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Hey guys. Just started playing this past week. I feel like I’ve gotten to a point where I have a good economy within the first possible 5-6 minutes of every round. One thing I keep finding though is that I may not be aggressive enough early game. I feel like I keep letting my opponent beef up and macro for too long. Is this a common Zerg problem or is this just beginner problems in general.

Frequently I just box all my workers and quickly build several structures at once. If I misplace a building, I have to track down that 1 worker and give it the Cancel ESC command. If I try to build on top of the transparent queued building, it says its blocked.

If this happens, is there a way to easily overwrite the command with a different worker even though its already been queued without needing to search for that worker? If I build multiple bases or structures across the map it gets especially harder fo track down that 1 worker that had a misplaced building queued.

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If Blizzard were to add a unit to each race what would be the best fit? It would need to have its own niche and not overlap other units. Should fit the race’s theme and not be obnoxious like the MSC.

I would like to see a new tier unit for each race. Something that shifts the game. Maybe a ground transport vehicle for Terran that can carry a shitload of infantry? Zerg gets worm from Dune? And, Toss gets a melee unit that continuously emits a warp field. I don’t know. What do you all think? I assume it’s easiest to steal units from the campaign.

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I recently realized I rely on the All Army hotkey way too much. I disabled it for a few games to force myself to use proper control groups, and I immediately lost three games in a row.

For those of you who successfully broke the habit, how did you do it? Did you disable it permanently, or did you use some drills or practice routine? I'm Terran, if that matters.

Thank you for your answer. 🙏

i'm a big hero fan but watching him play zerg is unexpectedly fun to watch, maybe bc i already like his playstyle? and it was fun to watch him counter his usual skytoss strat and he was quite good with zerg. although it's rly sad that he has to resort to zerg for vZ, it's looking bleak rn for protoss rip.

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another data point for toss dead is that Clem used to play toss vs terran bc he was terrible at TvT, but since this patch he's playing TvT again haha

Had a terrible day so I'm going think about something else and write a Q&A about something I see floating around sometimes and have wanted to talk about.

If you care about the SC2 CN server, it's good info. If not, meh. This is for all five of you out there who care about this!

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Q: Is MMR scaling different?
A: GM is not as good as global, but casual player skill floor is much higher. I'm M3 on NA, D1 on EU, D3 on CN. when I was D2 on NA, I was P2 on CN. It kind of felt ridiculous, you'll see people in Platinum with 300apm and they know what they're doing.

Q: Is meta different?
A: It was before the patch, can't say now since the patch is so new. It's usually very aggressive play with non-standard build orders and I see it staying that way when the meta settles. Sometimes they piss me the hell off lmao I've lost the dumbest shit, Alt+F4 and make a sandwich. Also, you don't see many reapers for some reason. If you do, it's four of them.

Q: Is the community different?
A: Less activity since the patch, you can feel the drop in chat activity. General chats were usually pretty active but also have soliciting spam. I hope this changes. People are overall very friendly! I haven't been bad mannered, made some cool people. Smurfing is less common but still a thing. Not as many mirror leavers.

Q: How many people play?
A: SCBOY forum estimates based on a lot of deep insight into the Chinese server about 60,000 daily ladder games as of a month before the patch.

Q: How do you play if you're not Chinese?
A: If you can't speak Chinese, you shouldn't. They only speak Chinese, and there's a chance one day whole NetEase account will get nuked. If you do speak Chinese, you can navigate the complicated systems to get an account. I got on through a friend, my country has payment issues but most countries there's ways to get money over there.

Q: Is the game any different?
A: Violence toggle in settings isn't there, all blood gore etc removed, game is only in Chinese. When you first download it, there's a chance it will be in English and say that the server doesn't support your regional settings, forcing you to select a new language from the drop down list at the in-game login but it's only Chinese lmao.. it closes and downloads, then you re-open it. Doesn't always work the first time.

Q: Great Firewall ping?
A: There are services that have servers to China which get the game from being unplayable to completely fine depending on the country you live in. The servers are in Hangzhou, I get better ping to that than Korea with a VPN but it's still about 180. Good enough for me. GearUP VPN works really well with SC2, I didn't notice a difference with non-CN games, to NA or EU it actually worsened my latency. Not a shill, it's just what I use and it works for me. I don't know if there's other VPN services to China specifically for video games but there probably are so if you know any please do mention!

Q: How do I know if I need a VPN?
A: If it's a laggy mess that's all, you don't need one to sign in and play.

Q: Does the medivac still say hallelujah?
A: Yes!

Q: What are the advantages?
A: Absolutely none, if you speak Chinese or are learning Chinese it's cool. But you need to speak Chinese. Don't go in there if you can't speak Chinese. If you go there and clearly aren't Chinese there is a chance you will get the whole NetEase account banned. There's literally no other use, I use it to practice Chinese and play customs with my friends who moved back to China.

So yeah, fun place I suppose

So basically I have seen multiple posts referencing that one post zi think it was from solar that said they were going to change the worker start again after blizzcon.

So do you guys think it's true or not? I am just curious to know what people think (no need to be mean and say that I'm dumb for believing these rumors, I just curious).

And if you do indeed think it's true what do you think that the changes will be exactly snd also what changes would you want.

Personally I either think that we will go to 10 worker start because apparently it says that they will change the amount of workers and not revert. Also 10 workers will like try to appeal to players fans of 8 and also of 12 workers (though there is the possibility that it just ends up being worse than both of those variants).

Still maybe they will indeed revert to 12 workers and people are looking too much into the specific ise of the word change instead of revert.

Anyways happy to know what people in the community think.

3 seconds such tight window and doesnt lock like old 8 seconds did. 5 seconds allow zerg to use other units comb other then banes to be used.