Top 20% Invites - Page 18

On May 06 2015 10:25 shin_toss wrote:
Can someone provide a screenshot of the new minimap? Im just curious

On May 07 2015 11:01 LloydRays wrote:
My b.net restarted to update and I freaked out. No beta.

On May 06 2015 21:57 pulperi wrote:


Here's one from LotV:
+ Show Spoiler +

Close up of minimap:
+ Show Spoiler +

And one from HotS as reference:
+ Show Spoiler +

On May 07 2015 20:12 zerge wrote:


That minimap makes me feel like i'm back in gold league; 20 lings run into my natural and i have no idea where they came from because you cant see the small units on the minimap.
I wonder why this isn't fixed yet players have complained about it since the start of beta, they surely can't think that this is still a good idea.

On May 07 2015 19:52 Yrr wrote:

mail or access?

There have been some reports from individuals who felt they were missed from the Top 20% beta wave that went out last week. After looking into these specific reports, we determined that all accounts were flagged accurately during this wave. To help offer transparency on this topic, we wanted to provide details on the criteria we used.
We collected every active account that was originated from EU or NA. Then we pulled out every account that had played their placement matches and had earned a rank in Season 1. Those accounts were then stack ranked by MMR and the top 20% were flagged for beta access.
We realize there are still numerous active players who are eager to help us test the beta. We’re still flagging accounts on a weekly basis to support our testing needs. There will be multiple opportunities to find your way into the beta and we hope that this process didn’t cause unnecessary confusion for our playerbase.

On May 08 2015 15:07 MaRa17 wrote:
SEA is also not included!

My apologies, SEA was given the same treatment as the EU/NA regions. They were pulled separately, stack ranked, and we flagged the Top 20% by MMR.

On May 06 2015 05:59 Big J wrote:

Those are just my thoughts on it, could be completely wrong but here it goes:

Ling/bling openings, because ravagers are crap against it and though burrow move is good it isn't that good to break the meta (I guess?). Especially since with the new timings gasless looks pretty much impossible to pull of, so you need speed and when you go speed I think ling/bling is just way more solid (or rather much less costly) than ling/roach early.
From there I'm going mutas, because from mutas you can go right into lurkers and you can skip all the roach and fast upgrade investments. Like 8 lurkers + any form of ling/bling/hydra/muta should deal with anything pretty easily, meanwhile your opponent still has to go spore+infestor+hydra+roach when you open mutalisks and could go mass muta/ling/bling but any ground midgame composition is completely garbage because your lurkers kill 1290741258972189752978 supply of ground units in 2shots.
I'm not really sure what to do from there, but if it played out like this I'm usually just ahead and go Broodlords+lurkers with lings and mutas for counter attacks. I guess Vipers could be good too.

The exact opening I'm using is double extractor trick, 16hatch, 15overlord, 15pool, 15gas, 20queen, 22queen, 24overlord (don't build an overlord to extend the 22supply limit, the superfast finishing hatch will do that).


The interesting follow up question is if I'm right with muta openings being best, can you transition into parasitic bombs or do you have to do the degenerate muta wars again.