StarCraft 2’s Battle.net is one of the world’s fastest games to gain popularity in such a short time after its release. The game features a multiplayer feature never been used for RTS games in which playing with other players is restricted only by playing online, disabling the LAN features of the game. This feature opened a vast cyber world for the beginner players of StarCraft 2 and the rookies who have played multiplayer by LAN network. They met top players online and has learned much from these people in terms of strategies and things to remember.
Given the basics, an intermediate player would still find it to keep up with the expert level. Bridging the gap from the amateur to the intermediate is hard enough, but bridging the intermediate and the experts is a whole new thing. There is a vast space between these two divisions that a rookie player may find very hard, almost impossible, to cross. There are several things to remember when playing StarCraft 2 and knowing just the basics won’t get you anywhere near the expert level. These other things to remember are the core factors that make the gap so vast and by learning these things by heart one can cross over the deep wide ravine.
At the intermediate level one of the important things to remember in StarCraft 2 is managing your race on the micro and macro level. This is the 2 key parts in every strategy. Macro management pertains to the skill of the player to provide ample resources for different kinds of strategies and be able to build buildings and deploy units effectively. The micro level of managing focuses on how you can organize your units as a separate being in the army. This also pertains to how you can build buildings without the hassle of clicking away at the screen and building it on the wrong side of your base. As an intermediate player, one must be able to learn the value of each unit and building in the game. These units are created using resources and are valuable, so use them wisely; conserve what you have even if you are abundant with it.
Another thing to remember is to upgrade your units and buildings. In StarCraft 2, upgrading units and buildings lets the player have a more powerful army. Upgrade whenever you can and upgrade whenever your resources allow it. If you upgrade too much that you sacrifice the number of your forces it could also be a downturn on your part especially during the early stages of the battle when you can only create first tier units. This also gives specific types of units’ abilities that can greatly help the player and ultimately affect the outcome of the game. This is often disregarded on the lower ranks of StarCraft players as most of them relies on brute strength and sheer numbers and that made them different from the intermediate and the expert players. Learning to upgrade your units is vital, but learning how to use them is a different thing altogether. Learning how to use them will bring wonders to your armies as individual abilities can turn the tables over dire situations. The right micromanagement enables you to conduct their abilities according to your will.
Micro and Macro management helps you a lot to control the game. In addition to this, upgrading your buildings and units lets you use the units to their full potential. Given this, an intermediate player can move through the gap and be able to reach the higher hierarchy of the StarCraft players.
