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StarCraft II is a squad of new heroes and Starcraft II Legacy Of The Void IGG personalities in a sci-fi saga full of adventure and intrigue, with a unique one-player campaign that reveals where StarCraft: Brood War ended. StarCraft II Legacy of the Void-RELOADED. You are Hierarch Artanis, leader of the mighty protoss race. Years ago, your homeworld of Aiur fell to the merciless zerg Swarm. Now, at long last, you have raised a powerful fleet of warships known as the Golden Armada, and are poised to reclaim your world. But an ancient evil—Amon—threatens this. If you've been waiting to try out the new prologue campaign for StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void, you can do so now at no charge. Blizzard has announced that it's making StarCraft 2: Whispers of. Is StarCraft 2 Legacy of the Void worth it? If you ladder then I think you should get it because the multiplayer is the best iteration of sc2 multiplayer and also because naturally it has the most full ladder since its the most recent expansion. Campaign is cool. Commandermode is fun and multiplayer is really great.
The Zerg is the most different of the three races in Starcraft 2. While the single-player campaign of Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm introduces players to the Zerg playstyle, it can still be very challenging to play in the multiplayer. In Legacy of the Void, several changes have been made to the multiplayer. Here are ten tips to help you improve and ultimately win as one of the most interesting real-time strategy game races of all time, the Zerg.
1. Basics
In order to get better as Zerg, the basics will be one of the first things you need to work on. Hotkeys are a must. It makes performing an action that much quicker. You can hotkey units and buildings by selecting them and pressing CTRL+ any number key (e.g., 1). From then on, you can simply press 1, and it will select whatever you had hotkeyed there. You can hotkey multiple units and buildings at the same time. You can also use hotkeys in order to use abilities and set build instructions easier. A simple thing to help you learn hotkeys is to enable the 'Display Hotkeys on the Command Card' in the Options menu. Voice changer mic for gaming mod apk. Try practicing without ever clicking on the command card versus the A.I to get used to the hotkeys at first.
As Zerg, your main production building is also your main building: the hatchery. Switching between hatcheries to inject larva is going to be a vital part of your play. You can hotkey your individual hatcheries to jump between bases, or you can rebind the 'Base-cam' hotkey to either the tilde ('~') key or your spacebar key. This key cycles your camera through all your active bases so that you can easily jump back to a base whenever you need to inject.
Always send a drone scout. Scouting what your opponent is doing is often the difference between winning and losing. If you notice a very early production of units and an unusually low number of workers, your opponent will usually go for an all-in attack in which case you should be prepared with static defenses and units of your own.
Watch your supply. Since Zerg's produces many units at once, your supply can be easily eaten up without you noticing. Thankfully, you can also produce a number of Overlords at the same time, but this doesn't mean being supply capped is fine. Supply caps can be deadly as Zerg especially when defending a push, so keep an eye on that supply counter!
Remember to rally your army. Once you have your hatcheries selected, you can right-click anywhere on the ground and units produced from these hatcheries will rally there. You can also add morphing eggs to your hotkeys immediately. After morphing your units, without deselecting the larva, CTRL + click the morphing eggs, then press Shift + 1 our whatever your army is hotkeyed to.
2. Droning and Basic Macromanagement
Workers are the most important unit in the game. A good economy is the backbone of any army. This is especially true for Zerg players. Zerg units tend to be weaker in an equal fight, and rely on strength in numbers. As a Zerg, you need to outproduce your opponent in order to win. This means you need to primarily focus your production on drones so that you can produce nothing but units when you see your opponent move in and overwhelm him. An optimally saturated base has 16 drones on minerals and three drones on each gas. If you have other bases, feel free to rally drones there once you already have 16 in your main base. You need to protect your drones at all costs when you see your opponent go for them. Do not be afraid to pull your drones from mining in order to move away from enemy fire. Lost mining time is better than killed drones.
Since Zerg players produce army and units from the same building, you are going to have to expand early in order to stay even with your opponent. The general rule of thumb is that zerg must be up one expansion versus the other two races.
Now the best economy in the world is useless if you are not spending it. Keeping your money low is one of the key things in Starcraft 2. Unless you are saving up for a whole bunch of units for a timing attack, you should always be spending. Make units, get upgrades, keep that money low!
