Force Field + Psi Storm [Video]

On March 27 2010 07:23 Marradron wrote:
I dont feel the storms were necisary. the banelings were all blowing up against the 2 zealots in the fields anyway

On March 27 2010 07:51 The6357 wrote:
does he cast forcefield while holding shift key? or if u select bunch of sentries and spamm force field they cast it one by one?

On March 27 2010 07:57 On_Slaught wrote:
The force fields did aboslutely nothing there. If he had just stormed when they were grouped up, which they were VERY tightly together when he started casting the FFs, he would of gotten the same amount, if not more kills, since the zerg player had time enough to react and get some of the banelings out before the storm, which he wouldn't of been able to react to if the storm just went off on his group.

Instead, what i'd like to see is someone chain force field a group of expensive units, like ultras or something, and then nuke them with a terran partner in 2v2!

On March 27 2010 08:10 lepape wrote:


Agreed. Force field + Storms is definitely an interesting combo, but this replay didnt convince me Force field was even necessary in the first place.

On March 27 2010 07:57 On_Slaught wrote:
The force fields did aboslutely nothing there. If he had just stormed when they were grouped up, which they were VERY tightly together when he started casting the FFs, he would of gotten the same amount, if not more kills, since the zerg player had time enough to react and get some of the banelings out before the storm, which he wouldn't of been able to react to if the storm just went off on his group.

Instead, what i'd like to see is someone chain force field a group of expensive units, like ultras or something, and then nuke them with a terran partner in 2v2!

On March 27 2010 11:27 SunDown wrote:
As neat as that was, it was still a 1700 gas army vs a <400 gas army.

On March 27 2010 10:25 JoshSuth wrote:
That's basically what he did, except had more sentries instead of stalkers. I love how people find something to complain about every single time. =P

On March 27 2010 11:21 LaughingTulkas wrote:


Uh, if he didn't cast the front force fields, he wouldn't have had an army, much less any temps.

Or was this a joke?

(just in case it isn't, the zerg player clearly moved his ball of death to attack, and then got stopped by forcefields. I mean, there was even a small crack and a few got through the front. There's no way they would have sat there and got stormed, they were already moving towards his army!)

On March 27 2010 11:38 VX14 wrote:
yeah, im pretty sure either forcefield will cost more energy in the near future or sentries will cost more minerals. my guess is sentries costing 75/100.

On March 27 2010 12:00 avilo wrote:


No.

It is amazing how people see something done one time or by a good player and then suddenly claim imba or to change something just lol.

anyways cool vid and good forcefields. Seemed like the guy was done at that point anyways tho.

On March 27 2010 12:14 VX14 wrote:


im not saying this just because of the video. im saying this because no matter what protoss always gets sentries. sentries are great because if you have too much gas building up you can just add in a few sentries at very little mineral cost and they are great against any army composition. force field is used in almost any situation. guardian shield is at least a little useful in most. overall sentries seem like they are just being overused, and thus they need a nerf.

On March 27 2010 07:23 Marradron wrote:
I dont feel the storms were necisary. the banelings were all blowing up against the 2 zealots in the fields anyway

On March 27 2010 07:57 On_Slaught wrote:
The force fields did aboslutely nothing there. If he had just stormed when they were grouped up, which they were VERY tightly together when he started casting the FFs, he would of gotten the same amount, if not more kills, since the zerg player had time enough to react and get some of the banelings out before the storm, which he wouldn't of been able to react to if the storm just went off on his group.

Instead, what i'd like to see is someone chain force field a group of expensive units, like ultras or something, and then nuke them with a terran partner in 2v2!

On March 27 2010 12:00 avilo wrote:
It is amazing how people see something done one time or by a good player and then suddenly claim imba or to change something just lol.

On March 27 2010 23:48 wintergt wrote:

This replay is more of a novelty, it's more troubling how sentries make units like ultras totally useless and shine especially when armies get big because then they can split up the opposing force in half.

On March 31 2010 10:08 JoshSuth wrote:
Yeah! Just wanted to show orb and the rest of you that Blizzard chose to feature this video on their official Twitter and Facebook accounts!

http://twitter.com/StarCraft/status/11312865983

and

http://www.facebook.com/starcraft

On March 31 2010 10:20 -orb- wrote:


WOW

That is awesome, thank you sir

On March 27 2010 11:30 On_Slaught wrote:


My point is THIS video isn't a good example since the banelings were being wasted on the zealots and the pressence of those spine crawlers actually acted as a choke in favor of the toss. There are some situations where this might work, but you saw how little area was actually encased by the shields, even WITH the help of the spine crawlers, and that was a puny zerg army (massively outdone as far as expense and tech goes by the toss army) and it was basically only 1.5 storm size of space.

Having said that, even if you don't use the FFs to surround the enemy, as shown they are still very useful for stalling banelings that are running at your armor.

Oh, and to the above poster, I didn't see any roaches in there, just the 4 mutalisks.

On March 27 2010 12:14 VX14 wrote:


im not saying this just because of the video. im saying this because no matter what protoss always gets sentries. sentries are great because if you have too much gas building up you can just add in a few sentries at very little mineral cost and they are great against any army composition. force field is used in almost any situation. guardian shield is at least a little useful in most. overall sentries seem like they are just being overused, and thus they need a nerf.

On March 31 2010 15:02 Ryuu314 wrote:

what kind of argument is that???

marines are overused. nerf them pl0x!
roaches are overused. nerf them pl0x!
zealots are overused. nerf them pl0x
etc...

you can make that argument for basically any unit or spellcaster in the whole game. out of the many games i've played (only gold league tho) and the streams I've been watching, nowhere have I seen sentries been as imba as you make them out to be.

On March 31 2010 15:47 TheDna wrote:


Well there is a video out where Check comments on sentrys seeing them as the one unit that prolly needs a nerf. So after all they might need one.
So far we still in beta so we will see. I m looking forward to more protoss tears tho if they nerf sentrys :p

On March 31 2010 16:25 ooni wrote:
Zerg could have won if he did this:
Research Burrow
Boom
???
Profit

On March 31 2010 18:01 StorrZerg wrote:
this was featured on blizzard twitter and fb!