13.01.2012

Not long ago I wrote

about the adjustment / addition to snutes baneling style.
I just wanted to show you what I learned about the rush and I wanted to give you an update about me trying out the bust. (Note: I haven't tried to use the goldbust yet)
After various games of overdroning, attacking overdefended walls, not quite doing enough damage to kill the protoss, start droning too early and die to the counter attack I finally managed to kill a protoss with an allin! ^_^;;
The very basics of the push / allin were already written down in a previous post so if you want to see the exact timings that GL.Snute wrote to me you have to click this link (click).
First thing that is very important is to find a very vulnerable spot in the wall of. Let's look at the screenshot in the right. It's very obvious to see the weakness in the wall but if you didn't realise it yet it's the Pylon that powers exactly EVERYTHING in that wall.
In the next picture you see why I choose this point to be my point of penetration. I distracted him with 4 zerglings sprinting forward attack some probes and in the meantime the main 'army' simply moves into the pylon (or Zealot etc see prev. post) and simply destroys the whole probeline, cancels the upgrade, kills the cannon and the remaining units and in the kills the entire probeline.
I hope you have as much support as I have with copying the Snutes gameplay and maybe you'll end up with a quotation as awesome as I am getting all the time. I never had as much fun to troll protoss EVER before. Thank you Snute!

Since this blog is not only

about starcraft to thought I'd let you know!
 It's a beautifull day and my cards for the skrillex concert on the 24. fabuary 2012 in Berlin arrived (Germany) and since I am german and I am still in school it's perfect that he presents his show on a friday evening!
For the once of you that dont know Skrillex (lol either you are retarded or you have no taste of music!, just kidding but seriously.. i guess you are retarded) he is a musician and he is one of the best dubstep producers in the whole wide world. Another big advantage of him is the fact that he was able to produce Dubstep so good that even people that aren't nerds (Dubstep is considered to be the music of nerds due to the massive use of computer related sounds that are contained in dubstep and the massive use of dubstep in PC gaming related videos [such as ESL-TV Teasers or Call of Duty montages]. I have to admit it's quite true I enjoy dubstep really much and some of my friends who are not familiar to onlinegaming / don't nerd as much as I do would rather listen to music of pitbull and such [mainstream shit - mostly -]) can enjoy his music.
Here is one of my favourite tunes of skrillex. He has a wide spread on his style of dubstep. He is able to produce rather SLOW (click) dubstep which can sound awesome and at the same time he is able to produce really CRANK SHIT (click). He is the one artist that really started to spread the dubstep music. Skrillex is the first artist you'll find if you search for dubstep in google or on youtube. Some might consider him ''Mainstream'' and, just think about it. A Dubstepproduces is considererd to be 'Mainstream' it's sick.
His taste of music is so awesome that either his tunes get various amounts of remixes or he remixes a various amount of tunes and they all sound really sick. Almost every tune he makes has an unbelievable amount of clicks on youtube and its highly appriciated by everyone (The song that has 57,000,000 views CLICK).
But it's not only his music that makes skrillex so sick. He is a really authentical. He started his career as a musician with the age of 18 (prolly earlier but I first heared of him when he was 18) and he hasnt changed his style of music ever since eventhough he could have earned way more money with another style of music but he stuck to his guns and made dubstep really big. You can still hear the difference between a regular dubstep producer (no offense I like alot of them lol) and his dubstep - it's special in some way.
Another real cool point to know about skrillex he simply used very basic tools to create his awesome music. Just recently he tweeted about finally switching over to real musician gear. 
I hope you enjoyed the small Text I wrote about Skrillex. I guess that the majority of you did already know him but I just wanted to put that out there.
Skrillex = Awesome!

08.01.2012

Small adjustment to..

Mr. GL Snutes Baneling playstyle.
Today I tuned in to GL.Snutes Stream to watch some of his sick games and to improve his (my covered) baneling style in ZvP and luckily hes a huge baller and answers every question you ask him. (that's a reason for you to tune in to his stream if you are a Zerg that wants to improve (Snute Stream)). Long story short I saw him banelingbusting and I did that for a long time too but nowadays I can't manage to win vs FFE with it so I went ahead and asked him about his banelingbusts and his timingwindows. He answered it on his Stream and wrote those timings to me and I just wanted to share them with you.
"Everything before 8.00 minutes can work." That does not mean that you are capable of banelingbusting all the time and get freewins before min 8 it depends on the wallin. If the Protoss clusters many buildings in a small position and you are able to bust many buildings at once you are free to go for it. A 'bustable' Wall should atleast contain 2 weaknesses so the protoss is not capable to forcefield once and totally stop your aggression.
What is a weaknesspoint?
It's pretty easy to analyse the weaknesses of a Protosswall. Number one weakness is a Zealot implemented into the Wall. Number two is normally a Pylon implemented into a Wall followed by the only canon is the perfect target. You always have to check for an alternative target. e.g. the cybercore. The Cybercore has alot more health compared to the obvious weaknesses but busting the core (and maybe a gateway too) will nullify the warpgate and - even if you cant quite kill the protoss - at least send him back to stoneage.

07.01.2012

On my way to the top with example!

Hello sexy people! I just made myself a delayed birthdaypresent!
Tihihi my first masterranked opponent I hope it'll continue like this and I have to show you guys some sick music. You sure know example yes? Hes a dubstep rap producer and his most commonly known song is "changed the way you kiss me". Non the lessI went on his side and he has some SICK freedownload mixtapes. If you want to check them out here you go: http://www.trythisforexample.com/p/albums-mixtapes.html

Anyways guys I am so happy :D! Post about some new cool stuff coming up when I see something interesting! 
E: Terran EZPZ thihi
It's interesting to see / feel how the macro from diamond to masters improves 30 x times!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmm-Ivuphzw

03.01.2012

Tihihi...


