Avilo Balance Mod Tournament ($800 prize pool)

Zerg Changes:
Keep in mind, the common theme across all 3 races is that mass air is being toned down through supply increases to air units.

Queen range is being reverted to previous values because it's unnecessary for queens to be a "defend everything" unit anymore since liberators were already nerfed by Blizzard, and liberator range is removed from this mod. Hydralisks also are cheaper which should give Zerg more anti-air options.

Swarmhosts are being severely nerfed because they completely limit mech viability and are also quite strong vs Protoss. You'll notice they now have actual weaknesses, and are still usable just not as your entire army. Swarmhosts now are relegated to a purely harrassment role. Building more than a few will most likely result in a player being put a huge deficit.

Infestor burrow cast fungal is no longer possible. Being able to cast from essentially perma cloak is too strong. A Zerg will now have to unburrow before fungaling, making it harder to pull off, which is more fair for the defending player.

Invincible nydus worm has been reverted to remove ridiculous all-ins that have been plaguing LOTV since release.

Baneling and Hydralisk combat shields have also been removed, as these are making Zerg too strong on the live version of the game. There is no reason for banelings or hydralisks to be given a free combat shields upgrade. Hydralisks are cheaper though, hopefully making them more accessible and used more often during this tournament.

Lurker den morph time is cut in half, as well as lurkers being cheaper, having their gas cost cut in half. Hopefully this will push lurkers to be used a lot more versus both Terran and Protoss and allow for styles involving lurkers to be utilized more since lurkers will be available much earlier on in the game. This will also affect ZvZ in a way that potentially gets rid of roach vs roach wars and adds more positional oriented play.

Overlord transport and speed have been reverted to HOTS lair tech prerequisites. There is no way these upgrades should ever have been on tier 1 tech, and they are rightfully being placed back to lair tech. Scouting with Zerg will now require an actual drawback of sacing an overlord, rather than having infinite scouting tier 1 via speedlords.

The viper changes are to hopefully reduce the power of the unit, by allowing only 1 abduct at full energy, and allowing mech play to be more viable, as well as late game Zerg toned down some.

Terran Changes:

Most Terran air units are getting supply increases, as mentioned earlier, a huge point of my changes are to tone down air units allowing ground units to be more effective since there will be more of them. Air units costing more supply means a maxed out army of mass air will inherently be weaker than a player that opts for mass ground.

Ravens have many changes. They are double the supply, similar to swarmhost supply increases. Auto-turret cost is increased to 75 to dis-allow mass turret spam lategame.

This means end game players that opt for mass ravens will have half of the current ravens that they would on the live version of the game, and also will have half of the auto-turrets that they currently would. This alone should heavily discourage massing of the unit, while still keeping ravens as a powerful addition to your army.

Corvid reactor is changed to increase raven starting energy to 125, allowing a seeker immediately upon raven production, but note, only 1 auto-turret since auto-turret energy is now 75, rather than 50. This should allow a raven to be more immediately useful to a Terran like it was in HOTS, while not being overpowered.

Armories are reduced to Brood War price of 100/50 to allow mech Terrans the capabilities to even upgrade their units.

Mech air and ground upgrades have been re-combined. Again, to re-promote mech play as a Terran strategy.

The biggest change is allowing production of vikings from factories. This alone from testing has shown to allow mech to become a viable style. It turns out allowing the factory to have a mass producible anti-air unit actually makes mech viable.

The change i came up with of allowing vikings to be built from factories seemed optimal because it doesn't change anything about units in the game, it just simply gives mech a viable anti-air option that already exists within the game.

It also means that a meching Terran can now go past 5 factories instead of needing an extra 500-700 vespene gas to get starports to counter air.

I took measures to make sure viking cheeses are not possible versus Zerg and Terran. Vikings built from factories come out in ground mode, vikings from starports come out in air mode. Vikings cannot change modes by default anymore - it requires research of the transformation servos upgrade at the factory tech lab. This will prevent proxy factory viking cheeses versus every race by simply delaying viking transformation capabilities.

The players that tested the change and opted to go mech said that the viking change alone allows mech to be playable because they can now immediately respond to mass air threats without automatically losing the game from opting to go mech.

Hellions also cannot transform until the transformation servos upgrade is researched. The upgrade affects both vikings and hellions.

The thor change to javelin missiles that Blizzard previously promised many times has also been added onto the map. Thors are now a viable anti-air option versus capital ships.

Protoss Changes:

The infuriating design of the MSC has been addressed and fixed on this extension mod. Again huge fucking thanks to Darkblizzard for being able to code this via the editor.

MSC photon overcharge has been changed. If a pylon has an enemy building within it's power radius, photon overcharge cannot be used. This will put an end to pylon under the ramp cheeses.

MSC recall and photon overcharge also have had their energy increased to 75, making these require more thought when using.

Warp prisms have been nerfed as this unit is overall too strong for it's cost and what it does.

Carriers and tempests have both been nerfed to tone down air, just like with all 3 races air units.

Adepts finally have been fixed and addressed in a meaningful way on this mod. Adepts have the same effective health as they do on the live version of the game. They still can be used the same exact way as a part of a player's army.

But now if an adept uses it's psionic transfer ability it will lose it's shields, creating a drawback to the ability. If the unit is used for harrassment or to try to shade on top of the army, the Protoss player now has a cost to pay for doing so.

This should allow adepts to be less of a pain to deal with on defense, without changing any actual statistics of the unit