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n00b1n8R
December 4th, 2012, 01:31 AM
Hi forum-goers.

As many of you play SC2 daily, I'm sure you've gone through quite a few losing streaks in your times playing. Lately, I've hit a pretty nasty 5-game-losing-streak and it's doing more to discourage me than teach me what I'm doing wrong. I feel like I'm not playing as well as I could and sluggish would probably be the best word to describe my playing now. As a result, I'd like to inquire support in ways to help move past these losing streaks, as psychology and health are major aspects of playing SC2 well no matter which league you're in. Here are a few simple tips I have from my late experience:

-Make sure to stretch and get away for a bit every two games. Doing so will calm you down and recharge you a bit for future matches.
-If matches are too strenuous, do something not as strenuous or vent if you need it. Catharsis (the psychological term for describing actions that allow one to properly ventilate) is important when doing any strenuous activity.
-Eat! Food fuels your brain and allows you to think straighter. This is a general life rule as it gives you valuable energy your brain needs energy to think to begin with.
-Hydrate! Water is important and is the healthiest option of drinkage when you're playing. It can help calm you down if you're beginning to get restless. Even more so, dehydration or lack of water can lead to exhaustion and make it difficult to think period.
-Sleep! Rest! Nothing beats if the past stuff can't help.



That's what I got right now. I hope this goes through and helps people who are not feeling well in SC2. As I said, please feel free to add more suggestions and I'll add them to the OP for people to see.

At the same time though, I feel it's important that people be there for each other when they're down or at least offer to help when someone is doing not so well. One can only take care of oneself before his or her own psych breaks down. I really would like to see something happen out of this thread because I feel people need more than just race "help me" threads to get through a game as demanding as SC2 can be. At the human aspect, people need support, so I would like it if this thread did that. I know this is kind of a corny thread, but I feel like it's important to remind people that they're human and that they can always do better. It'll be okay if you stick it through and care for yourself in the process!


"When I starting play I very disappointing and very sad after my lose. If you want to make one goal to win you must lose. You can't win all games. We are people, you make mistake. You're not computer. And if you understand your mistake when you lose you just can make analysis game and continue play try to fix it, and it's no problem. More GG, more skill." - WhiteRa



Hope this helps someone!

Try listening to people who try to help you improve instead of saying crap like "I play for fun" or thinking you know better to disregard the advice zilla and I give you. If you did you wouldn't be in the bottom 20% of all sc2 players.

srsly

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=385977#16

Bodzilla
December 4th, 2012, 01:36 AM
u so mean n00b.

But seriously i could literally observe some games for you and tell you when to build shit, what to build lol.
I've done it with n00b a few times.

EX12693
December 4th, 2012, 02:15 AM
I've done it with n00b a few times.
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n00b1n8R
December 4th, 2012, 03:07 AM
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Cortexian
December 4th, 2012, 03:46 AM
Getting "good" at SC takes more effort than most gamers are willing to put into a game. It's not a game for casual gamers at all, at least not if you want to play online using their matchmaking league system.

Custom games with friends are still fun when everyone's on the same general skill level, or you balance the teams somehow.

DarkHalo003
December 4th, 2012, 06:20 PM
Why did you post this? I decided to do something decent and post about my problem as I felt others had felt a similar way. I thought it'd be nice if people could suggest ways to help others when going through losing streaks. This easily has not been my first and I'm past the current 6 GAME LOSING STREAK. The point of the thread was to provide support for others and to express ways to get through tough times playing the game.

Guys, I'm not cool with this. I've listened to what y'all tell me even if it doesn't seem like it. My MMR hovers between the high 500s to mid 600s every week and it won't be long before I reach the Gold MMR (I'm currently high Silver and was #2 at 650 MMR before the loss streak). What that means is that I am improving and I do want to thank you two for the few times you've been there to converse with me or occasionally practice. Otherwise, I never see you two online and neither of you initiate conversation with me to help me improve. Unless you're being friendly and this is one way to be a "bro," I don't find the fact that you have to make that thread (now a blog as appropriately moved by a Moderator) look like a shitpost.

