It's the only RTS to stand the test of time: StarCraft Brood War!
Discuss the GOTYAY

>>11817868 (OP)
It's the only RTS I've played

As a kid I played the shit out of custom map games online, like helms deep, special forces, dbz rpg

Wait fuck was it the boomer's roblox?

>>11817973
>was it the boomer's roblox?
>met up with someone far older than me that i met in starcraft
>he sold me weed and took me out drinking
yep

>>11817985
Kek

>>11817973
I just loved the textual brain aneurysm the battlenet server browser was

>MARINE D JOIN FAST!!!!
>PROTECT SPONGEBOB
>RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT NO NOOBS
>ZERGLING BLOOD JOIN join JOIN
>[[[HELMS DEEP]]]
>DIPLO FASTEST!!
>RISK!! >>JOIN NOW<<
>CAN U STOP 1 HYDRALISK?
>7 V 1 IMPOSSIBLE AI!!!!!!

Those were the days, man.

>>11817868 (OP)
Warcraft III is better in every way, get fukt

>>11818079
Fifth post best post

>posting a shartmastered screenshot
embarrassing, not retro, thread ruined.

>>11817868 (OP)
It took a political psyop to kill the biggest gaming company of all time. Left absolutely ends companies.

>>11818079
it's too bad blizzard ruined it

i prefer the original, mostly for the portraits and late 90s style. Kerrigan is a cybergoth, and Raynor is Joey Pants

>>11818152
This, way to fuck up, OP
>>11818079
I mostly agree with you. One thing I think is better than WC3 is that the larger armies in SC allow a player to more easily pull off split-force attacks. You generally need to keep your army together in WC3, which is a step toward the deathballs of SC2. I think one of the biggest disappointments, having replayed SC and WC3 recently, is that SC's difficulty is very low even through Brood War. WC3 has a hard mode and more varied challenges in the campaign.

>>11818697
WC3 missions are absurdly difficult until you discover the trick. For escape, TFT UD4 is very hard until you realize ships do insane damage at crazy ranges. Then, it’s trivial. Likewise, TFT UD3 is trivial once you realize you can kamikaze Sylvanas with her until into the side objectives. TFT HUM2 is one of the most difficult until you realize you have perfect vision and can shackle zeppelins above water, killing all units, even heroes. TFT HUM5…the couatl lol. TFT NE7 is crazy hard until you discover faerie dragons.

Compare to BW Zerg7 where you have to banzai hordes of units at the enemy because air units are forbidden and there’s no way around those bridges.

>>11818075
>NO NOOBS
Lol
>SUNKEN DEFENCE [[GOLD PLATINUM]]

I don't like WC3 because it is ugly and SC setting is cooler.

>>11818697
The remaster looks great with realtime lighting turned off. You're just a faggot.

>>11818987
shit animations, gore reduced, butchered portraits, sc2 protoss/kerrigan.
>just use old graphics
permanent vaseline blur filter applied.

>>11819006
>animations are identical
>gore is identical
>portraits suck yes
>what are you even talking about? the portraits? the game sprites look identical to the originals but upscaled

>>11819054
I grew up with and prefer the original, but those old portraits weren't good either. I would have no trouble playing the remaster.

Now that cartoon reskin I've seen? Just awful.

>playing a custom mode where defender always has advantage
>start torrent client so i lag and they get annoyed and attack
>gg

>>11818724
The missions do often have tricks, yes. But the same goes for the SC missions. Not for BW Zerg 7, where I don't recall doing anything but spamming units and winning in a few minutes; I wasn't even watching the combat. But during my recent replays, SC had a surprisingly high number of missions that could be totally cheesed. For example, the one where you have to bring four medics to the Overmind -- why would I fight through all those defenses when I could instead just build a dozen Dropships and rush the beacons? Neither game really bothers me though, since the whole idea of the game is to efficiently and, if possible, creatively leverage your resources.

>>11817868 (OP)
>gay remastered screenshot
>>11818075
2000s battle.net was a gem. Such a shame Blizz turned it into just another globohomo hive.

