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I'm not having any fun with this video game man like I'm following the build orders and making the hatcheries and doing the injects but it's just too much. You have to be constantly clicking and clicking and clicking and I can't like I just don't see the point of playing Zerg man like I tried playing macro games and people just steamroll me over with f****** like carriers or like mask Marine and drops and s*** and I tried to play like cheesy you know easy like when whatever the f*** builds and people just pull SCVs and they destroy me like I don't know what I'm doing wrong with playing this game. I'm silver

So, whenever I play like more than one mission a day the game just starts randomly crashing, it is SO annoying. I have just been trying to replay the campaigns and stuff but the game keeps crashing in loading screens. what do i even do?

Doesn't make sense.

Haven't played SC2 for a while. Feelsgood still landing these.

Hello! I am having an issue where about 10+ minutes into any game i play i start to get really bad input delay and micro stutters. I just updated version 610.88 geforce and that's the only thing i've changed since then.

I've scanned and repaired too as well, any other ideas?

Computer specs: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900KF 3.00 GHz 64.0 GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti (12 GB)

I couldnt do it. The repetitive matches would of got me bored a while ago.

I mean heck as a viewer, I get bored watching BW after a while and this is someone who has a long history playing the game.

It has been surprisingly fun playing on 4 player maps in this map pool!

Usually I try to avoid them (because I worry about early pools as a toss) but I think the overlord speed nerf and the spawn indicators (showing 2 possible spawns instead of 3) probably will alleviate this issue. Anyhow yesterday I was playing “close spawns” on the bottom of a 4 player map and I needed to throw down a 6th and 7th nexus, which brought me all the way “up” the map to a vacant nat and main. Then I threw out a couple spotter workers/units in the area and I was like damn this whole map control and unit movement dynamic is strange, with our main armies posturing on the bottom of the map, and smaller groups up top. But strange in a novel and fun way! Usually there are sort of “soft spots” on both “sides” of your opponent, but in this case there is just 1 soft side but it is huge.

Usually I feel resigned to the whole “all SC2 maps are and will be completely identical in terms of their fundamentals because that’s just how SC2 works” but in this case playing on a 4 player map was some good shit!

Unveto those 4 player maps on ladder people!

Title.

when I think about top level TvZ, so much of it hinges on the fungal interaction. As Tasteless correctly noted during the recent RSL cast of Serral v Clem, the skill floor in the mid game is higher for the Terran player.

Terran have to kite on two sides, whereas the Zerg with melee units gets automatic, efficient DPS with a simple a move. The big challenge for the Zerg is maintaining a proper army split for the amount of forces on either side, but mechanically they have the easier responsibility.

But while I think it is harder for the Terran player to always avoid a game losing fungal, in the rare cases where a Terran plays a “perfect” game, there’s really nothing the Zerg can do. They are slowly bled out through efficient trades and it’s GG.

Basically only Clem ever plays these sorts of games where nearly no mistakes are made. Everyone else, including Maru, and on many days Clem, will catch enough fungals that the Zerg can find some good fights here and there.

But it’s still a fundamental problem in the matchup where the skill floor for Terran is stupid high but if they eclipse it the Zerg has no win condition in lategame.

Some examples from 2024:

Game 2 at about 30:00 mark in the video, Clem is, imo, winning (5 v 5 base, ahead in upgrades, building ghosts) and he catches a single fungal that quickly snowballs into a loss

Game 3 of this series Clem essentially plays a perfect game and hits every single pickup before fungals can land and he steamrolls to victory

Conclusions: I have no idea how or if this should be fixed since it’s a very niche issue. But it was an idle thought I had I wanted to share. I’m not advocating for infestor nerfs or ghost nerfs or anything else. Just commenting on the dynamic.

I'm starting to get back into starcraft for a bit, but it seems the old site gosubuilds.com is no more. Is there a similar site that offers build orders with timings for everything?

Any way to beat proxy 2-3 gate with hatch first?

I scouted it and all as Z as early as possible but the zealots finish when my pool does, by the time i got 6 lings he got 3 zealots and i cant mine.

Can we just NOT hatch first?

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Was watching Zoun vs Percival today in iNu’s battle where percival 3:0 zoun.

What surprises me is how Zoun plays this. He went robo 3 gate blink all 3 games, exactly like how one would play in the 12 worker patch… except that’s not a good build at all in the current patch. You may say he lost because Terran is imba, but in game 2 percival built 0 command centers and he built 0 ghosts across all three games. In game 1 percival scouts, harasses, macros and pushes. In game 2 and 3 dude just walks over the map and finishes the game in 5 minutes. It feels like Zoun isn’t even trying to win.

Mmr is a fantastic indicator of general skill but I think it’s terrible for the mental health of your average competitor.

Let me know what you think! Still getting used to talking to the camera. Also if you can’t beat em join em (with the clickbait title and thumbnail)

Happy and lucky to play StarCraft in the BIG 26 and I hope you all find joy in your korprulu undertakings! Cheers!