Eventhough I have a winpercentage of 33% protoss seems to be the weaker race!
Where dem probes at?
In this post I want to tell you guys my progress with the build of GL.Snute. Since I am messing around with the build I am having some minor succsesses vs the protossrace such as the rage you can see in the top of this entry. I am just playing / trying / perfecting it for around 2 days now and I am no pro at it by any means but it seems like I am winning at least some games vs Protoss! Sadly the ladder won't place me against enough protoss to try it more often but I ended up with some cool games non the less (and some cool screenshots). 
I uploaded some replays for you to see my progress. If you want to check them out. But don't expect great shit. My money spikes high as fuck which is normal 'cause I don't know where to do what exactly and I am kinda bad in every other aspect of Zerg because I am focusing so much on the drops.    
MyU [Z] v [P] (1)     MyU [Z] v [P] (2)   MyU [Z] v [P] (3) 


- this space won't go away ~_~ enjoy the blank! -








02.01.2012

I felt like I am in need

...of writing a new blog entry at newyears day.
Sadly I was too wasted to play Starcraft myself (due to the lack of sleeping [2 hours lol] and the enormous consumption of whiskey and vodka) today, thats why I am even happier about the replaypack released by GL.Snute He is an up and coming player and I enjoy his Stream very much. He plays a very different style of ZvP which was originally invented by a player named mouz.MorroW.
Fuck Protoss
On the first view his style looks kinda wonky but it's actually timed out just great and since my ZvP winrate is only 35% I figured: "Why not try this out it fits my style perfectly".

1. The general gameplan


The actual aim of GL.Snute is it to destroy the Protossopponent via the usage of excessive multitasking. His multipronged Zergling - Baneling Drops and Zerglingrunbies do not only wrack the Economy of his opponent, he also destroys many gateways and forces him into a decision which, on the one hand, is to conter the mass lings with colossi or to counter them with storm and archons. Depending on the decision the protoss takes, Snute adapts with, either roaches to counter archon and storm or mutalisk to counter the robo. The massive use of spinecrawler grants him the needed room to fall back if his aggression fails once.
This is the general order of upgrades to get (very basic)
  • Opening with an early hatchery
  • fairly early lingspeed to defend pushes and punish greedy protoss
  • planting an early evolutionchamber to start +1 meele
  • planting a banelingsnest even before the lair starts
  • building precautions (spinecrawlers) to defend the various amout of 2 base pushes protoss has to offer to savely tech to 2 base lair
  • taking 3rd base as soon as the danger of a 2 base push is stopped
  • Lairupgrades: Overlord SpeedVentral SacsCentrifugal Hooks ,  +2 Meeleattacks 
  • building a Spire  
2. The beauty of the opener of GL Snute
First of all, you can play his style with every opener that ends up with early speed and two bases but his opener is special. He is playing a different version of the 14 14 opener.
  • 9 (or 10) Overlord 
  • 14 Pool
  • Expand @ 300 Minerals or as soon as the expansion is not occupied anymor
  • 20 - 22 Gas
MINUTE 10!
You might ask yourself: "lol why is this beautiful..?" I'll tell you. He delays his gas just slightly for the simple reason that - for his personal preference - the speed upgrade isn't that necessary that you need it as early as the 14 14 opener grants it. Because he is not having 3 Drones constantly mining gas, he gathers way more minerals than normal and he has the possibility of throwing down a very early hatchery (around the 16 supply mark) BUT even if a probe tries to annoy you and delays your hatchery your opener grants you enough minerals to just build 3 queens early and wrack up the creepspread. To conclude: if you play his opener you either have a very early natural compared to the 14 14 or you have early 3 queens to cover the whole map in creep till minute 10. 

3. His trigger-moments
A 'trigger-moment' is a certain point of the game where his total pacificy from the beginning swaps into this crazy aggresive multiprogned attack gameplay.
In the beginning of the game Snute only uses his Zerglings to destroy rocks, eventually cancel a building nexus if the protoss goes for a greedy 1 gate expand strategy, and taking map controll but as soon as +2 Meele hits and Overlorddrop finishes his play begins.
+2 Meele allows banelings to oneshot probes and in combination with drop he is capable of destroying the entire economyline of a protossplayer.
As you can see on the minimap, displayed on the right side, he sends in 2 overlords full of banelings to bomb the economy lines on the veryleft you can see a little distracting runbysquad which pins the protoss to his 3rd and in the middle of both Snute as a pack of 7 overlords full of lings to drop into the main. He has 2 Overlords full of banelings amongst those 7. The Banelords are used to drop directly onto either sentries, sliding economies and warping stalkers. If one place isn't properly defended you are guaranteed to do sick damage.

4. The Transitions
Note: For his style it is very important to have a constant wall of spines to defend any kinds of pushes because at some point he is going to be forced into an allin and it's essential to defend the push to be able to stall enough time to accumilate the right amount of units and take the win.
As the aggressor it is important to spot which sort of unitcomposition the P is chosing. If he goes heavy colossi you transition int Muta Ling Baneling drop Play into fast Ultralisk 3 - 5.
In case of him building Archon Zealot + Storm you have to go mass Roach / Roach Hydra in order to take the win.

4. Replays of the master himself
Click here in order to recieve the Snute replaypack.

In the next post I will tell you my achievements with the build and I hope that I'll be capable of posting them soon. I hadn't had much time to write in the last week because I had to ladder the shit out of my league. ( IT WAS WORTH IT LOL)
^^;; ~~