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Sumahi
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
Guam5609 Posts
February 11 2013 00:49 GMT
#21
It's really interesting to see how Heart of the Swarm is affecting gameplay. It is nice to see Void Rays being used again.
Startale <3, ST_July <3, HongUn <3, Savior <3, Gretorp <3, Nada <3, Rainbow <3, Ret <3, Squirtle <3, Bomber <3
Aerisky
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States12129 Posts
February 11 2013 00:51 GMT
#22
In the OP, it says Rain 3-1 Flying, when it was 3-2 ^^
Jim while Johnny had had had had had had had; had had had had the better effect on the teacher.
Taipoka
Profile Joined November 2012
Brazil1224 Posts
February 11 2013 00:52 GMT
#23
So it was Rain in red?
Oh man, i was sad about these games. LOL
And in the 7th day, Flash stopped macroing the universe.
kochanfe
Profile Joined July 2011
Micronesia1338 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-02-11 01:19:11
February 11 2013 01:19 GMT
#24
Flying 1-3 Rain or 2-3 Rain? Small errors
"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long." - Lao Tzu
bduddy
Profile Joined May 2012
United States1326 Posts
February 11 2013 01:21 GMT
#25
On February 11 2013 08:52 Steel wrote:
stop with the elephants pleaaaaaseeeee it's like the worst term every coined by TL just keeps sparking drama.
I say that if they want to keep calling KeSPA players "elephants", then they have to start calling eSF players "bears".
>Liquid'Nazgul: Of course you are completely right
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
February 11 2013 01:46 GMT
#26
lol so rain was the one that won... very nice, I was sad for him yesterday
beep boop
VeronicaGibbs22
Profile Joined February 2013
United States5 Posts
February 11 2013 01:47 GMT
#27
--- Nuked ---
alQahira
Profile Joined June 2011
United States511 Posts
February 11 2013 02:43 GMT
#28
typo. "was the one that most resembled a WoL game the most"
dcemuser
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3248 Posts
February 11 2013 03:18 GMT
#29
On February 11 2013 09:41 GoodSirTets wrote:
It feels like a lot og the games were won by the abuse of the new gimmicky elements (hellbat &op voids) rather than game elements that lend to the positional play that was the goal of the expansion.


Yes, and although tons of people will point and go "LOOK PROOF OF IMBA", it's impossible to tell whether or not it is because they aren't familiar enough with HOTS or whether some things actually need nerfed.

Fruitdealer won more than one game in the first GSL with proxy Nydus ling/roach attacks. Pretty much every Terran player was doing Banshee openers, except for the few who were opening Tank/Raven.
DurandaL917
Profile Joined December 2010
United States92 Posts
February 11 2013 04:00 GMT
#30
I am so confused about the Rain vs Flying series. Watched that broadcast and at no point did they correct the mistake. Was there a statement released? Also, as much as I love Nick (Axslav), he's gonna have to revisit his comments about Rain's deficiencies :D
we make post and then we defense it
Arceus
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Vietnam8333 Posts
February 11 2013 04:08 GMT
#31
so any recommended games that are the most HotS-infused?
Nezgar
Profile Joined December 2012
Germany535 Posts
February 11 2013 04:47 GMT
#32
On February 11 2013 12:18 dcemuser wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 11 2013 09:41 GoodSirTets wrote:
It feels like a lot og the games were won by the abuse of the new gimmicky elements (hellbat &op voids) rather than game elements that lend to the positional play that was the goal of the expansion.


Yes, and although tons of people will point and go "LOOK PROOF OF IMBA", it's impossible to tell whether or not it is because they aren't familiar enough with HOTS or whether some things actually need nerfed.

Fruitdealer won more than one game in the first GSL with proxy Nydus ling/roach attacks. Pretty much every Terran player was doing Banshee openers, except for the few who were opening Tank/Raven.


Except that those games, especially Ty vs. Innovation and Last vs. Soulkey, have been happening in high level play in HotS for quite some time now. Terrans have been using their hellbat drops with widowmine/siegetank defense and triple expand behind it since those units were buffed.
We're not talking about a brand new game or completely new mechanics like it was with the early stages of WoL. And you should not forget that quite a few things that you mentioned were nerfed later as a result of people abusing it. Dark Shrines used to be cheaper and took less time to build, Roaches had 2 armor and 1 supply. And, well, siegetanks did 60 damage per shot. People figured it was too strong and thus it got nerfed.
We had enough time to figure out that hellbat drops are too strong, we had enough time to figure out that terrans can be too defensive with the new siege tanks and widowmines. It IS possible to tell whether it is IMBA or not because we are familiar enough with HotS. And with "we" or "us" I mean people that have played many hundred games in the beta already.

(I used terrans as an example. There are other things that need tweaking aswell. Hellbats were just an obvious example that anyone who saw the games could understand)
DavoS
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
United States4605 Posts
February 11 2013 05:33 GMT
#33
So cool, bring in the Koreans and let's get that HotS metagame rolling!
"KDA is actually the most useless stat in the game" Aui_2000
asdfOu
Profile Joined August 2011
United States2089 Posts
February 11 2013 05:42 GMT
#34
awww i thought flying won lol
rip prime
Jenia6109
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Russian Federation1613 Posts
February 11 2013 05:51 GMT
#35
Wtf (P)Flying vs (P)Rain? I thought that it was (P)Flying who used those Void Rays so well. But it's (P)Rain! Everything in its right place now
INnoVation TY Maru | Classic Stats Dear sOs Zest herO | Rogue Dark soO
sixfour
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
England11061 Posts
February 11 2013 07:00 GMT
#36
disagree with the naming in the bogus/baby match
p: stats, horang2, free, jangbi z: soulkey, zero, shine, hydra t: leta, hiya, sea
Testuser
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
6469 Posts
February 11 2013 07:26 GMT
#37
Who's that guy to the left?

All jokes aside, it'll be nice to see some Idra play. That I'm a particular fan of his, but I'd like to see where one of the early "stars" are nowadays.
https://soundcloud.com/papercranesdk
DJSub
Profile Joined August 2010
Indonesia261 Posts
February 11 2013 07:28 GMT
#38
Wow time warp + force field + storm looks so deadly against bio
mrRoflpwn
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States2618 Posts
February 11 2013 07:50 GMT
#39
I will never understand why Jaehoon, Wooki, and Innovation changed there names...
Long live the Boss Toss!
800800
Profile Joined October 2011
Afghanistan64 Posts
February 11 2013 10:48 GMT
#40
Everything has changed, yet it's all stayed the same.


I'm crying inside.
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