Stormgate | Unranked to Grandmaster Part 11: Killing Grimmy With 5 Units

[@Coreack]

This game didn't show up in my feed weirdly, either way this was another fun watch.

[@primescoutSG]

Thanks!

[@tomorrowduong4914]

Did you hide your control group hotkeys? I'm curious to know how you set them up in different matches

[@primescoutSG]

Yes I hide it so I can see more of the screen, I'll give you the rundown. My groups are the same in all matchups, and I encourage anyone who plays to always make it the same so your muscle memory is strong. #1 Army (The army I was to control, not necessarily all army, but just my main group of units). #2 Special unit control, this is reserved for Graven, Medtech, Sentinal, evac or lancers depending on how far in the game is. #3 Special unit control (again), reserved for helicarriers, dogs, or exos #4 Barracks only #5 overflow if I have multiple of the special units I need to control. So if I have evacs and graven in the same army, evac takes priority on 2 so I put graven on 5. #6 Mech bays only #7 Hanger bays only #8 Command post This is the same in all games/matchups.

[@tomorrowduong4914]

@@primescoutSG how about camera hotkeys? I imagine you'd have f1 f2 f3 for the main bases and then more for different hotspots?

[@primescoutSG]

@@tomorrowduong4914 F1 = 1st base F2 = 2nd base F3 = 3rd base F4 = 4th base And thats actually it, my hands are too small to reach any further on the keyboard from the left side, so I only bind the first 4. If a game goes super late, I will rebind F1 to my 5th base, but I dont but any camera hotkeys on important areas on the map outside of my own bases.

[@TheTeamWebb]

Why so much bio play now? change in a patch or something? just curious really like mech play but like all of your gameplay :P

[@joshsteiner5736]

bio is broken. once you get like 20 or 30 and have the first upgrade you can just micro them and kill everything instanntly with target fire. ive been playing them ever sence i relized how good they are.. argents only do 8 damage a shot despite saying 16. 1v1 exo can beat argent with full energy and a gaunt with no micro. besides the kri nothing really beats them and there so small and fast you can target fire while microing and 1 shot anything with a decent group. they are broken. and you can get it going alot faster with a differnt build order. the vangaurd seige tank things also wreck them.

[@velensk1261]

Right now, creep camps are so high value that getting units out early pays out very quickly. Vanguard bio has always been very mobile efficient and right now, one both needs an army to not die to enemies who go in to military early to get creeps and to get those resources for yourself as well. There are more reasons that are all matchup specific, but I'd say this is the main reasons that span all matchups

[@primescoutSG]

Unfortunately mech play isnt as good right now. The hedgehog is beyond terrible to try and control and its stats have been butchered quiet a bit. The primary issue, is that mech play has nothing that can shoot up very well. If the hedgehogs swap into their anti-air mode the enemy can just back up and it makes sprigging/scythes a nightmare to deal with. Infernal are also playing mirmasa (op circle spell from hexen) a bunch right now, and that does % damage, so even though the Vulcan has 400 hp, it dies in the EXACT same amount of time as a exo, with the downside that they are super slow and cant get out of the circle without taking a ton of damage. I hope they make mech playable, but its too weak to air and the % damage right now. The comment saying bio is broken is so beyond backwards I'm not going to even respond to it. Velen has part of it and the right idea, but not the full picture as to why I personally dislike it

[@TheTeamWebb]

@primescoutSG sweet thanks for all the replies guys love the community

[@snowdrop9810]

Is this 0.0.1 or 0.0.0?

[@primescoutSG]

Older footage 0.0.0 I'm working my way to the new patch but its Unranked to GM so I gotta show the whole journey

[@haotian987]

The balance is broken

[@primescoutSG]

Infernal is exceptionally strong overall right now yes, and celestial players pretty much cant lose vs VG, but with some more patches I think they will be able to fix all of it!

[@RiveSoFlii]

How come you stay at 10 workers per base? I get that every worker more than 8 is diminishing returns but 12 workers has to be better than 10 workers no? It seems like you Never go higher than 10

[@primescoutSG]

That's just a mistake on my end. There's no specific reason haha