I hate to do this but...

Orizio · 29-01-2011 06:19PM #1

Anyone any idea as to when I'll go up to silver? Have about a 50% win/loss rate versus silver players, and I'm beating pretty much all bronze players bar the odd bit of cheese. You can see my stats below.

Zombrex · 29-01-2011 08:35PM

Orizio wrote: »

Anyone any idea as to when I'll go up to silver? Have about a 50% win/loss rate versus silver players, and I'm beating pretty much all bronze players bar the odd bit of cheese. You can see my stats below.

i think what happens is you should start finding you are playing silver players, and if you beat enough of them you jump into silver. Not got their yet myself, that is just what I heard. It does seem to take a while though.

Orizio · 29-01-2011 08:48PM

So I just played a 'bronze' player who told me mid-game that he was actually a platinum rank playing on a friend's account. Suffice to say I got my ass handed to me - what do I do? It seems extremely unfair.

Replay attached.

Orizio · 29-01-2011 08:49PM

Wicknight wrote: »

i think what happens is you should start finding you are playing silver players, and if you beat enough of them you jump into silver. Not got their yet myself, that is just what I heard. It does seem to take a while though.

We should 1v1 sometime.

String · 29-01-2011 09:03PM

I think the promotion time is completly random from what I have seen and heard from other players. You might go on a 20 game loosing streak next week and then win 1 game and get promoted, just keep playing and you will get better and will get promoted! There seems to be alot of people stuck in bronze that definitly dont belong there

Orizio · 29-01-2011 11:45PM

So I just beat a 2000 Silver zerg - someone ****ing promote me!!!

Orizio · 30-01-2011 04:28AM

So I upgraded my graphics driver, and I have these irratating black borders on either side of the screen, even though I have 'fullscreen' selected in options - how do I solve?

Ramza · 30-01-2011 05:11AM

Google it

No really, there's always tonnes of people with similar problem

String · 30-01-2011 02:47PM

Orizio wrote: »

So I upgraded my graphics driver, and I have these irratating black borders on either side of the screen, even though I have 'fullscreen' selected in options - how do I solve?

Sounds like resolution. Do you have a widescreen moniter?

Orizio · 30-01-2011 02:54PM

It was fullscreen before I upgraded the graphics driver so I assume so...?

I'll mess around with the resolution a little and see what happens.

Jagle · 30-01-2011 03:02PM

is it to do with the monitor, you know the control on the ahrdware monitor front panel for adjusting the screen maybe?

Grimebox · 30-01-2011 07:17PM

Your aspect ratio is off. Just change your resolution till it fills the whole screen

Orizio · 30-01-2011 07:22PM

How does one do that Grimebox?

Orizio · 30-01-2011 07:23PM

As an aside, just beat another silver who all-ined me with his drones, proceeded to lift off and was back mining while he was wondering where I had gone.

PurpleFistMixer · 30-01-2011 10:02PM

Orizio wrote: »

As an aside, just beat another silver who all-ined me with his drones, proceeded to lift off and was back mining while he was wondering where I had gone.

Pfft, Terran have it so easy.

(I figure if I can't get my play to pro zerg standard, I can at least get my attitude there.)

Orizio · 30-01-2011 10:15PM

Just be happy you don't have a defective computer/graphics card/game install, the ****ing thing crashed on me when I was winning again.

Regardless, beat three silvers in a row.

Grimebox · 30-01-2011 11:28PM

Orizio wrote: »

How does one do that Grimebox?

Menu>Options>Graphics

Resolution is there at the top left. I have to use 1280x800 or else i get borders along the left and right hand side. Does anyone know another solution to this? I would like to lower my resolution to get a better frame rate

Orizio · 30-01-2011 11:34PM

Grimebox wrote: »

Menu>Options>Graphics

Resolution is there at the top left. I have to use 1280x800 or else i get borders along the left and right hand side. Does anyone know another solution to this? I would like to lower my resolution to get a better frame rate

Yeah, go to nvidia contraol panel.

Grimebox · 30-01-2011 11:47PM

Orizio wrote: »

Yeah, go to nvidia contraol panel.

Whenever i change from 1280x800 in the nvidia cp i get borders along the top/ bottom or along the sides. I would assume its a problem with the size of my monitor but I never had this problem before I installed win7 which suggests otherwise

Orizio · 31-01-2011 12:00AM

Yeah I don't know, the way I got rid of the borders was through nvidia control panel, but then again my computer crashed a few games into getting rid of the borders so may be it was a mistake on my part.

PurpleFistMixer · 31-01-2011 12:22AM

Orizio wrote: »

Just be happy you don't have a defective computer/graphics card/game install, the ****ing thing crashed on me when I was winning again.

My internet goes down sometimes. Only when I'm winning games though. Only then.

