In 2008 I started out with a shitty barebone pc from tigerdirect and started adding new parts from there. Went from a 9600 GS (2008) to a 9800 GT (2 years ago 2010) with a Athlon X2 5400+ 2.8 processor. Ah, good times, my pc was shit. I’m looking to get a SSD 120 GB then switch to 64 bit windows 7 with a max of 8 gb ddr3 ram.
Current Specs:
Motherboard: Biostar AM3 Something lol (supports six core)
Processor: AMD Phenom II x6 1055T 2.8 GHz (Six Core – lol don’t believe anything uses 6 cores yet, but who cares because when they do I’m prepared 8-])
Memory: 4GB Crucial Rendention DDR3 (2nd stick laying around for when I get my SSD and install 64 bit windows)
Graphics: EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Harddrive: Some 500gb hard drive (im at 125gb now -.- buying a SSD soon I want faster load times ;o)
Mouse: Steelseries Xai
Mousepad: Steelseries 9HD (hard plastic)
Keyboard: Corsair Vengance k60 (Mechanical Red Switches) -> next esports sponsor (steelseries/ttesports/etc…) that makes red/brown switch keyboard I’ll replace this one with that one
Monitor(s): Acer 20 Inch & I-INC 19 Inch -> replacing the 19 inch soon for a 20 inch monitor to match my main monitor
Headset: Steelseries Siberia V2′s Full USB Headset
I feel like this isa step from my dual core 2.8 Athlon X2 5400+ rig from 2008 lol. Feels great. Runs all cods on extra smooth as butter; starcraft I’m not sure yet will update; deus ex doesn’t have those weird mouse lag issues and pretty smooth; league of legends I get 100 fps no problem and I will be testing dota 2 tomorrow ^_^
I’m never satisfied with my computer, so I’ll keep upgrading things when necessary. #budgetgaming
In exchange for lack of posts here’s some good songs that I listen to while laddering
Foster The People – Helena Beat
Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood
Goyte feat. Kimbra – Somebody That I Used To Know
M83 – Midnight City
Massive Attack – Paradise Circus
Massive Attack – Rush Minute
Miike Snow – Plastic Jungle
Peter, Bjorn & John Feat. Victoria Bergsman – Young Folks
Queen w Armageddon aka Geddy – I Want It All / We Will Rock You Mash / Armageddon [Queen cover]
The Cat Empire – Two Shoes
The xx – Crystalised
Broken Bells -October
Broken Bells – The Ghost Inside
The Black Keys – Tighten Up
Broken Bells – The High Road
Caribou – Odessa
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
Peter, Bjorn and John – Second Chance
Ratatat – Wildcat
Ratatat – Loud Pipes
So I have new internet and I’m going to start streaming my ladder games a lot more. From there I’m going to start watching my games from not only my replays but my vods now. I feel it gives me a different perspective of how I actually play unlike the replays FPOV option. I’m going to use this to improve my mechanics and basic issues that I might not notice from watching my replays. So here we go, only played 2 ladder games then went straight into ZvT practice matches.
Disclaimer: I’m not good, wannabe diamond player …
1. I seen my opponent going for a standard FFE so I went for a 3 hatch gasless expand opening. Into the standard
+1 roach/roach speed timing.
Issues:
1. Got supply blocked at 18 food. I for some reason keep missing my 15 food overlord. This has recently been happening to me.
2. Wasn’t watching my minimap and the probe lead my ling right into the cannons.
3. Got supply blocked again at 36 food. Minerals hit 600.
4. Didn’t macro while defending the 2 zealot pressure at the third
5. Put gas in the extractors at 60~ food instead of when the extractors completed. This really hurt my game.
6. Wasn’t spreading creep as often as I should have
7. When my overlord and scouting ling died I didn’t scout him or the third once.
8. I didn’t make 2 extra queens once I put my macro hatch up (2 because I always lose at least one and I need to get my creep spread going)
9. … kept getting supply blocked. Pretty bad at this point now. With my gas being late I should have taken a 4th base earlier and started saturating it. I needed more gas. (Also my 5/6th gas was uber late as well, messing up my macro)
10. 2k Minerals, lost the game technically, had no gas.
11. If I would have scouted his army better I should have gotten roach movement + burrow with the amount of sentries he had.
12. Fourth base wasn’t saturated at all, protoss had his 3rd up for a long time and I didn’t bother scouting the other expansions.
13. Didn’t get 2/2 until 20 minutes in, now I know I lost this game.
Notes:
1. Baited force fields pretty well instead of losing a ton of units.
Game 2
/**
* Game 2 – ZvT – Ohana
*/
Notes:
1. This game was so silly, almost lost this game, but I stuck it out!
2. I did the smartest thing ever and pulled my drones across the map so i wouldn’t take that much eco damage (he would have had to follow my drones or stay and kill off tech and he stayed) [banshees btw] mutas popped perfectly
3. After that harassment, I sort of screwed up my macro because banshees = panic mode, but I stabilized after a while and kept attacking and never letting him expand which kept me in the game I feel.
