StarCraft II is a real-time strategy game published in 2010 by Activision Blizzard and is the sequel to StarCraft.
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How is the number of games available in the match history tab determined?
When viewing a player's profile, you can see the match history for that profile.
The match history does not give you access to all the games ever played under a given profile, only the most recent ...
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What is the correct ability to use in a Roach/Infestor vs Roach/Infestor battle?
Lately, I have been seeing in Professional games and streams that Zerg players when in a ZvZ mid game battle where they have mainly roaches and infestors vs the mirror composition, they sometimes use ...
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What should be the first target for Mutalisks?
In ZvZ what should be the primary goal of mutalisks? Recently I have been hearing it is best to target overlords out on the map before trying to poke into your enemies bases. Logically, I am thinking ...
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How can I train build orders with increased delay?
Usually I train my build orders in a controlled environment, this means: Single Player vs Very Easy AI on Faster speed. This way I have nearly no fights against my opponent.
The problem is that the ...
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Stalemate detection failure?
Take a look at this case: Both Protoss and Zerg don't have the ability to gather resources anymore, Nexus and Hatchery are destroyed. Protoss still have a few base up. What's left of Zerg's base will ...
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Countering terran's initial rush in 2v2 co-op vs hard AI
Related question (but not quite duplicate): How do I learn to effectively transfer to 2v2 hard AI as Zerg?
We're playing Zerg and Protoss and using co-op vs AI as a training ground to practice the ...
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What factors are considered when deciding whether someone is favored or not? [duplicate]
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Where are favored indicators located and how do you interpret them?
I tend to play 2v2 or 3v3, with all my team being platinum league. Sometimes, when a match begins, we ...
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Do the video settings affect the visibility of cloaked units?
Is there some special video setting so you can spot invisible, cloaked or burrowed units, like Observers, DTs, or Infestors easier or better?
I find it very difficult to see where those invisible ...
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What's the best counter strategy against battlecruisers?
How should I prepare my army when attacking someone who has 12+ battlecruisers?
(Protoss/Zerg/Terran answers are more than appreciated)
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What is better for Stalkers: 1 Armor + 1 Shield or 2 Armor?
Grubby just came up with this question on Twitter
SC2 math heads: what's better for a Stalker, 1 armor 1 shield or 2 armor? I heard 2 armor is better before but I don't know why necessarily.
I'm ...
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Are Spore crawlers detectors when unburrowed?
I haven't taken notice yet, but while spine crawlers are unburrowed, do they still count as detectors? Or must they be burrowed?
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Are there any legal glitches in Starcraft2?
I've been watching SC:Broodwar matches and there are tournament legal glitches/bug that some professional players use on their match such as the Turret Bug, the Mining scv trick where you can make a ...
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2v2 strategy if partner drops out early?
What is a good strategy if our partner leaves in the first 5 minutes?
I play 2v2 regularly with my friend. His computer can be flaky and will occasionally freeze within the first five minutes of the ...
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In which league would one have to be, just to be considered average (statistically)?
There are different numbers of players in each Battle.net League. If we consider only active players, which league would be the average (skills wise)?
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Ladder website for creating brackets and tournaments [closed]
There was a really sweet free website that allowed me to create a tournament with brackets of a few types.
I can't remember it now. Can anyone recommend a good bracket/ladder creation site?
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Marine Arena: Goliath multi-lock weapons system?
I'm wondering if the Goliath's multi-lock weapons system is worth its money. It costs 300 minerals at the merc building.
I think the update is the same as in the campaign, and allows the goliath to ...
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Is there a way to visually display a unit's range?
Is there a way to show any unit's range visually?
When you siege the Siege Tank, the range-circle will be shown, like here. Is it possible to show similar circle for Spine Crawler, Roach, etc.? I ...
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Where do you configure the Starcraft 2 alerts location on the screen?
I've seen screencasts from both Artosis and Day[9] where the alerts like "upgrade completed" show up in the chat area of the screen (bottom middle) instead of on the left side. Is this a 3rd party ...
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Hide the hud of StarCraft II during play
I need to hide the hud of StarCraft II during play so I can take screenshots of the full play ground. How I can do that?
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How to watch Replays with double click after copying the install folder to new computer?
I copied my Starcraft 2 install directory to a new computer, so I don't have to download all the patches again. Everything works fine, except when I double click on a Replay it does not open Starcraft ...
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Are APM measured in game time or real time?
If I have 100 APM in Starcraft 2, do I click 100 times per minute or actually 140 times. The multiplier for faster is about 1.4 X.
I heard that these two times are called "game time" and "real time".
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Remap cancel (B) key in Starcraft 2?
I've switched over to the grid keyboard layout. Works awesome. The one thing that sticks out is that if I need to cancel a unit movement, I can hit escape. However when using unit powers like shield, ...
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Does every Blizzard add-on require one game account?
Here is what I want to know:
Once Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm (HotS) is released I want to have 2 copies of the game, so I have a main account and another one for goofing around. I do own one ...
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How do I change my nexus wars builder skin?
