Well basically any mobile unit that can harass and kill probes "early-mid-game" will pwn protoss. If you're rushing early game, you can expect AI to lose every single time. Lets hope 6.0 changes that.
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AI Discussion / Re: Need Some Strategy Help - Can't Beat AI 5.5
March 03, 2010, 01:42:22 AM
Are you sure you're not playing the cheat version 5.5? They're ridiculously hard to beat, not that it's impossible.
If you're really asking for help, I'll give you some tips.
The most important thing is having a strong economy. I'll bet you only have 10 or so workers mining in each base throughout the whole game. You must be constantly producing workers throughout the game until each base is saturated, reason being, by the time you have enough mining at one base, you should be working on expanding already.
Just go with this general rule of mining saturation: for each patch of mineral, let it always be "glowing", meaning, don't let there be a time (whether a second, half a second, quarter of a second, etc) where a mineral patch is not being mined. Of course this isn't possible when barely starting your base, but you must balance out producing workers with building up your base and producing units until your base is saturated.
For gas, maximize efficiency of your economy by using only 3 workers per geyser. Having 4 will maximize the gas income, but not enough to be worth the delay of your 4th worker waiting for your 3rd to exit the geyser. Use that worker for minerals. Just test it, you'll see what I mean.
If you can manage to keep this massive economy building up, your income of resources will be so great you can outmass your opponent. Of course in reality, playing versus people takes more than just a strong economy to win.
Remember though, you can't just spam-build workers, you'll die to rushes. The key is balancing out your economy with your forces. Defend the rushes, and build your economy up when you can. And don't rely on just one structure to build units; whichever primary unit you are trying to mass up, build 3 or 4 of that structure in order to efficiently and quickly use up all the resources you'll be saving up from having so much mining saturation.
Hope this helps. If you need any more help, I suggest starting at SC1 and learning the basics there. With SC2, all the entertaining visuals are a hindrance to learning the core competency of the game, especially for newbies to the game.
EDIT: I just noticed you said you tried "easy"? There is no "5.5 easy" lol. The versions posted up are only "ai cheat" and "no ai cheat". You probably got the cheat one, which I assure you, most people here if not all cannot beat it 100% of the time. I was only able to win once as toss going against terran by putting up cannon defense and getting a mass of stalkers and immortals. The terran AI for some reason went mass vikings which just gets raped because they keep transforming.
If you're really asking for help, I'll give you some tips.
The most important thing is having a strong economy. I'll bet you only have 10 or so workers mining in each base throughout the whole game. You must be constantly producing workers throughout the game until each base is saturated, reason being, by the time you have enough mining at one base, you should be working on expanding already.
Just go with this general rule of mining saturation: for each patch of mineral, let it always be "glowing", meaning, don't let there be a time (whether a second, half a second, quarter of a second, etc) where a mineral patch is not being mined. Of course this isn't possible when barely starting your base, but you must balance out producing workers with building up your base and producing units until your base is saturated.
For gas, maximize efficiency of your economy by using only 3 workers per geyser. Having 4 will maximize the gas income, but not enough to be worth the delay of your 4th worker waiting for your 3rd to exit the geyser. Use that worker for minerals. Just test it, you'll see what I mean.
If you can manage to keep this massive economy building up, your income of resources will be so great you can outmass your opponent. Of course in reality, playing versus people takes more than just a strong economy to win.
Remember though, you can't just spam-build workers, you'll die to rushes. The key is balancing out your economy with your forces. Defend the rushes, and build your economy up when you can. And don't rely on just one structure to build units; whichever primary unit you are trying to mass up, build 3 or 4 of that structure in order to efficiently and quickly use up all the resources you'll be saving up from having so much mining saturation.
Hope this helps. If you need any more help, I suggest starting at SC1 and learning the basics there. With SC2, all the entertaining visuals are a hindrance to learning the core competency of the game, especially for newbies to the game.
EDIT: I just noticed you said you tried "easy"? There is no "5.5 easy" lol. The versions posted up are only "ai cheat" and "no ai cheat". You probably got the cheat one, which I assure you, most people here if not all cannot beat it 100% of the time. I was only able to win once as toss going against terran by putting up cannon defense and getting a mass of stalkers and immortals. The terran AI for some reason went mass vikings which just gets raped because they keep transforming.