Starcraft II HotS Multiplayer Swarm-All

Warriorpoet897 wrote:

Dare we attempt to set up a particular night to play some games? I never really see any GWJ'ers on most of the time, except Soda Gremlin who I can't add for some reason.

Sounds good. Friday night is bad for me. Thursday is probably the best night for me, but I'm flexible.

Warriorpoet897 wrote:

Let's just all stick to WoL until (if) Blizzard figures out how to make HotS not suck.

Sorry, I'm a hater so far. Maybe it'll be the most fun thing ever when I finally put more than a couple of hours into it.

Dare we attempt to set up a particular night to play some games? I never really see any GWJ'ers on most of the time, except Soda Gremlin who I can't add for some reason.

I was on Wednesday night after the Sony thing, but MrWynd was the only other person I saw and he was in-game every time I looked.

PWAlessi wrote:

Sounds good. Friday night is bad for me. Thursday is probably the best night for me, but I'm flexible.

Thursday is my best night too overall.

Thin_J wrote:

I was on Wednesday night after the Sony thing, but MrWynd was the only other person I saw and he was in-game every time I looked.

PWAlessi wrote:

Sounds good. Friday night is bad for me. Thursday is probably the best night for me, but I'm flexible.

Thursday is my best night too overall.

I popped on Wednesday but it was late. My schedule is very flexible as well. Thursdays sound good to me if everyone else is down. Have to get Pikey in on it. I know he still plays sometimes but never when I'm on.

I've joined the EU group, my SC2 id is Arcalux.

Man I love unranked matchmaking. Makes it so much more appealing to just practice.

Warriorpoet897 wrote:

Man I love unranked matchmaking. Makes it so much more appealing to just practice.

I haven't tried unranked yet. I've been just playing against the AI and laddering. I'll have to give unranked a go.

Playing on and off today if anyone is around.

I'll probably spend most of my time in HotS until the beta is done. I need to get a better feel for playing with the new units before release day. I suck as it is, so I need all of the competitive advantages that I can get.

For the group we have I need to type "Gamers With Jobs" correct?

Just checking because I never see anybody in there

EDIT: nm I am definitely in there...just nobody has been online...no worries

So, is there any chance of tonight being an initial Thursday game night for SC2? I was going to actually go ahead and play somne vanilla SC2 tonight anyway since the HOTS beta ends tomorrrow.

Thin_J wrote:

So, is there any chance of tonight being an initial Thursday game night for SC2? I was going to actually go ahead and play somne vanilla SC2 tonight anyway since the HOTS beta ends tomorrrow.

I'll play. I was going to play the beta precisely because it ends tomorrow!

My thinking was more that I hadn't played it much in the last week anyway. Better to stay weened off of it than pick it back up for one night

Thin_J wrote:

My thinking was more that I hadn't played it much in the last week anyway. Better to stay weened off of it than pick it back up for one night :P

Had a few nice comp stomp games last night. Sorry I had to get off so soon...wifey wanted to watch a movie. Next week, I'll lay down the law that Thursday is SC2 night and that I need to get ready for HotS.

Is anyone playing tonight?

I'll definitely hop on tonight.

So I stepped away from SC2 in favor of actually getting into other games (and also the wife wants my attention and well...SC2 brings out the ignorer in me :p). And of course I got dragged into WoW again but have also been playing other things.

But anywho, now that HotS is coming up soon, I have been itching to get back into some SC! It sucks, because I don't have enough time to really dig into SC or check out the beta, but I have been really wanting to get some games in! I guess some of you crazy kids are still around? I might see if I can get away with playing some Vanilla SC2 tonight...

I even patched SC the other day, in hopes of having time to get on! So I should be good to go with the new patch! Wanna see what the hub-bub is about! Would love to see ya guys again! Think I still have everyone added on here...

Le0hart85 wrote:

Think I still have everyone added on here...

Even if you don't, with the group feature added to vanilla SC it's a lot easier to find people.

Is there a GWJ clan?

Just waiting until HotS I suppose?

PWAlessi wrote:

Is there a GWJ clan?

I had made one in the beta, but I don't know that anybody's bothered in vanilla SC2 yet.

Clans are limited to 100 members (not that I think we'd have any issues hitting that on GWJ :|) while groups are unlimited, and going with a Clan doesn't seem to offer any real advantages over just using a group.

At least not for the way most of us play the game.

I'm looking forward to HOTS to rekindle my SC love. Well, I never fell out of love but SC2 is a game that demands a level of commitment difficult to maintain over a long period of time.

I'm looking forward to getting back into the swing of things though. Once HOTS goes live I think you'll be seeing me on BNET pretty often for the rest of the year.

So is the "group" feature the new way to add peeps that are getting back on in prep for HotS? I haven't used it yet. I'm kinda chomping at the bit to get home and check out SC2 again for the first time in awhile. Hope to see ya'll soon ^.^

Le0hart85 wrote:

So is the "group" feature the new way to add peeps that are getting back on in prep for HotS? I haven't used it yet. I'm kinda chomping at the bit to get home and check out SC2 again for the first time in awhile. Hope to see ya'll soon ^.^

Once you're in the group you can always see anybody else that's in the group when they're online, whether you've added them as a friend or not. So instead of adding a ton of people, you just... join the group and then don't have to worry about dealing with friend code numbers and whatnot.

I'll make sure you get an invite assuming we end up on at the same time.

Some pretty fun games last night! I never played 3v3 before, so that was fun. It is kind of insane though. It got to the point where I couldn't really tell the difference between my teammates and enemies.

I need a lot more practice. Especially after seeing WarriorPoet play at ~350 APM. That's just nuts.

PWAlessi wrote:

Some pretty fun games last night! I never played 3v3 before, so that was fun. It is kind of insane though. It got to the point where I couldn't really tell the difference between my teammates and enemies.

I need a lot more practice. Especially after seeing WarriorPoet play at ~350 APM. That's just nuts.

Make sure you have team colors on, so that your teammates are yellow and the enemies red.

nossid wrote:
PWAlessi wrote:

Some pretty fun games last night! I never played 3v3 before, so that was fun. It is kind of insane though. It got to the point where I couldn't really tell the difference between my teammates and enemies.

I need a lot more practice. Especially after seeing WarriorPoet play at ~350 APM. That's just nuts.

Make sure you have team colors on, so that your teammates are yellow and the enemies red.

Cool, I didn't know you could do that. I'll have to check out the options. The way that it was, there were so many different colors, the mini-map looked like a rainbow mish-mash.

PWAlessi wrote:
nossid wrote:

Make sure you have team colors on, so that your teammates are yellow and the enemies red.

Cool, I didn't know you could do that. I'll have to check out the options. The way that it was, there were so many different colors, the mini-map looked like a rainbow mish-mash.

You can toggle it in-game using Alt-F or by clicking on the bottom button of the three buttons that are immediately to the right of the mini map.

nossid wrote:
PWAlessi wrote:
nossid wrote:

Make sure you have team colors on, so that your teammates are yellow and the enemies red.

Cool, I didn't know you could do that. I'll have to check out the options. The way that it was, there were so many different colors, the mini-map looked like a rainbow mish-mash.

You can toggle it in-game using Alt-F or by clicking on the bottom button of the three buttons that are immediately to the right of the mini map.

Excellent, thanks!

Good playing with you guys, too. I realized my microphone was off when I have to bail, so it probably seemed like I just signed off. Sorry about that.

Hey guys, I don't post much anymore but I am usually on at some point most nights... SodaGremlin #520 always looking for some games. I am mid plat toss right now. In the GWJ room and GWJ clan. See ya on there.