On potentially adding a Nexus recall: "They can move out onto the map with their slower sentry/zealot force and, if things don’t work out, recall the force back to their base if and when things go wrong. " IF AND WHEN
Blizzard implying zealot/sentry sucks? OR Blizzard implying Protoss sucks? You be the judge!
On potentially adding a Nexus recall: "They can move out onto the map with their slower sentry/zealot force and, if things don’t work out, recall the force back to their base if and when things go wrong. " IF AND WHEN
Blizzard implying zealot/sentry sucks? OR Blizzard implying Protoss sucks? You be the judge!
in reality, the writer of the article probably made a mistake of word choice
No he was being completely serious. What the article was implying was when you overstay your welcome (which is the most common thing people do when harasssing zerg) than you can recall back instead of losing all your sentries.
On potentially adding a Nexus recall: "They can move out onto the map with their slower sentry/zealot force and, if things don’t work out, recall the force back to their base if and when things go wrong. " IF AND WHEN
Blizzard implying zealot/sentry sucks? OR Blizzard implying Protoss sucks? You be the judge!
in reality, the writer of the article probably made a mistake of word choice
No he was being completely serious. What the article was implying was when you overstay your welcome (which is the most common thing people do when harasssing zerg) than you can recall back instead of losing all your sentries.
On April 27 2012 10:27 justsayinbro wrote: Am I the only one who is more excited to see the end of Elephant in the room with flash's transition? I mean leading up to his first broadcasted match there will be more of this debate but once flash shows how he will actually play one of you guys will be wrong while other is right
nah, unless flash 100% dominates everyone everytime(and everyone knows that won't happen) people wouldn't concede that argument, and if flash or practically every bw pro tanks and fails bw fanboys would still make excuses about how sc2 requires no skill or the pro's don't even care/like sc2 or whatever. This particular divide will never get closure cause regardless of the truth some people won't admit to seeing it
On April 27 2012 18:38 SpectreEU wrote: Don't we have enough IMBA korean terrans? I think a New Zerg or maaaybe Protoss would be Nice
Well then Blizzard should design the race better.
Even something like giving Zerg lurkers/defiler, and Protoss reavers would make a huge difference.
Instead we get burrowed broodlords, a slow ass corsair (viper), a weird ass underwhelming spell harass unit, and an air deathball unit.
like you have any idea what units will make the expansion and how they turn out
So the tempest is going to be used for anything other than a 1a deathball unit. Its basically another void-ray, except with splash, how can you not see that.
Realise how Zerg needs corruptors to beat colossus, now Protoss has tempests, what does Zerg do?
If Protoss had a fragile AtA splash like a corsair that would be fine, but Zerg would need scourge instead of corruptors because corruptors have terrible dps, they are practically air meatshields (Browder seems to fap over meat-shield units) which is why they still work as an AtA.
I'm just saying there is a reason most of the pros are choosing or switching to Terran.
Clueless people are so funny. I bet you saw people using pure marine vs ling/baneling from day 1 of WOL too right? Or saw Zerg endgame as mass infestor/brood lord when no one even built brood lords for the first six months of the game.
If you mean in Beta, in korea, Zerg was considered the strongest race for a while, and it was much attributed to broodlords. The broodlord (and Zerg) got nerfed quite a lot, causing it to be one of the weakest races on release, if you don't remember.
Marine vs Baneling? Infestors? did anyone ever say these units were boring? I don't recall. I do recall however people saying that the colossus was one of the most boring units in Beta, and it still is. The tempest is another one of those units.
Anyway its getting away from my point which was in response to a person's statement, that the design of Protoss especially doesn't lend itself well to high level play. And so most progamers will find themselves not wanting to play that race.
Now you've completely dodged the point, which is that you have no idea how units will be used but even only 18 months after release the game looks nothing at all like it did in release. There's no way you can predict how good/bad units will be and what use they will have.
No my original point was saying that if he doesn't want all the pro-players to pick Terran then Blizzard should have designed Protoss and Zerg better. Why else would Bisu pick Terran, except for the fact that his talent would be completely wasted playing SC2 Protoss. I've made my point and I'm not gonna change it, no more discussion is necessary on this, at all. Thanks.
Because maybe after 10 years he fancies a change and fresh start? Losira swapped the Zerg, Idra swapped to Zerg, Morrow switched to Zerg.
