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Archerofaiur
United States4101 Posts
The Obelisk is no longer in the game. Instead, the time warp ability which allows a building to produce or research faster for a set duration is now on the Nexus. This opens up several new strategies and the development team is really looking forward to what players will be able to come up with utilizing this ability during beta. -Karune http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23140464571&sid=3000 | ||
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HiOT
Sweden1000 Posts
"Protoss can out-research the other two, or quickly build units if they have the large amount of resources needed... " taken from a dude on the forums. This sounds awesome. For those who missmacro. | ||
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exeprime
United Kingdom643 Posts
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Response
United States1938 Posts
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da_head
Canada3350 Posts
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Zelniq
United States7166 Posts
assuming this is an ability that you can't cast often.. then this should be a much more interesting macro mechanic than "choose how to spend your energy! spread creep, regen +200 hp to 1 unit, or spawn 4 extra larvae, hmm... | ||
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zazen
Brazil695 Posts
Sounds good. | ||
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bITt.mAN
Switzerland3701 Posts
1 nexus, or 2 nexus! I imagine that if only a nexus can use this ability, then if you REALLY want those extra minerals you would have to sacrifice a lot of minerals by investing in another nexus, which generally balances this disputable macro mechanic, Good Job Blizzard, we arze happy | ||
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getSome[703]
United States753 Posts
Also I hope the range is decent so players don't have to clump all their buildings around the nexus. Thanks for the info. | ||
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Tsagacity
United States2124 Posts
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Archerofaiur
United States4101 Posts
Proton Charge allows you to channel minerals into units or research or buildings or supply or.... The big thing here is that their is something about the communities pyschi that thinks they are getting new and more options. They had trouble understanding that more minerals means more choices but now that its relabled "time" their excited. | ||
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keV.
United States3214 Posts
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RedTerror
New Zealand742 Posts
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Tsagacity
United States2124 Posts
On February 12 2010 05:04 Archerofaiur wrote: With an option for faster tech/research you're opening up new build order varieties with lots of hopefully interesting timings. With more money you're going to follow a similar build order and just do it faster. So basically this ability allows you to channel faster time into units or research. Proton Charge allows you to channel minerals into units or research or buildings or supply or.... The big thing here is that their is something about the communities pyschi that thinks they are getting new and more options. They had trouble understanding that more minerals means more choices but now that its relabled "time" their excited. Hopefully both of those options are available, creating a large mix of greedy econ builds and fast aggressive builds. | ||
520
United States2822 Posts
On February 12 2010 05:04 Archerofaiur wrote: So basically this ability allows you to channel faster time into units or research. Proton Charge allows you to channel minerals into units or research or buildings or supply or.... The big thing here is that their is something about the communities pyschi that thinks they are getting new and more options. They had trouble understanding that more minerals means more choices but now that its relabled "time" their excited. I disagree with you. Time is a resource that's much more volatile than minerals or gas in the game and this ability could have serious strategic implications for high-level Protoss play. Now they just need to revamp the Surveillance Station. | ||
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Archerofaiur
United States4101 Posts
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SWPIGWANG
Canada482 Posts
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=108753 Foresight? :D | ||
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Tsagacity
United States2124 Posts
On February 12 2010 05:12 Archerofaiur wrote: You don't choose to speed up production with warp gates. You just do it. There's no reason for a good player to not use warp gates. You guys do realize that Protoss already have faster unit production (Warpgates). Ideally there is another ability (PC?) conflicting with faster tech (tech is my main interest in this), and I don't see the nexus' ability being used for faster production unless it's an insane boost or you're on the verge of dying. | ||
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Ranix
United States666 Posts
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Malingo
United States45 Posts
I think some one mentioned something almost exactly like this on one of the threads a few weeks back. This either means that Blizzard reads these forums much more thoroughly then I thought they did and learns from them or there was a leak/freak coincidence. EDIT: www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=108753 | ||
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