Argh!!! I just installed starcraft on my home PC and decided to play a few games on battlenet so I could maybe stand a chance against my sister's husband who wipes the floor with me every time I play, but it's been nothing but frustration playing games there!
First of all, almost everyone sets up 3 vs 3 games.
About 5% of the time, one player is on a modem or something, and this causes the game to lag so much that everyone quits immediately.
33% of the time, one player quits immediately when the game starts, and rather than continue to play with unbalanced teams or turn the game into a free for all, everyone quits.
Another 33% of the time, someone rushes one of the bases, sometimes with a partner within the first five minutes. If that player dies, then 50% of the time the other players on his team will once again, quit immediately.
About half the time, the person that gets rushed is me. I always play terran.
Half the time, I try to build bunkers to block the entrance to my base. If I just do this, and then build tanks to fortify it, I can hold off a rush.
But inevitably when I build up in this way, the rush never comes. They only rush when I don't build these defenses.
Building the defenses though takes 100% of my attention to get it to the point where it can withstand a rush of zergs or zealots. I have to spend all my money on building SCV's, marines, and tanks just to barely be able to survive if a rush does come.
But if I am successful at building these defenses, then I have no air defense. And what inevitably occurs then is ten minutes later a huge airforce flys across my base and wipes it out. To defend against this, I'd have needed to have been building missile turrets from the moment I was able to, and have already started building starports and producing air vehicles.
I could alternatively get goliaths online to defend agaisnt an air attack, but they're practically ineffectual against ground units. So if the rush comes, and it will, they'll just get slaughtered. And they take a long time to get up and going, and and early rush with five guys or something always ends up coming if I'm trying to do that.
So between players constantly quitting the game just after it's started, and the inability for almost any game to last beyond a rush or air or ground in the first ten minutes, why does anyone even play this game?!
The only time I had any fun was in a gam that lasted 30 minutes. We had one expert player whose teammates quit on him, and I was on a team with two other players about twice as good as me. All three of us kept throwing everything we had against the guy, who was playing protoss, and we kepst destroying his attakc waves and blowing up a building here and there but it was a stalemate for a long time. But then just when I was building up a massive airforce for one huge strike... surprise! He quits!
I think I'll go back to playing counterstrike. In counterstrike, people don't just type kill in their console after half their team is dead, or even all of their team is dead.
First of all, almost everyone sets up 3 vs 3 games.
About 5% of the time, one player is on a modem or something, and this causes the game to lag so much that everyone quits immediately.
33% of the time, one player quits immediately when the game starts, and rather than continue to play with unbalanced teams or turn the game into a free for all, everyone quits.
Another 33% of the time, someone rushes one of the bases, sometimes with a partner within the first five minutes. If that player dies, then 50% of the time the other players on his team will once again, quit immediately.
About half the time, the person that gets rushed is me. I always play terran.
Half the time, I try to build bunkers to block the entrance to my base. If I just do this, and then build tanks to fortify it, I can hold off a rush.
But inevitably when I build up in this way, the rush never comes. They only rush when I don't build these defenses.
Building the defenses though takes 100% of my attention to get it to the point where it can withstand a rush of zergs or zealots. I have to spend all my money on building SCV's, marines, and tanks just to barely be able to survive if a rush does come.
But if I am successful at building these defenses, then I have no air defense. And what inevitably occurs then is ten minutes later a huge airforce flys across my base and wipes it out. To defend against this, I'd have needed to have been building missile turrets from the moment I was able to, and have already started building starports and producing air vehicles.
I could alternatively get goliaths online to defend agaisnt an air attack, but they're practically ineffectual against ground units. So if the rush comes, and it will, they'll just get slaughtered. And they take a long time to get up and going, and and early rush with five guys or something always ends up coming if I'm trying to do that.
So between players constantly quitting the game just after it's started, and the inability for almost any game to last beyond a rush or air or ground in the first ten minutes, why does anyone even play this game?!
The only time I had any fun was in a gam that lasted 30 minutes. We had one expert player whose teammates quit on him, and I was on a team with two other players about twice as good as me. All three of us kept throwing everything we had against the guy, who was playing protoss, and we kepst destroying his attakc waves and blowing up a building here and there but it was a stalemate for a long time. But then just when I was building up a massive airforce for one huge strike... surprise! He quits!
I think I'll go back to playing counterstrike. In counterstrike, people don't just type kill in their console after half their team is dead, or even all of their team is dead.