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[HotS] The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Page 4

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rotinegg
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States1719 Posts
September 06 2012 09:06 GMT
#61
chances of getting HotS went from 0 to -1, not because the game looks terrible but largely due to how little certain units the large majority of fans thought would be boring/gimmicky have changed.

thanks for the great write-up, 5 stars. no stars for you blizzard.
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MCDayC
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom14464 Posts
September 06 2012 09:15 GMT
#62
Ah, so you'd agree that the widow mine at least has potential in its current form, but just doesn't feel substantial enough right now?
So basically the inverse of the war hound?
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DougJDempsey
Profile Joined April 2010
747 Posts
September 06 2012 09:37 GMT
#63
by your description of the oracle i take it you now know how terrans feel when people ask them to get ravens?(takes forever to get energy and cost 200 gas)
i agree with your points on the tempest tho, it gets horribly crushed by vikings when the costs are equal when carriers would have a much better chance trading efficently with them.
Sapphire.lux
Profile Joined July 2010
Romania2620 Posts
September 06 2012 09:43 GMT
#64
Agree with everything apart from the mine being "bad". It might not be balanced in the right way right now, but the design is great. IMO it costs to much and is to supply heavy but this is easy to fix, if they want to.

Mech looks like shit at this point. The worhoud is not a SC unit let alone a mech unit...like rotinegg said though, Blizzard will not make any major changes, like they've proved it in WOL with the Colossus, no matter how big the community outcry.

Unless something extraordinary happens like Blizzard listnening to the community, HOTS is not for me.
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B.I.G.
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
3251 Posts
September 06 2012 09:48 GMT
#65
So just to be clear, tempest completely replaces carrier? No tempest AND carrier?
marttorn
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Norway5211 Posts
September 06 2012 09:55 GMT
#66
I wasn't particularly planning on playing HotS before, but this solidified my decision. Thanks for the great write-up Plexa.
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surfinbird1
Profile Joined September 2009
Germany999 Posts
September 06 2012 10:06 GMT
#67
Right from the get-go I was skeptical about the Oracle. That stupid line: "There's fifty ways for a worker to die in SC2, we have a unit that doesn't kill them but still can harass". Didn't sit well with me from the beginning. From what I've seen it's completely useless, good blog.
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Isualin
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany1903 Posts
September 06 2012 10:09 GMT
#68
i absolutely agree on tempest. the almighty protoss, the f***ing firstborn cant have tempest as their flagship. they really should have worked on carrier
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Paljas
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany6926 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-06 14:03:44
September 06 2012 10:47 GMT
#69
the problem with the worker count thing is not that is makes the game easier but that it
1. looks ugly, and
2. this is only the first step. it wont stop. the full screen will be filled with stupid tabs and numbers.
oh, you dont know how many units you are producing right now? every player has a production tab on his screen. you want to know how many stalkers and zealots you have? you dont have to count anymore, your unit count will be shown right in the middle of your scrren. whats your income? its shown at the top right of your screen. you want to know your amount of production facilities? never count again, the last free screen fill be filled by this number.

thats the future, the whole game will just be numbers.
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TheKefka
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Croatia11752 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-06 11:03:12
September 06 2012 10:58 GMT
#70
I'm quite sure I won't get the game when it comes out.
Pretty sure as well that If they don't do a complete rework of protoss in the last expansion,the game is going to die within that year.
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guN-viCe
Profile Joined March 2010
United States687 Posts
September 06 2012 11:10 GMT
#71
I saw ForGG using mines effectively.

He rushed with some MM early game and was planting mines at the opponents ramp while getting free shots on the nexus. He would run the mines right next to the protoss units and detonate them. Both him and his opponent were lol'ing at how much damage the mines were doing.

IMO, swarm host is lame. I don't understand how people like it so much. Seems hard to balance and is yawn-worthy.
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Greem
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
730 Posts
September 06 2012 11:33 GMT
#72
Nice inside look into beta, i've been watching streams since i dont have any beta, and observing stuff tells me the same story.

ould a lurker be better? Yes, it would. The reason for that isn't that I'm a BW elitist, rather that the swarm host loses its utility in longer games. While I can't speak for ZvT, in ZvP once the Colossus count gets sufficiently high there is nothing that 123123123 swarm hosts can do because locusts just get vaporized in an instant. Then since the hosts are still on cool down, its just a matter of time before they are killed off. Lurkers have prolonged utility because they don't rely on a weak proxy to do damage, their spines aren't going anywhere until the lurker is killed whereas if the locusts die then the host is just waiting to die. Moreover, lurkers fulfill a defensive role significantly better than swarm hosts, which a more of an aggressive unit.


I agree, while swarm host is nice in mid game, it adds nothing to late game. I really hope, they put lurkers back. Zerg needs the defense they provide , and more late game utility .

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Insurrectionist
Profile Joined February 2011
Norway141 Posts
September 06 2012 11:36 GMT
#73
Watching streams, I've found the #1 reason why I think Warhounds are great against immortals - they can kite them. Warhounds are SIGNIFICANTLY faster than immortals, and haywire missiles are basically tailor-made for kiting, with a long CD (for an attack) and high damage. I especially remember watching Gretorp playing chargelot/archon/immortal against Drewbie on NASL's channel - during mid-game engagements, Gretorp's immortals didn't get to fire at all, while his zealots only got hits in when charging (still slower than warhounds with charge upgrade) and the archons didn't get shots off either since the zealots blocked them. And once the zealots died and it was time to retreat, the immortals got completely demolished since they're so much slower than warhounds. In a straight up a-move vs a-move the immortal might do fine, but if there's any room to kite, warhounds seem really good against them.


Also, I saw a lot of protoss loving energize early-game, being able to chrono both probes and any and all upgrades continuously, and still having some energy spare for production in emergency situations.
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19399 Posts
September 06 2012 12:04 GMT
#74
Great write up.

Did you forget to talk about Battlecruiser boost or was that taken out?
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33713 Posts
September 06 2012 12:34 GMT
#75
widow mine seems like something to wait on

it's a very APM intensive unit with a lot of versatility

people used to think vultures suck for like two years, I think we'll be learning a lot more about these mines with time.
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OptimusYale
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)1005 Posts
September 06 2012 12:35 GMT
#76
Idea for the Dark shrine, have it open up another unit in a different building, and allow it to research amulet for templar. I mean, that would make the building useful at least
Superouman
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
France2195 Posts
September 06 2012 13:12 GMT
#77
ZvZ swarm host wars, i love dem
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Saechiis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands4989 Posts
September 06 2012 13:23 GMT
#78
Only thing I really disagree with is the speed hydra, it seemed to really make the hydra much more of an interesting hit and run unit (I saw Ret and Sheth use them quite succesfully vs Protoss). In combination with Vipers they might even deal with Colossi okay.
I think esports is pretty nice.
DKR
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom622 Posts
September 06 2012 14:00 GMT
#79
I'd like to see the carrier retained in some form, It feels like it needs something to happen to the other races to make it work. BC is great against siege lines, end game Z and end game P with ghosts; it's a unit which has really thrived in the latter parts of WoL. Could the carrier do the same? maybe... I mean if T meched then the Carrier could potentially be awesome.
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GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States20754 Posts
September 06 2012 14:24 GMT
#80
Agree with all except the widow mine, I would put that in the good section. It is easily the most fun unit, has massive utility, and with creativity they can do anything. Like putting them behind mineral patches on the high ground: they leap to the workers to harass from above. or defending YOUR mineral line from things like muta harass.
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