DarkBlizz

here is a video showing how easy it is to abuse protoss with terrain

with zerg and terrain i would just build more tech 1, and counter their first attack an win.

little microing going on, and no grouping used... thats why i suck lol

TvsPquick_0001.wmv

oh game was played on "faster" setting, got use to it,  no more bitching from me haha
And as it says in the replay, yes this IS the cheating version.

cheating not beatable?  like ive said in many posts,  im no pro and I can do it (even on faster setting now )

and anyone who thinks they are gona get "training" from an ai...... cccoooommmmooonnn  why are people SO OBSESSED with this game that they need "training" hahahahaha.   you get that when multiplayer comes out,   until then  enjoy what you got

ffa is awesome btw

ok well i did my first 6.0 cheating ai on fastest  and just so this thread doesnt go too off topic,  heres another SS of the victory!

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/71/screenshot008up.jpg

anyway, the first zealot push, i had to kite,   i think it is impossible to get enough untis down to take them out without any micro. i was walled in, so i focused fire on each zealot coming in to kill them quicker, but there are just too many, they got thru the depots fast and started to take out my units (marines and marauders) so i kited them with 4 marauders while i got my army built up again. lead them back to the army and made short work of them. (you should see how fast i have to click to make units from 3 barracks while kiting with marauders... no hotkeys used haha.. im working on it tho)   waited for the 2nd attack,  first time ive seen the computer make a colossus,  usualy its immortals. anyway  they pwnd my marines  but a thor came out in time to help take them down.

with the surviving army (mostly marauders/medivacs and a couple thors at this point) i sent them to the enemy's first expansion made short work of that, faught a small army on the ramp to the main base which consited of a few zealots/stalkers and 2 colossus, stimpack made zealots and stalkers die fast, while my two thors made shortwork of the colossus'.

main base had like 7 cannons that died quick, and it looked like they comp was about to mass carriers.... so i got there just in time!!!

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8961/screenshot006ys.jpg

First game where i played where i used "fast" setting with the cheating ai. I have to say the game is much more enjoyable on normal. eitherway i still won, although i can see beating the first protoss wave on faster a bit difficult without abusing the "kiting" technique.

shit just goes WAY to fast  on "faster" setting.  its a shame that will be what ladder is played as,  only the ppl who eat and breathe SC will know what they are doing.

anyone else think that "fastest"  is just a bit too much?  I played SC every so often and would always select the fastest setting, but thats because the other settings felt way too slow.   in this game, faster actually seems REALLY sped up.

9800gt,  so you have an nvidia eh?  this is a stretch but if youve installed the newest drivers, apparently there has been a probem regarding the fan control in the drivers.  somting about it not running the fan and the cards overheating.... resulting in low FPS... AND dead videocards after awhile,     so id look there first!!!

Blizzard said it was effecting their games and released a post telling their customers to roll back the drivers to an earlier version....   heres a link from a quick google search

http://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20195&view=next&sid=045f67fb6b07e86076ccf772b9c2ca82

agreed, if you want a challenge, you have to go against a cheating ai.  I dont really know much about coding but i dont think it would be possible to make a non cheating ai THAT goood. atleast if it could be done,  you wont be seeing that exact release anytime soon, somthing like that would take a lot of time.

There are some mega fags on here that complain about the cheating ai being too easy, but for the casual RTS player,  the cheating AI is pretty damn good. I can beat it, but i have to pay attention. right now, v6 is the best ive seen out. very beatable, but you can also get walked if your not paying attention.

great ai,  everyone who is sayin "play this like you would play against a human opponent, is an idiot. by doing that you are abusing the ai,  not the other way around.  lol  you think a human player is gona let you kite them like this ai does?  give me a break.

i usualy wall with depots, again, this isnt sc1 and the reason the depots go underground, IS SO YOU CAN DO JUST THAT... WALL!.  the ai doesnt run around infront like they did in sc1, they attack the depots right away and push thru fast. I had a game where the toss started to run away even once they owned everyone, minus a marauder... i was able to kite them long enough to get my army back up.... ya playing like it was a human  makes it easier, LOL to you ppl thinking you are pros for doing that.

my T strat is to build my defense INFRONT of my first expansion, so there is no problem getting to it later, so its not like im walling a ramp, more like an area 3 - 4 depos wide. Ive played 4 games, first two games i got rocked by the toss (i play terran) so i was learning a new build, definetly can not tech when facing the cheating ai haha. 3rd game was vs T, which i won pretty easy, held off their first attack and had enough left over i just went into their base and killed them,  short game. 

4th game i finaly got my rematch with the toss. came at me with his 20 some zealots and as i explained above, was able to kite them (like a "pro" haha) until i had enough to finsihed them off. Kept massing  marines, marauders, medivacs and fire cars. their 2nd attack game with zealots, dragoon replacments, and immortals. i had so much ter 1 i raped these, then continued into there base with a thor as support, and took them out.

for an AI this is pretty damn good, cant wait till the small things are worked out.  gj turd! anyone trashing this ai just needs to get a life, dont listen to them .


o and btw, im talking about the cheating version

ive always been a decent SC player but never PRO because for the life of me... I CAN NOT HOTKEY. haha my left hand sits over the arrows and i click click click click .  force of habbit... very hard to break.

anyway  even with my almost 0 mirco, this ai is still easy to beat,  the first attack is the hardest to fend off (a horde of scvs has had to come to my aid a few times) but after that it is a cake walk. once you have a couple tanks the ai just gimps around. tech to thors for supporting marines and maraders (or fire cars, depending on what race) with medivacs and its good game.  if it happens to go late game then just get vikings for added anti air, but most games will be done 14 - 20 mins depending on many many times that fucker slipps by you and makes another expansion!!  I could even probably end games sooner, seeing as 90% of my army is still alive once im done lol.  balls are just taking some time to drop i guess.

Im a noob so i only play terran,  i HATE how the zerg play and toss... i dunno just dont like them either haha. 

non the less the ai makes SC fun,  cant wait for some multiplayer.  Keep it up guys, i will probably keep using your ais even at release, im not much of a ladder player (i cant spend the time it takes to be THAT good)  so  vs comp games with my friends is a chilled thing to do after work