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    StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

    Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Jul 27, 2010

    The first chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy focuses on the struggles of the Terran race, as seen through the eyes of Commander Jim Raynor, leader of the rebel group Raynor's Raiders.

    The Best StarCraft II Tandem Move So Far

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    Edited By Brad

    I've never been particularly good at multiplayer real-time strategy games, nor have I played the original StarCraft since last century. Regardless, I'm thinking way too much about StarCraft II these days, from watching pro-game YouTube replays, to learning terms like "timing push" and "eight pool," to getting myself stomped into the ground repeatedly on the 1v1 ladder (busted down to copper tier since the database reset, ouch). 
     
    But nowhere in all my games played, matches spectated, and strategies researched have I seen something this singularly embarrassing, hilarious, and awesome.  

     

       
     
    If you're not up on your StarCraft II, the Protoss player's mothership traps most of the entire opposing army with its vortex move, which apparently has a duration just about as long as the Terran ghost's nuke calldown. Units pop out of the vortex, nuke comes down... goodbye opposing army. Whether this was staged or not, the timing and the visual effect are pretty impressive.
     
    Up to now, I've spent almost no time playing matches with a teammate, but seeing stuff like this sure makes me want to start. Hey... anybody down for some 2v2? 
     
    Anybody else who's in the beta, what kind of ridiculous strategies have you been seeing? What's your favorite faction so far? Tell me about your build orders. Your counters. Discus amongst yourselves. C'mon, feed my need.
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    #1  Edited By Brad

    I've never been particularly good at multiplayer real-time strategy games, nor have I played the original StarCraft since last century. Regardless, I'm thinking way too much about StarCraft II these days, from watching pro-game YouTube replays, to learning terms like "timing push" and "eight pool," to getting myself stomped into the ground repeatedly on the 1v1 ladder (busted down to copper tier since the database reset, ouch). 
     
    But nowhere in all my games played, matches spectated, and strategies researched have I seen something this singularly embarrassing, hilarious, and awesome.  

     

       
     
    If you're not up on your StarCraft II, the Protoss player's mothership traps most of the entire opposing army with its vortex move, which apparently has a duration just about as long as the Terran ghost's nuke calldown. Units pop out of the vortex, nuke comes down... goodbye opposing army. Whether this was staged or not, the timing and the visual effect are pretty impressive.
     
    Up to now, I've spent almost no time playing matches with a teammate, but seeing stuff like this sure makes me want to start. Hey... anybody down for some 2v2? 
     
    Anybody else who's in the beta, what kind of ridiculous strategies have you been seeing? What's your favorite faction so far? Tell me about your build orders. Your counters. Discus amongst yourselves. C'mon, feed my need.
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    #2  Edited By emkeighcameron

    Wow, that's a massive dick move, but also hilarious and effective. 
     
    I'm also curious to see what other rape people can concoct.

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    #3  Edited By Bionicicide

    You guys should try and commentate a replay of one of your matches, all serious sounding.

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    #4  Edited By mesklinite

    Something I use to do in the original SC was a zealot and mutalisk rush!
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    #5  Edited By Tiwi

    I'm in the beta! but I'm thinking I should get as far away from this as soon as I can...

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    #6  Edited By Drebin_893

    Bitch got fucked up.

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    #7  Edited By animateria

    Wow... Just wow...
     
    OP much?

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    #8  Edited By jmrwacko

    I wonder how epic a Brad Brad will pull when he starts playing SC2 multiplayer matches. I assume it will be on the order of Ellie from Kill Bill Vol. 2, although even that may be an understatement.

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    #9  Edited By Milkman
    @Drebin_893 said:
    " Bitch got fucked up. "
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    #10  Edited By skunk

    lol Blue terran was swearing in korean
     
    The funniest matches I've seen were both David Kim. 
    1)Crazy amount of Banelings f-ing everything up
    2)Nuclear Launch detected. He nuked this one guy, his kids, and his kids' kids.

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    #11  Edited By MeatSim

    That is real rough.

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    #12  Edited By grimes

    Brad: If you want to play some 2v2, send me a PM. I've played a few hundred matches so I know a few tricks!

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    #13  Edited By Hamz

    Brings back nostalgic memory of the World in Conflict nuke and how pretty it looked before obliterating the opposing player's forces. Great stuff Brad!

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    #14  Edited By Cornman89

    That... was pretty good.

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    #15  Edited By Korne

    That is messed up... pretty much 2 armies died at once.
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    #16  Edited By robownz7

    The crickets remind me of Sim Safari... :O

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    #17  Edited By Rayeth

    HD Starcraft's youtube channel is very entertaining.  I really enjoyed his most recent tutorial video.

