[Sensator]

I'm Diamond on NA/SEA and high Platinum on KR. I've played around 180~ games on KR so far and it's a whole different experience, everyone is just so much better. I found myself losing a lot of games early on because I was relying on a lot of stuff that just doesn't work against attentive and generally good players.

Playing on the Korean server has actually done more for my SC2 skill than most of my games played on NA and SEA--it's an absolute must to people who want to get better fast.

As far as pings go it really depends on your ISP to be honest, I've got Bigpond cable and I actually get the same ping to SEA as I do to KR, which are both better than my ping to NA--however using my brother's Optus cable he gets a fairly bad ping to Korea but gets good pings to SEA and NA.

edit: Le sticky necro

[aLtMrFool]

Well.. won the first 16 games without failure, now vsing high diamond but I must say KR/TW server produces the best players from all leagues.

Bronze players know builds and copy builds.

Silver players can build well till a certain point.

Gold players know how to expand but do builds like 3-gate robo --> expand / 1-1-1 -> expo instead of FE but they're surprisingly not bad compared to what I'll rate for NA / SEA gold.

Platinum players are like gold players but better.

Low diamond players are still like plat players but better.

Then high diamond players are like SEA's low-mid masters, really, they are that good. They do good builds but are surprisingly unorthodox. They like to produce more units than drone up? shrugs... or toss who does a 4-gate but decides not to all-in.

Well.. I've only met till there and have won so far, will update when I play again, but generally their leagues are harder than in SEA/NA.

* Is it just me or the players in KR/TW dislike saying gg / gl hf all that before/after games?

So now I'm starting to meet their low-mid masters players and I must say they're really good, they're as good as SEA high masters / GM :

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

[ZergGirl]

Originally Posted by MrFool

W

* Is it just me or the players in KR/TW dislike saying gg / gl hf all that before/after games?

Most don't gg (at the end of the game) unless you gg (glhf too complicated) at the start of the game.
Oh but terran used to say 'gg poor zerg sad' whenever I got a ZvT on xel naga haha

[AvMyuu]

hmph i got kr ladder from my friend, would buying the TW version help the delay i get like 3 seconds, i have 10mb/s download speed which i think seems to be normal but my upload is at 0.84 so could someone help me out, is it my download or upload speed ;O

[PiG]

Originally Posted by judgementxmyuu

hmph i got kr ladder from my friend, would buying the TW version help the delay i get like 3 seconds, i have 10mb/s download speed which i think seems to be normal but my upload is at 0.84 so could someone help me out, is it my download or upload speed ;O

You need to do a pingtest to that server. Your download and upload speed has nothing to do with your latency. sc2 takes a miniscule amount of bandwidth.

It's just how long the information takes to get from A to B. This depends on how your ISP routes to reach certain areas around the world. Optus has a notoriously bad connection to anywhere in Asia as it has to route through the US to reach there so if you're in Australia that may be your problem.

[crAzerk]

Kr/TW version is the same isn't it? @myuu
Not sure about this, will let someone who knows what he's talking about to assist you.

Also, if anyone has purchased a KR/TW acct but doesn't use it anymore and wants to sell it I'm interested

[nirvAnA]

I would think it would need help your delay. If you wanna be 100% sure u can download the TW starter edition and test the lag.

[Flamga]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

I would think it would need help your delay. If you wanna be 100% sure u can download the TW starter edition and test the lag.

Why didnt I think of this o.O going to get started on that straight away, would love to get some KR action!!! Masters here, oh dear god please let me get at least platinum >.<

[ZergGirl]

Originally Posted by Flamga

Why didnt I think of this o.O going to get started on that straight away, would love to get some KR action!!! Masters here, oh dear god please let me get at least platinum >.<

You will get diamond easy, just don't play greedy until you are comfortable - you will be punished otherwise

[AvMyuu]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

I would think it would need help your delay. If you wanna be 100% sure u can download the TW starter edition and test the lag.

where could i find this, im not really familiar with handling chinese websites ;p

[Rage]

My first experience with the KR server was vs some platinum Terran players. They didn't do amazing builds, but my god, their micro was insane. I've never seen better stutter micro.

[Flamga]

Sounds good starter edition has started downloading now so sometime soon I will be able to test the latency in game and then if its decent will get a full version should be fun :P

And thanks for the advice, gotta have the edge in at least one thing :P

[AxSGRiM]

There are so much terrans, and I'm so happy it's my best mu. Just 5-0'ed my placements

[nirvAnA]

https://tw.battle.net/account/management/download/

Download the sc2 client and start playing. *No activation required for Starter Edition.

Quick Comments

AvMyuu:

thanks!

[SLCN.Kez]

Just played my 5 placement matches, they play so differently! I won 5/5 of my matches but was definitely amazed at their multi tasking of terrans with drop play etc, not the smartest decision making from what ive seen so far tho!
But anyway the real point of this was that I feel lonely having no one on my friends list to hit me up kez.446

[Sc2Clare]

u can always add me up StorM.1342(weird having 4 numbers though)

[SLCN.Kez]

oh wow 4 numbers wtf aahah thats baller

[Sc2Clare]

yea...some people besides me have it though~ maybe they ran out of numbers???

[SLCN.Kez]

yeah must have, lotta people must liek the name storm lol

[Sc2Clare]

heheheh yea... i guess~~~