You two are hardly there to tutor me, so how can you dare say I lack capacity to listen to anything you say to begin with? Yeah, I'll vent that I think certain designs are bad (Marauder Concussion Shells are bullshit to begin with) and that I hate certain ones (Medivacs, but I'm getting very used to dealing with them as Protoss), but I am getting better. Currently I'm facing problems with getting proper production up throughout the course of a game. For instance, I'll still be on 5-6 Gates with 1 Robo and I'd have 3 bases or I'll do that and forget upgrades. I have a couple of psychological problems that make it difficult for me to remember these important, almost obvious factors every game and I only started playing this past Summer (or was it Spring?). Either way, I'm almost to Gold league and I have been playing Gold players. You both still think I'm in Bronze league, but that's funny given how you're never online enough to see where I'm going or what I'm doing. I also play Customs big time that are opposite to how the RTS works.

Freelancer hit it on the head.

n00b1n8R
December 4th, 2012, 06:40 PM
1v1 me fgt

(ily)

DarkHalo003
December 4th, 2012, 06:47 PM
1v1 me fgt

(ily)
Sure. Though you'll actually have to be online in SC2 to 1v1 me in the first place.

Bodzilla
December 4th, 2012, 08:32 PM
we're always on steam, i'm on steam like 16 hours a day, so......

DarkHalo003
December 4th, 2012, 08:33 PM
we're always on steam, i'm on steam like 16 hours a day, so......
Steam is one thing. SC2 is another. I rarely see either of you on it.

n00b1n8R
December 4th, 2012, 08:38 PM
zergcraft2 is a bad game though so I don't ladder much. If you asked zilla or I for a game or just to ob you we'd both jump at the chance though. We've been all about this game for 2 years now lol.

Zeph
December 4th, 2012, 08:54 PM
Between that OP and Jcap begging people to help him write his finals, I honestly wonder if literacy rates in the world are beyond what they were 200 years ago.

DarkHalo003
December 4th, 2012, 10:05 PM
Between that OP and Jcap begging people to help him write his finals, I honestly wonder if literacy rates in the world are beyond what they were 200 years ago.
What?

Phobias
December 6th, 2012, 02:05 AM
1v1 me fgt

(ily)

play me cunt, i'll smash you.

n00b1n8R
December 6th, 2012, 09:26 PM
lolo yeah right badder

DarkHalo003
December 9th, 2012, 07:14 PM
Phobias what league are you?

Phobias
December 10th, 2012, 01:23 AM
Phobias what league are you?

haven't laddered in 3 seasons or so; mid-high diamond on both NA and SEA server though. Was playing zerg though, so I'd say gold-plat skill level and the rest imbalance.

n00b1n8R
December 10th, 2012, 01:35 AM
haven't laddered in 3 seasons or so; mid-high diamond on both NA and SEA server though. Was playing zerg though, so I'd say gold-plat skill level and the rest imbalance.
sounds accurate

DarkHalo003
December 10th, 2012, 03:11 PM
haven't laddered in 3 seasons or so; mid-high diamond on both NA and SEA server though. Was playing zerg though, so I'd say gold-plat skill level and the rest imbalance.
Sounds like a modern Zerg player, but did you ragequit or BM on a regular basis?

Phobias
December 11th, 2012, 01:54 AM
Sounds like a modern Zerg player, but did you ragequit or BM on a regular basis?

Modern zerg? I'd like to say I can hold my own as any race, but on the ladder I chose zerg due to the queen and macro mechanics being better suited to my multitasking ability.

There is no point saying anything other that gl and gg in a game.

n00b1n8R
December 11th, 2012, 07:41 AM
I chose zerg due to the queen and macro mechanics being better suited to my multitasking ability.

ur wot m8

DarkHalo003
December 11th, 2012, 07:57 AM
Modern zerg? I'd like to say I can hold my own as any race, but on the ladder I chose zerg due to the queen and macro mechanics being better suited to my multitasking ability.

There is no point saying anything other that gl and gg in a game.
Yay, you're not a modern Zerg player on ladder! ^_^