>>11818987
You’re a moron

I can't imagine how much of a corn syrup-gorged, wide-eyed mulatto goycattle retard you'd have to be to look at SCR and think it's an improvement, or even just acceptable to begin with. The portraits alone look like artwork taken from web ads for pregnancy simulator gacha games, and the beautiful pre-rendered graphics were absolutely ruined with this disgusting, cartoonish, faux-painted look. It is fucking awful.

Playing Brood War campaign or pre-Remaster custom single-player maps?
>use install disks and cd-key gen, manually patch to the unofficial 1.17 that Blizzard made but never actually released
Playing Brood War online?
>install through battle.net launcher
If you aren't playing online, the pre-remastered original graphics are superior to the remaster's blur smear. You lose widescreen, but that's not that important.

/vr/ of all places this obsessed with graphics

>>11819546
because it's not about "graphics" retard, it's about art style. when you play a game for 25 years and then some faggot dips his cock in tumblr nose paint and smears it all over the game while simultaneously shutting down the original servers, it's a little hard not to be salty.

>>11819550
It looks the same and is one of the only good remasters ever made. You have shit taste.

>>11819550
>it's a little hard not to be salty.
Try being less autistic

>>11819525
>If you aren't playing online, the pre-remastered original graphics are superior to the remaster's blur smear.
The remaster's graphics are perfectly sharp. Do you need glasses lil bro?

>>11819564
>it looks the same
O I am laffin

>>11819565
Try being born white

>>11819574
Nobody gives a shit about the portraits. The rest of the game looks the same, you brown autist.

>>11819590
>get properly identified as the shitskin mutt you are
>deflect and call someone else brown
>n-nobody gives a shit about the potraits
(You) don't because you are a consoomer with a profoundly low IQ

>>11819595
Butthurt much?

>>11819590
>pre-rendered graphics look "the same" as hand drawn/AI upscaled artwork stenciled overtop
If you like the new graphics, just say so, but you're only hurting your own argument by making provably untrue claims like this.

>>11819605
Can you post more examples? The original sprites were always too unclear to get a clear picture. It's cool seeing them with more definition

daily reminder that remastered fags ruined our awesome blizzard general because they couldn't go 5 seconds without mentioning non retro games in a general explicitly designed to discuss classic blizzard titles

>>11819612
Similarly, no one wanted to avoid talking to them and sadly the threads started to get real slow otherwise. Fun while it lasted.

>>11819610
>It's cool seeing them with more definition
Yeah, one problem with that: you aren't seeing them with "more definition", you're seeing an approximation with an entirely different art style and rendering method, with some assets that were changed completely because they didn't have the original renders to work off of and instead had retards saying "uhh I think it's supposed to be this" and running with it. There are a few cases where portraits, especially for zerg, aren't even anatomically correct because they interpreted nose holes as eyes and other shit. To say nothing of the environments.

>>11819605
Those look about as true to the originals as possible. You are absolutely retarded.

>>11819605
I mean, right looks damn good.

>>11819638
Looks accurate to me.

>it doesn't matter if tiny details are missing bro, it looks passably similar at a glance, and that's all I care about for the 20 minutes I play before dilating my anus with dragon dildos and posting ebin kerrigan memes on reddit, and mind you I will shamelessly samefag to reinforce my vocal minority opinion
Total zoomer death.

>>11819653
Autism Speaks

>>11819638
>zerg, aren't even anatomically correct because they interpreted nose holes as eyes and other shit
That's me. Since I was a kid I thought ultralisks had tusks.

>>11819657
...And it says you're brown and dumb

>>11819653
>Total zoomer death.
Bro. I'm probably older than you. I've almost certainly played more than you. I still play to this day. The remastered graphics, aside from the portraits, are amazing. You're retarded.

>>11819667
>I'm older and uhh I play more I bet and I still play and the graphics aside from the graphics are amazing and uhh
Please consider ending your life.

>>11817868 (OP)
it's probably the greatest game.

>>11819672
Calm down little man. You're gonna pop a blood vessel.

>>11818079
>get fukt
thanks for discrediting yourself.

>>11819653
uhhh reaction to starcraft remastered was largely positive. (You), the easily upset jaded adult in their 30s that has a temper tantrum over someone else's vision of your favorite childhood game not 100% matching your own interpretation, are in the minority opinion.

