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GhostLink
Profile Joined January 2011
United States450 Posts
April 11 2012 20:33 GMT
#101
and Nestea was coming back from the dead on Easter,
One of the funniest things i've read. Oh god, i love Nestea jokes!
Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.
Shinespark
Profile Joined June 2011
Chile843 Posts
April 11 2012 20:39 GMT
#102
How could you not use NaDa's body in the picture?
"I, for one, welcome our new Korean overlords."
ReadySetFire
Profile Joined October 2011
Kuwait545 Posts
April 11 2012 20:43 GMT
#103
MMA GOGO
R3DT1D3
Profile Joined January 2012
285 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-11 20:46:56
April 11 2012 20:46 GMT
#104
On April 12 2012 04:24 Mystgun wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2012 03:54 the_business_og wrote:
i love playing tvp (normally 1 rax, trip orb{kas build}) but lately it seems if i go late game, unless i consistently win engagements early, i cant win. also if i loose ANY SINGLE engagement mid game, i automatically loose bc or warp in reinforcement lots. im a diamond player, soo my micro isnt the best but i feel as if lesser toss players get wins because the race mechanics allow them to sit back and macro, (which lower level players find difficult) and don't need to be active around the map. when i saw polt v parting game 1, i thought that constant pressure would force constant warp ins and thus harm tech, but even then if the toss gets third it seems insta win (even now, at korean gm level)


I think the opposite is also true - it's pretty easy to lose an engagements if you don't pay attention for 2 seconds and templars/colossi get sniped. Bio DPS is pretty high and without a critical mass of units the protoss army won't be able to do any damage


The difference is that some HT/Colossus with warp-in zealots can hold a much larger bio force. Terran bio cannot hold a significantly larger army the same way in the mid-late game.
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
April 11 2012 20:53 GMT
#105
Awesome write up Wax ^^
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
RJGooner
Profile Joined April 2010
United States2041 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-11 21:00:16
April 11 2012 21:00 GMT
#106
I predict Squirtle will not make it out of the group. I don't think he's as good as people think. MMA and Nada will make it out of the group with Leenock a close third.
#1 Jaehoon Fan! 김재훈 화팅!
Hall0wed
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States8486 Posts
April 11 2012 21:15 GMT
#107
Been saying for months now how good Squirtle is but I doubt anyone believed me until this past weekend.
♦ My Life for BESTie ♦ 류세라 = 배 ♦
MVTaylor
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United Kingdom2893 Posts
April 11 2012 21:17 GMT
#108
5/10 Terrans through to ro16 with IPL4 winner, Assembly winner, a GSL champion and last season ro4 being among those eliminated

4/5 Protoss through to ro16

And in the group with 2P and 2T both T go through. I think as the OP said, Polt / Parting game 1 shows you everything you need to about TvP. He didn't even need to make 1 Colossus.
@followMVT
cmcaneff5502
Profile Joined February 2012
United States116 Posts
April 11 2012 21:30 GMT
#109
It's just that terran's tier three units are so poor. the battle cruiser is useless in PvT vs stalkers and feedbacks. thors are useless in almost every TvP game. on the other hand, colossus and archons are extremely viable in almost any MU. A lot of toss players say that terran can't just rely on T1 units the whole game, but there really isn't much of a choice.
KuKri
Profile Joined February 2012
Germany168 Posts
April 11 2012 21:44 GMT
#110
wp Parting. though he will get eliminated by some zerg I assume. P > T, but Z > P

oh and to those Terran players complaining: switch to protoss, you will be amazed how cool it is to storm the hell out of your opponents (unless they're protoss, but good old 4gate saves the day). switch to protoss, the sc2 world can be soooo beautiful
SeriouR
Profile Joined November 2010
Spain622 Posts
April 11 2012 21:46 GMT
#111
On April 12 2012 06:30 cmcaneff5502 wrote:
It's just that terran's tier three units are so poor. the battle cruiser is useless in PvT vs stalkers and feedbacks. thors are useless in almost every TvP game. on the other hand, colossus and archons are extremely viable in almost any MU. A lot of toss players say that terran can't just rely on T1 units the whole game, but there really isn't much of a choice.


Ghosts, a lot of ghosts, little scvs with a lot of OC and way more marines than marauders, and never stiming into a toss army.
Trance music makes the fairys dance
Guamshin
Profile Joined January 2011
Netherlands295 Posts
April 11 2012 21:50 GMT
#112
On April 12 2012 03:55 Micket wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2012 03:34 Sufinsil wrote:
Maybe we will see more Tank play to lay siege when you can not break the defense of the Protoss.

Because when chargelots engage your bio, you definitely want tanks to shoot at them.


With more multitasking you can target other things with your tanks, think more.
Weeeee
Conreik
Profile Joined September 2011
France51 Posts
April 11 2012 21:52 GMT
#113
On April 12 2012 06:50 Guamshin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2012 03:55 Micket wrote:
On April 12 2012 03:34 Sufinsil wrote:
Maybe we will see more Tank play to lay siege when you can not break the defense of the Protoss.

Because when chargelots engage your bio, you definitely want tanks to shoot at them.


With more multitasking you can target other things with your tanks, think more.


Yeah you need Automaton 2000 micro, cool.
HaXXspetten
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Sweden15718 Posts
April 11 2012 21:53 GMT
#114
On April 12 2012 06:52 Conreik wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2012 06:50 Guamshin wrote:
On April 12 2012 03:55 Micket wrote:
On April 12 2012 03:34 Sufinsil wrote:
Maybe we will see more Tank play to lay siege when you can not break the defense of the Protoss.

Because when chargelots engage your bio, you definitely want tanks to shoot at them.


