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smallmemory
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HotS Balance Update #5 New Ability Demonstration Rotterdam's Oracle Storm Drop Destiny's Defending with Collapsible Rocks Sheth and Destiny showing effectiveness of Blinding Cloud Swarm Host + Spine Crawler Rush Reaper's New Combat Awareness Ability (Vision Up Cliffs) I also made a playlist of all the HOTS videos which I will update with new videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPUIYbXwJ30uALuLof16WN4Qkw5rlkU27 I hope everyone enjoys the videos! | ||
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Faent
Canada94 Posts
Cool videos, thanks for organizing this | ||
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wcr.4fun
Belgium686 Posts
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GinDo
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IPA
United States3206 Posts
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Slago
Canada726 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
some good ones from Sheth! | ||
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Cove
United States67 Posts
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DeCoup
Australia1933 Posts
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Stam
24 Posts
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lowercase
Canada1047 Posts
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Chronos.
United States805 Posts
I want the HotS beta so bad though! Seeing the pros doing all these crazy strats look so awesome. | ||
Cabinet Sanchez
Australia1097 Posts
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zimms
Austria561 Posts
The Defiler had Dark Swarm? Well, we can't give that to Zerg, give them the Corsair's Disruption Web! :D | ||
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shizaep
Canada2920 Posts
I think eventually things will be figured out and the metagame will once again recess into a by-the-book play. Though everything minus the warhound looks great in HotS right now and I hope we will continue to see more exploration/exploitation of the new units/abilities/terrain. The Blinding Cloud looks like the coolest mico ability imo. I think the range nerf was a tad too hasty by blizz, it's something like 1.5 now? I definitely think they should have given it a tiny bit more time to let people figure out how to deal with it to see if it was truly op... | ||
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Yonnua
United Kingdom2331 Posts
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Fishriot
United States621 Posts
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cLAN.Anax
United States2847 Posts
Great post. Love to see the ingenuity of players already creating great games.  | ||
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Daumen
Germany1073 Posts
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EnumaAvalon
Philippines3613 Posts
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Ramiz1989
12124 Posts
On September 15 2012 06:56 Yonnua wrote: Have any players toyed around with taking "Spawn locusts" off of autocast to set up neat traps (e.g. hold lurker). I don't even know if it's possible but from what I've seen it could be. Just imagine 2 flanks of swarm hosts, and when a terran player moves between them locusts just suddenly come out of nowhere and auto-surround. Would be so cool. They will probably use that in a few months, just wait for other pros to switch to HotS Beta, and use new units to the full potential. | ||
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Crawdad
614 Posts
On September 15 2012 06:56 Yonnua wrote: Have any players toyed around with taking "Spawn locusts" off of autocast to set up neat traps (e.g. hold lurker). I don't even know if it's possible but from what I've seen it could be. Just imagine 2 flanks of swarm hosts, and when a terran player moves between them locusts just suddenly come out of nowhere and auto-surround. Would be so cool. If nobody has used this tactic already, I will be supremely disappointed in the community, LOL. It's pretty clear. In fact, this is the easiest way to sync your Swarm Hosts, so it's useful outside of traps, too. | ||
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Ramiz1989
12124 Posts
On September 16 2012 19:35 Crawdad wrote: If nobody has used this tactic already, I will be supremely disappointed in the community, LOL. It's pretty clear. In fact, this is the easiest way to sync your Swarm Hosts, so it's useful outside of traps, too. They haven't as far as I saw. Half of the Pro players don't even know that they can disable the Locusts autocast(or they know but just don't bother with it). They aren't even used correctly, half of the Swarm Hosts usually aren't doing anything because Pros burrow them somewhere and keep spawning Locusts at random location(and no, it isn't for defense, it is like, really really random, while forgetting about them). And when they need them, Locusts are on cooldown because they don't turn the autocast off. | ||
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Crawdad
614 Posts
On September 16 2012 19:43 Ramiz1989 wrote: They haven't as far as I saw. Half of the Pro players don't even know that they can disable the Locusts autocast(or they know but just don't bother with it). They aren't even used correctly, half of the Swarm Hosts usually aren't doing anything because Pros burrow them somewhere and keep spawning Locusts at random location(and no, it isn't for defense, it is like, really really random, while forgetting about them). And when they need them, Locusts are on cooldown because they don't turn the autocast off. Typical. Same problem with the Widow mine. IMO, Blizz should get rid of autocast entirely, to alleviate confusion (and promote micro). | ||
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smallmemory
13 Posts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SMZkxo7ZzM | ||
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Crawdad
614 Posts
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Coal
Sweden1535 Posts
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Mataza
Germany5364 Posts
I was getting doubts if HotS would bring something new to the table. Wel it sure as hell does. Yay new units, boo turtling. Down with building walls. | ||
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summerloud
Austria1201 Posts
also after they cut the warhound i just feel so much better in regards to hots | ||
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TsGBruzze
Sweden1190 Posts
On September 15 2012 06:56 Yonnua wrote: yes, i hope that someone uses that, i think it would be so good vs terran Have any players toyed around with taking "Spawn locusts" off of autocast to set up neat traps (e.g. hold lurker). I don't even know if it's possible but from what I've seen it could be. Just imagine 2 flanks of swarm hosts, and when a terran player moves between them locusts just suddenly come out of nowhere and auto-surround. Would be so cool. | ||
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Hairy
United Kingdom1169 Posts
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Seigifried
United States60 Posts
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smallmemory
13 Posts
Also, the Korean player AiReal has been doing English commentary of his ladder games: PvP: PvZ: | ||
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smallmemory
13 Posts
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DeCoup
Australia1933 Posts
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Visage814
United States109 Posts
Also, I love all the new strategies coming out, for the most part they seem like they are making the game a lot more interesting. I haven't seen much viper usage as of late, however. I heard someone (can't remember who) saying that it was because they are classified as armored units, so vikings kill them ridiculously fast. They are already squishy enough besides that. I don't really see that effecting much else (cuz voids aren't going to be fighting them lol), so maybe that could be a potential upcoming change? | ||
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DeCiBle
United States102 Posts
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smallmemory
13 Posts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8t6UA6Wr0U | ||
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exltus
Czech Republic100 Posts
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happyness
United States2400 Posts
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