk up there. I was breaking him, took one of his massive turtle expos with a nydus worm and a bajillion hydras and roaches, and one expo without a choke with mass hydras. Then he DTs my main and my natural. I kept moving my overlord around thinking why the hell are they still invisible? WTF??? What zerg unit detects?? And then desperately trying to throw down something to detect with. I took out a fleet of carriers backed by a mothership and void rays, had him against the ropes and lost to four Dark temps.

Lesson, don't take past knowledge as a given in Starcraft 2. I would've won easily in time simply on my economy if I didn't just assume overlords still had detection.

Yep, I've got owned by not knowing that too, but in my case it was Banshee rush. Damn these overseers...

Well live and learn. That was only my second 1v1 with zerg, had been using toss prior to that. I was playing a mess anyway due to my ignorance of the tech tree, but the guy I was playing against wasn't very good, so I was still coming out on top. He was like an old BGH player except on a real map. I was kind of all over the place and panicking a bit because I knew zerg didn't have gaurdians anymore, so I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing to get through this massive turtle, and I'm not normally a zerg player to begin with. It was a mess of a game, but I would've won had I known about the detection thing. Gotten a couple of overseers or something. Oh well, live and learn. It was a fun and informative match anyway.

 

Speaking of BGH I hear the new patch allowing edited maps to be released soon, how long do you think it will be before the custom games tab is flooded with "BGH no rush 20 minutes!!!!!" games?