Still Playing Games

Here’s another lackluster installment of my blog about Starcraft II!

Well, I presume it’s lackluster because no one seems to like/read this anyway.

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Anyway, due to some control snooping and accidental deletions, I made my installed SCII fubar, so I had to reinstall it. That sucked.

When I got it back online, I decided to play (big surprise). It’d been a while since I played, and the lack of coordination showed. I decided to play a 1v1, TvZ on Shattered Temple. How lucky of me to get the Zerg master player.

So I get the isolated third base up and running. I should have put up more missile turrets. Why? Well, ten mutalisks are more than enough to tear apart the single one in the mineral line, for one.

Not that that helped the front lines in any way. With my (foolishly) marine-only army (with medivac support, obviously), I was met with a WALL of zerglings, banelings and mutalisks. Holy #$%@ not even two bunkers could save me from that disaster.

GG. G to the G.

FFA Shattered Temple, Action!

In this FFA, it was three Terrans and a Zerg. I decided to FINALLY add marauders back into my army composition. Took me long enough, right? Any way, FFAs tend to be very violent, as there’s usually that one guy that goes 3/3 thors, or 3/3 void rays, or something like that. Lo and behold, I see thors! 3/0 thors everywhere!

Not only thors, but also battlecruisers. It’s a real WTF combination, since both are gas-guzzlers and mineral dumps. My opponents found that out the hard way when their massive units walked into a wall of gauss bullets and concussion grenades. Plus, I upgraded my own thors to 3/3, supporting my already 3/3 infantry. It ain’t cheap, but when you have 3 and a half bases (my hidden expansion got hijacked by the Zerg ), it’ll work wonders.

When the Zerg attacked my hidden expansion, I let it go. I couldn’t defend it, because I didn’t break the rocks on my side of the expansion (stupid me). Of course, when he goes roach/hydra, that’s a perfect time for me to obliterate the army with a large marine/marauder/medivac/thor death ball. Burrow? It’s ‘kay. Scan.

Then came this awkward standoffish moment for the next half hour between me and the two other Terrans, who each decided to go with a clunky thor-battlecruiser-scrap-infantry build. I decided to push the issue against a green player, managing to do significant damage, destroying a large portion of their army as well as a base. Of course, I lost all of my army in the process, but that’s something entirely different.

Eventually the green guy disconnects, leaving me with this starved man of a cyan player. Green Terran had taken all of the bases, leaving cyan with only two, his own and his expansion.

ROLL IN THE DEATH BALL!

GG.

Rush? Wait, Really?

Here is I, playing another 2v2 on Discord IV. I was fortunate to have a Protoss buddy against two Terrans. Upon entering the match, he suggests, “rush!” I was like, WTF? Okay, sure, why not.

I did the sneaky, I-hope-I-get-away-with-this expand, going to the opponent’s third base, setting up a planetary and two barracks. Supplemented with three more barracks at home, I was able to mass a fair ball of marines (not too big, but okay for the job). I was a fairly late rush, if you ask me, because when we decided to assault the gates, his zealots were chargelots! I’m not sure if that constitutes as a rush.

But begin typical me, I lose almost all of my marines in the process. Well, it was sort of my fault, and sort of on purpose, since I pushed up the ramp first (which was kind of stupid come to think of it, since chargelots could easily tank the damage while I suppressed from the back).

Fortunately, we were able to deal enough damage at the opponents to force a GG out of them. Not too shabby.

I’m Watching Youtube Again

Yea, so while surfing my preferred channels (which includes a guy with a girlish laugh, a brit with a top hat, and some American with a beard that disturbingly reminds me of several other American characters with a beard), I decided to check out a playlist called “Let’s Play Terraria with Totalbiscuit and Jesse Cox.” Hysterical stuff, that is.

Terraria, for those who don’t know it (you should, because I’m REALLY late to this party), is an online game that uses, like, 64-bit-type graphics, so it’s like playing an old N64 game or something, only it’s a bit more free-roaming and RPG than the old games. It’s a really short game for players who power through games (I’m still not sure how people get level 90 Diablo II characters in a week), and it feels pretty short now that the developers have decided to discontinue further development of the game. Fortunately, some people decided to add mods to the game on their own accord.

Anyway, these two bumbling fools are up and about playing Terraria. Jesse Cox, aka omfgcata in Youtube, is this American guy who insinuates crude jokes, as well as having the hilarious tendency of panicking and dying constantly in the gameplay. Totalbiscuit is the brit with the top hat, who berates Jesse for the idiotic comments, but he does know how to laugh a little (and when those times come, boy, they are hilarious). He has a little more survivability than Jesse, but generally ends up dying anyway.

I’d recommend some of you with free time (or procrastination time) to watch the series. It’s amazing, the videos are anywhere between 15 and 35 minutes long, and it’s usually one misstep after another, kind of like me!

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COOKIE!