what's up
The answer is not much- just working like 40 hours a week every week now it seems.. so much for 'part-time job' heh.
The good part is 'work' is more like 'trapped with mom's laptop for 6 hours and "working" for 2, tops.'
I've gotten better at SC2-- in that, I've won 5 1 on 1s out of 8 games or so. I've rushed and won against a zerg, (my rush is banshees, it's a tech rush), but most frequently my rush fails, or their rush fails (but I use my rush to counter whatever they send, and it cripples my rush) so what I turn the game into is 'resource harassment' -- which is really what the game's about, the 'armies clashing' thing is important but choking your opponent to death is the win. I'm like a python or.. a small animal that nibbles away at you until you've bleed to death.
Basically, I go in, kill all your workers with my cloaked banshees, and if you don't repel them I win at that time; if you manage to drive me off (some unit that can see me and attack me) then I'll find an expansion of yours (if you have one) and attack those workers. Next, if I notice you have a sizable army, I'll find your food and take it out (when I have the banshee's built up again). Anything to slow you down, and stop/slow your resource gathering. That wins the ball game. 2 games ago I was beaten like that by another terran, who- army to army, I would have obliterated cause all he had was reavers, but with his resource harassment (I put my bunker JUST too far away from minerals to protect SCVs, derp) I was eventually starved to death, and he had just enough marines (and a TON of energy to scan 4 times with!!) that he held off my banshees at his main. So I had to quit -_-
Anyway, I've pecked away at people with that strategy and won 5 games. 2 of which we kind of had a stalemate, and in both cases I had enough expansions to make cruisers in the background while bashees and vikings kept up their thing.. whenever they see 12 BCz come at them with my harassment squad.. they usually GG.
I just had a darwn-out battle with a zerg today but we 'mutually obliterated each other,' he came at my base with a ton of roaches, hydras, and overseers (can see cloaked) so I continued with my rape of his base, already in progress. He got my base, mostly, but I had a fully functioning expansion he didn't know about.. I knew about his, and my fleet and banshees and vikings were unhurt because his whole force was in my main trying desperately to kill all my buildings first. (I'd already attacked his drones twice, so I'm sure he was out of cash and that was his all-or-nothing attack). I love those kind of attacks, because I know if I survive, I win =)
I repelled one such attack by a protoss with only SCVs and a planetary defense fortress.. Those rock; every expansion of mine becomes one.
Errrr what else. I only play SC2 once or twice a night at work, then I play 1942 because after playing Planetside with Shawn, I wanted to play a mass multiplayer infantry/vehicle game I was GOOD at. And there's still big 64-player servers going!! Goes to show how fun that game is.
BECAUSE OF WORK I've had almost no time to play BF3 on my PC at home. But it's very fun, and I can't wait for the full game, so I can play the crap out of it for 3 weeks until I ship =)
I'm both scared and excited at the same time for 'shipping out.' Like most things in life that I'm told to be afraid of, I think I'll be pleasantly surprised at how well I handle BCT. I just have a feeling I'll be fine. I've stepped up my workout for this month and am making good progress. Drill Sergeants won't have shit on me!! (except nit picky crap like folding my bed..)
The good part is 'work' is more like 'trapped with mom's laptop for 6 hours and "working" for 2, tops.'
I've gotten better at SC2-- in that, I've won 5 1 on 1s out of 8 games or so. I've rushed and won against a zerg, (my rush is banshees, it's a tech rush), but most frequently my rush fails, or their rush fails (but I use my rush to counter whatever they send, and it cripples my rush) so what I turn the game into is 'resource harassment' -- which is really what the game's about, the 'armies clashing' thing is important but choking your opponent to death is the win. I'm like a python or.. a small animal that nibbles away at you until you've bleed to death.
Basically, I go in, kill all your workers with my cloaked banshees, and if you don't repel them I win at that time; if you manage to drive me off (some unit that can see me and attack me) then I'll find an expansion of yours (if you have one) and attack those workers. Next, if I notice you have a sizable army, I'll find your food and take it out (when I have the banshee's built up again). Anything to slow you down, and stop/slow your resource gathering. That wins the ball game. 2 games ago I was beaten like that by another terran, who- army to army, I would have obliterated cause all he had was reavers, but with his resource harassment (I put my bunker JUST too far away from minerals to protect SCVs, derp) I was eventually starved to death, and he had just enough marines (and a TON of energy to scan 4 times with!!) that he held off my banshees at his main. So I had to quit -_-
Anyway, I've pecked away at people with that strategy and won 5 games. 2 of which we kind of had a stalemate, and in both cases I had enough expansions to make cruisers in the background while bashees and vikings kept up their thing.. whenever they see 12 BCz come at them with my harassment squad.. they usually GG.
I just had a darwn-out battle with a zerg today but we 'mutually obliterated each other,' he came at my base with a ton of roaches, hydras, and overseers (can see cloaked) so I continued with my rape of his base, already in progress. He got my base, mostly, but I had a fully functioning expansion he didn't know about.. I knew about his, and my fleet and banshees and vikings were unhurt because his whole force was in my main trying desperately to kill all my buildings first. (I'd already attacked his drones twice, so I'm sure he was out of cash and that was his all-or-nothing attack). I love those kind of attacks, because I know if I survive, I win =)
I repelled one such attack by a protoss with only SCVs and a planetary defense fortress.. Those rock; every expansion of mine becomes one.
Errrr what else. I only play SC2 once or twice a night at work, then I play 1942 because after playing Planetside with Shawn, I wanted to play a mass multiplayer infantry/vehicle game I was GOOD at. And there's still big 64-player servers going!! Goes to show how fun that game is.
BECAUSE OF WORK I've had almost no time to play BF3 on my PC at home. But it's very fun, and I can't wait for the full game, so I can play the crap out of it for 3 weeks until I ship =)
I'm both scared and excited at the same time for 'shipping out.' Like most things in life that I'm told to be afraid of, I think I'll be pleasantly surprised at how well I handle BCT. I just have a feeling I'll be fine. I've stepped up my workout for this month and am making good progress. Drill Sergeants won't have shit on me!! (except nit picky crap like folding my bed..)