Starcraft II HotS Multiplayer Swarm-All

I'm on just about every day Soda. Rarely see you on.

I really need a practice partner. I'm in Bronze league now, but I feel like I should make it into silver once the next season starts on Tuesday (or hopefully, shortly after). My goal is to make it to gold in the next 2 seasons. Anyway, my problem is that I'm having a hard time finding someone else who is at around my level (I'm looking at you LeoHart). I really like playing with the better guys on here, but I feel like I'd be wasting your time practicing 1v1 against you guys because you'd just slaughter me and it wouldn't be much practice for you.

Anyway, if anyone wants to rank up together, or if any of the better players want to work on their off race (I'm looking at you Thin J), let me know.

Oh yeah, I play Zerg.

I'll happily be terrible at Terran against you

Thin_J wrote:

I'll happily be terrible at Terran against you :P

Ok, cool! I'm sure that you could probably help me with my Zerg play too.

PWAlessi wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

I'll happily be terrible at Terran against you :P

Ok, cool! I'm sure that you could probably help me with my Zerg play too.

My Zerg and Terran are probably silver-ish level if you want to play sometime.

Warriorpoet897 wrote:
PWAlessi wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

I'll happily be terrible at Terran against you :P

Ok, cool! I'm sure that you could probably help me with my Zerg play too.

My Zerg and Terran are probably silver-ish level if you want to play sometime.

Ok, cool. I can use all of the games I can get. Especially if you don't mind looking at the replays if you can offer advice.

Just wanted to say, I'll be getting back into this in the coming weeks, so hit me up! Battle ID in the sig

2 days!

On one hand I'm regretting the CE because it means waiting on the box to show up from UPS.

On the other hand... history says the servers will suck and battle.net will be at least halfway crap for the midnight release.

I took off work on Tuesday to play. So, I hope the servers are in better shape for this launch than they were for the Diablo launch!

PWAlessi wrote:

I took off work on Tuesday to play. So, I hope the servers are in better shape for this launch than they were for the Diablo launch!

I took vacation starting Tuesday and don't go back to work until next Monday.

PWAlessi wrote:

I took off work on Tuesday to play. So, I hope the servers are in better shape for this launch than they were for the Diablo launch!

Kind of risky but hope the servers are up and stable.

I'm trying to get on B-net and it won't connect. Anyone else having trouble? (Sunday, 4:50PM EDT)

Jeff-66 wrote:

I'm trying to get on B-net and it won't connect. Anyone else having trouble? (Sunday, 4:50PM EDT)

I just logged in on SC2 with no trouble.

Thin_J wrote:
Jeff-66 wrote:

I'm trying to get on B-net and it won't connect. Anyone else having trouble? (Sunday, 4:50PM EDT)

I just logged in on SC2 with no trouble.

Thanks. I rebooted and now it works. I might have been glitched. Is there an SC2 server status checker somewhere?

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/index.php?show_part=19

Has the server status in a tacked thread; the title of which automatically updates.

Anybody seen Luggage around recently?

We need to rename this one for HOTS. If not I guess we just start a new one.

I'm excited to give this a go in multi... I bought WOL so late in the game (late last year) that I just couldn't be stuffed getting into that version of the multi considering HotS was coming out so soon.

Thin_J wrote:

Anybody seen Luggage around recently?

Well, he's German so have you checked the local sex clubs? I think they call them Scheisse Clubben in his native language.

Spoiler:

love you Luggage!

I am back! Renaming thread now...

Luggage wrote:

I am back! Renaming thread now...

Sweet! Thanks

Luggage wrote:

One thing we can definitely do is hang out in chat channel GWJ in game, y'all! That'll also make it easier for everyone to add the active people to their friends list like in LOL or other games.

Just join the group! We've actually had at least a few people in the group chat room regularly since Tuesday.

Name okay like that? I'll try to find time to go through the OP over the next two days. Finished campaign today and will play MP on the US servers. Any information you think should be in the OP, post it here. Was thinking about making sure we have a solid Day[9] base plus tutorials from FilterSC and D.Apollo.

One thing we can definitely do is hang out in chat channel Gamers With Jobs in game, y'all! That'll also make it easier for everyone to add the active people to their friends list like in LOL or other games.

Alrighty, original thread has been overhauled. Messaging Rezakh now.

Alright guys, got some solid time into the campaign and feel like I might be getting into the wee stretches of it. But, since this is the Multi thread, I gotta ask: Where should I start with 1's?

