What is your favourite race and why?

VenomIreland

Mine is Protoss, because Zealots and Chrono Boost make for a quick win against my fellow bronzes.

You?

The_Keeper

Terran.

I love the brute force of the Mech units, which allow for a decent defence of my base(s).

Add in some medivacs and you get a huge increase in mobility allowing for sneaky drops behind enemy lines to snipe some enemy tech buildings.

Then there's the Banshees for some economic harassment. And the always fun ghosts & nukes to put my opponent on tilt.

Dcully

Im torn between Terran and Protoss mainly because i just like their units.
I just love the marines and marauders,void ray and the big tall stalker like guys colossus are just awesome, probably the best looking effects in the game imo.
Not mad on zerg the few games i tried then again i found them very complicated and for me its just too much to learn atm, i will do in the future however.

seraphimvc

zerg! i was awed when the first time i saw zerg in sc1 and i fall in love with these nasty, dangerous, slimy creatures! and their buildings are alive, have to say that concept is still soooo fcking cool after all these years

and who doesnt like those flying crabs(Guardian in sc1 and Broodlord in sc2)??

and needless to say Ultralisk is the acronym of violence!! i always imagine how do i feel if i was there marine standing in the game looking at the gigantic ultralisk lol

and how i will always love zerglings and hydralisk! altho i must say they look so cute in sc2 (hydra in burrowed mode) :pac: comon blizzard when will you release some zergling/hydra plushies? I am gonna buy a dozen of them!

Zergs have creeped my heart for the eternity!!

Overheal

didn't like playing zerg in SC1 but always been attracted to the playstyle I think. Early-game lings and roaches will destroy aplenty.

Xios

Zerg

Cause of the insane macro they can achieve. All hatcheries set to group 4.

Commands = 4 - set rally point - s - zzzzzzzhhhhhhzzzzrrrrrrtttttttddd
45 seconds later - Holy **** another zerg army. Queens spawn more larvae while you combat the enemy and build up resources for another army spawn

NeoSlicerZ

Protoss, for Aiur! Mostly because of psi storm.

Overheal

Why do we allow this game to promote racism?

Can't we all just get along?

VenomIreland

Overheal wrote: »

Why do we allow this game to promote racism?

Can't we all just get along?

No, Multiplayer would suck then.

silvine

Protoss. I love being able to warp in units and buildings and the void are lethal.

Saying that though I've only played (and badly lost) one match as Zerg.

I could take the Terrans or leave them.

seraphimvc

Overheal wrote: »

Why do we allow this game to promote racism?

Can't we all just get along?

cannot. All must hail to the Swarm!!:D

BopNiblets

Terran because I'm a total noob, didn't play BW and never played RTS online except for one modem game of TA back in the day.

Funky

Protoss since they were my race in BW and lots of the units have cool little abilities like force field, graviton beam, blink, etc.

zoom!

Protoss because they're an interesting race and they have really fun units. They are also pretty balanced in terms of the other races aswell so that makes them fun.

pixelburp

I started out playing with Terran because, well, they were the human army. But I just can't get their playstyle down properly. I switched to Zerg and never looked back. Am still Bronze level, but all the zeg units, upgrades and tactics just seem a more natural fit for me (though I find economy harder to juggle with Zerg, run out of minerals more often). I have never played with the Protoss though!

Xios

pixelburp wrote: »

I started out playing with Terran because, well, they were the human army. But I just can't get their playstyle down properly. I switched to Zerg and never looked back. Am still Bronze level, but all the zeg units, upgrades and tactics just seem a more natural fit for me (though I find economy harder to juggle with Zerg, run out of minerals more often). I have never played with the Protoss though!

I always have too much minerals, i gotta manage my economy better gettin supply blocked alot.

Used brutalisks for the first time, have to say, not too impressive, had them backed up by a lot of zerglings and couple roaches/hydras, i won the game, but they just didn't provide the punch i expected

pixelburp

Xios wrote: »

I always have too much minerals, i gotta manage my economy better gettin supply blocked alot.

Used brutalisks for the first time, have to say, not too impressive, had them backed up by a lot of zerglings and couple roaches/hydras, i won the game, but they just didn't provide the punch i expected

Spamming the Queen's extra larvae-generating feature is a great way of spending resources. Churn out zerglings for harrassment. Particularly handy if you have upgraded Overloads to float into the other base laden with zergs :d

I start off great, generally going for a 15 pool start; so initially i have a huge amount of minerals, 2 extractors with 3 drones at each one, so vespene ain't a problem either. Roach / Zergs form the backbone of initial harrassment.

Once the match hits mid-game, around the tier-2 units mark (hydras, mutas et al), my economy grinds to a halt. I might be expanding too early, I'm not sure.