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    #18  Edited By sweep  Moderator

    I don't know what just happened. Was that good? Someone explain to me, using small words, what the fuck is going on?

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    #19  Edited By Scarabus

    Been watching HDStarcraft as well and I figured he was the guy Brad was referring to. 
    I'm not a Starcraft player though. Just a nerd.

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    #20  Edited By solidlife

    I am so confused right know lol.

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    #21  Edited By Vinchenzo
    @Sweep said:
    " I don't know what just happened. Was that good? Someone explain to me, using small words, what the fuck is going on? "
    Kept entire army in isolation while they ordered a nuke which, upon the army coming back, hit almost immediately destroying all of the units.
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    #22  Edited By NoXious

    They really need to tone down the Mothership. That unit is far too powerful for a game like StarCraft 2.
    There's no skill in using it, and people use the "You shouldn't allow him to build one"-argument which isn't exactly 'fair'.

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    #23  Edited By Levio

    Hah, its interesting but thats 2v2 for you, making odd combos.
     
    My favorite "Unintended" build is just mass pheonixes.  It normal gets decimated given that they're air units that can't even hit ground, but it can do 2 odd things:  It can destroy all zerg overlords, and in mass it can lift units off the ground to kill them.
     
    It's a terrible build, but a TON of fun to mess around with!  Haha

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    #25  Edited By StarvingGamer
    @Brad said:
    Hey... anybody down for some 2v2?  Anybody else who's in the beta, what kind of ridiculous strategies have you been seeing? What's your favorite faction so far? Tell me about your build orders. Your counters. Discus amongst yourselves. C'mon, feed my need. "
    Hey Brad, I'm ALWAYS down for some 2v2m, just PM me :D  My normal partner and I have been comfortably floating around the top 15 of Gold going random/random with probably around 150 games played so far.  The most ridiculous strategy I've seen is dual Zerg going Roaches/Roaches.  It's ridiculous because it shouldn't work that way.  I hate Roaches.
     
    So far I've been feeling Protoss the most, although Terran Reaper rushes can be fun.  Typically I go 9-lon 11-gate 13-lon 15-gate+gas when I play Toss.  Then it's usually a rush to Warp Gates, Phase Prisms, and Dark Templars.  Either that or early Colossi if the enemy is massing Tier 1 guys.  Terrans I tend to be boring and go M&M&M's or Banshee rushes.
     
    Whenever me and my buddy happen to luck into dual-Zerg, we usually both 7-pool and go from there.  Yeah we're kinda dicks.
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    #26  Edited By Sushbag

    Well Brad if you're looking for crazy one-two-punch 2v2 strats, consider a Zerg/Terran team taking on, say, a massed air force. Zerg teammate builds a few Infestors, Terran teammate builds a few Ravens. Pop a few Fungal Growths to lock down a large number of, say, Mutas. Meanwhile the Terran player pops a few Seeker Missiles at the clump: Instant death, the other team gets to watch their hugely expensive army fall in seconds.
     
    Or, if you like Protoss, consider the hilarious combination of Sentries and High Templar: Surround any clustered group of ground units with Force Fields, follow it up with Psionic Storms. Ouch.

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    #27  Edited By fishmicmuffin

    I started to play on Friday and... I'm pretty bad. I get stomped by just about everyone because I just don't know what to do in so many different situations. I've been trying to play as zerg but haven't been having much luck. Not that I had any luck as other races....

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    #28  Edited By crusnchill

    I guess I don't get it... What's so good about this game?
     
    I'm not a troll or anything, but this game is barely making a 0.2 on my gaming interests rictor-scale, and I keep looking for something that will hook me into SC2 so I can understand the fascination.
     
    It's just not happening for me... :-(
     
    Maybe I'll have to play it to get it. :-)
    Steam'll probably have a demo! Yayyy!

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    #29  Edited By TheYear20XX

    Maybe I should finally put in that beta key I've been sitting on.

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    #30  Edited By StarvingGamer
    @crusnchill said:
    Steam'll probably have a demo! Yayyy! "
    BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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    #31  Edited By Quacktastic
    @crusnchill said:
    " Steam'll probably have a demo! Yayyy! "
    It's a Blizzard game.  Steam won't have jack.
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    #32  Edited By giyanks22

    Wow that person got raped. I cannot wait for this game to come out. I hope it comes out some time over the summer.

