[SC2B] SC2 Pro Mod - Page 20

This is an awesome idea and I'm impressed by the changes that you guys were able to make, but it seems like your product is just as gimmicky, the only difference is the rollback to broodwar in almost every sense, it's just hypocritical and immature.

One geyser? Does it mine faster than one normal SC2 geyser? What is the reason for this other than "Broodwar was like this, so SC2 must be like this as well"? There is no reason to do this unless you want the trade-off between mining more gas and mining more minerals to be different, or you want anything that requires gas to be a hero unit that you only get one of.

You even tried to emulate SC1's archaic pathing algorithm? why? Although SC2's pathing is bad, (too closely packed, physics based, uses naive algorithms to navigate around other units), it's a great improvement on the original.

The observer change... ...really? I mean, ok, ok, we love brood war, I get it. But if you want cute things like that in SC2, the least you could do is get original, like you did with the xel naga tower change and high-ground change.

You also re-purposed the macromechanics to enforce multi-base play. This is exactly the kind of forced metagame that I thought you were trying to avoid.. This is actually introducing needless complexity into SC2 as well. Why not just put gold minerals at every natural and remove the macro abilities all together? It's the same thing.

All in all, a lot of the changes you made are really cool, like highground advantage, animation changes, autosurround, muta stack, b.net changes, complete disregard for production quality as long as it's balanced and fun, etc etc.

I just think you are being way too hasty with your edits to the core gameplay and new forced metagame. Have you considered that an evolution to a complex and beautiful multi-base metagame in SC2 might take more than a year to develop? Have you considered that you could be wrong about something, just one time in your life?

If you think the state of the SC2 metagame is shitty, I think the correct response is to blame the players, not the game. TheLittleOne has shown us that there is just as much to this game as there was in broodwar, and I feel like your edits are very disrespectful to players like him that are actually good at the game, as opposed to all the SC1 progamers who are behaving like they are 80 years old when they play sc2.