>>11819675
15 dollars little man, put that shit in my hand, and even if those graphics look like shit, you still owe me owe me oh

>>11819675
>Heh, calm down little man...
Watch out for this badass

>>11819679
>uhh ackshually, Shartscaft Recucked was beloved upon release, chud
>meanwhile, SCR metacritic user score: 7.9 with a piddly 300 reviews, SC 1998 user score 8.9 even with 4x as many reviews

>>11819680

>>11819689
Retardation speaking

>>11819598
>butthurt much?
He’s entirely correct
>>11819605
A few of the new graphics are ok, just OK. The rest are a detriment, and I much prefer the old look, especially the portraits.
>>11819612
I thought what derailed it was people talking about WoW and the OP relentlessly sperging out about it. WoW talk never bothered me, nor did remaster talk bc I don’t think putting a new skin on an old game automatically makes it non-retro. But we have these benighted autists in every thread, so…

>>11819689
>it scored lower than the original which means it wasn't received positively
???

>>11819701
>no argument
Uh oh, stinky.
>>11819710
>new version of a game received lower scores and fewer reviews
>this means it wasn't received as well as the original
That's generally how it works, yes.

>>11819706
Nobody was even complaining about WoW discussion beyond the first thread, everything was going good until the hack and then there was suddenly an influx of remastered zealots.

>>11819714
which doesn't mean it still wasn't received positively overall. stop trying to contort words to save face

I enjoyed ladder as Zerg and I also enjoyed Strip Jessica Alba in UMS and jerking off to a postage stamp sized image of her titties

>>11819706
>I thought what derailed it was people talking about WoW and the OP relentlessly sperging out about it.
That's exactly what it was. Glad WoW-chads finally buckbroke him into submission. It was a retarded autistic grudge for no reason.

>>11819720
>SCR was received largely positively, you're the vocal minority for saying it sucks!
>was provably less well received than the original, thereby making (You) the vocal minority
Just stop. You want Chris Metzen's cock pumping your anus, that's fine, but dont pretend your worship of this abomination is gospel.

>>11819723
>read: I didn't get my way and I realized shartmastered discussion was a sore thumb topic so I samefagged the thread to death about an issue that didn't even relate to WoW

i'm not a fan of the remastered games, WC3 and D2 included, but the elephant in the room is that they took original bnet offline and forced you to buy/play newer versions of the games. i wouldn't give a fuck if jose and jamal wanted to play sc: clash of clans edition if i could still play the game i bought in 1998 with its features intact. they could have easily left the original games running for pennies, but it was an overtly malicious move forcing people to upgrade and consoom new product. that's what we should be mad about if anything.

>>11819743
Isn't the remaster free? I remember I got my friend to play it with me

>>11819749
it was free if you already owned a registered copy of SC but not for new players. regardless, you couldn't play online anymore so you were forced to "upgrade" if you wanted to.

>>11819706
>I thought what derailed it was people talking about WoW and the OP relentlessly sperging out about it.
What >>11819719 said. WoW talk didn't get far past that first thread. After that the biggest butthurt for awhile was from some anon who really didn't like WCIII's portraits, things were slow, then the hack happened and people really wanted to talk about WCIII Reforged.

>>11819752
It must have been the original broodwar then that we got for free and played online

>>11819759
>After that the biggest butthurt for awhile was from some anon who really didn't like WCIII's portraits
That dude was one of the biggest spergs I've ever encountered on 4chan, and I'm 99% sure he was the one fomenting all of the drama thereafter.
>a guy offers to make the first OP image, looks great
>makes another one, looks great
>suddenly some rando enters the threads and starts talking about how the original WC3 portraits look like trash
>a few people disagree with him, not even to the point of being nasty, and some even agree
>he throws an absolute autistic tantrum out of nowhere and proceeds to post a screenshot of his desktop with a bunch of art assets and reveals himself as the guy who made the first two OP images, and that he was relentlessly bumping and samefagging the threads with OC memes to "support the general", but the fact anyone dared disagree with him on the WC3 portraits issue meant he was surrounded by phillistines and would no longer participate in the gen and claimed to leave
>everything is going fine for a few weeks, and then suddenly somebody starts samefagging about remastered out of nowhere and provoking arguments at all levels
>site goes down, comes back, the shitposting dials up to 11
>gen becomes unbearable and fag(s) like >>11819723 conspicuously rejoice with jewish handrubbing at having killed one of the only decent things to come out of /vr/ in years
Autism of the finest, purest form.

