16 things you wish you knew earlier in StarCraft 2

[@BeastyqtSC2]

Wow, first 50,000 views ever!! Thank you once again

[@stevanmiric5816]

do jaja ti je kanal, samo jako

[@smashedpotatarared]

Lowko Tv nice seeing a kid who is seeking attention by trying to be a popular youtuber noob so stfu faker 🤗

[@petarpfend1754]

Wait Lowko you are joking,right?

[@rotgertesla]

This is NOT the real Lowko. Someone is copying his account.

[@rotgertesla]

Nop. the real LowkoTV have no space in its name.

[@ZelotypiaGaming]

#01 - Returning to mining 00:21 #02 - Supply specifics 01:10 #03 - Pathing 01:25 #04 - Canceling buildings and upgrades 02:40 #05 - Mineral patches 03:41 #06 - Selecting unit 5:00 #07 - Stargate secrets 06:30 #08 - Upgrade animations (you forgot Zerg) 07:12 #09 - Drop while moving 09:05 #10 - Make Medivacs follow 09:45 #11 - Shift queue commands 10:25 #12 - Invisible units 12:18 #13 - Finding burrowed units 14:15 #14 - Visible upgrades (!) 15:15 #15 - Mineral walking 19:10 #16 - Hallucinations 20:08 Free to use it in your description under the video.

[@raggedclawstarcraft6562]

upvoting this guys

[@BeastyqtSC2]

Thank you! :)

[@filipeamaral216]

Thank you.

[@TheVsagent]

Huh, only #15 and #16 are specific to Starcraft 2, the rest are RTS' basics.

[@Icyfortune]

I mean thanks but this is really just basic and common knowledge.. didn't learn anything from this video, In fact I knew about all of this for about since 2015, so this video was basically useless, sorry man

[@tuhaggis]

7 years of playing and I learnt some things today. Thanks!

[@TheVsagent]

Fake and gay, none playing a game 7 years would not know its basics.

[@geddesj89]

stfu bitch, you are stupid as hell

[@joseph_pokemon]

it happens, even after reading guilds and testing things etc.

[@baker7280]

How did you guys who are bitching about him not knowing anything not learn something, like the difference between roaches with upgrades.

[@geddesj89]

@@The-wo2lq STFU BIIITCH!!!!

[@leonthesleepy]

This video reminds me of how much of a noob i am at Starcraft

[@whenyourmainandsidechickwa246]

Same😢

[@SubArchitectDJ]

Yup. I suck, my left hand is useless.

[@quentinultramegadroiteradi7345]

Morgue Original Music Your left hand is useless??? How ?? Use the keyboard ! It’s capital u have some training rooms u can do in sc 2

[@DamianReloaded]

A good training for the left hand is FPS games. (or guitar/piano)

[@Fermion.]

@@SubArchitectDJ How's your right hand? If you got good fps mouse twitch skills, that could translate to getting a lot of value out of certain units.

[@스카티-h9b]

Actually on the mineral patching, never put mule on the closest one. On the last run of the mule before the time runs out for it, it will mine a mineral but will expire while bringing it back to the base and you will lose that mineral forever. It maybe small but it could change the outcome of the game if it's repeated.

[@Caccac40]

Played since the launch, currently Diamond 2, went master in 2v2 and I am just learning how to drop move now LOL

[@bobbybaguettes4766]

played 1 time when I was probably about 7....just got the game for free only just remembering it was a part of my childhood even tho I know just as much if not less about the game then I did when i was 7 😕

[@Qlmmb2086]

#2: That "random weird spot" the scouting unit always goes to is the A* solution point to the destination you chose. The A* algorithm works by generating tiny branch paths and then expanding the branch closest to the target position, which in the case where the destination cannot be reached resolves to a path that ends at the nearest reachable point.

[@Venserql]

10# is huge for me. I often lose medivacs because they reach the enemy before my army.

[@leonthesleepy]

Venser same lol

[@horstkrause9467]

Same here.

