{"id":98,"date":"2012-03-04T13:33:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T21:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starcraft.kevinleung.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2013-03-17T13:35:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T20:35:24","slug":"now-anyone-can-be-a-starcraft-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Now anyone can be a StarCraft Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard, Blizzard has released <a href=\"http:\/\/us.battle.net\/sc2\/en\/blog\/4544198\/StarCraft_Master_is_Now_Live-3_2_2012\">StarCraft Master<\/a>, a custom map with 30 challenges involving intense micro and knowledge of a few tricks. I beat it yesterday over the course of maybe 2 hours, most of which was spent on scoot-and-shoot and tank-pickup.<\/p>\n<p>My review? It&#8217;s a lot of fun and helpful if you&#8217;re unaware of a few tricks. I clearly obsessed enough about beating it that I played it over the course of 3 sessions in one day for one of my heavier StarCraft days, though overall, I feel like I didn&#8217;t gain much from it. Having watched enough StarCraft, I mostly knew the tricks, and although cool, most of the micro is too intense to be worth the attention except in the most dire of circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>But I definitely recommend it if you have the time. It&#8217;s not too stressful, and as important as macro is, I think the coolest and most fun part of StarCraft is the little micro stuff anyways (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=00l7BvBApQE\">Brood War pimpest plays<\/a>\u00a0anyone?).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re really looking for micro training, though, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sc2mapster.com\/maps\/dargleins-micro-trainer\/\">Darglein&#8217;s Micro Trainer<\/a>. It&#8217;s generally well-done and a lot of fun to ramp up the difficulty on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard, Blizzard has released StarCraft Master, a custom map with 30 challenges involving intense micro and knowledge of a few tricks. I beat it yesterday over the course of maybe 2 hours, most of which was spent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=98\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[12,34],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambling","tag-practicing","tag-starcraftmaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}