I saw this map on the forums and tried it out today. It definitely helps you remember to be active. One problem I have in a match is keeping consistent actions. Sure the first 2 minutes theres not much to do, but if you dont give your self a running start, you may end up dead last....
The objective is simple, play a typical melee map, the catch? In the top right corner is one of your workers being chased by a particularly angry Zergling. You need to keep him alive while getting your base going, but guess what, the catch even has a catch....You cannot use more than 1 waypoint for that worker. So every 10 seconds you need to be checking your worker.
Don't worry they give you different difficulties to choose from so you aren't thrown directly into the wolves...But there is another catch. You need to keep your minerals under a certain amount throughout the entire match. Sounds interesting right? Well the good thing is you don't have to worry about early rushes, at least not on Easy...An attack does come around the time you would normally expect it, however there is yet another catch...
The objective is to destroy the enemies command center, deep within a protected line of at least 1 of almost every unit that race has to offer, but before you can do this objective, you must rescue a unit and bring him back to your Beacon in your base. Depending on your difficulty, you may have to do this more than once....
Shouldn't be a problem right? Well the list goes on....The energy of your Nexus, Queen, or Orbital Command cannot Exceed 99/150/99 respectively. But the last interesting tidbit is this, you need to do all this within 17 minutes of the game starting. Sounds easy right?
Here are some tips for completing the Easy difficulty as thats as comfortable as I am with it....
Make your Nexus or whatever a control group. I use 4 as its very close to the other commands I use.
Use your keyboard to build the workers, D for Drone, E for Probe, S for SCV. all are within your hands reach, assuming your right handed that is :)
Make the Worker(for me it was a probe named Proberto) group 3 and press that group twice to quickly switch to it and switch back. By doing this you can switch back to your Nexus and build workers without having to actually look at the Nexus.
To rescue the VIP, Just build a transport, get within proximity of him and pick him up and bring him back :)
Keep building units! Turn the Coach on to help yourself remember to keep building workers!
I had fun and I felt myself getting mentally faster, keep playing up the difficulties until you can win them perfectly.
I had fun and I felt myself getting mentally faster, keep playing up the difficulties until you can win them perfectly.
I played that map a ton in brood war. And I found out that it was easiest for me if my APM was high, but not extremly high while doing all that.
ReplyDeleteIn other words: that map helped me find the perfect balance between speed and precision (for me, at that time).
Indeed. It works great as a warm up as well before doing some ladder games.
ReplyDeleteI know high APM doesn't mean the difference between a win or loss. I beat a 120 apm player the other day by simply out macroing him. But I remember Day(9) talking about high APM comes from remembering what you need to do.
After playing this map a few times and going into a real match the first thing that happened was my scouting probe lasted longer and I just played a game of containment with my opponent. Everything else fell into place. It was magical.