3. Larva Injects
Another unique thing about Zerg is that it has another resource aside from minerals and gas: larvae. The larva morphs into overlords and every Zerg unit aside from the queen. The hatchery stops producing larva once it has three or more. In order to get more larva, you need to use queens. The queen is produced from a hatchery and comes with three spells. The spawn larvae spell is cast on the hatchery. After 40 seconds, the hatchery will then instantly produce three larva. You cannot cast spawn larvae on a hatchery you've already cast it on. The queen comes with enough energy for a spawn larvae when it comes into play so you must use it as soon as possible. From there on in, you must use it every time it's available and a hatchery is not currently producing larva from the spell. If a queen has spare energy, you can shift+click on the hatchery to queue up multiple larva injects. And don't forget to use the larvae!
4. The Macrohatchery
If you find yourself floating minerals and you don't have any larva to use or upgrades to get, you should make an extra hatchery inside your base. This is called a macrohatchery and is primarily used to produce extra larva. You can also produce queens from these hatcheries to help your larva production even more!
5. Static Defenses
Static defenses, namely the spine crawler and the spore crawlers are defense structures you make to help defend your base from attack when you don't have enough units, or when your units are at the other side of the map. While static defenses are extremely useful when you need them, they are expensive. A lot of newer players mass up static defenses in order to feel safe. Massing static defenses is generally not the way to go especially in the early or mid-game. Producing too much static defense will put you behind economically so you must only make what you need. Remember that Zerg building also cost a drone, and the more static defenses you build, the more drones you lose. I usually put down one spine crawler in front of my natural expansion (the first expansion you take, usually the one closest to your main base). I put down a spore crawler or two at every base when I see my opponent go air units to harass me.
6. Creep Spread
Another unique mechanic to Zerg is Creep. Creep is needed to put down any Zerg building, and it also makes Zerg units move faster. It's easier to chase, flank and surround an opposing army on Creep. Protoss and Terrans cannot place any building on Creep, and it can be used to deny an expansion, especially since Creep takes time to disappear. Creep spread can also be the difference between life and death, especially when you are defending an opponent's attack. The most effective way to spread Creep is through the Overlord's generate Creep, which produces creep underneath the overlord which lasts until the overlord moves, and the Queen's Creep Tumor ability. This ability spawns a Creep Tumor that produces Creep until it is destroyed. It is invisible, and can also spawn additional Creep tumors. Creep tumors are especially effective in spreading Creep, so whenever you have a chance, spread that Creep! Consider making extra queens to help spread Creep faster.
7. Scouting
Scouting is more important to Zerg than any other race. Zerg needs to see when an opponent moves out since our ideal gameplay is to produce drones until we see an attack coming and only then we start producing army units. As such, you need to know what he is attacking with, where he is going to attack, and when is he moving in.
Always fight to hold the Xel'Naga towers. These towers produce free vision in important pathways as long as you have a unit near.
Spreading creep provides scouting as well. Creep tumors also generate vision, and the farther your creep spread is, the farther you can see with your tumors.
The primary scouting unit of the Zerg is the Overseer. This unit morphs from the Overlord and comes with the Spawn Changling ability. The Changling will morph into the basic unit (Zergling, Zealot or Marine) of the first opponent it gets near to. It will appear like an opponent's unit and can be immensely helpful your opponent did not see it morphing. It only cost the Overseer energy to produce a changling so use it, and use it often!
If you don't have time to morph an overseer, you can suicide a Zergling! They're cheap, and expendable and they move very fast. Use them to scout for expansions, and leave them at general paths so you'd be alerted if your opponent decides to move out.
8. Overlord Spread
The Overlord's primary function is to provide supply, but they can also be used in scouting and spotting! A good Zerg keeps his Overlords spread out and spotting important chokes and back routes. Send your first Overlord near your opponent's base and keep it out of harm's way. If you can't get in because your opponent is walled off, you can suicide an overlord inside your opponent's base around 5 minutes into a game to see what he's doing. Just be sure you don't get supply capped!
Overlords are even more useful in Zerg vs Zerg matches since the only unit that can shoot up in the early game are queens. Most of the time, you can safely put an Overlord in front of your opponent's natural expansion entrance to see if he's moving out with zerglings so you can produce your own units to defend.
