The only other and usually more surprising method to take down a planetary fortress is to use banelings. It takes 20+ banelings to blow it up. A few less if you have upgrades, but you can never have too many banelings against terran. You'll need to produce a few extra or just lead in with a few zerglings to take the first few planetary fortress shots until your banelings can connect. If you're lucky you'll be able to blow up a few SCVs as well. Keep in mind this is somewhat cost inefficient, but come mid/late game you'll be able to afford to do this and sniping off an expansion in this manner is very effective if they're only down to a few mining bases.

I'm afraid not, the infestor's awesomely gross slime trail is sadly, purely aesthetic.

Best suggestion i can give is play some games, if you are afraid of loosing ranked matches at start then play custom games that don't count towards your placement or custom games that are made for practicing certain aspects of the game like "Multitasking train" or Build order tester. Other than that you should read up on changes and new tactics since you last played, trying all maps in the map pool might also be a good idea if you don't want to loose in the beginning and watch videos/streams of other players so you see what people do. Just remember in the long run your are expected to loose about 50% of your matches as long as there is people that are better than you do to the way the matching system works. To your 2nd question you can check that on your Quick Match screen, if your still got some kind of placement it will say "Play one match to be placed in a new division for this season." if not it will say "Complete a series of multiplayer matches to determine your initial league placement." and it will say how many games are remaning.

It depends on the difficulty you have it on and what upgrades. However, that said, everything up to hard can be beaten by just making mass marines and medics. They key is a mobile army as you need to deny them from sealing off cansiters as well. You need to be making constant SCVs until you have full saturation (minimum 2 SCVs per mineral patch and 3 per gas, unless you have the auto refinery). Then try to keep your money low by constantly making marines and medics. A few marauders will help as well. On insane I toss in a few goliaths to help with the void rays and scouts that they send out as well. A few missile turrets as well as a bunker at the top of the ramp is almost enough defense to hold off any attack they send at you. If not it buys you enough time to get your army back if they are not in base. The level also gets exponentially harder the longer you wait to gather as the protoss will have more units sent to attack as well as sealing off multiple canisters at the same time so it is in your best interest to be aggressive and grab the canisters early.

Your third worker will gather at a reduced rate. Your fourth worker will not produce additional income. Please note that MULEs can gather over workers, but not over other MULEs. This results in a limit of 16 workers at full rate, an additional 8 workers at a reduced rate totaling in 24 workers per 8 mineral patches. Please note that this is a full page at the bottom of the screem, as each row is 8 units long. It is however advised that if you have less than 16 workers at an expansion that you transfer those of an expansion with more than 16 workers. As for MULEs, you can have up to 8 MULEs per 8 mineral patches. The fastest income of a single base you can get is by 24 workers and 8 MULEs on a gold expansion. For gas, it depends on the distance to the gas geyser. In some cases, full saturation is reached on your third worker, in other cases (diagonal placement) the full saturation is reached with a fourth worker. However, the difference between the third and fourth worker is minimal and probably only matters when you are at a high grand master level. And even then, there are probably other more important things to focus on. You don't need a graph for this, when you see a worker waiting outside the gas geyser for long enough you simply have reached saturation... Here is a graph for gathering minerals with workers: (Click to enlarge) — Source: TeamLiquid Wiki - Mining Minerals