[@jobjongebloet]

Move command is also an option but a click seems easier to do.

[@gerritvb]

On the other hand, if the lone marine your medivacs are following happens to die, now your medivacs are sitting still somewhere in the middle of the map. Ideally the medivacs would be on a different hotkey, so they'd always be healing (instead of sometimes only moving when kept in the same group as marines that are kiting) and never in trouble. But at the moment keeping them in the same group as the marines seems like the best value given what you can do with your other control groups instead (widow mine, tank, drop management).

[@WilliamOsborneKappa]

you could queue the attack to other units though

[@F41LZZz]

big one i learnt recently. going alt and a number will take the selected unit out of every other control group and add it to the control group of your choosing. eg. removing a full drop ship from your army to go for a drop.

[@DrewMiller1]

I had no idea that I could hover the supply count to see how many SCVs I had. I've been going up to 120 workers in some games as Protoss. When WinterStarcraft would give an SCV count, I thought he was just the Rain Man of worker counting.

[@sillytechnology]

Correction to the "c" button advice. Any worker with a resource in hand will, after pressing "c", return to the nearest base to deposit the resource --and then go back to the exact patch it got it from-. It is wrong to say that it will drop off the resource and then start gathering again at the nearest patch.

[@chasevanhumbeck4053]

you can just do the shift click to make the building then to go back to mining

[@alephbunchofnumbers]

What about for the grid hotkeys, what do you press

[@alephbunchofnumbers]

Oh nvm I got it, just have to enable command card

[@BloodKitten_]

number 10 is kinda need correction, you can disable the simple command menu in options, wich give buttons to move, stop, hold position, patrol, its a suprise some people dont use this. alot of things can be easier with the extra command buttons, take some marines and setup a patrol, or use hold position to guard tanks.

[@luarclanzelot8935]

Great video as always, i just want to add a little detail: You can actually see if hellion has blueflame or not, without an attack. The flamethrower has either a little red or blue flame depending on the upgrade, but this effect is only visible in medium graphic settings or higher ;) **Edit: Wow, i just checked it and you can't actually tell the difference anymore, it's always blue. I'm not sure if they changed it or if i got misinformed ;_;

[@BeastyqtSC2]

Thanks :) I actually thought of it while I was making the video and set the graphics higher and wasn't able to see it for some reason. Figured since I couldn't show it I might as well not mention it since I wasn't 100% sure :P

[@DailyCatPet]

12:57 im playing on super laggy laptop on 20-30 fps every thing shimers while zooming XD

[@tyarthas]

big ups 3 years later to my favorite SC2 content creator.

[@SquirrilahFish]

God I’ve been shift clicking my workers back to minerals this whole time

[@ishaansharma5381]

SquirrilahFish that works better sometimes tho if u already know u wanna send it back bc if u wanna click the C thing then it has to be holding a mineral

[@canebro1]

Never knew that about hallucinations. Learn something new every day!

[@MoonJung82]

can be used the same way as to add units to control groups. It's very convenient for freshly built units and for things you can click on while under construction: buildings and zerg units. If your main army is already assigned to control group 1, you can select your newly built marines, press + and those new marines will be added to control group 1. This is especially convenient for adding mutalisks to your muta ball.

[@BeastyqtSC2]

30,000 views!! Thank you guys so much, i'm glad you guys are enjoying the video :)

[@RoyalStarlord]

250k views dude. ewe

[@xcoponent]

Thanks for Video! For 10 years I had played SC 1 and Brood War and then many other Games. Well, March 2020 after just 6 months of SC 2, I like it as much as SC 1. Wow, there's so much here to learn. Your Video reminds me to look up more Pc Controls, very useful!

[@H00ps]

is this Badger from Breaking Bad?

[@Procyon14]

H00ps I was thinking the same

[@danielleinad272]

"I want to be a knight" - Badger

[@PraxusUK]

@Дони Цончев This isn't ylyl.