BlitzKrieg

I play random cause it cuts out race specific cheese I find.

i.e if they know I'm zerg they could opt for noony pheonix strat from the get go and go heavy gaas but with random I get sometime to breath and chance has so far been in my favour and most people opt for standard enough initial builds when facing random (the odd cannon rush here and there which I have gotten quite good at crushing.)

but the flipside...I'm great with zerg, fine with protoss...but god awful with terran... They just dont suit me. I hate playing as them and I hate playing against them. They are frustrating. So my stats take a plumit when random puts me in a terran streak for a while.

So might opt to go full on zerg...I'm just fearful of the cheese.

pixelburp

Yes, I notice that playing as the Zerg I get definitive strats from the other two races. Void Ray spam is a particular pain in the arse at the moment. I get Protoss players giving off to me when I beat them that the Zerg are OP. To me they seem the weakest race, or at the very leat a harder race to play as.

I did discover the joys of Infested marine harrassment, so that was nice

BlitzKrieg

zerg are considered under powered at the moment.

in simple terms they are the most reactionary force. Its very difficult for zerg to control the battle due to their poor scouting abilities and not being able to put out early counters to marine/protoss tactics because of this.

You need your opponent to screw up and let something slip or read him early on. Cause once he's walled in its very difficult.

very few ways to take contol. Personnally insane creep highway is my favourite, I was able to lock of all expansions except the natural with simply creep early in one game starving my opponent of resources.

pixelburp

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

zerg are considered under powered at the moment.

in simple terms they are the most reactionary force. Its very difficult for zerg to control the battle due to their poor scouting abilities and not being able to put out early counters to marine/protoss tactics because of this.

You need your opponent to screw up and let something slip or read him early on. Cause once he's walled in its very difficult.

very few ways to take contol. Personnally insane creep highway is my favourite, I was able to lock of all expansions except the natural with simply creep early in one game starving my opponent of resources.

Hmmm, well I'm only bronze so it's probably not a tactic from Silver level up, but the turtled Protoss / Terran teams I find are easy to root out with Infestors. They're very good for countering void ray spam too. Also, I find that early banelings harassment keeps the enemy in their base giving me more time

As for the creep, yeah; I spawn creep everywhere so my Hydras can zip up and down.

Damnit, this game has sucked me in. I thought I'd got sick of RTS games but here I am again, plugging away and reading build-orders :rolleyes:

seraphimvc

sc2 is just great:D 45e of the game have at least brought me about 200+hrs of gameplay now! but i am afraid i wont spend much time on it when the calender hits september

hydra off creep movement speed is a joke!i love to upgrade overlord speed and move them to all expo puking creeps delaying opponent when they expo. i should definitely use Infestor more, is weird that they cannot dive pass terran wall(depot), i mean, they can dive pass the depot when the depot is down?lol possible fix i see there!

i just cant wait to see what will turn out in the future for units in each races, BW took about 5yrs to make everything perfectly balance!

NeoSlicerZ

Zerg are the most unforgiving in the terms of game mechanics as well. Timing is everything.

For zerg, good overlord placement and knowledge of timings can give you pretty good info. Creep is super important but you'll find at higher levels people will start aggressively killing off your creep tumours. A second in base hatch BW style will probably pay off more if your queen micro sucks.

jazzme

I have been playing the Zerg race since SC1. Now in SC2 I am now on Silver. The hardest enemy for me is playing againts a Terrans. Protoss are weak during build up so I send an army Roaches and zerglings very early in the game. Usually dessimates Protoss and Zergs but if a Terran knows how to build up fast with Siege tanks. That strategy goes out the window. Then its going to be a long air superiority war in which the Zergs are at a disadvantage.

Overheal

Stupid Protoss walled himself off with cannons and teched to void rays. So many void rays

Perhaps it was because it was a 4 player map on 1v1 ladder; otherwise I probably would have slammed into him when the first cannon was warping in. But no, that totally fcuked me up and he got 3 free minutes :mad:

Grimebox

Overheal wrote: »

Stupid Protoss walled himself off with cannons and teched to void rays. So many void rays

Perhaps it was because it was a 4 player map on 1v1 ladder; otherwise I probably would have slammed into him when the first cannon was warping in. But no, that totally fcuked me up and he got 3 free minutes :mad:

I think we need a general chat / bad beat thread!


I got unbelievably lucky against a zerg. He popped his nydus up twice while I happened to be looking at the exact spot

seraphimvc

Grimebox wrote: »

I think we need a general chat / bad beat thread!


I got unbelievably lucky against a zerg. He popped his nydus up twice while I happened to be looking at the exact spot

MH!!! :P

BlitzKrieg

I played a gold protoss player (i'm silver) twice this morning by chance in quick game. Its funny how quickly one learns from their mistakes. He beat me the first time by a strong mix of voidrays and chargelots/stalkers. Which put the pain on my roach/hyrda force with some good micro on his behalf and poor micro on mine as my roach/hydra force was 3 to 1 in favour of roaches and he'd snipe my hydras then pile in the voidrays etc so my roaches were useless most of the battle.