I'll try to cover as much as I can in this answer. As I stated in my comment it depends on what race you are playing against, what you scout, and when you are trying to get both these buildings. Map size also factors into your decision as well. Since you are referring as to having to make a choice, I'm going to assume that you are trying to do this off one base on a relatively smaller map so all answers below will be tailored around that assumption. If it's a big map (like Tal'darim Alter) you can quickly get a second base and do something like a +1/+1 + charge or blink attack. So what race are you playing against. Terran If you are playing terran that is going a heavy bio start, a forge is a good choice with a small zealot, sentry, and stalker army. Getting a quick +1 armour will reduce marine damage to zealots to 1 with a guardian shield up (Guardian shield reduces damage by 2, zealots start with 1 armour, marines attack for 5) making them that much stronger against against a bio army. If you scout them and they're going a tech route then it will boil down to what you plan on doing with your army and what path you will be choosing. Archons and storms do significant damage to a terran army late game. The same can be said if you go with colossi and upgrades if they don't have vikings either. Zerg This is a tough one to make a choice because zerg can swap so quickly with their army composition. The safer choice between the two is to go forge first with a +1 attack upgrade. The +1 attack allows for zealots to 2 shot zerglings instead of 3. This increases the effectiveness of zealots versus zerglings by 33%. That said, if they go roaches and you're heavy zealot, they can be kited forever on and off creep so you need to make sure you are fighting on your terms. A few sentries thrown in will stop them from running away so you can deal your damage. It does also mean that blink stalkers will have a significant advantage over roaches as well. Even charge would work too. But it depends on what their army composition is so you sort of need the most well rounded army possible. Keep in mind, late game, storms are very helpful versus the swarm. Protoss Again this comes down to army composition. If it's a stalker vs stalker fight, the player with blink will win (assuming properly blink micro). If one of the players goes the colossi route later on, the one with the forge early with early attack upgrades will destroy the army of the guy that doesn't have the upgrades. This mirror match-up is difficult to theorize without scouting information. If you see a forge upgrading you need to get one in response, if you fall behind you will lose. It really depends on what you plan on going for a build. Generally speaking though forge is the safer bet. You can get quicker upgrades, and if you scout a Twilight council and dark shrine you have access to dropping a cannon to save you from Dark Templars as well without having to spend the money on a Robotics Bay and get an observer.

as far as i can see from other people on the internet this mostly happens when they go to the wrong region(such as going to US instead of EU), have you made sure that the battle.net page is the one for your region? This can also happen if you have multiple starcraft 2 accounts on same email, then you need to migrate one or contact blizzard support. If non of this things are your problem you can try this When I login, I receive the message, "NO STARCRAFT II LICENSE FOUND", and I cannot post. Simply try logging in and logging back out. If that does not work, you'll need to flush your account cache. To do this, change something on your account: your password, e-mail, address, etc. Changing anything will reset your account cache.

Under your profile in the game(as well as outside the game at the Starcraft 2 website when you login to your account), there is a section called Match History where you can see all your previously played matches. This includes games from previous seasons. You can filter on 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, FFA, Cooperative, and Custom game matches. Unfortunately, this does not show you the name of your opponent until you click into the game in the Match History selection screen, so you'll have to remember the approximate time, game type and map on which you played the game to find previous matches. Once you find the game, you can click through to find your opponent's profile and their rank. Unfortunately, you can only access the match score screen from within the game, not on the website, so you will need to boot up Starcraft 2 beforehand.

Not quite the patches, but you can backup the entire SC2 directory and simply copy it back after your format.

found this on TL Power Units Power units are something Day9 talked about in many of his dailies. What is a power unit? This is simply a unit that is cost efficient and can keep your opponent at bay, making him think twice before moving out to attack you. For Terrans these units are: Banshees and Tanks For Zergs these are: Infestors and Mutalisks For Protoss these are: High Templars and Dark Templars Why are they important and when do you use them? These units should be used all the time because they are really powerful, hence the name. These units give you time to do more things without fearing a attack at every corner. these units, in other words, control space and this is an important thing in all RTS games. Once you have these units your opponent will focus on them in fear of counter attacks in their bases, this takes their focus away from your own bases, so power units can allow you to expand and tech more and get more ahead. Don't get the wrong idea, power units will not win you the game, nor should you use them thinking that, there will be times where you will surprise your opponent and win that y but the core principle for using these units is to get further ahead. In Artosis' words when you are ahead, get further ahead.

Credits for a mission are only awarded the first time you complete the mission. There is no way to farm additional credits during a campaign, so you'll never be able to purchase everything. The mission still shows the original reward when you replay it, but you won't get it a second time if you start the mission from the archive. This includes when you replay it at higher difficulty, since the credit reward doesn't change between difficulties.

No. You buy account for specific region and can play just there.

It looks like you're not the only person who's had this happen: there are other people on the SC2 forums who've had this problem. Here is the response from Blizzard customer service: I'm afraid there are no language packs. With StarCraft II you need to download the full client in the language of your choice. The English language client is also available from account management though, you just need to specify the language before starting your download. So it sounds like you'll have to download the full version again, only in English this time. Make sure you confirm the language, though, and take note of what this person said later in the thread. This is talking about the starter edition rather than the full version, but it sounds like the same sort of thing will apply to your situation. Hi. Just wanted to say that the same thing happend to me - I DL the german version of the starter edition SC2 installer and no, the web page was in English and it said FULL GAME CLIENT in English but then in very small greay letters it said Deutsch (german). I do take part of the blame here for not checking the default language as german but when your country is not Germany it should default to English even if D comes before E in the alphabeth. So after DL the 7 GB on the very slow Blizzard Downloader (6 hours) I find I had to do it all over again for the English version. I have no DL limits to my Internet so it was just a matter of waiting and I can't really complain about something that was free but it didn't leave a good first impression. But I love the game and have since gotten the full version and I'm happily playing the game so no harm done.

