HotS Balance Update #4 [9/28/12] - Page 21

On September 30 2012 21:28 JKM wrote:


The speed of the Mothership Core (MC) means it can reach the opponent very early alongside a gateway army. The core gives vision uphill so the protoss can pick off walling structures and units without ever getting close to the ramp at a stage in the game where the terran will have few units if he went for early CC. Furthermore it forces the terran into getting a fast viking or produce many marines (low marinenumbers gets picked off too easily leaving no AA against the core).

Overall I think speed of the MC is problematic for PvT where the mere possiblity of MC+GW pressure removes 50% of the potential terran openings, because they simply can't deal with the core. This is amplified on certain maps where the ramp is placed kind of unfortunate from a defensive standpoint.

It's too early to determine whether it is truly an imbalance or if terran has 10 viable openings that deals with the MC pressure in a reliable fashion, but from the looks of it protosses have been given a very easy PvT opening and if we know terrans their response to hardship will be going back to 1/1/1 that would probably deal well with MC.

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Is there any real RTS competitor out there? If not the core RTS fans will stick with SC2. So unless one of the other big RTS franchises (C&C, AoE, etc.) comes out with something appealing in the coming years I don't see SC2 dying as an e-Sport. It may however not be as popular as it is now, but alot of us don't like MOBA games as a replacement for RTS!

On October 01 2012 00:13 Prime Directive wrote:
I like the core in its current form. What about putting a maximum number of units that can be recalled to avoid deathball play? You could lower the energy cost with this kind of restriction too.