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Starcraft 2 tips & tricks
Zerg macro tip : put all your queens in a control group, then when the time to spawn larvae comes, select the group, press shift+V and click all the hatcheries on the minimap. The queen closest to each hatchery will spawn larvae there. *booooooom* Blew my mind. I love you man and i consider looking you up and hug u :P |
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Edited by DrTrunks on 17/11/10 15:17 (GMT)
Tip for all races:
On a Faster Map, Real time for macro managing is: 1:04 for 50 energy on Orbital command (Mule) 0:32 for 25 energy on Nexus 0:15 for Chronoboost to finish on a building 0:30 for the larva to spawn on a Hatchery I used a .wav from ye olde Starcraft Broodwar, and added silence to it for these amount of times. Whenever I get a queen or OC, I press play on my keyboard, the song plays, ends, loops I hear the sound again and get reminded to inject larva, use Chrono or use my Mule! Really helps your macro if you tend too forget. |
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Easy and quick creep pooping for ZvP & ZvT.
What I do is I group all my pre-lair overlords together on a hotkey (8 for me), adding new ones that pop by selecting them and pressing shift+8. I send them to strategic locations (ie expo's, creep highway formation) and then when I get lair tech I just press 8 X (X is hotkey for creep poop in grid, don't know the standard hotkey :x) and they all start pooping at thesame time with just the press of 2 buttons |
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Though of something else which might not be known well.
Autocast abilities are usually activaated with right click. You can also do it pressing the corresponding hotkey whilst holding down alt. Good for auto repair, baneling building attack etc |
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Edited by FireIceLight on 03/12/10 11:51 (GMT)
- If you cast fungal growth to larvas on enemy hatchery/lair/hive, larvas will die to it.
Edit: typo |
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Tip: Go for an all-in. You have a decent shot of winning, and if you fail, you can just move onto another game, with minimal time wasted.
Make sure to downvote any maps where the rush distance might be too long. Blizzard have already removed Shakuras so this is now easier than before. Have fun winning lots of games! |
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If you're up against DoctorPhil, leave. DoctorPhil needs to be grandmaster so he can get 12 pretzels.
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Im not sure if anyone has mentioned this but i would add the following to the put workers on gas part.
to avoid losing any already-mined minerals after right clicking the geyser press "C" this will return minerals. the probe will then automatically return to mine the geyser you clicked. |
Im not sure if anyone has mentioned this but i would add the following to the put workers on gas part. also, not to lose any already-mined minerals, hold shift; click on the hatchery then to the gayser. u can do this while a drone is harvesting the mineral. in this case, the drone will harvest 5 minerals, return it to the hatchery, then move on to the extractor afterwards.. |
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Using the extractor trick will cost u 6 minerals (actually 10 minerals as u wont be able to use that 4 minerals)
Spine/spore crawlers loses health when creep under them is lost somehow. u can uproot them and they wont lose their health (but wont regenerate health either). after a creep tumor is placed, move an overlord and spread creep to somewhere within the borders of the next creep tumors summoning area.therefore, u dont have to wait for the creep created from the previous tumor. a natural overlord (without speed upgrade) will move to the next tumors summoning spot around the same time the summoner tumor is ready to spawn the new one.this will greatly hasten ur creep spread. Facts rather then tips: Queens ground attack is actually a ranged attack rather then a melee one. creep tumor is invisible, but not while morphing. speed ling is the fastest unit in the game while on creep. |
i do that too, but with my warp prisms |


















