Feels like Flash is trying a bunch of stuff he knows is sub-optimal in the current meta just to see how it plays out in practice, gauging how easily the opponent is able to react given variations on off-meta builds and janky unexpected responses. Testing the waters
Really enjoyed that game! Re: Flash's all-in when he was 2-base vs 3-base. I think you're SOOOOO right about the floating buildings helping. They completely shut down Best's ability to a-move his Goons from his rally point into the fight. I think you were also right about Flash pushing too hard with that. Seems like he was just in full-out macro autopilot and just constantly trying to shove forward so he could siege up at the natural which he never reached. If he had instead pulled back a little bit and just sieged up along that lake SE of Best's natural, using the floating buildings as cover, he could've taken the game right there. He had SCVs with the army and a floating ebay so he could even have thrown a couple of missile turrets near his minefields to get rid of Observers. Perhaps he felt like he really just needed to win with that push which we, with the benefit of hindsight and full map vision, could see was an incorrect judgement. All he needed with that all-in was to setup a contain while having his vultures target-fire the 3rd nexus, then he could've taken his own 3rd as his supply built up in the contain (rather than trading cost-inefficiently the whole time)
Honestly I wanted to see the SCVs repair during the fight, they don't do much with that 0 range attack anyway so might as well waste even more of the dragoon's time
When Artosis accidentally hit classic graphics for a moment in this game I realized I'd love a whole cast of a match in classic graphics 4:3 beauty. Hard on the eyes but soft on the heart.
This game and most games from last few weeks looks like Flash is intentionally training his micro/macro instead of going for win. He has simply different objectives.
*Literally any protoss on the ladder guessing a greedy build* Arty loses his mind *Flash puts a cc down with 1 marine and skips depot* "That's fascinating. Wow, what a ballsy play!"
Arty's casting is truly next level. Not only does he have deep knowledge of the game and gets inspired by this sub-ASL level Flash guy, but he also constantly coughs and excuses himself so we can have a complete Tasteless vibe and presence. Thanks, Arty!
sick game from flash. i got chills from the timing in his build. so crazily efficient and optimised it's spooky. when the goliath range lined up perfectly with the shuttle arriving and the defence there i too thought he'd go for a 3rd cc. sick aggressive game from flash to see.
Reminds me of Snow vs Artosis when he said he must have built 400 vultures when Snow was just grinding them down in the middle of the map all game long,
How much does it cost to repair a bunker? 1 Dragoon shot is almost 2 minerals in repair cost on a bunker. A Dragoon shoots every 1.26s So 1 Dragoon inflicts 1.58 minerals per second worth of damage. 1 SCV mines is 65 minerals per minute on low saturation, so 1.083 minerals per second. If we add those together, we get to a total cost of 2.67 minerals per second, which translates to 2.46 SCVs mining. If we add transition times for SCVs and not perfect mining efficiency, we end up with roughly 2.5 SCVs TLDR; Every dragoon shooting the bunker costs the Terran 2.5 SCVs worth of economy.
it's definitely something that should be seen a little more often than it is lately. Flash regularly sticks the depots out in front of the siege tanks when the map allows it, but since maps usually don't, I'd expect to see him pulling this move a little more in the future.
And flash finally fucking wins one lol. Love'n flash cast Arty, keep em coming. From what I've been seeing, I'm not loving flashes vulture micro, or lack there of. So many opportunities to pick HTs or block zealot pushes. Also tank positioning leveraging the map. I know it's hard in the heat of everything but I feel like he could pick better siege positions, especially early when the count is low. Clearly I know better than Flash 😂.
Floating buildings and more field-repair offensive SCVs are definitely Terran's future. It's even more APM and not viable for plebs like me, but in ideal circumstances it's incredible value
Artosis casts a series of Flash BW games where he's figuring out/practicing builds. At least some things are going right in the world :D PS: So... do algo's take into account length of comments or...?
The barracks move might be a mind game, because best might not have made the zelit because his barracks was placed in a position that isn't as good against a zelot, meaning he'd go for the gas which the zelot is not as good against. Maybe?
