Patchzergs, Real or Imagniary? - Page 27

On August 22 2012 19:29 scypio wrote:
Well, I can see the patchzergs coming out in the lower leagues. I've been playing a lot of games vs diamond zergs lately. And the more I play them the less I fear them.

A couple of months back meeting a diamond level zerg was scary for me. In most cases he could take me apart with superior multitasking, mutalisk harass, denying bases etc. Now meeting such zerg is a real treat - I wonder where did those guys go. Oh yeah, masters league probably.

The new, improved diamond patchzerg is just sitting there, building queens and waiting for the infestor/bl to come out. He is able to pick me apart with that composition in 95% of games (if he gets there), still - I'm just no longer impressed.

In the end I like the way this patch works out as it gives me more time to be aggressive and have some good poking around, sniping bases etc. Now I'm even no longer frustrated with sniping the third into losing-to-deathball scenarios, as these things seem to be quite common even on pro level (see Vortix's games on IEM).

For me the "old-style" TvZ was more fun to watch but much harder to play. Now, with the patchzergs around it seems that it is the other way around.

On August 22 2012 19:15 Velr wrote:


Do you have troubles reading?

People here are bitching about Zergs sending their hole army to defend against 8 Marines and getting away with it, this is the Terrans fault, not the Zergs. If the Terran is too bad to exploit this flaw in the Zergs reaction then the Terran is to blame... Not some "Patch" or whatever. If the Terran is not exploiting this weakness sending a BIG army to defend against a tiny one is actually the better answer then sending "just enough".

A flaw in a play is only a problem if the enemy is capable of exploiting it... Most Terrans seem to not do that (or not doing it harsh enough), so Zergs keep on "1A-Syndroming". Sometimes they lose cause of it, often it doesn't matter.


It's the same like many Terrans losing their Vkining clump to a few Fungals, Broodlords dieing to 1 Vortex/Toilet... Flaws in play which with a bit better control could be erradicated... But they don't seem to punish you hard enough so it will take some time until not only the very, very, very best will stop doing these mistakes.