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TwilightStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States649 Posts
December 15 2009 22:39 GMT
#21
Glad to see they are paying alot of attention to TL. They can really learn a bit from us :D
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beefhamburger
Profile Joined December 2007
United States3962 Posts
December 15 2009 22:48 GMT
#22
On December 16 2009 06:58 CharlieMurphy wrote:
banelings can explode air shit too right? I swear I saw some of those ravens get exploded in one of the gstar videos.

That was from its own rocket/missile/glowing ball ability.
Cloak
Profile Joined October 2009
United States816 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-15 23:22:32
December 15 2009 23:03 GMT
#23
Why not make it where you have to hold Ctrl/Shift + Click and that will make all the units cast it simultaneously? Regular would then be smart-casting.
The more you know, the less you understand.
Zurles
Profile Joined February 2009
United Kingdom1659 Posts
December 15 2009 23:06 GMT
#24
On December 16 2009 07:39 TwilightStar wrote:
Glad to see they are paying alot of attention to TL. They can really learn a bit from us :D


They probably just grin then forget everything they read.
Archerofaiur
Profile Joined August 2008
United States4101 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-15 23:18:16
December 15 2009 23:14 GMT
#25
On December 16 2009 07:39 TwilightStar wrote:
Glad to see they are paying alot of attention to TL. They can really learn a bit from us :D


While Blizzard does read TL (Dustin said so in the recent interview), in this specific instance they were referencing this thread about Protoss Gas Mechanics on the BNet forums
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=21730644558&sid=3000
http://sclegacy.com/news/28-scl/250-starcraftlegacy-macro-theorycrafting-contest-winners
Gangrel
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States137 Posts
December 15 2009 23:15 GMT
#26
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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
December 16 2009 00:02 GMT
#27
i really like the smart casting for HT and stuff tbh.
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
maneatingshoe
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada484 Posts
December 16 2009 00:47 GMT
#28
On December 16 2009 09:02 Grobyc wrote:
i really like the smart casting for HT and stuff tbh.


Yeah, it makes a lot of sense you dont want 4 storms going off in the same place (well not usually)...but banelings? that's just annoying haha
edahl
Profile Joined February 2008
Norway483 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-16 02:10:05
December 16 2009 02:09 GMT
#29
Am I wrong if I think that scarabs do some damage to air in BW? Banelings might hit air in much the same fashion.
craz3d
Profile Joined August 2005
Bulgaria856 Posts
December 16 2009 02:22 GMT
#30
So I have 12 ht's selected, I press t and storm, press t and storm, etc. without having to seperately click on another ht after?

That sounds really imba.
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fabiano
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Brazil4644 Posts
December 16 2009 02:48 GMT
#31
On December 16 2009 11:22 craz3d wrote:
So I have 12 ht's selected, I press t and storm, press t and storm, etc. without having to seperately click on another ht after?

That sounds really imba.


sweet
"When the geyser died, a probe came out" - SirJolt
l2k-Spec-Ops_X
Profile Joined November 2006
United States61 Posts
December 16 2009 19:26 GMT
#32
If they keep the baneling smartcasting, I think they should augment it to where if you click on morph baneling while holding the Ctrl key down, it will morph all that are currently selected.
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Milton
Profile Joined January 2009
1 Post
December 16 2009 19:51 GMT
#33
My first thought on the zergling to baneling morphing was that the smart casting was a good idea,
however i think focus might shift from early/mid to late game.
Especially in a late stage were you have many bases, big armys, perhaps some harass going on (attacking and/or defending) it might take some time to create 20 or more banelings for a timed atack on an enemys base while his army is engaded/distracted etc.

So here is the important part of my comment:

Why not make both possible?
Keep the smart cast as the normal way and for those certain situations were it would be saving a few seconds (even fast fingers take way longer to press a single button 20 times instead of a single hotkey once) use a different hotkey or perhaps a kombination of a key added with the original hotkey (like ctrl + original hotkey for smart casting morphing single zerglings into banelings).

I usually dont post anything regarding the game because a) it isnt out here so everything that might seem imbalanced might be due to a one sided view on that specific area and b) i really trust blizzard... they put way more thought into their games then other companys and if they say it will be balanced well then it will be balanced well.

This topic however was one were i could really picture the difference in my mind.
And anyone can try to push a single hotkey 20 times as fast as possible with one finger.
But i agree with the smart cast, because only wanting a specific ammount of banelings for a bunker out of a group of zerglings will be faster with the smart casting system.

I hope my post could help and i would love some response from Blizzard just to get confirmation that my suggestion was at least considered, only that i know they saw/read it.
Boundz(DarKo)
Profile Joined March 2009
5311 Posts
December 16 2009 19:55 GMT
#34
They have been reading these and other forums for a long time. They've said it several times, why you keep doubting... =_=
Mutaahh
Profile Joined June 2007
Netherlands859 Posts
December 16 2009 19:58 GMT
#35
On December 16 2009 11:48 fabiano wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 16 2009 11:22 craz3d wrote:
So I have 12 ht's selected, I press t and storm, press t and storm, etc. without having to seperately click on another ht after?

That sounds really imba.


sweet


this is known for months, why does this surprise you?
I want to fly
Boundz(DarKo)
Profile Joined March 2009
5311 Posts
December 16 2009 21:26 GMT
#36
On December 17 2009 04:58 Mutaahh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 16 2009 11:48 fabiano wrote:
On December 16 2009 11:22 craz3d wrote:
So I have 12 ht's selected, I press t and storm, press t and storm, etc. without having to seperately click on another ht after?

That sounds really imba.


sweet


this is known for months, why does this surprise you?

Because it's imba!
JohannesH
Profile Joined September 2009
Finland1364 Posts
December 16 2009 22:05 GMT
#37
Yeaah Templars will be so OP

No other units needed
If you have to ask, you don't know.
Zexion
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Sweden971 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-17 00:19:07
December 17 2009 00:18 GMT
#38
On December 16 2009 02:53 kangur wrote:
I totally do not get the baneling smart casting argument. I understand the need for this in the case of storm (still too easy, but whatever), but this?


No offense man, but how can you not understand that simple argument?

If you decide you only need, for example 6 banelings, and you're controlling 24 zerglings who are moving towards the enemy base (very fast and hard to select), do you really want to manually select 6 banelings and morph them?

And also, I think that "I-don't-have-very-much-vespene-gas-at-the-moment"-argument is good enough

And I'm pretty sure they will make it possible to morph all units selected while pressing CTRL for example (as others on this thread have mentioned). Otherwise it would be very stupid.
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-17 00:32:58
December 17 2009 00:32 GMT
#39
Baneling smartcast-morph is weird. In Warcraft 3, even Destroyer Morph is not smart cast - even though this morph is non-reversible, and in a typical game you only need to morph a few Destroyers at one setting.
:]
Xiphos
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada7507 Posts
December 17 2009 01:09 GMT
#40
It seems that Blizzard want to make SC2 a much easier game to play than SC:BW. This could be a master plan or total failure. Man if JangBi plays SC2, he will totally unstoppable now cuz of the smartcasting of High Templar storms. The one thing I'll miss is the MnM.
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