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Please, do explain the joke for the rest of us.

by _notathrowaway 5y ago

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baq 5y ago
There’s no counter to marines
Retric 5y ago
Wordplay on counter. It’s a PVP game where players are constantly complaining about balance and or counters.
- ChrisRackauckas 5y ago
  It's not a PvP game, there's marines. (Now imagine 3000 years from now trying to unravel this joke without a bunch of cultural knowledge haha)
- marginalia_nu 5y ago
  You pretty much get balance whine in any competitive game. Sometimes the communities mature out of it, but the scrub mentality comes very natural to a lot of people. I think it's a funny joke, though. Even though, when I've played Stacraft, I've been the one making marines.
__s 5y ago
Marines are the basic unit of Terran. Terran will build marines throughout the game (unless they go mech, but bio is the primary composition for all matchups). With upgrades marines have high dps & speed. They're a small unit which means you can fit more dps within a small area. They're ranged, unlike zerglings & zealots. Terran's drop ship, medivacs, can ferry around 8 marines while healing them on the ground In reality the counter to them is splash damage, though good micro can mitigate that somewhat, & Terran isn't going to stop building marines just because the opponent built some splash damage In some regards this can be rooted in people expecting StarCraft to be like Age of Empires, where as you climb the tech tree you discard previous tech. StarCraft instead prefers tech to fill out a composition & late tech often provides a support role to earlier tech https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/174912-the-problem-with-marines https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/174912-the-problem-with-mar... (2010)
marginalia_nu 5y ago
A counter is the play that beats a specific strategy. Rock is the counter to Scissors in Rock Paper Scissors.
danielvf 5y ago
In the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, each choice has a counter choice that thoroughly defeats it. If you knew that your opponent was going to reveal a scissors, you would counter with a rock. In Star Craft, each unit has opposing units that are extra effective against it, so if your opponent had a bunch of marines, you might build a bunch of siege tanks. Here's a whole article on counters to the marine unit: https://osirissc2guide.com/marine-counter.html https://osirissc2guide.com/marine-counter.html
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Please, do explain the joke for the rest of us.

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baq 5y ago

There’s no counter to marines

Retric 5y ago

Wordplay on counter. It’s a PVP game where players are constantly complaining about balance and or counters.

ChrisRackauckas 5y ago
It's not a PvP game, there's marines. (Now imagine 3000 years from now trying to unravel this joke without a bunch of cultural knowledge haha)
marginalia_nu 5y ago
You pretty much get balance whine in any competitive game. Sometimes the communities mature out of it, but the scrub mentality comes very natural to a lot of people. I think it's a funny joke, though. Even though, when I've played Stacraft, I've been the one making marines.

__s 5y ago

Marines are the basic unit of Terran. Terran will build marines throughout the game (unless they go mech, but bio is the primary composition for all matchups). With upgrades marines have high dps & speed. They're a small unit which means you can fit more dps within a small area. They're ranged, unlike zerglings & zealots. Terran's drop ship, medivacs, can ferry around 8 marines while healing them on the ground In reality the counter to them is splash damage, though good micro can mitigate that somewhat, & Terran isn't going to stop building marines just because the opponent built some splash damage In some regards this can be rooted in people expecting StarCraft to be like Age of Empires, where as you climb the tech tree you discard previous tech. StarCraft instead prefers tech to fill out a composition & late tech often provides a support role to earlier tech https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/174912-the-problem-with-marines https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/174912-the-problem-with-mar... (2010)

marginalia_nu 5y ago

A counter is the play that beats a specific strategy. Rock is the counter to Scissors in Rock Paper Scissors.

danielvf 5y ago

In the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, each choice has a counter choice that thoroughly defeats it. If you knew that your opponent was going to reveal a scissors, you would counter with a rock. In Star Craft, each unit has opposing units that are extra effective against it, so if your opponent had a bunch of marines, you might build a bunch of siege tanks. Here's a whole article on counters to the marine unit: https://osirissc2guide.com/marine-counter.html https://osirissc2guide.com/marine-counter.html

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