I just have a general question about balance issues. I always wondered why Blizzard didnt buff/optimize the Scout in Broodwar. The Scout became a unit that u only made to make fun of your opponent. Blizzard must have known. So, why not doing sth about it? (plz dont give me examples now when a scout could have been useful. its just fact that nobody used it)
I truly think, Blizz kinda hates Protoss but I dont wanna start a discussion about that at all! I'm just curious if Blizzard ever gave a statement about the Scout. The Devourer for example, sometimes it has its usage. But the Scout...
The Carrier now in SC2: Instead of balancing it, they wanna take it out and replace it with the Tempest. Is this saying "Ok we dont know how to make it fair"? Maybe they sometimes just dont know. So they also could have replaced the Scout instead of letting it become the most ridicilous unit evaaaaarrr.
Use it for late game PvZ when you have enough Corsairs but with extra scouts, you can do patrol move with them and they will take care of the scourges (very situational). And also Royal Stove.
Man, scouts... back when I played the BW campaign I would just cheat to get infinite money and i'd go mass scouts, get over 4 control groups of them. Oh, and god mode of course. Even 4 control groups of scouts are terrible compared to... anything.
In the beginning of "pro" BW most protoss used Scouts in almost all games. Blizzard just stoped balancing the whole game at one point and because the scout was used very often in the past they didnt change it i guess.
After that the game evolved and strategies got more defined and the scout wasnt used anymore. Blizzard couldnt look in the future.
Dont say it wasnt used if you dont it for sure. There are alot of old battle reports from people like Grrr and Zileas which massed scouts in PvP for example and killed nexuses with it etc.
They are actually very efficient against Battlecruiser.
So I guess they kind of have a shadow value in that sense that they are part of the reason terrans never go BC against protoss (that and storm. And dragoons... Oh well...)
Seriously, I guess Blizzard didn't buff it because by the time it proved being really useless the game was already very well balanced. With another highly efficient air unit, protoss would probably be way too powerful.
Twoinstances of the scout being used successfully for something else than bad manner. But that's really what they're best at. Edit : and the build stork used against kolll at WCG is in fact decent.
Dont say it wasnt used if you dont it for sure. There are alot of old battle reports from people like Grrr and Zileas which massed scouts in PvP for example and killed nexuses with it etc.
They nerfed the Scout's anti ground pretty hard. Nerfed the wraith's anti ground, too.
In FFAs they are a unit to be feared. I've won several with scout/arbiter fleets. Only when players start building anti-air you could find yourself in a bit of a pickle - but really, nobody ever does. ... Right?
The Scout only real use is the counter for Carriers and Battlecruisers but you never see those units in pvp and pvt so its used mostly to humiliate your oponents.
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