[@MrCrashDavi]

+

[@pettersonystrawman9291]

What is the "c" hotkey on grid setup, where the "c" key is occupied by standard commands for the unit?

[@Zhuinden]

Ctrl+Shift to remove units is new to me. I was kinda missing the ability to TAB and cycle through casters, because I always have trouble knowing what's going to be selected next.

[@username89394]

Note on #1, just for those that didn't notice, it only works when scv has mineral/gas otherwise you'll have to queue the command back. shortcut key 'c' is for 'return cargo' Note on #3, its not a bug, its a result of how the path-finding algorithm works. The algorithm has access of ("see") what is blocking and what is not blocking the path. In the example, since the path was blocked, it goes to the spot where it's closest to the original destination.

[@LightBusterX]

While it may not be a bug it will confuse a lot of people since that not the way it used to be in the Original Starcraft and Broodwar

[@SparksofInspiration]

Love this video, actually super helpful because it's not too technical like so many other starcraft II videos!

[@PedrovoriskAB]

one of the best videos i have seen about skill player.. thanks a lot man i hope ur channel boost into the universe

[@riccardomartorelli2673]

10:02 I always used the M + left click instead of A click on the marines which is the same.

[@codyheiner3636]

Attack moving medivacs heal, moving medivacs don't.

[@PersonallyOptimistic]

Had no idea about the Yamato cannon

[@Acheron2010]

FYI, this might be an old video, but still valuable info - thanks for making it.

[@ishaansharma5381]

Is there a way to do the medivac thing but with units that attack? Like if I want my Vikings to follow marines or something

[@Furnus105]

the ctrl shift click thing was very very helpful to me! thank you very much, sir!

[@Sam-hj8hy]

Thanks.. I have been wondering for years how I deselect production building from my hot keys!. Now I will have to pay more attention to what I'm doing when hitting contrl/shift.

[@tugarelim264]

Phoenixes actually change attack coulour if theyre upgraded

[@15leungc3]

the change is recent, wasn't in the game when he made the video

[@loboling9188]

Zealots also have a special animation when they move with charge.

[@jamiedavid6325]

The stargate units one blew my mind, can't believe I've never noticed that

[@annefrank7820]

this is a really good video, well done on the content and creation quality

[@BeastyqtSC2]

Thanks!

[@leavelbw]

Yeah, I found his commentary to be very Frank Anne beneficial.

[@OneShotMan222]

wtf x,D

[@leavelbw]

LOOOOOL!!!! That was hilarious. However, you drastically misunderstood my comment. I was merely making a play on YOUR name. Which, at the time of writing, I found to be quite clever. Now, not so much. That said, the other Anne Frank, of great historical significance, never even entered my mind until I read your last comment. Cheers, and thanks for the laugh.

[@annefrank7820]

your comment not so hitlerious..

[@dosaj2328]

-There is hotkey which will add to, or create unit group and take away units from existing one, this means no ctrl+shift unclicking units and pressing 1,2,3 to cycle through tabs, or using cycle unit group hotkey -There is RAPID FIRE hotkey: this means you can hold for example snipe button and hover mouse over targets and it will automatically target and snipe all these units, go to unit management and add alternative hotkey for choose ability or target unit, you can even hold shift press any ability and than hold rapid fire button and that ability will be spammed instantly, it is good for spreading creep e.g. Also you can go to your documents account, account number, open your hotkey profile and than you can add multiple hotkeys for rapid fire than 2 only -To split workers effectively: select all your workers and press s and than spam idle worker hotkey and start right clicking workers away at the same time, you could do this by holding 2 buttons by blizzard changed it, maybe because it was to easy to split. -If scv gets stuck: you can press hold, or make it patrol so it doesn't show idle, if you dont have time to save it or kill it -You can shift click medivac next to opponent's base and than click on minimap, shift click to start of the mineral line, than click ctrl+f to center back on medivac, or click on medivac icon - this actually center on your units. Click d on medivac to drop (again holding shift) and than click back on minimap to opponents base, shift click it to end of mineral line and it will drop exactly behind mineral line for you, but, it is hard to execute so you don't do it much often

[@giladbaruchian7522]

even after playing for years i learned something, thank you!

