EPTOn June 21 2013 09:24 Whiplash wrote:
part of the strength of 1 gate FE vs zerg is your opponent never being 100% sure if you are going for that or the forge expand. This takes 100% of the guesswork away and allows zerg to abuse that type of play a lot easier, the map isn't balanced this way.
There are protoss players who gate FE every game and are known for it. I don't buy it. If you drone scout with it like you really should you also aren't going to get 3-hatch-before-pool'ed.part of the strength of 1 gate FE vs zerg is your opponent never being 100% sure if you are going for that or the forge expand. This takes 100% of the guesswork away and allows zerg to abuse that type of play a lot easier, the map isn't balanced this way.
And still, that doesn't eliminate all the other openers I mentioned.
