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On August 18 2012 03:38 Lorch wrote:
Friends and family has in fact recieved keyes, i don't know if they are playing yet though, and since it's nda no one is allowed to talk about it anyways.

On August 18 2012 05:01 eviltomahawk wrote:
During one of the PTRs, the Fungal spell was changed to a projectile that took a split second to land instead of the instant spell that we have now. I think they considered changing Fungal to a slow spell against air, but they decided against both changes after a lot of community outcry.

On August 18 2012 04:40 Zergrusher wrote:



Funguls rooting has to be changed to a slowing spell(still rooting Blink stalkers) for the greater good of SC2

and if zergs AA has problems they can always Unnerf the 2 nerfs the hydralisk got.

On August 18 2012 05:10 Ramiz1989 wrote:

I would really like for Fungal to be AoE Slow Corruption, meaning that it does no damage, slow units and improve damage they take for 20%(subject to change). That Way, Infestor will be used for its purpose, and that is support caster, not like now where people just throw random units(Lings/Roaches/Banelings) at the opponent while chain-fungaling, and in the end, that is what does damage.

Even if I'm Zerg, the whole concept of chain fungals is incredibly stupid, it just kills the micro, enemy can spread out a bit, but if you are hit before that, that is it...

On August 18 2012 05:25 InVerno wrote:
Basically the Viper is what the infestor was intended to be in the composition but better. I mean, the viper design is better in any aspect , from a player and spectator view, his abilities seems infestor abilities but way more interesting and "equal" .. Infestor is simply broken by design, its like the neural parasite, or too op or too up, there is no mid way for a good design. "slow units" its more balaced, we all know, but its funny to watch? i believe is not, havin an army in a swamp is not more funny than chain fungals, at least with chain fungals the casters can shout out something silly like "huge fungal". I hope Vipers will take the infestor place in the metagame, and we can all say bye to infestor with lotv. They have the same role, for me vipers are a safety car for the infestor incident.

On August 18 2012 03:36 NormandyBoy wrote:

Does that mean that you're not a friend of your friends ?

On August 18 2012 05:36 Zergrusher wrote:



listen to me VERY carefully

you can balance NP really really easily. Make its range 8.


Also Blinding cloud only effects bio units.

which means the only time you'll might ever see it is late late game ZVZ



Blinding cloud WILL DO NOTHING against the mech balls and protoss deathballs.... that are litterally what every ZVT and ZVP is right now in HOTS.


Also you can balance Fungul by doing this:

making it a slowing spell(65%) that will still root blink stalkers.

since zergs AA would be weaker... Blizzard can buff the hydralisk like this:

- Unnerf the 2 nerfs it got.(look them up on Liquidpedia II)

- Remove Grooved spines and make 6 range default range

- make off creep movement speed 2.5

Because shure the hive tech speed upgrade is good(and should be in the game).... but it doesn't solve the main issues of the hydralisk.

After all the roach ruined zerg entirely.

its so easy to fix..... actaully you know what? One of these days I have to post a big thread on How to completely improve and fix SC2.

On August 18 2012 05:25 InVerno wrote:
Basically the Viper is what the infestor was intended to be in the composition but better. I mean, the viper design is better in any aspect , from a player and spectator view, his abilities seems infestor abilities but way more interesting and "equal" .. Infestor is simply broken by design, its like the neural parasite, or too op or too up, there is no mid way for a good design. "slow units" its more balaced, we all know, but its funny to watch? i believe is not, havin an army in a swamp is not more funny than chain fungals, at least with chain fungals the casters can shout out something silly like "huge fungal". I hope Vipers will take the infestor place in the metagame, and we can all say bye to infestor with lotv. They have the same role, for me vipers are a safety car for the infestor incident.

It'll be useful zvt. I don't know what you are smoking but most zvt's I play and watch are bio.

On August 18 2012 05:01 eviltomahawk wrote:
During one of the PTRs, the Fungal spell was changed to a projectile that took a split second to land instead of the instant spell that we have now. I think they considered changing Fungal to a slow spell against air, but they decided against both changes after a lot of community outcry.

On August 18 2012 05:01 eviltomahawk wrote:
During one of the PTRs, the Fungal spell was changed to a projectile that took a split second to land instead of the instant spell that we have now. I think they considered changing Fungal to a slow spell against air, but they decided against both changes after a lot of community outcry.

On August 18 2012 07:34 Grumbels wrote:

I don't think that was the community's finest moment. Apparently nobody understands the difference between underpowered and underused, because if you buff a unit that suffers from the latter you'll just imbalance the game as soon as strategies tailored to its strengths are created. But as zerg was weak and the infestor did not see a lot of use, nobody wanted a nerf to its signature ability. On another note, infested terrans were a hated unit in the beta because of how pointless they were supposed to be and many people wanted to have it replaced with something superior.

On August 18 2012 09:33 stichtom wrote:
Why no one is speaking about Ultralisk charge ? It seems so so so strong

On August 18 2012 09:47 eviltomahawk wrote:

Apparently, ultralisk charge doesn't have auto-cast and thus must be manually cast, and it also apparently does friendly fire damage as well. However, I like it having these cons to balance out what would be powerful pros.