[@dudlecore7358]

I'm diamond, been playing sc since broodwar - never finished learning the game x.x

[@tocza123]

7:14 “All the structures in the game have an animation when they're upgrading.” Except for the Dark Shrine (when researching Shadow Stride). Not sure if intentional, overlooked by Blizzard or whether they were just too lazy.

[@christiangarbe5670]

ToczaMan Well does it matter?

[@tocza123]

Naaaah, nothing matters.

[@penguinz9031]

ToczaMan It actually does have a research animation. It just is next to unnoticeable. The middle of the Shrine will glow slightly brighter.

[@tocza123]

I can't tell the difference on the lowest graphics settings, probably need to check on higher details. Thanks!

[@ryancrist9565]

01:28 god I wish maps still looked like this. There's actually dead space in the middle of the map! AND THERE ARE ACTUAL CHOKE POINTS!! Why did they change that?? Every map in the map pool for the last 5 years has been exactly the fucking same. Over and over and over. 0 dead space in the middle of the map and 0 choke points. It's so fucking lame. It gives a big advantage to Zerg how open they've made all maps for the last 5 years too.

[@Levael]

its 2019... is it still like that? Nice vid, i love it, and i thank u for it :)

[@00Eregos00]

I wasn't entirely sure about #16, very good to know the hallucinations get ignored with detection. Also largely forgot burrowed move could technically be seen, that explains times where Terrans have blind scanned my roaches/festor

[@UKFreedomFighters]

Im no pro but ive been playing and watching SC for many years and never knew about the Yamato cannons! Always something new to be discovered it seems.

[@АлексГергинов-в5ш]

About the mules the bad thing is that if you place them on closer patches they will farm one course and die before delivering, so 25 lost minerals, but when on further patches they will mine one less time, but will deliver the same number of times, so that you don`t lose 25 minerals

[@zatnikutel635]

the battlecruiser visual changes are really nice i didnt noticed it

[@JecIsBec]

I don't care if it's here or not, when you make a hotkey for a unit, if you double tap said hotkey it goes straight to that unit :D Didn't know this until I watched Winter in 0.5 speed on youtube and watched the keystrokes.

[@BayMacDre415]

I found out something interesting about hallucinations. Did you know that, if you hit something with the raven's armor-reducing bomb... and then you have hallucinated units attack the affected enemy units... every shot that the hallucinations make will do 1 dmg? There's some sort of glitch which makes them actually deal damage while attacking enemy units under the bomb's effect.

[@slamminsalmonamigo]

This is actually really helpful, some of this stuff I did know but there's a good amount I didn't. Thanks!

[@thomasbarkas6092]

Rad content. Really, best 20 mins of sc2 non-match content since day9. If you did this with a community with a yt hungry fanbase at it peak, like overwatch, or pubg, you will have your fanbase. I cant stress this enough. consider short individual clips for each tip, tho.

[@gamerfreak0007]

He's a pretty big sc2 streamer on twitch

[@calebrobinson6406]

I noticed how mineral patches have different amounts, but I didnt grasp the importance of it until now. Also the transport unit dropping while moving was a big one too

[@kevinb.3656]

I would really like if you made a video on how pro players pick up their marines into medivacs so quick. I've literally seen them, somehow, pick up marines as their medivacs are boosting away and the marines are literally behind the medivacs.

[@Frungi]

Grab a replay and watch from the player's perspective. Slow motion might help.

[@Ravangers]

im protoss main and wish zealots would have a cool change once they got charge, even though its a tell getting the zergling wings is awesome

[@Johnnyp88]

adepts and phoenix upgrades both have visual on the weapon itself

[@BayMacDre415]

OMFG... I never knew about tip 2, showing how many workers vs army units you have!!!!

[@tend9715]

What!? I've played this game forever, but never knew the supply details. It's the little things I'm still learning.