If ya guys don't know already, I am a Bronze level player that has tried to work my way up, but life and sucky skills have kept me down (:p). So, now that the dynamic has changed with HotS, where should a rusty player start in everyone's opinion? Just jump in and go with old builds and experiment in ranked 1's? Try what-the-heck-ever on unranked? Actually look at some strats that are popping up on YouTube or Team Liquid? What's the first place you guys are starting for your Multi game?

A little more deets, I'm still thinking of playing Toss as my main race. Liked giving Zerg a whirl in the campaign, but as we all know, those skills and units don't come close to transferring over to Multi. Still think I'm a decent Bronze level player, but have gone into this expansion blind. Haven't looked at the new units that are available for Multi, other than a cursory glance.

Oh yea, and PWAlessi, sorry I didn't see your post asking for practice partners aways back. Been busy with work and husbandly duties, but anytime we're both on, I'd be more than happy to play against ya! I think we're both in the same boat! We need some more casual SC players to populate this place I'll throw my SC tag back out there, but I usually log onto the Gamers With Jobs chat group whenever I'm on. Just throw me a message if you're on and wanna teach a Bronzie some things :p

Leohart.167 (prob gonna just add that to Sig whenever I remember to)

Le0hart85 wrote:

So, now that the dynamic has changed with HotS, where should a rusty player start in everyone's opinion? Just jump in and go with old builds and experiment in ranked 1's? Try what-the-heck-ever on unranked? Actually look at some strats that are popping up on YouTube or Team Liquid? What's the first place you guys are starting for your Multi game?

Well, I'm bronze league too, so I have no ladder anxiety. I don't really care if I lose on the ladder, so I am just playing ladder games. The only real exception is if I want to try to learn a new build order or just practice using the units. In that case, I'm playing a few games against the AI before taking my garbage play to the ladder.

PWAlessi wrote:

Well, I'm bronze league too, so I have no ladder anxiety. I don't really care if I lose on the ladder, so I am just playing ladder games. The only real exception is if I want to try to learn a new build order or just practice using the units. In that case, I'm playing a few games against the AI before taking my garbage play to the ladder.

Yea, I'm not too worried about losing with new builds or anything of the sort. I just wanted to work on mechanics and getting better. I'm not worried about falling farther on the ladder, but I'd like to have a foundation with the new units and a grasp of what fends off what. Watching the pro games, and MC throwing around oracles early, it seems like adding in air to an early game seems like it might be viable, even for Bronzies.

Off topic, when using the group feature, it doesn't tell me more than that a couple people are online, but if I dig into the members tab, most of the time the people that are on don't show as such, unless they are in my friends list. Working as intended, I guess? And if I try to look at anyone's profile in the group that isn't on my friend's list, it pops up an error. Guess you just can browse through the peeps without adding them?

Le0hart85 wrote:

Alright guys, got some solid time into the campaign and feel like I might be getting into the wee stretches of it. But, since this is the Multi thread, I gotta ask: Where should I start with 1's?

If ya guys don't know already, I am a Bronze level player that has tried to work my way up, but life and sucky skills have kept me down (:p). So, now that the dynamic has changed with HotS, where should a rusty player start in everyone's opinion? Just jump in and go with old builds and experiment in ranked 1's? Try what-the-heck-ever on unranked? Actually look at some strats that are popping up on YouTube or Team Liquid? What's the first place you guys are starting for your Multi game?

A little more deets, I'm still thinking of playing Toss as my main race. Liked giving Zerg a whirl in the campaign, but as we all know, those skills and units don't come close to transferring over to Multi. Still think I'm a decent Bronze level player, but have gone into this expansion blind. Haven't looked at the new units that are available for Multi, other than a cursory glance.

Oh yea, and PWAlessi, sorry I didn't see your post asking for practice partners aways back. Been busy with work and husbandly duties, but anytime we're both on, I'd be more than happy to play against ya! I think we're both in the same boat! We need some more casual SC players to populate this place I'll throw my SC tag back out there, but I usually log onto the Gamers With Jobs chat group whenever I'm on. Just throw me a message if you're on and wanna teach a Bronzie some things :p

Leohart.167 (prob gonna just add that to Sig whenever I remember to)

I think they added a training mode? Somewhere?

Otherwise they implemented a new vs AI where you can play just to get into the swing of things.

Ugh, three games in a row where the opponent baneling busted me. I need to take a break.

BNice wrote:

Ugh, three games in a row where the opponent baneling busted me. I need to take a break.

MC just lost to a 6 pool with 120k people watching. You're in good company.