>>11819759
>>11819784
i never made the connection till now but that's almost certainly why the portrait spergout was followed by reforged shitposting. the dude probably played reforged and was mad that people preferred the original portraits, so he set out to ruin the gen with reforged nonsense.

>>11819784
Further proof that remastered cucks are mentally diseased.

>samefagging reforged kyke disappears when his embarassing tantrum gets posted
Cue: further attempts at well poisoning for even more juicy damage control

>>11819752
>it was free if you already owned a registered copy of SC but not for new players. regardless, you couldn't play online anymore so you were forced to "upgrade" if you wanted to.
98' Broodwar is free.

>>11820036
>insert BW disc
>click multiplayer
>cannot access bnet servers
it's free, it's just half the game

>>11820050
>it's free, it's just half the game
That's stucks but at least it includes all 6 campaigns for free.

>>11820050
>>insert BW disc
>>click multiplayer
>>cannot access bnet servers
Launch it free on battlenet, you idiot

>>11820125
>download my DRM launcher to play the game you bought 30 years ago, goy
Nope! :^)

>>11820134
>it was an overtly malicious move forcing people to upgrade and consoom new product. that's what we should be mad about if anything.
Stubborn drama queens..

Well the game is free and you can play online if you ever get the itch

hey remaster graphics suck autist, 1v1 us west? you pick the map

>>11820036
>98' Broodwar is free.
Permanent blur filter applied It's not the original.

SC remastered was outsourced to the same malaysian sweatshop that did WC3 reforged.

>>11820225
I expected worse from all the complaints about portraits here..

>>11820209
Aeon of Strife let's go.

>>11820234
well if you love sc2 you'll like it.

>>11820235
i meant a real gamemode like top vs bottom or one on one :)

>>11820225
>>11820234
And I'll go on to say that many look cooler.
>>11820237
Never played SC2. Although it seems to be free too now, so I could finally try it out. Gotta finish Brood War campaign first at least.

>>11820239
Find 2 more friends and we can do Zergling Round-Up.

>>11820247
The remaster gave Jim a testosterone boost

>>11821358
by making him look like Jack from Lost? yeah, no.

>>11820225
wait, really? they added blur it didn't already have?

>>11821973
I think you need a testosterone boost, my friend.

>>11822119
>says the manlet soimale sucking off the Clash of Starcraft portrait

>>11819784
Sounds very gay. Still, someone needs to revive the retro blizzard gen, I don’t care if it’s the old op or not. It was a good general, and there was always a lot of interest, given there’s at least one to four Blizz threads going on here at any given time. I don’t mind discussion of refagged or remastered shit bc all of it is still retro imo. Also don’t care if people sperg out over one thing or another bc at least drama generates more interest in the threads, and come on, let’s be honest, there were always 5-6 separate conversations going on in those generals, anyway. Personally, I love checking in every 24hrs and scrolling some spergouts and the genuine gems hidden in between. Very entertaining during work downtime.

>>11821973
>Jack from Lost
lol

>>11822145
post hands + height

>>11820247
I wish his new jaw was more "square" and just overall more "chad". I'm realizing now how much the original looks like he's sporting a unibrow but I still prefer it.
>>11822150
I was having fun learning some editing through the gen and sharing some maps. I'd be open to tolerating remake and even occasional WoW talk. Not sure how tolerant others would be, though.

>>11817868 (OP)
I've always wanted to like Starcraft, but the game never let me. It was always hard as fuck and I don't wanna fucking beat my head against it.

>>11822307
>It was always hard as fuck
You mean the campaign or?

>>11819571
>The remaster's graphics are perfectly sharp.
You blind?

>>11823497
More Vaseline smear graphics, since it's all over the remaster's "original" graphics and can't be turned off.

>>11823501
Nothing is safe from the smear.

But left looks better

>>11823497
>the remaster
>posts non-remastered
retard

>>11823506

>>11817868 (OP)
>StarCraft Brood War!
The only 10/10 game the usa has ever produced.

>>11823598
>The only 10/10 game the usa has ever produced.
what about diablo 2 and warcraft 3?

