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Heart of the Swarm Beta thoughts [HoTS Contest]

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Aegeis
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1619 Posts
June 11 2012 07:02 GMT
#1
Prior to actually getting into the venue my friend Spencer and I talked about what should we try out as soon as we were able to get in. We decided to act out scenarios instead of playing normal games just to re-create fights with adding in 1 new unit just to see how it would affect the current meta game.

We are both top 25 diamond with my main being Z and his being T.



Testing with the battle hellion
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Scenario 1: I played Protoss and got up that late high upgrade zealot, archon, sentry, high templar, stalker comp with no new units while my friend went Terran bio with battle hellions.

The battle hellions do very well against against the charge lots and if I didn't good storms on the battle hellions I wouldn't be able to win the fight.

Scenario 2: We decided to play a normal game so I.............. built a Nexus in his main. As soon as the game started I looked at the Nexus and saw that the Nexus Core only cost 75 minerals and 25 gas.

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Alright to explain my train of thought to where I thought this would be a good idea, I saw in the multiplayer video that was released I saw that the nexus core was attacking so my assumption was that the Nexus Core cannon attack came with it but I was wrong. The Nexus Core runs on the Nexus energy for it's abilities so when the Nexus came out I had no energy.

I then proceeded to get rolled.

Scenario 3:
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This was a actual game where I played Z and my friend played T. I opened hatch first and was basically playing two base infestor but replacing infestors with swarm host. The swarm host don't require the burrow upgrade so that was nice. Even they do decent damage they fell very anti-zergy. Not a huge fan and I probably won't adopt them into my play.

I only played HoTS on Friday since I just wanted to watch the games, overall the consensus we came down to is that the majority of the new units/spells being introduced will bring a lot more options in the mid game and overall will increase the skill ceiling vastly.

"Skills to pay the bills" - Artosis, https://twitter.com/AegeisSC2 ,http://www.tumblr.com/blog/socal-esports
ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12680 Posts
June 11 2012 09:17 GMT
#2
just out of interest, why people seem to say swarm host is not very zerggy?
Personally I find it quite zerggy since it creates a false sense of a larger army
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
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