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ArmadA[NaS]
United States346 Posts
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insitelol
845 Posts
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B-royal
Belgium1330 Posts
On January 28 2016 14:50 insitelol wrote: I think about swithcing to BW from time to time. But what really annoys me is not even a huge amout of time needed to learn (it's a actually the fun part), but hotkeys. I was always curious: do protosses really press O to build pylons? Or just click it? In any case it is sooooo ugly i can't even express what i feel when im obliged to do this. It just kills any interest in playing. It's P but in the foreign scene nobody cares whether you have custom hotkeys. There's no reason to let hotkeys be the factor that keeps you from playing brood war. | ||
Probemicro
3708 Posts
On January 28 2016 14:50 insitelol wrote: I think about swithcing to BW from time to time. But what really annoys me is not even a huge amout of time needed to learn (it's a actually the fun part), but hotkeys. I was always curious: do protosses really press O to build pylons? Or just click it? In any case it is sooooo ugly i can't even express what i feel when im obliged to do this. It just kills any interest in playing. your beloved innovation/bogus still presses M for marine in sc2.... | ||
evanchristo
Australia12 Posts
On January 28 2016 14:50 insitelol wrote: I think about swithcing to BW from time to time. But what really annoys me is not even a huge amout of time needed to learn (it's a actually the fun part), but hotkeys. I was always curious: do protosses really press O to build pylons? Or just click it? In any case it is sooooo ugly i can't even express what i feel when im obliged to do this. It just kills any interest in playing. umm hotkeys should not put you off and if you say this game ugly its 18 years old yes it doesn't have the "best graphics" but it has aged well | ||
Cele
Germany4012 Posts
On January 28 2016 14:50 insitelol wrote: I think about swithcing to BW from time to time. But what really annoys me is not even a huge amout of time needed to learn (it's a actually the fun part), but hotkeys. I was always curious: do protosses really press O to build pylons? Or just click it? In any case it is sooooo ugly i can't even express what i feel when im obliged to do this. It just kills any interest in playing. it's fine when you know how to work it. As a P your usual hkey setup is so that you can macro fine with the hotkeys you have. Ex: my h hkeys: 0-8 nexi, since 0p9p8p works well. 6-7 gates. 6d 7t works good too. that leaves 1-4 for the army and 5 for robo/stargate early game. So, if you adjust yourself, hkeys are not the issue | ||
ProMeTheus112
France2027 Posts
On January 28 2016 19:47 evanchristo wrote: umm hotkeys should not put you off and if you say this game ugly its 18 years old yes it doesn't have the "best graphics" but it has aged well I think he meant the hotkey thing is ugly what's wrong with P to build pylons, because it is far from the left side of the keyboard or?? | ||
Highgamer
1346 Posts
On January 28 2016 14:50 insitelol wrote: I think about swithcing to BW from time to time. But what really annoys me is not even a huge amout of time needed to learn (it's a actually the fun part), but hotkeys. I was always curious: do protosses really press O to build pylons? Or just click it? In any case it is sooooo ugly i can't even express what i feel when im obliged to do this. It just kills any interest in playing. Everyone can have their own opinion, and I don't mean to be cocky in any way, but: That would be quite a petty reason to give up on BW - if you're really interested. Really sounds like you didn't even give it a proper try. There wouldn't be many interesting things left for you to do from now on if learning to reach P would be an intolerable effort... In fact, such an attitude would equal a complete standstill in your general abilities... Maybe you're just lazy in this case, that's OK (yet unfortunate). But you might also just be trapped in some kind of self-energizing missconception: Pressing P with a normal, SC2-esque hand-positioning is neither hard or exhausting, nor does it take long to learn. You can 'overcome the unbearable difficulty of the obligation to press the P button' in the time it takes to (roughly) play 3 matches of SC2, or watch one movie, or the equivalent of half a day's dose of useless clicking on the internet... whatever. Maybe you just don't realize this if you never tried it for, let's say, 5-10 x 10 minutes in the