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Arisen
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States2382 Posts
January 03 2013 19:12 GMT
#1
So I took a long break from SC2 and have started playing again recently. So, when I last played seriously (I played zerg), this is what each match up looked like for the most part:

ZvT: Zerg went mass muta/ling/bane and maybe some broodlords when things got half map and you couldn't deal with the siege tank numbers, Terran had the advantage
ZvP: Roach/Hydra/corrupter, zerg tried using drops and multi-pronged harass to keep protoss from maxing out, if protoss maxed out they almost always won.
ZvZ: A ton of early timings, either one person screwed up early or the other entered midgame with the drone advantage and pressed his advantage with mass roaches.

Playing now....wow. Things are so different. From what I see in the few games I've watched, zerg is so about infestors right now. Everyone I'm playing on ladder are using these horribly boring strategies. Terrans are going mass mech into a fuckton of vikings and protoss have the same old deathball with a mothership on top and it seems even better than when I played. It seems really hard to attack into a terran or protoss right now (at least for me) and without using this mass infestor/broodlord business zerg is still the weaker army late game, so that's not really an option either. I really am not enjoying myself right now, I'm hoping to find new ways to play zerg to my liking, or I guess I'll have to try out a different race.

Happy New Year TL.

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MysteryMeat1
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States3292 Posts
January 03 2013 19:15 GMT
#2
LOL zerg has the strongest army late game.
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Arisen
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States2382 Posts
January 03 2013 19:29 GMT
#3
On January 04 2013 04:15 MysteryMeat1 wrote:
LOL zerg has the strongest army late game.


I never said they didn't, I said that I don't enjoy playing infestor broodlord because they're slow and boring to me.
"If you're not angry, you're not paying attention"
Irre
Profile Joined August 2010
United States646 Posts
January 03 2013 19:34 GMT
#4
enjoy race switching and bashing your head against the wall trying to beat zerg late game. or if your terran any race's late game.

trust me probably boring to play zerg like that, but its much worse chain losing!
DoSu
Profile Joined May 2011
Spain54 Posts
January 03 2013 19:41 GMT
#5
This is SC2, until Hots comes out no hopes
Nothing
number01
Profile Joined December 2012
203 Posts
January 03 2013 19:53 GMT
#6
i think you are being over dramatic and a little whiny. The game has not changed that much. Sorry but I play daily...
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KawaiiRice
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States2914 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-03 19:59:57
January 03 2013 19:59 GMT
#7

are you sure the game has not changed that much?
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Arisen
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States2382 Posts
January 03 2013 20:20 GMT
#8
On January 04 2013 04:53 number01 wrote:
i think you are being over dramatic and a little whiny. The game has not changed that much. Sorry but I play daily...


I don't see how. I'm not whining about anything; Like I said, when last I played, the game played out much differently. The game had a faster pace and people were still figuring things out. Protoss and Terran attacked a lot early and zerg had to try to break what they were doing because their army wasn't as good late game. Now it looks like a lot of those strats have played out and people know how to hold the early pressures where zerg have found out how to cope in the lategame. However, I find the style of play most people subscribe to as very dull and uninteresting.

I'm not trying to force you to think a certain way, I'm just reflecting on my past experiences compared to my current experiences and stating I don't enjoy playing zerg as much as I used to.
"If you're not angry, you're not paying attention"
andreida
Profile Joined October 2012
Romania18 Posts
January 04 2013 10:57 GMT
#9
On January 04 2013 04:53 number01 wrote:
i think you are being over dramatic and a little whiny. The game has not changed that much. Sorry but I play daily...


Since when you play daily ?Two months ago?
This game changed so much in the last 2 years.The only patch that messed everything up is the queen buff,because it led to the metagame we have today, where everyone(zerg) just goes for infestor/broodlord,which unfortunatly is boring to play but even worse,to watch.
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