Starcraft 2 Beta: TERRAN strategy and unit discussion!

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**I want to point out this is PRE-patch 1, so Reapers have changed and are not as valid anymore. I also use FRAPS for all my more current videos, so the quality is much better. PLS no more posts about how much Reapers suck and that the quality is garbage, thanks.**

Hey guys, so here is my two cents on all of the races and all of their units/abilities. First of all, I think each race has something that is incredibly overpowered over the other races, so I suppose in a way they are all "balanced", but I really think most games are going to be the exact same things and the exact same harassment over and over and over... And come down to who can get to their cheap stuff first... I also think a lot of games will come down to who can destroy the other persons base first. It will be very interesting to see how Pros utilize many of the new units and abilitys!

Ill start with Terrans, who I actually think are the strongest of all the races...

1) Reapers - Incredibly overpowered. For only 50 minerals, and 50 gas, and you can get them with the barracks and one cheap attachment, you can have them REALLY early game. As you see in my Terran video, I got only 11 of these... Jumped the AIs back base, and downed his nexus in literally less than 7 or 8 shots. In other games, I have 2 shotted it, which is pretty ridiculous how fast buildings will go down if you think about it. The comp even had a cannon by the mineral line (because ive seen people say cannons are the counter to it).. I 1 shotted all cannons... Cannons are Absolutely useless against reapers. Sure, they are weak against units, but even though the comp responded quite fast with units, reapers move sooo fast I just microed them away. I think if anything, blizzard needs to nerf their damage a little bit more. It is said there is a counter to everything in SC2.. I honestly cant think of a single counter for the protoss. No units move as fast them, storms, motherships, etc all couldnt keep up with their speed, and even so, those things are WAY more tech further than them.. I think we will see a LOT of games of just 12 reapers going in and trashing people's nexus/CC/hatchery and/or tech. For this unit alone, im considering being perma terran. The only downside I could see is being weak defensively at my base.. But even if I was perfectly counter attacked the second I began my reaper invasion, my reapers would destroy the other player's base first.

2) ravens. Not that expensive, and two of their abilities do not require upgrades and are very powerful. In another game, I went in with 2 ravens behind the enemy expansion, threw down 4 turrets each (only 50 energy and that ship holds 200)... 8 auto turrets DOMINATED the probe line, and even damaged the nexus a significant amount. I could see auto turret raven harassment being a very strong thing PvP, because they can fly they can come from any direction, and the ability to throw down 4 free turrets every 200 seconds is very strong imo. Not to mention their other ability, the lazer sniping one... Throw down 3 turrets and the lazer sniping to protect them from all enemy ranged fire... You could probably snipe a nexus/cc/hatchery with just 2 ravens, 7 turrets and 1 lazer sniper.

I havent really played terran against zerg at all, so I cant say how they react to that, but ive played 3 games against protoss and everything I did dominated it. Granted it is the easy AI, but I still think against a real person using those tactics would be VERY powerful. The second I saw that auto turret ability of the ravens, the FIRST thing that came to mind was worker harassment. And im very surprised I havent seen any videos from husky/HD starcraft, etc yet showing that 'defensive ability' on the offensive. (though I havent watched every single one of their vids, so maybe they have?)

Oh and having nukes in like 5 minutes is pretty nice too lol.

ANYWAY, thats my two cents on SC2 for now! Hope you guys enjoyed the read!! Let me know your thoughts!

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[starwarsfan13579]

you are playing on easy



[Balgore8]

@starwarsfan13579 Incorrect. This video was made using the cracked beta version which came with fan-made AI, which was significantly significantly harder than the Very Easy AI Blizzard had released with Beta. It also cheated.

[2Great4Me]

are you filming your pc with a camera xDDD

[Balgore8]

@2Great4Me Lol yes. This was one of my first youtube videos ever. Now, I always use FRAPs or camtasia, have higher quality and sound, etc. Check out some of my newer videos.

[hairypickle123]

i couldnt help but notice but.. when u where defending against the computers counter. you lowerd the suply depos and let their melee into ur base area.

[Balgore8]

@hairypickle123 lol did I? Nice. This game was more to show the game than to show my skill... This was actually the crack, before I even got Beta, and like my second game ever played, so I was probably trash at the time. And crack AI was a lot harder than Blizzards AI was as well, though I guess thats irrelevant if im lowering depots for them lol.

[zqmbfg]

haha i played a 3v3 once and all i did was mass reapers and took out the other team's economy and my teammates just massed up and we won :) i love reapers

[DeafKaliban]

am i the the only who thinks you sound like the dude from freeman's mind?

[NorbertMumme]

play starcraft 2 online with this crack...no charge - youtube.com/watch?v=FQs6tqMPR3­s



[NebulousEsoteric]

@best360gamer What comp u have? If it's xp around 3gb ram and 500 gb hardrive, just get a graphics card and it should be fine o.o I have windows 7 6 gb ram 750 gb hardrive and sc2 LAGGGED cos I had a sucky gfx card. Got me a new one works SMOOTH, BEAUTIFULLY and on ULTRA graphics. SO much better experience.

[Balgore8]

@best360gamer Thanks. And yep, start saving your pennies for that better comp! Youll want a nice one for Diablo 3 as well lol.