He opens 2 gate which I scout normally, but I react terribly and end up losing my expansion (and also way behind in workers). Could someone explain what my mindset should be when I scout 2gate and what the standard response is?
I then proceed flustered and forget to scout his tech at a normal timing and get steamrolled by Void Rays (beta anyone?).
not 100% sure as I play toss not zerg, but I think you should have at least tried to get your natural hatchery down at the normal time (your drone just turned around and went back home).
I don't know the proper response to this, but it's not roaches (since you have to cut so many drones to get them). I think you just have to put the hatchery down and make as many lings as possible. If you didn't take the gas geyser or make the spine crawlers, you would have had enough lings to take down the three zealots before the cannons got up (with the queen helping out)
Don't worry about the void rays, you probably would have held that off fine in a normal game, but in this game you were so far behind that no matter what he did, he would have won.
I think your mindset should be something like "he's investing a lot of resources into this attack and delaying his economy and tech by doing this. I just need to hold it off and I'll have plenty of time to drone up afterwards."
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