Starcraft 2 Strategy Guide

Their are many steps when you want to become a pro at Starcraft 2.

The very first of course is to pick a race and get a few practice games under your belt.

The more you play the better you will get so don't worry too much about losing.

In fact it will benefit you a lot to get into a losing mentality. That means a mentality where you tell yourself it is ok to lose for awhile.

During this time you will get to know the various aspects of a Starcraft 2 match.

The more you play the more you'll start to feel out the different phases of the game, and this is the best way to become a pro at Starcraft 2!

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I think for this first text module I'll go on and teach you my opinions on how to handle the early game of Starcraft 2.

I'd like to preface this by telling you I am a Zerg player primarily, so that might spill out in my writing for the experienced players who will recognize it.

Still up until the Gold ladder or so the players won't be on a level of understanding to pick the Zerg specific aspects out of the all-around aspects of Starcraft 2, so don't worry about this.

The early game is all the action that happens in the first 5-6 minutes of a Starcraft 2 match.

The early game is about one of two things. Distributing your resources and rushing/getting rushed. Let's break it down.

To distribute your resources correctly pretend like you have a river. This is your river of money and you get to divert where the money goes. You can send your river down the path of creating more water for later. You can also send your river down the path of building units for war, and lastly you can send your water down the path of technology.

The beginning game is much like a paper, scissors, and rock match where each player is making decisions based on what he thinks the other player will do.

So here are my hints:

Focus on stabilizing your economy.

Make sure you are rush-proof.

Respond to what the opponent is doing.

Send out an early scout.

Lastly I'd like to say one more thing about sending out an early scout. It clears the fog of war, it shows you your opponents technology/buildings/army/economy distribution, and building placement.

Always scout at the beginning of the game!

To really boost your economy in Starcraft 2 you'll learn to use each race's economy boost ability.

The Zerg have the Queen which can Spawn Larvae increasing the rate of production of units.

*Note for using this: Always! Larvae can stack up and the more you have the better!

Terran can summon a worker unit to mine faster, this ability should almost constantly be in use. I like to scout manually anyways so I don't use my energy on Scanner Sweep.

Protoss have the Chrono boost ability used to speed up production of any unit or ability charging in a building. Use it to build Probes if you don't have anything you need out urgently, more Probes means more money.

SC2 System Requirements

The following are the latest system requirements necessary to run Starcraft 2!

PC Specs:

PC Minimum System Requirements*:
OS: Windows® XP SP3/Windows Vista® SP1/Windows® 7 (With the latest Service Packs) with DirectX® 9.0c
CPU: 2.6 GHz Pentium® IV or equivalent AMD Athlon® processor
GPU: 128 MB PCIe NVIDIA® GeForce® 6600 GT /ATI Radeon® 9800 PRO video card or better
HDD: 12 GB available HD space
RAM: 1 GB RAM (1.5 GB required for Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 users)
DVD-ROM drive
Broadband connection
1024X720 minimum display resolution

PC Recommended System Requirements*:
OS: Windows Vista® SP1/Windows® 7 (With the latest Service Packs)
CPU: Dual Core 2.4Ghz Processor
GPU: 512 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GTX /ATI Radeon® HD 3870 or better
RAM: 2 GB RAM

Macintosh Specs:

Mac Minimum System Requirements*:
OS: Mac® OS X 10.5.8, 10.6.2 or newer
CPU: Intel® Processor
GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT /ATI Radeon® X1600 or better
HDD: 12 GB available HD space
RAM: 2 GB Ram
DVD-ROM drive
Broadband connection
1024X720 minimum display resolution

Mac Recommended System Requirements*:
OS: Intel® Core 2 Duo processor
RAM: 4 GB system RAM
GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600M GT /ATI Radeon® HD 4670 or better