Topic (Sticky) Starcraft 2 tips & tricks
spacemanatee #662
spacemanatee
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
DrTrunks #218
DrTrunks
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.
ziel #980
ziel
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
KingGhidorah #969
KingGhidorah
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
ToWelie #756
ToWelie
* ALT+F4 ends the game :)
Lothar #583
Lothar
Having multiple creep tumors next to eachother spread creep a lot quicker, you don't have to wait for the creep when the cooldown has ended.
MGren #843
MGren
Interesting :9
FireIceLight #698
FireIceLight
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
Tirigon #230
Tirigon
- If you cast fungal growth to larvas on enemy hatchery/lair/hive, larvas will die to it.

Edit: typo


Same with psistorm. Not that it would help much though^^
DrTrunks #218
DrTrunks
If you use a Corruptors Corruption (20% more damage) on an Immortal, the hardened shields will take 20% more damage.

Thus every hit will wont do a maximum of 10, but 12 damage.
JigSaw #438
JigSaw
A tip for scouting:
Scan an area and drop a mule there in case there are no troops of course to explore the base :)
Blaze #861
Blaze
qoute - * Using Neural Parasite on a egg will kill it.


Using Neural Parasite on enemy larvae you can morph inn a unit with it.

Dunno about the use this, but its kinda funny :)
Lonyo #641
Lonyo
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!
Archana #743
Archana
winner!
DoctorPhil #871
DoctorPhil
If you're up against DoctorPhil, leave. DoctorPhil needs to be grandmaster so he can get 12 pretzels.
LOLingBuddha #970
LOLingBuddha
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.
Mihai #507
Mihai
26/08/2010 10:28 PMPosted by Yoda
* Build Marines, Marauders and Medivacs. Attack when you feel like it.
spam!
GaLVoRN #630
GaLVoRN
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.


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..
GaLVoRN #630
GaLVoRN
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.
ZimmaH #269
ZimmaH
26/08/2010 10:02 PMPosted by Khiari
I dont know if this applies to anyone else but me, but i usually lose track of my transportation unit (medivac and such) so I always sign them to control group 0.....just an idea.


i do that too, but with my warp prisms

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