If anyone doubted he is the greatest of all time then just watch his recent games after his military service and see how he improves so quickly and adapts to the meta and creates his own unique strategies on a daily basis. This game was amazing
Even if flash ends up finding the 'best' build, it will still be only one of many builds in his arsenal. Instead of ending up with one build, he'll end up with a range of useful builds for different opponents and maps
You have succeeded in getting me hooked on SC1 again! Back in the day there was StarCraft University; are there any resources like that available today? I am so out of practice and painfully slow.
Flash’s improvement since your first casted match with him and Bisu is night and day difference! This is awesome ! I hope flash is in the next asl! Which does anybody know when the next asl is? And can anyone see him being in it? 😮🎉
That was awesome! I love Terran wins, I love Terran but I also think they are the hardest race, especially at the beginning, they've got nothing going for em, it's a mater of can you hold your opponents play, well if you do THEN you MIGHt be able to do something. Not even bunker rush steadily change that.
PS - I know I'm a noob but would it have been better timed if flash was upgrading spider mines as he moved out? I know it's easier to see in hindsight but considering what he wanted to do would spider mine upgrade before speed vulture perhaps be a better optimisation in this situation?
That cold you got is probably from all the chills you get watching Flash
LMAO
Good one
He thought he was getting chills from watching Flash. It turns out he was just sick.
100% chills responsible - no way you get cold on July's hell of summer.
🥶🥶🥶
This is my engagement comment to keep the flash games coming
I second this!
Third
Fourth!
and my axe!
Flash is Gigachad
The day we stop watching Flash is the day I start drinking again
Bruh, you need water to live! Drink some!
In Bulgaria we dont count beer as alcohol so... Cheers mate
More flash it is
I drink to that!
How about me try the reverse? The day no more FlaSh vids I'm quitting cold turkey. More fun to me.
I haven’t watched the video yet, but I assume Artosis gets chills at some point
This time he got blown away
can't blame him on this one
full on cold this time
It was awesome!!
Feels like Flash is trying a bunch of stuff he knows is sub-optimal in the current meta just to see how it plays out in practice, gauging how easily the opponent is able to react given variations on off-meta builds and janky unexpected responses. Testing the waters
Flash's superpower has always been not being a metaslave.
It's one thing hearing from other pros that build X doesn't work, another experiencing it yourself
This was a sick game, didn't know who would win until the very end!
Flash is in the lab. You gotta keep covering these.
Artosis must be in heaven right now, casting Flash games and learning something each time he does.
Really enjoyed that game! Re: Flash's all-in when he was 2-base vs 3-base. I think you're SOOOOO right about the floating buildings helping. They completely shut down Best's ability to a-move his Goons from his rally point into the fight. I think you were also right about Flash pushing too hard with that. Seems like he was just in full-out macro autopilot and just constantly trying to shove forward so he could siege up at the natural which he never reached. If he had instead pulled back a little bit and just sieged up along that lake SE of Best's natural, using the floating buildings as cover, he could've taken the game right there. He had SCVs with the army and a floating ebay so he could even have thrown a couple of missile turrets near his minefields to get rid of Observers. Perhaps he felt like he really just needed to win with that push which we, with the benefit of hindsight and full map vision, could see was an incorrect judgement. All he needed with that all-in was to setup a contain while having his vultures target-fire the 3rd nexus, then he could've taken his own 3rd as his supply built up in the contain (rather than trading cost-inefficiently the whole time)
Honestly I wanted to see the SCVs repair during the fight, they don't do much with that 0 range attack anyway so might as well waste even more of the dragoon's time
I agree with whoever wrote most words down 👍👍👍
When Artosis accidentally hit classic graphics for a moment in this game I realized I'd love a whole cast of a match in classic graphics 4:3 beauty. Hard on the eyes but soft on the heart.
Flash intentionally keeping the SCV count low for some handicap obviously
Didn’t you know he was playing all these games with one arm tied behind his back?
@@FlymanMS and playing with the tied arm
Hahah obviously 🤣
Still no one beats Larva "footstargamer" who played on tournament with his gorgeous leg.
@@FlymanMS Mouse Only Funday Monday
Thank you for covering this up and coming Terran pro named FlaSh and showing his improvement.
Flash games r like an episode of a sitcom drama series. No joke.
RT had so many chills that he caught a cold
100% chills responsible - no way you get cold on July's hell of summer.