4 games later we got paired again and this time I wasnt letting him away came in hard with a fast tech to tier 2 and my army this time was reversed with a 3 to 1 in favour of hydras...oh how those voidrays burned...

such satisfaction

pixelburp

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

I played a gold protoss player (i'm silver) twice this morning by chance in quick game. Its funny how quickly one learns from their mistakes. He beat me the first time by a strong mix of voidrays and chargelots/stalkers. Which put the pain on my roach/hyrda force with some good micro on his behalf and poor micro on mine as my roach/hydra force was 3 to 1 in favour of roaches and he'd snipe my hydras then pile in the voidrays etc so my roaches were useless most of the battle.

4 games later we got paired again and this time I wasnt letting him away came in hard with a fast tech to tier 2 and my army this time was reversed with a 3 to 1 in favour of hydras...oh how those voidrays burned...

such satisfaction

Any chance of posting a replay of that? I'm still struggling against Protoss; I go into my shell and play very defensively, terrified of Void Ray spam. So I usually get pummeled by Protoss' stronger units

Jonny7

pixelburp wrote: »

Any chance of posting a replay of that? I'm still struggling against Protoss; I go into my shell and play very defensively, terrified of Void Ray spam. So I usually get pummeled by Protoss' stronger units

Scout..

If playing Terran, take your 10th drone and go scout, get in before the wall goes up and keep the drone alive, good practice for microing the drone and still macroing. Also watch how much gas he takes, what hes building, and you suddenly loose that fear.

If playing Protoss, take a later drone, maybe 13th or 14th and go have a look at him, how many gateways? is he going air? suddenly you aren't scared of voidrays etc.

Force yourself to play with other races..
Seriously, choose Protoss against easy AI and go for voidrays as fast as you can.. you see how long it takes? then try to go for dark templar.. see all those buildings you need? and how long it takes?

BlitzKrieg

pixelburp wrote: »

Any chance of posting a replay of that? I'm still struggling against Protoss; I go into my shell and play very defensively, terrified of Void Ray spam. So I usually get pummeled by Protoss' stronger units

here


on second viewing it wasnt as awesome of a game as I thought...but it was a convincing win and the emotion of the time for getting some payback was enough

http://rapidshare.com/files/416830842/revenge.SC2Replay.html


and as a bonus a recent zerg mirror that went very well

http://rapidshare.com/files/416830930/Scrap_Station__3_.SC2Replay.html


edit:

to add to jonny7 what I do with zerg sccouting is I build 9 drones...scout with 9 get an overlord and then 10th drone. When both overlord and drone finish at roughly the same time you'll have enough for 2 more drones keeping the economy ticking over, gas on 12 and depending on what I see from the scout then its spawning pool or expansion on 13/14. in 1v1 I more often go pool because at silver I get alot of zealot rushes/cheese and I need to be moving up the tech tree quicker.

Jonny7

BlitzKrieg wrote: »

here


on second viewing it wasnt as awesome of a game as I thought...but it was a convincing win and the emotion of the time for getting some payback was enough

http://rapidshare.com/files/416830842/revenge.SC2Replay.html


and as a bonus a recent zerg mirror that went very well

http://rapidshare.com/files/416830930/Scrap_Station__3_.SC2Replay.html


edit:

to add to jonny7 what I do with zerg sccouting is I build 9 drones...scout with 9 get an overlord and then 10th drone. When both overlord and drone finish at roughly the same time you'll have enough for 2 more drones keeping the economy ticking over, gas on 12 and depending on what I see from the scout then its spawning pool or expansion on 13/14. in 1v1 I more often go pool because at silver I get alot of zealot rushes/cheese and I need to be moving up the tech tree quicker.

This is why I switch from Zerg every once in awhile. I see my opponent is Zerg and I hate that matchup, so I go Protoss. The only hotkey I know is "e" for probe basically, but I quickly pump zealots, hit him when I have 4 or 5, make him paranoid and ground defence, while I wall off and tech straight to voidray. Great thing about playing Zerg is you know all their bloody weaknesses.

Basically they are a bluff race, paper tigers until mid-game

jamimon

Zerg. I don't have to queue up units and hotkey different buildings. The only thing is to build the necessary building the the units you want and they all spawn at the same time.

Protos really don't have air superiority and they are expansive. The only problem is when they wall off. Ground units are very hard to kill with zerg since they have so many HP plus if they have the psi storm. When they do actually wall off, the only thing I can do is to get mutalisk fast, since they can kill void rays easily. When they do wall off completely you know they are going for air or there is a pylon somewhere in the map.

You can surpass terran in economy very fast since they wall themselves off most of the time. The only thing I can predict is whether banshee or tank. Hydralisk and Mutalisk is always the key although they are quite expansive in the early game. Expand expand against terran.

Zombrex

Terran because I'm a n00b and I have just discovered the joy of the cloaked Banshee rush :P

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Wicknight wrote: »

Terran because I'm a n00b and I have just discovered the joy of the cloaked Banshee rush :P

hate the cloaked banshee rush aslmost as much as the reaper rush