Starcraft 2 BetaFollow

Oh yea, I'm ridiculously bad. My main problem is I don't expand efficiently. I either expand too slow and get behind on unit production (probably diggory's problem) or too fast and don't have enough defenses when I get rushed. I also tend to fall behind on resource consumption in the mid game, i.e. don't know how to best spend my money and end up not spending it fast enough and fall behind on units.

Sorry that someone had already made a thread >_<


Usually I play as protoss. I've been learning every match though. What I'll do is make a bunch of mining probes and then make the pylon. Then create a warp barracks (or whatever it's called) and make a couple of zealots. Save some money and expand down into the next closest crystal field with my zealots guarding. Then I have lots of money and am not held back by resources.

I watched my friend play as Terran and he looked pro. He built a fleet of 14 battle cruisers and had them fully upgraded with yamatos. He proceeded to rape everyone. He held off his opponents by blocking the bottle neck entrance to his base with buildings and a bunker so enemy ground units can't get through. Then he used an upgraded siege tank behind the building wall.

I just pre-ordered on amazon and it says I should get my own beta key here in the next couple days.

GAH! If I knew that best-buy had instant keys I would have done it through them. Did you pay for it online? My friend pre-ordered his in person at gamestop and the key was on his receipt.

I've been playing it for a decent amount of time. My handle is Blacktail.sas.

So far, it seems to me that zerg are woefully underpowered. IIRC, in my 100-ish matches, I've lost to a zerg player exactly once, and that was because I had no idea what a roach was. Nobody in NA seems to play zerg unless they draw them on random. I don't blame 'em...I myself haven't met a zerg player that could survive an early marine/marauder assault.

The biggest issue with the game has got to be void rays. They're horrifically overpowered. Ever single protoss player that's worth a damn rushes to them, and rightfully so. They have no adequate counter. Terran and zerg anti-air doesn't match up well enough, so the only way you can top a protoss player using them is to heavily out-produce them. But if the protoss player is solid enough, then you won't be able to put out enough anti-air to beat them, no matter how hard you commit to it.

If anyone's got a solution, I'm all ears. I play terran main, and the best counter I can manage is to hit them hard right when they finish their stargates. But even that's a 50/50 shot if they've turtled up.

Won my first 4 way FFA, my life is now complete.

So I switched from playing Terran exclusively to Random now, and my record took the predictable dive. I'm doing well enough with Protoss, thanks in part to using chrono boost like it's my job (too many people seem to forget about this ability).

I CANNOT win with zerg, however. I get the odd victory here and there from a quick rush or using mutas on someone without adequate anti-air, but that's about it. I think the real issue with them is a lack of solid tier-2 units. Zerg tier-2 doesn't really beat any other race's tier-1...so you're left spending more resources to produce less units that are only marginally better than if you had just spammed zerglings.

Zerg are very, very susceptible to air attacks. Building spore colonies uses up drones and hurts your production, so it's not really a desirable way to defend. Overlords no longer detect, so cloaked banshees can ruin your day really quick. Hydras get outmaneuvered very easily. Mutas are okay, but it feels like their cost/strength ratio is a little skewed. Just not a lot of options there.

These are just my personal hang-ups with the race. I'm glad that they made rushing a little more difficult, but it just seems like zerg don't have much else going for them to make up for that right now. There are clearly great zerg players out there, but I sure don't run into them very often.