The best way to achieve attacking harvesters in your described method would be to run all your zerglings into the mining path of the harvesters and hitting H (hold position). This way the zerglings will avoid running after the units shooting them and only attack the units that are within their immediate attack range, which will be the harvesters as they path back and forth. This is the most effective, least micro-intensive way of doing it. Otherwise you will either go with A-Move (which is not what you want) or you will have to micro target each harvester individually.

As far as I can see that is not posible, here is a list of what you can do while watching a replay: Unit Following - You can lock the camera to any unit to follow it around the map. To do this select the unit and press Ctrl + Shift + F. Replay Overlay - An overlay in the top left displays various information for every player as chosen by the viewer. These options are listed below. None - Closes the box. Resources - Displays Mineral, Gas and Supply counters. Income - Displays resource mining over a set period of time and the number of workers. Spending - Displays where resources are being spent, either on Economy, Technology or Army. Units - Displays number of units. Units Lost - Displays number of lost units. Production - Displays all research, construction and production taking place. Army - Displays Army units in terms of resource cost and total Supply stats. APM - Displays average and current APM. Due to Game Speed issues, these are currently inaccurate. Patch 1.3.0 introduced several new features and Patch 1.3.3 changed the Current APM hotkey. These are listed below: In a 1v1 game, both players’ resource rows are shown in the upper right at the same time. The main game UI can now be hidden/shown by pressing Ctrl + W. The ability to toggle between player unit colors and team unit colors when watching a replay or observing by pressing Alt + F. New bigger panels are now available when observing or viewing a replay of 1v1 games. These panels are large and are shown in the top center portion of the screen: Player Name Panel: Displays the players' name, team color, race, and supply count - Ctrl + N. Current Income: Ctrl + I. Army and Worker supply: Ctrl + A. Units and Workers killed: Ctrl + R. Current APM: Ctrl + V. Tips If you've lost a key unit in a game, for example the blue player's [[Banshee]], you may be able to find it by selecting a blue unit and finding it on the control group display. Just double click the control group the Banshee is in and the camera will focus on the units. By holding V when having a unit of one player selected your vision will switch to that of the player until you release V. Source: Liquipedia

No, only stim can be used in a bunker. Medics will heal units they are sharing a bunker with.

A couple I can think of: Do double nukes. If they kill one ghost, they may not even realize there's yet another nuke headed their way. Nuke right after you begin engaging their army (so, while you're in combat). They may be at a loss at how to deal with it. Finding a nuke dot takes precious time away from your micro, so try to launch the nuke at amoment when it's important for them to micro. Put the red dot in un-obvious places. Right in the middle of the mineral line is a bit obvious, but maybe put the nuke center on high ground, or on a vespene geyser (for Terran the refinery even has a little red dot built into the graphics). People look for the dot in the center of things - I always try to put the dot at the base of a building, right where it meets the ground.

Since you mention the 7 minute mark, even without scouting, you should be able to find a way to put down an engineering bay about 5 minutes in and that will give you plenty of time to get up a few turrets up around the 7 minute mark. Turrets are very good versus a low number of mutas (which they will have around the 7 minute mark, 5-7 max). With the early engineering bay you can easily drop 100 minerals and gas for a quick +1 attack upgrade which will help versus zerg. Of course you should always scout and not spend needless minerals on the turrets if they are not going mutas. The engineering bay is still helpful for the upgrades.

To replace the image you would need to modify the game files, just like when you want to replace any other images. The picture you are looking for is Assets\Textures\startupimage.dds in the Starcraft II\Mods\Core.SC2Mod\base.SC2Assets.mpq file. Modifying this file is probably against the EULA and can cause all kinds of trouble, so it's recommended to keep on looking at Raynor while the game loads.

its detection range is equal to its sight range, its attack range is 7 and its sight range is 11 edit: from Team Liquid wiki: 1 range is about the size of a zergling