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Welwordion:
Well I have starcraft2 but like panda said I somewhat suck against other people, so I do not play rts competive.
Besides its just to hectical all those battles that take place in the space of seconds and you have to micromamage them somehow.
I also never figured out how to manage my resources, building and scout effectively at the same time.

Numsgil:

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--- Quote from: Botsareus on August 20, 2010, 01:52:47 PM ---Numsgil, how good is security on Star Craft 2? Will my AVGfree be good enough? I basically gave up on Multiplayer online games after I got hacked in Cosmic Rift...

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As Numsgil said, you likely won't be getting hacked unless you opened up a path for the hacker yourself.
I expect (though this is purely speculation) that Blizzard probably also has protections built into the game to prevent malicious alterations from playing online.

That being said, I am a relative newb at starcraft, so I wouldn't take my word on it.

On another note, does anyone else find it pretty daunting to consider playing online after just having gotten used to playing from the campaign?

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Yes.


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Faster gameplay, more building and unit options, more challenging opponents, and no saving/pausing/redos.  I feel like I'm in a newb nightmare just thinking about it...

Any suggestions?
Should I do the challenges (the easy ones) before going into online play, or train against the computer?
It seems so intimidating to me right now... Having a defensive nature sucks   :(

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Blizzard wants more people to get in to the leagues (for obvious reasons), so they've done a pretty good job of outlining a path to do that without feeling overwhelmed.

Anyway, after the campaigns, the progression is supposed to be something like: play AI opponents, play cooperatively with other people against AI opponents, play 3v3 or 2v2 with other people, then finally play 1v1 against other people.  And when you go 1v1 there's that practice league you do first where you play at a slower clock speed and have destructible rocks everywhere to slow rushes and the like.

The challenges are also good.  I've only done a few myself but they definitely should help get your feet wet and understand basically what you need to be doing.  They cover unit counters, keyboard shortcuts (I'm slow to learn these, but it helps), and base management.

Also, playing defensively is pretty much how you're supposed to play Terran in 1v1.  You turtle up, gather resources, and build a massive army that you then unleash.  As long as you keep scouting so you know what to build, this is a fine strategy.

...

Anyway if people want to play with me, you should be able to look me up through my email/"Real ID": Numsgil2002@yahoo.com

Botsareus:

--- Quote --- The worst that could happen is you piss off some l33t hacker somewhere and they get your IP and do things to you using that.
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You bet.

The guy put a program on my computer that:
When I press the shoot button it slightly rotates the ship off target. And my dj studio had "I hope you trowup tonight" when I open it  :wacko:

When I get my internet fixed, I will probebly get a lifetime to StarTrekOnline... I just wanted to know how are modern game security in general.

Numsgil:

--- Quote from: Botsareus on August 24, 2010, 06:34:48 PM ---The guy put a program on my computer that:
When I press the shoot button it slightly rotates the ship off target. And my dj studio had "I hope you trowup tonight" when I open it  :wacko:

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That's not IP hacking.  That's someone giving you a trojaned executable and you running it.  Don't run binaries from das internets without a good idea of where it's from and definitely not without anti virus unless you like hours wrestling with windows manually fixing things.


--- Quote ---When I get my internet fixed, I will probebly get a lifetime to StarTrekOnline... I just wanted to know how are modern game security in general.

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Really?  that one?

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