So I've been playing nexus wars for a while. I've seen lots of people with different builders (other than SCV) how do I change my builder?
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Has anyone had success with Voice Chat in StarCraft 2?
Starcraft 2 has an in-game microphone feature (push-to-talk), but none of my party members have had success in getting the Battle.net voice chat to work.
Does anyone know how to fix this issue?
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Why doesn't my in-game microphone feature work? [duplicate]
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Has anyone had success with Voice Chat in StarCraft 2?
Starcraft 2 has an in-game microphone feature (push-to-talk), but it simply doesn't work.
My microphone is ...
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Why do microphones get loud when loading Starcraft?
I use Skype a lot while playing Starcraft 2, and for many people that I've skyped with, their microphones go extra loud when a map/game is loading.
Sometimes the reverb-like sound gets so loud you ...
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How do I extract the music from the game files?
I love the Starcraft 2 music. Is there any way to extract it from the game files? From there, I can probably transcode it if necessary.
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How to change in game soundtrack?
When you play Zerg there is a specific soundtrack that starts in game. Same for Terran and Protoss.
Is there a way to listen to the Terran soundtrack playing as Zerg for example?
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Are there any handy tricks for ousting insane AI opponents?
Been trying to get the achievement for 'defeat 7 insane AI in a free for all' and it turned out that all the other AI were eliminated by each other, but the last one was just freaking ridiculous. ...
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Are there such things as map hacks in SCII?
Are there actually "maphacks" out there? I don't see how this is possible but alot of people seem to be talking about them. Personally I would never use them and I think they ruin the game. But, are ...
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Starcraft 2 Can't Click Connect
I've been trying to get onto StarCraft 2 and it won't let me actually press the "Connect" button, it is grayed out, disabled; does anyone know how I can fix this? I have even tried reinstalling it, ...
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How to get rid of “Input limit reached. […]” warning
This warning incessantly pops up every time I try to navigate within the menus and such, and this drives the living hell out of me.
How do you get rid of this?
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Do Combat Drugs need to be researched? [closed]
In Heart of the Swarm, does the Combat Drugs ability of Reapers need to be researched, or does it come automatically? If the former, where is it researched from?
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Can I transfer an installation?
I'm already familiar with transferring Steam games from one hard drive to another, but is this possible to do with Starcraft 2? Starcraft 2 is a huge download and I already have it installed on ...
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Is there a legit way to zoom out more?
Any legit way to zoom out more in Starcraft 2?
I feel like I could handle much more information on the screen.
If I could zoom out a little further, it'd be awesome.
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Is there a penalty for SCV multi repair?
Does the SCV repair scale proportionally for time and resources?
This question suggests that repair speed varies from building to building, but what about multiple SCVs repairing the same building?
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Why do Terrans drop MULEs in battles?
I have seen many pro players dropping mules after and during battles. Sometimes they use scans instead.
This seems counter-intuitive, I mean they could get a ton of minerals for that.
Why do they do ...
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Is SCV pathing random or deterministic while building? [duplicate]
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Is it possible to determine or control where a SCV moves during construction?
In Starcraft 2, SCVs (the basic Terran building and gathering unit) move around and through ...
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Why do players float buildings around with troops?
Why do terran players float buildings with their armies?
Does the computer automatically target buildings?
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What happens when you lose vision of a unit lifted by a phoenix?
Imagine in a PvP your phoenix lifts an enemy DT. Your observer moves away though and the DT becomes cloaked while lifted.
Does it remain lifted? Can it be attacked? What happens to it?
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Is LAN with StarCraft 2 definitely not possible?
I searched around the web, even in the official SCII com forums, but I could not get an exact answer on this question:
"Is LAN with SCII definitely not possible or is there a way to get the PCs ...
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Black screen when opening a SC2 replay
I'm getting a black screen when I try to open a StarCraft 2 replay (which is probably from an older SC2 version than the current one). What can I do to be able to watch the replay?
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I do get ...
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JaeDong Mutalisk Micro
The Broodwar progamer JaeDong is famous for his Muta Micro. I was a Broodwar player and now I'm a Starcraft 2 player, and I was fascinated with that micro.
Reasearching, I discovered in the custom ...
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Do Vikings in ground form benefit from air or ground attack upgrades?
When you land Vikings, do their attacks benefit from Vehicle Weapons or Ship Weapons upgrades?
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Galaxy editor use unit type for trigger?
I have a trigger using the event Unit Enters/Leaves Range of Unit, but it seems to want a specific unit. For the sake of brevity (and saving time for me), how do i set the trigger to find a unit that ...
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Is it possible to get a negative bonus pool?
One of my recent games left me with a strange bonus pool. I fully believe this is some sort of glitch, but I was given a negative 3 Bonus pool after my 3v3 team was promoted to a new league.
Is it ...
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How can I teach my less-skilled friends the value of scouting and aggression?
I've been playing Starcraft 2 with many real-life friends who have varying levels of experience with Starcraft and RTSes in general. At this point most of them have gotten the hang of the macro game, ...
