Ok ok, I'm a bit rusty. But how the hell can some Protoss dude in the first match I play come rushing me with 5 Void Rays before I can even get more then a couple of Hydras. >_> Dang, I need to practice a bit more against the cpu. To much wow, to little sc over the last few months
CHRONO BOOST! but if he was seriously committing to a void ray rush and didn't get more than, say, 1 zealot to defend, i can see it happening.
He had nothing to defend except for cannons behind the rock. Freaking unbalanced in those practice leagues. I couldn't hit the rocks at the beginning, but when i was halfwway through them, he started spamming cannons behind them. So I had to upgrade range, or risk loosing god knows how many units while taking down the rocks. So by the time I had the rocks almost down, he was already attacking my base with rays. >_<
Don't feel too bad about it. You'll get the feel of the game. I'm already doing MUCH better than I was my first game and I've only played around ten now. I wish I could offer you advice against Void Rays, but I'm Terran, so I usually marine/viking them to death before they cause any serious trouble. All I can say is, try to Macro better and more efficiently. This game seems to put a heavy emphasis on how fast and how much you can do everything.
Yeah, I don't like how it's less about micro at the moment. Good coordination with what you had was what made brood war fun for me, not just how fast you could pump them out. Sure, it was important. However, just rushing with 1 type of unit from start to end starts to bother me. Sure you can counter it, but early scouting is almost impossible with those blocks in front of each base. >_<
When you get better and pick up more on the nuances of the game, you'll start to see a **** ton of more micro. I thought the same as you before I got better.
uhm theres soooooo much more macro in SC2 it's not funny. even just how certain units move. Granted your not disrupting and doing all the tiny grunt things. Just different. my advice, no bots. I am Awesome at bots in brood. Thats why I suck vs people. Linear expected attacks. Place cannons, CPU will beat their head against. Player would probably never see those cannons as he or she is dropping a thor in your mineral field.
@Aurora: Hang in there for a couple of games. Eventually, you'll be matched with people of your skill. Just play the practice league until you're more confident. Playing AIs are ONLY going to make you WORSE; not better.
So DeckardLee are you recommending to skip the beta AI all together and just start the 5 qualification matches?
Why not? Worse case scenario is that you get better a lot quicker. But, what's actually going to happen is that you'll get beat a few times until the game matches you with people of your skill. The game will move you up and down until you get about 50/50. Giving up so quick is not at all the way to go about it. You're going to say the same skill as you are right now ... assuming playing AI doesn't actually make you worse by making you practice and get used to bad BOs and units.
I lost every qualification match, mostly because I had no idea how everything worked as of yet. Now, I've won four matches in a row, mostly thanks to repearers. Those guys enabled me to destroy entire economies towards the start, they're awesome.
Practice Leagues are horrible. Damn rocks annoyed me, but I'm glad I'm passed that. But don't worry man, I'm not so hot at SC2 either, but practice helps improve I usually watch the replays of the guys who beat me, haha. I actually needed some AI practice. Why? I used the AI to help me memorize the hot keys and find out what each unit actually even does, haha.
I personally think losing at SC2 is not that bad. The games looks so fun that even getting whooped is still very fun to the player. And any game that can do that is awesome in my books.
