LotV Balance Update Preview - August 20 - Page 26

On August 27 2015 05:38 SC2Angora wrote:
The macro changes are the worst thing they've ever done to this game.

On August 27 2015 05:53 Noro wrote:


You're right. I forgot that watching kids jerk around with pointless macro mechanics for half the game is really fun to watch.

On August 24 2015 21:13 IMPrime wrote:
So they removed MULES and then didn't buff terran to compensate? A net of 170 minerals (270 from mule vs 100 from depot drop) per 50 energy is massive, plus once you reach 200 supply, all you do with the energy is scan. Terran's going to get absolutely hammered earlygame because of this loss of minerals. Also, this makes depots more vulnerable because you're gonna have to use depot drop as your econ option so you'll have more of these depots lying around, and getting that kind of depot destroyed sets you back 200 minerals. (If an opponent harasses and you quickly pull workers, they can just start killing your double depots until you shoo them away).

Toss losing chrono is whatever. Most of the research times for upgrades were unnecessarily long (except their regular attack/armor upgrades where chronoing them out was kinda unfair at times) so if they're gonna reduce the research times then whatever.

I really like the change to warpgate. 16 seconds is really long but considering the units are coming out 15-45 seconds before terran and zerg get their units produced and then have to travel the distance to wherever you wanted them to go it's still good. I also like the reduction to 2 seconds when warping near a nexus because it greatly boosts defender's advantage (relative to before in pvp).

Auto inject is just dumb. It's not gonna affect pros since they're on time with injects, but it's going to greatly disrupt anything mid-masters and below.

On August 24 2015 22:44 solidbebe wrote:

Protoss and Zerg also lose macro ability, so terran should be fine.