my starcraft 2 thread-on my way to beat a botgame

[quote=mastrer1000]I installed starcraft 2 today and made my first game. I never really played any rts game so i am a complete noob. Anyways, i just felt like making a thread similar to all the "ranked rise on my way to wood tier" threads about my experiences learning the game. In my first game i played a botgame zerg vs. Zerg because FOR THE SWARM :P So apperently botgames in sc are harder than in league. While the bot was building an "army"(army=a few small creatures), i was busy spreading creep with 5 queens who were needed in my base. Because i had no hotkeys, building units was painfully slow, so i barely did it. I blame the hotkeys, totally not my fault. At the end, i learned that something like 10 zerglings cannot consideres an army :D As soon as the bot started to kill my expansions(annother thing i did instead of preparing my zergling rush), i ended the game, because i knew i could not do anything about it. I will try not to forget taking a screenshot next game :P[/quote]

[quote=IShouldGetALife]Starcraft is really fun, but hard at times, with the online matchmaking when you get into it be sure to be prepared you might be level 4 going against a level 40 just a warning for the future.[/quote]

[quote=mastrer1000]this game i played an easy botgame(protoss vs. protoss). apperently the bot will always take the same race as you, which is kinda sad imo. i actually won the game thanks to some guides :P one thing i don't like about easy botgames is the fact that you cannot build all creatures and buildings. I guess i'll switch to medium bots soon, even though they will prohably crush me because even i realised that i made tons of mistakes, so there are prohably twice as much mistakes that i ded not see. and yes, i forgot to take a screnshot again :P[/quote]

[quote=xXShadowAssassinXx]i actually tried starcraft2 a few months ago in my friends account. and i have to say that it is really hard. i really like to play AOE2 and EE, but SC2 is on a whole other level. i guess its because the combos arent really common sense. in medievel RTS if someone makes horses i know ill have to make spears, but in SC2 you start off clueless.[/quote]

[quote=mastrer1000]i don't really think that the hard thing about it are the units and combos, you can just read guides or something for it. i find the multitasking much more stresssful. i guess this will get better if i play more :D[/quote]

[quote=xXShadowAssassinXx]i just dont find the counters intuitive. its too complex i think[/quote]

[quote=mastrer1000]i played only two games of starcraft, i don't give a fuck about counters :P[/quote]

[quote=mastrer1000]played the first mission of the campaign yseterday. i basically had to move some spacemarines to the target and kill everything on my way. the thing is that i could have clicked move agressivly to the mission target and would have won, so maybe i am better than the lowest diffficulty :D[/quote]

[quote=mastrer1000]it took about an hour, but i won :D easy botgame, protoss vs. protoss. at some poit in the game my natural got destroyed, but i managed to survive. after that the bot allowed me to make a huge army and win the game :) edit: i am getting better with my hotkeys, but my apm is still always around 41 or 42. i guess this will get better as soon as i fully learned the hotkeys.[/quote]

[quote=Satella]Improve macro. Even the harder difficulties of the AI are trivial if you can scout and keep up your teching/macromanagement while harassing/scouting and microing your units. Rule of thumb: Never float over 1000 minerals and gas (in fact, try to stay below 500. You can accumulate up to 1k if waiting on a warp cycle or injected larvae to pop). Terran macro is probably the easiest to get the hang of, although arguably they are a hard race to play. Protoss macro is also straightforward but is sensitive to proper chronoboosting. Inject larva is the most annoying zerg mechanic by far. Also part of why I can't play Zerg worth shit.[/quote]