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He's my son, Caden, and is 2 years old... but that doesn't change the fact that we can train him young.
http://www.thefenceline.net/kevin/caden-sc.jpg
And yes, he's not just posing, that's him playing. Any advice I can try to tell him? He's up to 1 word sentences.. but he understands the importance of "A".
looks like he is a Terran player?
Terran Level 1 of Brood War. He's completed a few of the missions on the original.. and after watching his elder brother (5 years old) he's able to complete all of the puzzles in Portal.
2 years old.. and he's beaten Portal. *boggles*
lol no, that's one of the first campaign missions
The original didn't have the snow tileset :)
I was going to post Brood War 1, but I wasn't sure if it was the 2nd, but now I remember that mission perfectly, you face another terran base
That seems almost unbelievable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gifted
That's Mission 1 of Episode V (Terrans in Brood War). It's where we first meet Duran.
I must say, Gifted — your son seems very......
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GIFTED
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His hand placement is off for Terran. Hes going to need to pick up his hot key game if hes ever going to make C+ on Iccup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gifted
I'll rather post this than a wall of text...
Tips:
-Get some program to change most of the hot keys to a smaller section in the left side. (Best for small hands, but can't be used in tournaments)
-Tell him that StarCraft was there 10 years before he was born. Tell him that StarCraft 2 is his age ^^
-Take him into a daily trip to Blizzard. (I would love that, if I was a 2 year old)
I really don't know, he is your kid teach him everything you know. Everything is so easy to learn at that age... BTW, I would love to play against him or you someday.
BUT, DO YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN CHALLENGE HIM IN 10 YEARS?
PS: That's the first episode of the terran campaign in BroodWar, and your son might as well be starting the mission because he got no academy.
the new gamers generations scares me O.o
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Don't teach him too fast.
He is not teaching him WoW duh!
Reminds me of teaching my brother to play Starcraft several years ago. A pity we could not finish the training.
In any case, my advice would be to play a 1v1 against him via LAN. This way, you have full control over what he faces, and you can pace him and teach him about the various tactics necessary to be a good Starcraft player. As my XO would say; "No training is better than live fire."
I would wish to teach my brother how to play SC but I have no brothers, just a sister and she's teen now so she can't be manipulated...or can it be....
I'm tellin you guys, kids are so much smarter than the public school systems give them credit for. If you push them, they'll learn.
People say I'm crazy when I tell them I could beat Mega Man 2 at the age of 6 but it's TRUE
Nice haha portal @ 2 years old is pretty impressive!
Yeah kids are pretty scary. I've seen a relative's kid use the youtube search engine to look from funny videos before he could even write his name...
is he the one pulling your arm? if so you know what to doQuote:
Originally Posted by Gifted
tell him if he doesnt want to look like this when he grows up
http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Page...th-glasses.jpg
he should move a bit back from the screen.
Hahah, that's incredible!
(young) Children won't understand as much the importance of 'winning', or defending for that matter. A good idea might be a custom map where he needs to build a certain number of Marines and bring them to a beacon right next to the base. You then give a visual reward, something fun and exciting to play with like a Battle Cruiser, or an Archon (something big and colorful preferably, and perhaps continue on with the "move to this beacon" idea. I'd continue on the notion of "building" and "moving" more so then attacking though.
Eventually throw in a couple of Zerglings to provide a threat, but it'll be tough to make sure he doesn't get frustrated with the quick loss of his units. The goal should be for him to learn how to build a defense to hold off from an attack, and then eventually how to build up a large enough army to take out a sunken colony and a Hatchery.
I'd use plenty of sound effects (extracted using Star Forge from the StarDat.mpq) to provide encouragement and keep it light and playful.
Bundles of joy. :)
I might be able to get a small video of him beating portal (and attempting to sing along to the credit song) today... here's to hoping it works :)
Indoctrinating with StarCraft at an early age - awesome. :3
And effective. Potentially, that is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gradius
How are his psionic abilities? Have you implanted the neural inhibitors yet?
-- Wait, this isn't going to be one of those baby pictures you can blackmail him in the future, is it? ;)
a) All pictures of our children are meant to be later used a blackmail. It helps us stay out of old peoples homes and being beaten by socks filled with quarters longer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edfishy
b) My daughter has been playing starcraft for years (not since 2 mind you) and she loves it. Her problem is....multitasking lol. So I'll be getting my a$$ handed to me, and I'll be yelling at her for backup, and she's like "Um....I'm not sure I have enough yet..." and a quick inspection of her base yields no room to build anything, a maxed out supply limit of just marines doing that weird little bob as they look back and forth. I can almost hear them screaming PLEEEEEASE send us IN! So that's where we've been working on now....attacking lol
This makes me sad.
What's wrong with a little guy playing SC?
Kid should be playing something else or be active outside. Maybe thats why tear is sad hehehe. I trained my cousins and a friend in SC warfare. I did something to them that they never could do to me....box them in with protoss cannons. Even to this day. Hehehehe...they wont beat this old warhorse that way. :D
Nah , you've got it wrong, there is nothing wrong with that , it just sadens me to hear that a 2 year old kid is playing SC , and i can't even beat the BW campaign without cheating on half of the misions. When i was 2 years old i was trying to walk in a straight line, and not improving my micro.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Blade
Gifted: Let me guess, he's playing the first UED mission?
EDIT: I see n00b already pointed that out - haha.
The same here ^^, guess we got to train our little budies with our best. Else, they will be outmatched by machines in the future. If your kid outmatches you, it means you did a great job. BTW, the only mission I can't go through is Slay the Beast... (That thing won't die)Quote:
Originally Posted by Perfecttear
Did he played through all the terran missions in the original SC?
My dad played SC at it's release, and as such, I've been playing since I was four, out of experience I can tell you your son will understand macro much better than micro, it'll be more natural to him to pump and overwhelm his enemies than maneuvering around them, stress that, micro will just frustrate him but basic unit roles and things like continually producing workers and expanding will come natural to him once taught.
Nah probably just the intro cinematic :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Gradius
What's his APM? ;)
Wow not even a minute! Impressive...
Do you have some kind of detector?
ITS OVE...oh
@gifted: never do this with your kids, unless you find it completly necessary.
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Thou APM hath passed o'er MMMMMMMMM