course of a week. + Show Spoiler + edit: maybe I'm thinking too narrowly here: normally your thumb should be almost pointing towards that P button while playing SC, then it's really just a little gesture to learn - but maybe you're using a completely different hotkey-setup, with mouse n stuff, then it might take some more time... still I wouldn't get why that should hinder you from learning it in a relatively short time It's only 'annoying' for the first few hundred times (less clicks than you make in a normal game of 10 minutes...). I guess you've learned to tie your shoelaces at some point, a quite unnatural finger-trick? But now you don't experience strain on your fingers or even waste a thought when doing it? Or in later years, you learned to use a smart phone? or how to play a song on the guitar? or how to eat with chop-sticks? If that's the case, then you can also easily learn to press that P button no problem. | ||
ArmadA[NaS]
United States346 Posts
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fearthequeen
United States781 Posts
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iloveav
Poland1463 Posts
On January 19 2016 04:30 amazingxkcd wrote: #4. <div style="font-size: 32px;">YOU WILL NOT WIN</div> Now, what do I mean by this? It is not a discouragement from playing the game, but rather the realization that brood war is the toughest game made. The game is very different from sc2 that it will take you a very long time to even begin to get close to winning a game. Some people take 100s of games before they win their first game. But here is the thing; winning your first game of brood war is euphoria, pure bliss. Brood war truly does reward hard work and dedication and you'll know when you win that first game after a long and intense game of macro, 300+ apm managing your units and you see the coveted words "GG" in chat. It will be tough and very discouraging to keep losing and losing, yet it makes all the wins taste so much sweeter. Broodwar is the Dark Souls of RTS: It hurts you because it loves you :D. | ||
Nikon
Bulgaria5710 Posts
On January 28 2016 14:50 insitelol wrote: I think about swithcing to BW from time to time. But what really annoys me is not even a huge amout of time needed to learn (it's a actually the fun part), but hotkeys. I was always curious: do protosses really press O to build pylons? Or just click it? In any case it is sooooo ugly i can't even express what i feel when im obliged to do this. It just kills any interest in playing. P for pylons. O for overlords. M for marines. Every race has its bad hotkeys. Take it as a challenge, and soon enough it will become the norm for you. | ||
Highgamer
1346 Posts
On January 30 2016 08:03 Nikon wrote: P for pylons. O for overlords. M for marines. Every race has its bad hotkeys. Take it as a challenge, and soon enough it will become the norm for you. Not sure about the other races, but Terran has to also use I for mines and irradiate, O for siege and P for vulture-patrol-micro all the time ^^. Also, scanners usually on 8,9,0. | ||
coolprogrammingstuff
906 Posts
On January 30 2016 08:49 Highgamer wrote: Not sure about the other races, but Terran has to also use I for mines and irradiate, O for siege and P for vulture-patrol-micro all the time ^^. Also, scanners usually on 8,9,0. M for mutas, L for lurkers. Was quite funny - I played archon in sc2 lately where Z is not my main race unlike in BW and I just kept hitting the wrong buttons - was more painful then funny! | ||
Highgamer
1346 Posts
On January 31 2016 19:45 coolprogrammingstuff wrote: M for mutas, L for lurkers. Was quite funny - I played archon in sc2 lately where Z is not my main race unlike in BW and I just kept hitting the wrong buttons - was more painful then funny! Ah, i remember, I tend to miss L for lurkers and U for burrow sometimes if I offrace. U is unload for dropships, too, but one only presses it a handful of times in a normal TvZ or TvT. | ||
PhilGood2DaY
Germany7424 Posts
start with ICCUP and think about moving to fish once your B+ level.. imo | ||
BeStFAN
483 Posts
You don't say 'I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that's ever been built.' You don't start there. You say, 'I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.' You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall. | ||
NoSoldier
Germany84 Posts
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beheamoth
44 Posts
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8882
2717 Posts
It's nearly 2 months, how is his progress? | ||
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