[@siegelink9549]

wait, all you have to do is click d on the medivacs! MAN I'm glad I found this video. I have been trying to figure out how to do that for a year now.

[@TigerBaron]

Nice, the Medevac and pressing C on workers is especially helpful.

[@seba-re2fq]

Gray vid, hope u get better at KZbin and be bigger :) I’ll keep supporting

[@mirosaworowski9137]

Shifting commands is super usefull while blinking stalkers. While shiftclicked they can all blink to cliff, an non is getting stuck

[@Spartsou]

Mirosław Orłowski and making supply depots

[@ladhkay]

You just earned a sub! just started the game and off to a good start

[@firasfaris2268]

Awesome Guide, simple and efficient, thanks mate ---

[@TanguyBlanchard]

Phoenix weapons change colors when upgraded :)

[@mr.worthmoore8169]

the blades on zealots change colors on upgrade levels

[@321blastof1]

thas a lie

[@pizzacarl6955]

???

[@macurvello]

Nowadays dropalords also have a visual queue. Tunneling claws roaches are more obvious, too.

[@gcavrubio]

Your video guides are really good. Thank you.

[@Mizu666x]

Incredible work Alexander

[@noviodelangel]

How abut cancelling warp-ins? Do I get the warp charge on the warp gate back? And what happens if the source of power gets destroyed during warp-in? Do I get the money and charge back?

[@blackholehole459]

really nice! thanks! its was good for me.. i played alot sc1 and with this i can be up to date quicker

[@tegistardis69]

"No protoss upgrades are visible. None." Resonating Glaives - "Am I a joke to you?"

[@WenqiZhang]

Also Phoenix range

[@tombane5950]

lol "If they have a blue flame, then they have a blue flame upgrade" Noooooo wayyyyyy!!!!!! 5.1k people liked it though so thankyou for helping the community! well done.

[@slothman7731]

This video helped me improve my gameplay so much. and I stumble accross this game again 1 year later xD

[@supercoolguy43]

There are also a lot of tips and tricks like these in the old arcade game Starcraft Master.

[@Flymerick]

14. The Hydralisks too change their look if you research the range-thing

[@kosmonomicon824]

3 years old but still one of the most relevant SC videos I've watched. I hate how Starcraft II tutorials teach you how to micro everything instead of teaching you how to macro basic commands first. The gaming community proving to be a better Developer again.

[@ivailozlatanov538]

On number 6 you showed how to operate with only CTRL and SHIFT+CTRL but you forgot to mention about the SHIFT+click on a unit in the group. What it does is that it removes only the one you clicked out of the group without selecting it.

[@hellowill]

Very nice but you could have included halluc take more dmg so you can tell if you dont have a scan?

[@Marre2795]

#1 - The SCV will return the cargo to the closest command center and start mining where he got the cargo. So if the SCV came from the main, and built something at the natural, it would return the cargo to the natural base and go back to the main base to mine. #2 - The worker will go to the point that is closest to its destination. so if you would've clicked in the fog in the main base, the SCV would've gone down to the forward 3rd base instead of up to his natural.

[@Vargas3499]

You mentioned that if you press C your worker returns to the mineral field, is that also the case if you're running grid hotkey style where C is the repair hotkey for Terran?

[@BeastyqtSC2]

I'm not sure :)

[@jitterg]

loved the tips thanks. i didn't knew a few. learning just one knew thing would have been great but finding a few things was awesome.

[@johankungen2954]

Thank you for making this, it really is usefull!

[@vladislavsimovic899]

Why am I learning this now. Played sc2, since beta and didn't know most of these. Thanks Beasty, maybe it is time to finally make that push from d2 -> m3

[@benbujwah]

I use the grid hotkey setup, so what would I hit instead of "c" to send my SUV back to mineral/gas line?