>>11823598
the gookiest gook ever to gook

>>11823598
SC isn't just a 10/10, it's a strong contender for best game ever made by any reasonable, objective merit.

>>11823629
It's one of the few games I know of with multiple layers of gameplay where the game is fun to play and quality on every layer. Just playing the campaign? SC and BW campaigns are top notch. Wanna play dick-around custom maps like Tower Poker Defense? Yep, plenty to choose from. You can learn some simple build orders and basic mechanics like wall-ins and worker splits, and go from beating the AI in skirmish to stomping it in 10 minutes flat. You can go deeper and learn advanced techniques like Muta-balls, Vulture whipping, Carrier pre-loading, mineral line hopping, worker blocking, then try your hand at the ladder.

>>11823704
>go from beating the AI in skirmish to stomping it in 10 minutes flat
i remember having some 3 hour long pissing matches with the computer and feeling so accomplished when i'd win. i've never felt more greasy than the first time i thought, "what if i just send an scv to the AI's base, build a bunker and pump an endless line of marines there?", and i took some fag zerg ai in a few minutes, and then did it to two or three on one team. starcraft's single player offerings are underrated.

>>11823721
>3 hour long pissing matches
Yep. Everyone enters skirmish with what the campaigns taught them, and turtles up on 1 base while building up their max unit count kill-army. AI expands to the rest of the map, and the player gets stuck playing cleanup for 2-4 hours.
>play 3VS5AI with two friends over Hamachi
>we all use the campaign strategy
>usually played on crappy early official maps like Homeworld and Ice Age
>1 worker per mineral patch
>spend tons of resources on defensive buildings
>matches take 4 hours to complete
>often had to go back and clean out bases a second time because AI moved back in
>would only take another base when we were mined out
>considered ourselves good for being able to win against 5 AI
Now I know what I'm actually doing:
>1vs1AI skirmish on tournament approved maps like Circuit Breaker, Neo Syphid
>2.5 workers per mineral patch
>1-2 defensive buildings at most, resources are for units
>scout AI in first 3 minutes, usually fast expand opener into a wall-in, aim to wipe out first real attack from AI then counter with first decent attack group I scrape together
>marines with stim+medics, zerglings+hydras/mutas, zealots with speed boost
>usually get in position and start pounding on AI before they can expand beyond their natural if they expanded at all
>match over in 10-15 minutes depending on match-up
>can cheese it to be shorter by harassing their workers with my worker scout at the start of the game, but it's no fun
>still don't think I could handle online casual 1vs1's or ladder

>>11817868 (OP)
I enjoy watching Artosis streams when they're not doing dectalk donations.
I enjoyed the custom games.
I never really got into the competitive side of sc or wc, but I did get into dota.

>>11819612
I don't know if I should autism up in Cactus on OG D2, or autism it up on retail D2R.
I never really liked the mods, they always change too much.

>>11819638
ok you're going to have to point out the differences in the image because the only thing I see is the signs.

>>11819679
I like that I can play the remaster for free when they killed OG, even though I'm not gonna pay for the remaster.
for wc3 they make you jump through all kinds of hoops to access the remaster without paying.

>>11819743
you can play og D2, and you can also play the sc and wc remasters if you owned the originals, for free, just without remastered graphics.
so basically nothing in your post was accurate.

>>11823909
>remasters with OG graphics turn on = the original games
lowest IQ post of the year award

>>11822249
People just need to get over the remaster and WoW discussions and stop being autismo puritans. The remasters are still retro by any realistic definition, and WoW has been around for 22 years if we’re counting the original beta run. Vanilla is retro by now. I should know, I was there 3000 years ago…

>>11824661
they are identical

I'm installing this shit right now. Not remastered tho.
>>11818893
FUCK

i was groomed by clan leader who wanted to get gay with me
i miss UMS games, like Bounds or A Day At School
had a 'super smash bros melee' map where mario was OP at level 4

>>11824732
pretty much this. but the Valkyrie is better in Remastered.

>>11819590
I give a shit.

>>11819660
Ultralisks did have tusks

>>11820238
>white goth 90s chick
>black rasta trans "woman"

>>11820238
Mom made me take "the scary green girl" pocket sized brood war battle chest guide off the toilet 'cuz she was scary

>download battle.net
>log in failed
>forgot password
>authenticator bullshit
>remove authenticator
>enter email code
>download installer
>connection to battle.net server failed
...