On April 27 2012 10:27 justsayinbro wrote: Am I the only one who is more excited to see the end of Elephant in the room with flash's transition? I mean leading up to his first broadcasted match there will be more of this debate but once flash shows how he will actually play one of you guys will be wrong while other is right
nah, unless flash 100% dominates everyone everytime(and everyone knows that won't happen) people wouldn't concede that argument, and if flash or practically every bw pro tanks and fails bw fanboys would still make excuses about how sc2 requires no skill or the pro's don't even care/like sc2 or whatever. This particular divide will never get closure cause regardless of the truth some people won't admit to seeing it
Flash's switch-over can't do anything but disprove the Elephant. If he continues to play at Bonjwa level, then that's exactly as expected because he's a Bonjwa. If he plays at sub-Bonjwa level, then it means that the competition in SC2 was NOT a farce. The only thing that can prove the Elephant true is what all the other players do. If, after the switch, we're faced with a GSL composed almost entirely of old BW pros, then it's clear the Elephant WAS true. If it's only half or less, then the Elephant was false. Flash alone, though, can't prove anything.
On potentially adding a Nexus recall: "They can move out onto the map with their slower sentry/zealot force and, if things don’t work out, recall the force back to their base if and when things go wrong. " IF AND WHEN
Blizzard implying zealot/sentry sucks? OR Blizzard implying Protoss sucks? You be the judge!
in reality, the writer of the article probably made a mistake of word choice
No he was being completely serious. What the article was implying was when you overstay your welcome (which is the most common thing people do when harasssing zerg) than you can recall back instead of losing all your sentries.
Basically just making protoss even easier.
Why don't we move Nexus Recall into an item and put that item into some kind of neutral trading post. Maybe each race can have some sort of powerful unit with an inventory to carry these items. And perhaps there are other power-up items that can be bought from these neutral shops.
Of course, Warcraft 3 is a fine game, but it's no Starcraft. I kinda wish the Arbiter was back in some shape, or at least some kind of support Stargate unit like the Arbiter.
On April 27 2012 10:27 justsayinbro wrote: Am I the only one who is more excited to see the end of Elephant in the room with flash's transition? I mean leading up to his first broadcasted match there will be more of this debate but once flash shows how he will actually play one of you guys will be wrong while other is right
nah, unless flash 100% dominates everyone everytime(and everyone knows that won't happen) people wouldn't concede that argument, and if flash or practically every bw pro tanks and fails bw fanboys would still make excuses about how sc2 requires no skill or the pro's don't even care/like sc2 or whatever. This particular divide will never get closure cause regardless of the truth some people won't admit to seeing it
Flash's switch-over can't do anything but disprove the Elephant. If he continues to play at Bonjwa level, then that's exactly as expected because he's a Bonjwa. If he plays at sub-Bonjwa level, then it means that the competition in SC2 was NOT a farce. The only thing that can prove the Elephant true is what all the other players do. If, after the switch, we're faced with a GSL composed almost entirely of old BW pros, then it's clear the Elephant WAS true. If it's only half or less, then the Elephant was false. Flash alone, though, can't prove anything.
You still need to wait at least six months and more like a year after the switch to allow them to catch up. This topic has a lot of mileage left in the tank.
I thought initially it was a good idea to move this from the BW thread as many people where complaining about the SC2 people who go over to BW thread. But now it has become a very much SC2 vs BW thread. Which then surprises me as to how this thread isn't closed yet.
On potentially adding a Nexus recall: "They can move out onto the map with their slower sentry/zealot force and, if things don’t work out, recall the force back to their base if and when things go wrong. " IF AND WHEN
Blizzard implying zealot/sentry sucks? OR Blizzard implying Protoss sucks? You be the judge!
in reality, the writer of the article probably made a mistake of word choice
No he was being completely serious. What the article was implying was when you overstay your welcome (which is the most common thing people do when harasssing zerg) than you can recall back instead of losing all your sentries.
On April 27 2012 21:11 Voltaire wrote: Flash would need at least 3 months of hardcore practice to be able to compete with the current top pros.
You should remember that current pros were cleaning toilets in team houses. I think Flash could be up there within a month if he gave it 100% in practice, but i doubt it as he still plays BW. Also Flash's skill might be above sc2 skill cap, which means he might perform just average among pros, because he can't really use his full potential. I mean there are specific attributes that make Flash perfect in bw that might not fully transfer into sc2.