[@BeastyqtSC2]

C works still, doesn't matter which one you use :)

[@benbujwah]

hmmm... well "c" is labeled repair, and when i hit it just makes a noise and the SUV stil sits there after and "repair" & select target" shows up... I am using an suv with minerals in his hand so I am not sure what is going wrong :/

[@benbujwah]

after watching the video again i see that "c" not labeled as anything on your hit key, but it is the default repair for mine... not sure if that helps

[@engaa94]

Same here.

[@Infernal_Elf]

Using Suv`s for MIneral lines proper hillbilly style

[@zachspears5244]

god, i've owned this game sice wings of liberty first came out, i NEVER knew you could shift hotkey abilities while on the move. most everything else though i knew, but god, that's gonna be annoying to work into my gameplay after so many years of just not knowing that existing.

[@symbiote3220]

thank you so much for the selecting help.... i just got back into this great campaign

[@dragoneye1986]

C omfg ... well I learned a lot :D thanks beasty

[@funlover1977]

detection can spot hallucinations - brilliant hint! I wish I knew that, rofl

[@jeteon]

When those banelings did battle, what was up with the red ones spawning tiny banelings when they died?

[@0niisama]

It's a mutation for them. The choices being spawning tiny banelings upon death, and banelings bouncing like balls they are which allows them to jump up cliffs and over units.

[@Lascarnn]

this is such a great video! i play starcraft few years and i knew only like 5 of those tips!

[@nbaumg]

iv played over 10k games and i actually learned a few things today, thanks!

[@marinauder]

U forgot about banshee - when she has closk upgrade she is invisible! (Seriously their speed upgrade shown by small turbo flames behind turbines

[@Bottles7]

You press c? what the hell - thats insane

[@alexfriedman2047]

Yeah I take it you are 16 and never played starcraft broodwar

[@Bottles7]

Alex Friedman Uh? Wrong and wrong. I'm actually Bisu so fuck off mate.

[@alexfriedman2047]

lmao yeah bisu doesn't know that C is return cargo :DDD way ahead of you OK BYE

[@Knowbody42]

Penis.

[@baloog8]

He said click c so i think you have to press the icon c..

[@kaidsin]

this is the most useful sc2 video ever

[@leynenslucker2991]

Is there any little trick for zergs? or protoss? It seems that you are mainly focused on Terran...... It'd be lovely if I can learn some toss and zerg tips and tricks, since these two were my main

[@BeastyqtSC2]

I might create one including both Zerg and Protoss :)

[@leynenslucker2991]

That sounds great, I'd be grateful :)

[@BeastyqtSC2]

I was recording last night till 2 AM, for the Zerg edition :) Should be up once i'm done editing it!

[@Pyrom4c]

Or change the controls from simple look to full button panel (controls medivac)

[@jasonfontaine7072]

Idk how I didn't know the "C" trick, I've been playing this game for like 4 years....

[@TheLuckyman3000]

Good job! Didnt know about many of these tricks / tipps

[@victory6886]

Your voice makes me clear my throat every five seconds >.>

[@jobjongebloet]

Do you use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out. And do you use the 'zoom' that zooms in all the way or the one that zooms in a little. Also why not use turn right/left. Thank you

[@BeastyqtSC2]

Some players use left/right, but most of the pro players use mouse wheel zoom-in.

[@jobjongebloet]

Thank you for the response!

[@James-uk4xi]

It's funny cause I still see even the best korean pros wasting attention/time canceling upgrades

[@SpaceUni314]

It could be because they know the building will fall and they want the recources back earlier to make more units.

[@hpjk772]

Not one single top player I can think of plays 100% clean. But I feel SC is not about playing 100% clean, it's about not panicking and keeping up production and THEN it's about amazing micro. Maybe the reason for that is fog of war. If both players always had perfect information, tiny mistakes might break your neck, but they don't. Scarlett may not be Korean, but she's certainly up there with the best foreigners. Have you seen the mistakes she makes sometimes and then recovers from them? If I ever built and cancelled the wrong building three times, I would go on tilt and gg.

[@sarahgballeras4548]

Is there changes in this video for 2020 update?