With more multitasking you can target other things with your tanks, think more.


Yeah you need Automaton 2000 micro, cool.

It's not that hard to keybind your tanks and right click on a high priority target... if you can do it against baneling clumps and infestors, why not sentries etc?
SeriouR
Profile Joined November 2010
Spain622 Posts
April 11 2012 21:53 GMT
#115
On April 12 2012 06:52 Conreik wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2012 06:50 Guamshin wrote:
On April 12 2012 03:55 Micket wrote:
On April 12 2012 03:34 Sufinsil wrote:
Maybe we will see more Tank play to lay siege when you can not break the defense of the Protoss.

Because when chargelots engage your bio, you definitely want tanks to shoot at them.


With more multitasking you can target other things with your tanks, think more.


Yeah you need Automaton 2000 micro, cool.


Why this game should be easy?
Trance music makes the fairys dance
dCc
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada86 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-11 22:11:47
April 11 2012 22:06 GMT
#116
Terran's lose to the best PvT player in the world and all of a sudden the matchup is imbalanced. Let's take a look at all of the changes that have taken place since the last patch.

· PROTOSS
· Phoenix
· A new upgrade has been added to the Fleet Beacon: Anion Pulse-Crystals. This upgrade increases Phoenix weapon range by +2.

This has done NOTHING to affect the matchup.

· TERRAN
· Ghost
· Snipe damage changed from 45 to 25 (+25 vs Psionic).

If anything this makes it (slightly) better for Terran with respect to the matchup although not much. Snipe was only used for templar before anyways and it still is. Pretty much a useless change in terms of TvP.

· Orbital Command Center
· MULE now always returns 30 minerals per trip, regardless of mineral type.

Well, lets be honest here. Blizzard didn't intend to have Terran get more of a reward for taking a gold base compared to the other two races. Terran would get more reward for taking the same risk as the other two races from mules getting increased return off gold mineral patches. Nothing wrong with this nerf.

I think what you see here is a combination of two things.

One, you have these two Protosses who play a very distinct style where they have gateway only compositions whereas most other Protosses usually rely on Colossi for splash damage and tech to Templar only when the Viking count gets too high. The matchup has developed and now it is time for Terrans to innovate again after having dominated the Colossi based style of Protoss for so long. Long story short, these two Protosses seem to have figured out the matchup.

Two, small sample size. This is one night of action, 5 sets, 11 games between 4 players. This says very little about the matchup overall. Lets take a much larger sample. Thank you to Telsh for compiling monthy win rates between TvP in this thread. As you can see, the matchup still favors Terran with 55/45 split in both the Korean and International TLPD for the month of March 2012. I see nothing to complain about and a lot of what it said is baseless conjecture with little supporting statistics. Take a look for yourselves.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=326449

All in all. Stats speak for themselves. Take it from a statistics student.


EDIT: I should also note that many of the Terrans complaining have a very biased sample. They subjectively choose games where they get dominated by Protoss. The stats taken off TLPD are much less biased and have been taken from all parts of the world at higher levels of play. The sample size is much larger and much more accurately represents the population as a whole. I should also note that this only represents a higher level of play and does not in fact speak anything about the ladders and what not as I suspect the samples taken were only from tournaments.
Conreik
Profile Joined September 2011
France51 Posts
April 11 2012 22:07 GMT
#117
On April 12 2012 06:53 HaXXspetten wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2012 06:52 Conreik wrote:
On April 12 2012 06:50 Guamshin wrote:
On April 12 2012 03:55 Micket wrote:
On April 12 2012 03:34 Sufinsil wrote:
Maybe we will see more Tank play to lay siege when you can not break the defense of the Protoss.

Because when chargelots engage your bio, you definitely want tanks to shoot at them.


With more multitasking you can target other things with your tanks, think more.


Yeah you need Automaton 2000 micro, cool.

It's not that hard to keybind your tanks and right click on a high priority target... if you can do it against baneling clumps and infestors, why not sentries etc?


While doing while you already do with your bio army, kitting, splitting, EMP'ing etc.

On April 12 2012 06:53 SeriouR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2012 06:52 Conreik wrote:
On April 12 2012 06:50 Guamshin wrote:
On April 12 2012 03:55 Micket wrote:
On April 12 2012 03:34 Sufinsil wrote:
Maybe we will see more Tank play to lay siege when you can not break the defense of the Protoss.

Because when chargelots engage your bio, you definitely want tanks to shoot at them.


With more multitasking you can target other things with your tanks, think more.


Yeah you need Automaton 2000 micro, cool.


Why this game should be easy?


Why this game should be only hard for Terran ?
Amlitzer
Profile Joined August 2010
United States471 Posts
April 11 2012 22:12 GMT
#118
Yesterday's games were absolutely disgusting to say the least. Polt was clearly outplaying Parting and both Polt and 5gg were outplaying Oz yet he manages to advance due to 1.4.3 and bad maps. Blizzard better get HotS out pronto or at least release a major balance path to fix protoss, because if the matchup stays the same then I'm not going to bother watching the GSL anymore.

With the current state of the game if Naniwa can't manage to advance from his group then he should just stop trying to compete in the GSL anymore.
"Not even justice, I want to get truth!"
Majynx
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1431 Posts
April 11 2012 22:17 GMT
#119
What a group. I wouldn't mind seeing any of these players advance. It's terrible for me to root against NaDa, however, MMA and Squirtle are going to be my picks for the group. Hope Squirtle's impressive run/play at IPL4 wasn't a one-time showing
JiYan
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3668 Posts
April 11 2012 22:18 GMT
#120
i will be so confused if squirtle doesnt make it out of this.
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