looking for serious help for a newbie.

[unbuffable]

i'm looking for serious help.

maybe i'll get bashed for being a newbie, but if anyone wants to take the time to do so, will you please look over my replay and tell me where i could improve what i'm doing wrong ( and it's a lot ).

i played 2 v 1 comp ( yes, pathetic ) i'm the terran at the middle top of the screen, not red.

[Sambo83]

Here is the advice for you if you want to improve at starcraft:

1. Stop playing computers. Completely. Just never play against computers; it's not even fun.

2. When you want to learn, play only 1v1 on limited resource maps. I suggest the lost temple for a map to learn how to play on first, since everyone seems to play that the most.

3. Every time you lose, save the replay, watch it and try to figure out what you could've done better. This will help your situational analysis.

4. While you're in the process of playing about your first 50 1v1 games, make it a point to learn some basic build orders by watching pro replays.

5. If your opponent completely rapes the shit out of you, you might want to ask him at the end of the game what he thinks you did wrong.

Once you start doing this, post some 1v1 replays that you lost, explain what you think you did wrong (this helps you think your way through problems, which is important in starcraft), and then we can help you from there.

[Schwitzer]

Heh, we don't bash newbies here.

Sambo's advice is golden, but I'll see what I can suggest anyway...

» Okey, right from the start you did some sort of "half-clone". That's okey, but try to work on your starting cloning. What do you do?
- Start building a new worker straight away.
- Select your four workers and right-click a mineral field
- Holding down shift, click on a unit wireframe to disselect one worker
- Right-click on a different mineral field
- Repeat until all workers are starting on different fields

I can usually get three done before they hit the minerals... sometimes all four (particularly with early-game lag).

» During early game, queue up a new worker as soon as possible so you don't lose time that could've been used for quicker training.

» During early game, I set the rally point into the minerals, so workers automatically start moving towards them when made. You click them on the way and tell them to mine. I find this hard to do after early-game.

Your replay's corrupt; I can't give you any more advise. Do what Sambo suggested and get back to us :)