Official Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty thread!

[vlad321]

Gnizmo said:

vlad321 said:

I picked to kill off the air, I had no science vessels but I did have ravens with autocannons which rocked. The perdition turrets are also absolutely broken, have 3 or 4 set up at each entrance to the base and anythign that isnt an ultralisk gets fried immidiately. I used banshees because of the stealth and the speed, by the time the BC got to the nydus worm they already spawned more waves than I would have liked. So stealthed banshees it was and a big force of them too. They also really decimate ground forces if you have their upgrade that does damage behidn the primary target.

I had absolutely no problems waiting for mercenaries to go out and kill things, the only time I did have a problem was the mission where you had to build up your army and save the soldiers. thankfully nothing really happens in the first 5 minutes of that mission so I just spared a tank and some marines/bats/medics to collect the troops. Also if you land a viking it also works for the ones that are mostly air.

I have yet to see anythign that you said being mentioned here, in fact the very first mention of something being "added" liek strategies are very cursory remarks about people's favorite start on the 2nd page, not even how to pull it off. Everything else was just praise, which is no different at all than just trashing.

Furthermore, while I exaggerate a lot I do not lie. The copper to plat was perfectly valid. I did start off in copper, after some of the placement restarts I ended up in the old gold league, new plat. I also managed to stick around there for a while before the next restart. As for why it was posted late, have you not realized I'm banned for half the time? Maybe, just maybe, I play some games and things occur while I'm banned. Just something to think about.

If you are going to have an "Official" thread you should be able to handle both positive and negative talk. If you just want positive talk then name it "Starcraft II Circlejerk Thread."

On Hard and up they will attack you in greater numbers early on, and require more than what you can field with Mercenaries. Orlan's mission is a prime example as you have maybe 2 types of mercenaries, and they will rip you apart way too early for that containing you and thus beating you to 6k minerals.

And what the hell were you thinking? Ravens over Science Vessels? Pure madness. Seige Tanks, Thors, Diamondbacks, and all the most broken units possible with Medivacs that can heal each other? I can just build a bunker for all it matters. A lot of the tech choices were like that too sadly. One option that is so much better than the other that its laughable like the Flame Turrets.

You might also notice I don't respond to people giving blind praise. The difference is they don't distract from a normal conversation. Someone blindly praising the game can be ignored and not derail a conversation. People vaguely slamming it can. Or have you not noticed I actually respond to the substance you offer?

You had claimed to get into the Beta after Copper was eliminated. Your time line proved it was completely impossible for that to have happened. Either you were wrong about when you got into the Beta by a good amount of time (a month off of memory)  or lied about the accomplishment. Anyway you slice it though there is still the fact that you adamantly, and repeatedly claimed there was no playing game off-line.

 Curiosity question to everyone out there. Hercules or Predator? I have played around with both but neither seems terribly useful in a general sense. Hercules beat the mission where you blow up the 4 or so building for me on hard (well  plus or minus a dozen or more Siege Tanks with their 40 damage upgrade) but the Fusion Core pre-req means I don't bother teching to them 90% of the time. Predators are easier to get, and beat the piss out of groups of units like Zerglings, but there are other ways that are almost as effective. Seems like both are situationally useless in most missions.

Orlan's mission was indeed more difficult, thank god for the vulture mines and the fact I had perma invisible specters cause those really kicked ass. I barely beat him by about 25 minerals in the end and thank god those reprocessors spawned the last few minerals in time. Really, the perma invis specters and nukes really saved my ass on that one. The 2nd part though was a joke.

As for the Science Vessels, well I saw they didn't have the EMP or the Defensive Matrix and thought "fuck that!" I didn't even think about the use of the armor heal. In the end the Ravens proved useful witht heir awesome badass autocannons for the last mission. Also, the Thor revive is absolutely fucking amazing. I mean, holy shit, those zerg didn't even see it coming.

You may alos notice that I do not go and trash talk the game in reply to someone's strategy trading or anything of that sort. I came in and posted my shortish assessment of the retail product.

That is absolutely false, I was in the beta a a few days before Gamestop had their Beta deal, then I preordered and swindled them for 2 beta keys instead of one. In fact I made a post about how I screwed over Gamestop. The patch removing copper was a few weeks later than that, so it is absolutely impossible for me to have played after it. In fact Patch 13 came out about 2-3 months ago and the Gamesto thing was mid April-ish. Also, there was absolutely no way to play the beta offline indeed, whenever my internet was down I was screwed, going by a given interview that, now apparently a bunch of idiot PRs, they made it sound like if you could not log on Bnet you were screwed.'

I went with predator, they really helped me out on the missions where the terrans had a lot of ground troops. If you send in enough to survive, since they die super fast, they can annihilate a whole group in seconds. They were also awesome for the Media Blitz since I coudl jsut rush them to the circle and kill whatever was occupying it once the air was dead.