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    I've come to hate the simple protoss strategy of building pylon into the other guys base outside of his viewrange, and then build those ground cannons there. It gets me every time. By the time I notice it, there are couple cannons there already, so getting rid of them with early game units is a pain the ass.

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    #34  Edited By Kyreo

    Jeezus.  Thats awesome and fucked up AT TEH SAEM TEIM!!!!

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    #35  Edited By Kontrapunkt

    pz

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    #36  Edited By sociald1077
    @crusnchill said:
    " I guess I don't get it... What's so good about this game? I'm not a troll or anything, but this game is barely making a 0.2 on my gaming interests rictor-scale, and I keep looking for something that will hook me into SC2 so I can understand the fascination.  It's just not happening for me... :-(  Maybe I'll have to play it to get it. :-) Steam'll probably have a demo! Yayyy! "
    Did you ever play the original SC? If not I would suggest you check it out. It is one of the most balanced, well executed RTS ever made IMO. There is a reason that it is as popular in the RTS world as it is. It's kind of like the Counter Strike of RTS's if you will. Sure there have been prettier games put out in the last 15 years, but for the truly competitive, this is what RTS means.
     
    And now we get part 2 of it :D, that's what makes everyone so wet for it.
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    #37  Edited By TomA

    Blizzard is way overated, the best game they had was Warcraft 3. Starcraft sucks they are taking they're sweet fucking time putting it out when it should have been out years ago. And dont fucking tell me" oh they are polishing it and making it perfectly balanced", cause no game is EVER perfectly balanced, just look at this video. They know people will wait as long as it takes because for some reason people are really excited for this game even though its time has passed like 7 fucking years ago.

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    #38  Edited By floodiastus

    This game will be boring, still basebuilding after all these years.... It really looks to be just a graphicly updated starcraft 1

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    #39  Edited By doe3879
    @Sweep said:
    " I don't know what just happened. Was that good? Someone explain to me, using small words, what the fuck is going on? "
    2v2 - everyone with Max out army having a battle.
    1 team use "Vortex" to suck both his opponents' army together
    his teammate launch a Nuclear Strike at it.  Killing 2 entire armies in 1 shot
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    #40  Edited By psychoticdream
    @Sweep:   imagine for a moment your giant army gets trapped in some sort of gigantic portal   made by your opponent
     
    while your entire army is stuck in there your opponent calls for a  nuke  
    exactly as the portal wears out your opponent gets out of the way
     and  the nuke falls on top of the recently escaped army completely destroying it leaving you absolutely fucking defenseless
     
    no other way to describe except    
    knocked the f out!
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    #42  Edited By crusnchill
    @StarvingGamer said:
    " @crusnchill said:
    Steam'll probably have a demo! Yayyy! "
    BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA "
    I forgot! Lol. Blizzard don't do Steam do they?
     
    I'm sure they'll release a demo of their own either way.
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    #43  Edited By august
    @crusnchill said:
    " @StarvingGamer said:
    " @crusnchill said:
    Steam'll probably have a demo! Yayyy! "
    BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA "
    I forgot! Lol. Blizzard don't do Steam do they?  I'm sure they'll release a demo of their own either way. "
    Did you play Starcraft 1? It'll be a lot like that. You can get it as a download off Blizzard's online store.
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    #44  Edited By artofwar420

    I think I just had an orgasm.

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    #45  Edited By Crono

    Ugh, I saw this once... it was done to me and my partner.  Another reason why I hate Twilight Fortress...  not a fan of the 30+ matches - but what can you do?
     
    Also - craziest strat I see lately is the 4:30 banshee tech.  So lame.

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    #46  Edited By Rio

    I have seen that attempted but not actually pulled off.  I havent searched for videos on it so I'm sure its been done plenty of times, but out of the full match videos I have watched I have not seen it.  Very cool.

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    #47  Edited By kagekage

    OH MY GOD THIS IS JUST FULL OF WIN

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    #48  Edited By raiz265

    i want this now.

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    #49  Edited By John1912

    LOL, that was pretty fucked up?  What did they all agree to do a dead man rush at the same time and location?

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    #50  Edited By Crono
    @John1912 said:

    " LOL, that was pretty fucked up?  What did they all agree to do a dead man rush at the same time and location? "

    Perhaps... but that is generally how that map plays out regardless.  I mean, you can tell it is a custom match because of the color pairs.  In ladder, red and blue are always one team and teal and purple are always the other team.  It is never mixed or matched any other way - always those 2 colors and always those 2 pairs specifically together.  Therefore, blue and teal would never be on a team in ladder and red and purple would not either.

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