Useful Tools/Resources

Zombrex

As seraphimvc's suggested:

Sc2Gears



sc2gears

Blurb:

Sc2gears is a general StarCraft 2 utility for everyone who is interested in the game (either a player or just a game analyzer). Its main features are replay management and analysis for both individual replays and mass replays (multi-replay statistics). It provides easy but powerful and efficient replay management and basic statistics for starters, and advanced statistics and time development charts useful even for professional players. It is also a great asset for tournament and league organizers in quick analysis of tournament results.

Zombrex

Day[9] Daily



Stream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/day9tv
Archives http://day9tv.blip.tv
Youtube http://www.youtube.com/day9tv
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/day9tv
Fan Site (Archives) http://day9fan.com/

Blurb:
Casting of games, along with excellent discussion of tactics and of course Newbie Tuesday. Essential for anyone interested in Starcraft 2.

Zombrex

Liquidpedia

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Main_Page
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Main_Page

Blurb:
Wiki maintained by Team Liquid that covers unit details and strategies. Covers SC1 (Brood War) and SC2

Zombrex

TotalBiscuit's "I suck at Starcraft 2"



http://www.cynicalbrit.com/tag/i-suck-at-starcraft-2/
http://www.youtube.com/user/TotalHalibut

Blurb:
He sucks at Starcraft 2 so you don't have to! Analysis of his early games in SC2 with particular attention to what he did wrong and how to improve. Good for newbies.

Orizio

My favourite casters...

HD

Husky

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Orizio wrote: »

My favourite casters...

HD

Husky

I would disregard anything Husky says though if you want to improve :P

Orizio

He is entertaining though, which is what matters.

seraphimvc

i use these BO optimizers from time to time to check out some BO:

Main zerg BO optimizer:
Lomilar's EvolutionChamber: http://code.google.com/p/evolutionchamber/

Main Toss BO optimizer:
SCBuildOrder: http://code.google.com/p/scbuildorder/

Blurb:
they are programs that can learn how to optimize a build order. just choose whatever you want to know eg. how to make 7 roaches asap etc and it will run and optimize a BO for you. luminar's one can utilise up to 6 cores to do the calculation iirc

Orizio

Is there a Terran one?

seraphimvc

i think the SCbuildOrder can run terran now but i am not 100% sure about that (caused' i dont have the latest version and i dont have them on my laptop now).

Zombrex

Can we sticky this before it slips to page two and is lost forever

RoyalMarine

i can of course.

Toxic7

Yet Another Build Order Tester (YABOT)

This project is series of standard 1v1 Blizzard maps adapted to include a sophisticated build order testing system. The goal is to execute the chosen build while keeping up worker production and creating the largest army possible. The AI will execute a given build order or execute a random one. At the end of the round, you are given a score which tells how well you executed the build. Also included is a "Freestyle" mode, which monitors your play and displays the build order that you performed.

http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/yabot/

http://www.sc2builds.com/


Its a great tool.As a noob its really helping me to practice builds and timings

Zombrex

SC2 Replay Parser

https://github.com/dcramer/nibbits-shared/
http://sc2.nibbits.com/forums/12/view/343/nibbits-tools-sc2replay-parsernibbits-tools-sc2replay-parser



Blurb:

For the more technical minded, Nibbits have open sourced the code they use to parse SC2 replay files. It is a set of Python scripts that read the binary format of the replay files.

Note this is not a tool, more of a framework for making tools. It is not something your average SC2 player is going to use unless they want to write their own tool.

I put it up here cause that is exactly what I see myself doing in the near future (I'm a web developer experienced with Python).

Toxic7

Toxic7 wrote: »

Yet Another Build Order Tester (YABOT)




http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/yabot/

http://www.sc2builds.com/


Its a great tool.As a noob its really helping me to practice builds and timings

Banks file editing tool by Nervosa

If you have ever tried adding new build orders to YABOT manually using notepad, your struggles are over! Nervosa has introduced a new program for Windows that will not only allow you to easily edit your bank files, but we have added new magnet links to each build order on sc2builds.com, so you can instantly load them into your bank files with a few clicks. Nervosa has prepared a short video tutorial to show you how it works:

http://www.sc2builds.com/yaf/forum.aspx?g=posts&t=388

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhbvaFfMA6M

seraphimvc

this another sig site looks really cool

sc2.jimluc.com.

RoyalMarine

love it

Icarus152

Excellent forum everyone,well played.

May I make a small suggestion? There is alot of jargon and terminology which makes it less accessible to noobs like myself.If there was a sticky or reference that we could look up it would be great.

RoyalMarine

Ill start putting something together in the morning.

nice suggestion.

20 Times 20 Times

RoyalMarine wrote: »

Ill start putting something together in the morning.

nice suggestion.

BumP :-P

RoyalMarine

Little Pea wrote: »

BumP :-P

heh forgot all about that.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72371320

made it a few weeks back, guess it got a little sidetracked.

Decerto

Really really sick micro trainer, has 10 challenges for each race, which mostly are recreations of typical multiplayer situations, only did the protoss ones but they are really good.

It has levels too for each situation where the enemys army gets bigger each level etc.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=237869&currentpage=3

Definitely give it a look if you wanna improve your micro

IRL_Sinister

RoyalMarine

now all i wanna do is watch stargate again....

Khazidhea

What is "Force"?

RoyalMarine

Khazidhea wrote: »

What is "Force"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK2Ezi_SdQ4

IRL_Sinister

Still struggling with Toss.

Using this for mental memory

TheDoc

Are those builds not pretty old and redundant?

The graph concept is good, I saw it on Reddit, but like,there isn't one Marauder in sight :O

Afaik your high level Terran so I'll bow to your judgement, but it just looks " off"

Orizio

Its only a couple of months old. The graph showing the protoss openings is very useful.

IRL_Sinister

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=331491#4

(I take no credit for this)

SeantheMan

Would be great if loads of builds get added and the community assist.
I'll be trying to practice that DRG build anyways.
Maybe look at some replays and start doing my own.....I reckon Idras would be too Macro based and be about 10pages worth.