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What a Broken Game!

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TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-26 09:08:24
November 26 2011 08:52 GMT
#1
The Unbalanced Game

I was reading this thread when I realized just how terribly imbalanced this game is. I think that people just have not realized the overall brokeness that is SC2 yet. Well, I am here to inform everything of these things in hopes to force Blizzard to change it all for HotS. Email all of these reason to their design team right now, because clearly the game sucks so badly and they don't know what they are doing at all.

First of all, Terran can only place their add-ons on one side of their buildings, not to mention that their buildings can't flip 90 degrees to face the other direction. On certain maps, let's take Metalopolis as a prime example, depending on which location they get, if they try to wall off, their add-on will just plain die. Fact.

Now, onto the larvae issue mentioned in the thread above. Well, as it states, the drones and things get there slightly later if the zerg spawns on top, but the other issue here is that the zerglings will get to the ramp .0478534 seconds faster in that position, so therefore, if you spawn on top, it is PROVEN that you must go mass zergling in ZvZ if your opponent spawns on bottom. You just plain win. Fact.

Now, onto Protoss. This race has the ability to warp in anywhere. This means they can take away the defender's advantage from both Terran and Zerg, therefore, they win all games, no matter the map. Fact.

What about macro? Zerg has it hard at the beginning of the game due to lack of larvae to build both workers and army, therefore all you have to do is rush them. You win. Proven real true fact.
Also, the Zerg has to build overlords for food and it gives them vision. They can see anything. Fact.
I just got done looking into this with a test map, did 894075894 practice games and shown true fact that larvae can move around, so if your queen moves, sometimes she pushes the larvae around...this means that the queen can actually be microed to push drone eggs close to the minerals and produce .90743% better mining times, which means that zerg always win unless they are playing Protoss who we already have shown always wins. Fact.

These are not just "racial differences." These are imbalances and Blizzard has to fix these now. In fact, they should change this game to be like WarCraft where all of the basic units were exactly the same with the same stats, just different pictures. The issue there is that the Orcs has more color, so it was imbalanced for those that played in black and white or the color blind. It is just plain harder to see the units! Broken!

These are all real true facts supported by real data. All maps should be the same as well where you can only spawn at the bottom. The mapmakers should really work on making perfectly balanced maps like this as well. They are all partially to blame here. All races should spawn at the bottom, but if you are zerg, you have a blocker to slow down your early speedlings, there should be huge walls that air cannot fly over to cure the imbalance of air units in close air positions, and Protoss should only be able to build pylons within a certain radius of their main Nexus. All of these fixes will make the game just plain better and more WarCraft-esque, which we all know is the real true goal. What about chokes? All open chokes near the main and nat need to be eliminated because it is hard to Terran to wall those off, therefore pylons or lings get into the base and Terran dies. Fact.

Wait a minute...I just did a huge study with stats and data and all that shows that there are some players that are better with micro than others. This means they have a better ability to split and double up their workers, causing those players to mine 2.9452347823978 more effectively than other players. Those players are broken and the game obviously favors those players that are better at it. All players must use the same computer, mouse, and keyboard and go through a series of tests to prove they are of the same skill level as other players or else the game is broken and they are just cheating. FIX THIS NOW BLIZZARD!

We need the game to be more like chess. Both players have the same pieces and the board is uniform...wait...but in Chess someone gets to go first. Damnit! I thought it was balanced, but it is a proven true fact that chess is totally broken. Blizzard better do something to fix chess as well. Blizzard...you guys suck so badly with your imbalances. I hate this game so much.

To sum everything up...Terran only beats Terran. Zerg can only beat Terran and Zerg, and Protoss always wins. Therefore, Protoss should be fixed, then Zerg can win everything and I will be a happy Zergling.

+ Show Spoiler +
Just in case you missed it...this was sarcasm. Please don't take racial differences, strengths and weaknesses as imbalanced. Until the players are perfect, you cannot prove for certain what is truly broken or not. All races are still winning tourneys and there is not one dominant race. I am not trying to poke fun at the thread, but the fact that people think it is significant.


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We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. -Charlie Chaplin
LML
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Germany1794 Posts
November 26 2011 09:03 GMT
#2
oh man, that was quite a nice read.
And we all have to agree, those quicker zerglings.. man, so imba.
LML
TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
November 26 2011 09:05 GMT
#3
On November 26 2011 18:03 LML wrote:
oh man, that was quite a nice read.
And we all have to agree, those quicker zerglings.. man, so imba.


Those damn imbalanced lings. We better just get rid of the Zerg race as a whole the more that I think about it...
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. -Charlie Chaplin
Roe
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada6002 Posts
November 26 2011 09:12 GMT
#4
I gave it a 5/5
Peanut Butter
Profile Joined September 2011
Canada155 Posts
November 26 2011 09:30 GMT
#5
Oh man you had me. I was all ready to rage about how none of your "facts" were facts. Luckily I read the whole post and the spoiler. Very well disguised (Read my share of QQ posts in my time).
Did you see that? Exactly
Polar_Nada
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States1548 Posts
November 26 2011 09:33 GMT
#6
nice one. u had me for a little bit...
[ReD]NaDa and fnaticMSI.SEn fighting~! ::POlar @ UC Irvine::
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
November 26 2011 09:59 GMT
#7
Satires should be at least 1% believable... Too silly. :[
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
November 26 2011 10:06 GMT
#8
On November 26 2011 18:59 mizU wrote:
Satires should be at least 1% believable... Too silly. :[


Yeah, true, but I was going for more cynicism than satire. =)
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. -Charlie Chaplin
Deleted User 61629
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1664 Posts
November 26 2011 10:43 GMT
#9
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MCDayC
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom14464 Posts
November 26 2011 11:12 GMT
#10
I for one, am outraged.
VERY FRAGILE, LIKE A BABY PANDA EGG
Starparty
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Sweden1963 Posts
November 26 2011 14:23 GMT
#11
these threads would be funnier if there wasnt these obvious spoilers at the end ruining it because TL community is so easily trolled and starts arguing over every single post like this otherwise.
The artist formerly known as Starparty
VWSChe
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States144 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-26 14:27:15
November 26 2011 14:25 GMT
#12
This game is not imbalanced. This game is a VIDEO GAME. Don't stress yourself out by telling yourself things that aren't true. If you're playing badly, it's your fault. Not the game's.

Edit: Nobody calls the mate-in-4 opening cheese. In chess, people see it for what it is - the easiest way to show your disdain for the other player's skill. It is a risky opening and it almost always fails.

Edit 2: Now that I read the OP, this is me agreeing with you.
Trust, but verify
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