Feb 13, 2011

Alright, good to go

Back to the action.  Awhile ago Starcraft 2 came out and I am a huge Blizzard fanboy, so I had to buy it.  I was never that good at Brood War, but damn, when I got my hands on SC2, things just clicked.  I instantly knew the hotkeys and started playing some league games with Loktar and we smashed and boy did we smash hard.  Instantly shot to platinum league but we started plateauing and hit about a 50% win loss ratio until I started rushing a unit as Protoss. 
This thing is in charge of Malaysia.
Oh the Void Ray.  This unit was disgustingly overtuned.  Once you upgraded its speed boost and got about 6 of them, you won the game.  You could build its counters, you could build anti-air.  Didn't matter.  I am excellent at micro so a handful of these babies will burn your base to the ground in a minute.

I suppose I should explain how the unit works.  It fires a laser that is locked on to a target and does a little damage twice a second or so and slowly charges up.  Once it reaches level 3 charge, the laser goes supernova and starts fucking shit up.  I went up against a bunch of Vikings (terran anti-air Void ray counter) and absolutely murdered his entire fleet while losing maybe two of my own.  The problem with these units is that scaled infinitely with more of them since flying units don't have collision and there projectiles had instant travel time.  Vikings shoot rockets at the rate of about one every one and a half seconds.  That means that if all your vikings shoot one unit, it will get insanely overkilled and you essentially waste damage.  Not so with the Void ray, they just melt one unit and quickly switch to the next.

Thanks to this unit, we got closer to 70% win ratio and made a lot of enemies.  I can't count how many times I was bitched out while burning a base because I'm using an effective strategy.

As an aside, fuck marines, overpowered piece of shit marine *grumblegrumble*.

25 comments:

  1. Yea VRs have been OP for a while now, but you still need a decent mix to make em work really well.

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  2. I wish my computer could run this game..

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  3. Yeah, they are too overpower, need to change strategy...

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  4. 100% with you on the "fuck marines"!!

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  5. Only 70%. Need to step it up a little.

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  6. I read this to a friend on Skype, he totally agrees with it.

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  7. Playing at bronze league, so noob speaking but for some reason feels like over 80% of my games are agaist same race I play with, even when I change it. Got so frustrated with that game because of this.

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  8. Haha we won more to the old mmm reaper rush build though

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  9. keep using effective strategys, no matter what they are saying

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  10. I got Starcraft 2 about 2 weeks ago and to be honest I haven''t used the Protos class yet, I used Terran at first but now use Zerg very effectively. I will be sure to try this out thanks!

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  11. didin't played this game yet, need to buy it

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  12. I almost always just go mass marines.....feel like a noob. Followed

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  13. haha i bet they are fixing that with a new patch ;P

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  14. I've played tons of warcraft, but no star craft. Interesting post thogh

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  15. I hate gettin Void rushed. Nice post.

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  16. My friends keep recommending it to me, should I get it?

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  17. Void Ray rushing is the best you can do in sc2

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  18. The problem with marines is that the straight counters for them are either tier-III units (Colossi) or they're difficult to micro (Infestors/Banelings).

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