Orizio · 01-02-2011 10:18PM

Orizio wrote: »

So I just beat a 2000 Silver zerg - someone ****ing promote me!!!

So I just beat a Gold random - someone ****ing promote me!!!

(as an aside, how OP is a three rax all in against toss?)

NeoSlicerZ · 01-02-2011 11:59PM

Not really that OP, most decent openers deal with 3 rax good while expoing. Now if you're pulling every scv, it's still not too bad if P pulls expo probes and uses FF well. There's better all ins.

Orizio · 02-02-2011 12:07AM

Well I'm talking about bronze level tbf.

So mid-late game TvP, when your opponent has an stalker/immortal/collusus army with a few sentries, what would be the ideal Terran army to counter? Rauder/viking/medivac? Are tanks bad versus protoss?

Any chance you could have a look at the below replay and give me your opinion from a toss perspective?

Keep in mind I am still bronze, and thus rubbish.

Orizio · 02-02-2011 12:16AM

If anyone else would like to have a look at the replay and tell me why I suck please do. Micro in particular is something I don't get.

Grimebox · 02-02-2011 01:57AM

Right I don't play as terran but I'll give my 2c as I'm watching. I'm only plat protoss player btw

Bunker at your wall in seems completely pointless. Your wall does the exact same thing as the bunker, if not better.

Only two scv's in one of your main gas! Easily overlooked i guess... but just dont do it!

Those two scv's mining gas are off at 10 mins i just noticed... um why?

Okay 3 scv's on all refinerys. This seems to be a running problem.

Transition from barracks only units quicker. At 18 min you have two factories that havent built anything. Your army composition is going to owned by his higher tech units. Medivacs do wonders with marine/maraud. You could have possibly won that first skirmish with 4 medivacs thrown in... maybe thats a bit of a stretch though.

You need to stim quicker in battles.

No point in expanding to that other main. Better off expanding to the natural of that main or another one thats closer. Transfer your workers. It only takes 5 seconds.

When you see he going for 3+ colos... dont keep massing marines! Colos eat marines up. Go for a more maraud heavy army, which you need more gas for, I refer you to my previous point

Its overkill using the medivac to send scv's across. Just send them over.

Orizio · 02-02-2011 03:45AM

Thanks grimebox. Lack of scvs on gas usually isn't a problem, I'm guessing I took them off to mine more minerals because I was getting mainly marines and didn't want to have too much gas and too little mins. Could have been an oversight though. Does that bunker add no further protection against an early rush along with the wall-in...? The unused factories are just because I am so fecking slow doing other things.

Yeah about the col against the marines. Badly needed more marauders, I'm just used to massing marines because they are so good. I never build marauders against terran or zerg. So would marauder/vikings/medivacs be best or what against that compisition? How good would tanks and thors be against that protoss army?

I was worried about my SCVs getting ambushed, or him seeing them running across and my exp getting attacked. Hence the medivacs. Paranoia on my part.

Jonny7 · 02-02-2011 12:00PM

Orizio wrote: »

Thanks grimebox. Lack of scvs on gas usually isn't a problem, I'm guessing I took them off to mine more minerals because I was getting mainly marines and didn't want to have too much gas and too little mins. Could have been an oversight though. Does that bunker add no further protection against an early rush along with the wall-in...? The unused factories are just because I am so fecking slow doing other things.

Yeah about the col against the marines. Badly needed more marauders, I'm just used to massing marines because they are so good. I never build marauders against terran or zerg. So would marauder/vikings/medivacs be best or what against that compisition? How good would tanks and thors be against that protoss army?

I was worried about my SCVs getting ambushed, or him seeing them running across and my exp getting attacked. Hence the medivacs. Paranoia on my part.

Paranoia is a big crippler to games.. scared of what lurks in the darkness

Playing with the other races and watching the timer makes you less scared.

Around 7 or 8 mins in I take precautions to watch for
a) drops/nydus worms/etc - you can see any of these just by easy scouting
b) invisible stuff, such as a DT, you can keep scans or invest in a turret or two

Other than that sneaky stuff, then its mainly just a macro race between you and him

Which is constantly building scvs, building supply depots, spending your income constantly on units, buildings and upgrades

With terran, by default, aim for marine, medic, marauder, look up a build order, stick roughly to it

When you get comfortable you can experiment more with tanks, ravens; banshees, viking play etc etc.. but so far MMM is still one of the most powerful

Orizio · 02-02-2011 07:52PM

Check the sig bitches. :cool:

String · 02-02-2011 08:28PM

Orizio wrote: »

Check the sig bitches. :cool:

congrats!

Orizio · 03-02-2011 12:27AM

What is the best wall-in against a baneling bust?

I hate to do this but...

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