Meanwhile
>download starcraft + brood war torrent
>download 1.17 patch
>install
>play

The west has fallen

I got that sc/bw patch to play the campaigns in sc2.
it's mostly fine, but you can't skip cutscenes, and maybe halfway into zerg campaign in brood war the language changed to japanese

>dat comfy 4:3 screen space
>delicious pixel graphics
>superb naïve music reminiscent of 90s jap cyberpunk
>still playing offline against CPU way past its prime

Is StarCraft the best game ever made?
And why are all superb games (like Deus Ex) made with severe time constraints and almost never made it out in the first place?

>>11824902
if sc had 14 units per group instead of 12 it'd be perfect

>>11824902
Small, agile studios with talented people?

>>11824908
Send me back to /x/, but men have lost the ability to interface with the imaginal realm. That is, they have lost the ability to tap into the wellspring of human creativity, deep in the unconscious mind.
All we do these days is rehash the same old bullshit over and over again.
The StarCraft lore is chock full of archetypal motifs. It rings true the same way The Lord of the Rings does, and that is not an exaggeration. It came out of someone's imagination, unlike most of today's slop, which comes out of a calculating mind.
Replaying the campaign from scratch and damn this thing was inspired. It's a pity that new generations won't come near it due to its dated graphics.

>>11824902
>why are all superb games (like Deus Ex) made with severe time constraints and almost never made it out in the first place?
The Demiurge fears the samurai.

Someone should train a TTS model with the adjuvant's voice.

creativity blossoms with restrictions or rules, constraints
it's why games are 44gb and ten hours long but i've put thousands of hours into 44mb games
studios were people who were making games they wanted to play, not hired to make something they weren't interested in

>>11823497
>>11823501
>>11823504
A very odd thing is they also changed the stars on the space platforms tileset maps even for the original graphics mode. Pic related is the original- bright bluish stars, medium yellowish stars, dim orange/reddish stars, coinciding with real-life star types. In the later patch, they are now purple and white or something like that. I can't imagine they intentionally went in and did this, so it must be some kind of issue with the new renderer or something.

>>11824902
>made with severe time constraints
all games are made with severe time constraints

>>11824914
>Send me back to /x/, but men have lost the ability to interface with the imaginal realm. That is, they have lost the ability to tap into the wellspring of human creativity, deep in the unconscious mind.
>All we do these days is rehash the same old bullshit over and over again.
Plenty of highly creative types still exist, it's just that capitalism has stifled creativity. Their projects never get off the ground because investors prefer to play it safe with video games and chase trends. As soon as it became obvious that video games could generate as much or possibly even more money than Hollywood films, it was all over.

>>11824968
>I can't imagine they intentionally went in and did this

>hurr durr dis doesn't look realisticks. imma fix it!!
That's basically what happned

>>11824982
Indie dev has become easier and easier, and arguably a handful of talented/creative individuals have come forth

>>11825013
>>11824982
I think you miss the point. Back in the day, creativity was in the mainstream. Nowadays, it's fringe.
Thus my point that things have gotten worse. The human psyche is stiffed.

>>11825020
Consider our boomer bias. There were a ton of trash too.

>>11825009
>>hurr durr dis doesn't look realisticks. imma fix it!!
>That's basically what happned
That would be bizarre since they really just made it look less realistic. Either way, I'm content with my portable 1.61.1 install. I did a similar thing with WC3, since patches after 1.26a also broke a bunch of shit like ambient sound effects and other things

>>11825020
>Back in the day, creativity was in the mainstream. Nowadays, it's fringe.
Because back in the day, video gaming was considered a niche/nerd hobby. It was passionate nerds making cool shit for other passionate nerds. Nowadays, video gaming is nothing more than a money-making machine. The passion of developers is irrelevant at best, detrimental to profit margins at worse.

>>11823704
>Muta-balls, Vulture whipping, Carrier pre-loading, mineral line hopping, worker blocking

>>11825049
mutards stack if you have a different unit in the group, vultures can shoot backwards while running away, carriers store their interceptors in the carrier but if you send them all out then keep moving they dont go back in so they can redeploy faster, you can glitch shit over minerals with multiple techniques. Idk what he means by worker blocking, maybe the fact that if you dont attack command with workers they have really low targeting priority so enemy units wont attack them and get stuck

anybody remember #/v/sc or /v/hamachi? those were the days...