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9. Unit Control and Micromanagement
In order to trade armies cost-effectively against the other two races, Zerg needs to make use of positioning. You must never attack in a choke and up a ramp unless you have to, or unless you have much more army supply than your opponent. If you are using ranged units such as Hydralisks and Roaches, ideally fight in a concave instead of fighting in a ball. Fighting in a concave maximizes your army damage since each unit can attack the opponent effectively. If you are using Zerglings, Banelings and Ultralisks, the most important thing to keep in mind is the surround. Surrounding the opposing army is a sure way to connect the Baneling hits and prevent him from kiting you away. Attack from two sides if you can. Flanking can lead you to easily surrounding and beating an opponent's army.
As important as unit control and micromanagement is, however, it must never be placed above macromanagement. You can easily micro your units to the best of your ability, but if you don't have reinforcements, you will still lose! Just remember to hit those hotkeys to keep on producing even when you're microing your units!
10. Detection
There will come a time when you are going to be up against invisible and burrowed units. These units are typically used to kill of drones and to put you behind economically. In order to see these units, you need Detection. Zerg gets Detection from Overseers and from Spore Crawlers. Usually, production of these units take time, so scouting these units before they do any damage is definitely the best way to play against them. If you scout them too late, immediately put down a spore crawler and morph an Overseer and send your army over to deal with them immediately as your detection becomes available. Remember to pull and save your drones!
© 2013 Paz
Paz (author) on May 24, 2013:
And thanks for reading, pickpointz1!
Paz (author) on May 24, 2013:
And thanks for reading, pickpointz1!
pickpointz1 on May 24, 2013:
Thank you for your great post. This blog is great
Paz (author) on May 21, 2013: When is the release date for elder scrolls 6.
Hey BraidedZero, thanks for reading the hub! Although I agree that scouting always depend on the build, I think it's important for beginners to learn the importance of scouting.
Move files from phone to pc. As for the micro, I think that as Zerg, concaves and not attacking into chokes and up ramps is important so I included that as well, although a bit far down.
Anyway, I'm really glad you liked it. Thanks again!
James Robertson from Texas on May 20, 2013:
Great hub! I would have to say a few things though.. You don't always want to send a drone out to scout. Sometimes, if you're 6 pooling for instance, you don't need to scout. Even if you scout it won't take anything away from your build. You're going to 6 pool regardless of their build. You could use a few lings in the beginning to get good map coverage. And that drone that went to scout could have brought in more minerals. Yes scouting is real important but not really if it doesn't affect your build. Also, I don't know if I agree with micro being mentioned in a 'beginners' guide. A beginner shouldn't even be thinking about micro yet. Maybe that's just my opinion.. Not trying to split hairs here! Great article! I enjoyed it. Macro macro macro.
Paz (author) on May 03, 2013:
I havent played extensively on the EU servers because of latency, but I've heard people say as much. gl, hf! And thanks again for reading!
DK from London on May 03, 2013:
Ahah, I sometimes play there too, although I haven't noticed such a big difference from Europe masters? I noticed that there is a lot more cheese on the US server though. Just a limited observation though - gl hf!
Paz (author) on May 03, 2013:
Hello! Thank you for reading man. At the moment, I'm laddering unranked on the Korean server so I'm getting my ass kicked a lot lol.
DK from London on May 03, 2013:
Very useful! :) Can't argue with anything you've said, good luck with laddering yourself!
Also, I'm v. glad to see my own hubs in the related section at the bottom here haha!
It was Fall of 1998 and I was riding the bus home from school. A few friends were talking about building bases and raising armies. At the time, I had no context for what this meant, but they had my attention.
Within two weeks I was installing StarCraft on my Dad's Pentium 2 PC.
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Jumping into StarCraft for my first time was a momentous occasion for multiple reasons. Prior to playing it I had never touched a real-time strategy game before. My understanding of what video games were capable of was limited to what was available on PlayStation at the time, and it certainly didn't have a big strategy game like StarCraft. Experiencing the deep strategy and wide scope of the game was astonishing, re-shaping what I thought a video game could be.
StarCraft was also the very first online game I had ever played. It arrived at a time when people were just starting to learn about the internet, including myself. Napster wasn't even out yet, and neither was any reliable way to watch videos. Listening to the loud dial tone as I connected to dial-up and anxiously awaiting my arrival in Battle.net was the highlight of many of my evenings. There was a sense of urgency when I was trying to complete my homework, as all I wanted to do was hop on StarCraft without any distractions.
