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Shade_FR
France378 Posts
Blizzard wants players to make choices. Also, placing some burrow banelings at keys location is more skilled and interesting than being able to 'follow' your opponent (who doesn't have detection, or killed by you), then hit detonate. It was a bad idea from Game Design perspective, I'm very happy to not have this. | ||
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Cabinet Sanchez
Australia1097 Posts
On August 21 2012 23:14 REDSEW wrote: I hope this will be worth it... I can't wait for the Protoss Expansion however. Pretty much! - I've played WoL 3 times now, despite finding the story quite cliche and weak compared to previous Blizzard titles - just because it looks pretty and has 4 Protoss missions  | ||
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mrlie3
Canada350 Posts
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
http://sc2tv.ru/content/sc2tv-hots-custom-tournament-1 | ||
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babysimba
10466 Posts
This is why zergs almost always choose to use ITs instead of fungals even if they kill less workers. Banelings drops and drop tech are huge investments in mid-early game, which makes you vulnerable to huge counter-attacks if they don't work out. Protoss only need to pull probes momentarily and warp in 2 units/1 cannon to deal with it. Pretty weak if you consider the strength of medivac drops and ITs. Actually burrowed banelings movement might add a new dimension of micro in battles and tech switches even when they force detection every game, if they can move fast enough underground. Manual detonations from zerg, manual targeting by terrans due to lower attack priority. Since it's not humanly possible to marines to target fire all the banelings, it will force terrans to transition into a heavier mech composition. Tougher units + easier targeting using splash. Removal of warpgate mechanics is my biggest wish. A huge beauty of this game is how people deal with reinforcements. How they use their own reinforcements in the most effective ways, how they attempt to zone out enemy's reinforcements, etc. Warp-ins dumb down protoss' tactical decisions alot. They also force enemy to dump apm into spectator-unfriendly stuffs like using active units to constantly find proxys instead of using them for aggression. Not to mention the protoss race has to be nerfed and made gimmicky due to the strength of their timing attacks. | ||
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Sroobz
United States1377 Posts
On August 24 2012 00:26 Existor wrote: On sc2tv.ru here are a small tournament on HotS custom map with $100 cash prize with players like Bratok, Bly, Adolf and others. http://sc2tv.ru/content/sc2tv-hots-custom-tournament-1 This is so entertaining!!! | ||
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
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Ramiz1989
12124 Posts
On August 24 2012 01:00 Existor wrote: That tournament is more fun to watch than all 3 Battle Reports It would be if we would saw some new units from Protoss and Zerg, currently only Terran is using new units. Both Bly and Fraer played standard games, and Bly even cheesed... it is a god damn tournament for 100$, it is supposed to be fun and to show some new units and timings, strategies etc. To Bly, it seems like his life depends on winning this tourney... | ||
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Herect
Brazil216 Posts
Hallucination Play should be cool as well. A Protoss force can use hallucination to bait WM against Mech army with lack of detection. Fake War prism harass. | ||
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_vk_
219 Posts
On August 24 2012 00:26 Existor wrote: On sc2tv.ru here are a small tournament on HotS custom map with $100 cash prize with players like Bratok, Bly, Adolf and others. http://sc2tv.ru/content/sc2tv-hots-custom-tournament-1 Pretty awesome. I love the caster's reaction to the hydra speed upgrade: "Did you see that?! Did you see those hydras move?!" | ||
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meursault
United States59 Posts
On August 24 2012 00:26 Existor wrote: On sc2tv.ru here are a small tournament on HotS custom map with $100 cash prize with players like Bratok, Bly, Adolf and others. http://sc2tv.ru/content/sc2tv-hots-custom-tournament-1 Nice. I wonder what Blizzard's policy will be on tournaments using the real HotS beta once it comes out. | ||
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NeWeNiyaLord
Norway2474 Posts
On August 24 2012 00:26 Existor wrote: On sc2tv.ru here are a small tournament on HotS custom map with $100 cash prize with players like Bratok, Bly, Adolf and others. http://sc2tv.ru/content/sc2tv-hots-custom-tournament-1 Wish it wasn't only russian :/ | ||
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Forikorder
Canada8840 Posts
On August 24 2012 03:47 meursault wrote: Nice. I wonder what Blizzard's policy will be on tournaments using the real HotS beta once it comes out. they had no problem with WoL beta tournaments | ||
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BlackPanther
United States872 Posts
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Aquila-
516 Posts
On August 24 2012 04:01 BlackPanther wrote: I'm hoping the beta gets announced for release this weekend at MLG. It seems like the most probable timing for it. They dont need an announcement, they can just start it when its ready. | ||
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Forikorder
Canada8840 Posts
On August 24 2012 04:06 Aquila- wrote: They dont need an announcement, they can just start it when its ready. hard to get people to DL the beta if noone knows its available >.> | ||
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Belial88
United States5217 Posts
DTs kill one worker every few seconds and cost more then 4 banelings 2 banelings and kill upwards of 20 workers in a single second Not really. A normal mineral line, 2 banelings will only kill about ~8 workers, a baneling blast only covers a little less than half the mineral line. AND ITS FUCKING HIVE TECH? The opponent will have over 70+ workers when burrow banes become an issue. Every race already puts static detection at every mineral line as it is. FG is WAY more deadly and comes out much earlier than burrow move banes, and infestors can move while burrowed too! OoOooOo! There's no difference between burrow move infestors which come out at lair tech, and burrow move banes at hive tech. Whatever, maybe you think there are some differences, but it's really not that huge. I'm not even arguing against the idea that burrow move bane is OP, all I'm wondering is why is Blizzard removing it, as everything in HOTS is broken, and Blizzard specifically stated they are introducing crazy and OP shit to the expansion because otherwise you'd never create a new game. I want to know the official reason for burrow move banes being removed, I don't want to hear speculation on it by people who apparently think burrow move banes is just so broken, but 22 range tempests, widow mines that instakill anything while being cheaper than every unit in the game, nexus recall, is perfectly fine. Everything in HOTS is broken, that's just how it is. Make crazy shit for the new game, balance it afterwards. God forbid that Blizzard makes a new game. I also have a few other question, still: - Does blinding cloud still silence? - They are reverting the mothership changes and keeping the mothership as is now? right? kim said that they were keeping the mothership as is in the gamescom interview and I havent heard about blinding cloud silencing like it did at blizzcon. | ||
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Kilby
Finland1069 Posts
On August 24 2012 04:06 Aquila- wrote: They dont need an announcement, they can just start it when its ready. I would imagine that as a huge company, Blizzard is certainly aware that the longer they delay after the "soon" announcement the less interest they will have so probably it will really be coming in the very near future. MLG might actually be a good bet. | ||
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Resistentialism
Canada688 Posts
Not that getting hive tech isn't a hassle, but this is SC2 where you have infestors rather than queens, and brood lords rather than guardians. And before you start posting a laundry list of the builds times and costs or something, yes it does take longer and with more resources spent, that doesn't mean that it's really harder. | ||
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Forikorder
Canada8840 Posts
Not really. A normal mineral line, 2 banelings will only kill about ~8 workers, a baneling blast only covers a little less than half the mineral line. with +2 banelings one shot workers so one baneling on one half and one baneling on the toher kills every worker in the mineral line | ||
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