>>11825049
>Muta-balls
A single Overlord in a control group of Muta's means you can stack them into a very tight group(with the overlord back at home), so human players will only be able to hit the one Muta sitting on top of the stack with non-splash attacks. I dunno if the AI can work around this, but it's virtually impossible for a human player. Splash or only hit 1 muta with your army.
>Vulture whipping
You can double-back and fire off a shot, and immediately continue forward as a Vulture without losing any momentum. When done properly, Vultures can kite just about anything to death with their superior speed and never take a shot in return.
>Carrier pre-loading
Everyone knows Carriers have up to 8 Intercepters to use. What most people don't realize is they come out one at a time until all 8 have launched at least once. So if you send a team of fresh Carriers into battle without having launched all Intercepters at least once, they will file out one at a time while the Carriers get shot at. So telling individual new Carriers to open fire on a friendly building until all 8 are flying is a way to ensure they hit at full power when they finally hit hostiles.
>mineral line hopping
Workers can 'float' over other units somewhat and even buildings to get access to stuff like minerals. This can be triggered by jamming a bunch of workers together and trying to repeatedly make one move through some minerals. In pro-games on Eclipse, this is expected to be done by the Zerg player for their 3rd base. You can also force small units through the mineral line in a similar way.
>worker blocking
Between the 'float' and AI targeting combat units over workers by default, a pack of 8-12 workers tightly packed into a single spot can push into incoming enemies, scatter, and immediately halt all forward movement by literally pushing enemy units out of the way. Tightly packed zealots pushing in? A dozen drones will split them up for your zerglings.

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>>11823504
are these the 4:3 free version game currently offered through Battlenet, or a mode in the paid remaster?

>>11825462
>are these the 4:3 free version game currently offered through Battlenet
The blurry one is, yes

>>11825462
The one on the right is real StarCraft that you will see if you install it from your original CD. The left one is what blizzard is calling "original graphics" in the remaster.
>just play with your original cd
You can only play singleplayer with true StarCraft copies now, if you try to click multiplayer it closes the game and makes you download the bloated blurry remaster.

That anon's pics just show a portrait and menu ui but the smear filter is on at all times and on fullscreen during gameplay. There is no option to disable it.

>>11825049
clever uses of game mechanics.
using a non-muta in the control group to keep mutas stacked so it's harder to target individual ones, and they can squeeze by turrets easier, and they'll all attack together. it has something to do with distance between all units in the group.
using patrol to attack with vultures without stopping.
something about abusing attack and stop commands to keep interceptors out.
could be flying units over the mineral line, or some other abuse of the gather and return mechanics, or speed boosting in specific mineral positions relative to your base.
keeping workers in front of your units to form a wall, since issuing an attack command on the ground will cause them to target units behind the workers, and they also won't attack so placing them in specific areas on ramps can completely stop a unit from going up the ramp.

>>11818724
Damn, you're like that brainlet on the memes, putting objects through shapes.

>>11819689
4x piddly is podunk. Also, ratings don't matter. metacritic least of all. Just look at Halo. 3/10 game with a 97% rating. Absolute fucking circus shit, bought and paid for.

>>11818678
i remember to this dau still cant make up what some of the units are supposed to look like lol

>>11819574
old-fashioned discipline to the next dimension

>>11820237
It's good for what it is; we could have gotten worse, still those underpaid asian guys got more passion than anything in the undead carcass that is modern blizz

>>11826696
>reviews don't matter
sure, SCR is just a worse game, with worse reviews on top of it.

Have you guys checked out COSMONARCHY?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48cdBa0UehY

Last time I played SC2 was 6 or 7 years ago. What changed in that time?

>>11827131
I got back into it last year after not playing since 2019. The cyclone keeps getting redesigned, so it might be different from how you remember it. Also there is a new Nexus ability, Energy overcharge (restores 100 energy on a unit). Otherwise it mostly just minor tweaks. Matchmaking is still pretty fast, and the skill level seems roughly the same (was a diamond 2 shitter when I left and climbed back there quickly).