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deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
September 18 2015 06:54 GMT
#141
On September 18 2015 15:45 TheWinks wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 18 2015 13:45 ShambhalaWar wrote:
Apparently this doesn't mean anything:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/legacy-of-the-void/494703-poll-macro-booster-community-feedback

It's a bad poll in a sea of bad polls.

More important thing is - TL.net is not the majority of SC2 players, otherwise it would be very lonely and deserted in the game and it's not...
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SCST
Profile Joined November 2011
Mexico1609 Posts
September 18 2015 06:55 GMT
#142
On September 18 2015 15:35 shin_toss wrote:
You meant path of the Real SC2 "Multitasking" and not some easy auto cast macro boosters right


I meant the path of SC2 actually being viable in the mainstream and not being relegated to the dustbin of the gaming world.

I know it's hard to be objective rather than selfish when forming an opinion about something, but I recommend that you try hard to understand that what's best for you in the short-term isn't necessarily what's best for Starcraft or you in the long-term. Don't you want big tournaments? Big viewership? More investment in the game? Or do you only care about what "you" like at this exact moment? Could you live with less macro in exchange for these things?

And yes, going mainstream can be done while maintaining the strategic and tactical depth that we've come to know with SC2. It's surely possible to have a fun game with depth. The onus is on the development team to stop being lazy and actually do something, rather than wait it out and clone HotS.
"The weak cannot forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong." - Gandhi
Yiome
Profile Joined February 2014
China1687 Posts
September 18 2015 07:02 GMT
#143
On September 18 2015 15:46 imJealous wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 18 2015 07:46 -NegativeZero- wrote:
yep just as predicted, regardless of what blizz does with the macro mechanics, the majority of the responses will always be bitching and complaining.

I couldn't agree more!

There are always people like and dislike the changes.
It's just that we usually whine louder than applaud, so negative feedback stand out.
Nerchio
Profile Joined October 2009
Poland2633 Posts
September 18 2015 07:03 GMT
#144
I wish Blizzard understood that Mule is one of the worst mechanics in the game comebacks from 5 scvs or boost from 200 to 3000 income should not be possible
Progamer"I am the best" - Nerchio , 2017.
NyxNax
Profile Joined March 2014
United States227 Posts
September 18 2015 07:06 GMT
#145
I donno, I feel after they removed the macro boosters, even people that didnt like the idea to begin with changed their minds after playing and have a gut feeling that was the better route. Thinking they reverted because they dont have the time to balance it or were scared to commit because of the time?

The multiple inject thing, imo, is incredibly stupid and I dont think will stick. Use up your transfuse energy doing that, It just feels like an attempted band-aid fix.

While there wasnt even an attempt at a band-aid for the mules is rather disappointing. I'd like to see the mule hammer end. I wish they walked a middle line between these macro boosters. keep the mule but keep them from stacking, so at any point you could only drop 1 per CC or so you can only drop them within a certain range.. That way supply drops are still used and scans are more strategic.

Honestly, at this point I just feel frustrated. I want to go hibernate for the winter and hope when I wake its all perfect...

Schakal111
Profile Joined September 2013
20 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-18 07:21:25
September 18 2015 07:11 GMT
#146
Ive been waiting for a good RTS since SC/BW, its was so much fun.. good battle net(chat rooms lol), nice and fun unit design, good custom/arcade mode... Sc2 wasn't fun, i played and become master zerg but it wasn't fun and i stop playing since 2 years, with lotv and no macro mechanics i have new hope for a good rts.. but blizzard disappointed me.. its the same with diablo2 and 3.. diablo 3 is ok but diablo 2 was amazing.. hate it.
crazedrat
Profile Joined July 2015
272 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-18 07:18:37
September 18 2015 07:12 GMT
#147
wc3 was awesome. sc2 isnt bad ... biggest problem with sc2 is the community. Wc3 had a much more active and casual community with active map making, clans, interaction. People actually played teams competitively. Sc2 was a failed launch and it's never recovered from that. Blizzard got too into the broodwar mentality, almost becoming delusional thinking every mainstream person was going to devote their lives to becoming a hardcore gamer with no reward and very little incentive. Too much intensity at launch and for a year after drove away people. Whoever chose not to include chat channels in the launch needed to be fired immediately, ultimately it is Dustin Browders responsibility. They should have fired him and put someone else in there.
summerloud
Profile Joined March 2010
Austria1201 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-18 07:25:57
September 18 2015 07:23 GMT
#148
these patches are just trolling.

