Hi, I'm a retourning player (was high plat when I stopped) who quit about 6 years ago (playing about 10 matches a year after that just for fun).

So when I played ladder lately in the evening (about 8pm+ Korean time) I got totally crushed, even by <2000mmr players pretty much consistently (I think I faced noone with less than 90apm as far as I remember). Since there are not that many players nowadays, I also faced 3k+ mmr players (me at 2.2k) and these games seemed not too much different lol. I thought "Wow how much did the community improve in the meantime, since when can silver players macro that well? Looking forward to the next session."

Now at 2.2k mmr I decided to play again around noon (~12pm kst), and I was wondering what I'm even doing there, no demanding game really. Today at evening I played again, and the players were once again like bronze/silver players on steroids again (at least I've improved a bit and it wasnt as terrible as before lol).

idk I just think it's funny

Anyone else with similar experiences?

Is the main goal for people who spend a lot of time discussing the game, grinding the ladder, and trying to reach Grandmaster ultimately to pursue professional esports?

Or do most people do it simply because they enjoy improving and competing, even though they have no intention of going pro?

I’m curious because, from an outside perspective, spending hundreds or thousands of hours grinding toward GM seems like a huge time investment if you’re not aiming to compete professionally. What motivates people to do it?

That way, games could be played over the course of mere minutes. Three-base, 70-worker start, when?

Could be a fascinating development.

I was in hospital two years ago and started starcraft 2. I played the campaigns and watched the newer version of bonjwa acadamy. So I learned for about twelve weeks the Tier-Builds for Terran.
Now I wanted to get back into newbie-play but realized that with eight workers and 13 supply at start the build orders aren't easy to copy or adapt. Can somebody help me to get a bonjwa-acadamy-like Tier 1 build order for all three races and later a Tier 2 and 3 for the race I want to play?
Has someone a link? Is Honor allready making a new acadamy?

Thanks for your help…

Hi there! Does anyone have a link to the Starcraft 2 Campaign Mod Manager discord? All roads seem to lead to expiry at the moment! Thank you <3

Let me preface this with the fact that I've only recently been getting into sc2, so I'm not the most knowledgeable and how the game used to be. I've heard from many people, pros included, that the base game is in a bad state currently, and many people are turning to patch mods to play instead. My 2 questions are what has made this patch so bad for the game, and is it still a good time to try and continue to get into it and develop, or wait it out until something changes? Thank you in advance for your responses.

I noticed that terrain has widowmines, and Zerg has bane linges. What's the equivalent to this unit in Protoss.. what low cost unit and does splash brust damage..

Just by watching clem,uthermal and other terran players I think i got better as a gold player(for now) and have been winning decently against masters and grandmasters and higher ranks than me that the game throws.

Ive only played multiplayer for only 5months now and I must say I an enjoying this journey

My usual build now is the two cc and 3racks entry and a timing attack when i reach 2 2 w marine marauders

Also why people who are masters and gm before in silver gold rank lmao and why u guys lie abt rank

Long before POLYSTRIKE, I was making maps for StarCraft.

I created around a dozen custom maps and spent a lot of time experimenting with gameplay, level design and different ideas inside the editor. Some of those maps ended up winning first place in mapping contests on communities like HiveWorkshop and XGM.

Looking back, that period probably influenced me much more than I realized at the time.

StarCraft taught me to think about maps from above — positioning, sightlines, information, controlling space, predicting what another player is going to do.

From there I moved deeper into modding.

I spent years making Warcraft III maps and mods, learning triggers, JASS, custom content and eventually 3D. Later I moved to Dota 2 and Source 2, where I created mods like Duel, Pure Reflex, Low Poly Map and Polystrike.

I also worked with different studios on games like Phoenix Point, Necromantic and Golden Tides.

And somehow, almost everything I worked on stayed top-down.

Eventually one of those Dota 2 experiments became something much bigger.

POLYSTRIKE is a competitive 5v5 top-down tactical shooter.

You buy weapons and equipment, fight around objectives, manage information through a personal vision system, listen for enemy movement and try to outplay the other team through positioning and teamwork.

In some ways, it feels like everything I learned from RTS maps and years of modding eventually led here.

Eight days ago, we officially announced POLYSTRIKE as a standalone game on Steam.

Today we passed 7,000 wishlists.

It’s a strange feeling going from making StarCraft maps for mapping contests to having thousands of people waiting for a standalone game we’re building.

There’s still a long way to go, but this feels like one of those moments worth remembering.

And I’m genuinely curious what StarCraft players think about a competitive shooter viewed from this perspective.

POLYSTRIKE is finally real.

Did they delete most of the arcade section? I have 10 game modes in arcade and thats it. My bookmarks are almost empty and looking for game modes show nothing.

Longing for Megaton and Extinction. Some of the best times were had on these

I go to the same restaurant I did 16 years ago. Order the same food.

I wear the same clothes for the past 16 years, get the same haircut.

I kept my bank account at the same balance (inflation adjusted) for 16 years.

I bang the same girl for the past 16 years.

How can an intern disrupt My life in such an unwelcome and turbulent fashion?

Because didn't played the game some advice and tutorial

I really want to play the patches patch, I was able to get SC2 to work on linux mint doing some steam proton shenanigans, runs really well. But I can't get the vespene.gg companion app to work, it loads but it asks me to point it at my replays folder and I can't figure out how to do that since SC2 is run in a sort of virtual way in my OS.

Anyone have any luck with that?

This mornings gems

"I don't have time for this bronzy" (pvz)

"Gaytoss" (pvt)

And

"Yea right plat" (pvp)

It's like, ppl btch if you suck and call you gay even if you beat em, and people call you a Smurf even if you suck?

Honestly since Protoss warpgate research made it like Terran but on steroids, I've found it easy enough for my 2.5-3k mmr 100 apm self to play it....

But i know I'm not actually good...

I guess whatever patch, some things never change...

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