Hello Everyone,
I am looking for a mentor to help improve my playing ability. I am willing to play regularly and take criticism. My goal is to fight into the top 200 on the leaderboards with all factions. If anyone is interested in helping me please let me know.
Thank you
I'm intrigued by the disparity in your levels across factions. Like, you have level 12 with Soviets but only level 7 with OH, even though you have about the same number of games with both...
Any feeling about why that might be?
I seem to have a better grasp of the allied play style for some reason. I will look in to the mentor program thanks to all for your advice.
Hello everyone ,
I have been working my way up to the higher ranks and I try to play a balance of all factions but I seem to have hit a road block in my play. I don't seem to be improving anymore and I am really struggling to understand what I am doing wrong. I watch replays, study matches on youtude, and use control groups but it feels like my play is not getting any better. Does anyone have any slump busting advice or unique ways to practice and approach the game?
Thank you.
I am in the same position as topic starter. At the moment, I hope the following approach will work for me:
- Always watch the replay of my own game, whether I win or lose. Try to see why different parts of the match went well for me (so I can repeat that) or went badly for me (and think what I should've done differently)
- Watching live games or casts or reading guides is quite entertaining and fun, but I find it hard to actually learn something. I do learn some stuff and see common build orders, but it doesn't really offer insight on why I lose certain matches.
- If I don't really see what went wrong or have specific question I use this forum.
- And, maybe, just acceptance that I am a lousy player. The ultimate goal is to have matches that I enjoy/feel good about. No matter what my level is, I think the matching system will try to get my win % around 50%. So looking at it from that perspective, it doesn't really help to get better since your opponents will also get better. And the mere fact of a high rank would be great, but I can also play perfectly enjoyable games without it.
Give that we are in the same spot I wouldn't mind if you added me on Steam (same name as on here) that way we could practice together and give each other feed back on areas to improve and what we did well. Let me know if you'd be interested.
Yeah being more aggressive is what I found that killed me and I did get kind of blobby late game . But thank you for your advice I will be putting it into practice soon .
Thank you very much for your help!
I agree with the points you made, I never considered how the upgrades and the Paratroopers affected the economy. And yeah watching the replay myself I realized could have pushed way harder with the Sherman's after the Panther I just over estimated his strength. But, I look forwad to putting your advice into practice and I greatly appreciate everyone's help.
Thank you
Well, for control groups you simply select a unit, hold control, and then press a number key. I usually organize the unit list in the upper right by engineer (1), infantry (2-5), Sniper (5), MG (6), armor (6-8), artillery (0).
I never use nine for some reason. I prefer keeping my infantry squads on individual control groups and double up the same type of armor (P4, Comet, Panther) on 6 or 7.
For me, it helps because I am used to the same general layout of the upper right, and if I hear "ahh mines" from my rifles, I can look up on the right and see who is in combat or who is losing models and just hit the unit icon and press r and make them retreat immediately. Also, if I see a unit is on low health or models, I can just click in the upper right and press R. The control groups help because I have the unit icons laid out how they usually appear to me.
Thank you I will give that a try and I will also start going over my replays as well.
What game modes do you play? Do you play every faction?
I recommend a few things:
1) Always be 100% focused when you're playing
2) Play more 1v1s to improve your micro skills/independence
3) Use hotkeys (if you don't, use grid keys; can be changed in options in game)
4) Use control groups (hold control, then a number to select any number of units you want in a control group. Then, when you press the same number, you will select all of those units).
5) Get at least one decent, all-around buildorder
6) get capping orders (I have none set in stone and it's often painful for me.)
7) When you're losing, make sure to talk trash to your opponent because he/she is a no-life loser who spends too much time playing videogames. Don't tell them that you're crying though. It will make you appear weak.
Thanks to all for the replies. I use the grid hotkey setup but how do you use your control groups? This is something I am not familiar with this. Also I try to play all the factions and I only play 1v1.
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. But thank you for your advice I will be putting it into practice soon 