the only two real changes (mule and overlord drop) just revert past changes, and photon overcharge just nerfs something obviously OP that nobody prefers over the hots version and that will prolly be reverted in the next patch again

id say im disappointed only that after the last patch disaster i didnt expect more

edit: overlooked the spawn larvae change. meh. i guess they are trying to find a mediocre compromise between old but stupid (MM) and new but impossible to balance for them (no MM)
HomeWorld
Profile Joined December 2011
Romania903 Posts
September 18 2015 07:23 GMT
#149
On September 18 2015 16:03 Nerchio wrote:
I wish Blizzard understood that Mule is one of the worst mechanics in the game comebacks from 5 scvs or boost from 200 to 3000 income should not be possible

You seem to not understand how important the mule is for terran to keep up economy wise with the other two races. The last 3 patches showed it:
first patch - mule removed - terran was unplayable - up to 30% or even less income compared to the other races, not to mention, you lose workers, you're dead (that was true for protoss too at that point)
second patch - the auto mules - terran economy was okayish, still, late game income was not so ok
third(current patch) - back to HotS stuff, nothing to comment on it
Nerchio
Profile Joined October 2009
Poland2633 Posts
September 18 2015 07:25 GMT
#150
On September 18 2015 16:23 HomeWorld wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 18 2015 16:03 Nerchio wrote:
I wish Blizzard understood that Mule is one of the worst mechanics in the game comebacks from 5 scvs or boost from 200 to 3000 income should not be possible

You seem to not understand how important the mule is for terran to keep up economy wise with the other two races. The last 3 patches showed it:
first patch - mule removed - terran was unplayable - up to 30% or even less income compared to the other races, not to mention, you lose workers, you're dead (that was true for protoss too at that point)
second patch - the auto mules - terran economy was okayish, still, late game income was not so ok
third(current patch) - back to HotS stuff, nothing to comment on it

I understand that but they should work around it and not revert it back to Heart of the swarm, if they keep things like they are now the game will not last more than 2 years after release.
Progamer"I am the best" - Nerchio , 2017.
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Charlie Sheens House51458 Posts
September 18 2015 07:41 GMT
#151
Great changes to protoss, nerfing Photon overcharge to 11 seconds is good. Technically you can still do your silly pylon rush but it isn't as scary anymore. Which is nice.

Liberator change also good and the Zerg changes are perfect too.
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Bohemond
Profile Joined May 2012
United States163 Posts
September 18 2015 07:44 GMT
#152
On September 18 2015 16:25 Nerchio wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 18 2015 16:23 HomeWorld wrote:
On September 18 2015 16:03 Nerchio wrote:
I wish Blizzard understood that Mule is one of the worst mechanics in the game comebacks from 5 scvs or boost from 200 to 3000 income should not be possible

You seem to not understand how important the mule is for terran to keep up economy wise with the other two races. The last 3 patches showed it:
first patch - mule removed - terran was unplayable - up to 30% or even less income compared to the other races, not to mention, you lose workers, you're dead (that was true for protoss too at that point)
second patch - the auto mules - terran economy was okayish, still, late game income was not so ok
third(current patch) - back to HotS stuff, nothing to comment on it

I understand that but they should work around it and not revert it back to Heart of the swarm, if they keep things like they are now the game will not last more than 2 years after release.


The funny thing is I didn't see much complaining by Terran players about the mule removal. Most of the frustration seemed to be about the lack of income because Blizzard didn't compensate for it in any way. I'd be very surprised if the majority of Terran players would object to the mule being removed as long as there were changes made to keep Terran economy in line with the other races. And it really doesn't appear to me that most Zerg and Protoss players are fans of mules. Seems like a bit of a no-brainer to get rid of the thing...
TaShadan
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany1965 Posts
September 18 2015 07:44 GMT
#153
On September 18 2015 07:08 dust7 wrote:
Blizzard's devilish plan to alter the macro mechanics and then slowly revert them back to how they were, all in order to burn the remaining time of beta without having to do any hard design changes, is close to coming full circle.


Exactly what i expected.
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Creager
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany1889 Posts
September 18 2015 07:45 GMT
#154
To be honest, I'd rather have it this way (old HotS mechanic) as it has been for the last weeks. Terran without MULE was very crippled early game, but they should've experimented with other economy models to begin with.
Instead, they try to release the game even earlier, what a fuck-up, the problem is their schedule and unwillingness to change the economy/starting workers.
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Vedeynevin
Profile Joined February 2015
United States431 Posts
September 18 2015 07:46 GMT
#155
On September 18 2015 16:06 NyxNax wrote:
I donno, I feel after they removed the macro boosters, even people that didnt like the idea to begin with changed their minds after playing and have a gut feeling that was the better route. Thinking they reverted because they dont have the time to balance it or were scared to commit because of the time?

