Why is everyone replying with balance whining? Is it like this ALL the time? Just fucking admit that player A sucked and player B ruled and that's why the game ended up the way it did. Blame the player, not the game.

Because seeing the same race win every single thing is boring and mindnumbing. Have you seen 2014 results?

Nope. But this was a common trend in Broodwar as well, races performing well. Blaming it all on the game and dev. fixes is rofl. Balance is a sensitive thing. By neglecting the players as "the balancers" you piss on the Esports as you think you know how the game should be, changing the core again and again. You can never reach perfection except within yourself. Take a good look in the mirror and think: Why me?

Lmao, balance isn't some mystical spiritual experience. It's a fact, the game's either balanced or it's not. If the legitimacy of esports is so fragile that talking about the fact of its artificial design endangers it, then esports doesn't deserve to be legitimate. Fortunately I couldn't agree less with your point.

I disagree a bit. You can try to balance the game in every matchup in every situation, but because there will never be the same situations have in the exact same way again and again.
But ESPECIALLY because the races are designed so different, beginning with economy, but also with how their health regens (or not) how to macro (warpin across the map, vs creating 7 units a time from a 300 mineral building, vs 1-2 units a time etc etc), flying buildings, mules, cronoboost, one race not required to micro hard where the other one has etc leads to one race having less apm in average while it may require other skills (thinking process)
I believe it can never be balanced 100%

I don't think we disagree at all. But there's a difference between 'not quite 100%' and 'not quite 90%' and 'not quite 80%'...

k man you are right.
Right now TvP feels more like we are around 90 or below then "close to" 100%

Boucot

France15997 Posts

April 27 2014 10:46 GMT

#826

Brood Lords vs Swarm Hosts. Oh god.

MosART

United States1899 Posts

April 27 2014 10:46 GMT

#827

That was some high level bane drop! SH vs SH go go!

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

April 27 2014 10:46 GMT

#828

Jaedong using Lowely tactics

Heartland

Sweden24603 Posts

April 27 2014 10:46 GMT

#829

the viper anti-tag bug was removed, right?

liberate71

Australia10252 Posts

April 27 2014 10:46 GMT

#830

lol those drops are going terribly... too many priority targets ahead of the drones.

At least they are getting larva?

YyapSsap

New Zealand1511 Posts

April 27 2014 10:46 GMT

#831

What am i watching lol

pure.Wasted

Canada4701 Posts

April 27 2014 10:47 GMT

#832

On April 27 2014 19:44 Heavenlee wrote:

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so the only true indicator of imbalance is you looking at a game and thinking you are the king of deciding who REALLY deserved to win? fascinating.

How about 3/4 Terrans being competitive at Code S level for two seasons in a row, no Terran premier win since September, no Terran win in Korea since June 2013? I don't know, I think those statistics might be connected by some mystical thread.

Foreverkul

United States1649 Posts

April 27 2014 10:47 GMT

#833

On April 27 2014 19:28 SatedSC2 wrote:

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If you say so.

That Terran flat line is depressing, there clearly is a problem if we look at this data. What we mean to say is: Terran is a poorly support race. Just look at all the options both Protoss and Zerg got in HotS, Terran meta is basically identical, but can't handle new unit comps of P and Z.

Caladan

Germany1238 Posts

April 27 2014 10:47 GMT

#834

WTF is this game.

Lorning

Belgica34432 Posts

April 27 2014 10:47 GMT

#835

Locusts and infested marines against broodlings

Beautiful