FlaSh is going freeze Artosis to death with those chills! He's already sick in this July's hellish summer. Coincidence? I think not!
This game and most games from last few weeks looks like Flash is intentionally training his micro/macro instead of going for win. He has simply different objectives.
And that makes him even more scary.
*Literally any protoss on the ladder guessing a greedy build* Arty loses his mind
*Flash puts a cc down with 1 marine and skips depot* "That's fascinating. Wow, what a ballsy play!"
That is what happens when you are the protagonist.
yeah, this is the weirdest flash ladder game yet. the man might actually be cooking up some crazy shit.
11:48 excellent Marge-esque yelp there btw
Artosis: he can’t have known 😮
Flash: 🤣😎
Keep the Flash content coming. Thanks for all you do.
11:49 When you open your fridge for a late night snack and see some ice cream in the freezer.
I think every time I see the center on retro I’m going to think of Motive’s 100 kill hero reaver from CNSL.
There is something masterful about how flash moves and positions his units, he's like an actual general issuing tactics, commanding an army.
Arty's casting is truly next level. Not only does he have deep knowledge of the game and gets inspired by this sub-ASL level Flash guy, but he also constantly coughs and excuses himself so we can have a complete Tasteless vibe and presence. Thanks, Arty!
this whole time artosis has been getting chills has actually just been chronic pneumonia :(
Great casting and great observing as well.
So impressive to see Flash getting back to the top level at hypersonic speed.
sick game from flash. i got chills from the timing in his build. so crazily efficient and optimised it's spooky. when the goliath range lined up perfectly with the shuttle arriving and the defence there i too thought he'd go for a 3rd cc. sick aggressive game from flash to see.
Thanks for the casts! Don't need to apologize for coughing or being sick. Much love.
I wish instead of selecting groups of units, you would select 1 unit at a time once in a while to show upgrades and stuff.
What a cool positional play and territory control in the middle. Over the water too wow
Flash is starting to get in shape.
Those siege tanks on the other side are awesome! Go Flash!!
Crazy how a 30 minute game has like 3 battles, and about 3 minutes of peace. Just 3 5-15 minute long fights.
Reminds me of Snow vs Artosis when he said he must have built 400 vultures when Snow was just grinding them down in the middle of the map all game long,
How much does it cost to repair a bunker?
1 Dragoon shot is almost 2 minerals in repair cost on a bunker.
A Dragoon shoots every 1.26s
So 1 Dragoon inflicts 1.58 minerals per second worth of damage.
1 SCV mines is 65 minerals per minute on low saturation, so 1.083 minerals per second.
If we add those together, we get to a total cost of 2.67 minerals per second, which translates to 2.46 SCVs mining.
If we add transition times for SCVs and not perfect mining efficiency, we end up with roughly 2.5 SCVs
TLDR; Every dragoon shooting the bunker costs the Terran 2.5 SCVs worth of economy.
Ive always like that white mech pile in the water
Oh my god, what a game!!
Seeing that setup on and around the center is just so neat
Great casting, Artie! I thought Best was going to take it right up until that last engagement.
Flash memorized the game's RNG function so he knows from his marines' idle animations what the enemy is doing
those gigachad probes just strolling through an active battlefield with mines going off around them
Best channel viewcount revitalization. SC will never die!
11:00 FlaSh using buildings to absorb dragoon shots - haven't seen this one in ages.
it's definitely something that should be seen a little more often than it is lately.
Flash regularly sticks the depots out in front of the siege tanks when the map allows it, but since maps usually don't, I'd expect to see him pulling this move a little more in the future.
Your casts give me the peace and calm I need through these trying times
I'm never gonna get tired of these flash games
This one was amazing. Non-stop action from very early on. Had seen a few others that looked like 15 minutes no rush.
13:00 that tank went too far in, oof.
That's when the contain failed. It could've been a gg with that coming tank sieging up in a nice place too.
Excellent game by God himself. I actually learned a lot watching this. Thanks RT!
Thanks as always Artosis! Keep them coming!!!
The thing Artosis learned from Flash that he couldn't quite understand was saying gg to a protoss player.
27:25 that brings me PTSD from playing PvT on Lost Temple.
And flash finally fucking wins one lol.