The multiple inject thing, imo, is incredibly stupid and I dont think will stick. Use up your transfuse energy doing that, It just feels like an attempted band-aid fix.

While there wasnt even an attempt at a band-aid for the mules is rather disappointing. I'd like to see the mule hammer end. I wish they walked a middle line between these macro boosters. keep the mule but keep them from stacking, so at any point you could only drop 1 per CC or so you can only drop them within a certain range.. That way supply drops are still used and scans are more strategic.

Honestly, at this point I just feel frustrated. I want to go hibernate for the winter and hope when I wake its all perfect...



Yeah, I hated the Idea of removing them when I first heard about them. I seriously considered a race change. HOWEVER, after I tried out the removed mechanics, I found I was having a lot more fun playing the game. I'm actually not looking forward to going back now
effecto
Profile Joined February 2011
France142 Posts
September 18 2015 07:46 GMT
#156
Cannot wait the next Balance update this one isn't convincing. I enjoyed Zerg so much without taking care of the inject, Ok it required less skill... but was so fun!
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TaShadan
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany1965 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-09-18 07:50:18
September 18 2015 07:47 GMT
#157
On September 18 2015 16:12 crazedrat wrote:
wc3 was awesome. sc2 isnt bad ... biggest problem with sc2 is the community. Wc3 had a much more active and casual community with active map making, clans, interaction. People actually played teams competitively. Sc2 was a failed launch and it's never recovered from that. Blizzard got too into the broodwar mentality, almost becoming delusional thinking every mainstream person was going to devote their lives to becoming a hardcore gamer with no reward and very little incentive. Too much intensity at launch and for a year after drove away people. Whoever chose not to include chat channels in the launch needed to be fired immediately, ultimately it is Dustin Browders responsibility. They should have fired him and put someone else in there.


Broodwar had a quite vivid casual community too and many custom and team games were played. A huge clanwar scene with a wide range from noobs to top players. Even nation wars were played A LOT! In SC2 there is not much else then money tournaments, ladder and pro scene.
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suddendeathTV
Profile Joined January 2012
Sweden388 Posts
September 18 2015 07:48 GMT
#158
On September 18 2015 08:06 edding wrote:
What the hell are you doing Blizzard? The MACRO should be remove with no doubt. Most high rank players in Korea wanted to remove MACRO. and now see what happened. Why did you get feedback from that? I can't understand it. MACRO only bring us getting tired of gaming.


Wait, what?
Information is everything
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
September 18 2015 07:50 GMT
#159
On September 18 2015 16:44 Bohemond wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 18 2015 16:25 Nerchio wrote:
On September 18 2015 16:23 HomeWorld wrote:
On September 18 2015 16:03 Nerchio wrote:
I wish Blizzard understood that Mule is one of the worst mechanics in the game comebacks from 5 scvs or boost from 200 to 3000 income should not be possible

You seem to not understand how important the mule is for terran to keep up economy wise with the other two races. The last 3 patches showed it:
first patch - mule removed - terran was unplayable - up to 30% or even less income compared to the other races, not to mention, you lose workers, you're dead (that was true for protoss too at that point)
second patch - the auto mules - terran economy was okayish, still, late game income was not so ok
third(current patch) - back to HotS stuff, nothing to comment on it

I understand that but they should work around it and not revert it back to Heart of the swarm, if they keep things like they are now the game will not last more than 2 years after release.


The funny thing is I didn't see much complaining by Terran players about the mule removal. Most of the frustration seemed to be about the lack of income because Blizzard didn't compensate for it in any way. I'd be very surprised if the majority of Terran players would object to the mule being removed as long as there were changes made to keep Terran economy in line with the other races. And it really doesn't appear to me that most Zerg and Protoss players are fans of mules. Seems like a bit of a no-brainer to get rid of the thing...

There are hundreds of possible solutions where you cannot sacrifice SCVs but Blizzard is stubborn with MULEs. They need to find their balls and start doing decisions. E.g. - remove MULE, add a spell on OC that for some energy will overclock SCVs in the target area so they can mine faster. This way you have to have SCVs and you can have higher income for a period of time. Just a stupid idea off the top of my head right now.
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
summerloud
Profile Joined March 2010
Austria1201 Posts
September 18 2015 07:51 GMT
#160
am i the only one that cant really control disruptors?
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