Sad that Jinro is out. I think his builds against Nestea were perhaps too precise, with no room for error. Clide will be out next round, it's GSL and he's always out in RO16.
With all the powerhouses other than Nestea gone, I'm gonna bet Losira will get either top 4 or the finals.
" But people who know what's up are using Kung Lao. "
Fuck yes. Kung Lao is so much fun to play as.
Noob Saibot and Smoke in the chat channels. Every other match I've played has been these two. The Noob people spam his projectiles and the Smoke people spam his teleport, similar to the army of Kens and their fierce shoryukens. I've managed to keep my 75% win percentage because of these people as playing super defensive destroys them. Scorpion is another kontender as he is kinda easy to play as and the spammability of his spear attack.
You want to keep your scout probe active for as long as possible. Go into his base. See how many gases he takes: if he takes none, for example, you'll be dealing with early marine aggression. Gas before rax can also be an indicator of a fast tech like banshees or marauder slow.
No gas can also signal a MarineKing style 1rax expand. I do them a lot as they are safe to basically everything but 4gate, proxy rax or proxy 2gate zealot rushes. At this level however, yes it will be a mass marine push more than likely. Or they are so bad they forgot to get gas, which can happen. Now, I just sped through it and here's what I saw:
1) You only had around 45-50 workers at maximum, try to get more, at least 60-70. Draw a box on each mineral line and make sure there are at least 16-20 workers mining, but never more than 24. Then just add on 6 for gas, and your total should be 22-26 or so per base, though do transfer workers as mineral fields empty out. 2) This is key: Control the Xel'Naga Towers, had you controlled it near the start, you would have seen the Terran move a medivac across the map, which would signal one of two things, a drop (unlikely because of spawn positions) or some type of shenanigans, in this case, a hidden expansion. If you control the watch towers, you get a lot of info; are they moving out? Are workers being transferred somewhere? Things like that. 3) Against Terran, especially if you see marauders, stalkers are not always the best choice past the early game. In this game you could have killed him with air, but in most games the best way to deal with marauders is with zealots, sentries, and colossi. I noticed you didn't use sentries. You should practice using forcefields, without them gateway units kinda suck, but with them, units like zealots are much more powerful because the Terran cannot retreat. Forcefields are also incredibly important in holding early stim pushes and roach rushes as you can block your ramp easily. 4) You didn't take gas on your third for a while. Protoss is an incredibly gas hungry race and it is always wise to take as many gasses as possible, especially if you plan to use sentries or templar, and the extra gas allows you to get upgrades much faster and tech to units like colossi, which would have been quite strong in this particular game. 5) Do NOT 4gate unless you plan to immediately be aggessive. The 4gate is not sustainable for production beyond around 7.5 minutes so it is usually better to get 3 gates, expand then add a robo or more gateways. Against terran, I personally get 2 gateways, a robo, then expand. 2 gates do not sound like much but with strong sentry use and an immortal and perhaps a couple stalkers, you can easily hold a stim push from Terran simply by cutting his forces in half with a forcefield. then containing everything that made it up with more forcefields.
Well, that's all I can think of. Yes, had you pressured with the stalkers early on, you would have easily won.
CatZ. He may not be the best technically, but he has tons of fun playing, which is the most important thing. I steal his builds because they're awesome and insanely creative and I've learned a ton on how to play zerg from his stream. You can't be mad when you lose to his cheeses because they are simply too hilarious and clever. My personal favourite is the proxy hatch to block a Protoss from walling off then running in with lings and killing him.
Here's me doing it on my Random account. It's a build he used to do on Steppes of War but recently found it works really well close positions Metalopolis, Slag Pits, and Shattered Temple, all spawns that are incredibly hard for Zerg to play macro games in anyway. I've only lost once doing it because I went proxy hatch to proxy hatch instead of cancelling and making my expo. The way to beat this build is to make 2-3 cannons, but then you can cancel the hatch and expand, which made the Protoss waste tons of money getting a forge and cannons while you lost about 80 minerals from the cancel so it is best to place your cannons such that you can cancel if the Zerg cancels. I played pretty bad this game because I was too busy laughing. Even when it fails I chuckle because of the ridiculousness. So far I'm 2 for 2 on getting BMed at the end of the game.
" @SoldierG654342 said: there's a kintaro/goro tag match?! damn , i better pull my pants down and get the vaseline, this is gonna hurt. "
Yeah, and it's only exacerbated by the fact that you fight them as Cyber Sub-Zero, who is just awful. "
What? That one was easy. Both Goro and Kitaro are so slow and rarely block so just spam freeze them then attack and you can beat them without breaking a sweat. You need to abuse their immobility as much as you can, especially with Goro. I beat it on the default settings on my second try. Shao Kahn is a pain though. His ability to take out so much health really fast gets tiring. I had way more trouble with some of the other 2v1s where you had bad characters to play as.
I don't find this game too difficult on the default setting, but I used to play tons of SSF4 so I'm used to all the motions required (Sub Zero's ice ball is the same as a fireball on SF). I'm on what I believe to be the last battle right now, and it seems kinda tough. You just have to keep retrying and you'll figure out some way to exploit the opponent's weakness.
What I find interesting is they point out COD4 sold around 2 million in the first month. I got the feeling that game got much more popular later on than most. When it came out the original Assassin's Creed was being released as well, and in my group of friends, I was the only one who bought COD4 on launch, everyone else bought AC. About 3 months later they all started talking about COD4 and they all owned it. By then I had moved on to different games so I never really paid attention but it seems like that game got much more popular a few months into 2008 than on launch.
I'm in the same boat. I'm picking it up after I finish my lunch. I may get xbox live again after finals are done, but for now, it will be offline only. The story mode looks cool and i really like challenge mode type stuff so I think it will be fun.
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