4. Using changelings to scout the map was a thing I don’t normally do that I did this game, really helpful. (something I need to do more often)
Issues:
1. Made a overlord on 10 instead of an overlord on 9 >.>
2. Got supply blocked again around 18 food.
3. … supply blocks are the death of me.
4. I didn’t scout at around 35-40 food with my overlord -> HUGE mistake (banshees came and wrecked havac
5. Forgot to make extra queens for macro hatch, 3rd expo and creep spreading.
8. During my first counter attack after I stabilized a bit, I screwed up and mismicroed my mutas -> mutas attacking bunkered marines = nono!
9. Forgot burrow. My opponent did a huge attack when I was doing another counter attack -> I retreated, but i could have saved a ton of my economy if i got burrow. Shit I actually could have saved a ton of my economy during the double port banshee play.
10. Kept getting either massive amounts of minerals or massive amounts of gas – didn’t really stabilize until late game.
11. lol accidentally rallied to my gas >.>
Conclusion
From what I understand after watching, I need to work on not getting supply blocked. My injections aren’t top notch, but they are doable. Also my creep spread seems lacking after the first few minutes of the game, then I continue late game but do nothing mid game. I need to start getting burrow more often to help save my economy versus cheese builds like what that terran did with the double port banshee. So yeah getting supply blocked seems to be the biggest issue in my game play right now and I’m going to work on it a lot more often.
PS: When I play more games, I’m only going to post the first few outlines then link to a text file. I hope I get better. Oh yeah, tomorrow I’m going to be going through some replays and posting really interesting ones. I’m also going to “steal that build” if I find a style or a thing I like. Well since I still have you reading, I’m going to be be writing another blog post soon regarding the types of content I’m going to be posting besides randomly thoughts .
So I came across this article about how the broodwar pros are switching soon. Then goes on about how they failed to make sc1 popular globally when it was in its prime (which they basically talk about how they were stubborn about it and why it failed) and more shit about how switching to sc2 is inevitable at this point with sc2 becoming as big as it is globally (outside of korea.)
Lot of it sparked my interests since it’s basically going to start yet another chapter in starcraft 2. We already know how beta up until the middle/end of last year that the current south korean pros were dominating the scene, mainly terran heh. Now the foreigners are starting to catch up, well not all of them, but the sparks of hope like stephano, huk and naniwa who are showing up quite a lot near the top. Now the overly worked bw pros & b team players will adjust and catch up in the next half year to see if this quote holds a bit of weight:
Honestly, some of the players that were, let’s say, terrible at SC1, are now absolutely demolishing others in SC2. We all started at the same time, but already we’re seeing skill differences. – Stars Coach Lee
The funny part about this quote that I found is some of the really good top korean pros right now like MC, DRG, etc… didn’t do that well in bw, yet currently blowing up the sc2 scene. So I guess my question is should be we excited to see the lesser known players popup and start doing well?
I think the last person I talked to went on about “people who say bw pros that switch will be #1 is idiotic”, which goes way past the main point that I was trying to make. Anyways, all I’m saying is our current best sc2 pros were terrible at bw or mediocre at best and I’m more excited to see how well the lesser known’s do (even though l would be awesome if jaedong did well.) I also hope to see more people with a more opened mind, it’s shit like that last quote which really annoys me. BW Pros who have been switching haven’t done that well I get that, take TSLhyun. I also get it’s a different game, no shit. Then again 1.6 and cs:s were different games and 1.6 players could still beat the shit out of source players from time to time, but that’s probably a whole different debate and drama that I don’t feel like getting into right now. People could go on for days about this shit and at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter except the game I love gets more competition.
Read that fomos translation of the bw coaches discussing starcraft 2 when you get a chance, pretty interesting to see what the bw coaches have to say.
Again, it’s all speculation. Keep an open mind ^_^
So last week, I was noticing myself having more and more errors while playing. I would often lose a lot and not understand why I lost. So I started watching all my replays of the games I lost. Now, I know what some people might say, “Wow you didn’t watch your replays previously?” Yes, well it was more complicated than that. I used to tell myself that I knew what I did wrong, which I did, but there were more issues that went into me not winning those games. Such as little things like: not spreading creep to a certain part of the map, having my overlords placed incorrectly for scouting, not having ENOUGH defensive spines after I’m spread out quite a lot, even things like not splitting my ground army into groups to deal with double prong drops in ZvT.
So I started a new notepad text file and started documenting each game I lost with this format:
/**
* [MAP] – [Matchup] [vs (What did you lose vs)]
*/
Build: [My Opener]
Opponent: [Oppnents Opener/or anything important he did during the game]
Issue: [All the issues listed out]
Moment I realized I lost: [what happened right before you gg'd basically]
I’d do this for every game I lost that day, then the next ladder session I would go over the last list and make sure I wouldn’t repeat any mistakes. Now I’m not sure how much it’s helping me improve now, but hopefully in a few weeks we’ll see some progress.
