PLAYING FOR RATING OR PLAYING A GAME?!
It's going alright, getting a few ladder games played on most days of the week so activity levels fine however have found recently that my natural urge improve/slightly addictive nature means that i have been obsessing more about my 3 digits rather than thinking about enjoying this great game.... It will be hard but I want to change my mindset - just focus on playing well, if i get beat watch the replay and work out why and if i win watch replay and see where I can improve - could be easier said than done!
With that said, up to around the 850 ladder rank mark, finally beat a 1k plus player (over 1100 actually
) - not so much that i outplayed him, just that i identified a vulnerable com and took the kill. i've got a fair few wins recently like this; which has itself led to me getting overconfident with it - played a couple of horrendous ladder games last night where i spotted a chance and went for a kill - where it was not working or proving to be a questionable decision, rather than taking stock and changing plan, charged on all in regardless..... this needs to stop now
Had a rather surreal experience; one of these sh1te ladder games was against Medicraze which was streamed on twitch; watched this back after and it showed me i have a lot of work to do to compete properly with 1k+ players. the APM and keeping all the plates spinning in the heat of battle was much better than was going on my end
won the u1100 WWPC (out of 3 entrants, go me) - played well against HappyIdiot and pleased that since the last time we met in this competition my play has improved a lot..... against everywhere116 in the final, was outplayed really and faced land pushes with no expansions secured, put together a gunship snipe and was just enough to take the win... see how it goes next time!
of the new maps, played Desert Planes ?! a couple of times, not keen on it so far... maybe once I can get a BO/strategy sorted on it I will enjoy it a bit more! going to watch some replays on this and a few of the other new maps I've not played..... looking forward to getting some action on Open Waters (new to me) and TAG (played previously but was horribly poor then)
Focus for next 2 weeks:
- more radar, more reclaim, more scouting
- push up the tech levels.... i have developed an over reliance on T1 spam - I need to realise better when the shift into T2 land in particular takes place..... UEF pillars are stong and cheap yet i'm not utilising this
- my previous focus on making sure i build enough of everything (factories/power etc) - i'm going too far on maps where its not appropriate, need to better judge how many facs are ideal and how many is overkill - same with power spam - i'm wasting a load of mass building too much power, worrying about an e stall however the better players will build it as they need it
- stop trying to target myself for rating targets, i'm not at work now
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