I remember just how profound the experience was for me. Battle.net, with all its chat rooms, competitive games, and custom maps, was unparalleled at the time. It was the first game I would spend more than 200 hours playing—sorry Final Fantasy VII—and make online friends. The value it delivered between its compelling campaign, LAN games, and Battle.net went well beyond anything else I had ever experienced, and by a long shot.
I would quickly learn that competitive RTS multiplayer wasn't for me. I would try to rank up in ladder, but my lack of game knowledge would lead to tragedy. While I enjoyed discussing strategies and watching games, most of my time would be spent playing custom games and completing Big Game Hunters against A.I. I must have spent over a dozen hours playing tower defense games and custom RPGs alone. I even tried making my own map in the Map Editor, which would be my first foray into game design and triggers, preluding my Computer Science education.
As a Protoss player it was fun just to build up the resources to amass an army of Carriers. Looking back, the strategy made no sense, but there was something magical about watching dozens of Interceptors pick an army apart before seeing the victory screen.
StarCraft delivered on several fronts. What it didn't get enough credit for was its excellent cast of characters. Kerrigan, Raynor, Zeratul, and Tassadar have remained interesting characters even a decade after their debut. I still remember wanting to hunt down Alexei Stukov after watching the Brood War intro cinematic, one of the most powerful videos that Blizzard has ever put together.
A couple years later I would move onto Counter-Strike where I would become equally as engrossed, but I wouldn't forget where I came from.
In 2010 StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty's arrival was a nostalgic one for me. It arrived a full 12 years after my first time playing the franchise. Seeing my favorite characters come to life in HD and listening to the unmistakable musical composition of Derek Duke and Glenn Stafford instantly brought back some of the best of my gaming memories.
I would find myself enjoying StarCraft 2 in a different way than I did with the original. Instead of focusing on custom games, during Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm I would spend time competing online in one-versus-one matches, eventually achieving a Gold ranking in ladder—which is nothing to brag about, but required a lot of effort for me.
Although I logged countless hours in the game, I had almost just as many spent watching others share their gameplay on Twitch and YouTube. There's something about StarCraft that makes it one of the most enjoyable games to watch, whether or not you play it. There's a reason it gets huge turnouts at tournaments, such as this last weekend's WCS Global Finals at BlizzCon 2015. This video side of the game reminds me a lot of my first time logging into Battle.net. It's a compelling use of the latest in technology that keeps you invested in the game.
During Heart of the Swarm improvements would be made to the social experience, in addition to Arcade being given a great deal of attention. These were long-requested and had an immensely positive impact on the atmosphere and longevity of StarCraft 2. I would soon find myself once again consumed.
Here we are in 2015,and StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void's arrival signals the end of an era. It goes without saying that this week is an emotional one for me, as this will be the last StarCraft release for a long, long time. Unfortunately, real-time strategy is a genre that is holding on for dear life. The masses have spoken, and action RTS' such as League of Legends have chewed into the popularity of classic RTS resulting in diminished community size and activity. Most gamers are no longer willing to put themselves in a position of responsibility to control an entire army and base at the same time. Even then, I find myself wanting to spend time within StarCraft's world instead.
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For that, Blizzard has done everything you'd hope for to make it inviting for casual players. The new Co-op mode lets you to work together with a teammate to complete Campaign-like missions. Meanwhile, Archon mode allows you to share control of a single army with two players. In my case, this means that myself and some of the people i played StarCraft on LAN with back in the 90's can enjoy the gameplay and atmosphere without the frustration of being overwhelmed with tasks. Production and unit orders can literally be split between two players.
In addition to this, StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void ends a story arch that's lasted more than a decade. During my time completing several of its missions I've found myself with goosebumps from the magnitude of what unfolds. This is the epic climax that fans have been hoping for, and as someone who has 17 years of history with the franchise it's magical.
When I look back at the last 17 years, I see a king of a genre, an innovator, and a leader in its space. I see what has been inarguably one of the most influential games to ever be birthed, and I've forged lasting memories from playing it.
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Now that the final chapter has arrived, it's time to savor the moment and enjoy the last moments of this StarCraft era that we've all been fortune to be a part of.
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