The time warp spell (along with a lot more changes that would be necessary) sounds like a great starting point for creating the possibility to remove force field and replace it with other less frustrating things.

Patate

Canada441 Posts

October 26 2012 22:14 GMT

#142

On October 27 2012 05:29 Limniscate wrote:

This unit has a new ability called Time Warp.
The Oracle creates a temporal field that slows all ground units’ movement speed within a 3.5 radius by 50%.
This ability costs 75 energy to cast
This ability can be cast from 9 range.

So hm.. remember back when they announced HoTS, they said the oracle was made to not be integrated in the deathball.. well now they made it even stronger.

Not a bad patch at all, as in its better than before. Nice new UI and level system for the casuals but hmm.. The more we lose time every week with these patches, the less time we have to re-design the game to make it into a dynamic game that doesn't rely on maxed armies fighting each others.

Still a decent effort

Naphal

Germany2099 Posts

October 26 2012 22:14 GMT

#143

so hellions do lose their transform ability when the armory gets sniped? if so it is stupid imo <.<

FeyFey

Germany10114 Posts

October 26 2012 22:16 GMT

#144

Another anti retreat spell for Protoss, so that if you lose you lose everything. Not sure if its a good idea to allow it to be casted so unpunished.

Tennet

United States1458 Posts

October 26 2012 22:16 GMT

#145

I really hope that when they start balancing WoL units that they buff the tank. This patch is pretty good though, just sad to see Terran seeming more and more frustrating to play.

Cinim

Denmark866 Posts

October 26 2012 22:16 GMT

#146

I like the range of the Oracle slow ability, however, the movement speed reduction need to be reduced, 50% in sc2 is way too much, half of that would already be really strong tbh

Buchan

Canada184 Posts

October 26 2012 22:17 GMT

#147

Why is Blizzard putting in MORE ANTI MICRO SPELLS??? We want LESS.

Darth Caedus

United States326 Posts

October 26 2012 22:17 GMT

#148

Time warp radius is way too big, but that will come down in some later patch and should be fine... but still scared of the potential of combination with collossi against zerg... fast hydras? maybe not.

Not sure I like the harass method they are going for with the oracle building dmg beam. Seems like it will be an all or nothing result for whether the harass does anything. Also way stronger vs zerg since regening is so much slower then shields or even just 1 scv of repair.

Everything else looks really good. Things appear to be heading in the right direction.

leandroqm

Netherlands874 Posts

October 26 2012 22:19 GMT

#149

I cant follow HOTS beta anymore... its so much habilities that I dont know that have been removed and added... Im lost!
Need someone to make a video of those

TheDougler

Canada8304 Posts

October 26 2012 22:19 GMT

#150

On October 27 2012 07:05 TheDougler wrote:
The spinecrawler change is kind of lame, but come to think of it, that was the way things were in BW right? Minus the fact that colonies also spread creep, which could be the difference here. All I'm saying is in general I don't want to see zerg walls, they don't really make sense given the flavor of the race. Yay... less hellion harassment I guess... Suppose it encourages reaper use more.

After reading Avilo's post, I'm actually totally okay with the Spine change now. That's a huge change in early game ZvZ, and the metagame in other matchups can adjust to it, especially with the awesomeness that is HoTS reapers.

Existor

Russian Federation4295 Posts

October 26 2012 22:20 GMT

#151

Oracle is super-OP unit right now.

Pulsar Beam is a green heated Void Ray now. Two oracles can cast Pulsar Beam on one building at same time! For 50 energy of both Oracles I've killed 90% HP of Hatchery. Well, with that Pulsar Beam void ray can be removed now, because Oracle kills pylon faster, than Void Ray, and Oracle itself is faster and can slow down half of enemy units for just 150 vespene gas and 35 seconds build time!

Atrbyg

United States513 Posts

October 26 2012 22:20 GMT

#152

Really cool changes for protoss. I have a feelingTime Warp radius is going to become smaller.

link0

United States1071 Posts

October 26 2012 22:22 GMT

#153

With this tempest buff, blizzard seems have given up on making Mech viable in T v P. Oh well, HOTS TvP will be pretty much identical to WOL + timewarp.

zimms

Austria561 Posts

October 26 2012 22:22 GMT

#154

Yep, nice changes. Where are the Terran changes though?

KrazyTrumpet

United States2520 Posts

October 26 2012 22:23 GMT

#155

On October 27 2012 07:20 Atrbyg wrote:
Really cool changes for protoss. I have a finally Time Warp radius is going to become smaller.

haha, yeah, there's no way time warp isn't getting nerfed soon

shid0x

Korea (South)5014 Posts

October 26 2012 22:25 GMT

#156

Well as a terran point of view that's...
well,i mean...
that's nice about the hellion now we don't have anymore updrade needed.

Fuck that.

Terran bro we gonna get raped at release,shit's gonna be fun ;D

GungraveHero2

57 Posts

October 26 2012 22:26 GMT

#157

On October 27 2012 07:22 zimms wrote:
Yep, nice changes. Where are the Terran changes though?

terran ? i know about protoss and zerg

GARcher

Canada294 Posts

October 26 2012 22:26 GMT

#158

On October 27 2012 07:22 link0 wrote:
With this tempest buff, blizzard seems have given up on making Mech viable in T v P. Oh well, HOTS TvP will be pretty much identical to WOL + timewarp.

Yep. Timewarp + Storm = GG.

On October 27 2012 07:22 link0 wrote:
With this tempest buff, blizzard seems have given up on making Mech viable in T v P. Oh well, HOTS TvP will be pretty much identical to WOL + timewarp.

Actually even right now for Terran it's pretty much the same as every match up. Bio in TvP is still better than pure mech and TvZ still doesn't have something that makes bio more appealing than mech.

ZigguratOfUr

Iraq16955 Posts

October 26 2012 22:27 GMT

#159

Pulsar Beam seems like a great inclusion to the game. The removal of entomb is great too. However, time warp seems like another of those dreaded anti-micro abilities.