On April 27 2012 21:11 Voltaire wrote: Flash would need at least 3 months of hardcore practice to be able to compete with the current top pros.
You should remember that current pros were cleaning toilets in team houses. I think Flash could be up there within a month if he gave it 100% in practice, but i doubt it as he still plays BW. Also Flash's skill might be above sc2 skill cap, which means he might perform just average among pros, because he can't really use his full potential. I mean there are specific attributes that make Flash perfect in bw that might not fully transfer into sc2.
Flash isnt above the sc2 skill cap because there is no skill cap. There is always something people could be doing better. They said they reached the skill cap a year into sc2 and now if we went back a year ago we realize how we were playing terribly. A year from now will be the same.
On April 27 2012 21:11 Voltaire wrote: Flash would need at least 3 months of hardcore practice to be able to compete with the current top pros.
You should remember that current pros were cleaning toilets in team houses. I think Flash could be up there within a month if he gave it 100% in practice, but i doubt it as he still plays BW. Also Flash's skill might be above sc2 skill cap, which means he might perform just average among pros, because he can't really use his full potential. I mean there are specific attributes that make Flash perfect in bw that might not fully transfer into sc2.
When he can do things like this
(which is impossible because the AI was using over 1k apm iirc ) then you can say anyone is above SC2 skill cap.
On April 27 2012 21:11 Voltaire wrote: Flash would need at least 3 months of hardcore practice to be able to compete with the current top pros.
You should remember that current pros were cleaning toilets in team houses. I think Flash could be up there within a month if he gave it 100% in practice, but i doubt it as he still plays BW. Also Flash's skill might be above sc2 skill cap, which means he might perform just average among pros, because he can't really use his full potential. I mean there are specific attributes that make Flash perfect in bw that might not fully transfer into sc2.
Flash isnt above the sc2 skill cap because there is no skill cap. There is always something people could be doing better. They said they reached the skill cap a year into sc2 and now if we went back a year ago we realize how we were playing terribly. A year from now will be the same.
Of course there is no skill cap, actually nothing that we know has a real skill cap. I meant there are many factors that influence the overall skill in bw. Someone might be the best at strategic thinking but he really sucks at microing units or has very bad mechanics. Flash's combination of all BW factors is the highest and that is why he is the best. Some factors that make Flash really stand out might be just missing in sc2...
On potentially adding a Nexus recall: "They can move out onto the map with their slower sentry/zealot force and, if things don’t work out, recall the force back to their base if and when things go wrong. " IF AND WHEN
Blizzard implying zealot/sentry sucks? OR Blizzard implying Protoss sucks? You be the judge!
in reality, the writer of the article probably made a mistake of word choice
No he was being completely serious. What the article was implying was when you overstay your welcome (which is the most common thing people do when harasssing zerg) than you can recall back instead of losing all your sentries.
Basically just making protoss even easier.
We don't want players to take risks or lose their mineral lines guys. It's just not fun.
On April 27 2012 21:11 Voltaire wrote: Flash would need at least 3 months of hardcore practice to be able to compete with the current top pros.
You should remember that current pros were cleaning toilets in team houses. I think Flash could be up there within a month if he gave it 100% in practice, but i doubt it as he still plays BW. Also Flash's skill might be above sc2 skill cap, which means he might perform just average among pros, because he can't really use his full potential. I mean there are specific attributes that make Flash perfect in bw that might not fully transfer into sc2.
On April 27 2012 21:11 Voltaire wrote: Flash would need at least 3 months of hardcore practice to be able to compete with the current top pros.
You should remember that current pros were cleaning toilets in team houses. I think Flash could be up there within a month if he gave it 100% in practice, but i doubt it as he still plays BW. Also Flash's skill might be above sc2 skill cap, which means he might perform just average among pros, because he can't really use his full potential. I mean there are specific attributes that make Flash perfect in bw that might not fully transfer into sc2.
(which is impossible because the AI was using over 1k apm iirc ) then you can say anyone is above SC2 skill cap.
That's a flawed argument because a human can never approach this kind of micro, no matter how much he trains. There's just no way you can stutter step 20 individual units at a time seperately, unless you are a computer. Of course there's marine splits, but not like this and it will never be possible so its not part of the skillcap attainable by a human.