Love'n flash cast Arty, keep em coming.
From what I've been seeing, I'm not loving flashes vulture micro, or lack there of. So many opportunities to pick HTs or block zealot pushes.
Also tank positioning leveraging the map. I know it's hard in the heat of everything but I feel like he could pick better siege positions, especially early when the count is low.
Clearly I know better than Flash 😂.
hope you had a nice time in Montréal!!!
With what you said about flash pushing when he could safely kill the third, he also took one of the bigger fights on his own mines
Floating buildings and more field-repair offensive SCVs are definitely Terran's future. It's even more APM and not viable for plebs like me, but in ideal circumstances it's incredible value
Wow Flash is solving the map with only like 2 weeks of being back
When flash did the first push. Not over extending with turrets built in mine fields would have been unbreakable
Flash taught me everything I need to win as a Protoss
Surprised you didn’t get chills this time!
That was a messy aram
Excellent game indeed. Plenty of nice movements by both...
Gotta love the goat, keep the flash games coming it's so great to have him back making terran look good again.
RT watched Flash float his main command center to the middle, and then asked multiple times where his main CC went 🤦♂️ RT!!!!
Arty we love you and we love flash, but please take care of your health! Get some rest and feel better!
These long games from Arty are hands down the best
Jaedong played crazy!
Artosis casts a series of Flash BW games where he's figuring out/practicing builds. At least some things are going right in the world :D
PS: So... do algo's take into account length of comments or...?
The barracks move might be a mind game, because best might not have made the zelit because his barracks was placed in a position that isn't as good against a zelot, meaning he'd go for the gas which the zelot is not as good against. Maybe?
"this is where I think flash is playing wrong"
Love this ALL BALLZ strat from Flash!
Flash looking so much better each game its like the AI's from Nier automata
If anyone doubted he is the greatest of all time then just watch his recent games after his military service and see how he improves so quickly and adapts to the meta and creates his own unique strategies on a daily basis. This game was amazing
SnOw is going to get his ass handled to him very soon, those reaver shenanigans are over.
Really cool game for sure. No such thing as too much zoom out, if it helps to understand the game.
'everybody has a range' i suspect RT is a poker player
Only casts flash games, ahh I see your a man of culture as well
This was so close to the throw - it could easily be a 12 minute game.
Only thing keeping me sane until next ASL
Dang flash is still a beast..getting the center minerals is hard
How about some more Flash vs Zerg after this series? That's always my favorite matchup
Even if flash ends up finding the 'best' build, it will still be only one of many builds in his arsenal. Instead of ending up with one build, he'll end up with a range of useful builds for different opponents and maps
You have succeeded in getting me hooked on SC1 again! Back in the day there was StarCraft University; are there any resources like that available today? I am so out of practice and painfully slow.
Flash’s improvement since your first casted match with him and Bisu is night and day difference!
This is awesome ! I hope flash is in the next asl! Which does anybody know when the next asl is? And can anyone see him being in it? 😮🎉
That was indeed a cool one!
Excellent, brillant. 10/10
I would love to flash my builds to artosis
Man, I love these chill casts ✌
Flash's L shaped ambush in that corridor...😳
That was awesome! I love Terran wins, I love Terran but I also think they are the hardest race, especially at the beginning, they've got nothing going for em, it's a mater of can you hold your opponents play, well if you do THEN you MIGHt be able to do something. Not even bunker rush steadily change that.
Man, this is such a smooth operator. Why can't you play terran like this.
This was seer level prediction
Flash mob! And I'm here for it!
Keep these coming
one of the best tvp so far very fun game
RIP Artosis. Gone but not forgotten. Miss you big lad
dont say stuff like that
Bad taste.
is that a thing? it's Flash showing new things!
PS - I know I'm a noob but would it have been better timed if flash was upgrading spider mines as he moved out? I know it's easier to see in hindsight but considering what he wanted to do would spider mine upgrade before speed vulture perhaps be a better optimisation in this situation?
CastsFlash is my fav YT channel
Flash with the unique setup, someone so small has quiet the impact.
That was an insane match up. Really great video. I can't wait to see what Flash does next.
Amazing match, it was non-stop action.
Whooo, that mine!
I agree with your prediction