Patch 1.4 PTR Notes (updated 9/8) - Page 356

On September 10 2011 04:26 Rorschach wrote:



because people are winning tournaments with them?

On September 10 2011 09:15 how2TL wrote:


Neural Parasite isn't winning tournaments either.

If Infestors got Destiny into Grand Masters, then cannon rushes got Deezer/CombatEX there. Therefore if you think the truth is that Infestors are overpowered, so are cannon rushes, based on you agreeing with the other guy's logic.

On September 10 2011 09:12 hunts wrote:
neural change is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've seen from blizzard yet. Yeah infstor is a bit too good of a unit as is, but it's basicly the only thing actually keeping Z viable as a race. If they want to really nerf ifnestors, they need to buff zerg elsewhere to keep it viable, but they aren't doing that. They nerfed fungal with no compensation, but that was fine because it wasn't a huge nerf. But now they are doing a huge nerf, and still no compensation. The overseer buff while nice still in no way helps the actual Z army. And while the ultra buff is better than nothing, it still doesn't help the actual zerg army because honeslty, ultras are still useless and will die before getting to their targets, even if they are fungald.

On September 10 2011 08:50 iamke55 wrote:

Fixed.

While I understand the frustration Zergs must feel at having their race nerfed, there is absolutely no way a balanced matchup can consistently produce results like VTgiX 3-2 HuK, Strifecro 2-1 JYP, MorroW 10-1 Puzzle or w/e the final score was, Destiny 3-1 Puzzle, Destiny 2-0 STAce. You literally never hear about lower tier Protoss players beating world class Zergs. Wouldn't you be asking for drastic balance changes if you saw results like Attero beating Losira, Deezer beating Nestea, etc? Hell, many Zergs were even preemptively claiming that if Inca took any games off of Nestea in the code S final it would be proof of Protoss being too strong, and the skill gap there is probably about 1% as large as the skill gap between Destiny and Puzzle, for example. Yes the NP nerf sounds drastic on paper, but really, when a matchup is in this state (and has been ever since April), it's not gonna be fixed by changing the build time of random stuff by 5 seconds.

On September 10 2011 09:15 how2TL wrote:


Neural Parasite isn't winning tournaments either.

If Infestors got Destiny into Grand Masters, then cannon rushes got Deezer/CombatEX there. Therefore if you think the truth is that Infestors are overpowered, so are cannon rushes, based on you agreeing with the other guy's logic.

On September 10 2011 09:21 ReignFayth wrote:

you listen to idra a bit too much

On September 10 2011 09:22 Umpteen wrote:


To be perfectly straight with you, I can't make myself care about that right now. I love watching SC2 and I want to see an equitable distribution of the races in high level play - but it's still a game I play too. And the one big thing I'm struggling to love SC2 despite, right now, is how dull and predictable and easily pushed-around I feel as Zerg. And with this patch I just got a bit duller, a bit more predictable, and a bit more easily pushed-around.

On September 10 2011 09:24 hunts wrote:


usually if you think what someone said is wrong you try to point out why, instead of attempting to insult them.

On September 10 2011 09:25 ReignFayth wrote:

I'm just saying you're literally not even giving your opinion but someone elses

zerg is going to be just fine with this nerf

when did goody switch to protoss? o.o

On September 10 2011 09:25 ReignFayth wrote:

I'm just saying you're literally not even giving your opinion but someone elses

zerg is going to be just fine with this nerf

On September 10 2011 09:27 hunts wrote:


no that is my opinion, I haven't seen a statement from idra about it.

On September 10 2011 09:28 Protosnake wrote:



Never, the point was that in Starcraft 2, the best player does not always win, this apply for every race.

Like i said, this nerf will reward bad, blind play, i dont see how more "unpredictable" this will make the game, colossus will just mass colossus every game (Even if they never really stopped to do it) and zerg will mass corrupteur, end of story.

On September 10 2011 09:05 Ihpares wrote:
BUT, Colossi do relegate entire techs nonviable, just as Reavers did

On September 10 2011 09:29 ReignFayth wrote:

ok well Z is viable even if you can't neural colossus/archon/mothership

fungal + baneling drops does wonder

what blizzard is trying to prevent I believe are the players that are using 20 infestors to defend/harass/counter every army composition the protoss can come up with

it is meant to be a support unit like other spellcasters, you never see someone make 15 ghosts off 2 base, or 15 high templars off 2 base.....

On September 10 2011 09:23 ReignFayth wrote:

deezer almost never cannon rush...